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Zanu-PF remembers Joshua Nkomo with Bulilima rally?
THE Zanu-PF rally to be addressed by President Mnangagwa at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima District, Matebeleland South Province today is a celebration as it is the rolling out of the ruling party's...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
We know our heroes
THOUSANDS of people yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre to remember the country's luminaries who sacrificed limb and life to liberate Zimbabwe and deliver freedom that flourishes today....Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Did Nkomo ordain Mugabe?
THE occasion on which Cde Joshua Nkomo showed his acknowledgement of Cde Robert Mugabe's future role was most probably the strangest experience the author of this narration had during the struggle. ...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:19hrs | 7 | by Saul Gwakuba-Ndlovu
Gwakuba Ndlovu family receives national hero conferment
THE family of the late nationalist and journalist, Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, yesterday officially received the conferment of his posthumous national hero status.Ndlovu died of a heart ailment aged ...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges mindset change in civil service
CIVIL servants should change their mindsets and be drivers of devolution and decentralisation to ensure that every citizen has access to basic services such as clean water and well-resourced schools, ...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Let's protect the gains of our independence'
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ZIMBABWE DEFENCE FORCES HIS EXCELLENCY, CDE. ED MNANGAGWA AT THE BURIAL OF NATIONAL HERO DR MARIYO MARIYAWANDA NZUWAH ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2021, AT T...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
The wave of change is eminent on the southern region: Big homework for Zanu
The sudden change of political weather has given ZANU-PF a thorn in the flesh as it watches its friends and allies downfall and being dumped by masses through the ballot and political dustbin by voice...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 09:32hrs | | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu declared national hero posthumously
THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday posthumously declared the late Cdes Rabelani Choeni, Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, Elliot Ngwabi, Professor George Kahari and Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki as national heroes. Pr...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zapu honours own heroes
ZAPU, whose ZIPRA cadres have been denied national hero and heroine status by the Zanu-PF government on numerous occasions, has resolved to recognise and honour some of its departed cadres...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family 'hurt' by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu hero snub as late journalist buried
The family of the late journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu said it was disappointed he was not accorded national hero status as he was laid to rest on Thursday.Gwakuba died aged 87 ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Journalist Gwakuba Ndlovu burial set for today before Zanu-PF hero status
VETERAN journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu will be buried today at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo, his family has said. Gwakuba Ndlovu died last Friday at the United Bulawayo Ho...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Late journalist a moving BaKalanga encyclopaedia'
THE Kalanga Language and Cultural Development Association (KLCDA) has described the late veteran journalist Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, who was one of its long-serving trustees, as a "moving" BaKalanga encyc...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Veteran journalist Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu has died
Veteran journalist, writer and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu has died.He was 87.Saul died at United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) early Friday morning after a long illness.His wife...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo deserves sainthood'
ZIMBABWEANS should lobby the Catholic Church to declare Father Zimbabwe and former Vice President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a saint in honour of his contribution to humanity, an official said yesterda...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree villagers demand restoration of Kalanga chiefs
VILLAGERS and headmen in Plumtree are pushing for the reinstatement of Kalanga chiefs who were demoted during the colonial era to appease Ndebele chiefs who reportedly provided soldiers to the British...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
JZ Moyo dared Joshua Nkomo
The article gives an insight into the life of Moyo and also projects him as a fearless individual who did not hesitate to challenge his leader, the late Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo when he felt things wer...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Prof Makhurane hero declaration 'another first'
THE awarding of a national hero status to Professor Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane by the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) on 5 November, 2018 was a very apt and...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Lobengula did not disappear
INFORMATION diffused widely in this country after the extermination of the Allan Wilson Patrol by the heroic rear guard of King Lobengula under the command of Mtshana Khumalo was that the last Ndebele...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Plumtree council sues Bulawayo land developers
PLUMTREE Town Council is suing three Bulawayo land developers for more than $150 000 for doing a shoddy job by failing to fully service residential stands at Dingumuzi and Gwakuba suburbs in the borde...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo honour lights up Bulawayo
A MULTITUDE yesterday flooded the streets of Bulawayo, bringing much activity to the usually serene city, as residents joined an organised procession along historic sites in memory and honour of the l...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Mqabuko Day celebrations in SA
MATABELELAND Entertainment News (MEN) based in South Africa will present the annual Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Celebration Through Arts at the Aleck Gorshel Park, Berea in Johannesburg, South Africa, on ...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribe and the ism that fights unity in diversity
LAST week's issue of The Sunday News published a very thought-provoking article by Micheal Mhlanga on tribalism in which the author tried to justify that concept, and quoted a couple for what one can ...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
How Zipra rose from the ashes
IN our previous instalments of our Column Lest We Forget we have been carrying out articles on former Zipra camp commander, instructor and a member of the High Command, Jack Mpofu. Mpofu, the late Rog...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Dog meat is not part of nation's food culture
The recent arrest of a Bulawayo man on allegations of selling parts of dogs' carcasses he retrieved from some rubbish dumping sites was a very unusual occurrence.The dogs had been put down by ...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:58hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Historian bares all
JOHANNESBURG - Upcoming and popular cultural activist, researcher and historian Arnold Mayibongwe Nkala is expected to drop his eagerly awaited debut book title AbeThwakazi here in Johannesburg. ...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 12:34hrs | 25 | by Vusmann
Lest we forget
