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Mthwakazi Republic Party
Mthwakazi Republic Party is a political party in Zimbabwe. It has been described as both secessionist and restorationist, seeking to restore the Mthwakazi kingdom. History The party was founded in 2014 in Bulawayo. In 2020, the party started a campaign to obtain 20,000 signatures to petition the government, neighbouring countries, the British government, and the Queen of the United Kingdom, to restore the Mthwakazi kingdom. Mqondisi Moyo, the party president, said this initiative was inspired by UN resolutions, specifically, that "minority groups must be afforded their autonomy and self-determination", and that self-determination should be afforded to "all minority groups whose human rights were being denied and their dignity trampled on by majority ethnic groups anywhere in the world". Moyo said the Mthwakazi kingdom is made up of 20 different tribes. In 2018, the party delivered a petition to Pick n Pay Stores, saying the company had become "a liability to the people o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mthwakazi
Mthwakazi is the traditional name of the proto-Ndebele people and Ndebele kingdom and is in the area of today's Zimbabwe. Mthwakazi is widely used to refer to inhabitants of Matebeleland Province in Zimbabwe. Etymology The word ''Matabele'' is an anglicised term that was used by the British, a spelling that is still common in older texts, because they found it difficult to pronounce the word ''amaNdebele''. Moreover, in the early 19th century, the Ndebele lived in territories populated by Sotho-Tswana peoples who used the plural prefix "ma" for certain types of unfamiliar people or the Nguni prefix "ama", so the British explorers, who were first informed of the existence of the kingdom by Sotho-Tswana communities they encountered on the trip north, were presented two variations of the name, the first being the Sotho-Tswana pronunciation (''maTebele'' or ''Matabele'') and the second being the Ndebele pronunciation (''Ndebele or amaNdebele''). They are now commonly known as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulawayo
Bulawayo (, ; Ndebele: ''Bulawayo'') is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council claimed it to be about 1.2 million. Bulawayo covers an area of about in the western part of the country, along the Matsheumhlope River. Along with the capital Harare, Bulawayo is one of two cities in Zimbabwe that is also a province. Bulawayo was founded by a group led by Gundwane Ndiweni around 1840 as the kraal of Mzilikazi, the Ndebele king and was known as Gibixhegu. His son, Lobengula, succeeded him in the 1860s, and changed the name to kobulawayo and ruled from Bulawayo until 1893, when the settlement was captured by British South Africa Company soldiers during the First Matabele War. That year, the first white settlers arrived and rebuilt the town. The town was besieged by Ndebele warriors during the Second Matabele War. Bulawayo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pick N Pay Stores
The Pick n Pay Group is a retail business in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. The Group operates through multiple store formats under three brands – Pick n Pay, Boxer and TM Supermarkets. Pick n Pay also operates one of the largest online grocery platforms in sub-Saharan Africa. Raymond Ackerman purchased the first four Pick n Pay stores in Cape Town, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ..., in 1967 from Jack Goldin. Since then, the Group has grown to encompass stores across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Nigeria, eSwatini, Eswatini and Lesotho. Pick n Pay also owns a 49% share of Zimbabwean supermarket chain, TM Supermarkets. As of 2021, the company was operating at 1,994 locations across eight countries on the Africa, African contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingutsheni Hospital
Ingutsheni Hospital is a health care institution located in Belmont east, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It is the largest psychiatric hospital in Zimbabwe, with over 700 beds. History Ingutsheni is a government referral hospital located in the second largest capital city of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. It was established in 1908, as the hospital for refugees and was meant to serve black people in Zimbabwe only. The white people were also assisted on temporary basis and were deported or taken to South Africa after being attributed to lunacy. Ingutsheni hospital specialises in providing psychiatric care to the community members in Zimbabwe. The hospital was converted to a psychiatrist hospital in 1933 and it is missioned to providing quality mental health care services to the people of Zimbabwe. See also List of hospitals in Zimbabwe There are 214 hospitals in Zimbabwe as of 2015. Of that total, which does not include smaller clinics, 120 are government hospitals run by the Ministry of Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Zimbabwean General Election
General elections were held in Zimbabwe on 30 July 2018 to elect the President and members of both houses of Parliament. Held eight months after the 2017 coup d'état, the election was the first since independence in which former President Robert Mugabe was not a candidate. ZANU–PF, the country's ruling party, went into the election with majorities in both the National Assembly and the Senate. The main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai, contested the election as part of the MDC Alliance, a coalition that included the MDC–T and six smaller parties. The election gave ZANU–PF control of both houses in the 9th Parliament of Zimbabwe, though with reduced majorities in each. The MDC Alliance gained seats in both houses, closely corresponding to ZANU–PF's losses. In the presidential election, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who became president as a result of the 2017 coup ran for election as the ZANU–PF candidate. Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC–T leader who wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
