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MDC Alliance rocked by fresh divisions
FRESH divisions have emerged in the MDC Alliance in Bulawayo with reports that some officials raided offices belonging to Professor Welshman Ncube's old MDC demanding keys and an inventory of property...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 01:16hrs | 1875 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 6208 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe under confused leadership
People elect the kind of leadership they want and in most cases, unless forced otherwise, they are never wrong. If leadership imposes itself upon a people usually chaos is born and eradicating it will...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:24hrs | 2824 | by Clemen Moyo
Chamisa and the pretence to unity
AT the burial of liberation icon Dr Dumiso Dabengwa in Ntabazinduna recently, MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa postured as a unifying figure vowing to work towards uniting the people of Zimbabwe....Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | 744 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Chamisa's Bulawayo offices hit by violence
A MEETING of the opposition MDC Alliance in Bulawayo to elect members from the province to occupy positions in the party's national executive council turned violent yesterday as some disgruntled membe...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | 2371 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean problems emanate from self denial
There has been an outcry over the calls by the people's revolutionary party Mthwakazi Republic Party MRP, and other Matabeleland civic groups to stop Econet from bringing in Harare artists to Bulawayo...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | 341 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Zimbabwean problems emanate from self-denial
There has been an outcry over the calls by the people's revolutionary party Mthwakazi Republic Party MRP, and other Matabeleland civic groups to stop Econet from bringing in Harare artists to Bulawayo...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 20:05hrs | 1221 | by Zimbabwean problems emanates from self denial There has been an outcry over the calls by the people's revolutionary party Mthwak
Strive Masiyiwa's Econet in tribalism storm
Econet Wireless a Telecommunications giant owned by Dr Strive Masiyiwa has court tribalism storm after advertising an all-Shona arts line-up for an event to be held on Saturday at Bulawayo's City Hall...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 09:11hrs | 7869 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Thousands bid national hero Dabengwa farewell
THOUSANDS yesterday thronged White City Stadium to pay their last respects to national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa as speakers from a cross section of society testified to his impeccable liberation war cr...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dilemma over Dabengwa
TO go or not to go? That is the question. And damned if he does; damned if he does not.This is the dilemma President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces tomorrow over whether or not to attend the burial ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:22hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stance on Dabengwa correct
The corruption riddled ZANU PF party MPs whose clueless Government has impoverished and pauperised the entire nation were after all correct in their childish pettiness. A cabal that has driven million...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:38hrs | 5182 | by Nkosenhle
Zanu-PF MPs' Dabengwa rebuff ignites anger
OPPOSITION political parties, war veterans and civic society organisations yesterday rapped Zanu-PF legislators for refusing to observe a minute of silence in honour of the late Zipra intelligence sup...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1913 | by Staff reporter
Join Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Day on 29th June 2019
Join Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Day on 29th June 2019Location: St Martin's Church Centre, 33 Parkstone Road, Desford, LE9 9HY, Leicestershire, United KingdomTime: 12:00...Published: 27 May 2019 at 14:36hrs | 1121 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Christianity knows no regionalism and no tribalism
We have those of great Faith, Christians at heart, deeds and way of speaking. Not a single word of rebuke, insult or hate comes from their tongues and their dressing bears testimony of the few elect. ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 18:32hrs | 391 | by Thomas Murisa.
MDC Congress: A case for tribal balance
The structure of any serious political party must reflect the national demographics existing in that particular country at any given time to avoid rendering it lifeless and morbid. Gender,...Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:16hrs | 6726 | by Jimmy Jombo Charowa
Dilemma of political emotions vs the Unity Accord of 1987
The Unity Accord of 1987 remains one of the best thing ever to have happened in Zimbabwe. I recall the day as if it was yesterday and I happened to have been one of the multitudes of people present at...Published: 24 May 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1204 | by D. Kamamba.
