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The footprint of Mandela!
Many years ago in Transkei in a small village of Mvezo in Qunu, something strange happened. Not only was it strange but it shook the whole village.A woman named Nosekeni woke early in the morn...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 10:31hrs | | by Eric Shikobela
The foot print of Mandela!
Many years ago in Transkei in a small village of Mvezo in Qunu, something strange happened, this was not only strange but it shook the whole village. A woman named Nosekeni woke early in the morning t...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 11:50hrs | | by Eric Shikobela
Isikhulumeli sikaMzilikazi II sikhupha umbiko ngemvoxoxo ephuthumayo
Mthwakazi omuhle ,lina bondlela zimhlophe, lingabe linjani kumagumbi amane wonke omhlaba. Sithanda ukulazisa bantu beNkosi ngemibiko le engelamaqinisa ephuma enkundleni zokuxhumana. Sithanda ukwazisa ...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Greater Sibanda, Isikhulumeli seNkosi uMzilikazi II
The perils of being a side-chic, gun totting wife walks in on me and her hubby
Years ago I was in a serious relationship with some guy who decided to go to the UK leaving me here in Jhb. I was so sad and lonely.Everyone around me ubenomuntu wakhe and I decided to look for someon...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 21:38hrs | 2 | by Nobuhle Virgie
How can we (amaNguni) be called Mthwa-kazi?
Editor, Greeting my brethren. I hope you are well and fit as I write to you. Thank you for giving us news from ko Ntuthu ezazithunqa, bt kakusela ma firms that are manufacturing that is why ng...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by B Timothy Mathuthu Ndlela
Rhodes estate should compensate white framers, not Mugabe
Compensation to white farmers for Zimbabwean land should be based on proper historic analysis that gives due credit when necessary but also brings the United Kingdom to the table as a responsible part...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 16:04hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
UN security counsel resolution on Zimbabwe necessary
" The gunfire around us, makes its difficult to hear. But the human voice is different, - among the sounds. It can be heard over voices that bury everything else! Eve...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 17:09hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Zimbabwe's Lancaster House Accord needs amendment
I am writing this article in part to try and offer a viable solution for Zimbabwean democracy, and in part for regional peace in Southern Africa. The agreement which ushered in a democratic Zimb...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 13:58hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Open letter to President Jacob Zuma concerning Zimbabwe
Sir:Parliamentary Panel on Zimbabwean Situation NecessaryI write this letter with a heavy heart as I contemplate how best to address you ...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 13:54hrs | 19 | by Ken Sibanda
Kuqamuka amaqolo intsha yeLuveve ikokotsha ebhawa
IZAKHAMIZI zeLuveve, eMakhandeni leGwabalanda koBulawayo zikhala ezimathonsi ngenye ibhawa esiphenduke iSodoma leGomora elokitshini leOld Luveve nanko phela kubikwa abantwana abangaphansi kweminyaka e...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 21:58hrs | | by YiNtatheli kaMthunywa
Amaziyoni nqunulisiyani omama ligwaz-umhlaba!
