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Gukurahundi survivors call for apology before it's too late
As Zimbabwe marks the anniversary of the Unity Accord on December 22, survivors of the Gukurahundi atrocities have renewed calls for justice, compensation, and recognition for the horrors they endured...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:16hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Julius Malema's EFF implodes
South Africa's radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), appears to be on a downward spiral after another high-profile member defected to ex-President Jacob Zuma's party.D...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 20:43hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Malema predicts more departures from EFF
Despite the number of prominent and high-ranking figures dumping the EFF to join the MK Party, the fiery party leader, Julius Malema has signalled more exits, adamantly saying his party will remain st...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 15:48hrs | 2167 | by Staff reporter
The uncanny parallels between Zanu-PF and the Rhodesian Front
THE white Rhodesian regime by all accounts waged a highly effective counter-insurgency war against the guerilla forces.Its successes were across the military and intelligence spheres.T...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:15hrs | 559 | by Rigid Kondongwe
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 | 1290 | 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 | 1560 | by Nomazulu Thata
Did Mtukudzi speak his troubled life in song?
"TATSAUKA pano nekuti paita Tuku, (We passed by because you are playing Tuku music)" my late brother Johannes and his friend Evaristo Chiwara once told merrymakers in Rimuka, Kadoma, in the late 1990s...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:03hrs | 3596 | by Moses Chibaya
Mukwasha Chiwenga in Math-South improvements. Is development holistic?
Whatever development VP Chiwenga is bringing in Matabeleland South, that should never be interpreted as "Mukwasha inzunza". School children especially benefit from good and safe schools, health care f...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:27hrs | 2062 | by Nomazulu Thata
Africa is full of contradictions; Qwabe twins are still VIRGINS at 26 years!
Seeing their photo on Bulawayo24 today, I wonder what is cultural, and traditional about these twins? This photo shoot looks like big German barbies on sale. There is nothing that tells me that these ...Published: 21 Sep 2024 at 11:01hrs | 2916 | by Nomazulu Thata
Politics of sympathetic pregnancies
Politics of mimesis Opposition in Zimbabwe - not the Zimbabwean opposition - is in a deep mess. It is vainly looking for causes, models and examples. Our politics, it would appear, has entered a p...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:27hrs | 88 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Lighters and matches are not toys, avoid veld fires
The chill is in the air heralding the onset of the winter season. A time when some orphans, widows, homeless and the aged find themselves with no refuge from the biting cold. You see kids shivering wi...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 14:28hrs | 40 | by Thomas Murisa
I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 28 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa fired Minister for enforcing govt language policy
MEMBER of Parliament for Bubi Constituency in Matabeleland North Simelisizwe Sibanda has said he was enforcing Government policy when he called for the transfer of an ECD teacher who could not s...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:44hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
From Ramaphoria to Ramageddon
Many political observers have reacted with both "shock and awe" to the astounding performance of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Party in one of South Africa's most contested elections.Indeed, to borrow...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 15:01hrs | 2 | by Sipho Seepe
Mnangagwa mourns Iran's Ebrahim Raisi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has joined the rest of World leaders in mourning the late Iranian leader Dr Ebrahim Seyyed Raisi who died on Sunday following a helicopter crash.The Iranian leader died alo...Published: 21 May 2024 at 20:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's stunt at Pupu akin to Hitler officiating at a Jewish synagogue?
It was quite a disturbing and unsettling sight watching President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa officiating at the unveiling of the Pupu Battlefield Memorial Site in Lupani. This was in ho...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:15hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Who is reaping now?
In recent years, Zimbabwe has witnessed a rather alarming phenomenon: the emergence of what can only be described as "gospel-preneurs." These are individuals who have cunningly crafted churches with t...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 22:56hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Believing in ancestral spirits is a myth
At death the body and spirit or the material and immaterial separate. In African society the spirits of the dead, variously known in sub-Saharan Africa as amahlozi or amatongo (Zulu), Xhosa), balimo (...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:59hrs | 701 | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu
Chiwenga denounces gay elements
The Government has denounced some elements who are luring youths into homosexuality through offering educational scholarships for those who are into Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) act...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu leader calls out Charumbira's Gukurahundi genocide denial
Sibangilizwe Nkomo, leader of the ZAPU party, has criticised Chief Fortune Charumbira, the deputy president of the National Chiefs Council, for publicly denying that the atrocities during Gukurahundi ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe, 1999 - 2024: An Obituary
Advocate Nelson Chamisa's capitulation last week at the behest of the fifth column led by Sengezo Tshabangu was the final nail in opposition politics in Zimbabwe. Armed with state institutions and exp...Published: 03 Feb 2024 at 09:09hrs | 6 | by Innocent Mpoki
'Zimbabwe is cursed'
OPPOSITION Zapu leader has described Zimbabwe as a cursed nation because of bad politics since the country attained independence in 1980.Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son to the late nationalist Jos...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:46hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must travel to rural areas by bus
TRAVELLING from capital cities to rural areas using public transport like long distance buses could go a long way in inculcating servant leadership in African Presidents and ministers. Such experience...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:35hrs | 14 | by Charles Dhewa
Chiwenga's wedding was a political statement
HIGH-PROFILE weddings, especially those of the rich, famous and powerful - very important persons (VIPs) - are renowned worldwide for their grandeur, luxury and vibrant celebrations.These ausp...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:26hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Our feelings matter too
I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to be a volunteer at an online free teen support hotline last year. It was a place where young individuals could seek solace, guidance, and a listeni...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 19:29hrs | 12 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Zimbabwe's 'prophets of Baal'!
