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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 ...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Stuart Doran
Mugabe pursued his objectives with ruthless violence
The ruthless violence with which Mugabe pursued his objectives after Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has prompted biographers, analysts and critics to search for indications of this propensity in earl...Published: 25 May 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Dr Stuart Doran I Daily Maverick
What Britain did (and didn't) on Gukurahundi
CONTRARY to allegations that Western governments "did nothing" when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's army went on the rampage in the early 1980s, they may have helped prevent total slaughter. But ...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Stuart Doran Historian & Author
Gukurahundi: reckoning nears
TO the casual observer, nothing much seems to have happened in Zimbabwe of recent times. Robert Mugabe, the world's oldest head of state, remains president. And Zanu-PF is still the ruling party, more...Published: 19 May 2016 at 13:18hrs | | by Dr Stuart Doran
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