Chamisa buckles under Bulawayo pressure
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has reportedly buckled to pressure from disgruntled Bulawayo members and agreed to reconvene the provincial congress to elect the structure's leadership. ...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1381 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3823 | by PUMA
Mnangagwa must heed voices from South Africa
There are press reports that the South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe,Mr. Mbete,said that Mnangagwa must have an External Credible Dialogue Facilitator.Elsewhere, a senior ANC member Fikile Mbalula is...Published: 21 May 2019 at 10:34hrs | 8667 | by Mkhululi Zulu
ANC (South Africa) and Gukurahundi
Amhlophe to the African National Congress for resoundingly winning another term under President Cyril Ramaphosa. There is an obligation for South Africa to avoid the tribal and racist path of ot...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:47hrs | 1574 | by Sihle Ndlovu
The birth of tribal domination in Zimbabwean politics
On 8 November 1978, at the age of 61 years Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, formed the United National Federal Party (UNFP), as a break away from the Zimbabwe United Peoples Organization (ZUPO), a political par...Published: 17 May 2019 at 20:42hrs | 4519 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
More pressure for Chamisa in Bulawayo
Embattled MDC Nelson Chamisa is facing more and more headwinds as disgruntled party members here have vowed to put pressure on him to dissolve the current provincial executive or face a revolt in the ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:24hrs | 4781 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets hostile reception in Bulawayo
DISGRUNTLED MDC Alliance officials in Bulawayo yesterday gave their leader Mr Nelson Chamisa a hostile reception to the city by painting graffiti at the party's provincial offices denigrating him for ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:40hrs | 3307 | by Staff reporter
Even if it meant forming a New Party Name, Chamisa would still win Election by 90%.
Chamisa is a few years younger than me. My probability of becoming a Universally recognised Zimbabwean Opposition leader was much greater than Chamisa's but Chamisa walked the steps of a Hero which I ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 19:59hrs | 5310 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mnangagwa claims to have solutions to shortages
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government has solutions to the biting fuel and foreign currency shortages threatening to bring the economy into recession.Mnangagwa - speaking at the bur...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:03hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls on Zimbabwe to desist from dividing country
President Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabwe to desist from practices and attitudes that divide the country. The Head of State and Government said dialogue was a central plank in the Second Republic. ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:55hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Let's dream, think Zimbabwe'
Address by His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, E.D. Mnangagwa, at the burial of the late Mishack Ntundu Velaphi, National Heroes' Acre, May 9, 2019 ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:46hrs | 558 | by ED Mnangagwa
Prolific VP Trio to see MDC score freely in 2023 and beyond!
It is imperative and inescapable for any objective coach to field the best team for the match regardless of affection or disaffection thereof, for individual players at his or her disposal. In that re...Published: 06 May 2019 at 19:29hrs | 1919 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Commemorative Day 2019, UK
Each year the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), in partnership with stakeholders, will be organising and encouraging the organising of Matebeleland Gukurahu...Published: 04 May 2019 at 22:42hrs | 422 | by 1893 MHRRM
New dispensation turns into a nightmare
What is supposed to be a new dispensation has turned into a nightmare in our society. We were promised a better future which has turned bleak.If only we knew that they are the ones who would l...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 10:13hrs | 1087 | by Silobela Community member
1893 MHRRM Launches Genocide Memorial Day Commemorative Events in the UK and South Africa
Each year the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), in partnership with stakeholders will be organising and encouraging the organising of Matebelela...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:57hrs | 283 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
New dispensation turned into nightmare
Dear Editor, What is supposed to be a new dispensation has turned into a nightmare in our society.We were promised a better future, which has turned bleak. If only we knew that they ar...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:54hrs | 333 | by Voice from Silobela
MDC seeks to close ranks in Bulawayo
THE BULAWAYO MDC provincial leadership is mobilising members to close ranks and focus on rebuilding the party's structures following last week's divisive congress.Divisions rocked the oppositi...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:14hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa plays tribal politics in Bulawayo'
MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has been accused of playing tribal politics in Bulawayo to shut out perceived enemies and ensure his cronies win provincial congress elections held in the city...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 06:56hrs | 7352 | by Methusi Ncube
