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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: 2 hrs ago | 576 | by Mitchell Mhlanga
Mnangagwa's Ndebele name revealed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was born with a Ndebele name called Ihlupeko, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has revealed. Writing on Twitter using his moniker Jamwanda, Charamba said,...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 12:58hrs | 18016 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A Christmas book gift from a Villager
In my village, villagers don't write books. They queue for food aid from the State and NGOs to stay alive so that they can go and vote for Zanu PF in the next election. Writing books in my country is ...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:52hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga pens book on wars
VETERAN author, playwright, actor and director Cont Mhlanga has penned a book titled Izimpi ZikaMthwakazi: Mthwakazi Wars from the period 1890 to 1983. Having called it quits in 2016 after a 3...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:44hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
'MRP not a tribal outfit'
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has insisted that it is not a tribal outfit following accusations that the Matabeleland based opposition party is not only pushing a tribal agenda but cultivating tr...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Five cops attacked by civilians in Harare
Five police officers were recently attacked and injured by civilian gang in Harare.This is contained in the Zimbabwe Peace Project latest report."On 22 November 2019, five Zimbabwe Rep...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:14hrs | 1170 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 1336 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Siwela sneaks back
Exiled Matabeleland Liberation Organisation leader Paul Siwela has revealed that he recently sneaked back into the country to bury his father in Bulawayo.Siwela escaped Zimbabwe in 2013 after ...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:16hrs | 2289 | by Staff reporter
Paul Siwela urged to come and bury his father...safety guaranteed
Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner Dr Qhubani Moyo has urged the leader of Mthwakazi Liberation Organisation Paul Siwela to come home and bury his late father King Siwela who passed away on Monday....Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:23hrs | 2067 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo residents bitter over selective renaming of roads
BULAWAYO residents and opposition political parties have criticised government's move to rename several roads in the city, leaving out some of the city's luminaries.Government on Thursday anno...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:24hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
When Political Power turns to Misbehaviour: Part 1
In the life of representative democracy, political authority and the holding of public office is in the behalf of most, if not all, members of society - the collective good. Motivation in leadership i...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 09:06hrs | 1183 | by Gift Tawanda, M
Zimbabwe government scared of Mthwakazi independence agenda while its ministers 'support' the agenda - MIOR
Mthwakazi Institute Of Research has established UNTHINKABLE fears in the government of Zimbabwe and some intelligence networks to divert and confuse the Road to Mthwakazi Independence, which seems to ...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 09:05hrs | 1469 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
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 | 781 | by Ayanda Manala
King Lobengula Royal Family Condolence Message: The Passing on of Ikumukani, His Majesty Zwelonke Sigcawu of the Xhosa Nation
King Lobengula Royal Family in Ebudlamnondo mourn with the Xhosa nation on the passing on of their mighty Monarch. We not only know His Majesty Ikumukani Zwelonke Sigcawu, but he had become part of us...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:02hrs | 663 | by Crown Prince Zwide Velezulwini Khumalo
OK supermarket brings in casual labourers from Harare?
Members of Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) staged a protest outside OK supermarket along 6th Avenue and Lobengula Street, popularly known as Egodini on Wednesday, alleging the company's management recr...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 19:52hrs | 7038 | by Staff reporter
OK Zimbabwe tribal tendencies stink
Today members of Mthwakazi Republic Party protested at Ok Supermarket in Bulawayo's Lobhengula street, following the company's failer to respond to the letter previously written by the party's Bulaway...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 13:44hrs | 4881 | by Mbonisi Gumede
Kambarami appeal postponed
THE Supreme Court yesterday postponed a hearing in which deposed Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, is challenging the recent nullification of his election by the High Court. Bulawayo H...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:05hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
ZANU won't laugh last still- MLF
The removing of chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni from the Nhlambabaloyi chieftaincy does not do ZANU any good than bad. The move exposes not only how much ZANU fidgets on Mthwakazi cultural matters ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:20hrs | 3300 | by MLF
King Mzilikazi 11 mourns Xhosa King
KING Mzilikazi II, (Stanley Raphael Khumalo) of Matabeleland has sent his condolences on the passing on of South Africa's AmaXhosa King, His Royal Majesty King Mpendulo Zwelonke Sigcawu,The Am...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:18hrs | 1073 | 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 | 3668 | by Mqondisi Moyo MRP President.
