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All set for Matebeleland South Agricultural show

The 67th edition of the Matebeleland South Agricultural Show is set to take place from September 4 to 6, with organisers expressing optimism about its potential to enhance business opportunities in the province.Matebeleland South Agricultu…

Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 12:22hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter

Fresh wave of farm invasions in Matebeleland

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has strongly condemned what it describes as a disturbing resurgence of illegal farm invasions in Matebeleland, accusing ruling ZANU-PF officials and state security agents of orchestrating land grabs in th…

Published: 21 May 2025 at 12:39hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter

The idea of Zimbabwe and Matabeleland question

I think the best way to understand the present day manifestations and character of Matebeleland politics is to situate them properly historically and politically within the broader terrain of the development of the idea of Zimbabwe and the…

Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 17:01hrs | 2189 | by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Matebeleland calls for transparency in army, police recruitment

Residents of Matabeleland have called for a decentralized recruitment process for civil servants, including soldiers, police officers, and nurses, amid growing concerns that the region is being overlooked in national recruitment drives.The…

Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 08:49hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter

Flood warning for Matebeleland, Midlands provinces

The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has issued a warning for heavy rains exceeding 70 millimetres within 24 hours, set to affect the Matebeleland region and the Midlands from Wednesday, 19 February, until Thursday morning. The int…

Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:38hrs | 2303 | by Staff reporter

80% of Matebeleland South roads untrafficable

At least 80% of the road infrastructure in Matebeleland South has been severely damaged by heavy rains that have pounded Zimbabwe in recent weeks, a Zanu-PF lawmaker has claimed. The province has been one of the hardest-hit areas, with flo…

Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 18:50hrs | | by Staff reporter

Matebeleland dams spill

Several dams in Matebeleland South province, including Zhovhe Dam, Silalabuhwa Dam, and Tuli Makwe, have started spilling, providing much-needed relief to farmers who had endured a challenging year due to an El NiÃ±o-induced drought.Recent…

Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:36hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter

Highway littering goes out of hand in Matebeleland South

The government has expressed concern over the issue of highway littering in Matebeleland South province, emphasizing the need for urgent action to address the problem and ensure community cleanliness. Minister of State for Matebeleland Sou…

Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt neglects Matebeleland roads, to focus on other regions

The last gaps in the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway are the primary target on the Government's infrastructure programme this year, while the modernisation of Forbes and Nyamapanda border posts is set to start, Transport and Infrastruct…

Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:30hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Ghosts of colonialism still haunt Zimbabwean names

In African cultures, the names given to children play an important role because they are often laden with meanings.As a team of professors of literature, linguistics and onomastics (the scientific study of names and naming practices) we ha…

Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:32hrs | 2 | by Tendai Mangena

Mnangagwa's victory will not benefit people in Matebeleland

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory in the just-ended harmonised elections will not benefit people in Matebeleland region, civic society organisations (CSOs) have said.In separate interviews yesterday, the CSOs told the Southern Eye tha…

Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

MRP blasts Zanu PF over Conferment of Guti as National Hero

MTHWAKAZI  Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has blasted President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa for conferring national hero status to the founder of Zaoga Church who died on July 5 in South Africa. He said many are wondering why the…

Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 15:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes

Matabeleland marginalisation

THE marginalisation of the Matabeleland region is viewed as a deliberate extension of the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres by the Zanu pF government, to punish the people in the southern parts of the country, according to rights activists.promi…

Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Matabeleland is marginalised

FORMER speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo says the Matabeleland region continues to be marginalised with locals not benefiting from natural resources.Moyo, who now fronts the opposition United Movement for Devolution party, claimed most o…

Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter

The godfather of Matebeleland politics, Abednico Ncube

The creation of empires and dynasties through the Zanu-PF structures continue to gain thrust and traction within Zanu-PF in Matebeleland South as noted with the continuous personalization of the vast and mineral rich province. The covid-19…

Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:48hrs | 48 | by Jerry Zinodla

Nkayi Community Parliament: The model for peace in Matabeleland

The recently established, Nkayi Community Parliament, which fosters community involvement, participation and the development of Nkayi District, is a haven of ideas, peace, mutual respect and political tolerance within the district. The par…

Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 09:24hrs | 51 | by Nhlanhla Moses

Life though the eyes of a Gukurahundi survivor

This week I was back in the village after a week away in the city and as usual to get the best of the news of what happened in my absence the first point of call is the home of my uncle, apart from being my neighbor, he is a brother to my …

Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 14:58hrs | 4 | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda

Plea to finish Matebeleland South development projects

Zanu-PF Matebeleland South Province wants Government departments to finish outstanding development projects.The initiative is meant to enhance development within the province as the country surges towards Vision 2030.The provincial party l…

Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Lack of IDs haunts Matebeleland youths

After dropping out of school because of financial constraints, 20-year-old Cephas Dube from tsukuru village in Bulilima district decided to seek employment in the informal sector.Without money to board buses, he walked for more than 30 kil…

Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

The Emergence of 5th Columnists in Matebeleland

Matebeleland has come a long way and still has a long way to go before any realistic arrival at the station of real freedom for its own people. It is a long winding mountainous road to freedom that is teeming with obstacles within and with…

Published: 14 May 2021 at 13:24hrs | 8 | by Thembani Dube

Is secession the only thing that could free Matabeleland?

