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Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper.It is also believed that Dr Nkomo's decision to take part in Lancaster Conference was largely driven by the advice he...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 298 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Mnangagwa should stand up to war veterans
ZIMBABWE'S war veterans have demanded high government office posts and want legislators in both the National Assembly and Senate to sing the national anthem before the beginning of each parliamentary ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:41hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Why I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died!
I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died, leaving me discombobulated and severely pained. Indelible, agonizing, stabbing, chronic pain! Pain that eats into my liver, intestines and buttocks. The ...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 08:59hrs | 6850 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'Gukurahundi genocide victims' exhumations, reburials will bring closure'
THE Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe (CCJPZ) has said exhumations and reburials of Gukurahundi victims buried in mass graves in the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces is the firs...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:49hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA cadre gets farm relief
A ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) ex-combatant recently got relief from the Lands and Agriculture ministry which debunked claims by the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) that land it lea...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:09hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Ex-PF-Zapu activist's remains reburied after over 4 decades
THE remains of former-PF-Zapu political activist, John Ndebele, who died more than four decades ago, were reburied yesterday at Denver Farm on the outskirts of Bulawayo. Ndebele died in Malawi...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:04hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Cartels and own future
Former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo (JM), speaks to Spotlight Zimbabwe Editor, Itai Mushekwe (IM).Professor Jonathan Moyo, thank you for giving us your time, to attend to this your first ev...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:45hrs | 15958 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu Likazulu denied access to Bhalagwe disused mine
PRESSURE group Ibhetshu Likazulu was denied access to a Gukurahundi hot spot, Bhalagwe disused mine in Kezi, Matabeleland South, where it intended to hold a prayer meeting to commemorate youth day....Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:55hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru biography traces hero's life, suspicious death
CHOFAMBA SITHOLE - A newly-published scholarly biography of the late retired commander of the Zimbabwe National Army, General Solomon Mujuru, captures the liberation war hero's key role in shaping the...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:13hrs | 1868 | by Staff reporter
Brave Zipra Commander Rodger Matshimini remembered
The late brave Zipra Commander Rodger Mzila Ncube popularly known as Matshimini was remembered through song and dance by scores of his natives at Mzila Community under Chief Malaba amid calls for the ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:14hrs | 242 | by Ncube T
I need to see one article from Mthwakazi Parties condemning Jonathan Moyo for supporting Robert Mugabe to the bitter end!
Israel Dube does not cease to amaze me each time he writes articles on Bulawayo24 regarding the Mthwakazi nation and how they are going to liberate it. His latest article was all subtly pointing at Ma...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 16:01hrs | 1846 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Mnangagwa was not a ZPRA founder member'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not one of the founding members of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) as he recently claimed, former high ranking ZPRA and Zapu cadres have revealed.L...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 16:32hrs | 3851 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not sincere about gukurahundi genocide'
CIVIC society organisations operating under the Matabeleland Collective banner yesterday told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that people in the region did not believe he was sincere about addressing the...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:24hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa prepared to say sorry over gukurahundi genocide?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said he takes seriously the grievances of the people of Matabeleland including dialogue towards finding closure in relation to the emotive and sensitive Gukurahundi issue...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:14hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seeks Gukurahundi closure
President Mnangagwa yesterday said he takes seriously the grievances of the people of Matabeleland, including dialogue towards finding closure to the emotive and sensitive Gukurahundi issue. H...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:10hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa grilled over gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa had a torrid time Friday at the Bulawayo State House as members of the Matabeleland Civic Society demanded answers on how the government would bring closure to the Gukurah...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:09hrs | 147 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa tackles Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said he takes seriously the grievances of the people of Matabeleland including dialogue towards finding closure in relation to the emotive and sensitive Gukurahundi issue...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:43hrs | 2574 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4751 | by George Mkhwanazi
Mnangagwa frustrating Mbeki, claims Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said former South African president Thabo Mbeki's initiative to bring Zimbabwe's political protagonists to the discussion table has hit a brickwall becau...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2679 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo strips Leopold Takawira of road honour, changed to King Mzilikazi Road
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has stripped Leopold Takawira of the honour of having one of its major roads named after him, after renaming it to King Mzilikazi Road.King Mzilikazi was the fo...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 11:49hrs | 12880 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council ignore Cabinet suggestions on street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has renamed some of the city's major streets and buildings in a move the local authority says is meant to preserve the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial history ...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
War vets demand separation from collaborators
WAR veterans have demanded that government creates their own ministry separate from the war collaborators and ex-political detainees, indicating that there should be a difference between freedom fight...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1744 | by Staff reporter
Zipra, Zanla cadres demand equal seats on war vets board
ZIMBABWE's liberation war fighters have demanded that the proposed Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Board, set to take care of their welfare, should be chaired by ex-Zipra and ex-Zanla combatants o...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:09hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's daughter slams Mnangagwa's govt for lack of respect
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko's daughter, Siduduzile, has rapped the government for allegedly disrespecting and failing to honour her father despite his contribution to Zimbabwe before and ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:25hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
NRZ land wrangle blocks investors
CONTINUED resistance by resettled villagers to vacate a National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) farm in Matabeleland South has frustrated a joint agribusiness partnership between the insolvent parastatal ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:24hrs | 200 | by Staff repoirter
