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'King' demands repatriation of Cecil John Rhodes' remains

Self-styled King Munhumutapa, born Timothy Chiminya, has written to King Charles of England, demanding the removal of Cecil John Rhodes' remains from Matobo National Park in Matabeleland South. The letter, dated June 13, 2025, was addresse…

Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 08:52hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter

Ugly fight over Rhodes' estate

Allegations have surfaced that suspected land barons are impersonating ZANU-PF officials in an attempt to seize properties belonging to the estate of Cecil John Rhodes' grandson, sparking a legal and familial dispute.Elizabeth Anne Rhodes,…

Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:09hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter

Woman ducks cross-examination in disputed Rhodes Estate case

A Harare woman who claims to be the executor of the estate of the late Brian James and Elizabeth Rhodes - individuals she alleges were relatives of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes â€“ abruptly halted her testimony during a theft of t…

Published: 13 May 2025 at 16:53hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's cycle of betrayal

Is it not a pity how the people of Zimbabwe have been duped not once, but twice? The first betrayal came from figures like Cecil Rhodes and his clansmen, who, under the guise of imperialism, promised development and progress but instead ex…

Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 14:23hrs | 666 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

Cecil Rhodes's grave still haunts Zimbabweans

It's a sacred hill where for centuries Zimbabweans would go to consult their ancestors.It's also where the notorious British coloniser Cecil John Rhodes chose to be his final resting place.The white supremacist died more than 120 years ago…

Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

As Rhodes falls Nehanda arises

WHILE Zimbabweans bemoan the little money spent to remember a mother of our liberation, the Black Lives Matter Movement engulfs the globe after the massacre of George Floyd. Resultantly, statues and monuments of slave traders and coloniali…

Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva

If Zim govt calls Dendairy's displacement of people from their ancestral land 'investment', so can we say Rhodes was an 'investo

To say I was shocked by the lame, disingenuous, and shamefully ridiculous attempts by the Zimbabwe government to sanitize the septic, cruel, and repulsive displacement of over 12,000 Chilonga villagers from their ancestral land, to make wa…

Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 12:23hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe's 2018 Rhodes Scholar selected

As the Zimbabwe Rhodes Selection Committee, we have just finished two days of interviewing nine outstanding Zimbabwean finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship. These shortlisted candidates came from Universities in Zimbabwe, SA, USA, and the …

Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 16:33hrs | 9 | by Arthur Mutambara

Destruction of historical monuments ill-advised

The "Rhodes Must Fall" campaign has now reached Britain where a statue of Cecil John Rhodes at Oxford's Oriel College is likely to be removed from its pedestal and thrown into either some dark storeroom as was the case with that which was …

Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:31hrs | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu

Removing Rhodes' grave won't change history

SOME Zimbabwean print media recently published stories to the effect that some members of the Zanu-PF Youth League were stopped by an arm of the national security machinery from removing the remains of Cecil John Rhodes from his grave on t…

Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 08:56hrs | 7 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu

If I were to deliver a "Rhodes Memorial" public lecture at UCT, South Africa

At a child-trafficking 16years of age, history records that an  unaccompanied minor called Cecil John Rhodes was sent here in Africa by his own parents to stay for a longer time if not forever, or just to prolong his life and most lik…

Published: 30 Mar 2015 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Fbr Mthokozisi Ndiweni

Rhodes never laid his hands on King Lobengula

Rhodes never laid his hands on King Lobengula Khumalo. Mr. Ndlovu you are being advised not to be a commercial historian. The history of King Lobengula Khumalo, and the Ndebele people has been deliberately distorted by the British for a nu…

Published: 20 Dec 2013 at 11:31hrs | | by War Vet.

King Lobengula was sacrilegiously assassinated by Cecil John Rhodes

In an obscure but revealing biography of Cecil John Rhodes written soon after Dr Leander Starr JamesonâˆšÃ‰Â¬Â¢âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã¶Â¬Â¨âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã»Â¬Â¢s death in 1917, the biographer inadvertently let the proverbial cat out of the bag in a most as…

Published: 04 Jul 2012 at 09:49hrs | 3 | by Colls Ndlovu

Cecil John Rhodes was a bigoted buffoon

A Sequel to 'Zambian Intellectuals are LazyI told my son not to take after me; break tradition chains, remove old edicts, and create new rituals. Take after Mandela, Gates, Jobs, or Einstein. Take after someone who has changed the world. Y…

Published: 23 Feb 2012 at 17:25hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe

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