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Let us restore our identity
Family bondage is crucial to our lives and contributes to the development of a solid and tranquil community. We Africans have abandoned certain customs and behaviours because we don't realise how effe...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 22:30hrs | 129 | by Leonard Koni
Pathisa Nyathi's final journey: Exploring African science and witchcraft
In a chilly July mid-morning last year, Pathisa Nyathi, a renowned African cultural historian and prolific author, walked into the Sunday News newsroom, carrying with him three new books. These works ...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:49hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Africa is full of contradictions; Qwabe twins are still VIRGINS at 26 years!
Seeing their photo on Bulawayo24 today, I wonder what is cultural, and traditional about these twins? This photo shoot looks like big German barbies on sale. There is nothing that tells me that these ...Published: 21 Sep 2024 at 11:01hrs | 2972 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bad parenting fuels juvenile delinquency
WHAT happened to good parenting?Many people are curious about this issue in the wake of incidents where young people are found in violation of the law.Recently, minors, some as young a...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:35hrs | 16 | by Veronica Gwaze
Mnangagwa visits Gokwe South
First lady Amai Auxilia Mnangagwa visited Gokwe South district at Chief Njelele's homestead for Gota-Nhanga programme today.Speaking during the programme she said she is very much concerned by...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 18:35hrs | 3 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe diaspora children suffer from identity crisis
If you're experiencing an identity crisis, you may be questioning your sense of identity. This often occurs due to big changes or stressors in life, or due to factors such as age or advancement from a...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:14hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
National teenage pregnancy rate worrisome
ZIMBABWE records 70 000 illegal or unsafe abortions per year and one in every five girls drops out of school due to unwanted pregnancies. Statistics also indicate that the national teenage pregnancy r...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'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
Retrace your roots and be Africans
Most of our 'rich' cultural practices and traits have fallen victim to westernisation and modernisation. Parents and community elders have lost voice and can only watch in disbelief and dismay...Published: 19 May 2019 at 17:29hrs | 3 | by Thomas Murisa
Individuals don't live to be a hundred years old; tribes do.
In Mhandambabwe, Chivi area, the community is paramount. I drive my perspective from the community, not from me to the community; that to me is a western culture. Tribal survival and prosperity are al...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 19:50hrs | 2 | by Sam Wezhira
I was left with an egg on my face! Tafi Mhaka 'stop it'
Just the title "Donald Trump is the black and ugly man" sent my blood pressure so high; in a split second, I had a 5000-word essay in my mind to tell Tafi off. Before reading his article I was in the ...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 17:36hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Hippocratic Oath versus currency that pays the bills
ACCORDING to online journals, the Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physi...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Limukani Ncube
Boy (11) write, pass O-Level Maths
Troy Robert Chinyanga aged 11, a form 1 student at Goromonzi High School launched himself into the hall of fame by becoming the first ever Zimbabwean student to write and pass Cambridge O-Level Maths ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The white supremacy will live forever
To be black skinned today in this world is to be stigmatized and perceived less and to be white while light-skinned on the other hand, is to be celebrated in with western beauty standards: says Ronald...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 12:41hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwean artists' participation in politics
The 'Arts' sector has for years complained that the government and politicians are not respecting them by not listening to their demands. Since 1980 the Zanu PF government has never appointed a cabine...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Silvanos Mudzvova
Robert Mugabe: Africa's finest son
Battles are won by men and women of physical, mental and moral mettle. They are fought in the trenches and the mind. The battles of the trenches are easier because the enemy is easily identifiable....Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Bernard Bwoni
Cohabiting affairs on the rise
It is women's month and most women are in celebratory mood.Some are single, some are in relationships, some are engaged, some are married and others are cohabiting with their partners....Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Vongai Mbara
Big Brother Africa: The Gospel of Immorality
I stand to be criticized. This is my opinion, you may not see it the way i do. I won't longer bury my chin in my palm as the entertainment industry keeps promoting sexual pervasion, promiscuity and mo...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 15:22hrs | | by Olalekan Olatunbosun O
What Stuff and Nonsense! Trump is a white supremacist: loathes homosexuality equally as African race!
Dear Herbert Marufu I beg to differ with your article of today's Bulawayo24.com the ...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 21:02hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Extract from 'The San Voices In Zimbabwe'
Her name was Motshwa Moyo and she was the driving force in San culture and language reclamation, reinvigoration and revitalization. Motshwa Moyo is now late — she died in 2013. Her death was so sudd...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 07:10hrs | 14 | by Davy Ndlovu Motshwa, the San Storyteller
Abortion is a moral dilemma! The gender and the feminist in me conflict!
