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War vets are orphans in parliament: Outspoken war vet says
The war veterans are currently orphans in parliament as no legislator openly talks about them or represents their issues, despite the fact that some of them who were vetted in 2023 up to date have not...Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:06hrs | 205 | by Stephen Jakes
Schools warned against expelling learners over fees
Schools across the country have been warned against expelling learners from school due to non-payment of fees, with indications that this is a violation of their rights to education.Schools op...Published: 18 May 2025 at 17:56hrs | 288 | by Stephen Jakes
ED hailed for stopping the raids of vendors
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been applauded for calling for the government to stop the raids on informal traders and confiscation of their wares by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority and local authorities...Published: 27 Mar 2025 at 12:07hrs | 1722 | by Stephen Jakes
Government urged to revise strategy for granting hero status
The government has been challenged to change the manner in which the ruling party exclusively grants hero status. Concerns have been raised that deserving individuals, such as the late historian Phath...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 13:11hrs | 521 | by Stephen Jakes
Gukurahundi perpetrators are exposed and cited to clarify the 2017 coup!
That the General Chiwenga was cited in the genocide atrocities that took place especially in Matabeleland South is not a coincidence but well calculated. The Zanu PF conference was in Bulawayo, curiou...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 20:22hrs | 1298 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ex-ZIPRA Veteran Slams Zanu PF's Push for Mnangagwa to Stay in Power: Calls for National Referendum
An outspoken former ZIPRA member, Max Mkandla, has issued a stark warning to Zanu PF factions advocating for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend his tenure beyond 2028, stating that such a move wou...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 13:10hrs | 1206 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF conference kicks off, spotlight on ED2030
Zanu-PF's annual conference has commenced today in Bulawayo, focusing on the contentious push by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's supporters for a resolution to extend his term in office. The gathering ...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:51hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Government's compensation plan for former white farmers sparks outrage
The government's recent announcement of compensation for 444 former white commercial farmers has ignited widespread anger among citizens. Many are questioning why the liberation struggle was fought ov...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 20:32hrs | 384 | by Stephen Jakes
'Tshinga Dube was a good man'
OUT SPOKEN Ex-Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has described the later Former War Veterans Minister Tshinga Dube as a figure father who loved and was loved by many due to his care for the well being of a...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 13:32hrs | 666 | by Stephen Jakes
Heartless Mugabe did not give chance to non combatant and local trained vets to be vetted
Outspoken ex-Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has criticized the late former President Robert Mugabe and his administration, accusing them, in collaboration with former colonialists, of being heartless f...Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 16:53hrs | 1360 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimta commends govt feeding programme
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has praised the government's new school feeding program, highlighting its potential to improve student concentration and reduce dropout rates.In an in...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 09:02hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
INNSCOR GMO's saga draws fire from activists
The ongoing controversy involving Pan-Africanist Rutendo Matinyarare, and the Innscor Group has taken a new turn with the human rights activist Abigale Mupambi and the International Coalition Against ...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 11:57hrs | 1103 | by Stephen Jakes
United Nations of Africa congratulates ED for assuming SADC Chairmanship ...as he blasts opposition for being disorganised
United Nations of Africa (UNA) Zimbabwe representative, Max Mkandla has congratulated President Emmerson Mnangagwa for assuming the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Chair position, adding...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 16:51hrs | 889 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu war vets rap Mnangagwa over violation of Unity Accord
Max Mkandla, leader of the Zipra war veterans, has criticized President Emmerson Mnangagwa for straying from the Unity Accord agreement signed by former President Robert Mugabe and Vice-President...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 10:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
War vets make fresh demands
War veterans, represented by the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) and led by Ethan Mathibela, have requested the government to grant Freedom of the City and hero status t...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 07:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra veteran wants Jabulani Sibanda's return as leader
A ZIPRA war veteran, Max Mkandla, has called for the reinstatement of Jabulani Sibanda as the leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) to unify the divided group. ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:42hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Return Home affairs ministry to Zapu officials: Ex Zipra cadre
THE SECOND Republic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been challenged to return the Home Affairs ministry to Zapu in honour of the unity accord that was signed by late former Vice President Jo...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 15:10hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
'Sanctions on Zanu PF govt leaders are useless'
Outspoken Ex Zipra cadre Max Mkandla has warned the United States of America that itrs imposition of targeted sanctions on the Zimbabwean leaders is useless as those leaders lose nothing and feel no p...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 13:07hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Zipra war vets hails ED for appointing Mavhunga as their minister
ZIPRA war veterans have hailed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for appointing Monica Mavhunga as the Minister of War Weterans Welfare adding that as she is a war veteran herself she is bound to address a...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 13:05hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Mutsvangwa blasted for spilling bins about Mnangagwa after being fired
The fired minister of War Veterans Christopher Mutsvangwa has come under fire for claiming to be exposing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa who fired him was put at the helm by him (Mutsvangwa) and th...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 14:53hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Outcry over inhumane evictions
GOVERNMENT has been criticised for carrying out inhumane mass evictions in Masvingo and Chiredzi, among other areas, leaving families homeless.The latest wave of farm evictions targeting land ...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Daft Charumbira in Gukurahundi storm
CHIEF Fortune Charumbira touched off a storm yesterday after saying the disturbances that rocked the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces in the 1980s in which thousands were killed by North Korea-trai...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vet tears into CCC interim secretary-general
OUTSPOKEN war veteran Max Mkandla has attacked self-proclaimed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu, describing him as an infiltrator in the opposition polit...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 19:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa called to order over war vets association control
WAR VETERANS have called on Minister of War Veterans Affairs Christopher Mutsvangwa to ordered and challenged him to stop trying top control the Zimbabwe's National Liberation War Veterans...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 15:30hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Pan Africanist organisations urged to form one institution to spearhead United States of Africa
