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Mr. President, Zimbabwe already has a new breed of heroes - but your regime persecutes them
A country's liberation struggle never ends.During the burial of the late Air Vice Marshal (Rtd) Winnie Cabby Mandeya at the National Heroes Acre, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that Zim...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:35hrs | 587 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 31 | by Tafi Mhaka
ZimDaily recycling a discredited historical myth
While most progressive Zimbabweans are genuinely outraged by renegade political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's calculated and determined assault on democracy at the behest of forces of darkness by disru...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | 276 | by Dumisani Muleya
'Real' Zimbabwe heroes struggling to survive
AS the country celebrates Heroes Day Monday, former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) instructor, Grace Ethel Noko remains one of the unsung liberation struggle heroines despite having play...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
If Simon khaya-Moyo was a hero he would have agreed to be buried at the 'heroes acre'
I wish Welshman Mabhena was alive, while I also was to be happy if Ndabaningi Sithole could have been still around.Without any doubt these two liberation stalwarts declared during their life t...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 19:27hrs | 13 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Zimbabwe true liberation heroes need to finally unshackle themselves from those who hijacked the struggle
This past week has been a most painful one for all of us who respect and honour the history of our beloved country, its legacy, and the struggle that brought about its liberation.Firstly, ther...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 17:55hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
No to Zanu-PF army, Mnangagwa told
THE military and other securocrats have been urged to desist from being used as Zanu-PF agents and serve national interests.This was said yesterday by opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Cha...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Is it hunger, or pure greed and amorality, that leads Zimbabweans to betray and abandon the suffering majority?
One image has been haunting me this morning - which got me thinking long and hard on the apparent extremely troubling propensity for Zimbabweans to betray and abandon their fellow suffering countrymen...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 13:46hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe leaders who have nothing to show for 40 years of misrule now find glory in liberation struggle tales
"Matakadya kare haanyaradzi pwere" - that is the saying that I always think of whenever our leaders in Zimbabwe launch a book glorifying their liberation struggle exploits of more than forty years ago...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 10:04hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Recovering drug addict Naomi Campbell lampooned over Jacob Zuma open letter
British supermodel, actress and businesswoman Naomi Campbell has received a blasting from die-hard Jacob Zuma supporters for her open letter criticising the former president for his defiance of the co...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'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 natio...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Where are you President Mnangagwa?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa where are you? The people of Zimbabwe want you to give them guidance, but you are nowhere to be found.Your silence has put the rumour mill into gear, causing a lot...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Morgan Tsvangirai and the making of a national hero
When Elliot Manyika - with the help of Bryn Muteki - sang and danced his way to national hero status in Zimbabwe, conferred on him by the Zanu-PF politburo in December 2008, I oscillated between alarm...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:56hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
'Tsvangirai risks a disgraceful exit'
Exiled former High Court judge, Benjamin Paradza has warned that MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, risks a disgraceful exit similar to that of ousted former President Robert Mugabe if he fails to handl...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 13:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC must urgently put its house in order
When there is a fight in the neighbourhood, good neighbours will come in and do whatever they can to de-escalate the situation and restore good relations. At times people fight over very minor disagre...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Justice Benjamin Paradza
The death of a real hero
Barnabas Muvhuti mourns the life of a man he idolised, his uncle who, to him, was a real hero.Yesterday, I rece...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 18:52hrs | 1 | by Barnabas Muvhuti
One revolutionary bullet and a tank full of commandos for my mother
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
ZUNDE welcomes the fall of Mugabe
ZUNDE welcomes the fall of former president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, a dictator and tyrant who presided over the collapse of a once promising nation and envy of the international community. We give cred...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 12:15hrs | 2 | by Justice Benjamian Paradza
'Why would small boys humiliate the man who liberated them'
Habakkuk Trust director Dumisani Nkomo has rapped the police for humiliating former minister of home affairs and former Zpra intelligence supremo who liberated them when he was leading a delegat...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 15:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF mindgames
Events currently besetting Zanu-PF read like a horror movie script in which film watchers can see clearly how victims in the movie are being mowed one by one by a horrific and mysterious creature whil...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 08:38hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
'Chinx Chingaira not worth to be mourned,' says Mthwakazi party
MRP President Mr Mqondisi Moyo has said it's not worth celebrating the life of the late musician Dickson Chinx Chingaira as he is known for bringing misery to the people of Matabeleland. His music is ...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 09:22hrs | | by Tonderai Sigauke
Mugabe awards thug hero status
Zimbabweans reacted with both shock and anger yesterday to the controversial decision by President Robert Mugabe's warring ruling Zanu-PF to declare the late party bigwig, Kizito Chivamba, a provincia...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 12:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Appeal against the most cruel regime in African: Mugabe Zanu Legacy
No doubt Africa has failed to show her consistent appeal for Democratic establishment, in part, due to the mixed bag of African Union leadership. The AU remains work in progress with strong grey areas...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Andrew Manyevere.
