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Only Now, they can speak IsiNdebele!
Gone are the days when Shona people had visceral hatred of IsiNdebele. Instantly the so-called revolutionaries realize the advantages of speaking multiple languages that could be of benefit to the cur...Published: 21 Mar 2025 at 17:05hrs | 1837 | by Nomazulu Thata
Hichilema: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
I could not believe what I was hearing. I tried to reassure myself that I was only dreaming. For the third time, I played the video and listened gravely. Again, the words fell like stones into the roo...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 11:38hrs | 1026 | by Dr. Field Ruwe
Mutsvangwas are dummy sucking cry babies!
It is intriguing to see how loud the cruel and oppressive wail when they are given the taste of their own medicine.We have seen the tears of the savagery late President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mug...Published: 27 May 2024 at 20:03hrs | 8 | by Israel Dube
Ndebeles will never be good enough for the rabid tribalists
Being born into a Ndebele, Kalanga or Sotho family in Zimbabwe can be a bewildering, challenging and frustrating affair. If you were born in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, like Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 08:15hrs | 12 | by Tafiranyika @tafimhaka
Filabusi gold wars turn ugly
IN a harrowing ordeal that shook Filabusi District, Prosper Ncube, a young miner, recently became a victim of a vicious assault. Under the cloak of night, he was ambushed and mercilessly beaten by a g...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-'dissidents' advocate for inclusion in Gukurahundi hearings
Former dissidents have suggested the government should have included them in efforts to solve Gukurahundi alongside chiefs as they were the target of the government-sponsored mass killings.The...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:23hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 22 | by Israel Dube
Tribal rifts widen in Zimbabwe after stupid cartoon
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, the perpetual tribal conflicts are becoming more intense. Most tensions exist between the Shona people, the country's largest tribe, and the Ndebeles, who ...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 21:08hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Unsettled Chamisa spies on all Matabeles in the CCC top leadership
Many people in Zimbabwe were shocked when news filtered that Nelson Chamisa recently acquired intelligence gathering equipment and busy spying on top CCC leaders more than his purpoted ZANUPF rivals. ...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 14:41hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Boom secrete out-Fortune Charumbira is a Zanupf Agent!
The person responsible for blowing Chiefs Council President, Fortune Charumbira's cover is none other than himself. He did it in broad day light at a Zanupf annual conference last month. And this he s...Published: 20 Nov 2021 at 16:39hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
Is Nepotism a Good Thing, or Bad?
I read with amusement the article written by Luke Tambolinyoka titled "Emerson Mnangagwa : the primitive clansman and the villagisati...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa demands loyalty from Zanu-PF members
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday demanded loyalty from the party's newly-elected District Coordinating Committee (DCC) members ahead of the 2023 elections.Speaking before yesterday's cen...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 16:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa battles G40, Gamatox remnants
ZANU-PF's vanquished Generation 40 (G40) and Gamatox factions have joined forces in a bid to destabilise President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party ahead of the 2023 polls, a senior official of the fo...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'G40, Gamatox teaming up against Mnangagwa'
ZANU-PF's vanquished Generation 40 (G40) and Gamatox factions have joined forces in a bid to destabilise President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party ahead of the 2023 polls, a senior official of the fo...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribalism at its best: Khuphe a leader sent from hell! My reply!
They see everything is wrong and going wrong because of Thokozani Khuphe. But who ignited the whole shenanigans going on in the MDC opposition parties? Indeed tribalism is embedded, it is entranced in...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 15:10hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
'G40 money' stokes Zanu-PF bloodletting
FISSURES are widening in the ruling Zanu-PF, amid damaging allegations of "dirty money" exchanging hands to influence the outcome of the party's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF big shot appeals for sanity
WITH ZANU-PF continuing to reel from its long-standing demons of factionalism and tribalism, its national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has warned that the future of the party is on the line ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Youth leader speaks on Tinashe Kambarami
I had promised that on 30 July 2019, due to public demand, I will express my own views on political happenings in Bulawayo. However due to compelling programmes elsewhere, I didn't get time to do it a...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 09:59hrs | | by Discent Bajila
'Intellectually bankrupt' view Gukurahundi as tribal as did Mugabe for same selfish reasons too
"The Great African Afro-Centric philosopher Mwalimu Julius Nyerere said that those that are politically and intellectually bankrupt turn to ethnicity and religion as their major tool for mobilisation....Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:21hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa's MDC accuses Bulawayo residents of pushing a Zanu-PF agenda
TEMPERS are flaring in the country's second largest city with the opposition MDC which runs council accusing a local residents association of political posturing.MDC provincial spokesperson Sw...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by newzimbabwe
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 58 | by King Mzilikazi II
World Refugee speech from the African Diaspora
Refugees are the most vulnerable group of migrants who have no choice but to move or flee. These are people in flight, and who have lost in most cases the protection of their countries. Even in the ho...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 21:27hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
'Matabeleland should be renamed Guruuswa'
President of The African Democrats (TAD) Marco F Machona has called for the compensation of Shona people by the Ndebele for what he Ndebele invasion under the leadership of King Mzilikazi. Mac...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 11:36hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nature and function of 'Alien Spirits' in the Shona/Ndebele traditional religion
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion.The concept of God, divinities and spirits in African traditi...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | 85 | by Brian Maregedze
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies: Nature and Function of Alien Spirits in the Shona/Ndebele Traditional Religion The concept of God, diviniti...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:29hrs | 1383 | by Brian Maregedze
How Matebeleland could immediately prosper itself
Matebeleland is the most potentially wealthiest Nation in the entire Southern Hemisphere of this planet. What we need to do, to tap into that wealth, are a few simple, but educated steps.The f...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Multiverse Dungani
