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Mnangagwa and the Gukurahundi - fact and fiction

As journalists and a veritable army of newfound Zimbabwe "experts" join the bun rush to describe the history of Robert Mugabe's replacement, Emmerson Mnangagwa, there has been much talk about his role in the Gukurahundi killings of the 198…

Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 09:57hrs | | by Stuart Doran

Chiwenga, Mugabe, Sekeramayi, Shiri and Zvobgo : The real gukurahundi culprits

THE Ndebele people of western Zimbabwe have a proverb, walutheza olule nkume, which, roughly translated, means "A person picked up firewood in which there was a scorpion, and now the scorpion is out to bite him." An English equivalent woul…

Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 06:22hrs | 5 | by Stuart Doran

Gukurahundi origins: myths and reality

THE fundamental precondition for understanding Zimbabwe in the 1980s - and beyond - is to recognise the supremacist mentality that has underwritten Zimbabwean nationalism since its development in the 1950s and 1960s.When Zanu was created i…

Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 13:05hrs | 2 | by Stuart Doran

Mugabe wanted a Civil War in Zimbabwe

THE so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which President Robert Mugabe's then guerrilla army, Zanla, fought that of his nationalist rival Joshua Nkomo's Zipra, are typically cited as among the more im…

Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 15:18hrs | 9 | by Stuart Doran

Gukurahundi Origins: Myth and reality, part 1 - 'war' in Bulawayo, 1980-1

The so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which Robert Mugabe's guerrilla army fought that of his nationalist rival, Joshua Nkomo, are typically cited as among the more important precursors of the Guku…

Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 08:00hrs | 3 | by Stuart Doran

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Columnist / Stuart doran

Mnangagwa and the Gukurahundi - fact and fiction

Chiwenga, Mugabe, Sekeramayi, Shiri and Zvobgo : The real gukurahundi culprits

Gukurahundi origins: myths and reality

Mugabe wanted a Civil War in Zimbabwe

Gukurahundi Origins: Myth and reality, part 1 - 'war' in Bulawayo, 1980-1

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