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Ndeblele 'King' suspends State House march

One of the claimants to the Ndebele throne, Stanley Raphael Khumalo, has publicly committed to a traditional lot-drawing process aimed at resolving the long-standing kingship dispute, signaling a significant shift in his approach.Khumalo h…

Published: 22 Nov 2025 at 12:58hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter

Tribalism, fear, paranoia drive Zanu PF's response to Ndebele king

A seemingly innocuous picture of Bulawayo mayor David Coltart and Bulelani Khumalo, who claims to be the Ndebele king, seems to have caused panic in the corridors of power with a tempest in a coffee pot brewing.Daniel Garwe, the local gove…

Published: 13 May 2025 at 15:31hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi

Minister under fire over 'Ndebele King'

In a striking letter dated 22 April 2025, Zimbabwe's Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Honourable Daniel Garwe, launched an unprecedented attack on the cultural identity of the Ndebele people. In a sternly worded correspondenc…

Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 17:28hrs | | by Mzingaye Khumalo

Teaching Ndebele in Zimbabwe schools will have helped Shonas

There are times when you think you are spitting someone, when in fact, you are destroying yourself.One such instance was when Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in ZANU (before it became ZANU-PF) thought they didn't need unity with ZAPU, as …

Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 11:21hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono

The standardisation of the Ndebele language through dictionary-making

The thesis assesses the contribution of dictionary-making in Ndebele on the standardisation of the language. The production of the monolingual Ndebele dictionary, Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele (ISN), raised a number of issues that have implica…

Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 17:42hrs | | by Samukele Hadebe

Ndebeles will never be good enough for the rabid tribalists

Being born into a Ndebele, Kalanga or Sotho family in Zimbabwe can be a bewildering, challenging and frustrating affair. If you were born in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, like Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was, in 1917, you could never bec…

Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 07:15hrs | 29 | by Tafiranyika @tafimhaka

Zimbabwe's Two-State Dilemma: Unveiling the marginalization of Matabeleland

In the heart of southern Africa, Zimbabwe stands as a nation marred by a tumultuous history, marked by colonial oppression, independence struggles, and a post-colonial era fraught with political turmoil. At the core of Zimbabwe's challenge…

Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 07:29hrs | 26 | by Josh Mhambi

This & that with Mal'phosa: The endangered species

I have a feeling the Ndebele language is endangered - and we, the custodians of the language by right of being senior citizens - are not helping the situation in any way. How would you feel if you were the last Ndebele speaker in the whole…

Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 10:04hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

Ndebele artists compelled to perform in their 'oppressor's' language?

In his analysis of ethnicity and tribalism in Zimbabwe, Eleph Gula-Ndebele explains that the ethnic cleansing of Ndebele people during the Gukurahundi genocide is a sore that refuses to go away for many people of Ndebele lineage. Being [a]…

Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 06:21hrs | 44 | by Gibson Ncube & Gugulethu Siziba

ZBC must stop marginalising Ndebele

THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation is now the chief architect of tribalism and regionalism, through the airwaves.All its stations have now been turned into de facto Shona and English channels just to marginalise Ndebele as the third lar…

Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 15:21hrs | | by Martin Stobart

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 to visit the FREM website at: https://www.federa…

Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 17:53hrs | | by Dr. Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza

Turning Point - HRM King Mzilikazi II

Mthwakazi omuhle ondlela zimhlophe, sizwe senkosi yohlanga ngiyalibingelela!Sesiside isikhathi lingezwa lutho oluvelela ngapha nges'Godlweni. Isizatho yikuthi njengothunyiweyo, kumele ngizwe Ngongithumileyo. Kodwa lathi besingamanga, ngoba…

Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:27hrs | | by HRM King Mzilikazi II

Ndebele King : A Constitutional Right

The President of Zimbabwe ED Mnangagwa declared over the past weekend in Gweru that the Ndebele nation shall not be allowed to install a King of the Ndebele since Zimbabwe is a Republic and not a Kingdom such as Lesotho and Swaziland. Pres…

Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:49hrs | | by Mzilikazi Zwane

Mutodi must not get away with reckless utterances

THE reckless tribal statement by Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi that Ndebele people were foreigners in Zimbabwe during a recent live radio broadcast should be condemned with the contempt it deserves.In fact, he should have been …

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:19hrs | | by NewsDay editorial

UK Commemorates the visit of Ndebele Chiefs to Queen Victoria in 1889

The African community in the UK will be Celebrating the 1889 visit of two Ndebele Chiefs to Queen Victoria in London. In late 1888 King Lobengula sent 2 emissaries from present day Zimbabwe to go and meet with the Queen of the United Kingd…

Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:29hrs | | by Joseph Qobo Mayisa

The 1929 Bulawayo Shona-Ndebele fights reconsidered

From Christmas Eve of 1929 to the end of that year, Bulawayo was an ungovernable city marred by ï¬ghts between Shona, on the one hand (perceived as a 'common enemyâ€™), and forces that were predominantly Ndebele and groups sympathetic to …

Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:34hrs | | by Enocent Msindo

Tabitha Khumalo tells Ndebeles to go hang if they don't want shona leadership in Bulawayo

