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Zimbabwean-born author Sukoluhle "Sue" Nyathi is living a dream after a South African super-novella, The Polygamist, produced by Gugu Zuma-Ncube is dominating the screens locally and elsewhere. The Polygamist is based on the explosive 2012 debut novel by Nyathi who studied finance and investment at National University of Science & Technology in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. It was produced by Zuma-Ncube, a South African producer, actress and daughter of former president Jacob Zuma and his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a retired long-serving minister. Zuma-Ncube is daughter-in-law to Zimbabwean politician Welshman Ncube, a professor of law. She is married to Wesley Bongani Ncube. The Polygamist was directed by prominent Nigerian-born South African actor and writer best known for his role as Khaya Motene in the SABC 1 soapie Generations. Originally self-published in 2012 after being rejected by multiple publishers, the book became a massive cultural phenomenon following its June 2026 global adaptation into a 22-episode Netflix supernovela. The explosive story explores the deep complexities, secrets, and emotional wreckage of undercover polygamy in modern society. African societies have a long history of polygamy which still exists, although it is now mainly underground. Polygamy, specifically polygyny, where one man has multiple wives, is practiced by roughly 2% of the global population. It is highly localised, with the highest concentration occurring in the "polygamy belt" of West and Central Africa, alongside select parts of the Middle East and South Asia. It is also prevalent in Southern Africa, where Eswatini King Mswati III is the most prominent and leading polygamist with 16 wives, although some of them have died, quit or were divorced. According to biblical and historical accounts, King Solomon of ancient Israel had 700 wives and 300 concubines. The second Shah of Qajar Iran (1797–1834) is documented to have had more than 1 000 spouses. A controversial Islamic cleric from Bida, Nigeria, gained international attention in 2008 for having 86 wives. By the time of his passing in 2017, he reportedly had around 130 wives and 203 children. Within days of its release, the hit drama, The Polygamist, soared to the No.3 spot on Netflix worldwide, holding the No. 1 position in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and several other countries across Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. Premiered on June 12, 2026, the series explores themes of wealth, deception, and family dynamics, sparking viral debates across the continent and internationally. The dramatic film follows a wealthy businessman named Jonas Gomora (played by S'dumo Mtshali) and his public image as a family man when he was living as a closet polygamist. When he dies, Gomora's carefully hidden life of polygamy unravels, revealing a web of secret marriages, mistresses, and infidelity. The drama — which features other prominent stars like Gugu Gumede— centres on his social media influencer wife uncovering the deception. It is trending because the show has viewers and critics passionately debating the blurred lines between traditional polygamy and mere infidelity. It has sparked huge debate on polygamy, infidelity, patriarchy, domestic violence and absent fathers. Traditional polygamy requires consent and transparency, whereas the show's protagonist normalises deception and infidelity as part of his complicated life. The film has also caused a spike in reading the original source material - the book - across South Africa and Zimbabwe, among other countries. The Polygamist has South Africans from all walks of life talking and debating in animated and emotional ways. In this Newzroom Afrika interview, Arabile Gumede speaks to Nyathi, and Zuma-Ncube, the women who made it happen.
TheNewsHawks85,757 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
🔴Another South African Marvel Manganyi explains why local employers prefer Zimbabweans and other foreigners for certain jobs or in particular sectors. He says it's a lie told by denialists or the uninformed that foreigners are preferred to South African due to cheap labour. He says work ethic, resilience and great determination to do the job without behaving like a cry baby or weakling is the real explanation for that trend. Many employers in certain sectors say they prefer foreigners because they work harder and hardly have excuses for non-performance or demand fat salaries and benefits without commensurate productivity and output to ensure company profitability.
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Botswana's President Duma Boko, who took office on November 1, 2024, captured singing a Xhosa religious song with fluent rendition. Boko reportedly has South African Xhosa origins and heritage. Xhosa-speaking people and communities are found in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. With a population of about 9.6 million, Xhosas are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa after Zulu-speaking people who are about 15 million. They are mainly found in Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces. Born in 1969 in the Mahalapye area of Botswana, Boko, who is Tswana by nationality, is associated with Xhosa-speaking communities locally and in the region. The Botswana President attended Madiba Senior Secondary School, which carries a name similar to the late former South African president Nelson Mandela's Xhosa clan identity. This highlights Botswana's diverse, multi-ethnic, and multicultural background. Zimbabwe's has a small Xhosa population of at least 200 000 people, intertwined with Ndebeles, mainly found in Mbembesi and Ntabazinduna areas near Bulawayo. Xhosa is one of Zimbabwe’s 16 official languages, half of them found in South Africa; namely Ndebele (a Zulu dialect), Sotho, Venda, Tswana, Shangani, Xhosa, sign language and English.
