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Innocent Mpoki, Zimbabweans do not deserve academic insults
Whoever read your today's article on Bulawayo24 is wondering on what planet you live on. I realized you live in USA: The hardships Zimbabwean are going through in that hellhole in Zimbabwe, you have n...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 21:23hrs | 998 | by Nomazulu Thata
The dangers of colonial nostalgia and Amnesia
The legacy of colonialism remains a stain on our society - something that cannot be whitewashed. It remains a source of trauma - a source of collective pain. Four decades after independence, its...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 11:21hrs | 448 | by Innocent Mpoki
When dark babies are not good enough! Thank you Andile: what an article!
It is a pity such articles never attract attention they deserve. Your article Andile was a good read and spot on. I do not need to seek far, why our African communities do not see the need to read it....Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:28hrs | 1363 | by Nomazulu Thata
Should Africa mourn Elizabeth II? Of course, we must not allow ranting of tyrants define who we are!
The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has triggered an outpouring of public sympathy from all corners of the world. The public sympathy from Africa has not gone down well with some people....Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 11:04hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Black children subjected to racism in UK
Racism hurts children, in real and fundamental ways. It hurts not just their health, but their chances for a good, successful life.It destroys their confidence and it is mostly applied by teac...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:40hrs | 15 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Chin'ono card cloner toady of the West'
Political activist Hopewell Chin'ono fraudulently made some money and is always sullying the country's image to get funding and curry favour with his Western handlers, Norton legislator Mr Temba Mlisw...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa did not reward POLAD but empowered the spirit of development
POLAD has been the power to peace in Zimbabwe after the 2018 elections. By giving them cars to enhance their work MNANGAGWA did not seek to bribe but to empower those who love their country at any cos...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 16:50hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa accuse 'Africans looking down upon themselves of holding back Africa' - it's him by refusing fallible and accountable
"PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday took time to criticise some Africans he accused of continuously looking down upon themselves while apportioning high regard for Western ways of doing things," repo...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bulawayo has highest number of never married households heads
BULAWAYO has the highest number of heads of households who have never been married and the lowest percentage of couples living together.The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee ZimVAC (...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
A letter to Ms. Sehlule Ndlovu: Hillside Bulawayo
Dear Ms. Sehlule Ndlovu, I start my letter with the first sentence of the article written today regarding the fight you had with supposedly your husband Trust Moyo. If marriage is war, the bed...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 19:06hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
US elections expose flaws in Western democracy
AMERICANS love to promote the myth that they have the corner on government by and for the people, but the latest brouhaha at the polls suggests otherwise.Despite the cheers ringing around the ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:39hrs | 1 | by Steven Friedman
Can black arts (Kuromba) be sole source of wealth in Zimbabwe?
According to Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, diplomat and retired general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001-2005, a dream does not become r...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:40hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo (PhD)
Zimbabwean women abused by their partners in the UK
Some Zimbabwean ladies saw a chance to better their lives by going abroad to work, but being abroad is not always a wonderful thing when your family is not with you. Many foreign women in the United K...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:21hrs | 16 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Let us be selfless like Joshua Nkomo
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira last Friday urged Zimbabweans to emulate the late nationalist and Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, who he described as a selfless man who fought for the...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commander declared national hero
The late Brigadier General Emilio Munemo, a former commander of the notorious Fifth Brigade which is accused of carrying out a genocide in Matabeleland in the 1980s, has been declared a national hero....Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 18:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commander dies
Brigadier General Emile Munemo, a former commander of the notorious Fifth Brigade which is accused of carrying out a genocide in Matabeleland in the 1980s, has died.Munemo, the father of polit...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 16:32hrs | 5 | by ZimLive
Why Africa finds it hard to support Chamisa's MDC
On the 11th of March 2007 the world woke up to shocking images of the bashed faces of Morgan Tsvangirai, Lovemore Madhuku and others after the police had forcibly dispersed an opposition organised gat...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
No democracy is a finished product
One day, if they follow instructions, Africa's new democracies will grow up to be "real" like those of Western Europe and North America. This assumption makes little sense — but it influences the wa...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Steven Friedman
Mnangagwa endorsements dangerous for Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has repeatedly told us that his post-Robert Mugabe administration won't bother about politics, but the economy. That's a measured lie that was never going to make sense an...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:51hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Why has Africa not developed after attaining independence?
