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Pressure mounts on govt over Gukurahundi hearings
Political activists and opposition leaders in Matabeleland have called on the government to immediately halt the ongoing Gukurahundi public hearings, citing concerns over their lack of transparency an...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:34hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
New commander at Ngezi barracks
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) last Friday marked a significant leadership transition at Ngezi Barracks with the handover-takeover ceremony for the 51 Infantry Battalion Commanding Officers....Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 15:49hrs | 5455 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings begin reopening old wounds
Public hearings into the Gukurahundi massacres, an initiative spearheaded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, are set to commence tomorrow amid rising concerns from survivors, civil society, and analysts...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:01hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings constitutionality questioned
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has challenged the legality and execution of the government-led public hearings into the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities, raising constitutional concerns and demanding ...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 09:44hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moving towards a one-party State
Zimbabwe appears to be hurtling toward a one-party State, as the ruling Zanu PF regime intensifies efforts to dismantle opposition forces, muzzle the media, and consolidate power under a single, uncha...Published: 24 May 2025 at 10:57hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings to start in April
Traditional chiefs have announced their readiness to commence public hearings on the Gukurahundi massacres as early as April after completing a refresher course on conducting the exercise.Pres...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:22hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors call for apology before it's too late
As Zimbabwe marks the anniversary of the Unity Accord on December 22, survivors of the Gukurahundi atrocities have renewed calls for justice, compensation, and recognition for the horrors they endured...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:16hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings: Where from and possible outcomes
IT'S 42 years now since a dark cloud of Gukurahundi engulfed Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces, in which the Zanu-PF government, then led by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, unleashed No...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 09:19hrs | 361 | by Silas Nkala
Gukurahundi victims want apology from Mnangagwa
Survivors and victims of the Gukurahundi massacres in the 1980s have cautioned the government against dictating how this sensitive issue should be addressed, insisting that they are still alive to spe...Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 12:44hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa boasts of being Zimbabwe's 'CIO Godfather'
BY his own admission this week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the architect of Zimbabwe's brutal security system which has left a trail of human rights violations, abductions, forced disappearances ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers cause stir in Gweru
HUNDREDS of soldiers have camped at a military base in Guinea Fowl, Gweru, stretching social amenities in the area where there are limited ablution facilities and erratic water supplies at a time ther...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:26hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to make a public apology for his role in the Gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa in a closed-door meeting with chiefs on Monday at Bulawayo State House pledged to make a public apology for his role in the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide if the traditional l...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers' involvement in armed robberies worrisome
THE arrest of three soldiers in a foiled armed robbery recently following a movie-style shoot-out has again brought to the limelight the involvement of rogue elements of the uniformed forces in violen...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZNA soldier killed in armed robbery attempt
A ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) soldier was shot dead by police detectives pursuing a gang of suspected armed robbers, who included three other army officers, in Birchenough, Mutare.The now dec...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Rwanda relations put to test again
ZIMBABWE'S diplomatic relations with Rwanda face a new test as it emerged a prominent Zanu-PF and anti-sanctions activist has launched a tirade against President Paul Kagame.Apart from denounc...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Remembering gukurahundi genocide
The spirit of Mthwakazi insecurity and why the Mthwakazi prosecutor general must bring the perpetrators of these henious crimes to justice.Greetings to all!For forty-two years, the insecur...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 18 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Obert Mpofu's Gukurahundi denialism very unsettling
UTTERANCES by Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu (pictured) dismissing Gukurahundi as a "thing of the past" and telling victims to forget is tantamount to attempting to whitewash the gen...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:18hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa at pains to charm Matebeleland
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made desperate moves to appease the people of Matebeleland over the early 1980s Gukurahundi genocide which claimed 20 000 lives.Mnangagwa, who is yet to public...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt must have a plan to rescue jobless graduates
Education used to be a ticket to a better life in Zimbabwe. Life was better when one was educated, one could afford a house and a middle income lifestyle.But this has changed over the la...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Evans Mathanda
Mnangagwa's new Gukurahundi whitewash
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial biography, A Life of Sacrifice, which trended upon its launch this week – mainly for the wrong reasons – has many shades of grey, but it does not compl...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chimonyo: Gukurahundi follows him to the grave
THE death yesterday morning of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Chimonyo (pictured) has sparked a fierce outcry among human rights activists over his alleged role in the...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
5 Brigade ready for Mozambique deployment to combat insurgents
FOLLOWING the extraordinary summit of the heads of state and government of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) in Maputo last week, Zimbabwe could deploy 5 Brigade - which is associated ...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 21:35hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son denounces Zanu-PF's tragic failure
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, son of the late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo says the country needs new leaders who can rescue it from Zanu-PF's ruinous rule and fulfil his father's vision of a free, just and pro...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 21:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Forced patriotism as Zanu-PF moves to entrench police state
Zanu-PF is pushing the controversial Patriotic Bill to entrench a police state and quash any dissenting voices ahead of the 2023 elections, analysts have said.The government has been previousl...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jonso's mortal combat
EXILED Professor Jonathan Moyo has been busy burning the midnight candle. This week he ran a long Twitter thread that purportedly exposed with raw evidence the first family, that is, President ED Mnan...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 14:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joint police, army operation to flush out illegal miners raises stink
The police and army recently mounted a joint operation to flush out violent illegal miners throughout the country, but the officers have quickly seized the opportunity to make dirty money, it has been...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now more paranoic and desperate
A REGIME failing to provide its citizens with basic necessities is unsurprisingly afraid of itself and those who differ with its lopsided policies.The arrest of four civil society activists th...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police, soldiers join Gaika looting spree
GOVERNMENT is facing fresh headaches over Gaika Mine invasion after soldiers and police officers deployed to seal it off started to fraternise with the trespassers and joined the gold looting spree, i...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi reports are not missing'
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has dismissed reports that the Dumbutshena and Chihambakwe reports on the 1980s disturbances were lost. "The issue of the Chihamba...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa Vs The Ndebeles (Mthwakazi)
One of the most iconic figure of the 20th century and Mozambique's first black democratic president CDE Sambora Machel once said "Tribalism is like cancer to the society". In many African countries tr...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 13:59hrs | | by Nkosana Malinga
Chief Charumbira's evil intentions about Matabeleland genocide will never succeeded in our lifetime
Chief Charumbira's evil intentions about Matabeleland genocide cannot go unnoticed and unchallenged. His devilish plans will never see light of day in our lifetime. It must be categorically st...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 08:59hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight divides Zimbabwe army?
