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Jehovah's Witnesses in historic Gweru convention
JEHOVAH'S Witnesses over the weekend held a historic convention in Gweru, which saw thousands of Witnesses throng Midlands State University for the three-day spiritual occasion.The church has ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 739 | by Staff reporter
Lobengula descendants demand State House
Descendants of King Lobengula say they want the government to give them back land where the Bulawayo State House was built to restore their heritage.The King Lobengula Royal Trust wants to tur...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:24hrs | 3448 | by Staff reporter
Kalanga lobby group to produce textbooks
A lobby group has pledged to spearhead the production of Kalanga textbooks to ensure that there is enough material to facilitate the teaching of the language in schools.Lubahhe, a group made u...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:15hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Kalanga lobby group to produce textbooks
A lobby group has pledged to spearhead the production of Kalanga textbooks to ensure that there is enough material to facilitate the teaching of the language in schools.Lubahhe, a group made u...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Exploring the causes of Gukurahundi
It is true that the Matabeleland crisis resulted in a number of people losing their lives while some remained with permanent psychological and physical injuries.True that maybe, perceptions an...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:11hrs | 757 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Mathebeleland - The Ndexit Era
The truth remains the truth no matter what your wishes may be. Amandebele people cannot live together with Shonas even if Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo would have wanted it that way, it is just water and oil, ...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 19:25hrs | 2958 | by Clemen Moyo
Econet in major blackout
Econet users on Saturday complained about their failure to use the Econet services from Ecocash to Data services. Online magazine Techmag said the following service were confirmed not working...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 11:16hrs | 6784 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo under siege from intruders
Historically, Bulawayo city is known for its rich heritage, tradition, culture, cleanliness and orderliness in the management of its civic affairs. Just like the Ndebele people, respectability a...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 10:07hrs | 6393 | by Lovemore Moyo
Ndebele lecturing post at Mkoba Teachers College
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons for the IsiNdebele and Music Lecturing posts:Post 1. IsiNdebele x 1 post Qualifications- Bachelor of Education in N...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 09:19hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Sandra Ndebele fraudster's property auctioned
'GOD fights my battles' are the words that dancer-cum-singer Sandra 'Sandy' Ndebele-Sibindi said after the Sheriff of the High Court last week auctioned property belonging to a woman who defrauded her...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:44hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City Concept
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City ConceptAuthor: Prince Zwide KhumaloDate: 26 June 2019Isilo seNtuthuko Bulawayo and the identity of Umthwakazi or the Ndebele nation are inseparabl...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:57hrs | 2694 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
3 cops in 160kg gold ore heist
Three police officers based at Fort Rixon Police Station have been implicated in a 160kg gold ore theft at Sheep Skin A mine, a police report shows.According to a leaked police document dated ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami: A limping goat with one horn on its forehead!
The uncanny and hellish school boy behaviour by one Tinashe Kambarami of unknown origin, who by the devil's design, strangely found himself being the self-proclaimed godfather of Bulawayo, is exceedin...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 00:31hrs | 4442 | by Muntukaziwa
Sympathizers turn against Chamisa after by-election defeats
The opposition MDC has received criticism from unlikely quarters after losing two council by-elections in Bikita and Nyanga to the ruling Zanu-PF party.The by-elections held yesterday saw Zanu...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:32hrs | 5102 | by Staff reporter
Nomazulu Thata Misinformed
