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Kembo Mohadi betrayed Matabeleland: Mthwakazi MRP is spot on!
Before he dies, Kembo Mohadi must be told how much he betrayed Ndebele people. To say it post humus is too late. His home region constitutes Matabeleland. Kembo must be told now that he will not be mi...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 16:05hrs | 467 | by Nomazulu Thata
Jabulani Sibanda, you got it wrong about Zimbabwean tribalism
To appease tribalism in that manner will not be solving tribalism anyhow. The politician you are talking to is the worst tribalist and the core problem in Zimbabwe body politics. Jabulani, fighting tr...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 20:31hrs | 1660 | by Nomazulu Thata
Gukurahundi hearings to start in April
Traditional chiefs have announced their readiness to commence public hearings on the Gukurahundi massacres as early as April after completing a refresher course on conducting the exercise.Pres...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:22hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings stalls amid logistical challenges
The Gukurahundi public outreach programme, initiated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in July 2024, has hit a major roadblock due to unresolved logistical issues.The programme, designed to prov...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 18:44hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Declining state of Bulawayo worries residents
Bulawayo residents have lamented the decline in the status of the city, once an industrial powerhouse and considered the smartest in the country. They attribute this decline to poor governance and an ...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 10:58hrs | 569 | by Stephen Jakes
MP bemoans Nkayi timber 'looting'
The Nkayi Rural District Council is facing calls to improve its monitoring and protection of timber resources, which are being illegally harvested by companies, with no tangible benefits reaching loca...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:44hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Harare chair dumps party, joins Chamisa's CCC
MDC-T Harare provincial chairman Zivai Mhetu has ditched the Douglas Mwonzora led opposition party which he described as a ‘dead donkey', to join Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change....Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invites Chamisa, ex-ministers to Uhuru celebrations
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said Independence was brought about by all Zimbabweans living or dead, hence he is inviting all political parties, current and former Government Ministers for the main celebrat...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 19:21hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi hits back at Mnangagwa
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) Thursday hit back at Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for making unsavoury remarks against him and his party.Mnangagwa took issue with MRP leade...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC accedes to Zanu-PF supremacy?
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice president, Prof Welshman Ncube, who is reportedly at odds with the party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa, has admitted that Zanu-PF is becoming stronger each ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rivalry rocks NPRC
Zanu-PF's factional fights have spilled into the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), where President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reconfigured the commission booting out a top commissioner ...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa scuttling Gukurahundi resolution'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa undermined the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) by setting a parallel structure with traditional chiefs from the Matabeleland region in trying to resolv...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi accuses MDC-T senator of tribalism
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has accused MDC-T senator Khalipani Phugeni of being a tribalist for alleging that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was marginalising the Matabeleland region by not appoin...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament nominates candidates for Peace Commission posts
The Parliamentary Committee on Standing Rules and Orders (CSRO) has nominated 30 candidates who include former MDC-T vice president and lawyer Obert Gutu for interviews on those aspiring to become Nat...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feeling heat over VP choice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a difficult choice as he looks for suitable candidates to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned under pressure on Monday.This comes as it has...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Consolidation of Democracy in Zimbabwe
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Zimbabwe celebrated National Unity Day a few days ago, commemorating the historic unification of former liberation war movements-PF Zapu and Zanu into what we...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:37hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Zimbabwe's Unity day is an insult and provocation to the people of Midlands and Matabeleland
THE Bulawayo based opposition party, Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has the described Unity Day an insult and provocation to the people of Midlands and Matabeleland regions who were seriously affected...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 18:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to President Mnangagwa
Today the 7th of August, is another unfortunate moment of the travesty of justice upon three Mthwakazi Republic Party activists at the Tredgold Magistrates Courts in Bulawayo. We write this lett...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 10:26hrs | 2 | by MRP
Chiefs urge Mnangagwa to urgently address rising cost of living
CHIEFS in the Midlands and Matabeleland regions have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently address the rising cost of living, including sharp increases in food insecurity.Mnangagw...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu urges supporters to attend Gukurahundi hearings
ZAPU has urged its supporters and Gukurahundi victims to attend hearings on national healing to share accounts of the 1980s mass killings to ensure the "truth is not hidden".The opposition par...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zapu Presidency Refutes Speculations on the Leadership Storm and Factions
The Zapu Presidency wishes to categorically dismiss the so called looming leadership storm following the death of its President Dumiso Dabengwa. Whereas speculations are expected after the fall of any...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Mkhululi Zulu - Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
Mugabe, former lieutenants shift blame: Who really was behind Gukurahundi genocide?
