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Does Lobengula deserve a monument?
I read with great interest the report that a monument is to be built in honour of Mbuya Nehanda at long last. But then i said to myself: Why not do the same for King Lobengula or even Mukwati (Makwati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 681 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 565 | by Bishop Lazarus
Munyeza haunts Mnangagwa over Nehanda statue
OUTSPOKEN cleric and businessman Shingi Munyeza returned Wednesday to haunt President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose government he slammed for "misplaced priorities" in plans to build a giant statue for lon...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 5919 | by newzimbabwe
Matemadanda savages Chamisa, son of a 'Rhodesian African riffler'
ZANU-PF national commissar and minister Victor Matemadanda has declared MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will not rule Zimbabwe because of his perceived disdain for First Chimurenga icon Mbuya Nehan...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 16:05hrs | 6288 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 781 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Occultic Mnangagwa regime kills and destroys to appease Mbuya Nehanda'
Member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council Dr Shingi Munyeza says the government of President Mnangagwa is willing to destroy and kill in order to appease the dead. ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 09:11hrs | 6445 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Was Chamisa punished for belittling Mbuya Nehanda? stranger than fiction
Last week the disputed president of the MDC A belittled Mbuya Nehanda. In his response the erection of a statute in honour of Mbuya Nehanda Chmisa said Mbuya Nehanda was not an important person and as...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 21:55hrs | 11638 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa belittles Nehanda statue
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa has lambasted President Mnangagwa's government for erecting a memorial statue for Mbuya Nehanda in Harare.Chamisa said the building o...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 6874 | by Staff reporter
I am not afraid of your threat Oppah Muchinguri - Job Sikhala
MDC Alliance National Vice Chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has told Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri that he is not afraid of her threats after she claimed that he Sikhala and Apostle Talent Chiwenga among...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:46hrs | 4228 | by Stephen Jakes
PHOTOS: Mbuya Nehanda statue to be erected in Zimbabwe
A statue of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana also known as Mbuya Nehanda who was assassinated in 1898 will be erected at the intersection of Samora Machel Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way in Harare.Acc...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 10:27hrs | 4967 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Teachers, parents resist schools reopening
TEACHERS and parents in Marondera have said there was no need for the reopening of schools in the wake of COVID-19 infections.Speaking during a Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)-or...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Gideon Gono's weight loss picture breaks the internet
A photo of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono who seems to have lost weight has gone viral on the internet. In 2019 Gono told Nehanda Radio that his weight loss was a resu...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 17:21hrs | 14307 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors joining nurses' strike
JUNIOR doctors have threatened to go on strike, joining the industrial action by nurses that started last week citing deteriorating working conditions, which will negatively affect the country's battl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
1 111 cops resist transfer
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga (pictured) was on Friday left with egg on the face after more than 1 111 junior officers successfully challenged their "intermittent transfers" at their own...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 5963 | by Staff reporter
Rename Victoria Falls, and Lake, after African luminaries
Fellow Africans and friends of Africa, liberation starts by "Decolonising The Mind," to borrow the title of a must-read book by Ngugi wa Thiong'o the Kenyan intellectual and author. Africans w...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 858 | by Milton Allimadi
Uproar over constitution overhaul
The government's push to overhaul the constitution only seven years after it was adopted was met with fierce opposition during the countrywide public hearings organised by Parliament.President...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:42hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Coup plotters, saboteurs outed
The #BlackLivesMatter campaign has been buoyed and given a significant jolt, following the senseless murder of a black man, George Floyd in the United States. Floyd was murdered by a predominantly whi...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1707 | by Trevor Shiri
Mnangagwa's govt threat to come hard on Kasukuwere, Sikhala
GOVERNMENT has issued a chilling threat against exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere and top MDC politician Job Sikhala for allegedly peddling "false" claims of an imminent coup in the country....Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:37hrs | 1693 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt denies 'imminent coup'
The Zimbabwe government on Wednesday denied rumours of an "imminent military coup" at a surprise news conference attended by military chiefs and state security ministers.Home Affairs Minister ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 19:38hrs | 5718 | by Staff reporter
No longer the Sunshine City
The Zimbabwe capital city which was once called Salisbury during the colonial era changed its name to Harare on 18 April 1982.During the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence, th...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 14:37hrs | 960 | by Leonard Koni
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
BackgroundIt all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Le...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:40hrs | 807 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Hypocrisy and more power inspired hypocrisy
iN the centre of harare there is a world-famous building named Karigamombe which is Robert Mugabe's example of self-glorification at the expense of a man named Joshua Nkomo, who was considered by Muga...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:30hrs | 253 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
It all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Lecture Series o...Published: 16 May 2020 at 14:12hrs | 1213 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Gono angrily denies claims Mugabe told him that Mnangagwa was a ticking time bomb
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Gideon Gono, has angrily denied claims that the late President Robert Mugabe had confided in him to warn then Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander Co...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 17:15hrs | 3170 | by Lance Guma
Zimbabwean engineers rebuild Boeing 737 plane
AIR Zimbabwe's rebuilding exercise has paid dividends as local engineers successfully overhauled engines and re-assembled the airline's Boeing 737 plane which took to the skies Friday afternoon ...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 16:31hrs | 2757 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown locks out rank marshals' earnings
IT was midday and the sun was blazing as pedestrians in downtown Harare went about their frenetic daily chores. The sidewalks were crammed with merchandise ranging from food items to accessories, laid...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 408 | by Staff repprter
Uebert Angel avails US$1 million for Zimbabwe to fight Coronavirus
United Kingdom based Prophet Uebert Angel has donated US$1 million to Zimbabwe in a bid to help the country fight against the deadly Coronavirus.According to online publication Nehanda Radio t...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 12:21hrs | 1452 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Did Welshman Ncube copy thesis from student?