UQweqwe lukaMthwakazi statement on Mthwakazi Kingdom
UQweqwe lukaMthwakazi firmly distances itself from all the conspirancy theories and accusations that were published in the Bulawayo 24 article which later went viral on the 4th of November 2019 and ar...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 20:21hrs | 1467 | by UQweqwe lukaMthwakazi
Is Chamisa a dictator in the making?
Dictators are not born but created by 'we the people' due to political, economic, and social conditions obtaining in a country. In dire economic and political situations, 'we the people' are desperate...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 22:09hrs | 2640 | by Lovemore Sibanda Ph.D.
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 | 3953 | by Staff reporter
Bulelani Khumalo's brother threatens to takeover Kingship
A splinter group of the Royal Crown Council is pushing for a new Claimant to the throne of the Ndebele Kingdom to takeover.The splinter group which is called Iqweqwe has identified Bulelani Kh...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 15:05hrs | 1195 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fresh jobs scandal rocks Mpilo
The Mpilo Hospital board is investigating the circumstances surrounding the alleged imposition of principal nursing officer (PNO) by the government while interviews were being held to fill the vacant ...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:57hrs | 3918 | by Staff reporter
BCC must heed to MRP's Nehanda statue call - MLF
As MLF, we would like to remind the Council of Bulawayo of the values that is says, it will always stand to reflect in its day to day operations in the City of the Kings. It is the Council itself whic...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 11:10hrs | 2486 | by MLF
Mthwakazi threat to take down Nehanda statue from Bulawayo arts centre
A showdown is looming between the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) following the secessionist party's threats to remove First Chimurenga heroine Mbuya Nehanda's statu...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:48hrs | 3296 | by newzimbabwe
Zapu, MRP fight over Mpilo protests
SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) and the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) have accused the opposition Zapu of hijacking and personalising protests over unfair recruitment o...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1132 | by Staff reporter
MRP demands fair nursing training recruitment opportunities at local hospitals
Today we went to Mpilo Hospital on a fact finding mission, with just two questions for the management, who were represented by the public relations office particularly Mr Ozias Ndlovu who collected ou...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 14:22hrs | 2121 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Banning of cultural weapons in Bulawayo is stripping Mthwakazi of power - MLF
He who is guilty of some stupid acts is he who feels threatened by the carrying of cultural weapons like knobkerries and sticks in the City of Kings. The move to ban these weapons by Superintend...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | 582 | by MLF
There shall be no anti-sanctions demonstration in Mthwakazi - MLF
We hope all those who have always doubted us over that SADC is a brain child of Robert Mugabe and ZANU has now sobered up to realise how much true we have been. SADC is only an apparatus designed to s...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 18:15hrs | 4276 | by MLF
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 | 979 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Zapu, MRP clash over Nurses recruitment
Members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) and ZAPU traded barbs during a sit-in at Mpilo Hospital over the controversial recruitment of trainee nurses, with the former accusing ZAPU of 'selling ou...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:47hrs | 2346 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor rebels against MDC
BULAWAYO Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni has thrown into the drain attempts by his party MDC-Alliance to reinstate embattled former Deputy Mayor Mr Tinashe Kambarami, in a latest twist that shows fissu...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 07:49hrs | 8267 | by Staff Reporter
Ndebele nursing students deliberately failed?
