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Changing labels of Empty Bottle - Zimbabwe
(This article was first published in Newsday in November 2014, titled There's Victory in Losing. This piece was centred on Pres R Mugabe and pointed on the point that...Published: 22 hrs ago | 3911 | by Terence T Simbi
Zapu vows to steer devolution
The opposition Zapu has vowed to steer the devolution of power as its major policy to enable all areas of the country to benefit from their local resources."As ZAPU we steer clear of a devolut...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:11hrs | 483 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's complex situation requires political will
People continue to die from curable disease in Zimbabwe as the health sector remains paralysed while the country is going through what has been described by the United Nations as a man-made drought. S...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:10hrs | 143 | by Tapiwa Ziviri
Presidential nominations for ZAPU #2020Congress
Zimbabwe African People's Union wishes, through the department of Information and Publicity, to correct a minor misinformation concerning nominations for the party's congress coming on August 26-29. I...Published: 07 Jan 2020 at 10:53hrs | 2285 | by Iphithule Thembani Maphosa
Zapu finally announces congress dates
THE opposition Zapu has finally announced August 27 to 29 as the dates for its congress to elect a new leader following the death of its founder Dumiso Dabengwa in May last year.The congress w...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 14:07hrs | 1609 | by Staff Reporter
Fare thee well, Cde Hazel Chihota
ZAPU has been thrown into yet another episode of mourning following the death of Hezel Chihota, South Aftica based former youth leader and ZAWU provincial executive member. Chihota died after ...Published: 04 Jan 2020 at 15:57hrs | 1537 | by Iphithule T. Maphosa
Heard of Government Organised NGO (GONGO), in POLAD have Zanu PF organised opposition (Zoo)
After 40 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship Zimbabwe is in a serious mess with the economy in ruins, millions of our people now living in abject poverty and, worst of all, the plungi...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1282 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zapu worry over poor turn out for voter registration in Matabeleland
Opposition Zapu party has expressed worries over the poor turn out for for voter registration that has prevailed in Matabeleland provinces....Published: 31 Dec 2019 at 11:16hrs | 1180 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa lines up his Animal Farm ducks 'to count blessings' of rigged elections
It is no secret that both PF Zapu and Zanu PF have each wanted to impose one-party state in Zimbabwe. The compromise position was for the two parties to come together but all past attempts to unite th...Published: 29 Dec 2019 at 23:56hrs | 10063 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
General Tongogara's ZANU PF died in 2017
Is this the country that Tongogara, Chitepo, JZ Moyo, Silundika and other gallant sons and daughters gave up their lives for?Is this version of ZANU PF the same liberation movement that Tongog...Published: 28 Dec 2019 at 07:38hrs | 12748 | by Dr Utete
ZAPU wishes everyone a Merry Christmas
Ladies and gentleman, fellow citizens, comrades and friends, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and also good wishes for the year 2020.2019 has been a hect...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 14:45hrs | 499 | by Isaac Mabuka President Zimbabwe African People's Union
'No unity to celebrate'
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa said there was no unity in the country because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has failed to unite the people and accused it of persecuting those wit...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:48hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Polad members celebrate Unity Day
A carnival atmosphere characterised President Mnangagwa's meeting with leaders of political parties participating in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) to mark National Unity Day in Kwekwe yesterda...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:43hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sticks to Polad
AN air of camaraderie characterised the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) meeting in Kwekwe yesterday to mark National Unity Day. The meeting started at mid-morning at President Mnangagwa's farm, with...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:42hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland activist cautious over talks
Civic society groups and political parties from Matabeleland have urged former South African president Thabo Mbeki to push for dialogue that will benefit Zimbabweans, instead of protecting the interes...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:40hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland groups heap scorn on Unity Day
Unity Day, commemorated on December 22 to mark the signing of a unity accord between Zanu and Zapu in 1987, bringing to an end the Gukurahundi massacres, which claimed over 20 000 lives, is losing rel...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:38hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
In joining POLAD, Chamisa will kill democracy just as Nkomo in signing Unity Accord - deja vu
What is all this nonsense about people needing political dialogue, to unity, find each other, speak with one voice, etc., etc. In the 1980s Mugabe used the signing of the unity accord between Zanu PF ...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 07:51hrs | 3437 | by Nomusa Garikai
