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Mnangagwa's stunt at Pupu akin to Hitler officiating at a Jewish synagogue?
It was quite a disturbing and unsettling sight watching President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa officiating at the unveiling of the Pupu Battlefield Memorial Site in Lupani. This was in ho...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:15hrs | 477 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chief Ndiweni accuses Zanu of hypocrisy
Outspoken Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has accused the Zanu-PF government of "hypocrisy" in commissioning the Pupu Battlefield Memorial Site in Lupane....Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 15:01hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
The Chemist Siziba and Oasis bar story
It is hard to find a patron who would mostly and consistently drink in one bar for 44 years - a whole generation; a lifetime.Yet Chemist Siziba, a local businessman and socialite, did. Before ...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 17:01hrs | 1923 | by Staff reporter
Shona youth that attack Matabele possessed by the demon of gukurahundi
Shona youth that drive all the way from Mashonaland to Matabeleland armed with machetes and fire arms to invade Matabeleland and violently attack and kill...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 23:53hrs | 1599 | by Israel Dube
Why an uprising against Zanu-PF will fail
I SEE some people advocating an uprising against Zanu-PF Have you people thought this through? If you really provoke a crisis, with the populace on one side and the machinery of the Zanu-PF go...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:32hrs | 1076 | by Kumbirai T Nhamo
ZMC threatens to muzzle the press on Gukurahundi genocide reporting
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chairperson, Professor Ruby Magosvongwe, says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:09hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Why Donald Trump's support has been growing!
My friends in Europe and in Africa ask me the perennial question. What makes for Donald Trump's longevity in American politics? And why are the Democrats trying their best to lock him up in a ja...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | 596 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe seeks to control Gukurahundi genocide coverage process
The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chair Professor Ruby Magosvongwe says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative clique ...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 20:49hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu LikaZulu commemorates the burning to death of 6 villagers during Gukurahundi
Militant Matebeleland pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu co-ordinated by civic activist Mbuso Fuzwayo today commemorated the burning to death of six villagers in Salankoko area,Tsholotsho, Matebeleland ...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 07:20hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
Selection of gukurahundi journalists opaque and dodgy
A group of local Zimbabwean journalists, whose selection has been clearly opaque and dodgy, are grappling with how media should cover the upcoming Gukurahundi outreach programme hearings into the 1980...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:44hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
Vandalised Gukurahundi plaque replaced
Matebeleland-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Wednesday installed yet another memorial plaque at Bhalagwe in Maphisa, Matebeleland South province where dozens of Gukurahundi victims were buri...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 07:36hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors vent anger over Youths Day
GUKURAHUNDI survivors have vented their anger over yesterday's National Youths Day celebrated annually on the birthday of the late former President Robert Mugabe whom they accuse of causing the suffer...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
A doomed holiday for unrepentant genocidaires!
We shall always remember the 21st of February as a doomed and diabolic holiday which has been set aside by the unrepentant genocidaires for openly celebrating the physical Gukurahundi genocide, which ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:34hrs | 605 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General for Freedom Alliance)
Zapu leader calls out Charumbira's Gukurahundi genocide denial
Sibangilizwe Nkomo, leader of the ZAPU party, has criticised Chief Fortune Charumbira, the deputy president of the National Chiefs Council, for publicly denying that the atrocities during Gukurahundi ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:21hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
How Mzila's family suffered during Gukurahundi genocide
IN 1982, I was assaulted by five Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniformed young men donning red berets at my Luveve house number 4136 where I lived, while I taught at St Bernards High School in Pumula, ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 604 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 322 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Matebeleland demands truth on Gukurahundi not this Mnangagwa charade
Matebeleland-BASED churches and civil society organisations are demanding testimonies by perpetrators of Gukurahundi as a critical step towards truth telling, justice and reconciliation in a developme...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:49hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Ibhetshu likaZulu statement on Gukurahundi healing process
Ibhetshu likaZulu has noted with extreme concern the Government of Zimbabwe’s defiance of the constitution, its remorseless lack of empathy to the survivors of Gukurahundi and those that lost their ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 11:53hrs | 297 | by Mbuso Fuzwayo
US to review SA relations following ICJ case against Israel
A bill has been submitted to the United States congress calling for a full review of the country's bilateral relationship with South Africa following the International Court of Justice ruling that fou...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 13:46hrs | 3059 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa linked chief bans media from Zimbabwe genocide hearings
The National Chiefs Council has underlined that the media, as well as police, army, and intelligence operatives, will be barred from attending the Gukurahundi hearings, which are scheduled to begin so...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:08hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Daft Charumbira in Gukurahundi storm
CHIEF Fortune Charumbira touched off a storm yesterday after saying the disturbances that rocked the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces in the 1980s in which thousands were killed by North Korea-trai...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:01hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi disturbances not genocide, claims Charumbira
Fortune Charumbira, who leads traditional leaders in Zimbabwe says the disturbances in the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces in the 1980s in which over 20 000 people were killed by security forces w...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 17:50hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets two-thirds majority
The ruling Zanu-PF party won all the six seats in by-elections held on Saturday last week as it attained a two-thirds majority amid fears there will be rounds of constitutional amendments.Zanu...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:37hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Survivors petition chiefs over Gukurahundi hearings
A CIVIC society organisation (CSO) fighting for victims, the Gukurahundi Genocide Survivors 4 Justice (GGS4J), has cautioned traditional leaders not to be hoodwinked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:37hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Moyo urges Gukurahundi hearings rethink
Former speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo has cast doubt that the yet to be held Gukurahundi public hearings will deliver justice, healing and reconciliation as he urged authorities to consider the R...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:11hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter
Allow media at Gukurahundi genocide meetings
