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UK agrees to return remains of Nehanda, Kaguvi

British authorities have granted Zimbabwe permission to repatriate the remains of First Umvukela war heroes, taken to Europe during the colonial era as war trophies. The decision marks a significant step in Zimbabwe's decades-long quest to…

Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 10:26hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe edgy over delayed return of Nehanda skull

Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has emphasized the need to conclude discussions on the repatriation of skulls of Zimbabwean heroes taken to Britain during the colonial era. Speaking at the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (…

Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:18hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's son warns against Nehanda ZWL$50 note snub

Deputy Minister of Finance and Investment Promotion, Kudakwashe Mnangagwa, issued a warning to businesses refusing to accept the ZWL$50 note, emphasizing that they could face substantial penalties. He made this statement while addressing q…

Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Mpopoma's famous personalities

BULAWAYO city, just like other towns and cities in Zimbabwe, had residential areas allocated according to race before Independence. Europeans, Africans, referred to at that time as "natives," Indians and coloureds had separate suburbs.All …

Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

UK can't find Nehanda's skull

London's Natural History Museum and Cambridge University have said that they are ready to co-operate with Zimbabwe to return human remains that were taken in the colonial era.The fresh statements come after a delegation from Zimbabwe held …

Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:00hrs | 5 | by Staff rporter

Chamisa's supporters attempts to deface Nehanda statue

POLICE yesterday arrested a Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) activist who was moving around town clad in the opposition party's colours chanting anti-Government slogans before attempting to deface the statue of the revered First Chimure…

Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 4 | by Staf reporter

UK can help solve mystery of Mbuya Nehanda's missing skull

FOR Zimbabweans have been calling on Britain to return the skulls of a former spiritual leader, Mbuya Nehanda, and several chiefs who were killed during the First Chimurenga, an Ndebele-Shona revolt against the British South Africa Company…

Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Nehanda must be brought back but what about gukurahundi victims, post-2000 election victims?

I don't cope and usually don't quote fellow bloggers but on this one, I will quote Nomazulu, who said "I used to think bootlicking,hero-worshipping was for the uneducated but even the highly educated do so excellently". This is very true w…

Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:41hrs | 8 | by Phosiwe Ncube

ED Pfeeee in UK hill Nehanda's head head home

The President of Zimbabweans His Excellence Cde Dr Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA will be gracing the Queen's land in October 2021. There is great excitement amongst Zimbabweans who are hoping to catch a glimpse of their iconic leader. Preside…

Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:46hrs | 17 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza

Journalistic tenets lost to 'hits' and the quest for followers

One of the greatest problems currently confronting journalists on the Zimbabwean media landscape is the emergence of social media, with the attendant proliferation of platforms populated by content producers who are anxious to attract foll…

Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:50hrs | 4 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Angry citizens to destroy Nehanda statue: Prophecy

POPULAR Prophet Blessing Chiza has once again courted controversy, and the ire of the government, after his weekend's prophecy predicting the newly-erected Mbuya Nehanda statue faces demolition by restless citizens protesting against econo…

Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:06hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Honouring Mbuya Nehanda was a coup for Mnangagwa

We, from the Zipra side of the Zimbabwe nationalist movement, do not agree with President Ammerson Mnangagwa on many issues, but on the issue of honouring Mbuya Nehanda, reclaiming our history and rewriting it to suit ourselves, we are in …

Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 6 | by Kenneth Mufuka

As Rhodes falls Nehanda arises

WHILE Zimbabweans bemoan the little money spent to remember a mother of our liberation, the Black Lives Matter Movement engulfs the globe after the massacre of George Floyd. Resultantly, statues and monuments of slave traders and coloniali…

Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva

'Nehanda not a national heroine'

A LOCAL historian has said government erected Mbuya Nehanda's statue for political expediency, distorting history since the heroine of the first war of resistance against colonial rule was not a national, but a regional figure.President Em…

Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Some Zimbabweans irked by Nehanda statue

The Zimbabwean government unveiled a statue of the liberation heroine and anti-colonialism figurehead Mbuya Nehanda in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday amid controversy about its priorities while the economy and health system collapse.Presi…

Published: 26 May 2021 at 10:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa defies COVID-19 protocols

THOUSANDS of people, mostly Zanu-PF supporters, yesterday gathered in defiance of COVID-19 safety protocols in central Harare for the unveiling of the statue of Mbuya Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana.This was the third time inside a week that Pr…

Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa disapproves the Nehanda statue

A controversial statue of Mbuya Nehanda which became a butt of jokes, literally, has been rejected by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The bronze statue by artist David Mutasa portrayed a youngish-looking Nehanda with a big bottom.Mnangagwa, w…

Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Nehanda statue saga rages

The government will consider input from Zimbabweans on the Mbuya Nehanda statue that will eventually be erected in Harare amid indications authorities are mulling the possibility of starting the process afresh following a public outcry.A s…

Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

'Mnangagwa our own Mbuya Nehanda,' says Chinamasa

ZANU-PF acting spokes-person Patrick China-masa yesterday took praise-singing to a new level, describing President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country's own Mbuya Nehanda, an ancient ancestral spirit from the 19th century considered holy and…

Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Dozens arrested over Nehanda artefacts

AT LEAST 65 people have been arrested in Mazowe for destroying artefacts belonging to Mbuya Nehanda, the police have said. Mbuya Nehanda, also known as Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana, was one of the spiritual leaders of the Shona during the 18…

Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Pregnant woman dies of negligence at Mbuya Nehanda maternity wing

Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals has launched an investigation into the death of a pregnant woman, Sharon Munyonho who died at the hospital's Mbuya Nehanda maternity wing on Sunday due to alleged negligence by nurses manning the ward.The la…

Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 13:26hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter

Repatriation of Mbuya Nehanda, Sekuru Kaguvi imminent

A UK museum has examined 13 human remains of heroes and heroines of the First Chimurenga as part of preparations to repatriate them back home.The remains include those of iconic 19th century leaders such as Mbuya Nehanda, Sekuru Kaguvi, Ch…

Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:36hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter

Is Prisca Mupfumira paying for frustrating the repatriation of Nehanda

Prisca Mupfumira is a Zimbabwean politician and former Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry. She is also the former Minister Of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare. She is also the Senator of Mashonaland West.In July 2019, sh…

Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter

The boy who fed Mbuya Nehanda

LET us from the onset warn you dear readers. The narration below, by Julian Maodza Murenga Mukomawashe, belongs to the spiritual world. Born on August 22 1960, in Mbire; Murenga is that muzukuru waMbuya Nehanda that Joseph Khumalo and many…

Published: 29 May 2016 at 10:18hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Nehanda Heritage Tree in Second Accident

At approximately 02:30 am on the morning of December 18, I was driving home from a party in the Harare suburb of Borrowdale when I noticed that a lorry had crashed into the Nehanda heritage tree. Despite the size of the tree stump it had c…

Published: 24 Dec 2011 at 17:23hrs | 5 | by Nonku Vundla | relzim.org

Mbuya Nehanda the prophet of Satan

While the country is shocked by the fall of a sad historical tree from which Mbuya Nehanda was hanged, I celebrate the end of a symbol of evil. I am a patriotic Zimbabwean black by skin colour and of Mbire Royal family of Dzimbabwe.To quic…

Published: 09 Dec 2011 at 06:22hrs | 23 | by Dudu Masaiti

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