This was one of the many messages that were posted in honour of the late Mbuya Matadzisei Tangwena (82), the wife of the late Senator Chief Rekayi Tangwena. Surely Mbuya Tangwena will be sorely ...

Better known as Mbuya Nehanda (“grandmother Nehanda” in Shona), she continued to inspire African political movements long after her execution in 1898. As Farai Mutsaka reports for the ...

The most significant among them was a woman who became known as Mbuya Nehanda. She was executed in what is now the capital, Harare and is revered as a national heroine. In doing a search of its ...

Harare — MBUYA Madhuve sat majestically on a multi-coloured mat playing her sacred thumb piano (mbira) with absolute finesse. Leaning against the wall outside her three-roomed house in Highfield ...

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 ...

NewsDay Life & Style caught up with the 31-year-old Masvingo bred Mbuya VaPiyasoni who in her skits portrays herself as an old troublesome landlady. The name Mbuya VaPiyasoni “I got the name ...

The statue of Mbuya Nehanda Nyakasikana. [Photo by Tonderayi Mukeredzi/chinadaily.com.cn] Zimbabwe marked Africa Day on Tuesday by unveiling a statue of the iconic national heroine and spirit ...

During that visit Ms Kaumba had not worn all her carefully curated outfits, so she asked her grandmother - or "Mbuya" in the Bemba language - if she wanted to try them on. "I wasn’t doing ...

Mayimuna has been battling Metropolitan Properties for 11 years over Plot 17 at Mbuya, Kampala. Ten years ago, Justice Joseph Murangira had dismissed Mayimuna’s suit with costs, which she ...