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Perence Shiri gives ZPRA property to ZANU PF
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement Hon. Air Chief Marshal P. Shiri (Rtd) has instructed ARDA's Acting Chairman J. Makado to transfer Nijo Estate comprising eight (8) propert...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3615 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt blames Gukurahundi victims documentation delays on Covid-19
The documentation of victims of Gukurahundi has been affected by the current lockdown measures implemented to stop the spread of Covid-19, home Affairs and Cultural heritage minister Kazembe Kazembe h...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 19:01hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
'Nkomo joined Zanu-PF to stop Mugabe's killings'
THE late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo and his lieutenants only joined the Zanu-PF government to stop the Gukurahundi massacres that were being perpetrated by then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.T...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:04hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
So much lies and distortions in Zimbabwean history - the true story needs to finally be told
When renowned pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey famously said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots", he had a very valid point, as indeed,...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1827 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Joshua Nkomo's reason for joining ZANU PF revealed
As we commemorate the death of General Josh, let's get one thing clear Joshua Nkomo and ZAPU did not in 1987 join Zanu PF because it was a good party with good intentions and policies. They jo...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:12hrs | 4466 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Joshua Nkomo: A dream deferred but still attainable
Joshua Nkomo, perhaps like many great men and women before him saw a dream for Zimbabwe, one that would have seen the country cross over from colonialism to the proverbial Jordan. Born in 1917 he dedi...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 18:06hrs | 894 | by Lt Col JZ Dlamini
Ndabaningi Sithole Foundation salutes Joshua Nkomo
Founding ZANU President Ndabaningi Sithole's foundation has issued a statement remembering the death of the late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo.In a statement released on Wednesday, the Foundati...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 13:29hrs | 1314 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZAPU leader throws veiled attack on The Patriotic Front
ZAPU Spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa has thrown a veiled attack on the newly formed opposition party The Patriotic Front accusing it trying to bring back Rhodesian colonisers. party is led by t...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 05:35hrs | 1775 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe constitution amendment (bill no. 2) - 2019
Written submission in accordance with section 328 amendment of constitution ZAPU notes with grave concern about the implications of the proposed r...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 878 | by Sakhile Sibanda
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2745 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Dr Nkomo: The triumph and paradox of the liberation agenda
Early career timing and ideological wiringTHE nationalist anti-colonial movement in modern Zimbabwe directly intertwines the ideological efforts and political charisma of the late Vice-Preside...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 166 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Rhodies wanted Gagisa for a war trophy
I first met Stanley Nleya (Elish Gagisa), who died in Bulawayo on 16 June and was buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Wednesday last week, at Morogoro in Tanzania in 1969.I had tra...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 318 | by Retired Brig-Gen Mazinyane
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 153 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chamisa's party burns, Zanu-PF rejoices
NELSON Chamisa has everything to gain by embracing the growing calls for unity talks between him and interim MDC leader Thokozani Khupe - and everything to lose by spurning the mooted dialogue, analys...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:17hrs | 2999 | by Staff reporter
Country sold to Chinese by Zanu-PF
Recent reports of Zimbabwean nationals who were shot by a Chinese employer over a wages dispute and also the emergence of evidence the Chinese nationals are now forming part of the country's sec...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:20hrs | 1025 | by Iphithule Maphosa
How General Philip Valerio Sibanda survived assasination attack
