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South Africa is ruled by individuals who happen to wear robes
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the US were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?In ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 10:38hrs | 639 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Are we cursed as Zimbabweans?
Let us not pretend and lie to each other. We need to be brutally honest.Have we not, at some point, asked ourselves or one another this question?Are we cursed as Zimbabweans?...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 08:13hrs | 1285 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Goolam works in Ramaphosa's office, says Sisulu
ANC veteran Lindiwe Sisulu has revealed that during their investigation into the X account Goolam, they discovered that the person behind the account works in President Cyril Ramaphosa's office and is...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:34hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter
Zuma and Ramaphosa must find each other
IT'S time for political leaders in South Africa particularly the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) to bury their differences and defend not only the legacy of the revolutionary...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ANC - DA coalition spits on veterans graves
ANC heavyweight and National Executive Committee (NEC) member Lindiwe Sisulu has slammed talks of an ANC-DA coalition, saying such a coalition would be spitting on the graves of fallen Struggle heroes...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC must not give us a mini-apartheid
In a powerful public pronouncement, ANC veteran Lindiwe Sisulu has called for a "Black Pact" alliance to counter the proposed coalition between the African National Congress and the Democratic Allianc...Published: 04 Jun 2024 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unwittingly creating a future president in Sikhala through his persecution!
This morning, my eyes could not move from the image of opposition activist Job Sikhala as he disembarked from a prison truck. This was on his arrival for his conviction hearing two days ago, w...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 19:32hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Job Sikhala's New Year Message
CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONNEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONDear Zimbabweans and my Worldwide friends.My dearest Zimbabweans and Worldwide friends, ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 20:19hrs | 8 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
How Oskido 'discovered' Berita at taxi rank
THROUGHOUT his long and storied career, Kalawa supremo Oskido has earned a reputation as a man that is capable of finding talent in the unlikeliest of places. Take for example, the case of Ane...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's one year in prison
EMBATTLED outgoing Zengeza West lawmaker Job Sikhala, who has been languishing in remand prison for 380 days, says he will no longer apply for bail because it serves no purpose.Sikhala was arr...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 08:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Busisiwe Mkhwebane merely annoyed agents of white monopoly capital
In my view, both Tina Joemat-Pettersson (may her soul repose peacefully) and Busisiwe Mkhwebane are victims of a system that lives off the subjugation of women, where women are treated very differentl...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Tsvangirai turning in his grave
THE late opposition MDC stalwart Morgan Richard Tsvangirai who died on 14 February, five years ago, is turning in his grave because some of his family members and close associates have joined the Zanu...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Phala Phala matter calls for Ramaphosa to step aside in line with ANC's resolution
Tourism Minister and African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) Member, Lindiwe Sisulu says the Phala Phala matter calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa to step aside from his po...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Black advocates responds to Adriaan Basson's insults
We the undermentioned advocates respond formally to Mr Adriaan Basson's insults against Dali Mpofu SC as follows: On 7 February 2022 Mr Adriaan Basson, Editor-in-Chief of News 24 published an ...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africanise the law and land
In Mzansi, most citizens can only own real estate when they are dead - their graves and tombstones if they can afford one. From the living majority, they become the silent majority.Throughout ...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Cyril Ramaphosa supporters concede to likely defeat
The clean sweep in most ANC regional conferences by candidates aligned to the radical economic transformation (RET) group has sent shockwaves in President Cyril Ramaphosa's CR22 camp, with some lobbyi...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Elvis Nyathi can't just die in vain
IN the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Zimbabwean man Elvis Nyathi (43) by vigilantes in Johannesburg's Diepsloot township, tough questions must be asked.Nyathi cannot die in vain. The tim...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New crop of opposition political parties in the region
It is believed that opposition political parties are a watchdog of central Government, ensuring that the people's lives and livelihoods are supported, that the country's economy is buttressed by susta...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
Lindiwe Sisulu is a serious contender against Cyril Ramaphosa's failed regime
IT IS the beginning of 2022 and South Africa has already started the year on an interesting note.As the ANC heads into its much-awaited elective conference, the year promises to be one filled ...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Modibe Modiba
SA-based Zimbabwean caregiver faces deportation
A NORTH WEST caregiver has been found guilty and sentenced for assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm after a video of her beating a half-naked toddler surfaced and subsequently went viral...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa accused of lying
The Presidency said late on Thursday it stood by its earlier statement, despite Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu effectively saying President Cyril Ramaphosa was lying by claiming she had apologised an...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu to apply her mind on ANC presidency
Minister of Tourism Lindiwe Sisulu is playing her cards close to her chest about her presidential ambitions as slates for the ANC's 55th elective conference have started doing rounds.Sisulu, 6...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sisulu tko Ronald Lamola in an open letter
I ask you, why are some so irritated with my opinion piece? Until all daggers, some agonizingly blunt, are drawn, and some have already assumed my head must go to the guillotine in the narrowness of m...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | | by Lindiwe Sisulu.
