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Zanu PF never helped ANC/Umkhonto wesizwe during Apartheid: MRP tells Ramaphosa
MTHWAKAZI REPUBLIC PARTY has corrected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for thanking Zanu PF and Zimbabwe for helping South Africa during the liberation war indicating that it was not Zan...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 22:35hrs | 1773 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF, ANC were publicly sworn enemies
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and South Africa's old National Party government were publicly sworn enemies. Privately, their relationship was a bit more complicated.On 7 and 8 February, 1983, for instanc...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1265 | by Peter Fabricius
Zimbabwe border police intercept 10 pistols in hearse
Police in Beitbridge intercepted a shipment of firearms smuggled into Zimbabwe in a hearse bound for Chipinge yesterday. The discovery was made during a routine inspection at the Port Health Authority...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Muzorewa urges genuine Gukurahundi resolution
Opposition United African National Congress (UANC) leader Gwinyai Muzorewa emphasized the crucial role of engaging spirit mediums in addressing the deep-rooted spiritual pain caused by the Gukurahundi...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zipra identifies 100 seized properties
Former Zipra ex-combatants claim to have identified around 100 properties that were confiscated by the Zanu-PF government during the 1980s amid the Gukurahundi period.Volta Ekem Moyo, the chai...Published: 05 Oct 2023 at 19:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Return of Zapu, Zipra properties imminent, says Mohadi
Zanu-PF second secretary, Kembo Mohadi, yesterday claimed that the return of properties belonging to Zapu and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) is imminent.Zipra was the military...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi was planned before Zimbabwe independence'
Former Co-Minister of National Healing and Integration, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, believes the Gukurahundi genocide that killed over 20 000 people in Matebeleland and Midlands was planned before independenc...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 20:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere charms Zapu
SELF-EXILED independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has charmed the opposition Zapu after he promised to return the party's properties seized by the Zanu-PF governemnt in the 1980s...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zipra-Nitram property ‘invaders' given 30-day notice
The Zipra-Nitram properties committee has given an ultimatum to those occupying its assets to surrender them within 30 days of notice. "We are inviting anyone who is in possession, using, occu...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa compensates 258 ZIPRA cadres fired from ZNA during Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly ordered payment of compensation of 258 former ZIPRA combatants who were summarily dismissed from the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) during the height of the G...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:14hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Push for return of Zapu properties intensifies
ZAPU and Zipra veterans are set to meet on January 28 to elect a substantive committee to spearhead engagement with government and other processes towards the return of their seized properties....Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zipra veteran blasts liberation war pretenders
PROMINENT Zipra war veteran Thomas Ngwenya says the country's independence has lost its essence 43 years on because people are failing to enjoy the fruits of the hard-fought for liberation struggle....Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ireland's drug lord planned to start new life in Zimbabwe
Drug lord Christy Kinahan planned to start a new life in Zimbabwe with his long-term partner and their children, leaked documents have revealed.The FBI most-wanted criminal also hoped to buy a...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 24 | by Pat Flanagan for Ireland Live
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 | | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi source of ethnic tension'
UNITED Nations experts on International Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination have said Gukurahundi remains a source of ethnic tension in the country.The UN said healing and cl...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ukraine now a weapons hub for international crime
At last, the West is beginning to realise what a monstrous mistake the European countries made when they started deliveries of lethal weapons to Ukraine.For experts, the situation had been cle...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Large arms shipment claim an excuse to deploy military in Matebeleland
President Emmerson Mnangagwa may be planning to launch a fresh genocide in Matabeleland following reports that security operatives seized a large shipment of weapons at West Nicholson in Matabeleland ...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt parcelling out ZPRA properties
FORMER ZPRA cadres who contributed their demobilisation payouts and managed to purchase various properties across the country are set to lose some of the properties after it emerged some of the assets...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
How deepfake technology can affect Zimbabwe's next general election
With social media seemingly fuelling organizing inside opposition political parties, the ruling party ZANU PF has been caught up in the storm of trying to...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 21:14hrs | 4 | by Taruberekera Masara
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 6 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Mnangagwa tightens firm chokehold on Jonathan Moyo
FORMER cabinet minister, MP and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, who escaped by death by a whisker when the army stormed his home and that of a friend guns blazing during the 2017 military coup...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Army roped in to assist in arms cache probe
Police have requested the Zimbabwe National Army to assist in investigating the case in which 507 rounds of ammunition of a PKM machine gun were unearthed in a rusty box by a farmer in Magunje last Fr...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must apologise for gukurahundi genocide, - Chiefs
CHIEFS, once described by the late president Robert Mugabe as paragons of virtue, have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to publicly apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres that ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland Chiefs demand Gukurahundi genocide apology
