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Bulawayo diarrhoea cases surge 700%
The City of Bulawayo has experienced a concerning spike in diarrhoea cases, with approximately 555 reported as of August 2024. This marks a staggering 693% increase from the 370 cases recorded in July...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:58hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's life and health does not matter in Zimbabwe?
In Zimbabwe, when Emmerson Mnangagwa, President of Zimbabwe and his 1st VP, Constantino Chiwenga, get sick, all panic and emergency buttons are pressed. In a matter of urgency, they are swiftly airlif...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:11hrs | 14 | by Israel Dube
Now that Mnangagwa has attacked King Lobengula, he must brace for Matabeleland breakaway
"If you come for the king, you best not miss. This was a brilliant observation by "Ralph Waldo Emerson. Now that the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa who enjoys belittling, dehuminising, demo...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 20:38hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Smith & apartheid regimes were angels compared to 44-Year-Old 'independent' Zimbabwe
Talking in terms of segregation, oppression and savagery towards those considered as foreigners or political undesirables, no present or past government in Southern Africa matches the black Shona supr...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:56hrs | 15 | by Israel Dube
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Tribalistic ZBC presenters humiliate Mnangagwa
A divided house cannot stand so is a divided country. Since time immemorial, anti-Matabele Shona supremacists have been popping up everywhere in Zimbabwe to express their tribal hatred for Matabel...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 22:53hrs | 10 | by Israel Dube
Releasing Chihambakwe report key to honouring Joshua Nkomo
TWENTY-FOUR years ago, politicians who caused Joshua Nkomo tremendous grief during his lifetime shed crocodile tears and speechified at his funeral.Their supporters joined in. Two weeks ago, Z...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Trevor Ncube
Statement on Mangaliso Ndlovu's insensitive and violence-laden utterances
The inflammatory, violence-laden and dangerously insensitive utterances by one ZANU PF chairperson for Matabeleland South, Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu, in which he referred to one opposition party as ...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 16:03hrs | 5 | by Freedom Alliance
Opposition members condemn Ndlovu cockroach remarks
Human rights activists and opposition members have condemned Zanu-PF Matebeleland South chairman Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu, for referring to the opposition as ‘cockroaches', saying he does not des...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Human beings are not cockroaches
No, no, Cde Mangaliso Ndlovu. This is unacceptable. Because there is no human being who is a cockroach, no political party can be demonised as a "Convention of Confused Cockroaches", that is not polit...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 12:23hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
'CCC stands for 'Convention for Confused Cockroaches''
Zanu-PF Matebeleland South provincial chairperson Mangaliso Ndlovu, mocked the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party and compared them to cockroaches, sentiments that evoked 'painful' m...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 12:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Voting opposition brought nothing to Matebeleland'
VOTERS in Matebeleland South Province have been urged to shutout all opposition parties in their multiplicity of names from power as they have dismally failed to develop the province during their 13 y...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Ndebeles amongst noise makers in Zimbabwe?
A wannabe Zimbabwe President who turns a blind eye on Matabeleland restoration cause is making a fatal political miscalculation which may lead to unprecedented political upheaval.As we navigat...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 14:46hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Our country's Disregard for Proper Waste Management
As a nation, we are notorious for our lack of proper waste management. It's as if we have accepted the garbage-filled streets and overflowing landfills as a normal part of our daily lives. We have bec...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 13:12hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Mwonzora says journalists need support
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora says his party will support the media in the fight against hate speech and ensure that journalists' rights are respected ahead of the August polls.The MDC-T leade...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi ambition to be Zimbabwe President caused tribal chaos in the presidency
If he had his way, Kembo Mohadi could have been the first Zimbabwe President of Matabele origin after 43 years of Zimbabwe independence. But his repeated statement in which he expressed his wish to su...Published: 28 May 2023 at 15:51hrs | | by Israel Dube
Paul Kagame: Cruel Betrayal of Matebeleland
In the first week of September 2022, Emmerson Munangagwa visited the Rwanda Genocide Memorial while he was attending a continental African Green Revolution Forum Conference in that country. Many peopl...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Mthwakazi tears into Chief's Gukurahundi genocide manual
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has criticized the diction used in crafting the chiefs' manual on Gukurahundi Community Engagement Processes claiming that it minimized the victims' experiences of t...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Remembering gukurahundi genocide
The spirit of Mthwakazi insecurity and why the Mthwakazi prosecutor general must bring the perpetrators of these henious crimes to justice.Greetings to all!For forty-two years, the insecur...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 7 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Well done Phophi Rhamathuba for calling a spade a spade!
