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ZimAchievers Awards South Africa announce 2024 nominees
The stage is set for one of the biggest events on the social calendar with Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) South Africa releasing the nominees shortlist for their 9th Awards Dinner Gala.Social...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 21:34hrs | 1026 | by Agencies
ZAA Founder on Diaspora, ZIG, Xenophobia and Julius Malema
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."Aristotle's age-old dictum has been used and sometimes abused to the point of cliché.But whatever truth; b...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 571 | by Staff Reporter
Reconciling nationality and the rainbow nation idea
IT seems dust never settles in Mzansi, the land of gold. Just a few weeks after an election that did not deliver an outright winner, the country is embroiled in what seems to be another identity...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:07hrs | 78 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Why is Zanu-PF opening branches and office in South Africa?
Out of all liberation parties in Africa, Zanu PF is the only one that is opening offices and branches in all major South African cities and beyond. For an independent country like Zimbabwe, an embassy...Published: 17 May 2024 at 13:45hrs | 38 | by Israel Dube
'Tribalism dividing Zimbabwe'
ZAPU leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has lamented rising tribalism among Zimbabweans who are increasingly identifying themselves as either Shonas or Ndebeles.Nkomo blamed the ruling Zanu-PF party fo...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:01hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will cause political instability in Southern Africa
Without modicum of doubt, failure to run the economy and political affairs of the Zimbabwe government due to over four decades of unfettered large scale looting, corruption, economic mismanagement, Ma...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 22:12hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture
Family after family fled along this dirt road towards Harare as they were evicted from their farms by Zimbabwean war veterans.The road through the country's prime, red-soiled land was a front ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Ben Farmer
Mnangagwa dangles citizenship to Mzilikazi royal family
The Mthwakazi kaMzilikazi Royal Crown Family, which includes the Mzilikazi Royal House and the Khumalo Clan, claims the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has shown them generosity by promising to rest...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 20:55hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's secrecy worrying
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa pulled yet another shocker from his apparently large bag of many surprises by showing off his prized possession: A herd of one of Africa's most expensive indigenous cattle...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth league challenges ANC youth to condemn xenophobic attacks
THE Zanu-PF youth league has challenged the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) to strongly condemn the ongoing xenophobic attacks on Zimbabweans in that country.This follows last week's killing of the Z...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Afrophobic attacks expose ANC
THE South African Operation Dudula led by Lux Nhlanhla is an ideologically bankrupt vigilante group which is behaving like a terrorist organisation and causing alarm and despondency.Investigat...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Azania Azania Azania! You are not an Island
Bulawayo - The first time I entered my primary school, 1988 at the assembly point after singing the national anthem, it was a mandatory to sing a song called Azania sympathising with our fellow contin...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:48hrs | 16 | by Enos Denhere
2021 marks four wasted years under Cyril Ramaphosa
Concluding his tour of four African countries in Dakar, President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that challenges faced by his administration in 2021 "combined to create just a catastrophic year"....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:16hrs | 15 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 13 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Zimbabwean born actor lands House of Zwide role
Zimbabwe-born actor, Ernest Phosa Ndlovu is the latest addition on etv's recently-introduced drama series, House of Zwide. He is by no means a stranger to the entertainment scene since his early actin...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Violent scenes unmasked the facade of South Africa's rainbow nation
With the country mopping up following violent protests in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the country finds itself divided not only by class but also among racial lines as tensions ran high in some communi...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | 19 | by Manyane Manyane, Karabo Ngoepe, Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
Zimbabwe industry feels impact of SA protests
Businesses and consumers have already begun feeling the contagion effect of the country's heavy dependency on South Africa after the unrest that plagued the rainbow nation last week over the incarcera...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa needs a total judicial and system overhaul and transformation'
It's not just the Zulus, it's the generality of the South African masses that are living pathetic lives in desperation, poverty, hunger, joblessness and in a continuous state of debt with no hope for ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:25hrs | 6 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Is the South African rainbow on the cusp of disarray?