'Unity brought development, must celebrate Unity Day' - yeah, but is the development
Propaganda is the art of presenting what you want people to believe is the truth and the reality, repeating it over and over again, and totally disregard the facts and mountain of evidence to the cont...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 19:29hrs | 963 | by omusa Garikai
Zanu-PF calls for holding of programmes on Unity Day
ZANU-PF has called for the holding of programmes during the Unity Day holiday for the citizens especially the youth to embrace and appreciate the peace and unity prevailing in the country. ...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 04:56hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri, Kazembe Kazembe in tribal storm
A RETIRED colonel and Zipra war veteran has accused the Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Retired Air Marshal Perrance Shiri of taking a farm he has occupied for 17 years on triba...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:02hrs | 2957 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF panics over new Zanu-PF party formation
ZANU-PF was Friday forced to issue a statement describing as insult, the formation of a new political party calling itself Zanu-PF Original.The formation of the new Zimbabwe African National U...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:31hrs | 6140 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dismisses G40 cabal over 'Zanu-PF Original' reports
ZANU-PF has castigated the G40 cabal, a grouping of the revolutionary party's rejects, for fuelling false reports of the registration of a shadowy organisation named "Zanu-PF Original", saying the dis...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
There's only one Zanu-PF, claims Khaya Moyo
The ruling Zanu-PF party has dismissed social media reports on the alleged formation of a political outfit calling itself "Zanu-PF Original" as misleading and an insult to the values and ethos of the ...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube condemns Oppah Muchinguri attacks of Joice Mujuru
A member of the Zipra high command in the liberation war Tshinga Dube has criticised Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri for accusing former Vice Pre...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 17:13hrs | 5260 | by Staff Reporter
Political power is key to Matebeleland's existence
Ever since Zimbabwe attained it's independence in 1980, the Southern region popularly known as Mthwakazi has never known peace. There has been an attempt by Shona supremacists to destroy the diverse p...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 22:04hrs | 1378 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Tshinga Dube's book reveals plot against ZPRA
Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube says he averted a potential civil war in the formative years of independent Zimbabwe after an order was issued to dismiss all the ex-Zpra soldiers in the newly formed Zimb...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:17hrs | 2468 | by Staff reporter
Council honours ZPRA veteran
THE late Zapu secretary for security Canaan Ncube has been honoured by the Bulawayo City Council and will be interred at the Lady Stanley Cemetery where the city's senior illustrious citizens are buri...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:12hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube averted a potential civil war in Zimbabwe
Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube says he averted a potential civil war in the formative years of Independent Zimbabwe after an order had been issued to dismiss all the Ex-ZPRA soldiers in the newly formed...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:07hrs | 1498 | by Staff reporter
'The C'wealth officer jumped from his seat when I threw my AK-47 at him'
Today we conclude the series of interviews that we have been doing with former Zipra guerilla, Tapson Ncube aka Makhula. Ncube was a maverick guerilla who at one point was detained on the orde...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:58hrs | 3741 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial Transfiguration of the Self: Part 2
Last week's introductory instalment attempted to locate Retired Col Tshinga's profile within the shifting currencies and contexts of our struggle for independence. His radical political tutela...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:56hrs | 175 | by Richard Mahomva
Zipra condemns Zimbabwe's rising intolerance levels
Zipra war veterans yesterday bemoaned the escalating levels of intolerance between State and non-State actors, which has bred violations of the rule of law, freedoms of association and expression in t...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Zapu security secretary dies
Zapu national secretary for security Canaan Ncube has died.Ncube died on Monday at the age of 80 after a long illness.Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa yesterday confirmed the death,...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:47hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube unites ex-ZPRA cadres
Former War Veterans minister, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube's official book launch in Bulawayo on Friday turned into a mini-reunion of some the leading ZPRA cadres, who reminisced on their experiences ...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:58hrs | 3053 | by Staff reporter
Tourism minister endorses Tshinga Dube 'frank' book
Tourism Minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu has endorsed the recently launched book by ex-Zipra fighter Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube as frank even on uncomfortable topics like Gukurahundi.Tsh...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 10:56hrs | 2373 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo residents bitter over selective renaming of roads
BULAWAYO residents and opposition political parties have criticised government's move to rename several roads in the city, leaving out some of the city's luminaries.Government on Thursday anno...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:24hrs | 2243 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bombing investigations turning into cold case
Investigations into the White City Stadium bombing in Bulawayo is turning into a ‘cold case' as there are no leads pointing to potential arrests almost 17 months after the blast which killed three a...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:11hrs | 3823 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Tshinga Dube ready to launch book
ALL is set for former Cabinet Minister, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube's much-anticipated 'Quiet Flows The Zambezi book launch. The autobiography will be launched at the National Art Gallery of ...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:06hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister pens book on Gukurahundi, Mugabe ouster
GUKURAHUNDI could have been avoided if the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo had accepted the post of ceremonial president at independence, former War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has said.In...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:02hrs | 3076 | by Staff reporter
'We had informers within the Rhodesian security services'
WE continue our interview with Tapson Ncube pseudonym Makhula Thebe who in the past instalments has spoken about how dissenting voices were treated within the Zipra ranks. Viewed as a rebel, N...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube pens explosive book
VETERAN freedom fighter and former Cabinet Minister Retired Colonel Tshinga Judge Dube has penned his autobiography which is set to be launched at the National Art Gallery in Bulawayo on Friday....Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:22hrs | 2347 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet reshuffle sparks uproar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s cabinet reshuffle has caused consternation in government and Zanu-PF as officials believe it was motivated by the need to consolidate and retain power rather ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipras dismiss Jonathan Moyo on Cain Mathema
Former Zipra fighters have dismissed Jonathan Moyo's protest over the removal of Cain Mathema by President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the Home Affairs Ministry as spitting on the 1987 Unity Accord....Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 17:34hrs | 7401 | by Staff Reporter
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