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Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
CCC will thwart all Zanu PF mischief - exactly what Muzorewa said to justify Smith's Zimbabwe - Rhodesia
On 25 August 2023 SADC and AU Election Observer Missions declared the Zimbabwe elections flawed and illegal. The damning report had no effect on Zanu PF and the opposition winning candidates who all t...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 13:03hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Thomas Mapfumo retires in exile
OF all my records by Zimbabwean musicians, the one I treasure the most is Thomas Mapfumo's crackly 7-inch single with "Kuyaura" on side A and "Zvanyadza" on the flip side.Released in 1979, tow...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 18 | by Percy Zvomuya
Muzorewa says 'vote 'sanctions-cursed' Zanu-PF out'
Presidential aspirant and United African National Council (UANC) leader Reverend Gwinyai Muzorewa says Zimbabweans should vote Zanu-PF out of power if they hope to put a stop to the western sanctions ...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa thrives on being an 'arsonist fireman'
So, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa wants to be celebrated for finally awarding Zanu founding leader Ndabaningi Sithole national hero status.Why would the same people who ostracised, vil...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mutambara scoffs at Sithole hero gesture
Former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has dismissed the move by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to officially confer national hero status on Zanu founder Ndabaningi Sithole as a ‘fradulent char...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa poses major threat to Mnangagwa, but....
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has emerged as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's most formidable challenger for the presidency when the country goes to the polls in the next few...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and co are hell ben on participating in flawed 2023 elections out of greed - pure and simple
Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends are hell bent on participating in these 2023 elections just as they have done in 2013 and 2018. They are after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is giving away as ba...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:25hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Could Smith's plan for independence have led to a better Zimbabwe?
Today is 11 November - a day marked in this country’s history as when then Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, in a daring move, stubbornly cut off ties with the colonial British Crown - by unilateral...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 14:46hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chipinge celebrates Sithole's hero status
THE journey for the man regarded as militant by the settler regime began on July 21,1920 in Nyamandlovu in colonial Rhodesia, a product of a Ndau father and a Ndebele mother. His entry into poli...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC not taking threats against Chamisa lightly
Zanu-PF has been described as a "criminal gang" after a ruling party member threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his family with death.The police were evasive yesterday when contact...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 379 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Change your name!: Zanu-PF's new trump card against Chamisa
IN a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed 26 March 2022 as the date for long overdue by-elections. This should fill in vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:12hrs | 1 | by Reginald Murendo
Mnangagwa's trap for Chamisa
In a surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa proclaimed March 26, 2022, as the date for long overdue by-elections. This is to fill vacancies created through the controversial recalls of elected of...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:25hrs | 8 | by Reginald Murendo
Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts
January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Fro...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
WATCH: 'I am proud of Muzorewa' Douglas Mwonzora says
Opposition MDC-T leader Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora has praised the late former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa as being the best nationalist Zimbabwe has ever had. ...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 08:21hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
History will absolve Mwonzora
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora (DM) has often been described as a sellout and likened to Rhodesia-Zimbabwe quisling Bishop Abel Muzorewa.Mwonzora, nicknamed "Mwonzorewa" by critics who are d...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:15hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Was Mwonzora part of the plot all along?
CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment No 2 Bill, which seeks to abolish the clause on running mates among 26 others which are enshrined in the Constitutional Amendment (No 20) Act adopted after a referendum in 201...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Unmasking sanctions promoters
Many had hoped that the coming of a new administration led by President Donald Trump in America was going to usher in a fresh foreign policy trajectory. This deduction was wrong. Let me ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe: A timeline of an almost failed state
I. Stone Age; hunter-gatherer San (Twa) presence (20,000–15,000 BC) of modern homo sapiens.II. Iron Age; Niger-Congo Bantu pastoral migrations (2000–1500 BC).III. Ophir; alleged "p...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Sonny Jermain
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 | 20 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa's dialogue initiatives aren’t genuine, says Muzorewa
Since its formation in the late 1970s, the United African National Council (UANC) led by then Zimbabwe-Rhodesia leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa disappeared, only to resurface in 2018 under the leadership ...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Russia double-crossed ZIPRA with ZANLA?
Regarding a joint Zimbabwe-Rhodesian and South African military strike in Mozambique against ZANLA / FRELIMO in September 1979 (Operation URIC - ZRSF / Operation Bootlace - SADF), queries have been as...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 16:57hrs | 12 | by John Frame
The case for the compensations of former white farmers
Last week Government announced the commencement of the process of identifying and registering the former white farmers, who lost land during the land reform programme, in an exercise which is being co...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Thanks to modern day Muzorewas giving credibility to illegitimate Mnangagwa - Zanu-PF ichatonga! Igotonga!
History has the habit to repeat itself! In the 1970s Ian Smith came up with a plan to silence his political opponents accusing him of heading a white racist regime. He arranged to have a few b...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 09:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's coup: Net gain or no gain?
