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ZANU PF succession battles open window of opportunity for Matabeleland breakaway

Zimbabwe Independence Day Celebrations on 18 April 2025 marked 132 years of Matabeleland oppression. Firstly by the British South Africa Company, 1893- 1980, under the rule by coquest, secondly by the Shona supremacist tribal oppression, f…

Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 1335 | by Israel Dube

Kings for Harare, But Not for Matabeleland? Garwe's Letter Exposes a Deep Hypocrisy

Minister Daniel Garwe's recent rebuke of Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart over his meeting with King Bulelani Lobengula Khumalo has sparked a storm of outrage across Matabeleland. The letter, reeking of condescension and political threat, accu…

Published: 01 May 2025 at 19:48hrs | 1128 | by Mfan'ufikile kaMalikongwa

Time to rename Zimbabwe's Provincials

Forty-five years on, Zimbabwe, formerly Southern Rhodesia, gained independence in 1980 after a protracted struggle against colonial rule. The names of provinces and regions, however, remain a lingering reminder of this past. Manicaland, fo…

Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 10:13hrs | 799 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

Zanu PF now devouring its children: they now smell like goats

Even in my normal senses, I never thought I would live this long to witness Zanu devouring its own children because they now smell and look like goats. I never thought the people of Mashonaland would turn against Zanu PF and openly talk ab…

Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 01:03hrs | 773 | by Nomazulu Thata

July Moyo statement on Matabeles in South Africa false dangerous, smacks of tribal hatred

The statement by the Minister of Labour and Child Welfare, July Moyo that the majority of more than 400 children that were intercepted by South African authorities at Beitbridge border were from Matabeleland is false and pathetic. It smack…

Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 08:26hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube

CCC faction threatening to kill innocent Matabele children in bad taste

Reports in the media that a CCC faction led by Nelson Chamisa is threatening to murder innocent children of Matabele MPs and councillors  that have not been recalled by CCC Interim General Secretary, Sengezo Tshabangu, are disturbing …

Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 17:58hrs | 17 | by Israel Dube

Senate and PR, the maxim gun firing at Bulawayo

The Senate, Youth and PR lists for the 2023 harmonised elections in Bulawayo Province, are the newest metaphorical maxim gun whose bullets are brutally firing at the tender heart of the City of Bulawayo, the cultural and economic nucleus o…

Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:03hrs | 39 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General)

CCC Mthwakazi: kick out Shona supremacist Chamisa and declare Matabeleland independent, ignore Welshman apology

Nothing pains us more than seeing fellow Matabeles being humiliated, dehumanised, abused and used as voting cattle in the Zimbabwe election booths by opportunistic Zimbabwe opposition parties that do not have the interests of Matabeles at …

Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 19:46hrs | 21 | by Israel Dube

Joshua Nkomo's Contribution to the struggle for freedom

When the iconic Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo died on the 1st of July 1999, the generality of Matabeleland felt demobilised, further isolated and wondering if it would ever achieve peace in Zimbabwe. Father Zimbabwe, as Dr Nkomo was affectionate…

Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:50hrs | 12 | by Freedom Alliance

Oppression of minorities has caused the split of Zimbabwe into two states

We are surprised that the President of Zimbabwe, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa,  has the guts to lie to the world with a straight face that his administration respects the rights of minorities in the face of the split of Matabeleland and Zimb…

Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 09:27hrs | 11 | by Israel Dube

Point of correction: Chiwenga not son in law of Matabeleland

We know that having a husband who holds a high position in Zimbabwe or any other country can be exciting for others. And having a better half of your choice from any country or nation is any woman or man's right. However, attempting to par…

Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:46hrs | | by Israel Dube

Matabeleland does not need leaders from Mashonaland, we have our own

"The buzz word "change" in Zimbabwe has generated hope and excitement that will deliver gloom and doom only to be felt and experienced after the elections. Removing Zanupf and E.D Mnangagwa is not Change but replacement moreso by people ca…

Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Israel Dube

Bones of Bhalagwe, arise!

The voice speaks to the bones that are scattered all over Matabeleland and Midlands. Arise! Bones that are in the stomach of Bhalagwe, stand up and refuse to be silenced. Arise and be counted! All the bones in shallow graves, rise up and f…

Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 20:10hrs | 14 | by Nhlanhla Moses

2022 budget should up Matabeleland momentum

FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube is set to present the 2022 National Budget Statement today amid high expectations that more resources will be allocated to expedite completion of key capital projects in Mat…

Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 07:00hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter

Dispelling the idiotic myths and stereotypes against Matabeleland

Although myths and legends have been useful tools of African philosophy for raising children since time immemorial, the way it has been used to enhance Shona supremacy and denigrate the people of Matabeleland and their cultures in Zimbabwe…

Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:49hrs | 22 | by Nhlanhla Moses

Mat'land 'green belt' nigh

In the 2018 election manifesto, ZANU PF party promised to improve  service delivery to the people and eventually catapult Zimbabwe to an Upper Middle Income Economy by 2030 with or without sanctions and with or without Foreign Direct …

Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 10:26hrs | 6 | by Tirivanhu Kateera

Are we heading for disaster? - An Open conversation

This article is an open conversation that touches the many issues that have brought our country to where it is today. It is not an article of opposition but a call to introspection. It is a call for us as a country to align our ambition of…

Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 12:19hrs | 17 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe

Lupane East By-election: A deceptive delineation of the narrow, gorged and mountainous pathway to democracy in Zimbabwe

The recently held parliamentary and council by-elections in Lupane East, Ward 23 Nkayi South and Ward 22 Bubi constituencies respectively, on the 3rd of August 2019, and many others before, are a deceptive delineation of the narrow, gorged…

Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 10:19hrs | 5 | by Nhlanhla Moses

Of the Kambarami fiasco and Ndebele-Shona issues

It's just been a few weeks since the Deputy Mayor of the City of Bulawayo Mr. Tinashe Kambarami decided to fire the town clerk, Mr. Christopher Dube, in a move that would make Kambarami an internet sensation and a celebrity over a few hour…

Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Mandla Tshuma

Matebeleland Problems won't be solved by Zimbabwe Government ( ZANUPF)

How can the Zimbabwe Government solve Matebeleland problems when the same Zanu PF system is the chief creator of all our problems?Our problems today as a region were created, knowingly and deliberately, by Zanu PF and the British Governmen…

Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by VV Vodloza kaVodloza

Are the brutal and vicious attacks on the Matabeleland Collective warranted?

Are the brutal and vicious attacks on the Matabeleland Collective warranted? A new kid on the block has emerged from Matabeleland and has caused a stir, the criticisms it has attracted has forced me to pen this article coming from a neutra…

Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 07:58hrs | 17 | by Thulani Nkala

Sorry! Matabeleland not for sell

We find no phrase that describes Jenni Williams and her little known organization Matabeleland Collective, better than "treacherous traitors". Some traitors would do their business under the cover of darkness but Jenni Williams and company…

Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 12:21hrs | 1 | by MLO

'Is Mthwakazi Independence Achievable?'

Mthwakazi Research Institute, registered with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission in South Africa, through a research that lasted for 3 months, from October 2018 to December 2018, answers the question that says, 'is Mthwakaz…

Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 4 | by Mthwakazi Research Institute

Mnangagwa fears Matabeleland restoration: no one will baby sit him in Matabeleland

"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand". These words of wisdom are attributed to Jesus Christ himself.Zimbabwe is one such Kingdom trying to find balance on shaky tribal grounds. At the epicenter of the problem …

Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Israel Dube

The Gukurahundi victims demand apology and compensation

Dear Editor, As we commemorate the Matebeleland and Midlands massacres conservatively put at over 20,000  civilians on 22 December our demands for a justice cannot be ignored. The senseless killing of civilians in an attempt to create…

Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by L Dube

Provincial Councils, the new economic hubs

The implementation of the devolution of Government responsibilities to Provincial Councils will give birth to new economic hubs as provinces will be able to manage their resources for the benefit of that respective province.The just ended …

Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota

Mnangagwa declares war on 'secessionists': fire will be met with fire!

President Mnangagwa's angry outbursts at Zanupf conference on Friday shows without any modicum of doubt that Matabeleland restoration cause puts the fear of God in him and his cabinet.MLO is aware that the emotionally charged attack on Mat…

Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 10:21hrs | | by Israel Dube, Secretary for Information and Public Affairs

Jim Kunaka's life in danger

If Jesus Christ managed to forgive and took a robber/murderer on the cross to paradise, MDC Alliance supporters should forgive Jim Kunaka too. Jim Kunaka is a courageous and religious man who accepted to swallow his pride just like Saul an…

Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 11:03hrs | 2 | by Don Chigumba

Chamisa is a dangerous smiling tribalist.

