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Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
116-year old Inyathi Mission still exudes medieval charm
WITH walls of red-coloured rustic clay face bricks, the medieval 116-year-old Inyathi Mission, the country’s oldest Christian mission station and first to offer education to blacks in Zimbabwe still...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
116-year Inyathi Mission still looks charming
WITH walls of red-coloured rustic clay face bricks, the medieval 116-year-old Inyathi Mission, the country's oldest Christian mission station and first to offer education to blacks in Zimbabwe still l...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 26 | by Staff Reporter
African education in Zimbabwe is credited to Christian missionaries
The history of Christianity and African education in Zimbabwe is the history of Christian missionary work and achievements. Dr David Livingstone, a member of the London Missionary Society, travelled e...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 17:07hrs | 63 | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu
Former minister grilled over land
THE government is probing former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye on allegations of improperly acquiring six farms in Mashonaland East under her real estate firm, Glorious Properties.On her ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government to takeover Hope Fountain Mission Farm
Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Dr Obert Mpofu has said the government will acquire Hope Fountain Mission Farm and gazette it for resettlement, a declaration that was received wi...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 19:19hrs | 44 | by Bakidzanani Dube
Baboon with the smell of a white man
YOU cannot help but admire American choreography. At the start of this month they had a hearing on Zimbabwe, itself an opportunity for demonstrating how much they stand in loco parentis to all of us t...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
The 'Beast' returns for Highlanders fixture
Durban - Sharks and South African rugby crowd-favourite, loosehead prop Tendai "Beast" Mtawarira, will make his much-awaiting return to the Sharks when he fronts up for Saturday's Vodacom Super Rugby ...Published: 03 May 2012 at 07:32hrs | | by Sports24
South African white rugby players called Mujati a 'baboon'
Johannesburg - The Bulawayo-born and former Springbok tighthead prop Brian Mujati who has earned 12 caps for the Springboks has accused South Africans Heinke van der Merwe and Steven Sykes of making r...Published: 27 Aug 2011 at 15:45hrs | | by Sapa
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