Dear AfricaI grew up thinking that Africa was once referred to as a dark continent because most of its inhabitants are dark in complexion. Honestly it didn't bother me because to me black is r...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Munya Shumba
Lets support the man on the ball
Dear Zimbabweans Growing up my poor father used to tell me that no team gonna win a match if other players dont support the man on the ball! Wise words from an old man as this surely makes sen...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 13:32hrs | 1 | by Munya Shumba
A classical example of a pot telling the kettle: 'how black!' who will be counted in the Trump Era
Be it Mnangagwa giving Donald Trump land in abundance in Victoria Falls or Chamisa dreaming of Las Vegas in Victoria Falls, it is just tasteless. Now when Chamisa ridicules Mnangagwa about his golf co...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 19:44hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
'White interface' rally triggers storm
Picture this: When President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses rallies in most parts of Zimbabwe, there are dozens of security personnel around him armed with guns.His supporters spend long hours, ...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:09hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Justice Chigumba is attacked once more using Zimbabwe weapon of mass destruction: SEX
Chamisa and his thugs were seen once more storming the office of Justice Chigumba without an appointment. They demanded to see her at once. Their small minds immersed in inferiority complex were talki...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 20:00hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ezra Tshisa slams Zimbabwe radio presenters
AVID listeners of various radio stations all over Zimbabwe idolise and revere the young crop of presenters that have since emerged and have been under the spotlight since the mid-2000s.For man...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
#ME-TOO movement in Zimbabwe will be supported by Zimbabwe men!
Fourth letter to the women of ZimbabweI wish you a happy women's day to you all my fellow Zimbabweans wherever you may be: kumativi mana enyika. There are several areas we need to celebrate ou...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 19:33hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Pertinent questions about the Ndebele King
The following represents a litany of questions drawn from a diversity of people who genuinely seek to understand role and relevance of the institution of the King in their lives. I made an attempt to ...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 14:05hrs | 8 | by George Mkhwanazi
Nelson Chamisa conspiracy theorists
The "hint" given by MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai that he looks forward to the prospect of passing on the baton to the younger generation has generated a lot of interest and debate within and...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 14:41hrs | | by Wilton N Machimbira
'UK's calamitous strategy' led to Mnangagwa's downfall, says Oxford University Lecturer
"There are several reasons why Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe fired his Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa on 6 November. Many were likely to do with ZANU-PF infighting over who will eventually suc...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 06:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Mthwakazi will never be free with our cowardice,' says Ndebele
A Mthwakazi activists Mqondisi Ndebele has lamented that Mthwakazi will never be free until its citizens do away with cowardice."My heart bleeds as I transfer my feelings into written words, I...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Politicians in Matabeleland must stop their Harare supremacy thinking - MRP
Mthwakazi Republic Party spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo has warned politicians from different political parties who are based in Matabeleland to stop their mentality that Harea is supreme to the local peo...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 08:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe and others believe they deserve to have definite distribution of power
MDC official Discent Collins Bajila has said MDC-T Vice President Thokozani Khupe and other top officials of the party think that they have definite authority to distribute power amid the violence whi...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 08:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Nkomo's inferiority complex disturbing - Zapu
Zapu Spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa has said National People's Party Vice President Samuel Sipepa Nkomo's inferiority complex to a point where he says all men can not run the country is disturbing....Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 07:35hrs | | by APO
Highlanders fans are jealousy of Dynamos' status
FORMER DYNAMOS player Memory Mucherahowa has made sensational claims that some Highlanders fans are jealousy of the Glamour Boys' status as the most successful football club in the country and this us...Published: 20 May 2017 at 12:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Only a mindless begot like Bwoni would ignore the facts and still call Mugabe 'Africa's finest'
"It is the battle of the mind however, that is the most difficult to emerge victorious. It takes time and endurance. It is the hardest, especially so in Africa, a continent that bears the still-fresh ...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Robert Mugabe: Africa's finest son
Battles are won by men and women of physical, mental and moral mettle. They are fought in the trenches and the mind. The battles of the trenches are easier because the enemy is easily identifiable....Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Bernard Bwoni
Domestic Violence/Abuse: Shouldn't women share a mini-portion of the blame?