We have been inundated with calls and messages from the public following the Mpilo tribal fiasco. A lot of people have expressed gratitude and many thanks to Team MRP for standing up for them. Accordi...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:49hrs | 197 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
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 | 65 | by Mqondisi Moyo MRP President
Mohadi chides Zapu on Unity Accord pullout
Vice President, Kembo Mohadi has chided the opposition party, Zapu, for trivialising the 1987 Unity Accord saying the pact was irreversible.The Unity Accord was an agreement signed between Jos...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MDC orders Bulawayo mayor to reinstate Kambarami
THE opposition MDC has ordered Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni to re-instate his expelled deputy Tinashe Kambarami, despite a High Court ruling that the latter's election was a nullity.Kambarami ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:29hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Emmerson Mnangagwa
14 October 2019Petition to The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare.Cc: Ministry of Health, Matebeleland North Province.Cc: CEO Tsholotsho HospitalCc: St Lukes Hospital....Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:55hrs | 2065 | by Mqondisi Moyo
MDC tribal cracks widen
Zimbabwe's politics is a very interesting terrain. It is contested by revolutionaries, pseudo revolutionaries, neo-liberals, sell-outs to the outright treasonous. Students of politics know tha...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:49hrs | 3027 | by Staff reporter
All set for MTHWAKAZI Maskandi Festival 2019 in Joburg
Mthwakazi Maskandi Festival is a festival that was started by the Maskandi Music artists based in RSA that originally come from Matebeleland region which is also known as Mthwakazi. That's where the n...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 642 | by Nkosini Tshuma
Man steals from church, blames dead man
All set for Mthwakazi Maskandi Festival 2019 in JoburgMthwakazi Maskandi Festival is a festival that was started by the Maskandi Music artists based in RSA that originally come from Matebeleland r...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:13hrs | 2118 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa poisoned during Mugabe coup?
Mthwakazi Liberation Organisation Leader Paul Siwela has sensationally alleged that the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa may have been poisoned during the November 2017 coup that ended 37 years of R...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 10:00hrs | 12103 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Open letter to Mthwakazi
Firstly I bring you greetings from Mthwakazi Liberation Front. The Movement which strives to bring back life, dignity, joy and prosperity to all Mthwakazi people.Mthwakazi, some 9years ago, in...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 21:05hrs | 1231 | by David Magagula
An ethnic Genocide is brewing in Matebeleland as Ndebeles get tutsified by Mnangagwa's government
The Zanu PF's Rozvi mambo fraud in which the system is fronting Mike Moyo as their answer to King Bulelani Lobhengula, is the official government response to Matabele efforts to free themselves from S...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 2684 | by George M Mkhwanazi
A gentle response to Mr Hanana and Mr Ryton Dzimiri
This article saves to respond and repel the myths raised by the two writers, namely Mr Hanana of Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation and the angry yet incisive firebrand in the form of Mr Ryton Dzimiri. I need...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 09:53hrs | 717 | by Thulani Nkala
Energy Mutodi's star rising
One of the Mthwakazi political parties assisted by a Bulawayo based lawyer recently tried to file criminal charges of violence incitement against Mutodi at the Bulawayo Central Police Station but poli...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 10:18hrs | 3474 | by Nicholas Ncube
Mbeki's praise for Mugabe deeper than what meets the eye
The research by Mthwakazi Institute of Research (MIOR) has shown that people of the same philosophy tend to support each other. This becomes more pronounced if the people under scrutiny once have a ch...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:03hrs | 3244 | by Mthwakazi Research Institute
African Religion and Governance in a changing world. Where thou goest native Africa!
It is my humble intention to speak to this paper in response to my learned brother Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba's presentation to The All-Africa Religious Liberty 3rd Congress in...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:00hrs | 604 | by Reginald Nyathi
MDC is a disgrace to Matebeleland
The tribal fracas at the Mthwakazi capital "Esigodlweni seNkosi" is a clear manifestation of a tribal war against the local people. The unrepentant Shona councillors yesterday snubbed a scheduled budg...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 15:35hrs | 3208 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
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