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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 | 357 | by Silas Nkala
Mnangagwa's stunt at Pupu akin to Hitler officiating at a Jewish synagogue?
It was quite a disturbing and unsettling sight watching President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa officiating at the unveiling of the Pupu Battlefield Memorial Site in Lupani. This was in ho...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:15hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zapu leader calls out Charumbira's Gukurahundi genocide denial
Sibangilizwe Nkomo, leader of the ZAPU party, has criticised Chief Fortune Charumbira, the deputy president of the National Chiefs Council, for publicly denying that the atrocities during Gukurahundi ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide survivors demand justice as hearings commence
It is now close to four decades since the end of Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands, but survivors and their relatives are still to find closure as the government continues to dither o...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere vows to bring 'closure' to emotive Gukurahundi issue
Former Zanu-PF political commissar and CIO driver under the late strongman Robert Mugabe's regime, and now independent presidential candidate, Saviour Kasukuwere intends to address the thorny Gukurahu...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide closure needs sincerity, maturity and solemnity
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, it is not conscionable for you to rope in tribal chiefs in the process of bringing closure to the Gukurahundi atrocities. Common...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
God removes wicked rulers
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it has become common place for discredited and unloved failed national leaders in Zimbabwe to grasp at every straw to hold on to power, inclu...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Zimbabwe ruling elite believes God appoints leaders then also know same God removes wicked rulers!
It has become common place for discredited and unloved failed national leaders in Zimbabwe to grasp at every straw to hold on to power, including the use ...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Media urged to shun hate speech
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) yesterday urged media practitioners to shun hate speech during coverage of political contestants ahead of the March 26 by-elections.Addressing delegates at ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa scuttling Gukurahundi resolution'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa undermined the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) by setting a parallel structure with traditional chiefs from the Matabeleland region in trying to resolv...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts
January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Fro...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
'Mnangagwa not genuine on Gukurahundi'
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo has said any government initiative towards resolving Gukurahundi will not work as they dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's meeting with traditi...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
View from Up Here: Gukurahundi Genocide: An Open Wound Part 1
Gukurahundi is a thorny issue for our leaders. They do not want to talk about it, neither do they want it discussed. The objective is to relegate it to the dustbins of history. But can a nation move o...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Peter Muzira
Zimbabwe @ 41: The victim's lasting solution to the Gukurahundi Holocaust
Zimbabwe is still at rail-road crossing with regard to the Gukurahundi genocide whose resolution remains elusive forty-one (41) years on. The signage is unambiguously restricting any break-through wha...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 09:05hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
'Mnangagwa must openly apologise for Gukurahundi'
Victims of Gukurahundi have dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the massacre of approximately 20 000 innocent civilians, arguing that half-hearted approaches such as the issuanc...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa lacks sincerity to resolve Gukurahundi conflict'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa lacks sincerity to resolve the emotive Gukurahundi issue as he has so far avoided meeting the actual victims based in rural parts of the affected areas, MDC Alliance vice-...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can't lead Gukurahundi reburials, says Survivor
GUKURAHUNDI survivor Charles Thomas, Ibhetshu LikaZulu and Zapu have filed a High Court chamber application seeking to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting the exhumations of victims of Ma...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi documentalist Silonda dies
Former director of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), Matabeleland chapter who played a pivotal role in the documentation of the Gukurahundi massacres by CCJP in the 1980s, Joel Buh...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victim documents horror story
A Bulawayo-based Gukurahundi survivor is engaging writers to document what he went through during the mass killings and says he wants to ensure the country's history is not distorted.Charles T...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reliving Gukurahundi and need for reparations by
It is now nearly four decades after the Gukurahundi genocide that saw more than twenty thousand people killed in a seemingly ethnic cleansing act in the Midlands and Matabeleland north provinces. Ghos...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Makho Precious Moyo
Exploring the causes of Gukurahundi
It is true that the Matabeleland crisis resulted in a number of people losing their lives while some remained with permanent psychological and physical injuries.True that maybe, perceptions an...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:11hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Mola honoured with Tonga Constitution launch
The Zimbabwe 2013 constitution has been translated into all indigenous languages in Zimbabwe. Mola, in the Omay communal lands, will headline the distribution and unpacking of the ChiTonga ver...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | 6 | by Laiton Kandawire - Patsaka-Nyaminyami Community Radio Correspondent
Sober approach to the Gukurahundi genocide problem
I take a bow to my lovely sister Nomazulu Thata who says she lives in Germany and stays in Berlin and Bremen interchangeably. This is in particular to her article entitled 'Israel Dube: First Things F...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:03hrs | | by Clemen Moyo
Sober approach to the problem
I take a bow to my lovely sister Nomazulu Thata who says she lives in Germany and stays in Berlin and Bremen interchangeably. This is in p...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 13:45hrs | | by Clemen Moyo