Ibhetshu likaZulu stirs commotion by moving in Bulawayo streets carrying coffin
A Bulawayo based pressure group Ibhetshu Likazu members have stirred commotion and set tongues wagging after they paraded on the streets of Bulawayo carrying a coffin in remembrance of the Gukurahundi...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 13:16hrs | 4442 | by Stephen Jakes
Polad is a sleeping pill to ignore Zanu failures
After failing to fix the economy and to open space for political competitiveness, Zanu political Scientists invented a sleeping pill called Polad.Zanu Political Scientists have mastered the sc...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 13:10hrs | 1421 | by Ryton Dzimiri
'Unity brought development, must celebrate Unity Day' - yeah, but is the development
Propaganda is the art of presenting what you want people to believe is the truth and the reality, repeating it over and over again, and totally disregard the facts and mountain of evidence to the cont...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 19:29hrs | 921 | by omusa Garikai
In joining POLAD, Chamisa will kill democracy just as Nkomo in signing Unity Accord - deja vu
What is all this nonsense about people needing political dialogue, to unity, find each other, speak with one voice, etc., etc. In the 1980s Mugabe used the signing of the unity accord between Zanu PF ...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 11:01hrs | 7829 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF calls for holding of programmes on Unity Day
ZANU-PF has called for the holding of programmes during the Unity Day holiday for the citizens especially the youth to embrace and appreciate the peace and unity prevailing in the country. ...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 04:56hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki visit gives Chamisa chance to swallow his pride
THE visit to Zimbabwe by former South African president and revered African statesman, Thabo Mbeki, is welcome and gives Zimbabwe's political actors an opportunity to reflect soberly on the negative r...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 04:50hrs | 1529 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ndebele name revealed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was born with a Ndebele name called Ihlupeko, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has revealed. Writing on Twitter using his moniker Jamwanda, Charamba said,...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 12:58hrs | 20722 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tshinga Dube rescues liberation hero's family
ZANU-PF Politburo member Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube has chipped in with assistance for the burial of the late liberation war fighter and Cool Crooners music band member Timothy Sekane. Sekan...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:56hrs | 2209 | by Staff reporter
Activists pile pressure over Gukurahundi
A BULAWAYO-based pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu has called on the government to go a step further in addressing the Gukurahundi issue and account for victims that were abducted and never seen again....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:51hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF panics over new Zanu-PF party formation
ZANU-PF was Friday forced to issue a statement describing as insult, the formation of a new political party calling itself Zanu-PF Original.The formation of the new Zimbabwe African National U...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:31hrs | 6118 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dismisses G40 cabal over 'Zanu-PF Original' reports
ZANU-PF has castigated the G40 cabal, a grouping of the revolutionary party's rejects, for fuelling false reports of the registration of a shadowy organisation named "Zanu-PF Original", saying the dis...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
There's only one Zanu-PF, claims Khaya Moyo
The ruling Zanu-PF party has dismissed social media reports on the alleged formation of a political outfit calling itself "Zanu-PF Original" as misleading and an insult to the values and ethos of the ...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties failing citizens
AS the year draws to an end, it has become obvious to millions of Zimbabweans that the prospect of a broad-based, credible dialogue process are fading, further threatening the country's desperately ne...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:32hrs | 266 | by Faith Zaba
'Gukurahundi killings not a closed issue'
RESPECTED former Cabinet minister Tshinga Dube has re-ignited debate on the highly-emotive killings that occurred in the southern parts of Zimbabwe in the 1980s declaring boldly that the sad cha...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1400 | by Staff reporter
Khupe youths call VP Gutu to order
YOUTHS from the Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T are angry with party vice president Obert Gutu for allegedly hobnobbing with the enemy, Zanu-PF as well as celebrating the brutalisation of other opposition s...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:14hrs | 1087 | by newzimbabwe
Pressure group prepares for Gukurahundi memorial
Ibhetshu likaZulu has revealed it is vigorously preparing for the Gukurahundi memorial to be held on December 22 to coincide with the Unity Day.The unity day was put in place following the uni...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 06:09hrs | 452 | by Stephen Jakes
Canaan Ncube: Farewell to a gallant liberator (1939-2019)
