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Riot police besiege Bulawayo High Court
Heavily armed riot police yesterday descended on the Bulawayo High Court, blocking journalists and activists from attending a high-profile hearing in which opposition leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo sought ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 09:14hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans align property reclamation drive with Vision 2030 goals
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) combatants have emphasised that reclaiming properties acquired during the liberation struggle is more than just restitution - it is a strategic effor...Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:53hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets concerned over property release delays
ZIPRA war veterans have expressed frustration over the government's prolonged delay in returning their properties, which were confiscated during the Gukurahundi massacres in the 1980s. The properties ...Published: 01 Feb 2025 at 08:49hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war veterans condemn Zanu-PF's push for Mnangagwa term extension
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have strongly opposed a ruling Zanu-PF faction's proposal to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond the constitutional two-term...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:29hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
War vets complain over school fees delay
War veterans have raised concerns over delays in the payment of their children's school fees, particularly at tertiary institutions, which are adversely affecting the learners, especially during exami...Published: 08 Jun 2024 at 13:03hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans protest Mnangagwa's fake mining claim promise
ZPRA veterans are accusing President Mnangagwa of failing to fulfill his promise to allocate them mining claims, echoing similar unfulfilled pledges made by late President Mugabe. The ZPRA Vet...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lookout Khalisabantu Masuku remembered
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants yesterday held a memorial service in remembrance of their commander Lookout Masuku who died in 1986 shortly after his release from prison....Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 16:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'War vets not a tool for Zanu-PF'
OUTSPOKEN Zipra War Veterans Association spokesperson Buster Magwizi has castigated the ruling Zanu-PF party for putting the former freedom fighters under its structures.The Zimbabwe National ...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Allow media at Gukurahundi genocide meetings
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Veterans Association has implored the President of the National Chiefs' Council, Chief Mtshane Khumalo, to allow media coverage of the upcoming Gukurahu...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Britain should be in Zimbabwe genocide dialogue'
WAR veterans from the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) have expressed concern over the exclusion of Britain in the Gukurahundi hearings arguing that the former coloniser had a hand in the ...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU demands inclusion in Gukurahundi resolution process
ZAPU and its former military wing, ZIPRA, have declared that as the primary victims of the Gukurahundi genocide, they should be involved in finding a solution arguing that current efforts to resolve G...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 16:34hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'No reason to celebrate Unity Day'
ZIMBABWE today celebrates the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord to end Gukurahundi, but critics are sceptical that traditional leaders are the best foot forward in finding closure to the massacres....Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:13hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zipra urges war vets not to be used for violence
VETERANS of Zimbabwe's war of liberation should not be used by political parties to engage in violence during this year's electoral season, the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) has said....Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:35hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Declare a holiday after Joshua Nkomo'
Opposition political parties and activists from Matebeleland have accused the government of systematically trying to erase the legacy of late nationalist, Joshua Nkomo, by rejecting calls to honour hi...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 09:34hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has forsaken Zipra war vets
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have repeated claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has forsaken them, leaving them wallowing in poverty.Zipra was the...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets fume over Moyo's hero status
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants have lashed out at government for dragging its feet to confer hero status on one of the country's liberation war pioneers, David Moyo....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Kariba ignore Heroes Day
HEROES' Day celebrations were poorly attended in Bulawayo and Kariba yesterday, with residents saying the holiday was no longer of significance because government is failing to honour the "real libera...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF doesn't own war vets, says Zipra
ZIPRA war veterans have implored fellow former 1970s guerrilla war fighters not to be coerced by the ruling Zanu-PF party into committing acts of violence ahead of the 2023 elections."Zanu-PF ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets engage police over regalia
ZIPRA war veterans are seeking an audience with the police to help prevent possible future standoffs over their yellow regalia.The development comes a fortnight after police clashed with the w...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC condemns police conduct over Zipra march
OPPOSITION Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) has condemned the police for temporarily blocking a Zipra War Veterans Association (ZWVA) march to the Joshua Nkomo statue on Saturday.The march, ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets calls for an end to disputed elections
A NEW grouping of Zipra combatants has called for an end to disputed elections, partisan distribution of food aid and political violence.In a communiqué issued at the weekend, the war veteran...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Over 280 000 Zipra cadres not vetted
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has claimed that over 280 000 of its members were yet to be vetted amid fears that they might be left out of government programmes meant to empower freedom fighters....Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Sibangilizwe Nkomo elected new Zapu President
THE son of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, Sibangilizwe was Saturday elected new Zapu new president during a drama-filled elective congress held in Bulawayo.Nkomo polled 793 votes to lan...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 18:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans demand apology
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa must set up a truth commission to address the 1980s army atrocities in Midlands and Matabeleland to bring finality to the issue, former Zimbabwe People's Liberation Army (...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZPRA mobilises non-combatant cadres ahead of vetting exercise
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Veterans Association is calling all its non-combatant cadres to come forward in preparation for an impending national vetting exercise.The assoc...Published: 25 May 2021 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magwizi eyes Zapu vice presidency
