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Mnangagwa to officiate at ZPCS pass out parade
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has arrived at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Training School in Ntabazinduna to officiate at the 154th pass-out parade. The event has drawn scores o...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 10:36hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Pass-out parade for 1 600 ZPCS recruits
President Mnangagwa will today officiate at the 154th recruit correctional officers' pass-out parade at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Training School in Ntabazinduna. This event...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 10:34hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
John Landa Nkomo Memorial Trust donates mealie meal to San community
The John Landa Nkomo Memorial Trust on Sunday donated mealie meal to the San community in Tsholotsho with 16.5 tonnes being distributed to 750 households.Distribution took place at Mtshina Pri...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 17:19hrs | 367 | by Staff Reporter
San to re-birth language, culture
THE San community has embarked on a project aimed at re-establishing its culture and language threatened with extinction.Tsoro-o-otso San Development Trust director Davy Ndlovu said the projec...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Huge turnout for elections countrywide
Thousands of people thronged polling stations across the country to cast their votes for their preferred candidates for Presidential, National Assembly and local authority elections.A peaceful...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Battles to watch in today's Zimbabwe election
AFTER five very short years, we are back to the polls.It feels it was just yesterday when President Mnangagwa gave us that signature dance to the Kutonga Kwaro soundtrack. It feels it was just...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
San chief is installed
IT was a historic and joyous moment for the San community yesterday as Government installed the inaugural Chief Goledema as the Second Republic moves to address concerns of this previously marginalise...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs receive 20 cars
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday handed over 20 of the 28 vehicles to traditional leaders, among them the inaugural Chief Goledema of the San community in Tsholotsho District, Mr Christopher Dube, as par...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's San community gets inaugural chief
MATABELELAND North leaders have lauded the Second Republic for appointing Mr Christopher Dube as the first substantive Chief Goledema for the San community in Tsholotsho District.He was offici...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
San community demands chief
THE San community in Tsholotsho has appealed to government to speed up the process of installing a substantive chief, saying the delays are counterproductive and frustrating development.Govern...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scores high on budget transparency rankings
ZIMBABWE has improved its rankings in national budget transparency after climbing up the ladder by 11 points to settle at number 41 out of 120 countries surveyed from 52 last year, becoming the third ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa at ZPCS pass-out parade
President Mnangagwa is expected to officiate at the 150th recruit correctional officers' pass-out parade for the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) at Ntabazinduna Prison Training School...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZEC launches second phase of voter registration outreach
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on Monday launches the second phase of its mobile voter registration exercise after the first outreach in February.ZEC registered 81,742 new voters in t...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 08:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreaking havoc in communities
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area", reported Chronicle in Septemb...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa waivers parentage proof for birth certificates
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has brought relief to Zimbabweans who have been struggling to acquire crucial documents like birth certificates after he directed that parental proof is not a requirement in the on...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'One stop centre for IDs, voter registration blitz'
ELECTORAL watchdogs have called on government to unveil one-stop mobile registration centres for national identity cards and voter registration to ensure that citizens are able to vote in the general ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt embarks on national voter registration
THE Home Affairs ministry will embark on a countrywide exercise to register eligible voters in preparation for the 2023 general election, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has said.He said...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
20 Khoi San people join ZPCS
In a milestone achievement for the San community clan in Makhulela village, Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services has piloted a rec...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 17:29hrs | 2 | by Desmond Nleya
IDs for 'forgotten citizens'
THE Registrar-General (RG's) office yesterday started issuing identity documents to the San community in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, creating a sense of belonging among these almost forgotten citi...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Countrywide mobile registration blitz begins
A countrywide mobile registration started yesterday as part of Government efforts to ensure all citizens have access to primary documents and to address documentation challenges particularly in Matabe...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
IDs are a basic right
REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General's office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns....Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Birth certificates, passports issuance resumes
THE Registrar General (RG's) Office has reopened to the public after having scaled down operations when the country recorded a spike in Covid-19 infections. Covid-19 cases increased towards the end of...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Government agrees to reopen border posts
GOVERNMENT has agreed to reopen the Victoria Falls and Kazungula border posts to tourists who are fully vaccinated after the country's tourism capital achieved 60 percent herd immunity of the populati...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho San community embraces modernisation
THE San community in rural Tsholotsho is embracing modern ways of living and mainstream development.Often labelled as outcasts or primitive by other ethnic groups, the San community has been o...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
San community appeals for school fees assistance
AN estimated 300 school children from the San community in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North need school fees assistance.The San community in Tsholotsho is mostly found at Sanqinyana, Gariya and ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreak havoc in Bulilima San community
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area". Notorious for preying...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
John Nkomo Museum stalls due to funding challenges