Nomazulu Thata who regards herself as the custodian of all Mathebeleland issues has a tendency to twist facts to suit her agenda. It is very curious that she refers to Bulawayo as the City of Kings an...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:15hrs | 1772 | by Lizwe Dube
Chamisa imposed Shona councillors causing tribal may ham in Bulawayo
On 15 September 2018, when more than 12 Shona councillors took office in the City of Bulawayo on the ticket of MDC Alliance MLO released a statement that partly read as follows: "hoi! to the people of...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 3820 | by Israel Dube
MDC tribalists' plans exposed
It has come to our attention that the recently elected MDC-A Bulawayo leadership which is predominantly Shona, and stand accused of bribing their way up on tribal grounds is fully behind Kambarami in ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:40hrs | 1752 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Iconic towers part of Bulawayo's identity
SOMETIME last month it emerged that the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was planning to demolish the thermal power towers situated at Zesa main, near the Railway Station. News of the impeding demolition ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:41hrs | 765 | by Raisedon Baya
Middleton Nyoni turning in his grave: His office of excellence is reduced to despicable genital-mother insults and death treats
We are watching on the sidelines seeing the gross mismanagement of Bulawayo residents' rates payments squandered to the extent that Bulawayo City council cannot resuscitate the water works for weeks a...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:50hrs | 4042 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo Town Clerk not off the hook yet
It is now clear that tribal battles at Bulawayo now over shadows service delivery.The city is facing serious water shortages,have poor roads, busting of sewer pipes posing a health hazard especially i...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:43hrs | 2748 | by Etiwel Mutero
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 | 404 | by Staff reporter
MDC councillors out of order
The purported suspension of the Town Clerk of Bulawayo by a Shona tribalistic cabal led by the convicted fraudster Tinashe Kambarami aptly demonstrates that even if one were to dress a pig in royal ro...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 18:59hrs | 994 | by L Dube
Ndebele 'King' challenged on Gukurahundi
Ibhetshu lika Zulu Secretary General Mbuso Fuzwayo has challenged the three claimants to the Ndebele throne to air their views on what needs to be done regarding the resolution of the Gukurahund...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:35hrs | 3307 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 1967 | by King Mzilikazi II
'Oh Ntuthuziyathunqa, my heritage, kindly refuse to die!'
It is with utter dismay, sadness and inexplicable shock, to native Bulawayans and Matabelelanders in general, to hear through the grapevine, of the proposed monstrous intentions of the culturally inse...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1227 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Govt must set up independent commission on Gukurahundi
This is the second installment of a document on submissions made by chiefs from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the occasion of his meeting with them at the Stat...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:22hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Threats on Ndebele historian
Historian and culturalist Arnold Mayibongwe Nkala's projects has more put him under more pressure and threats from unknown forces. The author of Ndebele history book Abethwakazi who is said to...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 12:18hrs | 3572 | by Staff Reporter
The man who will save Zimbabwe revealed
The country is experiencing probably one of the worst power shortages. Industry is losing money , city councils do not have power to pump water to residents , there is very little fuel available and i...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 09:41hrs | 54810 | by Nicholas Ncube
B-Metro news editor quits to join Sunday Times
B-Metro news editor Lenin Ndebele has left the Bulawayo-based tabloid to join The Sunday Times of South Africa.Ndebele, who joined B-Metro at its inception in 2009, has joined the Sunday Times...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 22:09hrs | 1944 | by ZimLive
'We don't eat Nationalism' says Mthwakazi President
So many people in Zimbabwe particularly shonas and some of our Ndebele speaking people do not really understand or comprehend with what is meant by the term "Nationalism". To Shonas, nationalism means...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1179 | by Mqondisi Moyo
How to remove ZANU-PF: Overthrowing or Fair Elections?