TheNewsHawks189,867 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
🟢Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa addressing a media conference at the ruling party headquarters in Harare yesterday. Mutsvangwa was emphatic that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will anytime sign into law Constitution Amendment Bill N0.3, ushering in far-reaching political, electoral and governance changes in Zimbabwe.
TheNewsHawks26,095 просмотров • 17 дней назад
#ChivayoInStateHouseMeetingScandal #BarredFromSeeingNigerianBillionaire Prominent and flamboyant ex-convict tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo gatecrashed State House in Harare yesterday in a desperate bid to attend the meeting between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote to sign a US$1 billion investment deal, but was barred from the event. The incident left Mnangagwa's security and protocol teams fretting, and those attending the event bewildered. Chivayo had lied to his hangers-on that he was going to meet Dangote to sign a mega deal and officials were waiting for him at State House. His social media hacks started posting false stories about the issue, with the narrative that he had an appointment with Mnangagwa and Dangote. Chivayo used that false claim to worm his way into State House to try to gatecrash the meeting for a photo opportunity as there was no business deal between him and Dangote. Before that, Chivayo had begged state officials and organisers to attend the event, but was rebuffed. Apart from Mnangagwa and Dangote, the meeting was attended by cabinet ministers, government officials and business executives. Chivayo, who has expressed public ambitions to be a billionaire and always hobnobs with Presidents in Africa and rich people whenever he gets a chance, stormed State House - uninvited - and tried to gatecrash the meeting, but was stopped dead in his tracks by Mnangagwa's aides, including his son Sean, who is part of the close security unit, and turned away. "It was drama; a spectacle. Chivayo was not invited to the meeting. He had spent some time trying to convince the President's protocol and security teams that he should be allowed to attend the Dangote meeting. He begged them for days, but all in vain. He badly wanted to see Dangote and pitch his quick-buck schemes, but, as usual, he had also seen a big photo opportunity for himself. So he contrived to deceive or scam his hangers-on and state officials. All he wanted was to get a photo with Dangote to enhance his status and in the process scam people that he is signing deals with the richest man in Africa, wealthiest black person in the world. Chivayo likes Dangote, but for his own interests. Yes, he truly admires him, but the difference is that one is a genuine businessman, while the other is a tenderpreneur. Their business models, values and ambitions are so different, and not aligned at all. One is building generational wealth, while the other one is looking for tenders, fame and flamboyance for temporary gratification," a senior government official who attended the meeting told The NewsHawks. "Chivayo's plan this time failed. He had plotted this after failing to get invited to the meeting. Under false pretences, he then negotiated his way at the gate into State House, which is a security breach I'm told, and tried to force his way into the meeting, but he was stopped. He was told it was not possible to attend because he was not invited. His attempt to name-drop the President was promptly and curtly rejected. He was told to go away, so he was embarrassed and humiliated." Journalists covering the event say they saw Chivayo walking towards State House offices after parking his car. "I saw him walking from his car coming to State House offices where we were, carrying a brown envelope and thought he had been invited last minute, but it soon became clear he was trying to gatecrash the meeting. This reminds me of the way he manoeuvred to take a photo with Kenyan President William Ruto at Trade Fair in Bulawayo last year. Out of that deft move, he has now become Ruto's friend and has got business opportunities in Kenya. That is his business model - infleunce-peddling; hence he has met many Presidents in the region, among them those from Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Nigeria and Malawi, among others. But this time it failed. It was really embarrassing. After the drama, he walked away with his tail between his legs."
TheNewsHawks297,054 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
🔴Former South African president Jacob Zuma seen here beating the anti-immigrants war drum in Zulu, saying women who used to trade in the informal sector have now been put out of business by foreigners who have now hijacked their space and activities. He goes on to say some people want to defend this - "what a shock!!!" - and rhetorically asks his crowd in the end "but whose country is this?". Zuma's opposition MK Party is closely working with the intensely xenophobic, Afrophobic and tribal March and March led by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, in a campaign by proxy for the upcoming November local government elections. Immigrants and associated problems have became their mobilising instrument. There are millions of immigrants, most of them undocumented, in South Africa, including Zimbabwe.
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🔴Zimbabwean academic Dr Nkululeko Sibanda, former opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa's spokesperson who studied Politics and International Relations at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom, says it does not really matter whether a President is elected directly by voters or by the people’s representatives in parliament. Sibanda also says electing a President through parliament does not disenfranchise voters or take away the one man one vote right - universal adult suffrage - because that is just a different electoral system not qualified franchise. He says those arguing the one man one vote principle or the right to vote has been taken away have a "poor" argument that is not correct. The real problem with the current constitutional amendments, he says, is that they seek to resolve Zanu PF internal succession politics using national institutions and dragging the whole nation into the vortex of a volatile party power struggle. That is where is the problem is, but there is a silver lining in the dark cloud.
