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Mnangagwa's govt Zimsec petitioned over 'tribal bias' Heritage book

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has submitted a petition to the government, the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec), and international bodies, accusing the Heritage Studies curriculum of promoting tribal and cultural bias.The …

Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 11:49hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's tribal National Aids Council (Nac) Board appointed

As has become a ritualistic routine with Zimbabwean government agency boards, they all have one common trademark tribal imbalance. They are all characterized by excessive representations from one tribal group to the near total exclusion&nb…

Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 10:37hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter

King Munhumutapa in tribal storm, appoints son secretary

The self-appointed King Munhumutapa, Timothy Chiminya, is facing a growing controversy after allegedly sidelining some of his Bulawayo commissioners and appointing his son, Chiduku, as secretary of the Munhumutapa monarch. This has sparked…

Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 07:10hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa incorrectly fires minister over tribal row

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Simelisizwe Sibanda following a tribal row in which he ordered the dismissal of a teacher who was incapable of teaching young children in their loca…

Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:33hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter

Zapu blast tribal ZBC presenters

ZAPU  spokesperson  Richard Gandari has blasted the ZBC presenters who made tribal attacks on the Ndebele King LObengula live on TV claiming he was depicted to sell the country to colonialists through the use of sugar.The remarks…

Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:24hrs | 50 | by Stephen Jakes

Tribal rifts widen in Zimbabwe after stupid cartoon

In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, the perpetual tribal conflicts are becoming more intense. Most tensions exist between the Shona people, the country's largest tribe, and the Ndebeles, who dominate in Matabeleland, part of which…

Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 21:08hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa gives Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe a tribal name

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has changed the name of Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe (SWFZ) to Mutapa Investment Fund through Statutory Instrument (SI) 156 of 2023 gazetted on Wednesday.SWFZ is a State-owned investment fund established f…

Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 19:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Ndebele man harassed for tribal origin

A Ndebele-speaking man from Domboshava says he faces constant harassment from some locals who are demanding that he goes back to Matebeleland. This emerged at the Harare magistrate court on Friday where Reason Sibanda from Ngwerume vi…

Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans have come to view constitution not as statement of shared principles but as cudgel with which to attack enemies

Zimbabweans on both the left and the right now view their political opponents not as fellow Zimbabweans with differing views, but as tribal  enemies to be vanquished. And they have come to view the Constitution not as an aspirational …

Published: 19 May 2021 at 23:53hrs | 5 | by Mandla Dlamini

Is MRP a tribal party?

I have been asked this question a million times by a lot of people, many people actually believe that Mthwakazi is advancing a tribal narrative, that makes the so called Ndebele tribe superior which in itself is not true because Ndebele is…

Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:24hrs | 2 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo

'There is no Mambo in Ndebele kingdom'... Cal_Vin whips up tribal storm

Twitter users were recently treated to unexpected drama when rapper Cal_Vin posted a tweet that some believed to have tribal connotations as his ongoing battle for the Bulawayo hip-hop crown with man of the moment Asaph continues.In a twee…

Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Khupe lashes 'tribal and chauvinist cabal'

It is sad and unfortunate that while pro-democracy forces are putting efforts towards a change for a better Zimbabwe, some have opted to embark on self-serving retrogressive behaviour marked by beastly violence, sexism and tribalism.The co…

Published: 23 May 2018 at 15:22hrs | 2 | by Dr Thokozani Khupe

Meet Zimbabwe's trailblazing female tribal chiefs

Nonhlahla Ndube has been chief of Insiza district, in Zimbabwe's south, for more than a decade. But her rise to power was far from smooth, NewsDeeply writes."It was not easy to take up the position because some of my family members were no…

Published: 15 May 2018 at 09:34hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa rose to MDC presidency on a tribal card

May I join in the debate around Joshua Nkomo, Khupe, Chamisa, Welshman, Mtambara etc etc. Apparently I happen to have worked under JN and with the rest in my political career. Without taking a neutral position in the discourse my experienc…

Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:57hrs | 5 | by Mzila Ndlovu

Votes do matter - Register to vote

Often I hear a lot of talk about the indifference toward the ballotThe real talk as they say it, that if 37yers couldn't fix it, why would this time be differentWhy vote anyway when we all know our votes won't even be countedYes I do get w…

Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 13:05hrs | 12 | by Otis Mabikwa

Mugabe's nasty tribal, and bloody succession battle not Mthwakazi battle

Mthwakazi Republic Party has warned the people from Matabeleland and Midlands alias Mthwakazi to stay away from the battle between the two major Zanu PF factions.The party said the factions namely G40 which has the backing of the so called…

Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes

Zimbabwe's tribal problem

The past few days have witnessed the closest we have been to a tribal meltdown in a while, as ethnicity has been the main topic in both the opposition and the ruling party.For decades now, ethnicity has been an issue, which, as a country w…

Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi

Concern over rising intra-party fights, tribal tension

THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has expressed concern over rising tribal tensions and intra-party fights as the country gears for the 2018 general elections.The ZPP, in its latest violence-monitoring report released last week, said tribal…

Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mugabe and Zanu-PF have harmed society by poisoning tribal relations

Nomusa Garikai agrees that under the leadership of then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, Zanu-PF committed genocide in Matabeleland and the Midlands but disputes the fact that tribalism was the motive behind this callousness. It is not diffic…

Published: 25 May 2017 at 21:33hrs | 1 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu

Tribal and regional schism finds expression during Bosso, Dembare matches

Once again - and not for the last time - a Highlanders versus Dynamos football match ended in violence with the usual accusations and counter accusations of referee bias and oppression being the order of the day.Highlanders' fans are convi…

Published: 18 May 2017 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Nqaba Matshazi

MRP is not tribal

Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Co-patriots, Mthwakazi Republic Party is a political Party that is not tribal but is rather fighting tribalism. The party seeks political solution, Mthwakazi needs it's independence from Zimbabwe. We have…

Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 13:42hrs | | by Hloniphani Ncube

Nust 'tribal bias' against Mat'land students unfounded

The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) recently came under fire for alleged bias against students from Matabeleland region.A small coterie of influential people and the civil society organisations totally fabricated the p…

Published: 03 Jul 2012 at 07:33hrs | | by Unkown

The tribal cat is out of the bag

The cat is out of the bag. The MDC congress held last weekend has delivered for the tribal supremacists and the anti-democrats the result they dreaded most and as expected, they have come out guns blazing.The attack on the MDC following it…

Published: 19 Jan 2011 at 11:24hrs | 4 | by Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga

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