ZAPU's independence day message
As Zimbabweans remember the end of colonialism and the advent of independent rule on 18 April 1980, it is saddening to note that what every citizen celebrated as a new chapter has in actual fact been ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 2155 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Charamba's obsession of arrogance
President Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba who has dedicated his life to justify all evils perpetrated by Zanu-PF over the decades displayed once more his arrogance as he gave Zanu-PF's positi...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:16hrs | 1911 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Reduced political power is a veiled attack on Mthwakazi
The reduction of political power through among other things, the unelected VP slots and the imposition of candidates from outside the region is a veiled attack on Mthwakazi and smacks of muzzled democ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 07:56hrs | 618 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zimbabwe's multiple VPs, tribalism and elusive democracy
The generality of Zimbabwe's political parties are strangely filled with multiple posts for vice presidents. At face value this could allude to deep-seated democratic orientation. Conversely, the conc...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | 1442 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Godmother Queen Wezhira defiantly sits bare on Mthwakazi
In our culture, when the legendary flowery Eve sits bare and exhibits her rhino horn, the descendants of Adam have to look aside and scurry for cover! Conversely, this time it should be a different ba...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | 2127 | by Muntukaziwa
Meet Joshua Nkomo's white soldier
One of the unsung heroes of the war of liberation Jeremy Brickhill celebrates his birthday today (Tuesday). Jeremy Brickhill is one of the white people who served in Zimbabwe's liberation war as...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:53hrs | 5109 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pick n Pay and Zanu-PF in same WhatsApp Group
Yesterday afternoon I received information to the effect that Pick N Pay Victoria Falls will be opening it's doors for business today at the New shopping Mall and we knew that the company had already ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 19:34hrs | 1896 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Gukurahundi symptom of nation formation, says Mohadi
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has claimed that the killing of over 20,000 minority Ndebele people during the Gukurahundi genocide in the 1980s was in keeping with how nations are formed.Mohadi, ...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:44hrs | 4064 | by ZimLive
Zanu-PF members urged to show loyalty to party
ZANU-PF members in Bulawayo's Ward 28 have been urged to show their commitment and loyalty to the party by voting for the party's candidate, Kidwell Mujuru, in the council by-election set for March 30...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:49hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is for us all
I find it unfair for people like Ezra Tshisa Sibanda to say that the government is trying to get rid of Ndebele by employing teachers with Shona surnames to teach in Matebeleland and other Ndebele dom...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 18:29hrs | 2444 | by Shumba Happison
Mnangagwa Vs The Ndebeles (Mthwakazi)
One of the most iconic figure of the 20th century and Mozambique's first black democratic president CDE Sambora Machel once said "Tribalism is like cancer to the society". In many African countries tr...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 13:59hrs | 2927 | by Nkosana Malinga
War vets urged to embrace Zanu-PF restructuring
WAR veterans have been urged to embrace the Zanu-PF restructuring exercise by positioning themselves for leadership roles in the party structures. Addressing war veterans at Stanley Square in ...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:22hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi probe useless
NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is not capable of addressing the Gukurahundi question, Mthawakazi Republic Party (MRP) has said.In a statement, MRP president Mqondisi Moyo ...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:46hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
'You will never rule Zimbabwe,' Mnangagwa once told Kembo Mohadi
When VP Kembo Mohadi presidential ambitions cropped up at a Zanu-PF rally in Mvuma on 10 Feb 2018, Mnangagwa dismissed it with a joke that was not a joke. He told VP Mohadi that in order to be...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:01hrs | 9037 | by Israel Dube
Ndebele communal farmers evicted to pave way for shonas in Filabusi
Threats by the government to evict communal farmers in Filabusi, Matabeleland South, to allegedly pave way for those from outside the province are stoking fears of tribal clashes in the area, analysts...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:07hrs | 7198 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi calls for unity
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has urged Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Province that has been rocked by divisions since the election period to close ranks and focus on rebuilding the party ahead of the 2023...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:44hrs | 2781 | by Staff reporter
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