It's both our prayers, that men who are domestic abusers, "burn in hell and rot away in agony!" Oh yeah, I totally do agree with the vengeful prayer request, but hit the brakes for a moment... I think...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 11:25hrs | 2 | by Nimi Princewill
21st March Matebele Genocide demonstrations in South Africa
The time is drawing nigh for the historic anti-gukurahundi genocide march which will reverberate in Johannesburg on the 21st March 2017 under the auspices of uLoyiko. Gukurahundi is a Shona word which...Published: 18 Mar 2017 at 11:48hrs | 1 | by Thulani Nkala
'We should be enlightened enough to see past clans, tribes' - Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda
For some days now, I have observed from the side lines as events unfolded online that seemed to confirm my worst fears and worsen every time I logged on. I am currently on a fact-finding mission to as...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 12:52hrs | 2 | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe condemns Masara's Ndebeles are cowards jibe
Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe official Dumisani O Nyongolo Nkomo has said the organisation condemns in the strongest terms the remarks by a human rights activist Linda Masara who said Ndebeles are cowa...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 11:16hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
1 Milliom march, a G40 March
ZANU PF has intensified its preparations for the milliom march pencilled to take place on the 25th of May. Reasons for the event are to reaffirm and confirm the youth's support to His Excellency, the ...Published: 23 May 2016 at 12:51hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
'African leaders now reversing the gains of independence,' says Mugabe
There is need for African leaders to re-examine their policies politically and economically as some of them are now reversing the gains brought by the continent's founding fathers, President Mugabe sa...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:02hrs | 1 | by Felex Share
A REJOINDER: Mugabe calls truce to carefully orchestrated factional war that has Mnangagwa shaken and stirred in equal measure
It is time Zimbabweans support ideas irrespective of affiliation and gunging up which has fueled President Mugabe innuendos in the control and blackmailing to the core attempts at building opposition ...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Andrew Manyevere
This and that with Mal'phosa - Take a leaf from Zuma
The unfortunate anarchy which has resulted in the butchery of citizens in Bujumbura brings forth a few pertinent questions which all high-light the monumental failure of the regional groupings like th...Published: 27 Dec 2015 at 14:09hrs | 2 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Zim's economic hell will test the metal of this nation and Mugabe, Mujuru or Tsvangirai will not get us out!
It is very tragic that this nation should now find itself in this tragic situation of serious economic meltdown resulting in collapse of all basic services and forcing millions of our people out of wo...Published: 09 Dec 2015 at 19:51hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Go hang on a banana tree,' Mutsvangwa told
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba and War Veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa are embroiled in a vicious fight over President Mugabe's parliament wrong speech mistake.The pair is...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 09:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa, Charamba in vicious fight
A war of words erupted between War veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa and Presidential spokesperson George Charamba days after President Robert Mugabe read the wrong speech during the official opening...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 07:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe 'is indeed a colossal' says former MDC Adviser Dr Magaisa - a man with the intellect of an ant!
If you are an ant anything bigger than a mouse might as well be an elephant! After all there is no difference between an ant squashed by a dick-dick and one squashed by an elephant because way you ge...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 06:43hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
White racists using blacks to demonise Zuma
President Jacob Zuma has taken more abuse and insults from South Africans than any other head of state since the demise of apartheid two decades ago. He has been attacked left, right and centre. H...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 09:33hrs | 3 | by Thabo Kunene
Is Zimbabwe a nation of docile citizens?
One of my favourite books, A Hitchhiker's guide to a Failed State, describes Zimbabwe as '…a nation of docile citizens, they are not imbeciles by any stretch of imagination'. 'On a fair day, an ...Published: 04 Nov 2014 at 17:34hrs | 1 | by Tendai Kwari
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