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Mbuya Nehanda's remains must be repatriated first then erection of the statue
One of the greatest achievements of the President of Zimbabwe comrade Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is to honour the heroes. The president has shown that he does not forget those deserving to be honoured...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:40hrs | 1743 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Remembering those who made it possible, our fallen heroes
As the blood of the heroes flows beneath our freedom, reminding us that every expression of joy and every fruit of freedom was watered by the blood of our heroes. It will become history if we do not r...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 19:31hrs | 868 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
July Moyo responds to Bulawayo street names lawsuit
LOCAL Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo has filed papers in response to an application by Bulawayo residents who are challenging Government's decision to rename some of the city's street ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:33hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
A comprehensive language policy will solve the street naming conundrum in Zimbabwe
I wish to add my voice to the recurrent debate over the naming and renaming of geographical places, particularly streets, in Zimbabwe. The debate over the renaming of physical infrastructure such as s...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1022 | by Dr Vincent Jenjekwa
Tsvangirai sidelined in new street names
City of Masvingo's quest to rename Hofmeyer Street after Morgan Tsvangirai has failed after the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing ignored the recommendation and gave the ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:58hrs | 2628 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo dumps colonial streets names
Masvingo City Council has completed renaming key streets in the ancient city after the country's living and departed heroes of the struggle against colonial rule that culminated with the attainment of...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents sue over Mnangagwa's street names
BULAWAYO residents have taken Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo to court challenging Government's decision to change some of the city's street names as contained in Statutory Instru...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Exposure of corruption by Dr Alex Magaisa justifies Mthwakazi restoration
Mthwakazi Republic Party MRP which happens to be my party of choice has once again been vindicated by Dr Alex T Magaisa's list of corrupt elites and the Political Exposed Persons "PEPs" as he calls th...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3376 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Row over Bulawayo street renaming after Ndebele kings only
DESCENDANTS of the newly revived Mambo Dynasty have clashed with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over the local authority's recent decision to rename some of the city's streets and suburbs in honour o...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 2636 | by newzimbabwe
BCC has powers to change street names - Justice Minister
The Bulawayo City Council has the powers to change street names in the city contrary to claims by deputy local government minister Marian Chombo that the local authority cannot effect the name changes...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 16:18hrs | 1269 | by Staff Reporter
Canaan Banana an unsung hero, says Son
NATHAN Banana - the son of the late founding President of Zimbabwe, Canaan Sodindo Banana, has described his father as an unsung hero and lamented government's failure to honour him for the key ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1515 | by Staff reporter
BCC has no powers to change street names'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has no powers to change street and buildings names but can only submit proposals to Cabinet that has a final say on any name changes, a senior official has said. ...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:49hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC councillors clash over street names
ZANU-PF and MDC Alliance councillors in Masvingo recently clashed over the renaming of city streets in honour of living and departed Zanu-PF luminaries, with the former walking out of a special counci...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:24hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda's bones still displayed in a british museum
Those who are christians do understand the importance of repatriating bones of the loved ones. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He had ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 22:12hrs | 1915 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa peeps into immortality
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent decision to rename 10 streets in key cities in the country portrays him as a leader desperate to cleanse his tainted record, while immortalising his name in the a...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:52hrs | 847 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa should clear name on Gukurahundi before grabbing Bulawayo roads'
OPPOSITION Zapu has scolded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for rushing to name a street in Bulawayo after himself before he has found time to come clean on his role in the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities o...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1151 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe does not need new names
A week after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube stirred controversy over his budget allocation for a space project, the government was at it again with an announcement that left many questioning the author...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:39hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa roads
Zimbabweans have reacted with disbelief to news that the government has approved plans to rename major roads and buildings after "national heroes" - including 10 streets named after President Emmerson...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:00hrs | 270 | by BBC
Mutambara attacks Mnangagwa over street names
Former Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of National Unity Professor Arthur Mutambara has hit out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the change of street names saying the "incompetent" Zanu-PF...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 09:21hrs | 10765 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa snubs Chiwenga on street names
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has snubbed ailing Vice President Constantino Chiwenga in the change of street names across the country.Ch...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 18:13hrs | 9704 | by Staff Reporter
BREAKING: 6th Avenue in Bulawayo renamed Emmerson Mnangagwa Avenue
The Cabinet has approved new names for some roads in Bulawayo and Harare. Cabinet announced during the post cabinet briefing that 6th Avenue in Bulawayo has been renamed Emmerson Mnangagwa Avenue...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 16:20hrs | 5942 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 636 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Tungamirayi, Zvinavashe, Zvobgo honoured in new street names
Josiah Tungamirai, V. Musungwa and E.J.M Zvobgo are among the street names that residents in the developing suburb of Clipsham Views will see if current naming proposals by City of Masvingo's health, ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 21:33hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Mugabeism must be dismantled
YESTERDAY Zimbabweans commemorated, or simply just observed, former president Robert Mugabe's birthday which has now been institutionalised into a national holiday, even though the majority might have...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:16hrs | 501 | by Dumisani Muleya
Sex sweets hit Bulawayo streets
