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It's time Zimbabwe redefined who we call a national hero
The recent declaration of the late ZESA executive chairman, Sydney Gata, as a national hero has once again reignited a longstanding and deeply divisive debate in Zimbabwe. At the core of ...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 11:07hrs | 612 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The ZANU-PF–Britain alliance is a self-serving bond that never served the people
The political theatre designed to deceive Zimbabweans seems never-ending.A few days ago, senior Zimbabwean officials and British nationals gathered in Harare to celebrate King Charles III's bi...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 14:24hrs | 677 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The idea of Zimbabwe and Matabeleland question
I think the best way to understand the present day manifestations and character of Matebeleland politics is to situate them properly historically and politically within the broader terrain of the deve...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 17:01hrs | 2187 | by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Will freebies silence Zimbabwe war veterans?
The recent calls for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's resignation from war veterans, led by Blessed Runesu Geza, have exposed a simmering discontent at the heart of Zimbabwe's leadership. Their accusati...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 08:11hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo Tshabangu, Welshman Ncube and fellow Mthwakazi, come let's declare Matabeleland independence!
"Be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite."Blocked by a thick ...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 09:37hrs | 12 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa survived assassination attempts 3 times
President Mnangagwa has narrowly escaped death on three occasions during his lifetime, including surviving an assassination attempt by poisoning in Gwanda six years ago and evading the death sentence ...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pins hopes on Sadc, AU
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it is now pinning its hopes on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (AU)'s intervention following its decision no...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's Contribution to the struggle for freedom
When the iconic Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo died on the 1st of July 1999, the generality of Matabeleland felt demobilised, further isolated and wondering if it would ever achieve peace in Zimbabwe. Father...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:50hrs | 12 | by Freedom Alliance
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 14 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
How does Zim expect to instill pride in liberation struggle when always moaning over defeats?
Those who follow my writings can tell how proud I am of our country's liberation history.Even when teaching my son at home, I tackle this subject with tremendous zeal and excitement.Wh...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Maimane predicts that Zanu-PF won't win 2023 polls
SOUTH African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane has predicted that the ruling Zanu-PF party will lose the 2023 elections, saying "the time for corrupt regimes is over".Maimane, who now leads One...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
China's 10m jabs gift major boost for Covid-19 fight
China donated another 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, bringing its gifts to 12 million doses, and ensuring that with its own purchases Zimbabwe now has access to adequate stocks to give the unv...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The desecretion of the memory of gukurahundi victims
Greeting to all! Just when the memory of victims of the Gukurahundi, was brought to the attention of all the people of Mthwakazi, by Ibhetshu Likazulu, through the erection of tombstones, it w...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Heroism can never be shoved down Zimbabweans' throats
The past week, after the official unveiling of Charwe Nyakasikana's (the spirit medium of Mbuya Nehanda) statue in the capital Harare, has reignited highly emotive, and long-standing divisions amongst...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Heroes Acre without Mugabe: incomplete history of Zimbabwe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years from 1980-2017 and despite being shunned by many, the nonagenarian had managed to protect the country's legacy. The late President fast tracked ...Published: 29 May 2021 at 14:05hrs | 2 | by Tatenda Murenjekwa
Dabengwa - a true hero who, even on his sickbed, urged me to continue struggle for justice and better life for all Zimbabweans
If ever I was to be asked my definition of a hero, without any hesitation or faltering, I would sum it up in only two words - "Dumiso Dabengwa", as that name is the personification and epitome of ever...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 16:48hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cannot last as a unitary state - MIOR
More evidence gathered by the Mthwakazi Institute of Research reveals further that the State or Country known in the world as Zimbabwe cannot last longer as a unitary entity. Tracing back from the day...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
DD: The man, soldier, pacifier
The light of the armed liberation struggle icon has been extinguished. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, affectionately known as DD, passed on 23 May 2019.There was grief and anguish when news about his dea...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Phathisa Nyathi
What TUKU confided in me about Shepard Mutamba - may his death unites us
The mountain has collapsed, the nation lost one of its on songbird, icon, selfless spirit, hero and the son of Mbuya Nehanda. Just like (Ndabaningi Sithole, Lookout Masuku, Edgar Tekere, Morgan Tsvang...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 14:06hrs | 9 | by Don Chigumba
Retracing the life and death of Dr Sithole
This is the third and final contribution on the life, abduction, disappearance and subsequent death of Dr Edson Sithole - a veteran nationalist, barrister and national hero whose heroic life remains s...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:42hrs | 21 | by Isaya Muriwo Sithole
Mnangagwa commissions 149 officer cadets
President Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned 149 officer cadets, among them five Namibians, at the 34th Regular Officer Cadet Course graduation ceremony at the Zimbabwe Military Academy (ZMA) in Gweru....Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why not forget the Chimurenga, and let bygones be bygones!