Events are unfolding very fast in the rainbow nation, South Africa. And just like the previous week, the country is in suspense as the Free Zuma campaign gathers momentum in KwaZulu Natal province. It...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:41hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Biti apologises for Chipinge witchcraft 'joke'
Tendai Biti, the MDC Alliance vice president, has given a half-hearted apology to the Chipinge people for calling them witches in his response to a comment by Professor Lovemore Madhuku.In the...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The Mthwakazi question: Who does or doesn't qualify to be Mthwakazian?
My intention is not to write on either the historical origins or the actual geographical boundaries of Mthwakazi State, highlighted in yellow on the above image, but I am more concerned with initiatin...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:26hrs | 12 | by Nkonzo Mathanda
Democracy under siege in Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda has said democracy has been put under threat after MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe was sworn in in Parliament as a leader of opposition despit...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 14:04hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
SA leaders must come clean on xenophobia
IN the 1980s, a jingle played regularly on Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation's Radio 2, that went something like this: MuAfrica, kwayedza. Kwasara mbiri chete kuti ichibva yakwana. Kunoti Azania, neNa...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 4 | by Editorial - Newsday
The Inevitable Rise of ZAPU
I must contend from the onset that the rise of the people's vanguard party ZAPU is inevitable and unstoppable. Everyone who has once associated with the party in the past and expended effort in improv...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Mqondobanzi Nduna Magonya
It's time for South Africa to rethink the economy
ON May 8, South Africans go to the polls to choose their next governing party for the next five years. The election this year marks the country's sixth general election since the dawn of democracy in ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
South Africa's PSL faces collapse?
Clouds of doom gather over the South African PSL with its chairman, Irvin Khoza, dropping a bombshell yesterday the continent's richest top-flight league could collapse. The league has become ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
1893MRM condemns the government's treatment of Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu
Recent reports about the treatment of Chief Maduna by Zimbabwe's government through the country's secret security services are greatly condemned by our Movement for human and peoples' rights. Chief Ma...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by 1893MRM
Be wary of the ways of the crocodile, Cdes!
MANY of you appear to be convinced about this nonsense that I am now warming up to my tormentors. Do I look like the type of person who flip-flops on matters of principle? I will never compromise on w...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 20:34hrs | 2 | by CZ
A decolonial response to 'The case of Colonialism’
It is over a year now since Bruce Gilley, the political imperial historian wrote his controversial article as an apologist to colonialism in Africa. More contentious from the article, was the call to ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:20hrs | 50 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
A decolonial response to 'The case of Colonialism'
It is over a year now since Bruce Gilley, the political imperial historian wrote his controversial article as an apologist to colonialism in Africa. More contentious from the article, was the call to ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
Letter to Comrade Julius Malema
Dear Mr. Malema, Firstly, I would like to apologize to you personally because when you started your political path, I am one of those you did not take you seriously. I was deeply concerned abo...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Book unpacks racial, tribal discrimination
YOUTHFUL author Rongarashe Masuku has penned a controversial book titled Deracialising the mind: Racism in the name of Patriotism, which seeks to unpack the source of racial and tribal discrimination ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mandela forgave apartheid criminals & never could pardon his wife Winnie!, Is that forgiveness?
