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Ndebele 'king' seeks closure on Gukurahundi
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Ndebele king Bulelani Lobengula Khumalo one of the three claimants to the throne has begun wide consultations with stakeholders in a bid to bring closure to the Gukurahundi issue....Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:47hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Gugulethu Moyo is accuses Jewish museum of racism and sexism
Zimbabwean lawyer Gugulethu Moyo has abruptly resigned from her job as executive director of the Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center in Tucson, Arizona, in the United States, citing racism ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:33hrs | 2220 | by Staff reporter
Dr. Ralph Mguni: my Mentor, my Teacher
His proud self is still intact. He has never been different at any time and space. We should accept that the Nguni people are known for their high self-esteem are a proud people. In the interview he m...Published: 02 May 2021 at 17:13hrs | 1242 | by Nomazulu Thata
Solutions to eliminating the demon of tribalism
The demon of tribalism that has affected the Ndebele nation since 1980 can be eliminated from Zimbabwean society. Hate and resentment between the Ndebele and Shona will not solve any challenges faced ...Published: 02 May 2021 at 13:51hrs | 1052 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
A new hope… President Mwonzora's to do list
With a flood of optimism being poured to the new MDC'T President Douglas Mwonzora from the majority of both the MDC'T standing committee and the supporters at large the young and charismatic leader sh...Published: 01 May 2021 at 10:57hrs | 2195 | by Knowledge Hakata
Tribalism is unwelcome and unconstitutional in the new Zimbabwe dispensation
A news article appeared recently in a local media publication that said that the Minister of Justice Ziyambi accused an MDC-T Senator Khaliphani Phugeni of being a tribalist who apparently had e...Published: 01 May 2021 at 09:11hrs | 816 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
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 | 3524 | by Nomazulu Thata
Nkayi MP under fire for bootlicking Mnangagwa
NKAYI South MP Stars Mathe (Zanu-PF) is under fire from Matabeleland activists for bootlicking President Emmerson Mnangagwa, notwithstanding that the Zanu-PF leader was allegedly involved in the execu...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:16hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora suffers Matabeleland blow
MDC Alliance says leaders of the rival MDC-T in Matabeleland South are tracing their footsteps back to the party after initially joining the Douglas Mwonzora-led outfit.Former MDC Alliance Mat...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:12hrs | 4649 | by Staff reporter
National Youth Service (Zimbabwe) a disservice!
The re-establishment of the National Youth Service in Zimbabwe is uncalled for and an unnecessary disservice. It is totally against ubuntu and the rule of law. The youth militia, infamously known as t...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:24hrs | 910 | by Inhokomo Yesizwe SikaMthwakazi
View from Up Here: Gukurahundi Genocide: An Open Wound Part 1
Gukurahundi is a thorny issue for our leaders. They do not want to talk about it, neither do they want it discussed. The objective is to relegate it to the dustbins of history. But can a nation move o...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | 887 | by Peter Muzira
Zimbabwe @ 41: The victim's lasting solution to the Gukurahundi Holocaust
Zimbabwe is still at rail-road crossing with regard to the Gukurahundi genocide whose resolution remains elusive forty-one (41) years on. The signage is unambiguously restricting any break-through wha...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 09:05hrs | 640 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Jonathan Moyo rues lost opportunity to grab Gukurahundi dossier
FORMER cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says he regrets failing to get hold of the Chihambakwe Report during his period as government minister.Moyo says he would have used the document to forest...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:33hrs | 2805 | by Staff reporter
We are like 'stray animals'
According to the United nations High commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), the exact number of stateless people globally is not known.However, the Un refugee Agency estimates that there are many ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:17hrs | 180 | by Amnesty International
The lame duck approach to gukurahundi genocide: A case of stitching rear opening of alimentary canal to cure diarrhoea
As Zimbabwe celebrates what it calls independence, forty-one (41) years on, government's lame duck approach to the resolution of the gukurahundi genocide disappointingly remains the case of stitching ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:06hrs | 237 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Thousands denied citizenship in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's discriminatory citizenship laws have rendered thousands of people stateless and pushed them to the fringes of society, depriving them of access to education, healthcare, and housing, Amnest...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 4041 | by Staff reporter
'Nothing must be left to chance' declares Mnangagwa, mobilising his vote rigging juggernaut
President Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to mobilise Zanu PF's vote-rigging juggernaut in preparation for the by-elections and 2023 harmonised elections. Two weeks ago he called on the war veter...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:23hrs | 688 | by Nomusa Garikai
Jonathan Moyo calls for justice on gukurahundi genocide perpetrators
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says those who took part in the early 1980s civilian massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces should face justice for the crimes.An estimat...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:07hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
Landmark ruling on vehicle plates
GOVERNMENT has been ordered to reimburse motorists who paid for new vehicle registration plates in foreign currency since July last year, but failed to get them.In a landmark ruling on Wednesd...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:52hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks about Gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the country could only put closure to the emotive 1980s Gukurahundi genocide issue by allowing victims to openly and frankly debate it without fear of reprisals....Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:50hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's proposed Patriotic Bill: Whither Zimbabwe at 41?
