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Army boss sidelined over audio
The commander of One Presiential Guard Infantry Battalion at State House, Lieutenant-Colonel Samson Murombo, was sidelined from commanding the parade at the Defence Forces Day commemorations on Tuesda...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 2243 | by Staff reporter
This Zimbabwe situation simply cannot go on
THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use tha...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1331 | by Eddie Cross
Zapu celebrates own heroes
ZAPU and ex-combatants of its Zipra military wing during the liberation struggle, celebrated the just-ended Heroes' Day by honouring their fallen and unsung heroes interred at Lady Stanley Cemetery in...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa must be remembered
It is now some weeks since Dr Dumiso Dabengwa passed on. This Office has two proposals for the people of Bulawayo to ponder over and if it's okay, implement with the approval of ZAPU and his family....Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 09:16hrs | 1465 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
Mthwakazi's State Of the Nation Address
Good evening Mthwakazi Omuhle ondlela zimhlophe.I wish to have started by acknowledging the so called Zimbabwe's hereos and defense forces day, but I am too angry to go through such kind of fo...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 21:43hrs | 1517 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
MDC demo preparations at an advanced stage
Preparations for the much awaited People's Free Zimbabwe Peaceful March remain on course and are now at an advanced stage.The people's Free Zimbabwe peaceful march will be held on Friday 16 Au...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:13hrs | 1187 | by Daniel Molokele
Zapu honours Dabengwa
Zapu will tomorrow honour late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa by converging at his Ntabazinduna homestead to commemorate Heroes Day, the party's secretary-general Strike Mnkandla has said.Daben...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:31hrs | 1017 | by Staff reporter
Battle over sacred mountain rages
The battle for the control of the sacred Ntabazinduna Mountain has been dragging on for the past 15 years, it has emerged.Outspoken Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni early this year escalated the...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:20hrs | 708 | by Staff reporer
Gukurahundi offered a subtle entry point for disempowering the USSR's ideological strength
I CONCLUDED the previous article of this series by exploring how Zapu was a victim of neo-colonial treachery which was brazenly targeting its Matabeleland and Midlands strongholds. The aim of this pol...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 400 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
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 | 113 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri, Mutsvangwa front runners to succeed Chiwenga
As Vice President Constantino Chiwenga battles for his life in Singapore, it is being reported that senior Zanu-PF officials are now engaged in a battle to succeed him.The Zimbabwe Independent...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:56hrs | 11811 | by Staff reporter
Why elections cannot help liberate uMthwakazi- MIOR
It is not mind boggling that Elections cannot liberate UMthwakazi. What is mind boggling is that at this day and time, there are some people in UMthwakazi in particular who still believe that partakin...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 425 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
Every generation has its heroes
Today I felt encouraged as well as hopeful as I watched our comrades being escorted like criminals from Khami prison. Seeing Zimbabwe prison services officers in their unusual anti riot gear carrying ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 21:42hrs | 983 | by MRP Vice-president Ms Presia Ngulube
Zuma cancels Bulawayo trip
Former South African President, Jacob Zuma's planned visit to Bulawayo did not materialise after some members of his security team reportedly failed to secure seats in the South African Airlink flight...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 19:56hrs | 6042 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga fights for life, Zanu-PF bigwigs engineering a Chamisa
INTENSE jostling for the vice-presidency has erupted among Zanu-PF heavyweights at a time Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is battling for his life at a top Chinese hospital.This comes as i...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:17hrs | 19855 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meet Zipra leaders
Zipra Veterans Association leaders recently met President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House in Harare where they discussed issues of properties confiscated by government in the 1980s, Gukurahundi and ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | 4389 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promises to return seized Zipra
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to return Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra)'s properties seized by government in the 80s. Mnangagwa made the landmark decision to return the...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2374 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Muchuwe eyes Glen View South seat
Zanu-PF candidate for Glen View South by-election Offard Muchuwe is confident of winning the seat as he has lined up empowerment projects meant to capacitate the people in the constituency. Th...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to establish alternative Zimbabwe government in exile
Zimbabwe opposition group, the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu), intends to establish a government in exile as an alternative to the current Zanu-PF-led government.Mark Mbayiwa, treasure...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 16:03hrs | 1101 | by ANA
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 | 2170 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
Zapu plots mock govt in exile
LATE national hero, Dumiso Dabengwa's party, Zapu says it is planning to set up shadow government structures in exile whose main purpose shall be to push for the formation of a national transitional a...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 922 | by newzimbabwe
Lupane East turns away from Chamisa's MDC
ZANU-PF romped to victory in the Lupane East and two wards in Bubi and Nkayi districts in Saturday's by-elections in what the party said is an affirmation of President Mnangagwa's leadership. ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
Khupe accuses Chamisa's MDC of being sponsored by Mugabe
MDC-T leader, Dr Thokozani Khupe, has accused the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa of being sponsored by former President Robert Mugabe.Khupe said this in a statement on the just Lupane by-election w...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 21:05hrs | 6525 | by Ndou Paul
Obert Mpofu wins it for Zanu-PF in Lupane
ZANU-PF supporters in Lupane have attributed their clean sweep in two local authority by-elections and a parliamentary vote held on Saturday in Matabeleland North to Obert Mpofu the party's secretary ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 20:02hrs | 8099 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF thrash Chamisa's MDC in Lupane by-election
Zanu-PF had a clean sweep in two local authority by-elections and a parliamentary vote held on Saturday in Matabeleland North.Mthandazo Dube was confirmed winner as Zanu-PF held on to the Lupa...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 19:21hrs | 2669 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's 'tribal' boards raises a stink
