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Zuma's MK Party brings big guns to NCOP
The uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is planning to send a team of heavyweights as its new members in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) as early as this week.Sunday World revealed that forme...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:02hrs | 42 | by Mzilikazi wa Afrika
Phathisa Nyathi didn't see Lobengula's tomb
Prominent historian Phathisa Nyathi says reports that they discovered Ndebele King Lobengula's tomb in Zambia were not true as they only saw the mountain where he is said to have settled after leaving...Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 16:07hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt mobilising US$16m for Harare, Bulawayo water
The Government is mobilising US$13 million to improve the water situation in Harare in addition to the US$1,6 million that has already been disbursed to the local authority for the procurement of wate...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani power station works start
PRELIMINARY works for a 10 megawatts Hydro-Power Station to be constructed at Lake Gwayi-Shangani at Cross Mabale in Hwange district have started.To increase power generation in the country, t...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of patriotism, Mahere and Zanu-PF's duplicity
NOW that the hubbub and furore over Fadzayi Mahere's submission at a recent UN summit in Geneva, Switzerland, has substantially died down, it is time for a sober, frank and honest reflection on whethe...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of Zimbabwe's watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zoey spreads Chinamwali lessons to men
THE self-proclaimed queen of pole dance, Norleen "Zoey" Sifelani, has taken her sex tutorials on Chinamwali to another level, and now teaches men.Zoey, who fronts Red Angels dance group appear...Published: 01 May 2023 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primary polls reignite factional battles
THE recent Zanu-PF primary elections have re-ignited the battle for the control of Masvingo province between factions aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga, with ...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Valee Music courts DJ Tira
UNITED KINGDOM (UK)-BASED Zimbabwean Afro-pop songbird Valee Music has roped in the services of South African DJ, record producer and kwaito artiste DJ Tira on Ng'cabanga Ngawe (Thinking about You), h...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga land grab resistance intensifies
EIGHT community leaders from Chilonga area were briefly detained at Chiredzi Police Station on Thursday after continuously resisting the establishment of lucerne plantations on their ancestral land....Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Binga villagers wary over relocation
FRESH fears of displacement have gripped the Tonga people settled in Binga and the resort town of Victoria Falls that was recently classified a Special Economic Zone (SEZ).An estimated 500 Lub...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa commissions Avuxeni community radio station
The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Senator Monica Mutsvangwa today commissioned Avuxeni FM community radio station in Chiredzi in a landmark development which bears testi...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 21:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's mustn't greenwash his govt's crimes
SINCE becoming President in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly paid lip service to calls for democratic reform, did little to further human rights and democratic freedoms in the co...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:30hrs | 8 | by Tafi Mhaka
The Hypocrisy Of Mnangagwa
SINCE becoming the president of Zimbabwe in November 2017, despite repeatedly paying lip service to calls for democratic reform, Emmerson Mnangagwa did little to further human rights and democratic fr...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to lose out on loans
ZIMBABWE is set to miss out on a multi-million-dollar fund for countries sharing the Zambezi watercourse because of its external debt estimated at US$10,5 billion.The funds will be disbursed t...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Govt rolls out fourth phase of radio lessons programme
GOVERNMENT will today roll out the fourth phase of radio lessons programme for early childhood development (ECD), primary and secondary school classes as part of an alternative education platform to m...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:51hrs | | 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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 3 Shangaan chiefs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has elevated three Shangaan headmen to chiefs in a move that has been described as a plot to douse the simmering tension between Zanu-PF and the Shangaan community....Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Tshovani dies
Long-serving Chiredzi paramount chief, Chief Tshovani has succumbed to Covid-19-related complications this morning.Chief Tshovani (75), born Hlaisi Mundau died this morning at Colin Saunders H...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Zanu-PF official defies Chiwenga
Zanu-PF Chiredzi district coordinating committee chairperson Siyaki Munhungei last Monday ordered the acting district development coordinator, Gift Machukele, to ignore a recent instruction by Vice-Pr...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga reverses corrupt sugarcane plot allocation
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials, their relatives and security agents who were corruptly allocated sugarcane plots in Chiredzi by minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Chadzamira were last weekend ordered to su...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Villagers decry eviction threats
After toiling in South Africa for four years without amassing any wealth, Richard (not real name) decided to come back to his rural home in Chilonga to venture into farming.During the 2019/202...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 07:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Biti vows to continue exposing graft
TENDAI Biti has effectively been using his position as the chair of Zimbabwe's parliamentary public accounts committee and his legal and financial skills to expose billions of US dollars of taxpayers'...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
CNRG calls for Dendairy to publicly renounce its interest in Chilonga
THE Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) says the threat of evictions remains for Chilonga villagers despite government repealing Statutory Instrument (SI) 50/2021 which had legalised their d...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dangles compensation to Chilonga villagers
GOVERNMENT yesterday in a volte-face agreed to compensate Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi district set to be evicted to make way for an irrigation scheme.This was revealed in Statutory Instrume...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
State agents swarm Chilonga
STATE security agents have reportedly deployed heavily in Chilonga, Chiredzi district amid fears that they want to flush out strangers and contain the flow of information on government activities in t...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SI 50: Govt flops legal litmus test
FOLLOWING an avalanche of Statutory Instruments gazetted by government in recent months, another controversial SI 50 of 2021 failed a litmus test of constitutionality, as it flagrantly violates Sectio...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers plot resistance
CHILONGA villagers, whose impending eviction from their ancestral communal lands has caused a major outcry, have vowed to stay put, accusing government of toying with them.Some of the villager...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Meaningless ZANU PF Covid-19 Exit Strategy
The clueless Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has been found wanting; as the widespread of COVID-19 continues to ravage through Zimbabwean communities and the government has done little in as far as ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 13:50hrs | | by Prince Njagu
Zanu-PF and it's Vile Chiredzi Evacuations.
