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FORMER National Healing and Reconciliation minister Moses Mzila Ndlovu has urged Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and other Zanu-PF leaders from Matabeleland region to dump the ruling party and join opposition politics to oust President Robert Mugabe and end marginalisation of the region. Mzila-Ndlovu, who fronts the opposition Alliance for National Salvation (Ansa) party, said Mphoko should draw lessons from several former-PF-Zapu officials, who failed to reform Zanu-PF from within. “We agree that it is never going to…

South Africa’s state prosecutors told the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Friday the six-year sentence for murder handed to Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius was “shockingly lenient” and asked for the right to launch an appeal.   Pistorius was imprisoned in July last year after being found guilty on appeal of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. The case has attracted worldwide interest.   He was not in court for Friday’s…

INFORMATION IS POWER! I have for almost three decades, held a highly prominent role in Information dissemination in Zimbabwe, starting from soon after University of Zimbabwe graduation in 1994, working as the then National Head of Mass media and Training depart in Zimbabwe’s Government Department of Agriculture and Technical Extension Services (AGRITEX). This was a highly demanding post which included training staff and farmers in agriculture, writing, editing, publishing and translation into Shona, Ndebele and…

RMG End Time Message leader, Robert Martin Gumbura, 4 yrs into 40-year jail term says he misses sex from his 21 wives   The former RMG End Time Message leader, Robert Martin Gumbura now four years into a 40-year jail term, says he misses sex from his 21 wives.   Also in prison is the former lawmaker, Zanu Pf Munyaradzi Kereke who was jailed in 2016 for ten years for raping his eleven year old…

A man from South Africa left mourners in fear as he went ‘beserk’ at his step grand dad’s funeral wake in Bulawayo Northend Surburb. The man Shadreck Matose (41) who is said to have last come to Zimbabwe in 2014, broke open the old man Letso Warasi (68’s) coffin and demanded to inspect the deceased’s toe nails. Letso Warasi collapsed and died on Friday and was buried yesterday at West Park cemetery in Bulawayo. Shadreck…

Bulawayo to its credit has traditionally always refused to be bullied by Mugabe and his Zanu pf and in line with its resolute stance to operate independant of Mugabe, Zim1 family, Zanu pf stalwart and securocrat influence, the council has denied Zanu Pf the use of Ingubo Primary School for feeding of its delegates at the Zanu PF youth Interface rally on Saturday.   Bulawayo City Council rightly argues that the use of schools for…

Binga North legislator Prince Dubeko Sibanda, viewed as a Chamisa  hit out at the Khupe camp accusing Dube of personalising issues. The de jure and de facto position that we have to live with is that the party has three VPs and they are equal,” Dubeko Sibanda said.   Chamisa has been touted as the leading contender both in the party and outside, but some senior party officials are against the young lawyer taking the…

The squatter camp primary school was forcibly closed at Ngozi mine in Bulawayo by the Ministry of Education leaving 200 pupils to be shifted into mainstream education system in Zimbabwe. More news to follow. By Sibusiso Ngwenya photo-Ngozi Mine primary school