ZPRA Veterans Association secretary-general Buster Magwizi has been suggested to contest for the vacant Zapu vice presidency post at the opposition party's elective congress next month.The par...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We were sold dummy, says ex-Zipra cadres
FORMER Zipra ex combatants have complained that government has not honoured its promise to give them shareholding in the Gwayi based China-Africa Sunlight Energy coal mine project.The Matabele...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Brigadier General Moyo died a bitter man
ZIPRA Veterans Association members, who mourned the late Retired Brigadier General, Collin Moyo, who died last Friday aged 66, said he died bitter over the marginalisation of the ex-Zapu military wing...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZIPRA combatants raise red flag over Liberation Struggle Act
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) veterans have appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services and raised serious concerns over crafting of th...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
ZPRA veterans turn to Mohadi on seized properties
ZPRA veterans are now turning to Vice President Kembo Mohadi in their latest attempt to reclaim their property from the government.Their properties, now estimated to be worth billions of Unite...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation used and dumped us: Zipra
Zipra war veterans have complained that they were used by the new dispensation during the November 2017 military take over and later dumped.They also accused the government of squandering an o...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF blasted for monopoly over national hero status
ACTING Zapu president Isaac Mabuka yesterday said the Zanu-PF politburo should not have the monopoly to declare who national heroes are and called for an independent body to be set up to select people...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu lines up massive memorial for Dabengwa
The Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (Zipra) Veterans Association and Zapu have called on all war veterans, who worked with the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa (DD), to join a mass memorial s...Published: 29 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ZAPU still regarded a terrorist organisation'
Opposition political party, Zapu is still regarded as terrorist organisation decades after the party assisted the country in attaining its independence.The party was not delisted as a terroris...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 17:09hrs | 6 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Matemadanda prepared to assist Zipra combatants
DEFENCE and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda last week said the government was prepared to assist former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants establish projects that ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Family angered as Zanu-PF snubs war hero
Family members of the late Kiliyon Sonke Babuyile Bhebhe, 90, are not happy that Zanu-PF has shot down proposals that he be declared a national hero.Bhebhe died in Chinhoyi last Tuesday....Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Zpra members contesting as Zapu candidates
Zpra Veterans Association spokesperson Buster Magwizi has said most of their members are this year contesting as candidates for Zapu led by Dumiso Dabengwa.He however lamented that increase in...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 13:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe says 'Mnangagwa rushed to gazette the election date'
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has expressed concerns over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to proclaim July 30 as the election date, saying the date was too close and did not factor in oppositio...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra veterans engage Tsholotsho villagers
THE Zipra Veterans Association has engaged Tsholotsho villagers at Mbamba in a peace and healing programme since the area is one of the districts in Matabeleland North seriously affected by Gukurahund...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex Zipra cadre raps comrades who for another Zipra association
An Ex-Zipra member Max Mkandla has warned other members for the PF Zapu military wing to stop plans to form another Zipra association using the same name which is currently used to the association led...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Presidium must solve the issue of Zipra/Zapu Properties with urgency - Ex Zipra cadre
An Ex Zipra cadre Max Mkandla has warned that it is becoming so detrimental and is likely to cause chaos if the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa fails to resolve the issue of Zipra and Zapu ...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 14:32hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
New war vets association on the cards
ZIPRA Veterans' Association leaders have resolved to lobby their counterparts in the Zanu-PF-aligned Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) to form a new all-embracing, non-pa...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanla was a rebel group from Zpra
Ex Zpra Veterrans Trust Charmian Buster Magwizi has said the Zanla force was formed as a breakaway force from the Zipra on tribal grounds that the Zpra was led by Joshua Nkomo from one of the Ndebele ...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 07:06hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Zipra veterans throw weight behind Mnangagwa
THE Zipra War Veterans Trust which all along has been opposed to the ruling Zanu-PF yesterday threw its weight behind the country's new President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying they were impressed with h...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Zapu remnants in Zanu PF are sell-outs', says Zipra cadre Magwizi
ZIPRA veteran's trust member Buster Magwizi has sensationally charged that ex-Zapu members who joined Zanu PF after the 1980 Unity Accord between President Mugabe and the late veteran leader Joshu...Published: 20 Oct 2014 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo's son to unify Zimbabwe,' says Mugabe
Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Eunice Sandi Moyo has revealed that President Robert Mugabe is looking up to the late Father Zimbabwe's son, Sibangilizwe, to fill hi...Published: 02 Jul 2014 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra combatants angered by army magazine
EX-ZIPRA combatants have been angered by a claim in the Zimbabwe National Army magazine’s first edition of 2014 that the then Salisbury fuel tanks were blown up by Zanla forces in December 1978....Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 06:22hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Fight over Zipra property takes new twist
THE fight by former Zipra combatants to reclaim their properties which were seized by government at the height of the Gukurahundi era in the early 1980s has taken a new twist with members of the form...Published: 08 Jan 2014 at 14:19hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zipra hero snub triggers war of words
ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa yesterday accused Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi and army commander General Constantine Chiwenga of blocking efforts to have former Zipra commissar retired Colonel Rich...Published: 21 Oct 2013 at 03:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zipra cadre denied national hero status
IN a shocking turn of events, Zanu-PF national spokesperson Rugare Gumbo yesterday said he was not aware of the death of former Zipra commissar retired colonel Richard Dube, a day after he was buried....Published: 21 Oct 2013 at 03:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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