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MDC should first defeat Zimbabwe military in order to rule country
MDC vice president Welshman Ncube says President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party were not in total control of the country but the military was calling the shots.Speaking during victor...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:47hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Heroes Acre a satanic ritual site: Ndebeles buried there must be exhumed
Now that the so called Zimbabwe Heroes Acre has been exposed as a satanic ritual site, starting with Joshua Nkomo and uMama uMafuyane who was poisoned by Zanupf Women' s League members, all Matabeles ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:06hrs | 128 | by Israel Dube
Nust deputy bursar quits
A DEPUTY bursar - finance and administration at the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, Mr Reaboka Noko has reportedly resigned amid allegations that he embezzled funds from the...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa name dragged into extortion scandal
ZANU-PF'S Matebeleland South youth league chairperson Washington Nkomo has been fingered in a US$12 000 extortion scam involving a Shangani miner using President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name. The scam ha...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth leader booted out
THE Zanu-PF Matebeleland South youth league has suspended its chairperson Washington Nkomo on charges of indiscipline, fanning factionalism and abuse of office, among others.The youth league's...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
In Defence of Regular Elections: The Right to Vote and Rubbishing the Election Sabbath
I am admittedly and violently against the Church proposed and so called Sabbath meant to give 7 years for Zimbabwe to get the political jigsaw puzzle right. The under pinning argument is that too much...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | 473 | by Sindiso Mazibisa
BREAKING: ZANU PF Youth leader suspended
ZANU PF Youth League in Matabeleland South has passed a vote of confidence on Provincial Chairman Washington Nkomo after accusing him of creating a centre of power focused on himself. Resoluti...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 16:18hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 11:00hrs | 11877 | 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 22:05hrs | | by David Magagula
Robert Mugabe was 90% correct and 10% wrong
The legacy of former Zimbabwe President Robert Gabriel Mugabe remains a contested terrain and it ought to be understood within the context of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The deconstruction of the...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 10:48hrs | | by Jerry Matebesi
Mugabe: A champagne Pan-Africanist
Since the death of Robert Mugabe on September 6, both the local and international media has been saturated with competing, complementary and contradictory obituaries, opinion pieces and narratives abo...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Blessings Denhere
Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase produces showstopper event as designers showcase the best of African design
LONDON: Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase has always been a place of effortless style, class and an overflow of talent, and this year was no different.The tradeshow, which ran under the theme #ThisIsA...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 11:40hrs | | by Tidi Kwidini
SA-based brothers sjambok dad to death
Two South Africa-based siblings are on the run after they allegedly fatally assaulted their father in Mwenezi after accusing him of witchcraft. According to the police, Clayton (22) and Langto...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo could be exhumed from Heroes Acre
The family of liberation icon Joshua Nkomo says it is not ruling out exhuming his body from the National Heroes Acre in Harare for reburial at his homestead in Kezi, Matabeleland South.Nkomo's...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 21:59hrs | | by ZimLive
G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former president Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks after his passing on September 6 in Singapore. The Generation 40 group of self-exiled former ZANU-...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zapu: The great awakening
Zapu has embarked on a brave mission by starting the long overdue process of ‘root-cause analysis' in order to tackle the twin scourges of declining membership and electoral failure at recent polls....Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:34hrs | | by Mlindelwa Vundhla
WATCH: Jonathan Moyo speaks from Kenya
Exiled former cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo says the late President Robert Mugabe was an African voice who spoke on behalf of Africa. Speaking to BBC from his base in Nairobi Kenya ...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 08:30hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe refused to honour the wishes of the dead, says Matemadanda
ZANU-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda spoke on the decision to bury the late ex-President Robert Mugabe at his rural home in Zvimba after the family had initially agreed that he should be buri...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chronicling the G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former President Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks since his passing on 6 September in Singapore. The former liberation icon and Zimbabwe's founding fa...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 15:58hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Joshua Nkomo should be re-buried in Matopos' says Jonathan Moyo
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the late former PF ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo should be reburied in Matopos where the Ndebele King Mzilikazi's grave is located. Said Moyo, "With the National Heroes...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 10:01hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Exhume Joshua Nkomo from Heroes Acre
Former Minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Professor Jonathan Moyo has called for the exhumation of Joshua Nkomo from the National Heroes Acre and his remains to be buried at the Matopos.Thi...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bosso, Dembare clash in uncertain times
DYNAMOS FC and Highlanders clash in a cup game for the umpteenth time with history and the form book irrelevant.The two giants clash yet again but this time in the first round of the Chibuku S...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Special message to MDC - Alliance as they celebrate their 20th anniversary
The only difference between ZANU PF and MDC - Alliance is on their political ideology. There is enough evidence to support the view that the original MDC - Alliance's political ideology may suffer a b...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Good start, bad and sad end: The story of Robert Gabriel Mugabe
It did not have to end this way. It is a story that started well but ended badly. Mugabe was poised to be greater than Mandela or Gandhi. Outside and inside Zimbabwe, Mugabe was revered and considered...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:51hrs | | by Lovemore Gurajena Sibanda PhD
Mugabe: Hero or villain?