The political fight between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and General Constantino Chiwenga over the control of the party and state apparatus has sharply divided the Zimbabwe National Army i...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:42hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Army calls for 'ceasefire' in machete attacks
The Zimbabwe National Army has urged traditional leaders in the Midlands province to partner law enforcement agents in thwarting violent clashes between artisanal miners in and around Kwekwe. ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The social media effect: Voice of the voiceless
The social media must be enemy number one for regimes that suppress people,s voices.It played a big part during the Arab springs and today we see what the Junta is capable of. Previous elections have ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by AT Kadada
Mnangagwa's nasty fallout with cleric
Zanu-PF supporters aligned to a faction sympathetic to President Emmerson Mnangagwa attempted to elbow out his neighbour Reverend Isaac Tititi Moyo - with whom he has had a nasty fallout - from a farm...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
2018 elections, implications on Ndebele
Parliamentary representation has not helped Ndebele speaking territories much since attainment of independence. For a good hopeless 25 years or more Zanu PF MPs and ministers playing the tune of that ...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 12:09hrs | 2 | by Sazi Ntozonke
Mugabe a 'deeply conflicted zealot'
In 2017, the Daily Maverick published a series of articles based on Stuart Doran's monumental history of Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe, titled Kingdom, Power, Glory. In this major review of the book, form...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 13:59hrs | 1 | by David Owen, British politician
The dark chapter of Zimbabwe's history that won't go away
With Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa just concluding a 100-day timeline to addresses what he considered the country's most pressing issues, which focused on economic revival, human rights ...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 08:24hrs | | by IPS
The leaderless people of Matabeleland and part of the Midlands
In 1980 the people of Zimbabwe had a fearless leader who was humiliated in every way possible and saw his followers killed without any mercy in the name of dissidents. Joshua Nkomo, eventually rested ...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 13:31hrs | | by Clive Zulu
Zimbabwe army battalion gets new leader
The country is poised for better fortunes and economic recovery under the new political dispensation and members of the Zimbabwe National Army entrusted with maintaining peace and national integrity s...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:39hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Without truth and justice it will be foolhardy to talk of national healing and reconciliation
Recently President Emerson Mnangagwa fielded questions in Davos, Switzerland was quoted in local and international press saying he was prepared to appear before the National Peace and Reconcil...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Thamsanqa Mlilo
Mnangagwa denies 20,000 civilians killed during Zimbabwe genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally admitted to government transgressions in the killing of innocent civilians in Matebeleland and Midlands provinces between 1980 and 1987 but denies the widely s...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa lambasted over gukurahundi comments
SPECIAL ADVISER to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has been lambasted for suggesting that it is "irresponsible" to continue talking about Gukurahundi.Mutsvangwa told Alja...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 16:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Talking about Gukurahundi is irresponsible - Mnangagwa advisor
SPECIAL ADVISER to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Christopher Mutsvangwa, told Aljazeera that bringing up the Gukurahundi issue was "simply unhelpful" and "irresponsible"."Zimbabwe needs a brea...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 20:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military muscles into first post-Mugabe Cabinet
President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed senior military officials to top posts in his first Cabinet on Friday in what is widely seen as a reward for the army's role in the removal of his predecessor, R...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 05:30hrs | | by Reuters
ZDF provide call centre number for public to report harassment by soldiers
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces has provided the call centre number to the members of the public so that they report any incidents of soldiers harassing them.This was revealed by People's Democrat...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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...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 ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Stuart Doran
Mutambara raped Judith Todd during Gukurahundi era?
Former Agriculture minister Rugare Gumbo yesterday said both Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader Retired Brigadier Agrippa Mutambara and the party's interim secretary-general Kudakwashe Bhasikiti sho...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 09:04hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
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