As Zimbabwe commemorates its 38th independence anniversary, amid pomp and fanfare - especially, at the main event held at Harare's National Sports Stadium, attended by new president Emmerson Dambudzo ...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 11:03hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tshinga Dube tells Mugabe to 'zip it'
Former Cabinet minister Tshinga Dube has told deposed former president Robert Mugabe to just zip it as Zimbabweans have moved on since his inglorious fall from power last year.Mugabe, now 94, ...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 11:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T succession war, violence and tribalism
THE death of MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai - a hero of the new struggle for democracy - triggered a succession war in the main opposition MDC-T party (one wonders why the party should maintain...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 11:25hrs | 1 | by MUCKRAKER Twitter: @MuckrakerZim
Mnangagwa is the honourable leader that Zimbabwe needs
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the new President of Zimbabwe, is not an ogre with evil intent as his detractors make him out to be. He is a courteous, amiable, honest to goodness person, who is now on a ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 11:13hrs | 2 | by Jacky Seroke
Mnangagwa tells Mugabe to go
EXILED former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, emboldened by events unfolding in Zimbabwe and mounting pressure on embattled President Robert Mugabe has called on his former boss to step down or be ...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eddison Zvobgo biography released
The long-awaited biography of Eddison Zvobgo, one of Zimbabwe's most colourful politicians, is out and the 104-page book is bound to fill in a lot of gaps in the history of the war against colonialist...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
True sacrifice doesn't demand recognition
As Zimbabweans commemorate Heroes Day, it is always disturbing when a certain section of society hold the nation at ransom, demanding that they be respected and even rewarded for 'sacrificing' for our...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chidyausiku declared national hero
The late Retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has been declared a national hero and will be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Saturday.The hero status was announced today by...Published: 07 May 2017 at 21:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is a Chicken that is eating it's own eggs
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri once said "A political system based on force, oppression, changing people's votes, killing, closure, arresting and using Stalinist and medieval torture, creating ...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 21:08hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Has ambition corrupted Mujuru?. . . but history does not lie
On many levels, the question of Zimbabwe People First leader Joice Mujuru's corruptibility is largely rhetorical. Her story in Government for the 34 years to 2014 when she was booted out as Vice-Presi...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga and Stanely Mushava
Was ZANU PF's formation a US/Israeli plot to derail the people's aspirations?
Last week I was reading a letter that was circulating on social media written by some veterans of Zimbabwe's 1960s and 70s liberation struggle, in which they were lamenting their failure to heed then ...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 12:14hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What would Ian Smith say if he resurrected in a 2016 Zimbabwe?
