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Edison Zvobgo's sister dies
Petronella Mahoya nee Zvobgo, a veteran educationist and devout Catholic has died.Mahoya was a sister to the late national hero Edison Zvobgo and Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) Vice Chancello...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 19:36hrs | 3826 | by Staff reporter
Nathan Shamuyarira's widow dies
Dorothy Shamuyarira, the wife of the late national hero, Dr Nathan Shamuyarira, has died at Parirenyatwa Hospital.Dora, as her husband affectionately called her, was a nurse by profession at t...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 15:00hrs | 2813 | by Staff reporter
'Shun tribalism & regionalism'
ZANU-PF leadership in Bulawayo yesterday joined the rest of the nation in commemorating Unity Day amid calls for Zimbabweans to shun tribalism and regionalism. Speakers, in their solidarity me...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loyalist Gutu confusing COVID-19 correlation with causality
"Correlation is not causality", this one of the basic principles of logical thinking. This concept is introduced in any philosophy, statistics or law program that is worth its salt. Obert Gutu, an acc...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1461 | by Edzai Zvobwo
When the US media is captured!
When my mentor, Eddison Zvobgo, returned to his hotel room in London after the Lancaster House Conference, he was met with delirious laughter from his English friend. The cause of laughter was Zvobgo'...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:19hrs | 584 | by Ken Mufuka
Uproar as Mnangagwa promises to give back land to white farmers
Zimbabweans on social media have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of reversing the gains of Independence promising to give some white farmers land. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncu...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 10:31hrs | 11243 | by Mandla Ndlovu
President Mnangagwa, you need to attend to Political acumenship, legacy & perceptions !!!
In 2013, the former Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe, upon his arrival at Harare International Airport, speaking to journalists, shortly after his arrival , he said in Shona , " Nhai weduwe imi, tonz...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 16:06hrs | 1623 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa pained by Zvobgo's death
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed his grief on the passing on of academic, author Professor Chengetai Jonas Mudadirwa Zvobgo.In a press statement, Mnangagwa said he was deeply saddene...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 17:18hrs | 6005 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Prof Zvobgo dies
ACADEMIC, author and former associate professor of history at the University of Zimbabwe, Professor Chengetai Jonas Mudadirwa Zvobgo, has died. Prof Zvobgo died at St Giles Medical Rehabilitat...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1957 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai sidelined in new street names
City of Masvingo's quest to rename Hofmeyer Street after Morgan Tsvangirai has failed after the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing ignored the recommendation and gave the ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:58hrs | 2628 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo dumps colonial streets names
Masvingo City Council has completed renaming key streets in the ancient city after the country's living and departed heroes of the struggle against colonial rule that culminated with the attainment of...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance shows police the middle finger...vows to defy ZRP directives
MDC Alliance has written a letter to Zimbabwe Republic Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi informing him that its members will not be reporting to the police after an advert was cir...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 12:12hrs | 5150 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dr. Edison Zvobgo abolished lobola Mr Ziyambi: it has become commodified livestock with variable price tag!
It should never escape me to comment on what Justice Minister Ziyambi previously said about lobola in our diverse cultures. Talking about lobola nowadays, almost every society in Zimbabwe upholds trad...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3463 | by Nomazulu Thata
WATCH: Komichi speaks on Mnangagwa's legitimacy
Morgen Komichi, the embattled National Chairperson of the smaller MDC faction led by Thokozani Khupe, says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the legitimate ruler of Zimbabwe after the Constitutional cou...Published: 11 May 2020 at 19:02hrs | 7886 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How Mike Auret tried to stop Gukurahundi
THE sad death of prominent Zimbabwe political activist Mike Auret in Ireland this morning is a significant event in the history of human rights in the country and its predecessor Rhodesia.Aure...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 09:37hrs | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Harare Institute of Technology develops ventilator
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) has developed a ventilator which it is testing before trials begin, with the potential of making 40 such gadgets per day, while other tertiary institutions are...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:51hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC took money from 'murderers'?
THE motor-mouthed MDC secretary for elections, Jacob Mafume, has defended the party's decision to embrace people implicated in the murder of the party's activists in previous elections.Respond...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 18:12hrs | 3404 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC councillors clash over street names
ZANU-PF and MDC Alliance councillors in Masvingo recently clashed over the renaming of city streets in honour of living and departed Zanu-PF luminaries, with the former walking out of a special counci...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:24hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
General Tongogara's ZANU PF died in 2017
Is this the country that Tongogara, Chitepo, JZ Moyo, Silundika and other gallant sons and daughters gave up their lives for?Is this version of ZANU PF the same liberation movement that Tongog...Published: 28 Dec 2019 at 07:38hrs | 12990 | by Dr Utete
Mnangagwa caps record GZU graduates
President Mnangagwa yesterday conferred degrees to 4 936 graduates at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU)'s 13th graduation ceremony held at the institution's main campus.The graduates were drawn ...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:34hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba reaffirms judiciary's independence
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has reaffirmed that the country's judiciary is independent and everyone including the executive is answerable to the rule of law.He made the remarks while delivering ...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 19:46hrs | 1095 | 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 | 2877 | by Lovemore Gurajena Sibanda PhD
MDC @20: The journey continues
TWENTY years after it was formed amid high hopes, the opposition MDC's pathway to power remains hazy amid concerns it lacks the gravitas to mount a formidable challenge to dislodge Zanu-PF from power....Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
'High Court judge' arrested over US$100 000 fraud
A BOGUS High Court judge yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court facing three counts of fraud after she sold a non-existent house for US$100 000 to an unsuspecting homeseeker.Petner...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 06:58hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 22:23hrs | 9756 | by Staff reporter