Zimbabwe has lost yet another illustrious fighter for the country's independence and freedom. This is Canaan Ncube, born in Nkayi District of Matebeleland North in Zimbabwe on 19 October 1939 in Dolah...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 12:17hrs | 1656 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
Service for late Zapu Secretary for security Ncube to be held at UCCSA tomorrow
The late Zapu Secretary for security Canaan Ncube is being laid to rest tomorrow at the Lady Stanely cemetery and his service will be held at the UCCSA Ch...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 13:14hrs | 2445 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's current economic meltdown beyond description
I am writing this piece writhing in agony because I see helplessness in our society with a moribund leadership on a broad scale. The current economic meltdown is beyond description especially given th...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 10:20hrs | 2673 | by JJD Dube
Tshinga Dube's book reveals plot against ZPRA
Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube says he averted a potential civil war in the formative years of independent Zimbabwe after an order was issued to dismiss all the ex-Zpra soldiers in the newly formed Zimb...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:17hrs | 2457 | by Staff reporter
Council honours ZPRA veteran
THE late Zapu secretary for security Canaan Ncube has been honoured by the Bulawayo City Council and will be interred at the Lady Stanley Cemetery where the city's senior illustrious citizens are buri...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:12hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube averted a potential civil war in Zimbabwe
Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube says he averted a potential civil war in the formative years of Independent Zimbabwe after an order had been issued to dismiss all the Ex-ZPRA soldiers in the newly formed...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:07hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
'The C'wealth officer jumped from his seat when I threw my AK-47 at him'
Today we conclude the series of interviews that we have been doing with former Zipra guerilla, Tapson Ncube aka Makhula. Ncube was a maverick guerilla who at one point was detained on the orde...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:58hrs | 3693 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial Transfiguration of the Self: Part 2
Last week's introductory instalment attempted to locate Retired Col Tshinga's profile within the shifting currencies and contexts of our struggle for independence. His radical political tutela...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:56hrs | 167 | by Richard Mahomva
Zipra condemns Zimbabwe's rising intolerance levels
Zipra war veterans yesterday bemoaned the escalating levels of intolerance between State and non-State actors, which has bred violations of the rule of law, freedoms of association and expression in t...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Zapu security secretary dies
Zapu national secretary for security Canaan Ncube has died.Ncube died on Monday at the age of 80 after a long illness.Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa yesterday confirmed the death,...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:47hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns Mnangagwa again
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has warned that the country risks being plunged into civil war if citizens are pushed to retaliate against the escalating brutality by security forces, the Daily News ...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 08:00hrs | 7093 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube unites ex-ZPRA cadres
Former War Veterans minister, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube's official book launch in Bulawayo on Friday turned into a mini-reunion of some the leading ZPRA cadres, who reminisced on their experiences ...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:58hrs | 3036 | by Staff reporter
Another senior ZAPU member dies
ZAPU National Secretary for Security, Canaan Ncube, has died.He was 80.Ncube passed away on Monday morning at a local hospital.ZAPU southern region communications director, Pat...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2572 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa should clear name on Gukurahundi before grabbing Bulawayo roads'
OPPOSITION Zapu has scolded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for rushing to name a street in Bulawayo after himself before he has found time to come clean on his role in the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities o...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1138 | by newzimbabwe
'We had semi-liberated zones in Lupane, Nkayi'
We continue our interview with Tapson Ncube aka Makhula Thebe who during the armed struggle operated in Lupane and Nkayi districts. Below are excerpts of the interview with our Assistant Edito...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:14hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial transfiguration of the self
On Friday, 22 November, 2019, a decorated cadre of Zimbabwe's long-drawn-out armed liberation struggle and long-serving former Cabinet Minister, Othiniel Siduduzo "Tshinga" Dube launched his biography...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:13hrs | 126 | by Richard Mahomva
South Africa reignites historical bonds of unity
Something unprecedented happened on November 18, 2019 in South Africa.For the first time in many years, a neighbouring country took it upon itself to hold a convention to pragmatically explore...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:10hrs | 131 | by Ranga Mataire
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