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The history of the liberation struggle is incomplete without mentioning Sipolilo (Guruve) Battles
Sipolilo was the entry point for freedom fighters in Rhodesia from Zambia and Mozambique during the liberation struggle. ZANLA and ZIPRA freedom fighters infiltrated in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) through the...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 15:04hrs | 21 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
How ZPRA, ZANLA were allocated camps in Entumbane
WE round-up our interview with former freedom fighter Lieutenant-Colonel (Rtd) Alson Masilinge Muleya. Lt-Col (Rtd) Muleya who trained as a regular officer cadet at the Zambian Military Academy in Koh...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra guerilla now a successful farmer
EX-ZIPRA guerrilla Moses Moyo is a beneficiary of the land reform programme and owns a plot under the A1 model in Makokomba village in Umguza District. He now has what he fought for – the land....Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil War has technically started in Zimbabwe
After the November 2017 coup, President Mnangagwa (ED) does not only have the colonial instruments of repression but also improved means of controlling population movements, geographical reach-thanks...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 15:10hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Eccentric Luveve man causes a stir
HE's mad! He's a genius! He's creepy. He's amazingly gifted!The unassuming Mathamsanqa Tshuma (67), a bachelor from Gwabalanda in Bulawayo, ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Yvonne Ncube
MRP members summoned by police
Two MRP members Cde Marshall Sibanda and Cde Luckson Maphosa have been summoned by police over the foiled ZANU PF v MDC demonstrations. We are yet not sure of the link between our Cdes and the said de...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 12:01hrs | | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Pioneer guerilla Tshinga Dube speaks on first operations
IN our past two editions we published the military and political exploits of renowned pioneer guerilla fighter, David Mongwa Moyo aka Sharpshoot. Moyo spoke about his deployment in a unit of 1...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe mansion a 'bazooka' target
ZANU-PF women's league boss Mabel Chinomona says ex-President Robert Mugabe's Blue Roof mansion in Harare's elite Borrowdale neighbourhood would now be reduced to rubble by a "bazooka" if he lived in ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:49hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Bev's pregnancy claim revisited
Singer Andy Muridzo says pole dancer Beverly Sibanda aka Bev's claim that she was pregnant with his child actually boosted his ratings contrary to what many people thought.Andy grabbed hea...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe survived assassination in Gutu
Kenny Constantine Mabuya, whose Chimurenga name was Cde Kenny Ridzai, makes stunning revelations about their confrontation with the British authorities after they had been sent as the advance team for...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's Turning Point
COMRADE Elison Mupamawonde (born 1950 in Bikita), whose Chimurenga was Soft Magarasadza last week spoke about how ZIPRA out-gunned Rhodesian forces at Chirundu during the liberation struggle and how t...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
How ZIPRA outgunned Rhodesians at Chirundu
In our last instalment, Soft Magarasadza, a former ZIPRA commander, spoke about how he joined the liberation struggle and went on to walk from Mozambique to Botswana for two months after the failure o...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra operations in Mashonaland
This week we continue our interview with former Zipra regional commander for the Northern Front 3 (NF3), Joseph Mbedzi pseudo name Joseph Sibuko. NF3 was a Zipra military zone that covered mainly part...Published: 13 May 2018 at 11:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
The eye that witnessed Nikita Mangena's death
ON Friday the Government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially named the cantonment, which houses the Zimbabwe National Defence University and other institutions the Rogers Alfred Nikita Mangena ...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
THE inhumane side of #CHIMURENGA .....memories of Kenneth Nyoka
Pasi with this. Pasi with that.. Some young people may not know the grave consequences that usually accompanied this slogan during the second Chimurenga. I do. Barely into my teens one night we were r...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Mnangagwa Takeover: Matebeles must prepare for an important announcement
The political crisis in Zimbabwe is far from over without the two state solution demanded by the people of Matabeleland. Its time Matebeleland must break away from Zimbabwe. We long served the governm...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:09hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa, Mphoko failed
BISHOP Lazarus is not exactly breaking any news preaching to you that the Holy Book isn't a written record of perfect people. You all know that isn't it?Quite a number of biblical characters q...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 04:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mugabe threatened with death, says Grace
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe has claimed that President Robert Mugabe has been threatened with death if a certain person does not succeed him, the clearest indication that Zanu PF's succession wars are get...Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 11:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe angrily tells Mnangagwa off
INFIGHTING in Zanu-PF reached fever pitch yesterday when Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa dug in his heels, maintaining that he had fallen ill due to poisoning despite an earlier dismissal of these c...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 13:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants to stage a coup against Mugabe?
