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Lawyer sued RG over wrong passport IsiNdebele words
Back in 2020 a Bulawayo-based lawyer Mr Nqobani Sithole is suing the Registrar-General over errors and misspellings of IsiNdebele words on the Zimbabwe passport but we have not heard about the ruling ...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 12:40hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
British Council funds African artists with £700 000
The British Council's Sub-Saharan Arts programme has announced the success of its Culture Exchange open call for grants, an initiative that connects and promotes cultural exchanges through art. ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 15:31hrs | 42 | by Mandla Ndlovu
God, Highlanders and everything else after ... life of Bosso treasurer
BEING an ordained minister of the gospel of Christ and holding a top post at one of the country's top clubs can never be an easy task.However, for Highlanders FC treasurer Busani Mthombeni, th...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gynaecology Professor opens up on polygamy
HE traces his roots back to the time of King Mzilikazi's long journey to Bulawayo from neighbouring South Africa during the 1830s with his great grandfather, Phambilikwempondo, as one of the king's tr...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:17hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign: Human Rights Orgs /institutions & Churches conflict of interest
Many doubting Thomases think that the Black lives Matter (BLM)campaign has no genuine cause. Some evil people who are proracist are trying to denigrate that campaign or vilify it, so that they d...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:36hrs | 1 | by Njabulo
Brave lawyer goes after RG over wrong passport IsiNdebele words
A BULAWAYO-based lawyer Mr Nqobani Sithole is suing the Registrar-General over errors and misspellings of IsiNdebele words on the Zimbabwe passport. Mr Sithole, who filed the application at th...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Parly in heated debate over pregnant school girls
THE Education Amendment Bill, which is currently in its second reading stage in the National Assembly, has attracted heated debate on whether pregnant girls should be allowed to continue with class....Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Individuals don't live to be a hundred years old; tribes do.
In Mhandambabwe, Chivi area, the community is paramount. I drive my perspective from the community, not from me to the community; that to me is a western culture. Tribal survival and prosperity are al...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 19:50hrs | 2 | by Sam Wezhira
Staring through the rear-view
I remember November 2017, first when stories broke that tankers where being seen headed for Harare. There was surprise and a sense of disbelief and people argued it wasn't possible. Then the pictures ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 15:51hrs | 3 | by Irene Yvonne
Chamisa in the eyes of the outside world, could he be the face of the renascence of African democracy?
Too much publicity is being given to the western media styles and tastes of who is fit to become a leader and ruler of countries where they have huge historical investments and prospects for more inve...Published: 14 May 2018 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Chiwenga must shed army culture
Inherent in the dismissal of striking public service nurses is a hangover from a military mindset drilled to a regimented environment. As I see it, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga might no longer ...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Violet Gonda returns to Zimbabwe after 17 years in exile
IN August 2000, Violet Gonda left her home country to study for an MA in International Journalism in London. She expected it would be for one year. However, she was to spend the next 17 years in exile...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 11:20hrs | | by Nonee Walsh
'Zimbabweans are useless Dogs'- President Mnangagwa.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a 75 year old Zanu leader to be a champion of change. Even by scientific evidence, a 75 year old who spent 50 years admiring and bei...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 17:00hrs | | by Multiverse Dungani
'Tears of a women, hope of the nation'
South Africa commemorates Women's Month in August as a tribute to the thousands of women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. At ...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Eric Shikobela
Busi Ncube speaks on Cde Chinx, career
IF True Love, that irresistible jam that has lit up Zimbabwean weddings and parties since the 80s, is Ilanga's greatest accomplishment, then it is also without question Busi Ncube's finest hour as a p...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The West looted our diamonds, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I know most of you were shocked by my revelations last week of the value of the diamonds that were wantonly looted from o...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 15:10hrs | | by CZ
Mugabe is now a living ghost, says Mujuru
Ex-vice-president Joice Mujuru (JM) says Zimbabwe is lucky to have Mugabe alive at his age as someone who could give the country spiritual guidance.mujuruShe says however, in an exclusive ...Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is now just a living spirit, says Mujuru
Ex-vice-president Joi-ce Mujuru (JM) says Zimbabwe is lucky to have Mugabe alive at his age as someone who could give the country spiritual guidance.She says however, in an exclusive interview...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ancestors disapprove of the groom two weeks before wedding day
A wedding which was supposed to take place in west of Durban collapsed two weeks before its day after bride suddenly told the husband to be, that her ancestors disapproved of him.Daily Sun rep...Published: 23 Dec 2015 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Launch of the iBhoro Bush Festival set for 16 and 17 October 2015
Tsoro-o-tso San Development Trust an organisation fighting for the San cultural revival has announced that it will be launching a bush festival called iBhoro on October 16 and 17 at Garia Dam in Tshol...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 06:14hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru is harmless in a democracy but dangerous in Zim mudded political water
Mai Mujuru is a simple woman, a simpleton, and that shows through and through in what she does. For the best part of her life Mai Mujuru had paid heed to the Mark Twain adage, "It is better to...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 08:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mujuru's statement rattles Zanu-PF bigwigs
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru's statement last week, in which she savaged President Robert Mugabe's post-congress Zanu-PF and also apologised to Zimbabweans for mistakes that she and her erstwhil...Published: 08 Jun 2015 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Mugabe's collapse means
The president's fall on the red carpet made him mortal - but laid bare the nation's hate and hurt.Wednesday, February 4 2015, could not have been going any better for President Robert Mugabe....Published: 05 Feb 2015 at 22:01hrs | 1 | by Teldah Mawarire
Of Shona and British Colonialism
Of Shona Colonialism, British Colonialism and the Need to Defeat BothThe 20th century history of Africa is a history characterized by massive European Colonialism. Europe, then made up of the ...Published: 08 Sep 2014 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Robert Mugabe - A man and president Zimbabwe never needed!
Plainly, Robert Mugabe was the wrong man and the wrong president for a post-colonial State to succeed Rhodesia, by whatever name that post-colonial would be known. As readers can clearly tell, I d...Published: 17 Jan 2014 at 15:26hrs | | by Stella Msebele
"My dancing style does not make me a lesser Christian'
Bulawayo queen of dance Sandra Ndebele, who launched her sixth album at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo at the weekend, has justified her blend of secular and gospel music.The former Iyasa prodigy t...Published: 20 Feb 2013 at 11:37hrs | | by Arts reporter
Malema, ANC finally agree to kiss the boer
EXPELLED ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and his ANC counterparts formed a united front yesterday, vowing not to ever again sing derogatory Struggle songs against whites.Last night, Male...Published: 02 Nov 2012 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Naked granny caught sprinkling 'witchcraft waters' in neighbour's yard
There was pandemonium at Bulawayo's Mabutweni suburb last Friday after a resident allegedly caught a woman stark naked conducting rituals at his house.The incident has been linked to witchcraf...Published: 06 Jul 2012 at 05:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Man hangs self, Nkulumane house owner demands cleansing
THE owner of the Nkulumane 11 house at which a 20-year-old man hanged himself after allegedly killing his uncle over food has demanded that the assailant's family cleanse his home.The murder ...Published: 13 Dec 2011 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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