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The Zezuru-Korekore empire died with its founding King, Robert Mugabe
Through astonishing political ignorance, those who claim to be the successors to the Zezuru throan today, Constantino Chiwenga, 1st Vice President of Zimb...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 06:58hrs | 639 | by Israel Dube
Police allegedly assault Mahetshe Primary School children in Matobo
Police in Matobo, Matabeleland South, are alleged to have assaulted children at an Early Child Education school in Mahetshe.This was exposed by Mthwajazi Republic Party in a statement....Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 17:21hrs | 649 | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU PF succession battles open window of opportunity for Matabeleland breakaway
Zimbabwe Independence Day Celebrations on 18 April 2025 marked 132 years of Matabeleland oppression. Firstly by the British South Africa Company, 1893- 1980, under the rule by coquest, secondly by the...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 1333 | by Israel Dube
Garwe must change colonial mentality
SOMETIME last year in August, the Zimbabwean government issued a strong condemnation and warning against Mike Moyo and Timothy Chiminya for claiming titles as ceremonial King Mambo and King Munhumutap...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:00hrs | 990 | by Phakathwayo Gumede
Only Now, they can speak IsiNdebele!
Gone are the days when Shona people had visceral hatred of IsiNdebele. Instantly the so-called revolutionaries realize the advantages of speaking multiple languages that could be of benefit to the cur...Published: 21 Mar 2025 at 17:05hrs | 1836 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bloodthirsty demon of war currently in Eastern DRC will visit Zimbabwe
The bloodthirsty demon of war and destruction currently operating in DRC will proceed to Zimbabwe on invitation by the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe. The unresolved issue of Matabel...Published: 19 Feb 2025 at 21:12hrs | 1785 | by Israel Dube
Trending video from Blessed Geza - I don't buy it for once!
It's stuff and nonsense. When has Zanu PF become sympathetic to the Ndebele people? With all due respect, Mr. Geza, made a presentation on video now making rounds. Curiously he acknowledges the presen...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 17:57hrs | 2539 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zanu PF now devouring its children: they now smell like goats
Even in my normal senses, I never thought I would live this long to witness Zanu devouring its own children because they now smell and look like goats. I never thought the people of Mashonaland would ...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 01:03hrs | 772 | by Nomazulu Thata
Gukurahundi perpetrators are exposed and cited to clarify the 2017 coup!
That the General Chiwenga was cited in the genocide atrocities that took place especially in Matabeleland South is not a coincidence but well calculated. The Zanu PF conference was in Bulawayo, curiou...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 20:22hrs | 1298 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chafuka on Zimbabwe social media will topple Mnangagwa government!
I should be forgiven if I said this man is an implant of president Mnangagwa masquerading as a revolutionary. Yet he is playing a political game that speaks the opposite to loo as many as he can get t...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 21:12hrs | 1584 | by Nomazulu Thata
Teaching Ndebele in Zimbabwe schools will have helped Shonas
There are times when you think you are spitting someone, when in fact, you are destroying yourself.One such instance was when Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in ZANU (before it became ZANU-PF...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:21hrs | 299 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Mthwakazi Republic Party condemns Chiminya's Monomotapa claims
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has vehemently denounced spurious claims made by Timothy Chiminya, who purports to be the Monomotapa King. The party characterized these claims as a blatant attempt ...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 09:35hrs | 1256 | by Stephen Jakes
Ex-Minister blames devolution delay for Ndebele language woes
A former government minister has criticised the government for failing to fully implement devolution, which he claims has led to the deployment of non-local language-speaking teachers in Matabeleland....Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 16:35hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Now that Mnangagwa has attacked King Lobengula, he must brace for Matabeleland breakaway
"If you come for the king, you best not miss. This was a brilliant observation by "Ralph Waldo Emerson. Now that the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa who enjoys belittling, dehuminising, demo...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 20:38hrs | 7 | by Israel Dube
Mutsvangwas are dummy sucking cry babies!