Commander Zimbabwe Defense Forces General Philip Valerio Sibanda has relieved how he survived the assassination attack by the Rhodesian settler regime at Freedom camp in Zambia. Speaking durin...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 18:31hrs | 4234 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZAPU President Isaac Mabuka speaks
Q1: Thank you Mr. Mabuka for your time. Please introduce yourself to the people. Who is Mabuka?A: I am Isaac Mabuka. I was born in 1953 on 26 April in Gwanda South. I did my primary education ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 13:15hrs | 3160 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pray for Mnangagwa, minister pleads
ZimbabWe's leadership needs prayers as the country's socio-economic crisis shows no signs of abetting, a minister said yesterday.The country is undergoing its worst crisis in years characteris...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 9117 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bosso junior speaks on his military training
WE continue our interview with Clarence Tshuma aka Shungu Moyo, one of the several Highlanders junior players who left the country in 1976 to join the armed struggle in Zambia.Today, Tshuma co...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:08hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Guerilla training was no picnic
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Friday conferred the national status on former Zipra deputy chief of operations Stanley Nleya pseudonym Elish Gagisa who died in Bulawayo last Tuesday.During the armed s...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:08hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU needs Shona president
Zapu is at crossroads as they seek to replace the late Dr Dumiso Dabengwa. Zapu has two big challenges on its hands. They need to rebrand big time if they are to survive until the next election and be...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:39hrs | 2245 | by Juliet Gumede
The Patriotic Front announces its national leadership
National coordinators of The Patriotic Front held a meeting Thursday evening, in which they elected members of the interim National Executive Committee, set to lead The Third Way until at least its of...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 12:12hrs | 5206 | by Mxolisi Ncube
Liberation war stalwart Nleya dies
ONE of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) stalwarts, Stanley Nleya has died. Nleya whose guerilla name was Elish Gagisa died on Tuesday at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) due to ...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents pursue independent water tests
BULAWAYO residents have engaged private laboratories to run independent tests on the city's water after five children reportedly succumbed to diarrhoea due to contaminated water being pumped to Luveve...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Arrogant negligence killing our people in MDC-A led Bulawayo Council
For the first time in so many years Bulawayo finds it's self being fed contaminated water by the city fathers, something we used to read about from other cities and have always commended the Bulawayo ...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1532 | by Brian Ncube
A nation kept hostage by Zanu-PF
(Zanu, a group of 2000 people holdimg a nation of more than 14 million people at gunpoint) The troubled people of Rhodesia lipped for joy in 1980...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1222 | by Mnu. Ngazimbi
Coup talk mirrors a crisis
It seems that, in Zimbabwe, coup talk is one thing that won't go away. And there is always a story behind the buzz.Come to think about it. Even during Ian Smith's Rhodesia, there was such a bu...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:11hrs | 794 | by Tawanda Majoni
For how long can Mnangagwa cling on to power?
It honestly did not have to come to this. Having suffered under Robert Mugabe's cruel pharaonic rule for the biblical 40 years, Zimbabweans desperately deserved a rescue. This explained their euphoria...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1182 | by Siphosami Malunga
MDC is a failed project for Matebeleland people, its time to move on
The Movement for Democratic Change "MDC was largely embraced by majority of Matabeleland people at it's formation in 1999 as an alternative to the tribalistic ZANU PF party which they never supp...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:48hrs | 463 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
1976: The year Bosso lost its entire junior squad to the armed struggle
HIGHLANDERS Football Club has over the years been viewed as more than a soccer outfit, in the process earning itself countless monikers such as Ithimu Yezwe Lonke, Ezikamagebhula and Bosso just to nam...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:45hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Dr Nic Ndebele: An epitome of sacrifice, love and care.