TheNewsHawks83,645 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
While the battle over Zimbabwe's constitutional amendments to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term, lengthen presidential tenure and introduce a raft of controversial political, electoral and governance reforms intensifies across the country, main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has taken a curious position which says "there is no constitution in this country" to defend, meaning there is no need for this fight anyway except on his terms, parameters and front. Chamisa is at loggerheads with organisations like Constitution Defenders Forum led by Tendai Biti and Defend the Constitution Platform convened by Jameson Timba, among several other civic and opposition groups fighting government's bid to change the political, electoral and governance systems.
TheNewsHawks109,687 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
King MisuZulu kaZwelithini of South Africa says the Zulu nation has historical and cultural links with various communities in other Southern African Development Community countries, including Zimbabwe, reminding people that African identities transcend colonial borders, but being family should not mean visiting and living with each other improperly and in violation of applicable rules. MisuZulu said that shared history and cultural ties did not exempt anyone from complying with immigration laws and other rules of a sovereign country. “Being family does not exempt us from respecting one another’s homes. On the contrary, family respects family. It is therefore inaccurate to portray South Africans as a people who hate Africans. South Africans have for generations welcomed students, entrepreneurs, professionals, investors, refugees and visitors from across the continent," the king said in a prepared speech released by his office earlier today. The Zulu king narrated the history of how Nguni people migrated from Zululand in the 19th century to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. He gave examples of Mzilikazi kaMashobane who migrated to Zimbabwe and Soshangane Nxumalo keZikode who went to Mozambique. Queen Nyamazane Dlamini left Swaziland to Zimbabwe, while Zwangendaba Jele went to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and southern Tanzania. This ensured ensured there are Nguni communities across the region. The mass migration was triggered by the rise of Zulu King Shaka KaSenzangakhona in 1816, a period of upheavals known as Mfecane. “Communities with common historical roots are also found in Eswatini, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania and elsewhere across our continent. These histories remind us that African identity has never been confined to colonial borders. Our shared ancestry should inspire mutual respect. It should never be used to justify disregarding the immigration laws of sovereign nations," King MisuZulu said. The Zulu king illustrated his point by explaining that upon arrival in Zimbabwe, he was required to present his travel documents and declare the purpose of his visit. “As I arrived here in Zimbabwe, I presented my passport to the immigration authorities. My passport was stamped, I declared my nationality, I declared the purpose of my visit and I informed the authorities where I would be residing during my stay. He added: “By entering Zimbabwe, I accepted that while I remain King of the Zulu Nation, I am nevertheless a visitor within the sovereign territory of the Republic of Zimbabwe, and I am duty-bound to respect and obey the laws of this country for the duration of my visit. “Likewise, every sovereign nation has the right to know who enters its territory, for what purpose they enter, how long they intend to remain, and whether they comply with that nation’s laws." Misuzulu further said respect for immigration laws was not unique to Africa, but formed part of the system through which countries across the world regulated their borders and migration. The king said: “Every member state of the United Nations maintains borders, every member state issues visas. Every member state enforces immigration laws. Africa should never be expected to apologise for exercising rights that every sovereign nation in the world already exercises.” He also expressed concern that the debate over undocumented immigration and anti-immigrants protests had become increasingly polarised across the continent. He said some people wrongly treated every concern about unlawful immigration as an expression of xenophobia, while others unfairly blamed foreign nationals for every social and economic problem facing their communities in South Africa. Anti-immigrant groups led by March and March under their Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma have been hounding, evicting and chasing away immigrants, illegals but also legal ones, through an aggresive campaign of crude vigilantism characterised by xenophobic, Afrophobic and ethnophobic overtones.
TheNewsHawks12,399 просмотров • 10 дней назад
🔴Triple-murder accused Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma (45) made his first appearance in a Johannesburg Magistrate's Court today where his case was postponed to July 22. The Zimbabwean-British dual national was arrested by South African authorities on Friday night following an international manhunt involving British, Zimbabwean and South African police, as well as Interpol. He faces three counts of murder - familicide - authorised by the United Kingdom's Crown Prosecution Service. He is accused of murdering his wife, Zandile Nothabo Khumalo (42), and their two daughters, Natalie (15) and Nala (5). Tshuma and Khumalo, both IT specialists who lived in a house worth over US$1.7 million (R27.9 million) on "millionaire street" in Great Denham, near Bedford, UK, hail from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Their bodies were discovered on July 6 at their family home amid a gruesome scene of crime. He is also charged with illegal possession of a firearm in South Africa. Tshuma fled the UK on a British passport via Heathrow Airport on July 4, two days before the bodies were discovered. He travelled from London via Dubai to Johannesburg on July 5 before his arrest in Kensington on July 10.