During a New Year's Eve gathering we had with friends, a discussion on the appalling political and economic state in which Zimbabweans are reeling under, naturally took centre stage.However, w...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Teachers are the rock-bed of any nation
I remember the first time I read my father's copy of the best-selling book, 'The Struggle for Zimbabwe', by renowned authors David Martin and Phyllis Johnson, way back when I was in form three in 1989...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 07:51hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zipra failed to protect us from Mbokodo abuses,' claims MK veteran
Cape Town - Former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadre who testified at the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission (TRC) about human rights abuses committed by the ANC in exile says former Zipra commanders s...Published: 07 May 2015 at 09:31hrs | 13 | by Thabo Kunene
'Mugabe is my boss,' says Kenneth Kaunda
Zambia's first Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda turns 91 years old on April 28, a week after Zimbabwe celebrated its 35th birthday. Dr Kaunda played a major role in Zimbabwe's Independence from ...Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 09:34hrs | 2 | by Emilia Zindi
Mutasa gammatoxed beyond recognition
THE Zanu-PF secretary for administration, who is also Minister of Presidential Affairs, Didymus Mutasa, must be ruing the day he came up with the term "gammatox". Cunningly coining the mischievous te...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Maggie Mzumara
Eddie Cross misleading people
Is this a case of singing for one's supper or blatant ignorance?Gukurahundi Genocide Survivors for Justice finds it totally misleading for the erstwhile Eddie Cross to make a blanket statemen...Published: 12 Oct 2014 at 22:05hrs | | by Nomagugu Khumalo, Director - Gukurahundi Genocide Survivors for Justice
Mnangagwa suffers defeat
JUSTICE Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa failed to gain support from the Cabinet over the death penalty."I took the matter to Cabinet. Firstly, I put all the 97 inmates in about three pages of arg...Published: 11 Oct 2014 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Not every one in the diaspora hates his/ her Zimbabwe
TWO weeks ago, I penned a piece on Obama and his conditioned inability to use "his" presidency to stop the abuse of blacks in America, abuses with a long history and tradition in that country. I note...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 11:03hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe should be allowed to rest
As Zanu PF goes to congress in December, many Zimbabweans will expect that President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, now 90, will accept he has had his time and should be allowed to rest.I am one of th...Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 10:54hrs | | by Tangai Chipangura
Shamuyarira burial - Live update
14:05 - Close of Bulawayo 24 live update of Nathan Shamuyarira's burial at the National Heroes Acre....Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 12:01hrs | 2 | by Moyo Roy
About Chicken to change? The Freshlyground vs Mugabe video
Even without an explanation given it is fact that South African pop group Freshly Ground was deported from Zimbabwe on Sunday because of their video Chicken to Change which mocks 90 year old President...Published: 05 May 2014 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai should learn from Joshua Nkomo's blunders
"We believe that the true unity of the people of Zimbabwe is founded on fundamental principles rather than personalities"History always repeats itself and at most times, it does so in a di...Published: 20 Apr 2014 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
'Hero' Philemon Ncube Mabuza laid to rest
The Dumiso Dabengwa led ZAPU member of the National People's Council Philemon Mabuza who died on Tuesday has been laid to rest.Mabuza a veteran of the liberation struggle of Zimbabwe's ind...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 20:32hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Joshua Nkomo: Thin line between honour and dishonour
There is no doubting that Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo is a large political and historical figure whose name and legacy remains available for use or abuse by those who remain behind. The avalanche of hon...Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 11:58hrs | 8 | by Bantubenkosi Sithole
Chinotimba happy to be the new Muzenda
NEWLY-ELECTED Buhera South MP, war veteran and farmer Joseph Chinotimba has said he gets forwarded the irreverent jokes mocking his poor grasp of English and supposed ignorance. But in this interview ...Published: 20 Sep 2013 at 18:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The struggle for Zimbabwe democracy continues
When the inclusive government came into existence, discourse over and about the "struggle" shifted significantly. Whether this discourse was about narratives of "arrival", or alternatively, "continuit...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
A case of obdurate generals
It is a no brainer that the very same conditions that the Patriotic Front desired for democratic, free and fair elections in 1980, are the very same conditions we desire today."By what fa...Published: 16 May 2013 at 06:14hrs | | by Vince Musewe
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