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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 | 629 | 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 | 186 | 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 | 925 | 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 | 182 | 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 | 2929 | 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 | 6122 | 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 | 343 | 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 | 299 | 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 | 5241 | 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 | 1359 | 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 | 2461 | 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 | 294 | 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 | 1486 | 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 | 3697 | 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 | 167 | 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 | 601 | 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 | 640 | 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 | 3042 | 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 | 2354 | 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 | 2214 | 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 | 3820 | 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 | 864 | 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 | 3074 | 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 | 777 | 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 | 2341 | 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 | 1894 | 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 | 7395 | by Staff Reporter
I'm not a rebel: Cde Chipoyera
In a riveting account never before made public, Parker Chipoyera (PC) opens up on events leading to the arrest of the ZIPA leadership and how he ended up in captivity with his fellow comrades. ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:28hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must shut up: Tribalism is no better that racism
There has been a strong debate amongst South Africans on whether or not the sport is capable of uniting a nation this follows the world cup win by the South African Rugby Team popularly known as Sprin...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 09:42hrs | 2268 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Chiwenga in remarkable recovery, returning home soon
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was airlifted to China from South Africa in July amid poisoning fears, is preparing to return home after making a remarkable recovery at a top hospital in Beij...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:18hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
'Mgagao Declaration changed political dynamics'
The bid by nationalist leaders to negotiate with Ian Smith around 1976 did not go well with freedom fighters. As such, these efforts led to the emergence of power dynamics that saw Robert Mugabe posit...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:50hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Banning of cultural weapons in Bulawayo is stripping Mthwakazi of power - MLF
He who is guilty of some stupid acts is he who feels threatened by the carrying of cultural weapons like knobkerries and sticks in the City of Kings. The move to ban these weapons by Superintend...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | 630 | by MLF
Zapu plots sit-in at Mpilo, UBH over shona student nurses
THE opposition Zapu party has vowed to go ahead with its planned sit-in at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) nursing school today in protest over unfair enrolment of student n...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi sellout and a liability
As the leader of Mthwakazi Republic Party i cannot let people like Mohadi have a field day on us, surely how can he stoop that low to address Mthwakazi Republic Party at his Zanu-PF rally at Stanley s...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:10hrs | 69 | by Mqondisi Moyo MRP President
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF suspends Harare, Bulawayo restructuring
Daily NewsZanu-PF has suspended its restructuring of Harare and Bulawayo provinces despite completing the setting up of District Coordinating Committees (DCCs) in the capital city. Las...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:19hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Violence at Zanu-PF DCC elections
The Zanu-PF internal elections to select members of the district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) held in Harare at the weekend were marred by violence, intimidation and allegations of vote-rigging....Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:45hrs | 1228 | by Staff reporter
How Nhari, Badza rebels were 'crushed'
Last week, freedom fighter Parker Chipoyera told Levi Mukarati of an uprising famously called the Nhari-Badza rebellion during the liberation struggle. The revolt, according to Parker, s...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Wake up! The rains are nigh
Politicians do not come as colourful as ex-Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko.But for Bishop Lazi, his colourfulness came from his colourlessness.The chap was just politically insipid a...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:02hrs | 65 | by Bishop Lazi
Zapu plots future
ZAPU is set to hold nationwide and diaspora meetings with its members and supporters in a bid to collectively chart the way forward for the revolutionary mother party.This follows persistent c...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 19:54hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
The recruits who challenged the Zipra leadership
SEVENTY-THREE-year-old Tapson Ncube passes for just another villager in the Inyankuni area in Umzingwane District, but when one goes down memory lane, the man whose pseudo name was Makhula Thebe durin...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:25hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga agonises over Mugabe burial
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was airlifted to China from South Africa in July amid poisoning fears - is now firmly on the recovery path - and wanted to attend former president Robert Mugab...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 8579 | by Staff reporter
Good start, bad and sad end: The story of Robert Gabriel Mugabe
It did not have to end this way. It is a story that started well but ended badly. Mugabe was poised to be greater than Mandela or Gandhi. Outside and inside Zimbabwe, Mugabe was revered and considered...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2867 | by Lovemore Gurajena Sibanda PhD
Mugabe: Hero or villain?
THE death at 95 of former president of Zimbabwe Robert Gabriel Mugabe (pictured) has evoked varying emotions in the country. On one hand, there are those who revered and deified him and took his word ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 351 | by Simayedwa Moyo
Mbeki's praise for Mugabe deeper than what meets the eye
The research by Mthwakazi Institute of Research (MIOR) has shown that people of the same philosophy tend to support each other. This becomes more pronounced if the people under scrutiny once have a ch...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:03hrs | 3252 | by Mthwakazi Research Institute
How Zapu truth will always prosper Zimbabwe
Nothing is more Zimbabwean than Zapu in Zimbabwe. For anyone to pronounce the very word "Zimbabwe", one needs to remember that they are talking about a Zapu invented word. For anyone to talk abo...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:02hrs | 1879 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mnangagwa pisses on the graves of Provincial and District Heroes Acres
I was recently at the Harare Provincial Heroes Acre to put flowers on the grave of one of my relatives and what I saw shocked me. There was a half drunk middle aged gentleman casually urinating on the...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 15:36hrs | 3482 | by Zororo Shumba
Govt pisses on the graves over Mugabe
I was recently at the Harare Provincial Heroes Acre to put flowers on the grave of one of my relatives and what I saw shocked me. There was a half drunk middle aged gentleman casually urinating on the...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:24hrs | 4269 | by Zororo Shumba
Fight over Zpra properties gets ugly
A prominent war veteran says he has been receiving death threats for campaigning for the return of properties seized by the government from war veterans.John Gazi, the chairperson of Nitram, a...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:05hrs | 5231 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe was unrepentant'
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) Veterans' Association has described former president Robert Mugabe as unrepentant after he died without addressing the Gukurahundi massacres.Mug...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:00hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims react to Mugabe death
ANY mention of the late president Robert Mugabe still invokes a deep sense of resentment from many a villager in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, who are haunted by the army massacres, infamously known as...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
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