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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
Army truck overturns on road to Mnangagwa garden visit
An army truck heading to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's launch of what was described as a "market gardening project" in Makorokoro, Matabeleland South, overturned on Wednesday killing two soldiers and...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths batter 6 soldiers
TWENTY EIGHT Zanu-PF youths mainly from Samba Ranch in Chiredzi North were on Monday arraigned before Chiredzi magistrate Simbarashe Gundani on charges of assaulting six Air Force of Zimbabwe soldiers...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Another Air Force of Zimbabwe chopper crashes
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crash-landed near oil expresser Surface Wilmar in Chitungwiza on Thursday evening, but details of the accident have been kept under wraps.The chopper ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 11:00hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
SA army truck, soldiers arrested for smuggling
Two South African soldiers aged 27 and 38 were on Friday evening arrested along with a 30-year-old foreigner when using an army vehicle to transport 12 crates of cigarettes worth R160 000 smuggled fro...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dougie is following Ngwena everywhere
My Dear People,If there's one thing that Ngwena and his people don't have -it is taste -sartorial taste.When I saw Ngwena at a function about the national dress, he was in the stranges...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:01hrs | 3 | by Dr Stopit
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 33 | by Thembani Dube
Why are we not holding councils to account?
MY soul is so disquieted, as I feel so dejected as a Zimbabwean, wondering about our inexplicable docility, cowardice, and inability to stand up against local government authorities who have failed to...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:28hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Zimbabweans can't even stand up against non-brutal opposition urban authorities who're failing in service delivery, then what
A morning like today, is one of those when my soul is so disquieted, as I feel so dejected as a Zimbabwean, wondering if we truly knew what we wanted as a people - displayed by our inexplicable docili...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Terror in Seychelles Zimbabweans in crossfire
THIS is the second in a three-part series about the hijacking of an Air India Boeing 707 flying from Harare to New Dehli India on November 26, 1981. The plane flew into a coup attempt in the S...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chivhu shooting: Details emerge
Chivhu residents were left in awe of the manner in which security services tracked, shot and killed two gunmen who had attacked two other soldiers on Saturday, killing one and seriously wounding anoth...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 38 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa beefs up security
DRONES, sniffer dogs, security cameras, heavily armed soldiers and police officers, hundreds more embedded in the crowds turned the National Heroes Acre into a virtual cantonment area as President Emm...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 4 | by newzimbabwe
Veteran Freedom Fighter who escaped the Rhodesian hangman's noose
The former Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Nkayi Constituency who served between 1995 and 2000 belongs to the first group of freedom fighters that was trained in the People's Republic of China. The g...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military's humane face
HIS camouflage uniform discharges a heavy stench of sweat, while his dusty face, dirty hands and dry mouth betray what he has been through lately. Yet he continues to toil in the sun, offloading packs...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 22:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army truck kills 3 villagers
THREE Chimanimani villagers who survived the recent Cyclone Idai died while several were injured Thursday afternoon when an army truck that was transporting food relief experienced brake failure and p...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 19:44hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Cyclone swept away entire growth point
Three women spent nearly 24 hours hanging onto a tree undressed before they were eventually rescued after Cyclone Idai-induced floods swept away 80 houses at Dzingire Growth Point, popularly known as ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | | by Human Rights Watch
The scars of Zimbabwe military deployments
Soldiers are back at the barracks and things look normal. That is as normal as things can ever be in Zimbabwe. But that's an illusion. Beyond the veil of quiet are ruins — deep scars that will not g...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 13:40hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe army killings: Victims' relatives living in fear
The deadly army crackdown against civil society and opposition activists might have been paused, but relatives of some of the people that were killed by soldiers are living in fear following alleged t...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Rape, brutality as soldiers crash protests
THE violent clampdown on protesters by soldiers and the police has left deep scars and trauma on children and women who were beaten up, raped or were forced to watch as their husbands, fathers or brot...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe troops accused of 'systematic torture' of protesters
A government-appointed human rights group in Zimbabwe has accused soldiers of using "systematic torture" in a crackdown on protests.The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission strongly criticised aut...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe troops assaulting people in Harare
Witnesses say Zimbabwean soldiers are still roaming the streets of the capital and assaulting people, even after the president denounced violence by security forces as "unacceptable."Soldiers ...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 20:01hrs | | by AP
Soldiers continue to patrol streets
SOLDIERS patrolled city streets in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, as clashes between protesters and security forces resulted in the deaths of at least five people, including a police officer.Dozens of p...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 09:31hrs | | by aljazeera.com
Sidney Malunga did not surrender his dignity
"......During the genocide years, Sidney Malunga was imprisoned, tortured and put on trial for treason. He was finally acquitted, in time to see his party absorbed by the 'new' ZANU-PF. He could have ...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:08hrs | 4 | by Jacob: not real name
'Nothing defeats unity and oneness'
Problems and misunderstandings between Zanu and Zapu necessitated the Unity Accord of 22 December 1987.After the 1980 elections, the then-Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, incorporated members of...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Clifford Sileya
Zimbabwe army nailed over August 1 shooting