Zimbabwe yesterday remembered its national heroes and heroines who selflessly contributed their lives, limbs or properties for the liberation of their fatherland, which is now in the hands of the Afri...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
August - the month of traditional worship
THE lunar month of August starting on Tuesday is upon us. Zimbabwe is a country in which that period is culturally associated with traditional worshipping at several shrines in various regions....Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:12hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Zimbabwe presidency won through ballot box
Zimbabwe's mass and social media are awash with suggestions and arguments about who should or will succeed President Mugabe, and when.The succession debate should actually be dealt with at two...Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Let's hold free and fair elections
We should each one of us appreciate that thousands of lives were lost and millions of dollars' worth of property was destroyed in the liberation struggle to achieve freedom to choose our own represent...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation
Since his sad passing away on 1 July 1999 Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's name and life have continued to arrest public attention and imagination at a world scale.As I write the Zimbabwean historian an...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:18hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
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Joshua Nkomo: selfless patriot in the truest sense of the word
The following is a lecture delivered by veteran journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu at the Joshua Nkomo Memorial Lecture at Wits University in South Africa yesterday on the occasion of cele...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:35hrs | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Wits University hosts Joshua Nkomo memorial lecture
THE University of Witwatersrand in South Africa is today hosting the inaugural Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Centenary Memorial Lecture at its Johannesburg campus to honour the late Zimbabwean nationalist who ...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo wanted blacks to own land'
THOUSANDS of people yesterday converged on St Joseph Village in Kezi under Chief Bidi to celebrate the birthday of the late Vice-President and Father Zimbabwe Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo who was born on 7...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maverick JZ Moyo dared Joshua Nkomo
TWENTY TWO January will mark 40 years since the death of Jason Ziyapapa Moyo. The maverick Moyo who was Zapu's Vice-President was killed by a parcel bomb in Lusaka, Zambia. His death has been shro...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 07:58hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Shocking: 'Woman dies, resurrects, dies again'
MOST people wish they could get a chance to know the day they will die or rather to wake up from the dead so that they can express their final wishes to their loved ones.But it seems one w...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 20:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Ndebele State: Origins And Tribes
One hundred and forty-eight years ago yesterday, September 6, 1868, Mzilikazi kaMatshobana Khumalo, founder-king of the Ndebele State, died, leaving an unfortunate situation in which there was no clea...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:31hrs | 7 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
The veld fire menace
As I was writing this article, a veld fire was raging across a part of Trenance in Bulawayo, destroying whatever else in its path, grass, trees, and reptiles.It was unattended and would die do...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Land resettlement still unresolved 36 years later
A Zimbabwean parliamentary committee is currently touring the country sounding public opinion on the national land resettlement programme which was launched shortly after the attainment of independenc...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 08:27hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
War veterans: Architects of Zimbabwe's sovereignty
ZIMBABWE commemorates Heroes' Day today at a time when the nation is seized with misguided individuals calling for the Zanu-PF Government to step down to make room for a situation that is not exactly ...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
The life of George Silundika
TOMORROW the country will commemorate the Heroes Day and all Zimbabweans across the political divide are expected to observe the sacrifices made for the liberation of the country from the yoke of oppr...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:37hrs | 3 | by Vincent Gono
A 'marriage' of shame
A rather strange civil court case was heard in Bulawayo recently in which a man begged a magistrate to evict the man's daughter and her lover from his (the man's) house.The daughter had been l...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo: His life, legacy
LAST Friday's celebrations of the 17th anniversary of the death of Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo were one of the national occasions where many Zimbabweans looked at their country's past with deep admi...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Mission hospitals funding biased
THE Chronicle of June 21, 2016 carried a news item showing massive disparities in the Government funding of mission hospitals in some of Zimbabwe's regions.The story said a report tabled b...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 10:06hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Zambezi water: Solution to Bulawayo's ills
Bulawayo City is a pale shadow of its former self. This is mainly because of closure or relocation or contraction of many commercial, industrial companies and social welfare organisations.Once...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
The fate of the Zimbabweans in Kuwait
The predicament of some Zimbabwean women who are reportedly stranded in Kuwait is a very unfortunate result of this country's sanctions-induced poor socio – economic condition.They are said ...Published: 25 May 2016 at 07:16hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Renaming the streets and surbubs is honoring our heritage
There has been much media debate on the spelling of some Zimbabwean street and suburbs' names going on, with some people strongly criticising former colonial administrators for deliberately distorting...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Zimbabwe@36: time to decentralise
NEXT Monday, Zimbabwe will celebrate its 36th Independence anniversary, three dozen years of ups and downs, a period during which the country left the British Commonwealth, made gigantic educational a...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Economic welfare to top Mugabe, war vets indaba
ZIMBABWE's veterans of the national armed liberation struggle are scheduled to meet their patron, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe today at a Harare venue.Three obvious important issues are lik...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
ZAOGA opens University: A contribution to society
About two weeks ago, this publication carried a story about President Robert Mugabe thanking and congratulating a well known Zimbabwean church, the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) led by Pro...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Cephas Msipa presents fascinating read in auto-biography
Cephas George Msipa, one of Zimbabwe's living pioneer freedom-fighters, will officially launch his book, In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice, in Bulawayo this Friday.Msipa, 85, lives in Gweru in...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
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