Drama over the burial of Robert Mugabe
LIKE the rest of Zimbabweans, we are watching the unfolding drama over the burial of Zimbabwe's founding father, Robert Mugabe.This appears to be a game of brinksmanship between the family of ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 13:06hrs | 3448 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Restoration Movement on Mugabe death - 'Let the people seethe'
There goes a man who has the answers for the gukurahundi genocide. Some say that he was a giant, yes he was- a giant of human slaughter, a man who never respected civil liberties. A man who deformed o...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 21:18hrs | 1537 | by Magugu Benard
Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played
The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played.The closest I have to feeling anything is quiet, seething rage.Rage that ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 302 | by Siphosami Malunga
The Robert Mugabe I know
I first heard about Mugabe around 1962 when he was in the National Democratic Party. I didn't get to meet him though; I just heard about him. I had been expelled from Hodgson Technical College of Zamb...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 08:58hrs | 529 | by Emmerson D. Mnangagwa
Robert Mugabe: The leader who shouldn't have been
About a kilometre from State House - the official residence of the Zimbabwean president, where Robert Mugabe lived until the mid-2000s before moving to his hideous mansion popularly known as Blue Roof...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 15:38hrs | 2586 | by Percy Zvomuya
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 | 133 | by Staff reporter
'Road should be named after Zvobgo'
Masvingo Province should consider recognizing the late national hero Edison Zvobgo through naming a street after him, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information Nick Mangwana has said....Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 11:23hrs | 1940 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa, Mnangagwa fans fighting for Boris Johnson's love - 'The Boris is mine'
Boris Johnson, mocker of African "piccaninny" children and their "watermelon smiles", became Prime Minister of Britain on Wednesday. On hearing the news, supporters of two political parties in an Afri...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 19:34hrs | 6723 | by newZWire
ZANU PF factions revealed
The Zimbabwe African Nationalists Union (Patriotic Front) ZANU PF is an interesting political and liberation movement which is currently the reigning and undisputed champion of Zimbabwean politics...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | 18385 | by Nicholas Ncube
Why should we remember Joshua Nkomo
IN this two-part series, the Zimbabwe Independent reproduces the 2019 Annual Joshua Nkomo Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, organised by Joshua Nkomo Legacy Foundation ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2649 | by Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni
NUST Student hostels construction gathers pace
CONSTRUCTION of the $12 million upmarket accommodation facility to house more than 1 000 students in Bulawayo by the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) has started.IDBZ chief m...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dilemma over Dabengwa
TO go or not to go? That is the question. And damned if he does; damned if he does not.This is the dilemma President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces tomorrow over whether or not to attend the burial ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:22hrs | 1423 | by Staff reporter
DD: The man, soldier, pacifier
The light of the armed liberation struggle icon has been extinguished. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, affectionately known as DD, passed on 23 May 2019.There was grief and anguish when news about his dea...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | 320 | by Phathisa Nyathi
Zinasu victory under threat
The Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu) and Youth Advocacy for Reform and Development Students Congress (YardSC) have challenged the outcome of the recent Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) Stud...Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:31hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks on Dumiso Dabengwa
President Emmerson Mnanagwa has issued a condolence message to the family and friends of the late ZAPU President Dumiso Dabe ngwa who passed on in Kenya on Wednesday.He was coming from an oper...Published: 23 May 2019 at 16:39hrs | 6798 | by Mandla Ndlovu
RBZ to continue with confidence building measures
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will continue to pursue confidence building measures and is optimistic the recently secured US$500 million interbank facility will go a long way in stabilisi...Published: 21 May 2019 at 21:12hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3922 | by PUMA
POPULISM is ahead of COMPETENCY in the African Context
In Africa one is prepared to die for a politician, and people can go to the extent of kneeling down before political mastitis for favors and bootlicking. One may fail to construct a proper English sen...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 09:58hrs | 496 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Masvingo to name streets after war vets
Masvingo City Council and the Infrastructural Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) intend to honour liberation war luminaries from the province by naming streets in the new suburb of Clipsham Views aft...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's 1980 Cabinet - ages
Here are some things to PONDER onRobert Mugabe (56 yrs) - Prime MinisterSimon Muzenda (58 yrs) - Deputy Prime MinisterJoshua Nkomo (63 yrs)- Home AffairsEnos Nkala (48 yrs) - Finance...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:50hrs | 21043 | by Staff reporter
Tungamirayi, Zvinavashe, Zvobgo honoured in new street names
Josiah Tungamirai, V. Musungwa and E.J.M Zvobgo are among the street names that residents in the developing suburb of Clipsham Views will see if current naming proposals by City of Masvingo's health, ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 21:33hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Should Zimbabwe's 'unwitty' MPs be sent back to school?
In our series of letters from African writers, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe looks at whether politicians need better qualifications.Zimbabwe has one of the highest liter...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 16:19hrs | 860 | by Brian Hungwe
Zimbabweans disillusioned with the 'new dispensation'
MORE than a year ago events touted as an unfolding new beginning in this Southern African nation raised public hope. The Zimbabwean "benign" coup in November 2017 must be counted among the greatest of...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:07hrs | 220 | by Ray Matikinye
Only Chamisa has the economic keys to revive the Zimbabwean economy?
When Nelson Chamisa opines alongside foreign interests that nothing has changed since November 2017, the idea is to defeat today's ZANU-PF by psychological association to the leadership of former pres...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:46hrs | 1259 | by Reason Wafawarova
'True heroes, heroines never die'
We publish the final part of an interview by our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati with nationalist Jane Lungile Ngwenya. In this instalment, Ngwenya chronicles how she earned mistrust in both Zapu and...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:00hrs | 149 | by Staff rpeortet
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