It is surprising that the most cruel, genocidal, segregative and oppressive government in Southern Africa, has come out guns blazing in attack of the Limpopo MEC, Phophi Ramathuba for exposing t...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 21:36hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Mliswa tasked with finding a Ndebele puppet that will replace Kembo Mohadi?
The position of 2nd vice president that is imposed on Matabele people in Zimbabwe is a symbol of capture, oppression, mockery and an insult to Matabele nation. The children of the stars and the sons a...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:15hrs | 7 | by Israel Dube
How to keep snakes out of your garden
Just hearing the word "snake" may send shivers all through your body.So, just imagine knowing that your property or home is infested with them.In general, people just do not like snake...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
33% drop in Bulawayo diarrhoea cases
THE City of Bulawayo has recorded a 33% decrease in diarrhoea cases from 148 in March to 97 in April this year.Latest Bulawayo City Council minutes state that although the city is still experi...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:34hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
'Mnangagwa plotting second genocide'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's threats that those calling for a separate state will have their lives cut short is declaration of a second genocide synonymous with the Gukurahundi atrocities that saw o...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi hits back at Mnangagwa
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) Thursday hit back at Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for making unsavoury remarks against him and his party.Mnangagwa took issue with MRP leade...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to 'shorten' the lives of Mthwakazi 'separatists'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday threatened to "shorten" the lives of individuals advocating for a separate state in south western Zimbabwe.Mnangagwa maintained that Zimbabwe would rem...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally recognises Siwela's demand for Matabeleland to break away from Zimbabwe
MLO is happy to announce that the Zimbabwe President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, although still scared to engage MLO, has finally recognised our demand for Matabeleland to break away from Zimbabwe and restor...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 07:03hrs | | by Israel Dube
'You are failing to sell Mnangagwa' Nick Mngwana told
Zimbabweans in Dubai have told Government Spokesperson Ndavaningi Nick Mangwana that the government was failing to market the great works that were being done by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in rebuil...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 10:35hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
So the Zimbabwe govt can murder innocent Matabeles, bury, exhume & rebury just like that?
So the government of Zimbabwe can deploy Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to murder more than 40 000 Matabele civilians, bury them in shallow graves, rape more than 100 000 Matabele ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 09:39hrs | | by Israel Dube
Leaders must avoid hate speech at rallies
LATE in October last year when Zanu-PF was burning from strife generated by the power struggles fomented by its internal vote, we warned that political violence was taking root in the country and coul...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dont re-ignite gukurahundi', Mnangagwa threatens Matabeles with second genocide
"As we give space to our traditional leaders to lead processes of reconciliation and repair, we should guard against those negative elements which aim to re-ignite frozen differences to throw us back ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:48hrs | 5 | by Israel Dube
Chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni stay put in the UK: We have had enough suspicious killings in Zimbabwe
Kuwe Nkosi Ndiweni, It is not a secret that I am not your favourite subject. I have critiqued you at every angle. However, I hate to see your life on the line. Going back to Zimbabwe means dea...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 22:20hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Pink Pigs' feed millions of hungry 'independent' Zimbabwean citizens; they demand human rights & the rule of law on our behalf
They bite the hand that feeds them in the sense of the word. European countries from the west collect resources from their hard-won taxpayers and afford food aid to countries facing starvation and hun...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:55hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Patriotic Act will leave ZANU PF supporters out of the definition
The recently tabled patriotic bill in the Zimbabwe parliament will expose that ZANU PF supporters, surrogates and appendages are not patriotic.You cannot have a whole party that claims to have...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:29hrs | 8 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Gwayi-Shangani will not translate into votes and support for Mnangagwa
"Cockroaches, maggots need to be eliminated for someone to have clean house" these are the words [sic] of Emerson Mnangagwa in 1983 when he the late former murderous President Robert Mugabe unleashed ...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:21hrs | 6 | by Phosiwe Ncube
UK Prime Minister: Please remind Mnangagwa, Matabeles are not dogs or cockroaches
No matter how much President Mnangagwa tries to ignore Matabeleland grievances and griefs, they will always follow him everywhere he goes like his own shadow. As he prepares to visit UK, we implore Pr...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 09:38hrs | 5 | by Israel Dube
MDC-A MPs bitter over measly pension and loss of luxury vehicle but indifferent delivered not even one change in 22 years
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders to implement the democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. After 22 years,...Published: 02 Oct 2021 at 23:46hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Inkotha sihlangu, uMqeqenshi uMthuli Ncube uthi uMnangagwa yiNkosi yakhe!