In 2001 the Archbishop Desmond Tutu chair of South African's Truth and Reconciliation said verbatim: "Reconciliation means that those who have been on the underside of history must see that there is a...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 20:02hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Operation Restore 'Regasi' play goes to Harare
President Emmerson Mnangagwa may be part of the audience set to watch Operation Restore 'Regasi', an 80-minute-long play that gives a comical account of the events that took place in the country last ...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Let Matebeleland become the 13 state in South Africa
`Allow me the opportunity to respond to the statement made by Robert Mugabe on the killings of Zapu people. I am a Umkhonto weSizwe veteran and trained under Zapu in Zambia during the struggle...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 10:25hrs | 2 | by Anonymous
Tapping into diaspora remittances for growth
For the past 3 years, remittances from Zimbabweans living abroad have been averaging $1 billion. This figure only accounts for funds sent home through official banking channels, as such the figure may...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 13:25hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
Ncube assumes 100% stake in AMH, sale M&G stake
MEDIA mogul Trevor Ncube has assumed 100% ownership of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) after his former partners Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) disposed of their equity interest from Zimbabwe's l...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dealing with Zimbabwe's fault lines
Recent army action in Zimbabwe, whatever name one chooses to call it, has no doubt awakened and reinvigorated the nation in a way no other event has in a very long time.There is no doubt that ...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 10:26hrs | | by Lawrence Fengu
Mnangagwa now dead man walking
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has literally taken the gloves off on his counterpart — Emmerson Mnangagwa — insinuating on Tuesday that the 75-year-old politician was lying that he was poisoned...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wanted Grace avoids South Africa
First Lady Grace Mugabe, who is facing mounting legal troubles in neighbouring South Africa, opted to stay at home this time around and did not accompany her husband President Robert Mugabe to Pretori...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe accuses ANC secretary-general of 'stupidly' telling him to shut it - there is a method in tyrant's madness
"As a full-scale diplomatic war erupts between Zimbabwe and South Africa, President Robert Mugabe has accused ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe of "stupidly" telling him to stop attacking Nelson Ma...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 12:15hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Open letter to Minister Fikile Mbalula
Dear Minister of Police, Hon. Mr Fikile Mbalula I m penning this communique to you with the utmost bleeding-heart as a young and humbled citizen of our beloved country, South Africa. I m not d...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Kgothatso Ramautswa
A reminder to the adherence to the Ndebele culture
As IButho leNqama, it is one of our aims to ensure the preservation and respect of our precious and most valuable Mthwakazi culture, which is the foundation of our ethnicity. It is an aspect t...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 15:51hrs | 1 | by IButho leNqama
Zuma under pressure to quit
Jacob Zuma, South Africa's embattled president, faces renewed pressure to step down this weekend after a series of media reports detailed links between elected officials and a family of tycoons accuse...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 14:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of Ndebele Kingship, setting the record straight
People must guard against false alarms IButho leNqama cultural regiment, Inqama kaMthwakazi ethi ingahlehla ibuye ngamandla, we would like set the recor...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 12:34hrs | 1 | by Junior Ngwenya: IButho leNqama spokesperson
Letter to SA Home Affair Minister Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize - MRP
MATABELELAND CRY FOR JUSTICE Madam Honorable Minister Professor Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize, the Matabeleland people based in your country and those in Matabeleland would like to draw your attention to matt...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 15:32hrs | 3 | by Ackim Gasela Mhlanga - MRP Foreign Affairs Secretary
When Peter Ndlovu and Bruce Grobbelaar made Zimbabwe dare to dream
The following is an extract from Ian Hawkey's article from Issue Nine of the Blizzard, published in June 2013. The Blizzard is a quarterly football journal available from ...Published: 24 May 2017 at 08:52hrs | | by Ian Hawkey
South Africa deports over 10 000 Zimbabweans
Over 10 000 Zimbabweans have been deported from South Africa since last year, with the country's neighbour north of the Limpopo River spending R33 million every month on extraditing illegal immigrants...Published: 18 May 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbalula's big mouth is devil's postbag
The issue of criminality in South Africa is historical just as the issue of poverty. Black South Africans are poor in a country of plenty and that is the source of criminality not the Zimbabwean army....Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:08hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
The time for compromise and accommodation in South Africa is over
Many years ago we were discussing our future National Anthem in the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC. On invitation from President Mandela, Professor Mzilikazi Khumalo's proposed renderin...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Carl Niehaus
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