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Veterans Association has implored the President of the National Chiefs' Council, Chief Mtshane Khumalo, to allow media coverage of the upcoming Gukurahu...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:10hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide being addressed, says conflicted Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was a key player during the Zimbabwe genocide era, yesterday said his government was committed to resolving the thorny Gukurahundi issue through public hearings on th...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:58hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide victims must be protected during Mnangagwa hearings
CHURCHES and civic groups yesterday called on authorities to ensure the safety of Gukurahundi victims when they testify during the upcoming public hearings.Public hearings into the massacres a...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa is Zimbabwe's political antbear (Isambane)
It takes a few seconds for an animal called an antbear (Isambane) to dig a barrow and abandon it in seconds to start a fresh one. Like a controversial antibear, Nelson Chamisa has mesmerized Zimbabwea...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 09:36hrs | 2898 | by Israel Dube
'Britain should be in Zimbabwe genocide dialogue'
WAR veterans from the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) have expressed concern over the exclusion of Britain in the Gukurahundi hearings arguing that the former coloniser had a hand in the ...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:59hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is cursed'
OPPOSITION Zapu leader has described Zimbabwe as a cursed nation because of bad politics since the country attained independence in 1980.Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son to the late nationalist Jos...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:46hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU demands inclusion in Gukurahundi resolution process
ZAPU and its former military wing, ZIPRA, have declared that as the primary victims of the Gukurahundi genocide, they should be involved in finding a solution arguing that current efforts to resolve G...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 16:34hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns critics
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned his opponents that their attempts to disrupt his efforts to address Gukurahundi and attack the chiefs he has appointed, through disinformation and political man...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 09:39hrs | 1791 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa Gukurahundi genocide project illegal, futile without truth telling'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa maintains his government is leading and bankrolling the entire process of "bringing finality" to the Gukurahundi atrocities cognisant of potential external interference se...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:04hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Alleged gukurahundi genocide 'enforcer' meets Matebeleland chiefs
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa, who is alleged to be the gukurahundi genocide 'enforcer', is today expected to meet chiefs from the Matebeleland region and the Midlands Province to finalise the process that will...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
UN court to rule Friday in South Africa's genocide case against Israel
The United Nations' top court will issue a decision Friday on South Africa's request for interim orders in a genocide case against Israel, including that Israel halt its offensive in Gaza.The ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 12:01hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Former MDC senator recounts Gukurahundi disappearances
ONE will not understand the pain of another's wound until he or she falls into the same predicament, goes an adage.This is the feeling that many Gukurahundi victims and survivors ponder daily since 19...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 09:59hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 1298 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide workshop raises eyebrows over chief's role
An invitation to a sensitisation meeting in Bulawayo sent to media editors regarding the Gukurahundi outreach community programme has cast doubt on the National Chiefs Council's authority over the gen...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 14:45hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Chinese tech to help Zimbabwe police crackdown on drug barons
POLICE have vowed to use newly received equipment from China to descend on all drug cartels with the same severity the impact of the drugs is having on societies as the fight against substance abuse i...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:07hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt trying to create a certain narrative about Gukurahundi genocide
THE Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs will this month hold a Gukurahundi Community Outreach Programme in Bulawayo targeting the media sector where editors from different publication...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:07hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
South Africa is testing the West's claim to moral superiority
Supporters of Palestine have long been told their position is fringe. But this case gives them legitimacy – and tests the limits of human rightsIt was only a little over six hours of legal a...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 05:44hrs | 1202 | by Nesrine Malik
Zimbabwe genocide survivors demand justice as hearings commence
It is now close to four decades since the end of Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands, but survivors and their relatives are still to find closure as the government continues to dither o...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wades into Gaza genocide
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has hailed the South African government for its application to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague seeking the declaration of Israel's military assault on Gaza...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:16hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Two thirds majority not Zanu-PF's ambition
Zanu-PF has called on the opposition CCC party to put aside their internal differences and join forces to stabilise the country's electoral landscape, arguing that holding further by-elections was not...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:46hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Tribalistic ZBC presenters humiliate Mnangagwa
A divided house cannot stand so is a divided country. Since time immemorial, anti-Matabele Shona supremacists have been popping up everywhere in Zimbabwe to express their tribal hatred for Matabel...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 22:53hrs | 1915 | by Israel Dube
Ex-'dissidents' advocate for inclusion in Gukurahundi hearings
Former dissidents have suggested the government should have included them in efforts to solve Gukurahundi alongside chiefs as they were the target of the government-sponsored mass killings.The...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:23hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
'Tribalism dividing Zimbabwe'
ZAPU leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has lamented rising tribalism among Zimbabweans who are increasingly identifying themselves as either Shonas or Ndebeles.Nkomo blamed the ruling Zanu-PF party fo...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:01hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF thrives on dividing nation
Ever since the party was formed on August 8, 1963, its modus operandi has always been the same: Dividing the people of Zimbabwe. In fact, Zanu-PF's existence and survival have been premised on fomenti...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:00hrs | 332 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Push to identify Gukaruhundi victims' mass graves
Ibhetshu LikaZulu, a Matebeleland-based human rights' watchdog, has sent an SOS for funds needed for installation of memoralisation plaques at unmarked mass graves where Gukurahundi victims are ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 13:02hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
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