The last great war might have begun
The tongue can be a powerful weapon.It can build and destroy. It also can excite, spite and incite.And when a sharp tongue is mixed with potent ideas, it is easy to concoct a nuclear w...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
SA Constitution is not sacred, judges not demigods
SOUTH Africa's Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu penned an opinion piece on January 7 2022 titled: Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?It was quite a refreshing critique of the challenges confrontin...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:18hrs | | by Arthur GO Mutambara
Zondo's stunt backfires as his credibility is questioned
Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's press briefing to ‘address' tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu's opinion piece has backfired and opened him to questions regarding his credibility.Various s...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu hits back at Zondo
Less than a week ago, I published an opinion piece that captures the importance of where ordinary South Africans find themselves.This opinion piece is my contribution to a conversing South Afr...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:35hrs | | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the United States were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 19:44hrs | 4 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Rule of law vs historical imbalances
CRIMINALS broke into a homestead and stole everything, taking over the family means of livelihood. They pushed everyone to the periphery of the homestead and ordered them to remain there and obey thei...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 6 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 8 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Plot to oust South Africa's David Mabuza
Intelligence reports coming from neighboring South Africa indicate that some branches of the ruling ANC are set to pass a resolution for the recall of ANC and State Vice President David Dabede Mabuza ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cyril Ramaphosa appears to be using the ANC's step-aside rule to target, purge political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa increasingly appears to be using the ANC's "step-aside" rule to target and purge his political opponents, while affirming his untouchable supporters, before next year's elect...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Clyde Ramalaine
Toponymic identity in Bulawayo and the need to recognise Black women
Histories of many states and nations in the world are generally histories of men and in some cases a few outstanding women, seemingly those whose absence in the historical narrative may discredit hist...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 14:42hrs | 1 | by Staff
Dlamini-Zuma clobbers Ramaphosa over Rupert
THE ANC's national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Sunday turned into a heated show of force when some of the ANC's top guns took President Cyril Ramaphosa to task over his close proximity to bil...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
SA's Minister in the Presidency dies of Covid-19-related complications
Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu died of Covid-19-related complications on Thursday, just 10 days after testing positive for the disease.President Cyril Ramaphosa described him as "a...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Exactly just how does Zimbabwe's ZANU PF expect South Africa to 'rein in' SABC's Mokoena - the Hopewell Chin'ono way?
As tensions between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU PF party, and South Africa's ANC intensify - after the telling threats uttered by the former's director of information, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, as he, typical of t...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ANC's long fight for SA democracy inspiration for Zimbabweans never to give up on struggle for freedom
The African National Congress (ANC) yesterday celebrated its 109th anniversary - being the oldest political party on the continent - yet, the fact that South Africa was the last country to attain its ...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 10:30hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
US$300m for Beitbridge Border Post upgrade
THE ZimBorders Consortium has secured nearly US$300 million for the upgrade and modernisation of Beitbridge Border Post, the country's busiest inland port of entry and one of the region's key transit ...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zuma accuses Ramaphosa of seeking 'white validation'
Former president Jacob Zuma has written to his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa, taking him to task for the latter's letter to party members condemning corruption. In a letter seen by News2...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Ndebele's speech at MRP SA meeting
I would like to honor and recognize the presence of our party president Cde Mqondisi Moyo, NEC members here present, South Africa MRP provincial leadership. All protocol observed.Good Afternoo...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:45hrs | | by Sehliselo Ndebele
Zimbabwe army hails SANDF for support
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has hailed South African National Defence Forces (SANDF) for upholding military cooperation with Zimbabwe by dispatching a team of engineers to assist in rehabilitatin...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African army deployed in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe National Army has announced that members of the South Africa Defence Forces have landed into the country to assist in the reconstruction of the Chimanimani road after the unfortunate Cycl...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 15:16hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dumiso Dabengwa: An epitome of courage, endurance and integrity
HE used to call me at random and odd times; almost always late at night. The last time he did was at 11pm several weeks ago. He wanted to tell me he was in South Africa and was not well. This was the ...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 15:55hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
Mnangagwa buys new weapons
ZIMBABWE's state security forces have acquired new equipment and weapons, including water cannons, teargas canisters and guns, to prepare to combat looming street protests due to the collapsing econom...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA sets tough terms on US$1.2bn Zimbabwe loan request
Zimbabwe's debt-ridden government is in a dilemma after South Africa asked her northern neighbour to securitise mineral proceeds in exchange for a US$1,2 billion (R17billion) bailout package, it...Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa business associate's planes impounded in Botswana
South Africans' involvement with Botswana's election politics caused embarrassment once again when two planes of the controversial South African businessman, Zunaid Moti, were impounded at Francistown...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 15:10hrs | | by City Press
SA top minister meets African ambassadors over xenophobia
The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Lindiwe Sisulu, has called an urgent meeting of African ambassadors to discuss the current spate of violence against foreign nationals and dama...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 19:39hrs | 5 | by DIRCO
Mawarire warns President Mnangagwa
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has cautioned the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa against abusing a disaster relief fund from South Africa by hiring expensive jets f...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 09:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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