Pan Africanists organisations formed in the continent have been challenged to come together to form one institution that will significantly push for a one united state of Africa in order to prevent in...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:26hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa's rule may be grabbed by corporals: War vet
An ex-Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has warned that if Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa were to win the presidential elections his rule would be overthrown by a mere army corporal c...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 13:58hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Minister Mutsvangwa challenged to act on payment of recently vetted war collaborators
EX Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has challenged the Minister of War Veterans Christopher Mutsvangwa to intervene and assist the recently vetted war collaborators and war veterans who did not get vette...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 21:05hrs | 13 | by Stephen Jakes
Stop using Gukurahundi for political millage: Ex Zipra
Ex Zipra cadre, Max Mkandla has warned politicians especially from the opposition political parties to stop using the Gukurahundi issues in their po...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 09:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Entumbane/Njube Zanu PF candidate hailed for development before being elected
ENTUMBANE residents have hailed Zanu PF candidate for Entumbane / Njube, Linda Chinamano, the daughter of the late former Zapu Vice President Josiah Chinamano for making several developments in the co...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:00hrs | 13 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt departmental heads need indoctrination, says War vet
OUTSPOKEN war veteran, Max Mkandla says all government departmental heads in their respective provinces should be sent to the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology for Zanu-PF indoctrination following th...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over US$ school fees
PARENTS have expressed concern over a decision by some schools to peg half of their school fees in foreign currency, mainly the United States dollar (US$).Schools open on September 3, 2022 for...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Govt, parents clash over June exams suspension
PARENTS are up in arms with government over its recent decision to suspend Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) June "O" and "A" Level examinations.Most parents interviewed by NewsDay...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt urged to adopt traditional medicine to fight Covid-19
The International Coalition Against Coronavirus (ICAC) third Vice President in Africa Max Mkandla has called on the government of Zimbabwe to adopt ...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 16:48hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF youths slam Zimbabwe spring protests
THE Zanu-PF Youth League in Matabeleland South yesterday slammed the planned MDC Alliance demonstration set for tomorrow, saying it is an unwanted political gimmick bent on causing anarchy in the coun...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Elected officials not your bosses'
CHURCH and Civic Society Joint Forum (CSCJF) has urged Zimbabweans to stop calling elected officials "bosses", indicating that this has ruined the nation as the all-too-powerful and invincible politic...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa led Municipalities accused of extravagance
CIVIC Society and Churches Joint Forum (CSCJF) activists drawn from Bulawayo and Gweru yesterday besieged Bulawayo City Council offices and the Holiday Inn Hotel - where Gweru city councillors are att...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CSCJF challenge citizens to monitor how 2% tax is used
The Civic Society and Churches Joint Forum has challenged citizens to unit and monitor how the government uses the 2% tax which it has imposed on every electronic transaction they make.Finance...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 14:45hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Push for citizens' participation in governance issues
CHURCHES have joined hands with civic society organisations (CSOs) to roll up an educational programme aimed at mobilising citizens to increase their participation in governance issues and stop leavin...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has destroyed all suspicious political parties
EX Zipra cadre Max Mkandla has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has destroyed all suspicious political parties through his renewed appointments of cabinet ministers with faces likely to chang...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Calibre of Councillors elected for Bulawayo City Council are mere debt collectors
_ _ _mayor must be appointed from outside elected councillors Ex Zipra cadre Max Mkandla has said the calibre o...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 09:04hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
'I will make all residents needs a priority'
The independent candidate for ward 10 in Entumbane Bulawayo Edmonic Max Mkandla has revealed a host of plans which he intend to do for the ward among them that he will make young people a priority and...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Ex- Zpra cadre blasts BCC over water cuts
Ex-Zpra cadre Max Mkandla has blasted the Bulawayo City council for suddenly cutting water to the residents especially during the weekend without notifying the residents in Iminyela, Njube, Entumbane ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 16:31hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
133 political parties contesting elections is chaos
Ex Zpra cadre Max Mkandla has expressed shock over the ballooning number of political parties totaling 133 which have emerged as intending to contest this year's elections indicating that some of them...Published: 31 May 2018 at 14:50hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa must ignore the primary election re-run appeals if he want to be popular
An EX Zpra cadre Max Mkandla has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ignore the appeals by several Zanu PF party members who wee defeated in the primary elections who are seeking re-run of the poll...Published: 04 May 2018 at 12:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Do not take barracks habits to civilian civil service - War vet tells Chiwenga
An Ex Zipra veteran Max Mkandla has warned Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to stop taking the army barracks habits, where command is an elemen...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 11:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe must stop blaming Zapu and Zipra for Gukurahundi
An Ex Zpra cadre Max Mkandla has rapped former President Robert Mugabe for blaming Zapu and Zpra for the Gukurahundi massacres which he committed through the fifth brigade soldiers in 1980s.Mu...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 10:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
NASDAC exposes source of Magwegwe Secondary School tribalism saga
The National Association of School Development and Committees (NASDAC) has exposed the source of the tribalism saga which rocked the Magwegwe Secondary School after claims that the school head William...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 14:27hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF has no supporters, only victims
Ax Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has claimed that the ruling Zanu PF party has no supporters but victims of its coercing and abuse."We present here a special case of a psychological condition ...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe warned: Shut up!
An Ex Zipra veteran Max Mkandla has warned former President Robert Mugabe to shut about about claiming that this year's elections will not be free and fair because he during his tenure retained power ...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 15:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ex Zipra cadre raps comrades who for another Zipra association
An Ex-Zipra member Max Mkandla has warned other members for the PF Zapu military wing to stop plans to form another Zipra association using the same name which is currently used to the association led...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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