The 2018 local council elections produced an outcome which was very complicated in Bulawayo. The underlying factor is the disrespect which the MDC Alliance propagated by fielding the majority of Shona candidates in Bulawayo. What makes mat…

Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 6 | by Thulani Nkala

These Elections are a Win-Win for Mthwakazi Voters

Why now? The harmonised elections taking part tomorrow in Zimbabwe present an opportunity for Mthwakazi voters. For the first time since independence, the voters from Matabeleland and Midlands are faced with a win-win situation. This may c…

Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 23:20hrs | 1 | by BMV

Political puppets from Mthwakazi are more dangerous than Mthwakazi's enemies- MLF

I have been thinking deeply about this of late. It hurts to think that when the Zimbabwean parliament voted to train the 5th Brigade we had ZAPU representatives in parliament.The day they voted to deploy them in Matabeleland, there were ZA…

Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 10:34hrs | 19 | by Nkosinathi Mkhwananzi

'Chamisa attacking The Elderly'

The drama unfolding in the MDC-T family is frightening and threatening to the social fabric of Zimbabwe. He want to appoint his friends VP without a congress even though the grassroots says Mafa Sibanda. The old are negated in favour of th…

Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 14:05hrs | 1 | by Douglas Shoko

Chamisa's desperate political campaign is ruinous

Chamisa's recent campaign rally held in Bulawayo at White City Stadium was ignominious. In his speech (orated largely in Shona), he promised the coronation of Bulelani Lobengula as early as September 2018.Surely a rocket scientist is not n…

Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Chrispen Nyoni

Mugabe believed its Ndebeles that were going to stage a Coup

Since 1980, Mugabe held a misinformed   belief that the coup d'etat that was to upstage him from power was going to originate from Matabeleland. Reality struck, on the 15th of November 2017.On this day, Zimbabwe woke up to a war-…

Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Wilson Mahlafuna Sibanda & Khohliso Maqhoba

No Mr Vice President, we can't be foreigners before we are Mthwakazi

The statement by the Vice President of Zimbabwe Kembo Mohadi at the weekend that Matabeles are Zimbabweans before they are Ndebeles is misplaced, misinformed and misleading and needs immediate rectification.First we are family, village, di…

Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 08:59hrs | | by Wilson Mahlafuna Sibanda & Khohliso Maqhoba

Matabeleland has a vacuum in leadership

The Matabeleland in its quest for a leader has crossed the border and brought in a king. I wonder if this is a Ndebele king or a Matabeleland king, if Ndebele it becomes a puzzle, yet if it's Matabeleland it does not add up. Matabeleland i…

Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 08:28hrs | 4 | by Clive Zulu

Matabeleland a region seeking a leader

Since the death of Dr Joshua Nkomo, a true nationalist, nationalism has been lost to the secessionist ZANU party which all along has been led by Robert Mugabe a true and shameless killer. When Mnangagwa took over I thought he would revive …

Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Clive Zulu

Gukurahundi: Walking in the deathly shadows of Kigali and Banjul

Should the architects of the Gukurahundi atrocities committed in Matabeleland and Midlands face legal action in an independent court of law convened in Zimbabwe, Africa or abroad? On May 30, 2016, HissÃ¨ne HabrÃ©, the former dictator of Ch…

Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 15:19hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka

Matabeleland's life-kiss to recovery - Devolution of Power!

It is crystal clear that the current system of highly centralized government has failed Matabeleland. Instead the policies have promoted autocracy, inefficiency, corruption and total exclusion of the citizens from full participation in how…

Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 11:27hrs | 3 | by Matthew Dube esquire

Why Matebeleland must not celebrate!

It remains a fact that a lot of people have suspended their consciences and systems of consciousness, from which their principles must be firmly anchored. Looking at what is obtaining in Zimbabwe, one immediately realises that it's no long…

Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 09:29hrs | 5 | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga

Matabeleland; Strike whilst the iron is still hotâ€¦

The events of the past few weeks in my motherland, have brought out of the woodwork all manner of analysts, commentators and agent provocateurs; and as usual my people, the people of Matabeleland, have "come out" in full force, pens bleedi…

Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 22:20hrs | 1 | by Thamsanqa N. Ncube

Misihairabwi-Mushonga a championing Matabeleland concerns

OPPOSITION parties and civil society groups in Matabeleland have saluted Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, MDC's proportional representation legislator for Matabeleland South, for single-handedly championing the region's concerns in Parliam…

Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

The cross of Eddie Cross

The Former Rhodie's Cross of shameful groveling at the expense of Matebeleland stinks to the high heavens. Obliviously blind to the vote that gave him that so-called MDC-T seat in parliament, he is on tribal steroids to annihilate what he …

Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Njabulo Sibanda

Ndebele Royal Crisis-Two Kings,One Nation

Khumalo clan elders and some traditional leaders in Matabeleland must be held accountable for the current royal crisis that allowed controversial Stanley Raphael Khumalo to seize the opportunity and declare himself the new king of Mthwakaz…

Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 12:15hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene

Tsvangirai must reverse his statement which says that 'Gukurahundi was caused by Matabeleland people who promoted ethnicity'

The former ZANU-PF commissar and greenbomber during war Morgan Tsvangirai must reverse his statement which says that " Gukurahundi was caused by Matabeleland people who promoted ethnicity"My question is " Mr Tsvangirai, may you please expl…

Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 19:09hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo

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