Columnist / Iphithule maphosa
Remembering the peaceful giant
The last two months have been very important for the mother party and Zimbabweans as we have been engrossed with memories of giants who played prominent roles in our quest for a dignified and free lif...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU mourns Elder Nkiwane
ZAPU family was yesterday thrown into mourning following the passing of our Elder Comrade Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane. He had been admitted at a local hospital in Bulawayo a few days earlier.Kno...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 11:59hrs | 4 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU learns with sadness the passing of founding President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia
. .Affectionately known to us as Dr KK, President Kaunda is the doyen of Africa's liberation and search for freedom. At the time Zambia's freedom was at its infancy, President Kaunda s...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 14:43hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
A genuine reform agenda could have saved Zimbabweans
Since the adoption of the new constitution in 2013, there have been expectations of constitutional reforms and realignment of the country's laws to the new supreme law.The reform agenda did no...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 19:48hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Unity can never be built on mass graves
For thirty three years now, Zimbabwe has been celebrating, disguised as unity, loss of tens of thousands of lives for ZANU PF political expediency.What ZANU PF failed to achieve by way o...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 13:22hrs | 13 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU statement on NPRC's purported research program on conflict in Zimbabwe
Following their recently rolled out program on the so called research on pre colonial, colonial and post colonial conflict periods, and also following ZAPU and NPRC meeting in Bulawayo on 11 December ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:34hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU on demolitions in Harare
Zimbabwe African People's Union notes with sadness the developments taking place in Harare City Council regards the recent demolitions of settlements in a number of areas.While we are made awa...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:32hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
Sanctions. What sanctions?
25 October will go down in history as the day SADC took Zimbabwean people to the sacrificial altar simply to shore up their dictator brotherhood cult ruining the country. The day set aside in ...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Emperor with no robes
The proverbial Emperor with no robes aptly describes the government of Zimbabwe and particularly President Mnangagwa following the August 29 2020 court interdict against unlawful reburials of Gu...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 08:18hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
Mnangagwa's planned Bhalagwe visit mischievious, insensitive, disrespectful and insulting
Bhalagwe; The place of bones in present-day Zimbabwe. Lying in the southern part of the country, with tens of thousand bones that have been crying for justice since the physical killings of ZAPU and p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU statement on latest South African envoys mission to Zimbabwe.
The Revolutionary and Democratic party notes the seemingly sustained efforts by the South African National Congress party in trying to initiate a process of finding the ever elusive solution to the Zi...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 08:54hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
Chief Ndiweni's incarçeration an attack on peoples rights
Chief Ndiweni has been incarcerated not only because of the crime he is alleged to have committed but he has long been an undesirable element according to ZANU PF.The sending away of the chief...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 21:30hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
Misheck Velaphi Ncube Obituary: Connecting the Dots
Misheck Velaphi Ncube was buried at Heroes Acre in Harare on 9 May 2019, a well-deserved recognition from the ruling party and the state for his contribution to the liberation and independence of Zimb...Published: 19 May 2019 at 20:59hrs | 15 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Dabengwa in India for medical attention
ZAPU President Dabengwa, who has been unwell since December 2018, has left for India where he will seek medical attention.The trip, that was planned since he was in South Africa a few mo...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU's independence day message
As Zimbabweans remember the end of colonialism and the advent of independent rule on 18 April 1980, it is saddening to note that what every citizen celebrated as a new chapter has in actual fact been ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 3 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Cyclone Idai exposed misplaced priorities in Zimbabwe
The devastating cyclone effects as witnessed and experienced in the eastern parts of the country makes a very sad reading of the kind of leadership Zimbabwe has had since the advent of indepen...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Arbitrary arrests won’t solve Gukurahundi
Zimbabwe African People's Union is dismayed by the state's arrest on journalist Zenzele Ndebele at Bulawayo State House today. As much as it is a clear misplacement of priorities in a co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Zimbabwean authorities must restore internet connectivity
Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) is utterly dismayed by the Zimbabwean government who have cut and shut down internet service and connection in the country.The mother party is worr...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 10:48hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa
It's time for government to resign - Zapu
Zanu-PF's socio-political bankrupcy has finally come out openly for all to see now. The economic lunacy that this government has created and is all out to perpetuate at all cost, renders the regime un...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 13:46hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa ZAPU National Spokesperson
Beyond change of govt in Zimbabwe - Aspirations and expectations
A ZAPU perspective In the aftermath of events in November of 2017, events that ushered in a new dispensation in Zimbabwe, ZAPU remains cognisant of societal fears, aspirations, interests and e...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU on current situation in our country and the way forward
Events that continue to unfold in Zimbabwe since Monday are a product of a deteriorated political, social and economic conditions. The country has for decades been under a plethora of problems...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 17:54hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
Nephat Madlela - a Zimbabwe liberation war-national hero
One after another they depart to the Creator, in the same manner they departed from the then Rhodesia into the wilderness in neighboring countries for the liberation struggle. This is the story of our...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 10:40hrs | 34 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU dissolves Bulawayo Provincial Executive Committee
Zimbabwe African Peoples' Union Bulawayo Province had its executive committee dissolved as of Sunday 27 November 2016.This comes as a result of a resolution of the National Executive Council m...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 10:56hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU Youths Angry over threats and harassment of Vendors
ZAPU Bulawayo Youth Front condemns in the strongest terms the insensitive treatment and harassment of vendors in Zimbabwe. For a nation with such a failed economy and where every third person one ...Published: 03 Jun 2015 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa
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