IZAKHAMIZI zeCowdray Park koBulawayo zithukuthele ngendlela amanye amadoda amathathu akhulekisa abesintwana ngokubanqunulisa andubana abagezise egcekeni osokubangela ukuthi izakhamizi zehluleke ukuqum...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 19:07hrs | | by Johas Moyo
Ubanjwa lendoda yomuntu abaleke enqunu
KUBE yisisanasana ubukhwa bezinja ngemva kokuba elinye inina lesigabeni seMadihola lithole umkalo ezikholisela uluju lwemvelo lenye intombazana wababhuqa kwabancane indawo.Kuzwakale ukuthi uSi...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 15:04hrs | | by Cornelius Luphahla
Standstill as Tsvangirai celebrates Bvondorisation the Mandela way
The person of the MDC T President Dr. Morgan Tsvangirai was replicated in the excess of several hundreds of thousands across the globe. Multitudes of members of the youth assembly observed the bir...Published: 28 Dec 2014 at 08:46hrs | 4 | by Dr. Wangu Mazodze
Prostitute undresses for cops
A top earning lady of the night blew a fuse when cops rounded her up as she left a popular nightclub at the weekend, but they gave her breathing space when she undressed down to nothing!Clad i...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nelson Mandela accused of land fraud
ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela claims her former husband Nelson Mandela may have committed land fraud when he registered a plot of land in Qunu, Eastern Cape, in his own name, the City Press r...Published: 19 Oct 2014 at 15:27hrs | | by Sapa
'Nelson Mandela divorce was fraudulently obtained'
ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has claimed in papers filed in the High Court in Mthatha that her divorce from former president Nelson Mandela was fraudulently obtained, the Daily Dispatch repo...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 13:09hrs | | by mybroadband
Winnie Mandela wants Madiba's Qunu home - report
East London - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is challenging the estate of former president Nelson Mandela, seeking the rights to his home in Qunu, the Daily Dispatch reported on Tuesday.Madikizela-...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 16:32hrs | | by Sapa
Graca Machel waives right to half of Mandela estate
Johannesburg - Graça Machel has waived the right to half of the estate of her husband, former president Nelson Mandela, acting Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke said on Tuesday."I confirm that M...Published: 25 Mar 2014 at 15:59hrs | | by Sapa
Nelson Mandela 'love children' seek recognition
JOHANNESBURG - Two women claiming to be the late former president Nelson Mandela's children have sought to be acknowledged by his estate.Michael Katz, an attorney dealing with Mandela's will, ...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Sapa
Nelson Mandela's estate worth an estimated R46m
Johannesburg - The provisional assessment of former president Nelson Mandela's estate was about R46m, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke said on Monday.Mandela bequeathed R1.5m to the N...Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 13:57hrs | | by Sapa
N*ked pictures expose affair with maid
Bare pictures of a domestic worker and her employer sold out a relationship between the two leading to the collapse of a four-year-old marriage.The marriage between Ene...Published: 24 Jan 2014 at 20:18hrs | 1 | by Mirirai Nsingo
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
ZAPU End of Year Statement
2013, some reflection points. As the end of this momentous year draws near, please join me in reflecting on one or two issues relating to our Party. It ...Published: 22 Dec 2013 at 05:22hrs | | by Ralph Mguni, ZAPU Secretary General
Zapu Statement on Unity Day 22 December 2013
On the 22nd of December Zimbabwe will celebrate Unity Day. It is a day that is set aside annually to celebrate the national unity that purportedly exists in Zimbabwe. It is also significant that t...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 07:55hrs | | by Patrick Ndlovu, Zapu Secretary Bulawayo Province
Can Africa produce another Mandela?
MTHATHA - As tributes continue to pour in for the departed global icon and great son of Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, I have been asking myself whether the continent will be able to produce anoth...Published: 19 Dec 2013 at 05:50hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Nelson Mandela's hero status earned
I sat there in Qunu in the serene atmosphere of the Eastern Cape as the world bade goodbye to one of the greatest icons ever to grace this Earth.While I had signed the condolence book and atte...Published: 18 Dec 2013 at 06:12hrs | | by Morgan Tsvangirai
Violent storm blamed on Mandela's spirit
Mbombela - Residents who were left homeless when a storm tore through their town on Thursday night believe it was the hand of late president Nelson Mandela passing over them.Two people were ki...Published: 18 Dec 2013 at 04:39hrs | | by Lwazi Raul I African Eye
Tsvangirai relevant to Zimbabwe history
EDITORSince the passing on of Nelson Mandela, I read a snippet somewhere that Morgan Tsvangirai would be attending his Qunu funeral and someone said that Morgan Tsvangirai was desperate for re...Published: 17 Dec 2013 at 12:39hrs | | by NM
Nelson Mandela family feud deepens
A feud between Nelson Mandela's children and grandchildren has deepened in the days after his death and funeral, it was reported on Tuesday.Just days before Madiba's Sunday funeral, Mandla Man...Published: 17 Dec 2013 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Full speech by ZAPU official at Mandela Memorial Service in Bulawayo
Remarks at the Memorial Service In Honour of Tata Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - Saturday, 14th December 2013 - Amphitheatre, Bulawayo - Del...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 04:06hrs | | by Zapu Alternate Secretary General Strike Mkandla
Zapu honours Nelson Mandela
ZAPU has hit out at local critics who have tried to downplay former South Afican President Nelson Mandela's legacy saying economic transformation of a country does not happen overnight.The pa...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 02:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mandela refused to see Bush because the pink man could not think,' says Mugabe
