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Chiwenga to preside over triple burial tomorrow
Acting President Dr Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga will tomorrow preside over the burials of three departed National Heroes.Chiwenga, 64, was last week reported...Published: 11 hrs ago | 2596 | by Staff reporter
Heroes choices outrage Gumbo, Mliswa
The only surviving member of Zanu-PF's Dare re Chimurenga, Rugare Gumbo has lashed out at the ruling party for continuing to play down the key roles of some late freedom fighters. Gumbo said t...Published: 20 hrs ago | 5683 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 induced triple heroes burial set for tomorrow
Zimbabwe will tomorrow witness the interment of three national heroes on the same day, the first time this is happening, in what will also highlight the grim times the country is enduring because of t...Published: 21 hrs ago | 548 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to preside over triple burial at Heroes Acre on Wednesday
The late Minister of Foreign Affairs Sibusiso Busi Moyo, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie Matiza and former Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services Commissioner Genera...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 21:37hrs | 2642 | by Staff reporter
Mukudzei Mudzi and a 'distorted history’
We have learned with sorrow and sadness of the death of Cde Mukudzei Mudzi (94) the former Executive Secretary (General Secretary) of Dare reChimurenga of ZANU.Cde Mudzi's death followed that ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 16:17hrs | 1911 | by Rugare Gumbo
Mliswa questions JB Matiza's heroes status
The late Transport and Infrastructural Development minister, Joel Biggie Matiza was declared a national hero yesterday but Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has conferring of hero status on him become a problem...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 07:07hrs | 10956 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra intelligence officer dies
One of the key figures in Zapu and Zipra's intelligence arm, National Security Organisation, during Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, Zephaniah Nkomo, has died of Covid-19, a colleague has confirmed. ...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 21:18hrs | 2587 | by Staff reporter
Matiza, Zimondi declared national heroes
The late Transport and Infrastructural Development minister, Joel Biggie Matiza and former Zimbabwe Prisons& Correctional Services Commissioner General, Major General (Rtd) Paradzai Zimondi have b...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 20:18hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi consoles nation
VICE President Kembo Mohadi yesterday sent condolence messages to families of five senior ZANU PF and Government officials who passed away last week.In a statement, VP Mohadi said Covid-19 con...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:28hrs | 2476 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not in COVID-19 quarantine
George Charamba, the interim Chief Secretary to the President, has rubbish allegations that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was under 14-day quarantine after being in contact with one of his aides who pu...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:55hrs | 1424 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga airlifted to China? - Highly unlikely
There are unconfirmed reports that Zimbabwe Vice President Rtd Gen Chiwenga has been airlifted to China this evening as his condition deteriorated.This was revealed by the usually reliable Chi...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 12786 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Chiwenga to rest
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week ordered Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to take a rest after the former army general appeared overwhelmed due to overworking and losing relatives to COVID-19...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:30hrs | 7547 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo burial set for Wednesday
Late national hero, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Retired), will be buried on Wednesday next week. Dr Moyo succumbed to Covid-19-re...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:19hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo and the Continuity of the Struggle
On the dawn of November 15, 2017, the late hero of Zimbabwe's armed struggle assumed the symbolic biblical ‘‘voice of one crying in the wilderness'' to make a way for the New Dispensation.To t...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 22:50hrs | 1391 | by Obert Moses Mpofu
Mnangagwa pleads with Zimbabweans to maintain coronavirus discipline
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pleaded with Zimbabweans to maintain their coronavirus discipline, while also encouraging the public not to lose hope as the country battles a deadlier second wa...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns heroes
Acting President Dr Constatino Chiwenga has sent condolence messages to the families of three national heroes who died in the past week.Dr Chiwenga condoled with the Moyo family following the ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:12hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Covid strikes Mnangagwa's VPs, cabinet ministers
THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 16232 | by Staff reporter
Self-ordained 'Mother of the Nation' got it all wrong
'Peace begins with me, Peace begins with you, Peace begins with all of us'The Chief Secretary, Dr. Misheck Sibanda, Deputy Chief Secretaries, Heads of Departments, Senior Management and Staff in t...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1871 | by Dr. M.J.M. Sibanda
Mnangagwa in low spirits as COVID-19 ravages allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is in "low spirits" as he buried two national heroes while mourning key ally, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, all in the absence of his two vice-presidents...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:40hrs | 3268 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo, the coup announcer, declared national hero
The late Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo, has been declared a national hero.The message was delivered by Defence and War Veteran Affairs Minister Oppah ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 18:14hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa presides over the double funeral at Heroes Acre
President Mnangagwa has presided over the joint burial of the late Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba and the late Zanu PF Central Committee member Morton Dizzy...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:14hrs | 1385 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadres eulogise SB Moyo
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Major-General (Rtd) Dr Sibusiso Moyo (SB), was yesterday described as a brave and intelligent soldier whose military prowess both during and after the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2316 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to cut his leave
President Mnangagwa will cut his leave tomorrow to preside over the joint burial of national heroes Moton Malianga and Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba at the National Heroes' Acre, showing the importance he atta...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:10hrs | 10435 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP chides Mnangagwa
FORMER Masvingo Central MP Jeffreyson Chitando (MDC) yesterday castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, alleging that it was running out of people who deserve to be conferred with her...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:09hrs | 4987 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes Malianga, Gwaradzimba