This may help them understand how some in the Christian community have opted not only to dine with the devil but also sell their souls to him - whilst at the same time pretending to be serving God....Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 19:10hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Brushstrokes of Eternal Inspiration: Honoring the Legacy of a Garry Mapanzure
Ladies and gentlemen, We seat in different corners of Zimbabwe today shocked and sad at the untimely loss of a young and bright artist who touched our hearts and souls with his music. In the b...Published: 15 Oct 2023 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Mberi Prince
Prophet Isaiah Sovi storms Botswana for a 2 day Prophetic crusade
The heavens are about to touch down in Botswana, and the ground will shake with the presence of a man anointed by the divine. Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi, a spiritual luminary, entrepreneur, and mentor ...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 20:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Edd Branson receives prestigious Focus Africa recognition award
Amidst a grand and momentous celebration of unparalleled excellence and unwavering dedication, the illustrious Ambassador Edd Branson was graced with the highly esteemed Focus Africa recognition award...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 13:55hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gukurahundi survivors want closure
A former PF Zapu official, Felix Ndebele, was in tears last week as he narrated how he almost lost his life under the colonial regime and during Gukurahundi in the 1980s.Ndebele, from Silobela...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cricket legend Heath Streak dies
ZIMBABWE cricket legend Heath Streak has died.He was 49.Streak, who has been battling colon and liver cancer passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning.Streak's death was...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, do you understand the democracy for which you 'fought'?
We have been told this time and time again!To be frank, I have had it up to here listening to the same old tired and worn out drivel!Who wouldn't be - when each time Zimbabweans dare c...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 19:18hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lawyers 4ED launched, challenged to advance development
President Mnangagwa yesterday called on lawyers to be steadfast in defending the country's sovereignty and independence and challenged them to entrench and deepen legal frameworks and institutions tha...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Condolence message on death of Insimbi Zezhwane members
The entire Freedom Alliance family is deeply sorry and saddened by the untimely passing on of Elvis 'Ma Eli' Mathe and Thembinkosi 'Maviri' Mpofu who were members of the Insimbi ZeZhwane Music Group. ...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 19:50hrs | 33 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube
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 | 15 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF win inevitable?
A SURGE in the support of President Mnangagwa ahead of this year's harmonised elections is an endorsement of his leadership and acceptance of the deliverables that are on the ground from the electorat...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zaoga declares 30 days of mourning for Guti
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has described the late Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa Forward in Faith (ZAOGA FIF) church Archbishop and founder, Ezekiel Handinawangu Guti, was a towering figur...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:22hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa's late wife granted State-assisted funeral
IN a poignant display of honour, the late Mrs Zodwa Dabengwa nee Khumalo, the widow of National Hero Cde Dumiso Dabengwa, has been granted a Atate-assisted funeral by the Government. Today, she will b...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:22hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ezekiel Guti dies
ZIMBABWE Assemblies of God Africa (Zaoga Forward in Faith) founder Archbishop Professor Ezekiel Handinawangu Guti has died.He was 100, having been born on May 5, 1923, in Chipinge, Manicaland ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wife scalds hubby's girlfriend
A jealous Mudzi woman is in soup after she allegedly poured hot water on her husband's girlfriend thereby leaving her battling for her life at a local hospital.The matter came to light at Muto...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:34hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Do not give the devil a foothold
It is a known phenomenon that cracks and fissures in relations and interactions allow negative energies to disrupt positivity and well-being of those around us. Absence of amicability in all w...Published: 15 May 2023 at 15:21hrs | | by TT Murisa. Chinehasha
2 die in bus accident
TWO people died and others were seriously injured when a bus they were travelling in overturned after the driver lost control along the Manyanda-Kariyangwe road in Binga last Friday.The bus, w...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC disowns Sikhala?
THE opposition CCC has disowned Mr Job Sikhala, who is currently in remand prison facing a litany of charges, as the fallout between the party and its dissatisfied former top officials widens amid ind...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 02:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hoping to build economy by 'creating' entrepreneurs and innovators is delusional and misguided!
There is a popular saying - leaders are born and not created or made. That is very true.It is a futile exercise trying to make a leader out of someone who never had leadership qualitie...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 09:59hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa mourns 6 Zanu-PF supporters
President Mnangagwa yesterday sent his condolences to families of six Zanu-PF supporters who died in a horrific accident along the Murambinda-Birchenough Bridge Road on Saturday as they were going to ...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Religion influences politics
The religion is very influential in shaping the lives of the people this is because it directs their way of life. Zimbabwe is largely Christian dominated and the people's behavior is influenced by the...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 10:51hrs | | by Grace Chekai
Chamisa left the fact-finding Mission deeply unimpressed
One Morris too manyWhat it's a name?The name of the old Triple C activist "beaten" in Murehwa is Morris Seremani. Morris as also the name of one turncoat freedom fighter who betrayed t...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe slams Western media onslaught
The onslaught being directed to Zimbabwe by the West and its media is as a result of vast wealth endowments the country has which they want to resume their old habits of looting, a Cabinet minister ha...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is being led by the Devil himself - please, dear God, intervene!
I have seen evil in this country before. In fact, I believe that my childhood experiences of watching those in my neighborhood of Redcliff being gruesomely beaten up, and their homes burnt to ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:53hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Today's ZANU PF supporters likely to have backed colonial rule!
It is quite scary witnessing how ZANU PF supporters are always so ready and too eager to defend the brutal oppressive reign of the Zimbabwe regime. Whenever I come across the numerous posts on...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 12:02hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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