Reliving Gukurahundi and need for reparations
It is now nearly four decades after the Gukurahundi genocide that saw more than twenty thousand people killed in a seemingly ethnic cleansing act in the Midlands and Matabeleland north provinces. Ghos...Published: 29 May 2019 at 13:22hrs | | by Makhoprecious Moyo
Dabengwa: Struggle stalwart, war strategist, epitome of unity
he death of liberation struggle stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa after battling with a liver disease has robbed the country of a distinguished military strategist and leader who shaped and influenced the 16-y...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Sifelani Tsiko
Mnangagwa walks tight rope
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is still walking a tightrope between extremism and moderation as he approaches the end of the first year of his election last July.Perhaps nothing demonstrates his...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka
The horrors of Gukurahundi relived
At a time when former president Robert Mugabe's government avoided debate on Gukurahundi massacres to an extent that talk about the bloody past was criminalised, a human rights activist was helping th...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must apologise for his role in gukurahundi genocide
VICTIMS of the 1980s Matabeleland and Midlands massacres, known as Gukurahundi, have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the killing of over 20 000 innocent civilians, sayi...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland pressure groups question Mnangagwa's sincerity on genocide
A NUMBER of lawyers and pressure groups in Bulawayo have questioned the government's sincerity in bringing closure to the emotive Gukurahundi issue.This follows President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 16:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreigners, NGOs outed on demos
A number of foreign individuals and non-governmental organisations have been outed in their efforts to destabilise the country, following a workshop they held in Mutare this week which discussed how t...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
National Dialogue in Zimbabwe
The third window for national dialogue in Zimbabwe has opened as expressed by the President's recent tweet following his return from state visits to four Eurasian countries in mid January this year. T...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 11:40hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Bishops want 'second chance' Zanu PF/ MDC GNU - how many chances wasted 2008 GNU alone!
I would like to thank the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC) for their well thought out letter of appeal and advice on the possible way out of the present political and economic mess Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Catholic bishops urges ZANU PF and MDC to unite
(1) We begin by disowning a recent statement issued in our name during the recent stayaway that started on 14 January 2019. We, the Catholic Bishops of Zimbabwe, never issued any statement during that...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 19:40hrs | | by ZCBC
'Mnangagwa must release August 1 killings inquiry report'
RECENT disclosures by presidential spokesperson George Charamba that the report by the commission of inquiry into the August 1 shootings by the millitary is for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's eyes "on...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Controversial Byo deputy mayor Kambarami sued
The 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement (1893 MRM) is taking Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami to court seeing his nomination and election as a councillor to be set aside. Some of th...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 15:44hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
Catholic Commission primes for disputed poll
THE Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe (CCJPZ) yesterday said they were setting up a mediation team to help bring together President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelso...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe polls positive achievement, says CCJP
The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) and the Inter-regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) have commended the positive achievements in the conduct of the 2018 harmonise...Published: 31 Jul 2018 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Vote wisely: Church
THE Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe (CCJP) yesterday urged Zimbabweans to cast their vote prudently and bravely for the greater good of the nation.Addressing Journalists ...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa must value key meetings
The Church has for years played a crucial role in governance issues, brokering in conflict situations and also taking part in several ceasefire negotiations.On Thursday, the Jesuit-run Arupe C...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 16:40hrs | | 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 | | by Sazi Ntozonke
Origins of Mthwakazi Republic Party and its political views
Mthwakazi Republic Party is a politiccal institution that was established in 2013 soon after the Zimbabwean government and the state-controlled Zimbabwe Electoral Commission conducted the most unsatis...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 16:37hrs | 32 | by MRP
Sympathy Vote favours Dr Khuphe in Zimbabwe 2018 polls
The Zimbabwean forthcoming elections slated for the 30th of July 2018 presents presidential candidates with different prospects, one of the key issues that politicians, key board political warriors ak...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 11:38hrs | | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
Why Zimbabwe should be split into two states
This is the prologue from the book Matabele Rising by David Hilton Barber, Footprint Press, R240Zimbabwe is not one country; to pretend otherwise is a dangerous hallucination. The country has ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 13:56hrs | | by Geoge Mkhwanazi
The Gukurahundi atrocities
The Mnangagwa peace and reconciliation commission has either gone owl or it still keeps its operations and itinerary unknown to the people that it's supposed to serve. So far we haven't heard of any p...Published: 16 May 2018 at 13:22hrs | | by Clement Moyo
Matebele Diaspora Genocide Conference: Dabengwa and Mzila expected to attend
This press release is issued to the public as a way of an update about the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement's programme of activities including an update on the up...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 17:19hrs | | by Thembani Dube
Maseko wants lift on Gukurahandi paintings ban
It's exactly three years since visual artist Owen Maseko lost his fight to exhibit the controversial Gukurahundi-inspired paintings at the Bulawayo Art Gallery.Before the Supreme Court issued ...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 16:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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