Rugare Gumbo snubs Mnangagwa & Zanu-PF
FORMER Cabinet minister and liberation struggle icon, Rugare Gumbo, has flatly refused to accept President Emmerson Mnangagwa's invitation to re-join Zanu-PF - insisting that it was beneath him to re-...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Elite school Peterhouse in Twitter storm over 'racist' picture
An elite Zimbabwean school was forced to take down a tweet on Tuesday after it created an internet uproar amid racism allegations.A second tweet put up to calm the anger was criticised for per...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:49hrs | 3 | by ZimLive
'Zimbabwe needs one language'
Zimbabwe needs one official language if it is to develop, a human rights Commissioner has asserted.Speaking at the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission's national inquiry on access to documentatio...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 20:21hrs | 2 | by Abigirl Khupe
Matematanda warned against dangers of spitting on Gukurahundi graves
What is now clear to all and sundry is that the noisy former Zanla member (Opasi) does not fully understand the scale of Matabeleland genocide and its sensitivity. Can the motor mouth be warned that M...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 10:46hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
The role of peace in the economy
We are still struggling, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, when it comes to understanding and executing economic programmes that give sustainable growth. Most analysts tend to paint this poor underst...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:17hrs | 3 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
The Role of Peace in the Economy - Mthwakazi Forum
We are still struggling, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, when it comes to understanding and executing economic programmes that give sustainable growth. Most analysts tend to paint this poor underst...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 20:52hrs | 12 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
No leads in Mnangagwa bombing
Investigations into a bomb blast that missed President Emmerson Mnangagwa by a whisker nearly six months ago do not seem to be heading anywhere, with the probe team still to apprehend suspects linked ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism is when E.D funds Mugabe and persecutes Mphoko and Moyo
Being a Karanga myself, I can see that President Mnangagwa has a problem with shaking off the demons of tribalism in the manner that he is destroying Mphoko and Jonathan Moyo, while sponsoring Mugabe ...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:32hrs | 2 | by Ryton Dzimiri
'The Shona will knife the Shona' - Nkomo Prophesy 1983
It wasn't hard for Joshua Nkomo to Prophesy in 1983 that Mugabe's exit would be essenced by tribalism. In his 1983 London letter to President Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo wrote some Autistic Hallucinations - ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 21:02hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Chiefs demand police visibility
CHIEFS in Matabeleland South Province have said police must be visible in mining areas following a spate of violent crimes in Gwanda and Esigodini mining areas that have resulted in the loss of life a...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs in Matebeleland plan to meet Mnangagwa over gold wars
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matebeleland South have said the escalating gold wars that have claimed a number of lives in Esigodini threaten national peace and should be treated as a State of Emergency. ...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why has Africa not developed after attaining independence?
Dear AfricaI grew up thinking that Africa was once referred to as a dark continent because most of its inhabitants are dark in complexion. Honestly it didn't bother me because to me black is r...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Munya Shumba
Puzzle of a thriving Ndebele tribe in Buhera explained
The existence of a thriving Ndebele community deep among the Shona has been vexing observers for decades.Sitting comfortably in Buhera and holding on to their language and culture after almost...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 17:06hrs | 20 | by Norma Tsopo
Mnangagwa has changed Zanu-PF into a fresh new-look organisation
Political analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet - in which he dumped both friends and foes alike on Friday last week - demonstrates that he is determined to reset the government's co...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 20:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Landmine used to bomb Mnangagwa, says Tshinga Dube
Former War Veterans minister and ex-army colonel Tshinga Dube said those behind the June 24 attack at White City Stadium in Bulawayo may have used a landmine to carry out their heinous act, instead of...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 13:35hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa 'would-be killers' charged with insurgency, banditry, sabotage or terrorism
There was frenzied media and public interest here yesterday as two men were brought to court for the attempted assassination of President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) during a campaign rally at White...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 17:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's remarks on Gukurahundi stupid- MLF
Mthwakakazi Liberation Front spokesperson Ndabezinhle Fuyane has said his party will not accept stupid and unwarrented sentiments by Vice President Kembo Mohadi at the expense of Mthwakazians. ...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe is right, Mnangagwa must go
I believe in democracy, fairness and justice. So media reports on army tanks moving into Harare last November crushed my hopes and dreams for Zimbabwe. I was mad. I was Mad at Gushungo and Grace Mugab...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 15:08hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
'Ndebele Nationalits Leaders a disgrace'
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has said the so called Ndebele nationalists have disgraced to their fellow Ndebeles as some of them have connived with the outsiders to trample on thei...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mashona vs AmaNdebele: A legacy of disgusting racism
Being born into an Ndebele family in Zimbabwe can be a bewildering, challenging and frustrating affair. If you were born in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, like Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was, in 191...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa, my insanity, Gukurahundi and celebrating his dishonarable demise
If someone treats you disproportionately unlawful and you can't report to any Government on planet Earth, it means the word "Civilisation" is absent in your country. I openly raise my right hand today...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 21:26hrs | 3 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Masvingo, Midlands breeding grounds for factionalism, says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe says he is considering a leadership reshuffle in Masvingo province following the unabated factional and tribal wars within his Zanu-PF party.Addressing a Zanu-PF youth ...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
The donor funding inspired opposition proposed grand coalition is doomed
Mthwakazi Republic party as claimed that the donor funding inspired Zimbabwean grand coalition has become stagnant at birth as expected because of tribalism and selfishness.The party said it w...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 18:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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