It is intriguing to see how loud the cruel and oppressive wail when they are given the taste of their own medicine.We have seen the tears of the savagery late President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mug...Published: 27 May 2024 at 20:03hrs | 8 | by Israel Dube
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
Smith & apartheid regimes were angels compared to 44-Year-Old 'independent' Zimbabwe
Talking in terms of segregation, oppression and savagery towards those considered as foreigners or political undesirables, no present or past government in Southern Africa matches the black Shona supr...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:56hrs | 28 | by Israel Dube
Ndebeles will never be good enough for the rabid tribalists
Being born into a Ndebele, Kalanga or Sotho family in Zimbabwe can be a bewildering, challenging and frustrating affair. If you were born in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, like Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 08:15hrs | 12 | by Tafiranyika @tafimhaka
Shona youth that attack Matabele possessed by the demon of gukurahundi
Shona youth that drive all the way from Mashonaland to Matabeleland armed with machetes and fire arms to invade Matabeleland and violently attack and kill...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 23:53hrs | 69 | by Israel Dube
Knives out for Plawn Motors over a Bulawayo job advert that wants Shonas only
Plawn Motors, a renowned automotive company based in Harare, is under fire for an allegedly discriminatory job advertisement that explicitly favors Shona-speaking candidates over the predominantly Nde...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 10:15hrs | 7 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Tribalistic ZBC presenters humiliate Mnangagwa
A divided house cannot stand so is a divided country. Since time immemorial, anti-Matabele Shona supremacists have been popping up everywhere in Zimbabwe to express their tribal hatred for Matabel...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 22:53hrs | 16 | by Israel Dube
Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 22 | by Israel Dube
Tribal rifts widen in Zimbabwe after stupid cartoon
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, the perpetual tribal conflicts are becoming more intense. Most tensions exist between the Shona people, the country's largest tribe, and the Ndebeles, who ...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 21:08hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo statement on Matabeles in South Africa false dangerous, smacks of tribal hatred
The statement by the Minister of Labour and Child Welfare, July Moyo that the majority of more than 400 children that were intercepted by South African authorities at Beitbridge border were from Matab...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 08:26hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
Thabani Mpofu tackles Tshabangu
THE crucial Supreme Court appeal by 14 main opposition CCC legislators against their arbitrary recalls by an opposition activist upheld by the High Court will be heard this week after their lawyer Adv...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 15:13hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Thabani Mpofu tears Tshabangu recalls apart
Advocate Thabani Mpofu, one of Zimbabwe's most prominent lawyers, has ruthlessly torn asunder opposition political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's case of recalling main opposition CCC MPs, senators and ...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 17:48hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo Tshabangu, Welshman Ncube and fellow Mthwakazi, come let's declare Matabeleland independence!
"Be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite."Blocked by a thick ...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 09:37hrs | 12 | by Israel Dube
Man hated even beyond the grave
Throughout the world and within Zimbabwean culture, there is a prevailing respect for the deceased, often resulting in their negative actions being forgotten and overlooked in public discourse. The Sh...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:56hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Shona people do not exist in Zimbabwe' Hopewell Chin'ono says
In his thought-provoking opinion piece, journalist Hopewell Rugoho-Chin'ono challenges the conventional notion of a unified "Shona" tribe in Zimbabwe. He argues that this commonly accepted label is a ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 12:04hrs | 13 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
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
The Nguni/Sotho People who occupied parts of modern-day Zimbabwe before Mzilikazi
There is a general misconception that King Mzilikazi and is Ndebele people were the first Nguni group to traverse and settle in what is now modern-day Zimbabwe. However, this is not accurate.T...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 20:37hrs | 11 | by Thomas Sibanda
Chamisa using David Coltart to play dangerous tribal political games in Bulawayo
Where is Welshman Ncube, where is Thokozani Khupe, where is Mqondisi Moyo of MRP, where is Sibangilizwe Nkomo of ZAPU? As for Cde Paul Siwela, I know he is pained and ashamed of what is happening in M...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | 8 | by Israel Dube
Where are our own documentaries chronicling oppression in Zimbabwe?