A simple google search leads to a Nehanda Radio article of November 14, 2011 which claims that almost 9 weeks after attacking Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as an "uneducated person who has no capac...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 10:57hrs | 4374 | by Staff reporter
Perrence Shiri just resign, you are a sellout: period
Let me take this opportunity to advise you Perrence Shiri the Women's University educated graduate, that when it comes to law the devil is in the detail, its you who has gone rogue , anti revolutionar...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 17:00hrs | 6178 | by Peter Moyo
The Shona peoples learning hard facts about Zanu PF mentality
Listening to the video circulating around, young people all from Mashonaland are openly lamenting recent Mnangagwa's hate speech who of late uttered what he knows best: about rounding people up with c...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 13:26hrs | 3824 | by Nomazulu Thata
Land barons clash over stands
A DZIVARASEKWA housing co-operative faction leader, Simba Moyo, last week appeared in court charged with fraud after being accused of misrepresenting that he was chairperson of Nehanda Housing Co-oper...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 08:04hrs | 934 | by Staff reporter
'Spirit medium' causes stir
There was drama at the Harare Magistrates' Court after a self-proclaimed Mbuya Nehanda, charged with criminal nuisance, shouted at officials.Facing charges of criminal nuisance, she shouted th...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 21:59hrs | 3031 | by Staff reporter
Of the late Morgan Tsvangirayi and Daniel arap Moi, where are they?
Why do I pause the aforementioned question? What has it to do with the reader, those who are still mourning the death of their loved ones and probably cherishing some good moments they had with them? ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 16:52hrs | 1653 | by Amen Mpofu
Chiwenga collapses in his office... flown to SA
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga collapsed in his office last week Wednesday and was flown to South Africa instead of his usual destination of China because of the coronavirus.Nehanda Radio...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:49hrs | 13794 | by Staff reporter
Grace Kwinjeh quits MDC
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) representative to the European Union (EU), Grace Kwinjeh, has resigned from her post to focus on her studies in South America.Nehanda R...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:48hrs | 2895 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda, Sekuru Kaguvi remains expected in April from UK
THE remains of Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi are expected to be repatriated back to Zimbabwe in April from the United Kingdom, where they are being kept as souvenirs at London museums.Also e...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 1019 | by newzimbabwe
Nehanda's bones still displayed in a british museum
Those who are christians do understand the importance of repatriating bones of the loved ones. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He had ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 22:12hrs | 1827 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
Why Kasukuwere, Mzembi are doomed to fail
Since November 2019, former ZANU-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has been attempting to effect a political comeback and went as far as threatening to contest the 2023 presidential e...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 548 | by Nobleman Runyanga
General Tongogara's ZANU PF died in 2017
Is this the country that Tongogara, Chitepo, JZ Moyo, Silundika and other gallant sons and daughters gave up their lives for?Is this version of ZANU PF the same liberation movement that Tongog...Published: 28 Dec 2019 at 07:38hrs | 12952 | by Dr Utete
George Charamba; A very desperate man - MLF
It is very painful to note how desperate the Zimbabwean Presidential Spokesperson, George Charamba has become. Charamba's lies about the historic relations of Mthwakazi and Zimbabwe are a true reflect...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 07:55hrs | 2993 | by MLF
Pair jailed for robbery
Two Chitungwiza men were yesterday sentenced to seven years in prison, each, for stealing two motor vehicles and cash from taxi drivers, while pretending to be genuine clients. Kudakwashe Tino...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:53hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to reveal secret for the Zanu-PF conference in his province
Mashonaland East province which is the province which house the Vice President of Zimbabwe retired Army General Chiwenga sets to witness fireworks as the ZANU PF conference begins. It's great to be he...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 12:03hrs | 12108 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Air Zimbabwe's Mbuya Nehanda is back
THE country's airliner, Air Zimbabwe, has said the aircraft it expects to introduce later this month is not a new acquisition but one of the planes that had been grounded. The struggling airli...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:11hrs | 2061 | by Staff reporter
ZCC Bishop rubbishes church statement on election sabbath
ZCC leader Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi has disowned the statement by the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations which called for a 7-year period without elections in the country. Mutendi was qu...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 15:17hrs | 2218 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe police indiscriminately attack citizens
The international community and SADC need to call out on Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangangwa to accountability and all the armed forces for attacking innocent civilians who were gathered in the city centre a...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 16:11hrs | 1309 | by Simbarashe J Jingo
Behold the 4th Chimurenga!
We do no not seek to dispense ourselves from the past. We are a product of our past. We do not seek to despise our fore bearers because we are where we are because of them. We are part of the revoluti...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:15hrs | 5290 | by Ntokozo Msipha
Zanu-PF youth leader faces disorderly conduct charge
THE Zanu-PF Masvingo province youth deputy chairperson, who picketed Bikita Rural District Council (RDC) offices together with party activists on Tuesday last week, was on Friday brought before magist...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1057 | 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 | 2516 | 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 | 3376 | by newzimbabwe
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