TheNewsHawks12,424 просмотров • 11 дней назад
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Talented Zimbabwean media personality Tich Mataz - whose real name is Tichafa Matambanadzo - is relishing his return to the limelight after joining Channel Africa, an SABC international broadcasting service. Mataz will be hosting a talkshow - African Diaries - engaging high-profile personalities from business, political and entertainment, among other spheres of life. Channel Africa broadcasts across the continent in a number of languages, including English, French, Portuguese, Kiswahili, and Nyanja. It is available via DStv and online streaming. Known as "The Midas Touch," Mataz is a legendary figure in regional broadcasting, particularly in Zimbabwe, where he started, and South Africa where he rose to fame in the 1990s on SABC TV - Woza Weekend, a high-energy sport-focused show, and radio stations like 5FM and Metro FM before his dramatic deportation in 1998. Although his life and career have been dogged by controversies, Mataz remains a top talent and still has a lot to offer in broadcasting; getting better with age like fine wine.
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Zimbabwe's sovereign wealth fund, Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF), chief executive John Mangudya speaking last week after Mutapa Gold Resources, an MIF subsidiary, declared a US$35 million dividend to shareholders. This followed its after-tax profit of US$70 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2025. MIF, which controls over 30 major state-owned enterprises and 66 total subsidiary entities, is worth US$16 billion.
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Former Zimbabwe National Team midfielder Esrom Nyandoro, who played for AmaZulu in Zimbabwe and Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa, says the Warriors lost to Bafana Bafana 3-2 last night in the Afcon group stages last match in Morocco, crashing out of the tournament at the bottom of the table, due to "stupid mistakes" and goals given on a silver platter.
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#TheAfricanCentury South African billionaire Robert Gumede heavily promotes Pan-African business networks and cross-border investments through his flagship investment holding company, Guma Group. Gumede operates under a core philosophy that the current era is the "African Century", pushing for the industrialisation of all 54 nations on the continent. In this video, back in May, Gumede is seen heavily praising Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote's mega oil refinery, the world's largest single-train refinery, saying without it, Africa would be left as vulnerable to global supply shocks as it was during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at the Africa-France Summit in May, Gumede highlighted the project as a monumental step forward for continental self-reliance and economic liberation. He explicitly remarked, "Without Dangote having built the biggest refinery in the world, Africa today would be sitting just like we sat during COVID-19 without vaccination". Gumede lauded the project as "an African product produced by an African for Africa", celebrating its ability to slash the continent's heavy reliance on foreign fuel imports. He pointed out African countries stepping up to embrace Dangote Fuel demonstrates the raw power of African businessmen and nations supporting one another.
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Political tensions are fast rising in Zimbabwe over Constitutional Amendment Bill N0.3 which seeks to introduce a raft of far-reaching political, electoral and governance system changes, including elongating the electoral cycle from five to seven years and extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule by two more years form 2028 to 2030. Government's explanation is that Mnangagwa will after the contentious changes get a new seven-year term, instead of the five years he is currently serving, and do a lengthened second term from 2023 to 2030 retrospectively.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa was stunned yesterday by Zanu PF youths who told him that while his own generational mission was to fight the liberation struggle, as he had said during his address at their national assembly gathering in Harare, theirs was to support Constitutional Amendment Bill N0.3 (CAB3)!
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Nearly 60 000 Zimbabwean citizens have returned home from South Africa within the last two weeks following a massive wave of voluntary and government-assisted repatriations triggered by anti-immigrant vigilante groups March and March, and Operation Dudula's campaigns. March and March is fighting immigrants through a campaign of xenophobia, Afrophobia and ethnophobia, which has deeply divided South Africa and the African continent. This large-scale exodus was triggered by intense pressure and an ultimatum from the anti-illegal immigration movements demanding that undocumented foreign nationals leave the country by June 30. At least 58 768 to over 60 000 individuals have crossed back into Zimbabwe. The vast majority - 47 703 people - chose to leave independently using their own means. A total of 11 065 people were officially repatriated through inter-governmental collaborations. This assisted group includes 2 449 men, 2 407 females, and 4 955 minors. Millions of Zimbabweans work and live in South Africa due to Zanu PF's disastrous leadership, governance and policy failures, as well as mismanagement and corruption.
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🟢Harare lawyer Doug Coltart says despite last week's passage of Constitution Amendment Bill N0.3 and the arguments by authorities, the contentious far-reaching legislative changes need to be subjected a referendum. This is one of the most contested issues around the constitutional amendments overwhelmingly voted for by the National Assembly last week. Attorney-General Virginia Mabiza and others supporting CAB3 have steadfastly rejected the demand for a referendum, saying it is not needed in this instance.
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