Nathan Shamuyarira

Dorothy Shamuyarira, the 89-year-old widow to former Cabinet Minister and Zanu PF Secretary for Information and Publicity in the Politburo, Dr Nathan Shamuyarira, succumbed to Covid-19 related complications at Parirenyatwa Group of…
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Tafi Mhaka - So while many people will castigate, dismiss and ridicule Advocate Mahere and accurately wonder what one woman will conceivably do in Parliament when weighed down by two colossal parties, do remember that the hundreds of MDC-T…
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Soon after independence in 1980, Zanu PF came up with the criteria to be used to accord hero status to the fallen nationals. The main criterion was one’s “consistent” participation in the national liberation struggle. The other was one’s…
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It would be amiss for anyone to profile black journalism in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe without mentioning the key role that the late Dr Nathan Shamuyarira played in the noble profession.
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As a journalist, I have always wondered how my career would have gone if Nathan Shamuyarira had offered me a job in the Ministry of Information in 1980. “I’m sure we can fit you somewhere” had been his response to my inquiry by telephone…
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In the last two weeks, I attended two absorbing funerals. The first was that of Dzinashe Machingura, a long forgotten liberation struggle hero. A man who, during the liberation struggle, rose to being the national political commissar of the…
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If Zimbabwe was a granary, ZANU PF, in its current form, would have been the disastrous weevil. The unrelenting bug mercilessly destroyed everything in the national granary over a period of thirty-four years, leaving the whole nation in…
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INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo has reportedly sought the intervention of army generals to save his skin following his public ridicule by President Robert Mugabe on allegations of fanning divisions in the…
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Former Information Minister Dr Nathan Shamuyarira (85) who died on Wednesday night at the West End Clinic in Harare was buried at the National Heroes Acre on Saturday. The following are pictures from his burial.
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HARARE - Nathan Shamuyarira, the former Cabinet minister and politburo member, died “poor” and his wife Dorothy could not even visit him in hospital because of financial constraints, President Robert Mugabe and relatives said yesterday.
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