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Matebeleland South police extend ban on machetes
POLICE in Matebeleland South province have extended the three-month ban on the carrying of machetes imposed in the province following a wave of crime linked to machete terror gangs that has hit the co...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:16hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
The moment is ripe for Zimbabwe to deal with the elements of terrorism
Zimbabwe is the most peaceful and stable country in southern Africa. Over the past few months the wave of terrorism just emerged in Zimbabwe. Terrorist gang running under moniker name "Mashurungwi" st...Published: 16 Jan 2020 at 09:11hrs | 2135 | by Matora Hupile
POLAD clueless - MRP
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said the Political Actors Dialogue exposes the clueless ness of political leaders in the country.This was after some members recently demanded funding from governm...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 10:01hrs | 2044 | by Stephen Jakes
NCBFZ Response to BAZ Public Consultation Notice
On the 21st of December 2019, the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) issued a Public Consultation Notice wherein it proposed to revise the broadcasting frequency allotment plan in order to accom...Published: 03 Jan 2020 at 18:21hrs | 820 | by Agencies
1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors Says Happy 2020
Year 2019 was a great year for the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM). We reflect in the great progress that has been made thus far. The Year saw the Movement building up on...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 08:35hrs | 418 | by 1893 Bayethe Board of Directors
GMB Corruption and mismanagement exposed
The GMB has been in chaos and turmoil since the days of the Kumbirai Kangai GMB scandal in 1997. GMB has been used as a tool for personal enrichment and has been weaponised as a tool for corruption in...Published: 25 Dec 2019 at 08:55hrs | 3824 | by Nicholas Ncube
Polad is a sleeping pill to ignore Zanu failures
After failing to fix the economy and to open space for political competitiveness, Zanu political Scientists invented a sleeping pill called Polad.Zanu Political Scientists have mastered the sc...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 13:10hrs | 1424 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Do not use state institutions for political fights
The words of Saviour Kasukuwere while he was still ZANU PF Commissar continue to echo loud and seemingly necessary as a desperate and failed regime looks under every rock seeking non-existent enemies ...Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2956 | by Peter Moyo
The real Mthwakazi nation defined
Many people do not understand what Mthwakazi was or is. Mthwakazi was or is a nation with a large number of clans or tribes or whatever you may call them. Matebele is the word that was used by B...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 06:56hrs | 3011 | by Mitchell Mhlanga
ZANU PF under fire over Ndebele language
The ZANU PF National People's Conference has condemned for failing to have a Ndebele interpreter at its 18th ZANU PF National Peoples Conference. Political analyst kelvin Mazhandu said, "Durin...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 10:26hrs | 9439 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa's tycoon to set up renewable energy institute in Gwanda
Energy poverty is defined as the lack of adequate modern energy for the basic needs of cooking, warmth, lighting, and essential energy services for manufacturing, services, schools, health centres and...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 07:13hrs | 3168 | by Nicholas Ncube
Rains damage 35 Matebeleland South schools
INFRASTRUCTURE in 35 schools in Matebeleland South Province has been damaged by rains. Presenting a report during a Matebeleland South Provincial Drought Relief Committee meeting on Wednesday,...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:13hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
Impact of shona teacher deployment to Matebeleland schools, 0% pass rate
At the beginning of 2019, the government has apologised after teachers who cannot speak Ndebele were recruited to take infant classes in Bulawayo....Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 08:28hrs | 4390 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Matebeleland backs Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF Matebeleland North and Matebeleland South provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the party's presidential candidate in the 2023 elections and recommended that the Government speedily i...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:31hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Political power is key to Matebeleland's existence
Ever since Zimbabwe attained it's independence in 1980, the Southern region popularly known as Mthwakazi has never known peace. There has been an attempt by Shona supremacists to destroy the diverse p...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 22:04hrs | 1358 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Matabeleland North is open for business
Matebeleland North is open for businessZimbabwe is endowed with several majestic wonders and investment opportunities which require an open mind that sees beyond the negative media onslaught a...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 10:16hrs | 1324 | by Nicholas Ncube
Canaan Ncube: Farewell to a gallant liberator (1939-2019)
Zimbabwe has lost yet another illustrious fighter for the country's independence and freedom. This is Canaan Ncube, born in Nkayi District of Matebeleland North in Zimbabwe on 19 October 1939 in Dolah...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 12:17hrs | 1657 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
No 'Road to Damascus' awakening in Zimbabwean politics - citizens can vote for recycled opportunistic politicians at own risk!
