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Growing up in Bulawayo: Chronicles of a colourful childhood
Bulawayo celebrated 125 years of existence as a city last week. That should be put out there because there are those who believe that the authorities misfired since King Lobengula established it some ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 10:26hrs | | by Lenox Lizwi Mhlanga
Veteran Freedom Fighter who escaped the Rhodesian hangman's noose
The former Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Nkayi Constituency who served between 1995 and 2000 belongs to the first group of freedom fighters that was trained in the People's Republic of China. The g...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bobby Clark speaks on Bosso
FORMER Highlanders head coach Bobby Clark was delighted to hear about Bosso's 1-0 win over TelOne on Sunday. "Highlanders still means a lot to me," he says from his home near Aberdeen, Scotland....Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Stephen Walsh
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Surviving Ian Smith's hit list
We continue chronicling the political life of Jane Ngwenya. This week Ngwenya narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati of her release from Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp and fleeing Rhodesia u...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bosso player on his war exploits in Gwanda
Joko Thodlana, whose pseudonym was Hughes Mhondoro had sets his sights into turning into a football star, playing for his dream team, Bulawayo giants, Highlanders Football Club.However, the ca...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo mentored Mugabe'
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa has claimed that President Robert Mugabe would have remained an ordinary teacher and political nonentity had he not been recruited and catapulted into the limeli...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Brilliant Mhlanga's brilliant response: A bruising encounter between a Mthwakazian and a Zimbabwean.
Mr Obert MC Makore a Zimbabwean put a number of questions to Dr Brilliant Mhlanga, a fearless Mthwakazian. The response was informative and instructive to an extent that Mr Makore ended up agreeing wi...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:45hrs | 2 | by Thulani Nkala
Nkomo's emotional farewell
It's a Saturday morning in 1999, in July, and naturally a bit chilly.A blanket of sadness, call it melancholy, has enveloped the City of Kings.Most events have been cancell...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 08:29hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
Zapu deplores partisan distribution of food aid
It has come to our notice that residents of Bulilima East, Ward 19, Zihwabeni-Springfontein area are being denied welfare food because of actual or suspected membership of or sympathising with politic...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 21:58hrs | | by BMV
Reminescing the Zhii era
One of the pioneers of the armed struggle that freed blacks in this country from colonial bondage was Clark Mpofu (CM) an ex-Zipra combatant. Sunday News Correspondent, Dumisani Sibanda (DS), ...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:14hrs | | by Clark Mpofu
History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one
If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws an...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 7 | by Nomazulu Thata
The notion of an extended GNU had many silent proponents inside Zanu-PF
A good friend recently made a cynical point about the admirably dogged way in which whites pursue their own interests.With a sore heart, I weighed in to add that this doggedness followed clari...Published: 29 Nov 2014 at 15:13hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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