Some of the witnesses who testified before the Commission of Inquiry into the politically-motivated violence which rocked central Harare on August 1 threw the military under the proverbial bus yesterd...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eyewitness account of Zimbabwe's August 1 shooting
On August 01, 2018, my life changed entirely in ways I had not imagined when I woke up that day. A part of me died, while a new me was born out of the horrors I filmed, right from the frontline....Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:33hrs | 6 | by Maynard Manyowa
Zimbabwe police, army clash over shootings
MEMBERS of the military, who were deployed into Harare to quell demonstrations against Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s alleged failure to release presidential election results on time, were depl...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Soldiers fired randomly on August 1'
A victim of the August 1 post-poll violence which claimed six lives said soldiers fired randomly at people in the streets and he was hit by a stray bullet.Giving his evidence on the second day...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 15:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army 'pumps' bullets into ZCTU offices
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has filed criminal charges against the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) whose bullets ripped through the main labour body's head office windows during angry pr...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 11:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ED promises 'probe shooting of protestors' - promised free elections but never delivered
When the spokesman of the military coup of 15 November 2017 announced to the world that they had taken over all the country's key institutions of government and had the then President Robert Mugabe un...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's victory 'means our suffering will continue'
Zimbabwe's opposition on Friday rejected what it said were the "fake" results of the landmark election in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been declared the winner.Zimbabwe woke to the n...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything
I hate to be the source for sad news but the opposition party behavior has betrayed the change people were looking for. Mnangagwa is allowing a free and fair vote, and he will win even though th...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:34hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
Fears of military interference persist as Zanu-PF denies backing
The Zimbabwean army has revised its political involvement in electoral processes ahead of the 2018 presidential, parliamentary and municipal polls so as to duck local and international condemnation, i...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:01hrs | 1 | by Nkosana Dlamini
Villagers relive horrific battle
FOR 88-year-old Mrs Bhikhayeli Moyo (nee Dube), reliving the events of February 1979 is like recalling a gruesome scene from a horror movie, as it is the day her village of Ratanyana in Kezi ran red w...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:52hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims want their voices heard
THE multitudes at Maphisa Shopping Centre in Kezi, Matabeleland South, have a life of their own. The people at this shopping centre move like a shoal of fish: so many in one space, lively, but bound t...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:40hrs | | by Nqobani Ndlovu in Maphisa
PHOTOS: Army truck overturns
An Army truck fully loaded with command inputs overturned at Robertson farm in Mvurwi this afternoon.Details about the accident are still sketchy. Bulawayo24.com will be updating this article ...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 17:29hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mugabe, Grace experienced one of their most horrific moments
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace experienced one of their most horrific moments when they woke up last Wednesday morning only to find their luxurious Borrowdale mansion under siege from the ...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mystery car crash deaths
This is a 2013 article extracted from amabhungane website.The death of outspoken Zanu-PF MP Edward Chindori-Chininga has reignited debate over the mysterious deaths of Zimbabwean politicians t...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by amabhungane
'Zimbabwe generals are done with talking'
An army insider has told Khuluma Afrika that 'The Generals are done talking' after we posed questions ab...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 17:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coup stories, 'fake news'?
Harare based human rights defender Patson Dzamara has said despite rumours on social media that the military has taken over the city of Harare, its business as usual. Dzamara twitter this...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 17:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa needs a bit of respect! - What respect, to a murderer?
It smacks of good sense and reasoning to be told to respect a human being who is responsible for 20,000 innocent victims of ethnic cleansing. Bishop Lazarus Mnangagwa's hands are full of blood of inno...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
WATCH: 'War about to start in Zimbabwe' - Motorist shocked to see over 60 army trucks heading towards Gweru
SHURUGWI - Watch the moment a motorist is shocked to see over 60 army trucks heading towards Gweru as he drives down Poterekwa.The video was posted on Facebook on Sunday captioned "What is Zan...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe, Mnangagwa clash
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday disclosed that he had on several occasions clashed with a section of Cabinet ministers led by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa over how to deal with capital punishme...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, police clashes mystery deepens
AUTHORITIES in Harare were yesterday scrambling for words to cover up a nasty bust-up between police and sections of the military early this week that reportedly left six people injured.A join...Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, police clashes to be investigated
The country's security sector says a joint team comprising members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and the Zimbabwe Republic Police has been set up to carry out a comprehensive enquiry into clashes tha...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military violence in Harare a sign of bigger problems
Citizens in Harare yesterday witnessed another episode of lawlessness involving members of the uniformed forces.Soldiers were indiscriminately beating up police officers and sometimes clashing...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 09:17hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Soldiers bashes ZRP cop for wearing army gear
The hatred between the army and police officers is far from being over as recently witnessed when members of the uniformed forces exchanged blows in Chivhu.The argument is alleged to have ...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 20:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
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