I am not much of a soccer fan, but there is something that I have always found strange - if not downright weird - without anyone able to provide a satisfactory explanation. Why is it that a coach fire...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:44hrs | 1622 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's poverty datum line shoots to $3 159
The country's poverty datum line for an average of five persons stood at $3, 159.52 in October, an increase of 44.2% from September's $2 191.62. The increase is in tandem with the sharp rise in the mo...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 20:12hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland switches to rand amid currency turmoil
As the government celebrates the transition from the multi-currency regime to a mono-currency system as one of its successes towards currency reforms, it is a different situation altogether in rural M...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:38hrs | 1583 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM message of Hope, Will-Power and Vision
Since the fall of the Matebeleland Kingdom at Gadade in November 1893, our Kingdom has been in a journey of fighting for its freedom and the Restoration of the Rights of its people and Africans in gen...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 07:14hrs | 807 | by Ayanda Manala
MDC never staged an 'illegal regime change' (coup) in Zimbabwe, but it was ZANU PF itself - so why repress the opposition?
The gruesome events of yesterday (21 November 2019) in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, whereby scores of innocent people - mainly bystanders - were reportedly brutally beaten up by police officers, ou...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 2240 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Umzingwane pupil drowns in heavy rain
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has reported that a school child of Swazi Primary in Umzingwane district in Matabeleland South was drowned by heavy rains recently.The recently hea...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 14:21hrs | 2458 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Behold the 4th Chimurenga!
We do no not seek to dispense ourselves from the past. We are a product of our past. We do not seek to despise our fore bearers because we are where we are because of them. We are part of the revoluti...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:15hrs | 5280 | by Ntokozo Msipha
Zimbabweans reject further military coups, but demand genuine electoral reforms to freely choose own leaders
If there is anything that Zimbabweans should have regrettably learnt the hard way, over the past years, is never to support or celebrate ZANU PF internal factional fighting, especially when this culmi...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:25hrs | 4988 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe: The tragedy of gumboot Shona hegemony and dictatorship
When the colonial masters settled in Africa in the late 1700s and early 1800s, they mainly had one goal to stretch their economic prospects. In their arrival, it was numerically impossible to gather i...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1226 | by Ayanda Manala
Matabeleland North remains without provincial hospital
MATABELELAND North Provincial Medical Director Dr Purgie Chimberengwa has appealed to Government to urgently complete construction of Lupane Provincial Hospital as the province faces a critical shorta...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Zapu condemns police clampdown
Zapu has condemned an alleged police clampdown against villagers in Mangwe after the community staged a protest against the alleged unfair recruitment of student nurses at Brunapeg Hospitals.T...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South police ban knobkerries
POLICE in Gwanda, Bulilima and Mangwe districts of Matebeleland South have imposed a three-month ban on the carrying of knobkerries and catapults, among other "weapons", citing increased crime in the ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:17hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC losing ground in Matebeleland
The Nelson Chamisa-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) continues to lose ground in Matebeleland, a region once considered the party's stronghold in the early 2000s.Until 2013, the MDC was...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 19:42hrs | 2705 | by Staff reporter
Cain Mathema's appointment as Education Minister a disaster for Mthwakazi
The recently announced changes in the cabinet by Mishack Sibanda effected by Emerson Mnangagwa government leaves a lot to be desired.Cain Mathema is a former member of the Froliz party which l...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 09:25hrs | 3777 | by Mqondisi Moyo MRP President.
Tobacco seedling scheme for Matabeleland
DIVERSFIED agro-based concern, Mhuri Farming plans to roll out a tobacco seedling-growing scheme in Matabeleland to promote production of the crop in the region. Of late, the Tobacco Industry ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:10hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo steps in the heart of Mnangagwa
The fugitive Jonathan Moyo made a bold step in Mnangagwa's heart with guns blazing accusing ED of nepotism and Tribalism. He took no prisoners in his twitter accusing ED of sidelining the Ndebeles fro...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 09:05hrs | 34954 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Does SB Moyo live on earth?