At times, Zimbabweans can be irritating, at best - or downright infuriating, at worst. Here we are, having recently come out of an undeniably flawed sham of an election - where the ruling elit...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 16:11hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How hope dies with every election in Zimbabwe
"People died. The fear of being asked whether you wanted a short or long sleeve cut (cutting your hand or your arm) by soldiers made people vote in fear, not with their heads. We were voting with our ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 13:10hrs | 4 | by Beauty Dhlamini
Karangas crush Zezuru-Korekore Alliance again
To Zezurus, politics of tribalism has become the Frankenstein's monster that destroys its own creator. Unless Zezurus find allies outside their small Zezuru- Korekore clan, it may take many years if n...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 17:17hrs | 66 | by Israel Dube
Give that US$1 billion to your people Kasukuwere: MRP leader
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party Mqondisi Moyo has lashed out at former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere following his promise to have a US$1 billion budget for Gukurahundi.He said Kasukuwere...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 13:00hrs | 18 | by Stephen Jakes
Lobengula's descendant demands respect from Zimbabwe political parties
A DESCENDANT of King Lobengula, Peter Zwide KaLanga Khumalo, has demanded that political parties should respect them by not fielding candidates from outside Matebeleland region in this year's polls....Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
We are Ndebeles, don't force us to be patriotic to Zimbabwe
We are Matabele. To be referred to as Zimbabweans is a huge embarrassment on its own but to be forced to be patriotic to Zimbabwe through a piece of draconian bill is an insult.We are not Zimb...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 21:30hrs | 4 | by Israel Dube
Ncube and Khumalo accused of not safeguarding the interests of Ndebele-speaking people
Citizens Coalition for Change's (CCC) interim vice president, Welshman Ncube, and interim chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo, are being accused by that party's supporters in Bulawayo Province for not safeg...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 20:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi ambition to be Zimbabwe President caused tribal chaos in the presidency
If he had his way, Kembo Mohadi could have been the first Zimbabwe President of Matabele origin after 43 years of Zimbabwe independence. But his repeated statement in which he expressed his wish to su...Published: 28 May 2023 at 15:51hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Influx of Shona candidates of Zanu PF in Bulawayo worrying
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has expressed concerns over the influx of Shona candidates being fielded by the ruling Zanu PF in Matabeleland and in Bulawayo in particular....Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 13:25hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi targets full control of Matebeleland
THE secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) says it is targeting to gain full control of Matebeleland region after this year's polls.Party president Mqondisi Moyo made the remarks at a cam...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police invoke strict COVID-19 rules for Mthwakazi rally
POLICE in Bulawayo have cleared a rally organised by secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) at Nketa Hall on very strict conditions, which the party has since contested. The party is expe...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 17:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism rocks CCC ahead of candidate selection process
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Bulawayo Province has been rocked by rampant tribalism ahead of next week's candidate selection process.A source who spoke to this reporter said the Welshme...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 11:41hrs | | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Al Jazeera documentary on Zimbabwe's gold mafia won't change anything
THE whole hullabaloo about illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash.The country‘s detractors coalesced around George Soros and his Open Society Institute of Southern Africa are clearl...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Chris Mutsvangwa
The whole gold hullabaloo about Zimbabwe illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash
The whole gold hullabaloo about illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash. The country‘s detractors coalesced around George Soros and his Open Society Institute of Southern Africa are clearly ...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:33hrs | 6 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Chiwenga will never rule Zimbabwe while Karangas watch
"Dunderhead", is how the biggest Zimbabwe gold smuggling syndicate describes Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. It is fascinating that even the criminals are aware of this fact. His below p...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 08:12hrs | 760 | by Israel Dube
Unsettled Chamisa spies on all Matabeles in the CCC top leadership
Many people in Zimbabwe were shocked when news filtered that Nelson Chamisa recently acquired intelligence gathering equipment and busy spying on top CCC leaders more than his purpoted ZANUPF rivals. ...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 14:41hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF and CCC pursuing the 4th Chimurenga agenda: Is it mere coincidence?
Barbara Tanyanyiwa, a woman representative at CCC was on 19th January 2022 interviewed by Studio 7 on the arrests of 25 CCC members in Budiriro in Harare. In her 2 minutes, 15 seconds inte...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 17:55hrs | 3 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Sex herbs a hit at Hlanganani Expo
THE Chesvingo Karanga Village stand proved to be a hit at the just ended Sanganani/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo in Bulawayo as most exhibitors, particularly men, flocked to the stand to buy sex...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 19:29hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
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