I have always thought bootlicking is done by people with little or without education at all. To see a professor who has served in highest international institutions such as London School of Economic a...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 20:04hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa: Ndebeles are not dogs (imigodoyi)
"You can never make Ndebeles dogs. You may wipe them out but the children of the Stars can never be dogs." Matabele Spokesman, Somabhulani Dlodlo spoke these words warning the white supremacists...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Chamisa's MDC attacks Khaya Moyo
A WAR of words has erupted between the country's two main political parties after the MDC Alliance Monday afternoon angrily reacted to Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo's claims that the oppositio...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean is in great pain!
The report of today's Bulawayo24 is about two young men who beat a man of 72 years to death because he refused to share information about soccer results! Our citizen loses his life because of a trivia...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 13:06hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Khaliphani Phugheni pounces on the smaller fish but exonerates the mighty crocodile
It is not different: the modus operandi is the same: Phugheni sees no evil in Mnangagwa but sees loads of evil in Obert Gutu. This is the same with Jonathan who blamed Gukurahundi to Mnangagwa and les...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 14:16hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa's MDC-A are 'terrorists' smacks of 'Ndebeles are cockroaches'
First, they came for the Ndebele people of Matabeleland and Midlands, I did not speak out because I was not Ndebele. Then they came for white Zimbabwean farmers, I did not speak out because I was not ...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Kembo Mohadi and Enos Nkala learnt lifetime lessons; Israel Dube my reply!
The first time I agreed with Israel Dube about facts in our mainstream politics. Let me make it clear however, that I am not appealing to Israel to drop death threats hanging on my throat: I have been...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 12:48hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Sikhala et al join in the scramble for land - they're now indistinguishable from Zanu PF
Let us start by defining the primary task the late Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were entrusted to do by the people of Zimbabwe. The people risked life and limb to MDC leaders into power on th...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 09:09hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Angry Matabeles to descend upon the Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa
"That which unites us is far greater than that which divides us."All roads lead to the Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa on 8 April 2021 where and when Matabeles, united behind Matabeleland res...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 10:45hrs | | by Israel Dube
Matebeles are not Zimbabweans
I always wonder why a lot of people from Matebeleland always think Zimbabwe is theirs too. You find them busy labelling themselves as Zimbabweans, even when everything is being done to show that...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:44hrs | | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Mthwakazi State of the nation address - MLF
Revolutionary greetings to you all. Vuka Mthwakazi Vuka! Abantu yithi! Amandla ngawethu!Mthwakazi kaNdaba, I write to you today with the ground probably unbearably hot in the capital of ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by MLF
Opposition still alive in Zimbabwe
The man made frictions within the opposition circles are too far from killing the opposition in Zimbabwe.The ructions have been badly misinterpreted to mean demise of the opposition in the Southern Af...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Drawing parallels between bitter election losers Khupe and Trump
Is it even possible to make such comparisons between Madam Thokozani Khupe and Donald Trump regarding the shenanigans of the two politicians' elections defeat? Yes, it is possible; this is a global vi...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 08:30hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
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