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Mthwakazi activists seek medical attention in SA
Opposition Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) members who were released from prison recently have been shipped for medical attention in South Africa.The nine former political prisoners were releas...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
SOS for released Mthwakazi activists
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has appealed for donations in cash or kind to support six activists and their families who spent three years in jail on charges of public violence.Nine MRP a...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:04hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists fined for doorstepping High Court
TWO members of the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) who were arrested on September 5 last year while submitting a petition to the Bulawayo High Court have been fined US$100 each.The...Published: 26 May 2023 at 18:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, ZPCS given ultimatum to reverse prison transfers of jailed Mthwakazi activists
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) has given President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) a four-day ultimatum to reverse the transfer of its party activists from...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Security fears as opposition Mthwakazi activists in 'suspicious' prison transfers
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has reportedly transferred Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists from Khami Maximum Prison to Chikurubi and Gwanda Prisons, under unclear circu...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
MRP appeal to UN over 'victimisation'
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) youths on Wednesday called on the United Nations to intervene in the plight of its members who it claims are being continually arrested and threatened with death....Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
We Must all Condemn the Imprisonement of Mthwakazi Activists in Zimbabwe
Greetings to all! As I greet you all, I am saddened by the silence of all our people at the sentencing to long imprisonment of more than three (3) years recently of Mthwakazi activists by Zimb...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 14:17hrs | 1 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Shona judge jails Mthwakazi activists for carrying knobkerries
NINE activists from the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were sentenced to varying jail terms when they appeared before Bulawayo magistrate, Mr Tawengwa Sangster.The nine who had pleaded not gui...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: 9 Mthwakazi activists given community service
Information reaching this publication indicate that the Bulawayo magistrate courty has has handed down community service sentence on nine Mthwakazi Republic Party officials who include national league...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 17:38hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Obert Gutu escapes gukurahundi activists' wrath
NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) spokesperson, Obert Gutu Wednesday survived potential humiliation from Matebeleland-based anti-Gukurahundi activists and political parties following...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists further remanded
NINE members of the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), who on Wednesday appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Tawengwa Sangster charged with disorderly conduct, were further remanded to Novemb...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jailed Mthwakazi activists in freedom bid
LAWYERS representing incarcerated Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists have applied for bail at the High Court. The application comes after several efforts to secure the freedom of the sec...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
9 Mthwakazi activists to spend Easter behind bars
NINE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists who are facing public violence charges were Thursday remanded in custody to 16 April by Bulawayo magistrate Tawengwa Sengester.This was revealed t...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tawengwa denies Mthwakazi activists bail
A Bulawayo magistrate Friday denied bail on nine Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists, saying there were high chances the group was going to abscond trial.Magistrate Tawengwa Sengester als...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 16:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists bail ruling on Friday
BULAWAYO magistrate Tawengwa Sangster is Friday expected to deliver his ruling in a case in which nine activists of firebrand opposition Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) are seeking bail following their...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 17:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
False start to Mthwakazi activists' bail hearing
BAIL application hearing for nine Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists failed to kick off in Bulawayo Tuesday after prosecutors failed to produce medical examination reports of the group.L...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
9 Mthwakazi activists seek bail
MINE members of the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) will appear in court today for bail application following their arrest last week after they protested outside Bulawayo Central Police St...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists dragged to court
FIVE members of the radical Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were recently dragged to court, ostensibly for disrupting court proceedings and violating lockdown restrictions.Bulawayo provincial m...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists freed
FIVE Mthwakazi activists, who were arrested at the Bulawayo High Court during Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayemangwe Ndiweni's bail hearing, were on Friday released on bail.Prince Ncube (28), Mon...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists arrested for demanding pro-Ndebele courts
FIVE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists were arrested on Wednesday at the Bulawayo High Court for demonstrating during the successful bail hearing of Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Nd...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists arrested for saying Shonas killed Ndebeles
Five members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party have been charged with participating in a gathering to promote public violence , breaches of peace and bigotry or alternatively disorderly conduct in publi...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 17:34hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Five Mthwakazi activists arrested at Chief Ndiweni hearing
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has arrested members of MRP for demonstrating outside the Bulawayo High Court. Various online reports said at the time of writing the activists were locked at the ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 15:51hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthwakazi activists fined for public hearing violence
THREE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists were yesterday fined $200 for engaging in public violence during a public hearing conducted in Bulawayo by the commission of inquiry led by ex-South Afri...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:56hrs | 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
Mthwakazi activists disrupt Chiguhamadzi's Queen Loziba lecture