Exactly one year today since the departure of one finest medical practitioner in Bulawayo, Dr Nikela Nicholas Ndebele, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and indeed the medical fraternity feel and suffer the huge vac...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1171 | by Iphithule Maphosa
In memory of Dumiso Dabengwa the legendary supremo
ON May 23 2019, exactly a year ago, Zimbabwe laid to rest one of Africa's illustrious freedom fighters and pseudo Black Russian. His nationality is Zimbabwean but they called him the Black Russian bec...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 499 | by Baster Willie Magwizi
Covid-19 lockdown delays Dabengwa replacement
CURRENT uncertainties regarding the country's lockdown period have forced Zapu to postpone its August congress, in what would have seen the opposition party replace its late leader Dumiso Dabengwa....Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:34hrs | 190 | by newzimbabwe
Khupe, Mwonzora invited to Friday's mass protest
Shadowy organization Chapter 2 Movement has invited MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora, and Morgan Komichi to participate on a mass protest to be held on Friday. The organization ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 15:00hrs | 6774 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'You have pinned my neck down. I can't breathe!': The spine-chilling cry of Matabeleland
The sad narrative of underdevelopment in the generality of Matabeleland is a horrendous and unattractive delineation of the unceasing marginalisation of the region since the primitive and callous deth...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 723 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zipra veterans claim continued marginalisation
THE ZIPRA Veterans Trust has reiterated its call for the formation of a National Transitional Authority (NTA), warning, the current political and economic situation in the country was a national secur...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:38hrs | 323 | by newzimbabwe
Tribalist Chamisa shuts the door on Ndebeles again
It is him again. Nelson Chamisa, the troubled leader of the so called MDC Alliance. Right at the time when his decision to fire Thokozani Khupe has come back to haunt the MDC Alliance, he has done it ...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 19:49hrs | 7681 | by Israel Dube
Dabengwa role in Kangai's arrest revealed
LATE former president Robert Mugabe allegedly protested against the arrest of former Agriculture minister Kumbirai Kangai as he pleaded with then Home Affairs minister Dumiso Dabengwa to order his rel...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:59hrs | 2449 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa: Remembering a hero
AT exactly 10:55am on May 23, 2019, a colleague, Gerald Mpofu, sent a message through a WhatsApp group, Real Politics, informing us of the passing-on of a liberation struggle stalwart, Dumiso Dabengwa...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:51hrs | 255 | by Edwin Ndlovu
Zanu-PF must give way to an NTA, says ZAPU
The Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government must admit it has failed to run the country and must give way to a National Transitional Authority (NTA) to help revive the country's socio-economic situation tha...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 18:58hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt neglects liberation war pioneer
GOVERNMENT is yet to honour a promise to assist ailing Zipra combatant Moffat Hadebe, an 83-year-old veteran and pioneer of the liberation struggle.Hadebe, who is reported to have fired the fi...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:33hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown provides Mamgagwa a perfect cover for sinister motives
MORE than two weeks ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced an indefinite extension to the lockdown period, which I found quite incredible and to this day I do not get the justification for it....Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:32hrs | 405 | by Nqaba Matshazi
ZPRA's Jeremy Brickhill narrates untold stories about Dabengwa
I have chosen to commemorate the life of Comrade Dumiso Dabengwa on the first anniversary of his passing by sharing some recollections of my own involving his less well known role in preserving the le...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2782 | by Jeremy Brickhill
Chamisa appoints 0 from Matebeleland?
Nelson Chamisa, leader of the opposition MDC Alliance has made several appointments this Thursday with Dr Felix Magalela Mafa-Sibanda as the only notable person with questionable Matebeleland roo...Published: 28 May 2020 at 20:54hrs | 9512 | by Staff reporter
'Neo imperialists continue looting our continent'
It's been 57 years since the formation of the Organization of African Union which is now termed the African Union.Although strides have been made by the Union in addressing issues such as inde...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:11hrs | 177 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Not yet Uhuru for Africa: Africa Day message from ZAPU
Africa Day has come and gone on May 25 2020, just like any of the previous years. A day that was set aside by mother Africa herself for commemorations, recognition and appreciation of our African iden...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:41hrs | 477 | by Iphithule Thembani kaMaphosa
'Report border jumpers to fight Covid-19'
BULAWAYO residents should report to authorities anyone who entered the country illegally from neighbouring countries so that they are taken to isolation centres to prevent the spread of Covid-19. ...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:39hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa died a bitter man
OPPOSITION ZAPU Sunday commemorated the 1st anniversary of the death of its leader, Dumiso Dabengwa with party incumbent Isaac Mabuka saying the late politician died a bitter man after his ambitions o...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 612 | by newzimbabwe
Zipra cadres celebrate Dabengwa's life
EX-Zipra cadres have paid tribute to former Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa (pictured) as the country marked the first anniversary of his death.Dabengwa died on May 23 in Kenya on his way back hom...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:01hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Laduma ladlula: lakhothama iqhawe lezwe.
Ibandla elidala le ZAPU lisungule inhlelo ezizathatha iviki eyodwa egcweleyo likhumbula owaye ngu Mongameli walo umuyi u Dr Dumiso Dabengwa owayesaziwa ngegama elithi"The Black Russian''loba ''DD'...Published: 23 May 2020 at 14:42hrs | 946 | by ZAPU
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