For those who may not remember, Sibusiso B. Moyo, (PhD) is the man who became the face of the November 2017 coup. As I write, after his spate with the United States ambassador, Brian Nichols, I am beg...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1158 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mnangagwa's govt accused of tribalism over nurses saga
The government has been accused of perpetuating tribalism through the recruitment of student nurses from outside Matabeleland for training at major hospitals in the region.Bulawayo residents h...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora Perspective of Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe
Something big is happening to Emmerson Mnangagwa he has come to realisation that his approval ratings have slumped. With the public confidence at its lowest. The mega deals have not materialised...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 08:00hrs | 1700 | by Mirriam Gasho
Govt official stokes fire for minister
WOMEN Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development minister Sithembiso Nyoni has come under fire after an official in her ministry said Matabeleland North people were "unemployable"....Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:41hrs | 3973 | by Staff reporter
uSithembiso Nyoni uzondisa isizwe samaNdebele ngenkulumo yakhe
UMphathintambo wokuthuthukiswa kwabasakhulayo kumabhizimi amancane njalo emele abenyakatho yeNkayi ephalamende leZimbabwe uNkosikazi Sithembiso Nyoni uzondise isizwe samaNdebele ngenkulumo yakhe ayits...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 07:54hrs | 2055 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe meets Ian Smith in afterlife
Please Note: The credibility quotient for this article is this: If it deals with politics it's a fact; if it is dramatized it's fiction; if it is outrageously u...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 07:46hrs | 8697 | by Field Ruwe
A view from ko Bulawayo with Discent Bajila
When modernization and digitization deepen marginalization On the day I finished my Advanced Level examinations at Luveve High School in Bulawayo mid November 2006, my loving sister had alread...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 3078 | by Discent Collins Bajila
Sithembiso Nyoni lampooned for lack of seriousness
Minister Sithembiso Nyoni torched a storm from fellow MPs when her ministry reported that it had failed to employ ward development coordinators in Matebeleland North because there are no people qualif...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 11:39hrs | 2803 | by newzimbabwe
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda blasts 'disgraceful' Minister Nyoni
Disgraceful, shameful and cruel Minister of Women's Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Sithembiso Nyoni has caused resentment & anger lying that his ministry has failed t...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 10:00hrs | 3076 | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
Matebeleland South calls for 30% youth quota
A MATABELELAND South youth advocacy group has called for a 30% youth quota instead of 10 parliamentary seats allocated to the youth for the 2023 elections in proposed constitutional amendments....Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:33hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
When a dead Zimbabwe president attracts more people than a current president - it's time for serious introspection
The past two months in Zimbabwe have been characterised by very notable events - some of which stood out more than others - but, what I found outstanding was the general public's reaction to the death...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 11:36hrs | 6743 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Relief as Zimbabwe expects rain
The Meteorological Department (MSD) says Manicaland and the country's southern region b- including Bulawayo – should expect some rains today, although many other areas that have been reeling from th...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:50hrs | 5876 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu an anti sanctions hero?
Obert Mpofu is a man who makes headlines and probably the biggest political character and player in Matebeleland. In his capacity as Secretary for Administration in ZANU PF, Obert Mpofu is the m...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 08:32hrs | 10149 | by Nicholas Ncube
The Country's biggest Fraud
"Who can ever forget that a whole Mugabe and his government were shaken by a lone and few Dzamara followers sitting in Africa unity gardens vowing not to eat until Mugabe finds time off his busy sched...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 11:33hrs | 2909 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
1893 MHRRM Declares Matebele History Month
In a week's time, on the 5th of November specifically, uMthwakazi will be regrouping as a people and as a united Nation to reflect, remember and commemorate one of the fiercest battles fought by Afric...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 12:54hrs | 997 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
224 students awarded Russian scholarships, only six from Matebeleland
Only six students from Matebeleland out of 224 Zimbabwean students were recently awarded scholarships to study at Russian universities, under the Russia Bilateral Scholarships Programme.This c...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 20:28hrs | 3269 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi sellout and a liability
As the leader of Mthwakazi Republic Party i cannot let people like Mohadi have a field day on us, surely how can he stoop that low to address Mthwakazi Republic Party at his Zanu-PF rally at Stanley s...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:10hrs | 69 | by Mqondisi Moyo MRP President
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