First Lady Grace Mugabe says Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa would be in prison if he was in any nation as there are reports that he wants to stage a coup in Zimbabwe, ...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rhodesian aircarft brought down in Bubi
In today's piece we continue the interview with Retired Major Nditsheni Dube pseudo name Smallboy or Maleveni Omncane relating to us his exploits in the jungles of Lupane, Nkayi and Bubi during th...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Yizo Yizo's Gunman to meet and greet fans in Plumtree
SOUTH African actor Christopher Khubheka, who is best known for his role as Gunman in the iconic, hard hitting drama series Yizo Yizo, is set to visit Plumtree on Saturday.The actor, who also ...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube Matutu
Mahofa banishes Zivhu from her office, home
There was drama at the Zanu Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting held in Masvingo on Saturday, when the Minister of State for Masvingo, Shuvai Mahofa who is known to be a close ally of Killer Ziv...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
No one can stop a revolution whose time has come
Whenever I think of the manner in which the ZANU PF government has ridden roughshod over the lives of the people of Zimbabwe, I always remember what Victor Hugo once said: 'An invasion of an army can ...Published: 24 May 2016 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fierce contact with the Rhodesian forces
IN our last week's Lest We Forget Column we were talking to former Zipra Deputy Commander of the Northern Front which stretched from Bulilima up to Nyamapanda Border Post Nicholas Gibson Nkomo whose p...Published: 15 May 2016 at 07:54hrs | 6 | by Staff write
Zimbabweans should stand together and take back their country
As Zimbabwe draws nearer to commemorating its 36th Independence anniversary on 18 April, it is so painful to reflect on how the notion of freedom has become so hollow, as Zimbabweans have become nothi...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 09:00hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
It's time for the youth to take charge of the nation's destiny
Zimbabwe's protracted and hard-fought liberation struggle was for majority rule in the country, with the hope that this would ensure the adequate and fair distribution of wealth and opportunities for ...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 13:09hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZUNDE will work with every sector including security and the diaspora
Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) has come onto the political platform when the nation is utterly broken. Our people have lost everything they ever hoped for; their souls, hopes and aspirat...Published: 14 Jun 2015 at 09:04hrs | | by Benjamin Paradza Vice President - ZUNDE
Dabengwa in danger
Ever since President Robert Mugabe made the passionate plea to ZAPU President Dumiso Dabengwa and his Comrades to return back to Zanu PF on the 22nd of December 2013, the media has been abuzz with...Published: 03 Jan 2014 at 12:43hrs | | by Mso Ndlovu
Kenya vows not to bow to Shabaab threats
Nairobi - Kenya has vowed not to bow to Shabaab threats of more attacks if troops are not pulled out of Somalia, following a devastating mall attack in Nairobi by the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents....Published: 28 Sep 2013 at 06:14hrs | | by AFP
Is a Tsvangirai vote a 'Vhoti Mubhini?'
ZIMBABWEANS are a creative lot. In 2008, when President Robert Mugabe was at his lowest, his party came up with the "bhora musango" concept which, in football terms, demands a player to sabotage his...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 20:48hrs | | by Thamsanqa Ephraim T. Zhou
Kumbirayi K Chikowero is the official spokesperson of Girl Child Network Zim
Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe is concerned about continued media coverage by a woman called Vio Mak who writes and owns some bogus newspapers in United Kingdom and generates articles un...Published: 12 Oct 2011 at 10:32hrs | | by Girl Child Network Zimbabwe
Tsvangirai's mediocrity making Zanu PF shine
I AM surprised that it has taken the world this long to discover that Tsvangirayi is a man of limited intellect. Or could it be that the world is only coming to terms with a fact they had a...Published: 06 Mar 2011 at 15:09hrs | | by Kudakwashe Marazanye
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