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) activists disrupted the Queen Loziba lecture series by researcher Panashe Chiguhamadzi claiming she was unfit to do so as she is from the Shona tribe. Chiguhamad...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists picket ahead of Mnangagwa, chiefs meeting
MTHWAKAZI activists on Friday staged a demonstration outside hotel where Matabeleland traditional leaders were booked for two days ahead of their meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the State...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi: Justice delayed is justice denied
I am utterly disgusted and dismayed by the level of both incompetence and a clear disregard of rule of law by the Zimbabwean courts, especially at Tredgold Magistrate court and Bulawayo High court whe...Published: 13 May 2019 at 11:22hrs | | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Let's discuss no insults please
The General consensus amongst Mthwakazi Activists is that both ZANU it's leaders and MDC and it's leaders are the same, because they have the same agenda against our people. What I want to know precis...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 09:12hrs | 2 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Genocide: A tool used by Mashonaland to demonise Ndebeles
There are those people who still believe that the Genocide ended with the 1987 so called unity accord which was a mere marriage of political convenience. The agreement did not even come close to addre...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Mqondisi Moyo
Chiwenga flies into Gukurahundi storm
GOVERNMENT should stop public relations stunts and political gamesmanship by making token visits to Rwanda, which is commemorating the International Day of Reflection on Genocide, while paying lip ser...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pick n Pay and Zanu-PF in same WhatsApp Group
Yesterday afternoon I received information to the effect that Pick N Pay Victoria Falls will be opening it's doors for business today at the New shopping Mall and we knew that the company had already ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 19:34hrs | | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Zimbabwe Communist Party respond to attacks by ZANU PF mouthpiece
"The Patriot, 31 January 2019, carried an article titled 'Unmasking a pseudo-communist organisation,' although obviously there was no unmasking to do, instead it degenerated to slanderous personal att...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 13:23hrs | 2 | by Dr. Samukele Hadebe
Response to The Patriot: Unmasking Pseudo Communists
The Patriot, 31 January 2019, carried an article titled 'Unmasking a pseudo communist organisation,' although obviously there was no unmasking do to, instead it degenerated to slanderous personal atta...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Dr. Samukele Hadebe
Activists arrested for invading Rainbow hotel
Mthwakazi Republic Party activists have been arrested an hour ago by Bulawayo Police at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo. The activists thronged the Hotel after getting information on the exportation of Labo...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 15:42hrs | | by MRP
'Arbitrary arrests, detention rise'
The month of October witnessed an increase in cases of arbitrary arrests and detention, the Human Rights NGO Forum has said in its Organised Violence and Torture Report for October.This follow...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 15:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nomazulu Thata, not all Mthwakazi women are scared of their freedom like you
As I put this piece together in response to your article that appeared on Bulawayo 24 news on 18 September 2018, I'm shocked as to why you tremble in fear of freedom to the point of inviting oth...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 22:19hrs | 1 | by Khohliso Maqhoba
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Igomombe
MDC agenda in Mthwakazi is clear
Mthwakazi activists Hloniphani Ncube have said he is surprised by people who still on this day makes it an issue when MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa seeks to appoint Shona councillors to lead Mthw...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 09:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe has never been free since 1980 - Mthwakazi activists
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said Zimbabweans have never been free since 1980."I have noticed that people do not understand what peace is. A lot of people claim that Zimbabwe has be...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 11:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gukurahundi commission zeroes in on Gukurahundi
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it has crafted a framework to manage the contentious Gukurahundi atrocities, covering issues such as exhumations and summoning of the alleg...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commission chair meets disgruntled Matabeleland CSOs
National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) chairperson Retired Justice Selo Nare last week met civil society organisations (CSOs) from Matabeleland, to gather their concerns before getting do...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 Mthwakazi activists in court for assault
FIVE Mthwakazi Republic Party activists have appeared in court for allegedly assaulting two men after accusing them of squandering their money meant to buy residential stands.Thembani Moyo (28...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo central police, A tribal battleground
Bulawayo Central Police continues to be a tribal battleground as Mthwakazi vendors and activists went through a horrific experience during their detention at Bulawayo Central Police Station. Such is b...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 19:56hrs | 1 | by MRP Security Department
MRP distances self from Khupe
Nthwakazi Republic Party has distanced itself from having participated in the MDC-T rally addressed by Thokozani Khupe on Sunday in Bulawayo.This came in the work of media reports that some ac...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MRP Youth Member appearing in court today
Wisdom Terrance Mkhwanazi the Mthwakazi Republic Party youth league member is set to appear at Tredgold Magistrate court number 2 this morning.This follows his arrest which took place at Bulaw...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Obert Mpofu a disgrace to Mthwakazi'
Mthwakazi Republic Party has described Home Affair Minister Obert Mpofu as a disgrace for the Mthwakazi people following his threats against the Mthwakazi activists over the disruption of National Pea...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's govt warns Mthwakazi activists
GOVERNMENT has warned Mthwakazi Republic Party activists that they face arrest if they continue disrupting national programmes as their actions violate other people's rights to be heard.The ac...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No room for Ndebele king,' says toxic Mohadi
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi on Friday reiterated that there was no room for a king or monarchy in Zimbabwe, saying that the country's constitution did not allow for such an arrangement.Speakin...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns Mthwakazi activists
GOVERNMENT yesterday warned Mthwakazi Republic Party activists that they face arrest if they continue disrupting national programmes as their actions violate other people's rights to be heard....Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's rise of dissent tells us of Mugabeism's culture
A political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has expressed concerns that the increase in dissent in Zimbabwe shows that the culture of former President Robert Mugabe's suppression still exists.The...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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