Civil society groups and political parties have accused the government of side-lining people from Matabeleland when appointing boards for parastatals and perpetuating the marginilisation of the region...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:25hrs | 1987 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims narrate harrowing tales
Female victims of an army clampdown in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early years of Zimbabwe's independence have been recounting harrowing tales of how they were sexually abused by Fifth ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:16hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Lupane election results call for 'MRP' self-introspection
I am seriously disappointed by the election results of the Lupane-East parliamentary by-elections. We didn't perform well.While I understand the many factors that influences our poor performan...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 13:44hrs | 1283 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Zanu-PF confident of Lupane East victory
VOTING in the Lupane East by-election ended peacefully last night with counting of votes starting immediately after polling stations closed at 7pm.Voters started trickling in when polling stat...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:17hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Republic Party at crossroads
I am seriously disappointed by the election results of the Lupane-East parliamentary by-elections. We didn't perform well.While I understand the many factors that influences our poor performan...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 589 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Muzorewa party in dual candidates storm
UNITED African National Council (UANC) president Gwinyai Muzorewa (pictured) has rubbished claims that his party fielded two candidates for the forthcoming Glen View South constituency by-election, sa...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:53hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frees up political space: Zesn
A LOCAL independent election watchdog has attributed an increase in the number of political parties eyeing Lupane East constituency, which has been widely regarded as a Zanu-PF stronghold, to an impro...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:00hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF confident of victory in Lupane East by-election
ZANU-PF National Political Commissar, Victor Matemadanda, said yesterday the revolutionary party is certain that it will retain the Lupane East seat as its opponents are without vision. The pa...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 502 | 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 | 8413 | by Discent Bajila
Of the Kambarami fiasco and Ndebele-Shona issues
It's just been a few weeks since the Deputy Mayor of the City of Bulawayo Mr. Tinashe Kambarami decided to fire the town clerk, Mr. Christopher Dube, in a move that would make Kambarami an internet se...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | 4544 | by Mandla Tshuma
Tsvangirai's son confident of victory
Vincent Tsvangirai, who won the right to represent the MDC in the Glen View South constituency by-elections, is confident of winning the by-elections on September 7 and replace his late sister, Vimbai...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2165 | by Staff reporter
9 vie for Glen View South seat
The opposition MDC faces a stern challenge to retain the Glen View South seat with nine candidates having successfully filed their nomination papers last Friday.Vincent, the son of the late MD...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:48hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa joins hands in Glen View by-election
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T party will not field a candidate in the upcoming Glen View South by-election as a sign of respect for the late opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai....Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:35hrs | 3899 | by newzimbabwe
Bulawayo: The absent citizen
He must have been a pro. We never had a glimpse of the camera-man. He stood afixed to the door and focused on the desk and the town clerk's quivering face and frothing mouth. Even watching, many faint...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:24hrs | 503 | by Zifiso Masiye
Genocide survivors want to meet Mnangagwa
GUKURAHUNDI victims in Matabeleland South's Kezi district say they want to be addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom they want to explain why the government targeted civilians in the killings...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:18hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
The Second-Republic reform axis and counter-revolutionary fad
The transitional challenges we are facing are part of the mandatory experience which we need if we are to build a lasting foundation to the new future our country deserves. The current instabi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 10:00hrs | 850 | by Richard R. Mahomva
8 to contest in Mangwe Constituency by-election
EIGHT candidates will contest the Mangwe Constituency by-election set for 7 September.The candidates successfully filed their papers to the Nomination Court which sat on Friday at the Gwanda M...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:59hrs | 1201 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi solution is to tackle poverty
GUKURAHUNDI has long been debated as a tribal issue and was presented to the younger generations and the world at large as a battle for tribal supremacy. This was until former Zapu cadre and former Mi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:57hrs | 283 | by Nicholas Ncube
Beyond elections: When the chickens come home to roost
This article could not have come at a better time than this interesting political time when Bulawayo is battling with the local governance conundrum, probably a historical first when the opposit...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:57hrs | 448 | by Michael Mhlanga
Zimbabwe army hails Russia ties
Commander Zimbabwe Defence Forces General Philip Valerio Sibanda has hailed the historic cordial relations that exist between Zimbabwe and Russia which date back to the days of the liberation struggle...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:15hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma reads Joshua Nkomo book
Former South African is reading the late Zimbabwean Vice President Joshua Nkomo's book The Story of My Life.Nkomo, one of Zimbabwe's liberation icon's first published the book in 1984 while in...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | 9987 | by Staff Reporter
ZANU PF MP's widow faces seven challengers
The widow of the late Zanu-PF Mangwe MP Obedingwa Mguni, Hlalani, faces a challenge from seven other candidates at the constituency's by election on 7 September. Mguni died at a Harare hospita...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 17:53hrs | 6843 | by Staff Reporter
Let's not gloss over wounds of the past
Obert Mpofu's latest Gukurahundi utterances in which he advocates against Emmerson Mnangagwa apologizing for the country's biggest Zanu-PF government led atrocities since attainment of black rul...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 17:12hrs | 2410 | by Blessing Chebundo
Parties camp in Lupane for by-election
SOME of the political parties whose candidates are vying for the Lupane East seat have literally camped in the constituency canvassing for votes ahead of the August 3 by elections. The s...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
'Gloomsters betting on UK democracy failing will lose their shirts' - indeed, nak*d already
"I pay tribute to the fortitude and patience of my predecessor and her deep sense of public service, but in spite of all her efforts, it has become clear that there are pessimists at home and abroad w...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | 215 | by Wilbert Mukori
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