ACCORDING to the permanent secretary in the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs ministry Virginia Mabhiza, as quoted in The Sunday Mail on October 4 2020, her ministry drafted principles of a "Pa...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:42hrs | 184 | by Jonathan N Moyo
Jonathan Moyo says 'Unity Accord misled Gukurahundi victims'
EXILED former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has claimed that the Unity Accord, signed in 1987 between Zanu-PF and PF-Zapu, misled victims of Gukurahundi into believing that a solution for th...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:41hrs | 3172 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls Zimbabweans to freely discuss the Gukurahundi genocide
THE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the nation to freely discuss and chart the way forward on the Gukurahundi disturbances that occurred in the early and mid 1980s.The President who...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 21:04hrs | 1744 | by Staff reporter
Marginalisation, tribalism - The emergence of Mthwakazi Republic Party
A PARTY of young people from Matabeleland, the Mthwakazi Republic Party, believes there is no reason for Matabeleland to remain under the subjugation of Zimbabwe and they have been calling for secessi...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1751 | by Thandekile Moyo
'It is sink or swim time for the MDC'
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, says the opposition will receive a heavy electoral shellacking in 2023, unless it changes tack quickly and ditches confrontational politics.In addition, the MDC bo...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:23hrs | 2249 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to 'recall' Zanu-PF ministers
OPPOSITION party Zapu says it will this week write to Parliament seeking to recall its former members, who are now part of the ruling Zanu-PF.Iphuthile Maphosa, the Zapu spokesperson, said the...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 07:05hrs | 4379 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF has dismembered MDC A, will not need to rig to win 2023' - only counter, demand reforms before 2023
Dear Tony Reeler,Thank you very much for your thought-provoking article 'Zanu PF won't concede electoral defeat' in New Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. The root cause of Zimbabwe economic meltdown an...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1811 | by Wilbert Mukori
The constitution of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi & related matters
Greetings to all Mthwakazi citizens! On 2 April 2021, I brought to your attention our preparations for the establishment of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi. In doing so, I also invited you t...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 18:53hrs | 859 | by Dr. Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
'MDC A must NOT boycott elections' advised Magaisa - echo of ruinous GNU advice NOT to implement reforms
"If there is a phrase that must not be entertained by the MDC Alliance right now, it is the phrase 'boycott by-elections'. Not when the opponents are doing everything to take you out of political spac...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 10:17hrs | 1193 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Masuku death marked the demise of democracy'
CIVIC groups in Matabeleland have described the late Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) Commander General Lookout Masuku as the epitome of democracy, hence his inexplicable death on April 5,...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2588 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi to stage massive demo outside Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) is planning to stage a demonstration outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa over what it describes as "untold" injustices perpetrated by the Zanu-PF led ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 11:42hrs | 1744 | by Staff reporter
'Independence Day' a continual reminder of how Zimbabweans are still in painful bondage
I have never had any hesitation asserting that the holidays that I regarded most appealing to my heart on the Zimbabwean calender, were "Independence Day", and "Heroes Day" - not for the skewed and ba...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 10:47hrs | 600 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Parliament nominates candidates for Peace Commission posts
The Parliamentary Committee on Standing Rules and Orders (CSRO) has nominated 30 candidates who include former MDC-T vice president and lawyer Obert Gutu for interviews on those aspiring to become Nat...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
Gutu is embarrassing his handlers
MY Dear my people,I have never followed football, I do not think it's a classy sport.I inherited a love for cricket and tennis from Baba and once in a while, I sit down to watch those ...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:59hrs | 2959 | by Dr Stop It
Cops unleashed to bash Matobo villagers