FUNDING challenges have stalled the completion of the John Landa Nkomo Museum located in Bulawayo City Centre despite work having started in earnest in 2016.The museum, which is situated along...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo applauds Mnangagwa's wife
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has proven that she is indeed an angel of hope following her philanthropic work that has been extended to the once marginalised and forgotten San community in Bulilima di...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visits San community
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday landed in the San community area of Makhulela in rural Plumtree aboard an Airforce chopper, becoming the first high-ranking official to arrive in such style in ...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dates San community
FIRST LADY Auxillia Mnangagwa is expected to commission the San community irrigation scheme next Saturday, a month after production started, with the project now flourishing with fresh vegetables....Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa rescues San community in Plumtree
THE San community in Makhulela area in Plumtree have for the first time benefited from the government's irrigation mechanisation programme after the intervention of First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa last ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should ensure rule of law is followed
THIS week, we carried a story in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa came to the rescue of 20 000 villagers who were being evicted from a piece of land in Domboshawa, where a Chinese miner wants to sta...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Pioneer guerilla Tshinga Dube speaks on first operations
IN our past two editions we published the military and political exploits of renowned pioneer guerilla fighter, David Mongwa Moyo aka Sharpshoot. Moyo spoke about his deployment in a unit of 1...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:45hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
'I am not a loser, but Tsholotsho is'
The late Vice-President John Nkomo's son, Jabulani, has shot down claims that he is a sore, perennial loser in Zanu-PF primary elections, instead saying Tsholotsho South is the loser, as it votes inco...Published: 24 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
San people's life suppressed by other tribes
Tsoro-tso-oo Development Trust director Davy Ndlovu has said his survey in Tsholotsho san community has established that most of them are living a suppressed life because of the interference of other ...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 05:36hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsholotsho's San community takes up education
Members of the marginalised San community in Tsholotsho are slowly coming out of their shell and embracing modern lifestyles, as they are now enrolling their children in schools.According to l...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lost Tongue garners powerhouse US critics Award
South African feature documentary film Lost Tongue has received the esteemed Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) award following its premier at the Socially Relevant Film Festival New York last week....Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 10:35hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Residents denounces political parties meddling in community initiatives
Harare Residents Trust has blasted political parties for meddling in the community initiatives to highjack people's projects and claim responsibility for the achievements.The Trust said Harare...Published: 21 May 2015 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Non-Ndebele speaking teachers, Dokora passes the buck
Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Lazarus Dokora on Friday exonerated himself from blame over the thorny issue of teachers in Matabeleland who cannot speak Ndebele or other local languages ...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
San community feels marginalised
ALMOST a year after the adoption of the new Constitution, members of the San community still feel marginalised and denied freedoms and liberties as equal citizens of Zimbabwe.The Constitution...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 05:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
San language faces extinction, only 4 people speak the language
ONLY four people in the country speak Tshwao, a language spoken by the San people, amid fears the language is on the brink of extinction. Mthandazo Vundla, a headman from Sifulasengwe Sinqinya...Published: 28 Jun 2014 at 13:05hrs | 5 | by Nqobile Tshili
11 ministers to visit neglected Tsholotsho flood victims
STUNG by accusations that flood relief efforts have all been centered on Tokwe-Mukosi in Masvingo, the government is responding by sending no less than ELEVEN ministers to water-ravaged Tsholotsho...Published: 05 Mar 2014 at 06:32hrs | 4 | by Temba Dube
mobiReporter - Stories and photos contributed by civilians (04-September-2013)
Stories and photos that were contributed by civilians - 04-September-2013'If you have a story we missed? A link we have to click? A sharp opinion about the news? Instead of waiting for us ...Published: 05 Sep 2013 at 04:54hrs | 3 | by mobiReporter
Tobaiwa Mudede is also an alien
The insistence by Tobaiwa Mudede the Registrar General that people whose origins are countries such as Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique are aliens is very regrettable, unfortunate as well as misplaced. I...Published: 27 Jun 2013 at 15:05hrs | 9 | by Mosimani Mudziwepasi
Zanu-PF targets San leaders
ZANU-PF has been accused of intimidating members of the San community in Tsholotsho after they complained about marginalisation to National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration co-minister Moses Mz...Published: 16 Apr 2013 at 03:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bushmen demanding to be taken back to the bush
TSHOLOTSHOLO - Zimbabwe's starving San community, commonly known as bushmen, are demanding to be taken back to the bush saying the government has neglected them for many years.The San were mo...Published: 02 Apr 2013 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF top brass descend on Tsholotsho
A high-powered Zanu-PF delegation yesterday visited the late Vice-President Landa John Nkomo's rural home in Tsholotsho and spent the day with his family and mother, Gogo MaDube.Gogo MaDube (1...Published: 09 Mar 2013 at 09:30hrs | 2 | by Prosper Ndlovu in Tsholotsho
Draft charter riles Tsholotsho's San people
THE San community in Tsholotsho is fuming over reference to their language as Koisan instead of Tshwao in the draft constitution, saying this showed they were not consulted during the outreach exercis...Published: 06 Feb 2013 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe praises his rivals
In a rare display of political tolerance, President Robert Mugabe yesterday put aside political differences and heaped praises on his rivals in the MDC parties.In the past, Mugabe has used mos...Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 18:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe launches E-learning programme in Matabeleland
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has challenged schools to adopt a production system in their curriculum to equip the pupils with practical skills to produce self-reliant youths....Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 04:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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