SALONS and flea markets dotted around the Bulawayo have become hot spots for selling a new type of aphrodisiac that comes in the form of sweets and candy.Going by the street names of "sex swee...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | 8022 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai street name change hits brick wall
A PROPOSAL by youthful MDC-T councillor, Godfrey Kurauone to have Masvingo town's Hofmeyer Street named after the late opposition leader, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, recently hit a brick wall after the...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | 339 | by Masvingo Mirror
Bloodbath in Zanu-PF primaries
Zanu-PF's National Elections Commission (NEC) was last night still receiving results of the revolutionary party's primary elections amid reports that some bigwigs had fallen by the wayside .Th...Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:46hrs | 1155 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's executive decisions prove the continuation of Mugabe regime
If further proof of our long held view that newly-appointed Zimbabwean President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was merely a continuation of his predecessor Robert Gabriel Mugabe, then his latest executi...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 10:17hrs | 8285 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo suspends street name correction changes
THE Bulawayo City Council has indefinitely suspended changing names of roads, suburbs and billboards that have wrong IsiNdebele spellings from the colonial era, due to financial challenges.The...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:06hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Harare or Salisbury: The epicentre of 'bloodless transitions'
The difference had always remained the same between Harare and Salisbury. As latest events unfold in Harare, it has become just a mere reminder that some things never change. Actually the more things ...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 04:50hrs | 2974 | by Albert Mthokozisi Ndiweni
MDC Alliance can awaken the Zimbabwean dream
It is not a Zimbabwean dream to see our leaders running to Europe every week for expensive "routine medical check-ups" while the ordinary African is left at the mercy of the collapsed health infrastru...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 14:27hrs | 823 | by Tendai Mazenge
Let's remember our heroes indeed
Editor, thank you very much for publishing my letter. Now that the Heroes Day is somewhere in the air, its time to reflect and introspect.In Senga, Gweru, roads in this old high density suburb...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 13:04hrs | 185 | by Precious Chibhira
Bob Mugabe and the phantom of a national hero
It happened in slow motion. The nation watched Robert Mugabe become the national hero who somehow defied all manner of common appraisal. The people had heard that Mugabe had remarkable intellectual ca...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 22:12hrs | 754 | by Tafi Mhaka
BF must be named after Lookout Masuku no matter what- commentator
A political commentator and leader of the Zimbabwe Communist Party Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has insisted that Barbourfields Stadium must be named after the late Zipra Commander Lookout Masuku ...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 05:54hrs | 849 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC dishonours Lookout Masuku - Centre for Public Engagement
It has been reported that Bulawayo City councillors were divided on the issue of renaming a stadium after Lookout Masuku. Debating issues including disagreeing is not only healthy and encouraged in a ...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 15:21hrs | 924 | by Dr Samukele Hadebe
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission in dire financial straits
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is facing severe resource constraints, making it difficult for it to accomplish its mandate of mapping boundaries of polling stations in preparation for the...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Naming of roads, suburbs in Beitbridge almost complete
THE naming of streets, suburbs and business centres in Beitbridge Town is now at its final stages, the town secretary, Mr Loud Ramakgapola, said on Friday.He said the programme was being imple...Published: 23 May 2016 at 08:30hrs | 2742 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Pretoria name change reaches waterloo
PRETORIA - The battle to rename the capital city of South Africa reaches its waterloo next month when the Supreme Court of Appeal decides either to keep Pretoria as name or change to Tshwane for the c...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:00hrs | 2867 | by Staff reporter
Correcting of names : Reclaiming identity
WHEN Cecil John Rhodes and his Pioneer Column started pegging out land and stands more than 120 years ago, they gave certain areas names that depicted who they were and what they stood for. The countr...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:32hrs | 1422 | by Mbongeni Msimanga
Thank you BCC for suburbs and street names correction
I would like to sincerely thank the Bulawayo Mayor, the Bulawayo City Councilors, the Bulawayo Acting Town Clerk and all the Council Staff for the Council decision to accent to my request to have all ...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 11:49hrs | 3684 | by Khumbulani Maphosa Bulawayo Resident
Beitbridge to name streets, suburbs
Beitbridge Town Council has started working on the naming of streets, suburbs and business centres in compliance with the directive of the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housi...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 05:19hrs | 1472 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Renewed tension over Mujuru's death
Emotions are boiling over again regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of liberation struggle icon General Solomon Mujuru in a mysterious fire at his Beatrice farm - just outside Harare - i...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 10:03hrs | 4108 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayor pressured to change street names
Mayor Martin Moyo is under pressure from Umhlahlo WeSizwe Sika Mthwakazi to rename some city streets and avenues here to reflect the city's status as a historical and heritage site. The cu...Published: 11 Mar 2015 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T council to name suburb after Mujuru
THE MDC-T-dominated Harare City Council has set itself on a collision course with the Zanu-PF government after proposing to name a new suburb in Budiriro, Harare, and some of the capital's roads aft...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 06:17hrs | 4328 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda will soon have Robert Mugabe street
IN a move set to be a first in Matabeleland South, a Gwanda councillor, Thulani Moyo, is working towards the conferment of the freedom of the town honours on the late Father Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Mqabuk...Published: 13 Jul 2014 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Solar street lights, LED street name signs for Bulawayo
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has agreed to partner with a South African company to instal solar powered street lights and LED street name signs in the central business district, a move set to reduc...Published: 10 Jul 2014 at 16:36hrs | 4649 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Bulawayo township names: a history narrative
FROM just one African township in 1894, Bulawayo today has more than 16 townships in the western suburbs. There are numerous aspects that we could deal with when it comes to the history of the townshi...Published: 01 Jun 2014 at 19:56hrs | 13751 | by Phathisa Nyathi
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 | 2961 | by Lance Guma
Govt reverses renaming of roads in Harare
GOVERNMENT has reversed the renaming of three roads in Harare claiming it was never consulted.Enterprise Road was named after the late retired army genera...Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 03:24hrs | 1871 | by Staff reporter
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