In a shocking video circulating on social media and according to the information gathered by our intelligence department, Thabitha Khumalo is seen defending her party's tribal agenda on the people of Matabeleland and Midlands. Tabitha Khum…

Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 06:41hrs | | by Mthwakazi

Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state

FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investigate the reasons behind names and the n…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | | by Pathisa Nyathi

Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion

Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies: Nature and Function of Alien Spirits in the Shona/Ndebele Traditional Religion The concept of God, divinities and spirits in African traditional religious ontology has been a controversial and m…

Published: 12 May 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Brian Maregedze

Matebeleland Problems won't be solved by Zimbabwe Government ( ZANUPF)

How can the Zimbabwe Government solve Matebeleland problems when the same Zanu PF system is the chief creator of all our problems?Our problems today as a region were created, knowingly and deliberately, by Zanu PF and the British Governmen…

Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 18:46hrs | | by VV Vodloza kaVodloza

Fake meeting of the Ndebeles and Mnangagwa

The fake meeting of the Ndebeles and President Mnangagwa dented our struggle against oppression. You can't just arrange a prompt meeting with a  person who obviously has no plans of helping you, whose leadership is of a chair painted …

Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 19:36hrs | | by Clement Moyo (Mr)

No justification for ECD non-Ndebele Speaking Teachers

Dear Editor, The condescending article  by Shumba Happison cannot go unchallenged  as it is a concoction  of tribal lies and displaced  superiority complex. Oblivious  to the sad reality  that ECD students&nbs…

Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by Sihle Ndlovu

Zimbabwe is for us all

I find it unfair for people like Ezra Tshisa Sibanda to say that the government is trying to get rid of Ndebele by employing teachers with Shona surnames to teach in Matebeleland and other Ndebele dominated areas. People like him should ma…

Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 18:29hrs | | by Shumba Happison

Ndebeles' long walk from Bulawayo to Harare

On the 7th December 2018 saw some dedicated and culturally conscious Ndebele men embark on a long walk from Bulawayo to Harare with an aim of petitioning the government of Zimbabwe on cultural respect of Mthwakazi. "It is all about acknowl…

Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 21:22hrs | | by Thulani Nkala

Gukurahundi, which way now?

The days we were growing up, back then in Masvaure area kwaMarange, watching domestic animals fight was a popular hobby. Dominant bulls would fight for territory. Dog fighting was however most entertaining. A handful of sand would usually …

Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 20:34hrs | | by Bornface waNgaikere Masikati

'Ndebeles will never rule Zimbabwe'

Now that I have your attention may I say that Im very disappointed with some Ndebele fools who have been flooding my inbox with insults saying that I am a sponsored Zanu PF thug.I will understand if it were Shona's but the issue that I rai…

Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 11:45hrs | | by Rabson Mwenda

Ndebele kingship takes another twist - umbiko esizweni sika Mthwakazi

Sanibona sizwe sikamthwakazi kwaBulawayo, nina benkanyamba emakhandakhanda uMzilikazi kaMashobane Khumalo nomdabuli wesizwe sonke. Sicela ukwazisa isizwe samahlabezulu ukuthi kunendlu endala endlini yesilo uLobhengula kaMzilikazi eseMgungu…

Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 11:26hrs | | by Lucky Khumalo

Dangers of Ndebele and Shona radicalism and extremism in Zimbabwe

After reading my article published by Bulawayo24.com published on the 15th of October 2018 titled "Lobengula was King of both Matebeleland and Mashonaland" a Mr Ndlovu a Zimbabwean living in SA gave me a phone call. What I learnt from Ndlo…

Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 09:34hrs | 3254 | by Etiwel Mutero

Mthwakazi was never a Ndebele Kingdom but a San Kingdom

The only group of people which overthrew the Mthwakazi State was the Ndebele people led by Mzilikazi in 1863, since then the Mthwakazi Kingdom was never freed.Today we are told there is a group of people calling for the independence of the…

Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Etiwel Mutero

Headmaster's isiNdebele ban unfortunate

Editor,When 2017 ended little did Nhwali primary school pupils know they were kissing goodbye to their favourite language isiNdebele.Letters were dispatched to parents to choose which language they wanted their children to do. Predominantl…

Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 11:38hrs | | by Nkunziyembongolo Dube, Nhwali, Gwanda South

Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory

It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that one would think they take the world to be populated with retards that are so gullible that …

Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 05:52hrs | 873 | by Reason Wafawarova

2018 elections, implications on Ndebele

Parliamentary representation has not helped Ndebele speaking territories much since attainment of independence. For a good hopeless 25 years or more Zanu PF MPs and ministers playing the tune of that party have pranced the scenes in the gu…

Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 11:09hrs | | by Sazi Ntozonke

The 1979 Grandplan from a women's perspective

I have read the so called Shona's 1979 Grand Plan, each time I finish reading it I find myself getting emotional. I ,being a Christian sometimes I find myself praying and meditating against the Spirit of anger, or revenge. Sometimes I try …

Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Presia Ngulube

Ndebeles will never rule Zimbabwe

This article is circulating on social media.Now that I have your attention may I say that I'm very disappointed with some Ndebele fools who have been flooding my inbox with insults saying that I am a sponsored Zanu PF thug. I will understa…

Published: 26 May 2018 at 16:42hrs | | by Rabson Mwenda- Mutare (Loyal MDC supporter)

I have lost faith in ZEC

Editor, As a proud Ndebele speaker who without apology associates with fellow Nguni speakers (Swati, Xhosa, Zulu,Ndebele) to form the largest group in Southern Africa, I have lost faith in ZEC's ability to run a decent election. A statutor…

Published: 22 May 2018 at 19:10hrs | | by S Dube

2023!! Marginalized Ndebeles should unite and rally behind Hon Tshinga Dube for Presidency

By It is not a secret that the Matabeleland people have been marginalized big time since Zimbabwe got its independence from Britain in 1980.These guys have played second fiddle in Zimbabwe's politics both during and after former president …

Published: 17 May 2018 at 05:40hrs | 2251 | by Knowledge Hakata

How am I making the life of my Mthwakazi brother better

I appreciate the reality of Shona hegemony, however it does not justify the levels of hatred that we exhibit here. Secondly, none here has been able to convincingly articulate the direction of a Shona free Region and Mthwakazi by extension…

Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by unknown

Dorcas Sibanda aka Dorcas Shumba is not Ndebele Mr president, Don't impose

Dorcas Sibanda was born Dorcas Shumba in Zvimba  many years ago. She changed her name to Dorcas Sibanda after relocating to Bulawayo. It is quite unfortunate that the MDC-T president is about to make his biggest blunder for he wants t…

Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 16:41hrs | | by Thabetha Mangena

Thabitha khumalo: A woman of virtue has to BE appointed national spokesperson for the MDC

The council of the MDC-T under the able guidance of Advocate Nelson Chamisa appointed Thabitha khumalo member of Parliament for Bulawayo East as the Acting Spokesperson after the firing of Obert Gutu. It is indeed my opinion that this lady…

Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 21:43hrs | | by Henry Madiro

Mugabe believed its Ndebeles that were going to stage a Coup

Since 1980, Mugabe held a misinformed   belief that the coup d'etat that was to upstage him from power was going to originate from Matabeleland. Reality struck, on the 15th of November 2017.On this day, Zimbabwe woke up to a war-…

Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 05:47hrs | 3113 | by Wilson Mahlafuna Sibanda & Khohliso Maqhoba

Mugabe blame 'Ndebeles' and Zapu for Gukurahundi

Q: What role have you played in the formation of the National Patriotic Front, the new opposition party led by Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri? Are you a member? Is the former first lady a member?A: I've had quite a number of g…

Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | | by Staf reporter

Uloyiko wins an award at the Zabalaza festival

"We are thrilled to have won an award, it is a great honour, we never set out to win an award, however, we are thankful and appreciative of the recognition of o

Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 19:05hrs | | by Thulani Nkala

Ndebele king: Unemotional solution required

I HAVE been investing a great deal of time to find a possible solution to the monarchy controversy and I have come to the conclusion that the recent Court ruling provides a possible answer. It provides a window of possible settlement throu…

Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka

Let Matebeleland become the 13 state in South Africa

`Allow me the opportunity to respond to the statement made by Robert Mugabe on the killings of Zapu people. I am a Umkhonto weSizwe veteran and trained under Zapu in Zambia during the struggle for liberation as we fought apartheid. We in S…

Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 10:25hrs | | by Anonymous

Colins Bajila's analysis flawed

Dear Editor,I was disappointed by the flawed analysis of the  MDC official Discent Collins Bajila which concluded "that Neither Banda nor Ncube are Shona and therefore if this violence is to be put in its proper context it can't be sa…

Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 10:36hrs | | by S. Dube

The Ndebele King and my Pragmatic Shona Vision

Civilisation started with problem solving. When our Homo Habilis ancestors noticed that they were physically less powerful than the buffalos in the forest whose meat they wanted to eat, they used the power of their superior brains to sharp…

Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 16:57hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri

Mnangagwa's govt violates cultural rights

Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) have just learnt that the Zimbabwean government has ordered the cancellation of the coronation of Crown Prince Bulelani Lobhengula arguing that the installation of the Crown Prince is unconsti…

Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by MIHR General Secretary

Does Bulelani Khumalo qualify by descent?

I was troubled by the assertions/insinuations made by Peter Zwide Ka Langa Khumalo's spoke's person on this platformHe states that Mr Bulelani Khumalo is South African! which is factually true. How does this disqualify him though as being …

Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 07:46hrs | | by George Mtshede

King Nyamande Lobhengula II, unveiling invite

You are cordially invited to come and attend an unveiling function that shall be held to unveil King Nyamande Lobhengula II. This function shall be held as follows:Date:       17 February 2018Venue: &nbsp…

Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 16:02hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka

Mashona vs AmaNdebele: A legacy of disgusting racism

Being born into an Ndebele family in Zimbabwe can be a bewildering, challenging and frustrating affair. If you were born in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, like Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was, in 1917, you could never become the head of s…

Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka

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