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Visit by my nemesis ED and Chiwenga will be story of my life!" boasted Chamisa. But why nemesis!
This visit by my nemesis ED and General Chiwenga and the dynamics around it will feature prominently in the story of my life." Posted Chamisa on X accompanied by a video of motorcade of the two arrivi...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 10:06hrs | 1566 | by Wilbert Mukori
It's time real patriotic Zimbabweans stood up against the destruction of their country
It never rains but pours for the people of Zimbabwe.This month, the Zimbabwean government failed to pay its civil servants their full salaries-a disgraceful development that underscores the de...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 15:12hrs | 166 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The push to celebrate Joshua Nkomo by declaring July 1 a national holiday
Zimbabwe is set to celebrate the legacy of one of its most cherished leaders, the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, with the declaration of July 1 as a national holiday. This historic move honors "Fat...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:42hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
NSSA is a vehicle for enriching the powerful whilst exploiting the poor!
I already knew that Zimbabwe was hell and a living nightmare for the vast majority of the ordinary citizenry.I was also fully aware that the powerful were the only ones getting richer and rich...Published: 15 Oct 2023 at 09:49hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Releasing Chihambakwe report key to honouring Joshua Nkomo
TWENTY-FOUR years ago, politicians who caused Joshua Nkomo tremendous grief during his lifetime shed crocodile tears and speechified at his funeral.Their supporters joined in. Two weeks ago, Z...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Trevor Ncube
Joshua Nkomo named dogs after Ian Smith and his wife
WHAT Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Government had not anticipated was the resilience of the country's nationalists.They remained courageous and refused to regard the hardships and strenuous chal...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
God has done more in my life in a few years praying alone, than going to 'church' for decades!
After penning my article entitled, 'Support ED all you want, but please don't blaspheme our God', I received so many messages of agreement, encouragement and endorsement of my sentiments.Indee...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 08:27hrs | 25 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Another ploy of rewriting history by the Zanu-PF regime
Greetings to all! FROM THEMTHWAKAZI LIBERATION FRONT PRESIDENTDR CHURCHILL MP...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 15:13hrs | 12 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Shangani dam a fulfilment of Dr Nkomo's dream
"NKOMO made Freeman" was the bold headline in the Chronicle edition of Friday 28 February 1992, with the accompanying sub-heading; "Vice President tasked to make the Zambezi project a success."...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'My dead son was called an animal' Joshua Nkomo says
As the nation commemorates the death of the late ZANU PF Second Secretarey and national Vice President Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, little is told about the pain he suffered whebn his first bo...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 13:46hrs | 28 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mkhululi Bhebhe opens up on suffering from gastrointestinal disorder
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean contemporary gospel singer Mkhululi Bhebhe has revealed that he was forced to abandon his online series titled My Music Journey after he suffered gastrointestinal disorde...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:02hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son denounces Zanu-PF's tragic failure
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, son of the late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo says the country needs new leaders who can rescue it from Zanu-PF's ruinous rule and fulfil his father's vision of a free, just and pro...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 21:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Richard Mahomva
Jacob Zuma reads Joshua Nkomo book
Former South African is reading the late Zimbabwean Vice President Joshua Nkomo's book The Story of My Life.Nkomo, one of Zimbabwe's liberation icon's first published the book in 1984 while in...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Why should we remember Joshua Nkomo
IN this two-part series, the Zimbabwe Independent reproduces the 2019 Annual Joshua Nkomo Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, organised by Joshua Nkomo Legacy Foundation ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 7 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 21 | by PUMA
'Joshua Nkomo made Mugabe the leader of ZANU in 1975'
Former President Robert Mugabe was catapulted to the leadership of ZANU in 1975 after the death of ZANU Chairman Herbert Chitepo by former ZAPU leader Dr Joshua Nkomo.This is revealed in Joshu...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
May the will of Zimbabweans prevail, finally
IT is not far from the truth that the will of the people has been suppressed in the last four decades in which Zanu-PF, under Robert Mugabe, ruled the country heavy-handedly.From the day which...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
Does Njelele hold the keys?
"It was on June 29, just a month before the nation votes on July 30, that they came and desecrated our shrine. Whether that is pure coincidence, a planned act or just another act of vandalism, we are ...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:46hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeorter
Party-State conflation must be checked
THE late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo noted in his autobiography that he once asked the then Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe which was the supreme organ of the State and to his great shock a...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Dumisani O Nkomo
The dilemma of filling Mugabe, Tsvangirai boots
Two characters exited the political stage almost simultaneously; one through a forced retirement and the other through death. They were both larger than life: one by what he achieved in life, the othe...Published: 23 May 2018 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Who exactly was former President Mugabe?
The late VP Nkomo warned us in his 1984 book that there is a Robert Mugabe we don't know, but we were too consumed by the dummy we had been sold by the dominant liberation war discourses. These warnin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Time to temper Mnangagwa expectations
Just under a year ago, I began writing this column, where my goal was to bring about dispassionate debate about the political and social developments in the country.At the end of November, whe...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | 2 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Bulawayo's untapped tourism potential
With dozens of tourist attractions, each having a rich history and remarkable diversity of culture, Bulawayo — Zimbabwe's second largest city — as well as its hinterland should have no problem att...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
EFF leader reading Joshua Nkomo book: The Story of My Life
I see the Cde is reading Joshua Nkomo: The Story of My Life. Great book!Celebrating one of our own, congratulations Dr ...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 16:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Where was Chiwenga when our People were butchered during Gukurahundi?