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matebeleland South have repeated calls for government to publicly apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres that claimed an estimated 20 000 innocent lives in Matebeleland and Mid...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 drown, one missing as boat capsizes
At least two people drowned in Lake Kariba while another one is still missing after a boat capsized just after launching from Chawara Harbour. The boat, which was carrying passengers and groce...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 14:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Govt playing games with Zapu properties
ZAPU and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans yesterday accused the government of "playing games" with its properties seized in the 1980s.Zipra was the military wing of Za...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'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
New details on Intermarket bank heist
There is growing unease at ZB Financial Holdings Limited (ZBFHL) after recent revelations Transnational Holdings Limited (THL) the second-largest shareholder is pushing for a separation following the ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of protests loom in South Africa
SOUTH African authorities fear a new wave of uprisings as networks loyal to jailed former president Jacob Zuma seek to force his freedom.Investigators believe the unrest last week, which kille...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police hold on to Mthwakazi Republic Party truck
BULAWAYO police are still holding on to a truck they seized from the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) during a surprise demonstration that the militant party staged outside Bulawayo Central...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wades into Zapu properties decades later
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, whose father is believed to have been a general in the Zimbabwe army, yesterday waded into the long-drawn Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) pro...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:40hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lookout Masuku: An exceptional, patriotic fighter
SOME of the greatest wars in history were not only won through the competency of soldiers on the battlefield, but through the astute leadership of the men and women engaged in the fighting. Th...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Walter Muchinguri
Who gains from the public shaming of Kembo Mohadi?
ZIMBABWE'S second Vice-President Kembo Mohadi was caught in a kompromat trap. Recordings of phone calls full of lurid sexual banter, thanks to intercepts that were almost certainly the work of a State...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by N Nyoni
Chief Maduna died a bitter man
THE late Filabusi traditional leader Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu reportedly died a bitter man after government failed to apologise and compensate for his unlawful arrest and torture during the Gukurahundi ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Consolidation of Democracy in Zimbabwe
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Zimbabwe celebrated National Unity Day a few days ago, commemorating the historic unification of former liberation war movements-PF Zapu and Zanu into what we...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:37hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Christmas SOS for Zapu, Zpra veterans
CHILDREN of Zapu and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) have come together in a fundraising drive to mobilise financial resources to bring Christmas cheer to liberation war veterans.A...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 12 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Chamisa's MDC is imploding
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A), is imploding as the country's ruling Zanu-PF conspires with a tiny MDC splinter group, the Movement for Democrati...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Peter Fabricius
Top cop takes boss to court
A TOP cop who was recently acquitted on charges of allegedly stealing guns, more than 180 live bullets and an assortment of related weaponry from the police armoury has taken his boss, Police Commissi...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo is remembered in diverse forms fairly and unfairly
In year 1980, Joshua Nkomo was the most hated persona in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland and some parts of Midlands. The first elections were so toxic, a tribal card was key to get most of the people vote for ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:54hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Deputy minister genocidal utterances condemned
Dear Editor, Your paper deserves the support of all Zimbabweans and indeed the world for being a truthful platform for the voiceless and defenceless. Siyabonga. As a former ZPRA ...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 14:54hrs | | by Lungisani Ndlovu Gatsheni
Mnangagwa's govt stands firm on illegal demos
The illegal demonstration in Harare's city centre last Friday was a failed attempt at getting Zimbabwe on the agenda of the recently-ended SADC Summit in Tanzania which saw President Mnangagwa assume ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa secures himself with Briefcase guns, drones and bulletproof vests
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived at the National Sports Stadium for a ceremony to mark Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day on Tuesday, he was sandwiched between men in dark suits carrying briefcases....Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Police arrest female drug smuggler
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Mnangagwa's dilemma over Dabengwa
TO go or not to go? That is the question. And damned if he does; damned if he does not.This is the dilemma President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces tomorrow over whether or not to attend the burial ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa: A hero who rejected 'our time to eat'
APART from his phenomenal liberation struggle exploits and heroics that earned him the nickname "Black Russian" and his principled politics, former Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, who died...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unknown secrets about Dabengwa
It was in 2007 when l had four consecutive dreams about the same thing: l was talking to Dr Joshua Nkomo& he instructed me to go to Silobela&meet an old man from the Moyo clan& to deliver ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 01:04hrs | 2 | by Benard Conrad Magugu
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