KALIQUNYE means "cut it" - in this case, cut the country, divide it. It is a demand for independence by the people of Matabeleland or Mthwakazi Republic Party.what the party is advocating for resonates with many in Matabeleland and I belie…

Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:37hrs | 13 | by Thandekile Moyo

The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!

In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist genocidal slave drivers, colonialists and o…

Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 36 | by Thembani Dube

Mnangagwa and the politics of water in Matebeleland

Today, His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa marches back to history and affirmatively posts his legacy to posterity by officiating at the Gwayi-Shangani water pipeline groundbreaking ceremony and commissioning the Epping Fo…

Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | 5 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva

Zimbabwe must give Matebeleland a chance to manage own affairs

The politics of Matabeleland has been in the eye of a storm for a very long time. The Zanu-PF government, opposition parties and civic society groups have always claimed to serve the interests of the people of Matabeleland, yet the region …

Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Hon Lovemore Moyo UMD President

Matabeleland guns for devolution amid government delays

Chagrined by government delays in the implementation of devolution people in Matabeleland feel marginalised and is gunning for its speedy completion. The military government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.President Mnangagwa has signaled …

Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Makho Precious Moyo

Save Matabeleland Coalition not part of the Matabeleland Collective

Over the past few weeks there has been news and updates about the formation of the Matabeleland Collective. Whilst we as an Institute are familiar with a lot of the organizations listed in the endorsing organisations list, we were surprise…

Published: 04 May 2019 at 21:04hrs | 4 | by Save Matabeleland Coalition

How Matebeleland could immediately prosper itself

Matebeleland is the most potentially wealthiest Nation in the entire Southern Hemisphere of this planet. What we need to do, to tap into that wealth, are a few simple, but educated steps.The first of the educated steps which we must take a…

Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Multiverse Dungani

No justification for ECD non-Ndebele Speaking Teachers

Dear Editor, The condescending article  by Shumba Happison cannot go unchallenged  as it is a concoction  of tribal lies and displaced  superiority complex. Oblivious  to the sad reality  that ECD students&nbs…

Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Sihle Ndlovu

Zimbabwe is for us all

I find it unfair for people like Ezra Tshisa Sibanda to say that the government is trying to get rid of Ndebele by employing teachers with Shona surnames to teach in Matebeleland and other Ndebele dominated areas. People like him should ma…

Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 18:29hrs | 7 | by Shumba Happison

Delta assists Matabeleland South school

Delta Corporation has constructed two classroom blocks with two fully furnished classrooms each and a 10-hole toilet block at Fairview Primary School in Matabeleland South Province.The initiative, worth $60 000, is part of Delta's Schools …

Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi genocide victims compensation - a Possibility or an impossibility?

All peace loving people will agree with me that the disturbances which started in Zimbabwe soon after independence and saw approximately 20 000 people mainly of the Ndebele tribe constitute genocide and that victims of the government spons…

Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 11:14hrs | 4 | by Etiwel Mutero

Gukurahundi killings can never be forgotten by forgiveness

THE opinion penned by Xolani Ndlovu published in Tuesday's titled, Matebeleland needs to forgive 36 years after Gukurahundi, cannot go unchallenged primarily because it places the burden of Gukurahundi on the victims.Although claiming to b…

Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by S Ncube

Dangers of Ndebele and Shona radicalism and extremism in Zimbabwe

After reading my article published by Bulawayo24.com published on the 15th of October 2018 titled "Lobengula was King of both Matebeleland and Mashonaland" a Mr Ndlovu a Zimbabwean living in SA gave me a phone call. What I learnt from Ndlo…

Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 10:34hrs | 7 | by Etiwel Mutero

Matebeleland needs to forgive 36 years after Gukurahundi

Zenzele Ndebele has produced a gripping and emotionally intense documentary about the perennial talking point in Matebeleland - Gukurahundi. Media reports suggested that the releasing of this film caused some concern with the police, who t…

Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Xolani Ndlovu

Lobengula was King of both Matebeleland and Mashonaland

My last article titled "Mthwakazi was never a Ndebele Kingdom but a San Kingdom " received a mixed reaction from my readers. Some were angry but same gave me a pat for a factual article. While I won't be able to respond to all my critics I…

Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 16:26hrs | 6 | by Etiwel Mutero

What is going on in Zimbabwe?