Heroes or herods Day ...political oxymoron of the day
The people of Zimbabwe celebrate Heroes day. A day set aside to remember the lives of disciplined, dedicated and brave sons and daughters who immensely contributed to the well being of our count...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
They go fishing at Rotten Row Magistrates Court
The arrest of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson, Douglas Mahiya has exposed not only local pretenders but their counterparts from abroad.While I a...Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 09:39hrs | | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
'Genuine heroes don't need Mugabe to pronounce them'
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday described Muzuva as a true national hero who fought for people adding that "genuine heroes did not need Mugabe to pronounce them.""We are burying...Published: 27 Sep 2015 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is the heroes acre a shrine to bury true heroes or Mugabe's friends- Sikhala
MDC-T senior member Job Sikhala has questioned the transperancy of burials conducted at the National Heroes acre in Harare as to whether those buried there are true heroes or are just friends of ...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 06:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Margaret Dongo is a malcontent,' says Mutsvangwa
War veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa has launched a scathing attacked on ex-Zanu PF member Margaret Dongo describing her as a cantankerous malcontent after the latter described some former fi...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Margaret Dongo lashes timid war vets, accuse Mugabe of monopolizing the Heroes Acre
Margaret Dongo has said that war veterans and other liberation war heroes have a pervasive fear of President Robert Mugabe, giving the aging leader free reign to misrule both Zanu-PF and Zimbabwe....Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thousands baptized in major SDA outreach effort in Zimbabwe
Thousands of people were baptized across Zimbabwe on Sabbath as one of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's biggest initiatives to share Jesus resulted in the unified efforts of many groups, including ...Published: 01 Jun 2015 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Andrew McChesney, Adventist Review
Why are Africans to the north of us still unable to own the means of production?
He always puts me to shame each time he writes, this Ghanaian. I am talking about Baffour Ankomah. As always, his latest Beefs pass for a gem. Adorned with well-chosen quotes from our African icons, B...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 10:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tymon Mabaleka 'Whitehorse' laid to rest
Bulawayo - The Whitehorse has galloped away from us and now lying in God's arms in heaven!Highlanders legendary son and music producer Tymon Mabaleka popularly know as the Whitehorse has b...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 17:28hrs | 6 | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
Prof Jonathan Moyo deserves a pat on the back
Speaking at the funeral of veteran journalist, Nathan Shamuyarira, President Robert Mugabe branded the minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Jonathan Moyo a "devil incarnate" becaus...Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 12:42hrs | | by Pious Wakatama
'Hero' Philemon Ncube Mabuza laid to rest
The Dumiso Dabengwa led ZAPU member of the National People's Council Philemon Mabuza who died on Tuesday has been laid to rest.Mabuza a veteran of the liberation struggle of Zimbabwe's ind...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 20:32hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Queens & Kings Funeral parlour boss speaks out on SA mine disaster
As friends and families of 22 of the 23 Zimbabweans who perished in a disused mine in South Africa prepare to accompany the bodies home, an official at the funeral parlour that is handling the repatri...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 18:35hrs | 3 | by Nomalanga Moyo
MDC-T: the futility of reinventing heroism
TALK to those involved in the mired draft constitution and they will tell you that the endless parleys between Zanu PF and the two MDC formations over the constitution amounted to a relationship betwe...Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 04:24hrs | 16 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Politics: Pasting labels, past logic
I am happy that lately, the management team for Copac has been making tremendous "progress" at their level. But the team is the pre-penulti­mate, the penultimate being the princip...Published: 08 Jul 2012 at 14:55hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mujuru's death, selected comments from Byo24News readers part 2
written by Jethro motomuzhinji, August 20, 2011m*re heads are going to roll,if this succession issue z nt solved.naturaly e enemy chose the power behind mai...Published: 23 Aug 2011 at 11:52hrs | | by Editor
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