THE death at 95 of former president of Zimbabwe Robert Gabriel Mugabe (pictured) has evoked varying emotions in the country. On one hand, there are those who revered and deified him and took his word ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Simayedwa Moyo
Chamisa's supporters jailed for killing Mnangagwa supporter
THREE MDC Alliance hooligans who killed a Zanu-PF supporter who was celebrating the revolutionary party's victory in the 2008 Presidential elections have been sentenced to a combined 10 years in jail ...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
U.S. told to come clean about knowledge of 1980s Mugabe genocide in Zimbabwe
Human rights groups and activists are demanding the release of CIA and State Department files showing how much the U.S. government knew about what they say was a genocide in the 1980s under Zimbabwean...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 15:06hrs | | by Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times
Temba Mliswa attacks Julius Malema over Grace Mugabe
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has launched Twitter attack on South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema for praising Grace Mugabe and also associating himself with the fo...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's burial stirs fresh controversy
Son to the late Joshua Nkomo, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, says the construction of a mausoleum for Robert Mugabe was wrong and unjustified as it can be argued that rationally the former President was a bigger...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance abduction 'movies' sickening
Ever since suffering electoral defeat during the July 2018 general elections, opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance has dumped liberalism for anarchism, in fulfilment of party leader Mr N...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Lawson Mabhena
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 16:03hrs | | by Mthwakazi Research Institute
How Zapu truth will always prosper Zimbabwe
Nothing is more Zimbabwean than Zapu in Zimbabwe. For anyone to pronounce the very word "Zimbabwe", one needs to remember that they are talking about a Zapu invented word. For anyone to talk abo...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:02hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
'Bhora Mugedhi Versus Bhora Musango' : The interface between football discourse and Zimbabwean politics
Football is the most popular sport in Zimbabwe and across the globe. It has been asserted elsewhere that the game is not limited to scoring goals on the pitch but that this also occurs in politics and...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:02hrs | | by Lyton Ncube Siya
Joshua Nkomo's granddaughter a hit on 'Orange Is The New Black'
Her parents are from Bulawayo, but she was born in Ensley, Alabama. Now, Sipiwe Moyo went episodes deep playing a much-loved character Adeola Chinede in the hit Netflix series "Orange Is The New Black...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe praises shows stupidity of hating each
JUST when you think the funeral saga surrounding the late former President Robert Mugabe is finally over, new twists and turns emerge.Not to mention that everyone - virtually everyone - wants ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by Conway Tutani
African Dream boat spurs growth at Kariba Airport
THE Kariba Airport has started witnessing growth in passenger traffic following the launch of the African Dream boat in Kariba Dam in 2017, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) has revealed....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man torches ex-lover's hut
A LUPANE villager has been slapped with a 10-year jail term for torching a hut in which his ex-girlfriend was sleeping with two minors.Silandulo Tshuma (38) was convicted of attempted murder b...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu LikaZulu blasts Mnangagwa
IBHETSHU Likazulu, a Bulawayo based pressure group advocating for Gukurahundi victims' reparation, has slammed government for its decision to construct an expensive mausoleum for late former President...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Join me in condemning Gushungo Clan & Mnangagwa over Mugabe's Mausoleum (Blue Roof)
The decision by president ED's government to construct a Mausoleum for our dictator RG Mugabe should be condemned by right thinking Zimbabweans. The hospitals have no medicine, parents are struggling ...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:41hrs | | by Don Chigumba
'Mugabe was unrepentant'
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) Veterans' Association has described former president Robert Mugabe as unrepentant after he died without addressing the Gukurahundi massacres.Mug...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
The other side of Mugabe
In the late 1990s, a big birthday bash was planned for the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo at Ascot racecourse, with the late former president Robert Mugabe being the guest of honour.When Mug...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
A too-comfortable end for Mugabe
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe/Third World's right on the one/Now's the time for celebration/ ‘Cause we've only just begun." So sings Stevie Wonder in Master Blaster, his 1980 hit single. And he wasn't...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Jason L Riley
Crafty Bob is not just history but our history
No matter how intelligent we might be, sometimes it is difficult to wrap our heads around some things; they are simply inscrutable.I am sure many people have heard the name Saint Augustine, wh...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
RG Mugabe's number one admirer speaks on his unfulfilled cherished wish
LOSS takes many shapes and likewise the death of Zimbabwe's founding President Robert Mugabe undeniably evoked contrasting emotions for many people across the country and beyond.For a Bulawayo...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for attempting to kill ex-wife
AN estranged Lupane man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after he attempted to kill his ex-wife and two minors by burning them in a hut. Silandulo Tshuma (38) of Sibangani 1 Village proc...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to be remembered for land reform, says Masuku
THE late former President Robert Mugabe will be remembered for the bold and historic land reform programme which he undertook to empower the people of Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF deputy national secretary for t...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let's be fair to Mugabe deeply flawed as he was
The death of Robert Mugabe, the only Executive Prime Minister and only Executive President that Zimbabwe had known since independence in 1980 until 2017 - all of 37 years - has shown that he was not a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:41hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Drama over the burial of Robert Mugabe
LIKE the rest of Zimbabweans, we are watching the unfolding drama over the burial of Zimbabwe's founding father, Robert Mugabe.This appears to be a game of brinksmanship between the family of ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
I dreaded Mugabe's death for years, write ex-CIO boss
ON Friday September 6 2019, I woke up to the news that former President Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe was no more. His death was something I dreaded for years as I worked to secure his wellbeing....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Happyton Mabhuya Bonyongwe
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