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Nehanda shrine under siege from illegal gold miners
SITUATED 30km north of Harare is an area of rocky hillsides overlooking the Mazowe River.The area boasts several botanical interests.However, Gomba, as the area is also known, is...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:05hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
'Death penalty a remnant of colonial legacy'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged Zimbabwe to take steps towards abolishing the death penalty in line with international standards.In a statement to commemorate the ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
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 ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:46hrs | 3120 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
Bona does not know secrete relationship between Mugabe and Mnangagwa: Nor has she Zezuru powers to recite Nyakasikana rituals
Bloggers go overdrive in wanting to make much awaited narratives become facts overnight. Bona cannot make holly cries of Zezuru-Nyakasikana to prevent her father from exhumation and be interred in the...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:26hrs | 5473 | by Nomazulu Thata
Council re-opens CBD roads
ROAD users in Harare have welcomed the announcement by the City of Harare that roads that were closed to facilitate various projects in the capital's central business district will be opened.P...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's resting place and the making of national monuments
THE story, life and even death of late former President Robert Mugabe is a subject that continues to rekindle memories — good, bad and somewhat bizarre. His exhumation debacle exposes the certainty ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:23hrs | 590 | by Brighton Taruberekera
Mnangagwa denies role in wife's controversial award
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has distanced himself from the controversy surrounding the award accord to his wife Auxillia last week, saying he played no role in the decision.Mnangagwa last wee...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:48hrs | 4235 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition, CSOs says, 'we're still in bondage'
ZIMBABWEANS have been described as a people who still live under bondage despite the sacrifices made by heroes of the Chimurenga was during the struggle for independence.This was said yesterda...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
We need new heroes!
Sometimes, Bishop Lazi is glad that his uncle is dead.The man was never the same ever since returning from the war.He was no longer the bubbly and chatty young man who revelled in the ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 175 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa accords wife national honour
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has awarded his wife, First Lady Auxillia a gold medal for her "outstanding performance in her philanthropic activities among 99 other outstanding institutions, civilians ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Queen Lozikeyi: The force behind Ndebele uprisings
THE grave of a matriarch viewed by many historians as one of the major forces behind the second Umvukela (uprising) that culminated in independence for the country is situated at KoNkosikazi in Matabe...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:14hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Biti says Mthuli Ncube is 'clueless and incompetent'
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti says the current head of Treasury Mthuli Ncube is "clueless and incompetent" who hopes that God or the spirit of Mbuya Nehanda will keep the economy afloat....Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:48hrs | 2152 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa breaking own rules, protocols
ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week announced Level 4 lockdown restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19, but glaring violations of regulations by top government officials, including him...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:51hrs | 2111 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF - ZNA bond in unbreakable' said Chinamasa - rubbish, 2017 broke it and since feared another
Zimbabwe is not the first and only country to gain her independence and sovereignty after a bitter armed struggle; many other nations have in Africa, Asia, North and South America, etc. have had a sim...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:32hrs | 813 | by Wilbert Mukori
Prison officer charged for insulting ED
A ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer, who was accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some traditional leaders for genuflecting before the Mbuya Nehanda statue, ha...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 17:03hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF intensifies campaigns as Mnangagwa eyes 2023 election
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has injected ZW$73 million into Mashonaland East vocational training centres as Zanu-PF canvasses for youth support in its quest to garner five million votes in the 2023 g...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:05hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer in trouble over anti-Mnangagwa slur
A CHINHOYI-BASED prisons officer who was arraigned before the courts on charges of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week has been called for a disciplinary hearing.Peter Kudzai Mush...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2954 | by Staff reporter
My listening President, this woman is bleeding from inside!
Change generally brings fears for the worst and hopes for the best and plays them against each other in the crucible of inescapable antagonism. The same is true for the scenario that unexpectedly befe...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 07:21hrs | 2083 | by Nhlanhla Moses
MDC-Alliance not a terrorist organisation
Zimbabwe needs to be liberated from these selfish and clueless wannabes. The brutal truth is MDC -Alliance just like Zanu PF is a political organisation and existing under the auspices of the constitu...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 15:29hrs | 849 | by Leonard Koni
Chiwenga defends 'reckless' ministers
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has defended the continued defiance of COVID-19 regulations by ministers at a time when the government has put in place a strict COVID-19 measur...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:31hrs | 3803 | by Staff reporter
Prison Officer wish Mnangagwa becomes mad
A CHINHOYI-based Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer has appeared in court for allegedly making a disparaging comment over a picture in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa and tra...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:48hrs | 3737 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa demands compensation for MDC Alliance duo
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday demanded that government should compensate party activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, who clocked eight years at Chikurubi Maximu...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2701 | by Staff reporter
Judiciary being corroded by political expediency
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, societal harmony is under threat as the Judiciary, which essentially should be independent from interference, is being corroded by political ...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | 667 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
MDC's Madzokere abandoned by wife
FREED MDC activist Tungamirai Madzokere carried a broken figure as he narrated how he only got to know his wife had abandoned their matrimonial home eight months ago.Dejected and seemingly out...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | 4584 | by Staff reporter
If Mbuya Nehanda is a Heroine, why is Comrade Thenjwe Lesabe not one?