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has said the level of hypocrisy and grandstanding by the Zimbabwe military through Constantine Chiwengwa cannot go unchallenged if the unfolding events...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 09:19hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe survived the 2008 defeat by Tsvangirai through army rigging - ZCP
Zimbabwe Communist Party secretary general Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has said President Robert Mugabe in 2008 retained power through the backing and rigging of the polls by the army generals depsite ...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 05:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dabengwa writing memoirs, documenting ‘true' history
ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa on Tuesday said he was now taking time to write his memoirs and documenting the country's "true" history, as he embarks on his journey of withdrawing from active politics....Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Britain rigged 1980 polls for Mugabe'
THE British government sold out and rigged the 1980 polls on behalf of President Robert Mugabe just to save the lives of innocent Zimbabweans who were being butchered by ZANLA forces, says UANC....Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 15:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation
Since his sad passing away on 1 July 1999 Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's name and life have continued to arrest public attention and imagination at a world scale.As I write the Zimbabwean historian an...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:18hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Arthur Mutambara pens new book on Zimbabwe politics
Sapes Books, to be launched in Harare on June 14 2017 is a most welcome addition to the Sapes Books' stable of illustratious autobiographies/biographies: Elijah Mudenda (Zambia: A Generation of Strugg...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
37 years gone we have a leader we do not want, says Musewe
A political commentator Vince Musewe has lamented that Zimbabweans have endured 37 years of having the leader they never wanted.President Robert Mugabe has been at the helm since 1980."We ...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 06:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Rainbow province - a befitting tribute to Mugabe
The venue for this year's 21st February Movement celebrations was at the heart of Matabeleland South, which is famously known as the "Rainbow Province" because of its heterogeneous mix of ethnic g...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 09:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magic or Superstition? The myths and legends that made Joshua Nkomo
In times of war it is common to hear of legends and stories that give popular participants in battles superhuman qualities that seem to defy the rules of everyday life.Perhaps to drive fear in...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 07:05hrs | 16 | by Bruce Ndlovu
The legacy of Umdala wethu, Dr Joshua Nkomo
Hero status is not accorded by anyone to anyone. It is earned. Good works speak for themselves and need no Politburo comminique to endorse. This was even buttressed by Dr Joshua Nkomo afte...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 12:54hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Mphoko, Mnangagwa fight over Joshua Nkomo
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Phelekezela Mphoko where tangled in a power fight last week during the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo.The fight at Zanu PF ...Published: 04 May 2016 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mphoko cause scene at ZITF
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Phelekezela Mphoko took turns to order the removal of various paraphernalia from a stand exhibiting national hero and late Vice-President Joshua N...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cephas Msipa launches book titled 'In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice'
Veteran nationalist Dr Cephas Msipa has completed a book titled: In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice.The book launched last night in Harare takes the reader through narratives of Dr Msipa's pers...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 16:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe leaders too selfish,' claims Joshua Nkomo's son
The son of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, who died 16 years ago, says most Zimbabwean leaders are too self-centered, a situation that has led to the current social, economic and political probl...Published: 01 Jul 2015 at 20:34hrs | 1 | by Taurai Shava
Remembering Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo: On this day, a giant was born
Well, it's not official yet but today, June 19, marks the birthday of Father Zimbabwe, the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo who was born on this day in 1917.He died on July 1, 1999, leaving be...Published: 19 Jun 2015 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Christopher Charamba
Details on how Zanu-PF plotted to kill Joshua Nkomo
Fresh details have emerged on how the Zanu-PF government plotted to kill the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo at his house in Bulawayo, as authorities escalated the Gukurahundi massacres, newly-re...Published: 19 May 2015 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by newsday
ZAPU reclaiming Dr Joshua Nkomo's legacy in Bradford
A buoyant and increasingly confident & visible ZAPU held a flamboyant and a spectacularly successful Dr Joshua Nkomo commemorative event in Bradford this weekend on 2nd August 2014. The memorial s...Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by ZAPU Europe Information, Publicity and Marketing Department.
Matabeleland youths shun Zimbabwe army
Young men and women from southern Zimbabwe are shunning recruitment in the army - largely because of bitterness over past military atrocities.Since the 1980s the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) ...Published: 17 Jul 2014 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of the Baba Jukwa Saga and the Pretext to Gukurahundi Part II
Fellow Zimbabweans, and most importantly fellow Bakalanga, BaNambya, BaSotho and Vhavenda, I trust that I find you well after a long absence. I have been busy with other pressing work elsewhere. L...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 23:38hrs | 1 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Seeking to understand the Njelele Shrine
FROM far to the south the prominent hill stands above the rest. Distance has given it a sky blue hue. It is a cut above the rest. In comparison, other numerous hills pale into oblivion save for S...Published: 02 Feb 2014 at 09:30hrs | 76 | by Cultural Heritage Pathisa Nyathi
NIKUV - what a sexy scapegoat
Since its formation, ZANU is known to have gone to extremes to gain and retain political power. They have used textbook political mastery as well as unorthodox means to achieve their political objec...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 06:02hrs | | by Mso Ndlovu
Interview with former guerrilla commander Wilfred Mhanda and Pedzisai Ruhanya - SWRadio
Join SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma for a Heroes Day special where he speaks to former guerrilla commander Wilfred Mhanda (whose liberation war name is Dzinashe Machingura) and political ...Published: 20 Aug 2012 at 17:16hrs | 1 | by Lance Guma
Joshua Nkomo's book (the Story of my life) serialisation: Part 1
This is the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo's book, the Story of my life as serialised by Daily News on the Friday, 01 June 2012.From my earliest youth I thirsted for freedom. When I became ...Published: 21 Jul 2012 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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