Zimbabwe is on course for probably what some people in Zanu-PF would call free and fair elections. I wonder whether that can ever be achieved without implementing the reforms, part of which is to get rid of all retired army personnel in th…

Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Clement Moyo

Mnangagwa bomb blast a typical ploy to tarnish Matebeleland

ZAPU has described the blast which rocked White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday during a Zanu-PF rally as an act of terrorism meant to tarnish Matebeleland province."Zapu is concerned and worried with the acts of terrorism that are pe…

Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter

Why devolution of power is non-negotiable

The argument that was and is still propounded by some sections of the Zimbabweans society is both frivolous and vexatious for a number of reasons, which I will discuss in this instalment.Let me, however, explode and dispel the myths that a…

Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:54hrs | | by Dumisani O Nkomo

Why Zimbabwe should be split into two states

This is the prologue from the book Matabele Rising by David Hilton Barber, Footprint Press, R240Zimbabwe is not one country; to pretend otherwise is a dangerous hallucination. The country has to be divided into two federal states of Mashon…

Published: 29 May 2018 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Geoge Mkhwanazi

Matabeleland Culture day draws nigh

The second of June is set to be that milestone achievement day as far as the revival of the Ndebele culture is concerned. All thanks to Bambanani Association who gave birth to the idea and are currently hard at work nourishing it to life.B…

Published: 19 May 2018 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Simingenkosi Nkala

Revenge: Khupe is coming after Mafa

Thokozani Khupe is bitter. She is indeed very bitter that Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda disturbed her a lot by exposing her links with Mnangagwa in trying to destabilize the people's movement. Mafa is the man who announced that Bulawayo is f…

Published: 13 May 2018 at 19:57hrs | | by Henery Madiro

Matebeleland a patriarchal society Mr MDC-T president always remember

Tsvangirai was a chauvinist and no one dared to challenge him. Not even Thabitha khumalo. Not even Misihairambwi. Not even the women's league. Yet it was ok for him to emasculate Ndebeles.If Tsvangirai was not a tribalist chauvinist, he wo…

Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Thabetha Mangena

Which fool in Matabeleland will believe tribalist Chamisa's lies?

In a desperate effort to cover up his tribal hate for Ndebeles, to harvest Matebele votes and to feed his uncontrollable appetite for power, Nelson Chimisa had to employ a Big Lie tactic when he addressed an MDC Alliance rally at Dete, Mat…

Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 14:14hrs | 1 | by Wilson Mahlafuna Sibanda & Khohliso Maqhoba

Chamisa, Khupe fight, Matebeleland will encircle to protect its own

The leadership fight in the MDC, it appears is far from over. In actual fact as the elections dates draw nearer the violence between the two factions is escalating by the day if events in Bulawayo in the last two days are anything to go by…

Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 14:08hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa

Matabeleland Genocide (1980-1987 And Beyond) - Zanu-PF's agenda in the region pt2

The first article on Zanupf's agenda in The Region showed how it has continuously used tribalism to endlessly segregate, discriminate, deprive, oppress, marginalise, relegate to second/third class the people of Matabeleland and The Midland…

Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu

Matabeleland and Midlands Genocide: 1980-1987 and beyond - Zanupf's Agenda in the region

We the people of the region affected by the Gukurahundi Genocide must come to a common understanding of why Zanupf did the crime whose impact on our political, economic, cultural and emotional lives has been so devastating. The Gukurahundi…

Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 10:02hrs | 2 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu

ZAA UK and South Africa call for nominations

The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) International has commenced its 2018 campaigns for its UK and South Africa Editions.(ZAA) UK returns for its 8th Anniversary with organisers calling on the public to nominate prospective recipients for t…

Published: 04 Jan 2018 at 19:57hrs | 2 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya

Gukurahundi - A near volcanic eruption

I take this opportunity to express my public sympathy and sorrow upon the victims of gukurahundi. Many passed away and many are still alive but as time passes the agony of what they went through is still fresh in their minds. At least 30 y…

Published: 04 Jan 2018 at 19:53hrs | | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya

Open Letter to Matebeleland

Dear Proud Citizens of Matebeleland The Land of our Forefathers, the Land of AmaNdebele, AmaXhosa, BaTjowa, BaKalanga, BaNambya, BaSotho, BaTonga, BaTswana and VhaVenda, IS NOT FOR SALE. Our Land is not a bargaining tool for career politic…

Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 09:51hrs | 4 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo

Gukurahundi question a time bomb

Revolutionary greetings dear comrades. Thirty years ago innocent Matebeleland and Midlands people were ruthlessly butchered by Mugabe's regime in what is refered to as ethnic cleansing. Mnangagwa was Mugabe's arm of terror in this era. Tho…

Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu

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