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was swept away through a popular coup, the world celebrated the departure of an "evil dictator". Many hoped for a fresh start but that dream remains elusive...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:13hrs | 2 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Gukurahundi haunts Mnangagwa
More than 22 years after the Gukurahundi massacres ended, that sad episode in Zimbabwe's history continues to rear its ugly head with the deputy minister of Defence, Victor Matemadanda this week rushi...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 12:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Post-Election violence commission submission
I am an independent member of the Zimbabwean society, meaning that I make rational decision and conclusions on political matters. Officially I am trained in the accounting profession henceforth in my ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 13:17hrs | | by Terence Simbi
'Nothing defeats unity and oneness'
Problems and misunderstandings between Zanu and Zapu necessitated the Unity Accord of 22 December 1987.After the 1980 elections, the then-Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, incorporated members of...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Clifford Sileya
Zimbabwe Struggle, The Delayed Revolution: an Autobiography
The need to account for multiple narratives in the history of the liberation struggle compelled Andrew Ndlovu's autobiography to proffer his narrative from the front. The book serves to demonstrate th...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 28 | by Brian Maregedze
'Gukurahundi wounds stalling progress'
The failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for past acts of State-sponsored violence targeting innocent citizens such as the Gukurahundi massacres is hindering Zimbabwe from movin...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo pins Gukurahundi blame on Mnangagwa
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo says he has always held President Emmerson Mnangagwa in contempt mainly for his role in the Gukurahundi atrocities which left an estimated 2...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mnangagwa rift widens
The chasm between the incumbent and his predecessor is widening, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing a Zanu-PF faction used by former president Robert Mugabe to persecute him before the militar...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 15:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Khupe party national appeal under spotlight
THE Thokozani Khupe-led faction of the MDC-T yesterday said it had fielded 110 out of the country's 210 parliamentary seats at stake in next month's general elections. The seats are more conce...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi party leader gets International recognition.
Mthwakazi Republic Party continues on the path of Mthwakazi Restoration with indications that the Party's prospect of victory is certain. The party that was formed by mostly youths in August 2013 agai...Published: 06 May 2018 at 14:35hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Vote-splitting benefits Zanu-PF
THAT the forced removal from office of former President Robert Mugabe and the death of Morgan Tsvangirai has resulted in the resurgence of both Zanu-PF and MDC-T ahead of the forthcoming presidential ...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 20:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Disruption of gukurahundi commission meetings worrisome
THE recent disruption of national healing consultative meetings by separatist Mthwakazi Republic Party activists, is a worrisome development and should be condemned in the strongest terms.The ...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by newsday
Unity Accord haunts Mnangagwa
The Unity Accord of 1987 is posing serious headaches for President Emmerson Mnangagwa who gave himself two days to handpick his two deputies, the Daily News on Sunday can reported.This comes a...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa craft Zanu-PF's post-Mugabe survival strategy
All eyes will be on this week's congress, which will decide the party's future.Robert Mugabe Square, an open area near the Magistrates' Court in Harare, has been chosen as the venue for Zanu-P...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 13:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
I will be back in my job, Cdes!
MY Comrades, I still cannot believe that you did what you did to me! I still cannot believe that you betrayed me the way you all did.This week I woke up to tell my wife that I had had a nightm...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 15:53hrs | 2 | by CZ
Mnangagwa and the theft of history
IT is with indecent haste that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has of late been seeking to flag his increasingly questionable presidential credentials and ambitions before Zimbabwe and the world. Th...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:21hrs | 5 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
Ibhetshu likaZulu organises Gukurahundi commemorations at Bhalagwe
A BULAWAYO pressure group, Ibhetshu likaZulu, has announced plans to hold a memorial service for Gukurahundi massacres at Bhalagwe in Maphisa next weekend, despite cancellation of similar events by po...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi and the silent whispers and cries behind hatred, death and disunity
The only time I saw Eddison Zvobgo in the flesh I was on my way to Rezende Bus Terminus to catch a bus home on a busy Friday afternoon in 1992. His black ministerial Mercedes Benz was parked near King...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 19:04hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
New 'Ndebele king' trashes Zimbabwe's 1987 Unity Accord
SELF-IMPOSED new Ndebele King - Stanley Tshuma - has trashed the 1987 Unity Accord signed between Zanu-PF and former-PF Zapu, and declared that Matabeleland region would now be referred to as Mthwakaz...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T youths threaten mass protests on Wednesday
OPPOSITION MDC-T youths have threatened mass protests on Wednesday to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to reform the electoral roadmap and increase voter registration centres, particularl...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fear perpetuates Mugabe misrule
EXPELLED MDC-T Senator, Matson Hlalo who has joined the People's Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed fear and cowardice gripping Zimbabweans as the main reasons why they have failed to remove Zanu-PF fr...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers not benefiting from their natural resources
Villagers in Matabeleland regions have complained that 37 years after independence they were still not benefiting from natural resources close to them as people from outside the region descend into th...Published: 30 May 2017 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe army should stay away from civilian politics
VICE-PRESIDENT, Phelekezela Mphoko's call for military intervention in Zanu-PF's raging factional politics is irresponsible, and a recipe for instability in the country ahead of the 2018 general elect...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi gears for 2018 polls
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) yesterday said it would release its election manifesto soon and urged the electorate to register for next year's general elections which the secessionist par...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloody 2018 election campaign feared
OPPOSITION parties and political analysts yesterday expressed fears of a bloody 2018 election campaign, after President Robert Mugabe's call for the re-introduction of the dreaded National Youth S...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shonas, Ndebeles brutalising each other over mining claims in Matabeleland
Nyathi community in Matabeleland North is on fire as Shona and Ndebele speaking people are brutalising each other over the occupation of mining spaces in the area.If reports are correct that t...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Tribal war erupts at Nyathi area
Tribal war between the Ndebelels and Shonas has reportedly erupted at Nyathi area of Matabeleland as the rival groups brutalised each other over the occupation of a mining space in the area.A ...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 22:20hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Fuzwayo leads Matabeleland into Human Rights Awards
Prominent Gwanda bases activist Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo on Friday night led the hopes of the people of Matabeleland in the presumed highly polarised Zimrights Community Human Rights Award. Wit...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 18:03hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
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