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe yesterday ended his party's 14th annual people's conference with a scathing attack on the West and its leaders, branding them "fools".While the Zanu PF stron...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 11:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mandela family blasts conduct at memorial
Qunu - Mandela family representative chief Ngangomhlaba Matanzima on Sunday criticised the conduct of some people at this week's memorial service for Nelson Mandela."What we saw on Tuesday at ...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nelson Mandela laid to rest
QUNU - Nelson Mandela has been laid to rest in his ancestral village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape.Mandela's coffin was brought to his funeral by the military – a last chance f...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T wants BF to be renamed after Nelson Mandela
MDC-T has asked Bulawayo City Council to consider renaming Barbourfields Stadium (BF) after late former South African President Nelson Mandela, provincial chairperson Gorden Moyo revealed yesterday....Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 04:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe blocks city council from honouring Nelson Mandela
BULAWAYO residents on Saturday held a special service to remember the life of Nelson Mandela, amid claims the government blocked the city council from honouring the global icon in 1994.The for...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 03:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tutu snubs Mandela funeral because he was not included to speak
Johannesburg - Another snag hit South Africa's long goodbye to anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on Saturday when Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said he had not been accredited as a clergyman at th...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 17:24hrs | | by AP
Tsvangirai not in the official invited guests for Mandela burial
Johannesburg - Former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is in South Africa to attend the burial Sunday of former President Nelson Mandela who died last Thursday at the age of 95.Mr. Tsvangirai ...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by Sapa
Zuma warns against attempts to settle scores after Mandela's death
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday warned against attempts to "settle scores" following the death of former President Nelson Mandela, reports China's Xinhua news agency.Certain politicians might...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 15:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Let us not bury ANC with Mandela,' says Vavi
Mthatha - Suspended Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has called for unity within the tripartite alliance and the ANC to ensure the party is not buried with former president Nelson Mandela....Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 15:37hrs | | by Sapa
Tsvangirai in SA to attend Mandela's burial
MDC-T spokeperson Douglas Mwonzora revealed that Morgan Tsvangirai is in South Africa to attend the burial of the Late Nelson Mandela in Qunu on Sunday. "The MDC is represented at the highest...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tutu boycotts Mandela's funeral in Qunu
Johannesburg - The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation on Saturday declined to comment on why Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will not attend former president Nelson Mandela's funeral in Qunu in ...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 05:42hrs | | by Sapa
Mandela 'a man of action' says Zuma
Johannesburg - Former president Nelson Mandela was able to balance being a great thinker and a great doer in his political life, president Jacob Zuma said in Pretoria on Saturday."So many thin...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 03:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo honours Mandela with freedom of city award
THE Bulawayo City Council has posthumously awarded the prestigious Freedom of The City award to former South African president and anti-apartheid struggle icon, Nelson Mandela, who died last Thursday ...Published: 12 Dec 2013 at 14:26hrs | 1 | by Mafu Sithabile
Malema arrives to view Mandela's body
Johannesburg - EFF leader Julius Malema arrived at the Union Buildings in Pretoria to view the body of Nelson Mandela lying in state on Thursday, SABC television news reported.He appeared to h...Published: 12 Dec 2013 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'People are distorting the militant Mandela today,' says Malema
Johannesburg - The Economic Freedom Fighters will take up former president Nelson Mandela's struggle for freedom, EFF leader Julius Malema said on Thursday.He led a crowd of EFF members to Ma...Published: 12 Dec 2013 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai to attend Mandela burial
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is scheduled to attend the burial of late former South African president Nelson Mandela at his Qunu Village in Eastern Cape, a party official said yesterday. ...Published: 12 Dec 2013 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cherish Mandela legacy,' Mugabe tells SA
President Robert Mugabe has expressed optimism that South Africa will cherish the legacy left by Nelson Mandela and uphold the principles that he stood for.Mugabe was speaking soon after arriv...Published: 11 Dec 2013 at 15:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obama hits out at leaders who don't tolerate dissent from own people
There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba's struggle for freedom, but do not tolerate dissent from their own people, US president Barack Obama said on Tuesday.Obama also sai...Published: 10 Dec 2013 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obama's remarks at Mandela memorial - Full text
To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests - it is a singular honor to b...Published: 10 Dec 2013 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Barack Obama
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