Dear Tsungai, you have given us a very challenging topic indeed: Abortion in Zimbabwe is a much contested topic. At best it should never be spoken. How do I speak about this topic freely without trump...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 00:12hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
The sad story of Lobengula's children
WHEN the Rhodesian settler colonialists had destroyed the Ndebele state and killed the former King Lobengula in 1893, the British South Africa company administration made it clear that they were not g...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 19:56hrs | 520 | by Chakamwe Chakamwe
Filabusi Carnival
FILABUSI Centre will this Christmas reverberate to traditional dance, as the centre hosts a festival titled VukaGodlwayo, which seeks to celebrate Matabeleland traditional dances.Three groups,...Published: 13 Dec 2015 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Mbongeni Msimanga
Cassper Nyovest threatened by Cal_vin
Multi-award winning South African rapper, Cassper Nyovest (real name Refiloe Phoolo) who was in Harare over the weekend says he feels threatened by up-and-coming Bulawayo hip hop artiste, Cal_Vin as h...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Melissa Mpofu
Science, the African, and the Race Wars
This is written for all, particularly those under 35. Life must have a purpose, we all must seek out our purpose for society and do our best to fulfill it. The western culture, those that run it, cult...Published: 28 Mar 2015 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Bhekuzulu Khumalo
'Western aid depends on acceptance of homosexuality'
President Robert Mugabe says Western aid depends on acceptance of homosexuality.Mugabe, 90, said China allowed the African personality to thrive while the West wanted him to endorse Western cu...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 11:59hrs | | by Peta Thornycroft
Ndebele language under threat
The Ndebele language is under threat and risks becoming extinct amid concerns by its custodians that most teachers of the language in the country's primary schools do not speak it as their first ...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 21:01hrs | 1 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Africa should strongly support Uganda's stance on homosexuality
When God created a man, he later realised that he also needed to create a woman so that she becomes a man`s comforter, hence, the two would become a husband and a wife. God did not create a man t...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 09:27hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Bulawayo fast running out of burial space
THE Bulawayo City Council is mulling plans to offer cremation free of charge to make it more acceptable to residents, as the city is fast running out of burial space.The local authority is fac...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 14:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC mulls plans to offer cremation free
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is mulling plans to offer cremation free of charge to make it more acceptable to residents, as the city is fast running out of burial space.The local authority ...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 01:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Priest writes book on Kalanga, Ndebele burial rituals
FATHER Innocent Makawule Ndlovu, a priest with the Roman Catholic Church has written a book that addresses succinct issues concerning death and burial rites among the Kalanga and their Ndebele counter...Published: 05 Dec 2013 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Dangers of Refusing to allow Culture to evolve
These past two weeks the main underlying topic around Black issues in North America has been Culture and perspective. Whilst the United States had the Trayvon Martin issue, Toronto was commemo...Published: 20 Jul 2013 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Tsungai Chipato
The secret war raging on amongst the Zimbabwe - diaspora
Currently within Toronto a debate is being discussed on whether sex-education needs to be overhauled to include homosexuality, and transgender updates in the curriculum; whilst also introducing ...Published: 05 Jun 2013 at 16:27hrs | | by Tsungai Chipato
ZAPU To hold massive Africa Day Celebrations in the UK
At a ZAPU PEC meeting held in Leicester on 2 March 2013, the Arts and Culture department represented by its Secretary Ms Nokutula Ncube proposed that ZAPU holds a cultural event to mark/commemorat...Published: 25 Mar 2013 at 16:53hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
SA president's views shock SACC
SA PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma's comments that Christianity brought orphans and old-age homes to South Africa have come as a shock, the SA Council of Churches said on Wednesday, the Sowetan reported....Published: 22 Dec 2011 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beware of 'virtual colonialism'
In the days after the Presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Western media peddled propaganda for their broad international audiences, posturing as the only credible sources of ne...Published: 25 Sep 2011 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Johnson Ali Mikuku
Zim must move from nationalised education curriculum to a localised one
Exploring the path of mandatory learning and teaching of Mathematics, Science and History, with key stakeholdersIn a further pursuit and response to t...Published: 19 Jul 2011 at 11:09hrs | 13 | by Akim Zwelibanzi
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