ANTI-RIOT police bashed community members in Domboshava Village, Matobo as punishment for ganging up to evict miners, civil society group, Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported.The details were rev...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:48hrs | 654 | by Sytaff reporter
Matabeleland now the most feared territory in Zimbabwe - MLO
So afraid and concerned about Matabeleland is the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe that even an innocent fly that zooms past in the air in Matabeleland attracts nervous attention from the oppr...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 11:59hrs | 1406 | by Israel Dube
The Birth of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi Establishment of the Department of National Statistics
MLF President, The birth of Mthwakazi as a sovereign state is informed by the lens of history. As Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF), we have learnt from the grave errors of our history. As we c...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 11:50hrs | 1174 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Obert Gutu is CIO, suggests Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former Zimbabwe Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has suggested that former MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu could be a member of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation ( CIO)....Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 11:29hrs | 6207 | by Ndou Paul
Matemadanda's recall sets the pot boiling
Zimbabwe is settling to the news that the outspoken and imposing hardworking National Political Commissar Comrade Victor Matemadanda was relieved of his position and has been re-assigned a diplomatic ...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 22:34hrs | 4321 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The fighting spirit of Honourable Joanne Mamombe deserves honour: Salute my girl-child
After 2 minutes of watching a video in New Zimbabwe news media, Honourable Mamombe was narrating how they got attacked by a snake in the prison cell in the middle of the night, I did not finish watchi...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 1662 | by Nomazulu Thata
Who are Matabeles?
The Matabele were once feared, adored and hated and now they are discriminated against. Why are they hated so? They are hated by the west as the Jews whom Constantine described as "odious people", so ...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 16:13hrs | 2086 | by T D Mkwananzi
Forced patriotism as Zanu-PF moves to entrench police state
Zanu-PF is pushing the controversial Patriotic Bill to entrench a police state and quash any dissenting voices ahead of the 2023 elections, analysts have said.The government has been previousl...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 1804 | by Staff reporter
Gutu was a gukurahundi prosecutor
Political analysts have said Obert Gutu who recently joined Zanu-PF and is in the running for a post in the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) does not qualify for the job due to his ...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 17:51hrs | 4218 | by Staff reporter
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 | 5466 | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Zimbabwe's no go routes for Ngwena's motorcade.
I knew no politics by 1980 because I was still too young. I remember well in the early 1980s we used to read about Mugabe and Nkomo but this history made little sense to our young apolitical minds by ...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 6026 | by Etiwel Mutero
Tracy Mutinhiri: To use a race card in 2021 is unacceptable. My response!
It took some time to respond to Dr. Tracy Mutinhiri's reasons for leaving Chamisa and going back to Zanu PF. Much as it is your right to associate with whatever party of your choice, to label MDC-Alli...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 19:58hrs | 2081 | by Nomazulu Thata
Gukurahundi genocide commission under fire
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has come under fire for snubbing a debate on Gukurahundi organised by the Bulawayo-based pressure group Ibhetshu likaZulu.NPRC officials...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:36hrs | 1235 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland activists 'under siege'
HUMAN rights activists have accused authorities of employing unorthodox means to hound government critics following reports that armed police raided the house of a leader of a Matabeleland-based milit...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt plots backdoor Chiredzi evictions
THE Zanu-PF government, stung by public outcry and a recent court ruling which annulled its planned mass eviction of Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi, has come up with a subtle ploy to pursue the matter...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Deal with Gukurahundi genocide first, MPs say
Zimbabwe does not need any Patriotic Act before resolving the country's dark past, particularly the Gukurahundi massacres, parliamentarians argued last week as they dismissed a motion pushing for the ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:02hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
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