The scene in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 November 2017 was extraordinary.Thousands walked through the streets, cheering, waving Zimbabwean flags, greeting soldiers as heroes, and taking s...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 14 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
'White interface' rally triggers storm
Picture this: When President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses rallies in most parts of Zimbabwe, there are dozens of security personnel around him armed with guns.His supporters spend long hours, ...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:09hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
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: 03 Jul 2018 at 13:05hrs | 4 | by Taurai Njabulo Chirandu Njekete
ZANU PF has forgotten that it was once an Opposition Party: Magaisa
Constitutional law expert and University of Kent law professor Alex Magaisa has alluded that the ruling Zanu-PF seems to have forgotten what life was like when it was the opposition party calling for ...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 16:14hrs | | by A Mhlongo
Muzorewa sues Zec over rejected nomination papers
OPPOSITION United African National Council president Gwinyai Henry Muzorewa has petitioned the High Court, seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to accept his nomination p...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has a highly technical rigging plan'
OPPOSITION reaction to Wednesday's announcement of the election date was mixed with some parties saying they were ready to send President Emmerson Mnangagwa packing while others demanded progress on e...Published: 31 May 2018 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Muzorewa to appoint opposition to Cabinet
THE late former Zimbabwe-Rhodesia leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa's younger brother Gwinyai has sensationally claimed that if elected into power in the upcoming harmonised elections, he will appoint Cabin...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The British could be wrong on Zimbabwe once again
In early 2017, a colleague, Everson Mushava, stumbled upon a story about British involvement in Zanu-PF factionalism and that the United Kingdom had a dog in the fight.At the centre of it all ...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Fight erupts over Zimbabwe Airways plane
TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo this week summoned senior Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) officials to his offices after the airline refused to accommodate the recently purchased Zimbabwe Airways (ZimAirways) Bo...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Muzorewa's party bounces back, targets 29 Parly seats
THE late former Zimbabwe-Rhodesia leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa's younger brother, Gwinyai says he only needs two months to campaign for the presidency in this year's general elections, where his party ...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under pressure over poll reforms
Opposition United African National Council (UANC) leader Nesbert Mtengezanwa has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to make major reforms to allow for a fair vote.Mtengezanwa's UANC was f...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Muzorewa throws his hat into presidential ring
GWINYAI Muzorewa, the late Bishop Abel Muzorewa's young brother, is seeking to contest this year's presidential elections under the revived United African National Council (UANC).The older Muz...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T robbed of its main subject of critique and model for antithesis
ROBERT Mugabe's resignation as President of Zimbabwe on 21 November 2017 signaled the end of more than just his own era in politics. It cast a grave shadow and ominous portent for the viability of opp...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by David T Hofisi
Muzorewa attacks 'frail' Tsvangirai for clinging onto power
Forgotten Bishop Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council (UANC) has teared into the leader of the largest opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai for cli...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 15:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muzorewa's son becomes UANC presidential candidate
THE United African National Congress (UANC) recently held its congress and elected Gwinyai Muzorewa as party president and its candidate for the presidential poll set for next year.Gwinyai, so...Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 12:55hrs | | by newsday
Gender mainstreaming for socio-economic development key - Mphoko
Vice President Hon Phelekezela Mphoko has officially opened the Local Government Investment Conference today. This will Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe second three-day Local Government Investm...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 12:03hrs | 3 | by Maxwell Teedzai - The Norton Post
1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement condemns harassment of Mzilikazi II by govt
The 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement condemns any form of threats and harassment directed at Mzilikazi II, Stanley Raphael Khumalo by the Government of Zimbabwe (Mashonaland) through its Gukurahund...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 16:23hrs | | by Thembani Dube, Secretary for Information and Publicity, 1893 MRM
Notice of demand for the restoration of Matebeleland State
Under the direction and authority of Matebeleland Liberation Organisation Supreme Council, The President of M.L.O. Paul Siwela served the British government under the leadership of David Cameron and Z...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 10:50hrs | 13 | by Paul Siwela
Notice of Demand for The Restoration of Matebeleland State
Under the direction and authority of Matebeleland Liberation Organisation Supreme Council, The President of M.L.O. Paul Siwela served the British government under the leadership of David Cameron and Z...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 15:17hrs | 3 | by Paul Siwela
There is no 'secessionist' Mthwakazi, only a 'restorationist' one!
There are no 'secessionist' political organization or political parties in Mthwakazi.There are only 'RESTORATIONIST' political organizations and political parties of Mthwakazi.Those political ...Published: 29 Dec 2016 at 18:05hrs | 2 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
A Mthwakazi Zimbabwean President is most dangerous for uMtwakazi's restorationist!
First, there are two misconceptions that need to cleared and gotten out of the way early, now that the cauasable-ness of uMthwakazi's restorationist agenda has taken shape and gained wide acceptance w...Published: 18 Dec 2016 at 16:41hrs | 2 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Rename Zimbabwe - need for rebranding !
Preparing for the end of Mugabe and ZanuPF As the end of Mugabe's grip on power is inching disastrously to an end, Zimbabweans need to start thinking...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 17:06hrs | 2 | by Sipho Phani Sibanda
Tajamuka - Please drop the word 'Ses'jikile' from your name!
If the siNdebele word 'ses'jikile' in Tajamuka's name is intended to wow and woo uMthwakazi into your 'movement', then as Tajamuka you could not have done a shoddier job of your thoughtless and politi...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 16:43hrs | 1 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Rhodesia was more democratic than an independent Zimbabwe
Ever since Zimbabwe gained her independence from Britain in 1980, the ZANU PF government has sought to portray the new dispensation as more democratic than the colonial Rhodesia era, but a closer look...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 14:34hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
I am not going anywhere now, Cdes?
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I think you all have seen the huge crowds that have turned out in solidarity with the leadership in the recent days whenever there has been idle tal...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by CZ
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