At a time when a government is supposed to stand in solidarity with the people that they claim voted them into office and assisting them during these covid19 infested times. The Emmerson Mnangagwa led...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 12:25hrs | | by Prince Njagu
Chilonga leaders living in fear
CHILONGA community leaders who are at the forefront of resisting goverment's decision to forcibly evict them from their ancestral lands to pave way for commercial production of lucerne grass say they ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers challenge eviction
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has filed an urgent chamber application at the Masvingo High Court seeking to interdict government from going ahead with its plan to displace more tha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gwayi-Shangani pipeline won't displace people'
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) says a few people will be affected by the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani-Bulawayo water pipeline under the National Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
White farmer gets greenlight to evict 12,000 black Zimbabweans
At least 12,000 villagers in Chilonga, Chiredzi, face imminent eviction from their ancestral lands to pave way for a dairy company owned by a white farmer with links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 17:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani greenbelt identified
GOVERNMENT has identified a vast track of irrigable land covering 10 000 hectares along the Gwayi-Shangani-Bulawayo pipeline and localised the construction of the pipeline resulting in cutting the ini...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife stabs hubby
A Harare man is battling for life at Parirenyatwa Hospital after he was severely stabbed several times with a kitchen knife by his wife, who accused him of failing to fend for the family, the court he...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Draft Constitution of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi
Greetings to all! Below I present to you the Draft Constitution (Part 1 and Part 2 consisting of 47 Articles) of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi. The Full Draft Constitutio...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:49hrs | | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Pair murders juvenile, cut genitals
In a gory murder case that has left the community in Mazetese Village in Mwenezi shell-shocked, two men allegedly connived to kill a six-year-old girl before burning her body beyond recognition after ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam to displace 350 families
OVER 350 families close to Gwayi-Shangani Dam are facing imminent displacement to pave way for the construction of the largest water body in Matabelaland North province.The Gwayi-Shangani Dam ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shangaan leaders dare govt on evictions
DISGRUNTLED Shangaan community leaders in Chiredzi have challenged government to a duel if it insists on moving them from their ancestral land.Over 1 538 families in Chiredzi South and East ar...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi calls for all languages to be taught in schools
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi said Government should promote the teaching of all indigenous languages in schools, including those spoken by minority groups and urged Parliament to speed up the enactment...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in court after 'tribalistic' chief appointment
ZIMBABWE'S minority Shangaan group has taken the government to court after it installed a chief from outside the tribe.The complainants argue the move by the government to install a chief from...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 16:49hrs | | by CAJ News
Demands to introduce Shangaan in Zimbabwe education
MINORITY communities southeast of Zimbabwe in Chiredzi are advocating for the introduction of their languages in the school curriculum and the hiring of teachers conversant in the language.The...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by CAJ News
Shangaans seek names reversal to restore identity
Traditional leaders and scholars from the VaTsonga tribe in Zimbabwe (also known as Shangaan) are demanding the reinstatement of names of local landmarks whose identities were controversially changed ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 22:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Xibalene remains an eternal identity for the Shangani people
IN Africa music and dance plays a very important role to preserve culture, relay history and maintain a certain identity.Every African is proud of his or her cultural identity and preserving i...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Igomombe
Mnangagwa and keeping the promise
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa's meeting with members of the white, Asian and mixed race communities at Borrowdale Race course in Harare on Saturday generated a lot of excitement among opposition parties as they...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Chamisa's statement on Ndebele leader solicit strong views
MDC-T president Nelson Chamisa yesterday railed against the "Shonalisation" of Zimbabwe, saying tribal conflicts militated against the country "moving forward."Addressing an MDC Alliance rally...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama enters race for monarch
IN a dramatic new development in the race for the Ndebele monarch, the Sihluku house, which had appeared to monopolize the race, has lost its dominance with the emergence of the Sumpe house in an on-g...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 19:06hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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