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday described the late founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Committee member Moton Dizzy Paul Malianga and Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:20hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
War vets mourn veteran nationalist Mudzi
Liberation war fighters yesterday mourned Mukudzei Mudzi (94)who died on Saturday, describing him as a militant patriot committed to the freedom of the country. This comes as Masvingo Province...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:46hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Double burial for national heroes
Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba (60) and founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Committee member Morton Dizzy Paul Malianga (91), who died last week, are l...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:45hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Malianga, Gwaradzimba declared national heroes
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national hero status on the late Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba (60) and founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Co...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:18hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urges Zimbabweans not to panic
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has urged Zimbabweans not to panic, but to be even more vigilant in their daily lives as the country reels from the second wave of the lethal coronavirus.Th...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:20hrs | 2558 | by Staff reporter
Town clerk tests Covid positive
BULAWAYO town clerk Mr Christopher Dube has contracted Covid-19. Mr Dube tested Covid-19 positive on Monday but did not need to be admitted to hospital. Over 24 000 people have contracted the ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3839 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economic war littered with detours, says Mohadi
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi yesterday said the country's economic war was littered with detours, challenges, and delays which require this generation's unyielding resolve to overcome.Mohadi ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:01hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Brigadier General Moyo died a bitter man
ZIPRA Veterans Association members, who mourned the late Retired Brigadier General, Collin Moyo, who died last Friday aged 66, said he died bitter over the marginalisation of the ex-Zapu military wing...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 2897 | by Staff reporter
Mystery of the Mberengwa 'ambula-cart'
AS Zimbabweans wallowed over the weekend in the boredom induced by the second coronavirus lockdown, an unusual but interesting picture went viral on social media.The image featured an ordinary...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 1782 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Mohadi to officiate at Brig-Gen Moyo's burial
The late national hero Brigadier-General Collin Moyo (Rtd), will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Tuesday 12 January 2021. According to the government spokesperson Nick Mangwanga, the ...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 19:15hrs | 2374 | by Staff reporter
Brig-Gen Moyo national hero
Decorated military commander, Brigadier-General Collin Moyo (Retired), who died in Harare last Friday, has been declared a National Hero. Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kas...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to decide Rtd Brig-General Moyo hero status
THE Zanu-PF leadership will deliberate on the hero status of decorated military commander, Brigadier-General Collin Moyo (Retired) who died on Friday last week in Harare.He was 66.The ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Shamuyarira's late widow
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa sent a message of condolence to the Shamuyarira family following the death of Amai Dorothy Shamuyarira yesterday morning.Amai Shamuyarira, who was a widow to former Cabinet...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 287 | 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 | 2819 | by Staff reporter
Man collapses, dies giving graveside speech
The Msipa family in the Ziboza communal lands in Zvishavane was dealt a double blow after a friend to their late family member collapsed and died while giving a graveside eulogy. The incident ...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2701 | by Staff reporter
Children of ZAPU/ZPRA donate food hampers to war vets
COZZ representative Felix Silundika (in black suit) hands over the food parcels to Mafela Trust director Zephaniah Nkomo while Sithembile Ndlovu looks on.The newly formed Children of ZPRA/ZAPU...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 18:33hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's unsung 'heroines' honoured
A BULAWAYO-BASED non-governmental organisation has honoured the city's unsung heroines credited with pioneering women's activism in the country, a departure from the past where leading persons are hon...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:52hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
School in Vumba renamed after Joshua Nkomo
A PRIMARY school in the Vumba resort area near Mutare has been renamed after the late national hero, Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo.Vice President Kembo Mohadi announced the renaming of the sc...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:38hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri estate: Family demands DNA tests
Some relatives of the late national hero Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri have requested DNA tests for some of his children despite them having birth certificates. According to some children, ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda's remains must be repatriated first then erection of the statue
One of the greatest achievements of the President of Zimbabwe comrade Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is to honour the heroes. The president has shown that he does not forget those deserving to be honoured...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:40hrs | 1742 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fair or Unfair 2023 Election - Opposition is going to Win - Teedzai
Maxwell Teedzai, the leader of Zimbabwe's newest opposition part Emej Zimbabwe (Economic Movement for Equality and Justice) has advised the opposition camp in Zimbabwe to stop wasting precious time on...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 18:11hrs | 2260 | by Agencies
Obert Mpofu COVID-19 positive, Zanu-PF confirms
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu has gone on self-isolation after testing positive for Covid-19.Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa last night confirmed that Dr Mp...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1420 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda's family must not disturb honouring of our heroine
Flags in Zimbabwe must fly at half-mast, each giving a sorrowful wave in the winds and in remembrance of our fallen heroes. The rhythm of the wind sings to a sad tune which says long leave the legend ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 23:59hrs | 1091 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF demands heroes' remains from Britain
ZANU-PF is demanding the return of heads of the country's heroes and heroines who were beheaded during the First Chimurenga for decent burials from Britain. This comes as the country is presen...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tours Nehanda statue site
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Monday visited the construction site of Mbuya Nehanda's statue where he was informed completion on the work is expected to be finalised by end of next week.The sta...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:59hrs | 5761 | by Staff reporter
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