Some corrections at national level must be done because what is happening in Zimbabwe does not add up to full total. There are discrepancies openly done to provoke tribalism. Who does Nehanda represen...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 21:48hrs | 1756 | by Nomazulu Thata
How Zimbabwe is still haunted by Robert Mugabe
IN OUR series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes that long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019, seems to be causing trouble from beyond the gr...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:11hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a global museum, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday described Zimbabwe as the "museum capital" of the world as he called on local authorities to rename buildings and streets after the country's heroes and traditio...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
Hanging Tree evokes Mnangagwa death escape
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reflected on the brutality of the settler regime, which punished sons and daughters of the land seeking freedom with all forms of cruelty including hanging, a sentence he...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2144 | by Staff reporter
Teachers turn Nehanda statue into protest square, demand better pay
Members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) staged a flash protest at the towering Mbuya Nehanda statue in the capital on Wednesday, demanding better salaries and improved wor...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 18:37hrs | 2149 | by Staff reporter
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 res...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:06hrs | 4212 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Bulawayo to open Arts Festival
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived in Bulawayo yesterday ahead of the official opening of the Bulawayo Arts Festival (Baf) and the launch of the Heritage Corridor in the city.The President will tour ...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:59hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says public service not a feeding trough
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday warned public office bearers against abusing goods and services meant for the people as he rallied the ruling party to occupy the space left by the country's ever squabbl...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:54hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists arrested in for staging protest in Mutare
Several Zanu-PF supporters were arrested in Mutare on Tuesday after staging an illegal march and forcibly opening two flea markets that were shut down by the local authority last year as a safety meas...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 18:48hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
ED Mnangagwa did well for our Unsung Freedom Fighters Of Zimbabwe Who Deserve Our Salute
Feel Proud! As Zimbabwe immortalised the spirit of Chimurenga through several statutes erected and more recently the one for Nehanda Charwe Chihera the fighting spirit. For here you are now. A...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 14:31hrs | 602 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa wants Malaba to voluntarily step down
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says under-fire Chief Justice Luke Malaba must voluntarily step down to preserve the integrity of Zimbabwe's judicial system.President Emmerson Mnangagwa con...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:15hrs | 3583 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi activist decries 'persecution'
BULAWAYO activist Mbuso Fuzwayo, who is coordinator of Ibhetshu LikaZulu that is pushing for redress of the Gukurahundi massacres, has been dragged to court over a 2019 incident of alleged public viol...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:01hrs | 481 | 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 rew...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 2027 | 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 m...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 277 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Zimbabwe team leaves for UK
THE National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) is preparing to dispatch a team of experts to the United Kingdom to assess a catalogue of human remains believed to be of First Chimurenga war her...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:30hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda is a Zimbabwean heroine - Archivist
The erection of Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare had created a lot of debate in Zimbabwe. Some people are of the view that the gesture was long overdue whil...Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 315 | by Etiwel Mutero
Heroism can never be shoved down Zimbabweans' throats
The past week, after the official unveiling of Charwe Nyakasikana's (the spirit medium of Mbuya Nehanda) statue in the capital Harare, has reignited highly emotive, and long-standing divisions amongst...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:22hrs | 665 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Britain denies having Nehanda's skull
THE Natural History Museum in London, which has an extensive collection of artefacts, says it does not have First Chimurenga heroine Ambuya Nehanda's skull as constantly alleged by the Zimbabwean gove...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:23hrs | 2850 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa decries lampooning of Zimbabwean culture
President Mnangagwa has described as unfortunate, the denigration of Zimbabwean culture and history by some citizens who celebrate foreign cultures.Speaking at the 37th graduation ceremony of ...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Ministry to splurge US$1m on cars
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's cash-strapped government is set to splurge at least US$1 million on 35 new off-road double cab Toyota vehicles for top bureaucrats in the Home Affairs ministry.I...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:08hrs | 2331 | by Eddie Cross
'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 | 2895 | by Staff reporter
Britain keen to return Nehanda's skull
BRITAIN is committed to working with Zimbabwean authorities for the repatriation of the remains of Mbuya Nehanda and other First Chimurenga heroes.This comes as the Second Republic on Wednesda...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:37hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Crowds flock for Mbuya Nehanda statue
THE Mbuya Nehanda statue that was unveiled in the capital has boosted local tourism as people are flocking Harare's CBD to view the statue.Several people have been anxious to get close to the ...Published: 27 May 2021 at 22:25hrs | 1368 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC says the Zanu-PF is plotting violence ahead of 2023 polls
Zanu PF is in panic mode and is pulling out all the stops to win the 2023 elections using violent means and draconian legislation to crush all dissent, the MDC Alliance charged on Wednesday.Th...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:44hrs | 1647 | by Staff reporter
'Arrest Zanu-PF hate mongers'
Zanu-PF youths have come under fire for threatening violence ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections, with the civic society and opposition saying they should be arrested for inciting terror.Th...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:23hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Britain pressured to return Nehanda skull
Pressure is mounting on the British to return the head of Mbuya Nehanda whose statue was unveiled by President Mnangagwa on Wednesday much to the delight of not only Zimbabweans, but the world at larg...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:03hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
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