This piece seeks to demonstrate that ZANU-PF has been provoking citizens to revolt since 1980s. President ED Mnangagwa should change his party's dictatorship system of governance and electoral fraud. ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 19:43hrs | 2814 | by Don Chigumba
Zapu's position on gukurahundi genocide
It is an objective reality that Zimbabwe cannot move forward as a nation towards peace and development; unless and until the thorny issue of Gukurahundi is seriously and effectively addressed. The ass...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:27hrs | 845 | by Zapu
Tomana eyes comeback
Former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana's return to private practice hangs in the balance two years after his sacking, amid reports that the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) is unwilling to re-admit hi...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1174 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC tackles tribalism in its structures
MDC has moved to integrate disgruntled members into the Bulawayo provincial executive in a bid to douse out tribal influenced divisions that followed its elective congress.Tribal divisions roc...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:34hrs | 2554 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wants Jehovah's Witnesses delegates to enjoy a rich & diverse spiritual programme
The Love Never Fails annual convention of Jehovah's Witnesses gets into high gear, with a bumper three-day programme beginning today in Harare and Chitungwiza, respectively.The spokesperson fo...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 2870 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF loyalist Chiwa dies
Beitbridge businessman and Zanu-PF loyalist Manu Chiwa has died.Chiwa died on admission at the Beitbridge Hospital after he was involved in an accident on Wednesday night.Matabeleland ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1388 | by Staff reporter
Queen Loziba lecture series at gallery
A lecture series for, Queen Loziba, senior queen in the Ndebele Kingdom will be held at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo as a way to promote female narratives and profiling powerful histor...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge businessman dies in 3-car pile-up
Renowned Beitbridge businessman, Mr Emmanuel Tawanda Chiwa (35) was on Wednesday night killed in an accident when his car was involved in a three vehicles pile up along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road....Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:22hrs | 2974 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele 'King' addresses the nation
I would like to make it known that I, as King of Matabeleland alias Mthwakazi, am very much committed to the Restoration of my Kingdom. I also want the whole world to know that the whole Inter-cultura...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 13:19hrs | 7529 | by Stanley Khumalo
Is MRP a tribal party?
I have been asked this question a million times by a lot of people, many people actually believe that Mthwakazi is advancing a tribal narrative, that makes the so called Ndebele tribe superior which i...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:24hrs | 1347 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
SA cops gun down armed Zimbabweans
TWO suspected armed robbers from St Joseph, Matabeleland South and another robber yet to be identified, were shot dead by South African Police who intercepted a cash-in-transit heist on Tuesday mornin...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1688 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loses his cool as Matabele chiefs tell it all about Gukurahundi
Talk of a man who is sweating profusely under the searing heat of Matabeleland genocide, it is the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa. He has been to Matabeleland twice this year within a space ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 11:18hrs | 11080 | by Israel Dube
Ndiweni praises Mnangagwa? Setting the record straight
Outspoken traditional leader, Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni - who has in recent months courted the ire of Zanu-PF apparatchiks with his stinging criticism of the government - has praised President Em...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:55hrs | 5943 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his shona speaking chiefs must blame Gukurahundi not Ndebele chiefs
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT PRESS STATEMENT01 JULY 2019As chiefs we are deeply disappointed by statements by some that Chiefs from the Midlands province were invited to a meeting with the Pres...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:42hrs | 1714 | by Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni
How Obert Mpofu acquired his wealth
A myth has been brewing across Zimbabwe which claims that Obert Mpofu corruptly acquired wealth while he was Minister of Mines and now owns half of Victoria Falls and half of Bulawayo. These old wives...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 10:54hrs | 13273 | by Nicholas Ncube
Dennis Murira - An obituary
The late Dennis Murira to many in the MDC family would be distinctly remembered for being part of the group that wanted to usurp that party's leadership on the eve of the late Morgan Tsvangirai's trea...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 06:51hrs | 605 | by Views Matopo
Has the President Begun?
On 29 April 2019 I wrote an article titled 'The Gukurahundi Solution', which was published by the on line media, bulawayo24 on 30 April 2019. In that article I had highlighted the pain us victims of t...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 18:36hrs | 2506 | by Clemen Moyo
Shona teacher terrorises pupils at Nejambezi Secondary school
A Shona speaking teacher by the name Huggins Makiwa based at Nejambezi Secondary school situated 28 km from Victoria Falls town is reportedly terrorising pupils that he teaches, by constantly remindin...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 12:52hrs | 4509 | by MRP
Evidence that Shonas arrived in Zimbabwe 300 years ago (1700's)
Dr. George MacCall Theal, Translator of Portuguese Documents to EnglishLet us start off t...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:55hrs | 7753 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, PMP
MRP engages it's grassroots in Bulawayo
Mthwakazi Republic Party "MRP" yesterday held a public meeting in Ward 28 Cowdray park Bulawayo's biggest Ward. The meeting was held as part of the party's restructuring exercise as well as thanking t...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:10hrs | 469 | by MRP
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