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Police evict ZPRA veterans
Police have ordered former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) combatants to vacate a piece of land they occupied in Chinhoyi last week during a protest demanding the return of properties seiz...Published: 24 May 2025 at 11:02hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stalling the return of ZPRA properties
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is intentionally delaying the return of properties confiscated from ZPRA veterans, according to Andreas Ethan Mathibela, a faction leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberati...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 14:42hrs | 1535 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans pile pressure on Mnangagwa's govt
ZPRA veterans have submitted a list of their properties that were seized in the 80's by the government to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to push for their return.Mnangagwa promised to ensure the...Published: 19 May 2024 at 19:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZPRA cadres identify 100 properties
EX-ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) combatants have identified and listed at least 100 properties that are dotted across the country.This follows the appointment of a board to spear...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | 15 | 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 | 16 | 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 | 17 | 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 | 14 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt hit with US$20bn bill over grabbed properties
EX-COMBATANTS from Zapu's military wing during the armed struggle are demanding US$20 billion as compensation for properties that were confiscated by the government at the height of Gukurahundi....Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, war vets square off over Zipra properties
ZIPRA veterans in Matabeleland North have demanded that Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu must visit the province to show them some Zipra properties, which he claims he bought in Nyaman...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | 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 | 13 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadre threatened with eviction from Castle Arms
AN ex-Zipra cadre, Better Tshuma, has claimed that Edson Ncube, the caretaker of Castle Arms Motel in Bulawayo which is owned by ex-Zipra liberation fighters, has threatened to evict him for receiving...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi donates wheelchair to gukurahundi victim
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) has donated a wheelchair to former ZIPRA cadre, Better Tshuma who lost his legs when he was subjected to acts of torture by the Zimbabwean military during the dark Gukur...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to establish welfare fund for its vetarans
OPPOSITION party, Zapu, is set to establish a social welfare fund to meet the needs of its members and wartime comrades who are wallowing in poverty, the party's social affairs department has said....Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
11 buses for Dabengwa memorial service
BULAWAYO residents have been urged to give national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa a befitting send-off by turning up in their numbers for a memorial service to be held in his honour at White City Stadium to...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Velaphi Burial; Mnangagwa shy away from Gukurahundi issue
After saying people are free to talk about Gukurahundi, Zimbabwean President himself avoided talking about the genocide when given the perfect opportunity to do so. In his speech at the National Heroe...Published: 11 May 2019 at 20:21hrs | 2 | by Harare Correspondent
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
REWIND: Zipra fighters lost over 4,000 cattle to Mugabe
Ex-Zipra members have resolved to continue piling pressure on the government to return immovable properties that were seized at the height of the armed dissident crackdown in the 1980s. The ex...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zipra renews bid to recover seized properties
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) liberation struggle fighters are making frantic efforts to recover property worth millions of dollars seized by ex-president Robert Mugabe's regime ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Zipra to confront Mnangagwa
ZIPRA has threatened to approach President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a fresh bid to force the Zanu-PF government to release former Zapu properties seized before the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord betwee...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fire guts Castle Arms Hotel
Four families who resided at Castle Arms Hotel in Bulawayo are counting losses after the lodging was razed down by fire.All they now own are their names, which sadly have no documentation to p...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu limps from one crisis to another, beging for financial assistance
ZAPU has turned to its members, well-wishers and the business community in neighbouring South Africa for a financial bailout as the former liberation movement limps from one crisis to the next....Published: 09 May 2017 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu sceptical over Zipra properties
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led opposition Zapu, yesterday expressed scepticism over Zanu-PF government's commitment to returning former Zipra properties seized during the Gukurahundi era.Zapu...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'People pushing for Kasukuwere ouster are Mutsvangwa loyalists'
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday said people pushing for the ouster of Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere were loyalists of war veterans leader Mr Christopher M...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Row erupts among Zipra war vets
A ROW has erupted between compatriots in the Zipra War Veterans Trust over occupation of Castle Arms Motel in Bulawayo, a property owned by the former fighters group known as Nitram Investments Pr...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu blames its financial woes on Mugabe
ZAPU has blamed its current financial woes on President Robert Mugabe and his government, which seized properties belonging to the then Joshua Nkomo-led opposition party in the 1980s.The n...Published: 12 Nov 2016 at 19:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets want properties back
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Bulawayo Province yesterday appointed a five-member committee which will press for the holding of a meeting of all ex-Zipra combatant...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 19:27hrs | 2 | by Dumisani Sibanda
War vets who invaded Castle Arms Motel to be evicted
NITRAM Investment Holdings, a Zipra war veterans company is seeking the eviction of three war veterans who allegedly invaded the company owned Castle Arms Motel in Richmond Bulawayo.The three ...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu to vigorously pursue its properties
ZAPU'S key decision-making bodies yesterday resolved to vigorously pursue its decades-long drive to reclaim the party's properties confiscated by the Zanu-PF-led government during the 1980s.Z...Published: 01 Apr 2014 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra 'ghosts' haunting people in Hurungwe
USPECTED Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) fighters who died during the liberation war are reportedly haunting people in Hurungwe, Mashonaland West, amid revelations traditional leaders in ...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 04:43hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zipra fighters demand eviction of families from its property
Zipra veterans yesterday demanded the immediate eviction of 50 families from Castle Arms Motel on the outskirts of Bulawayo during Nitram Investment's annual general meeting.About 200 veterans...Published: 29 Sep 2013 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra members demand the return seized properties
Ex-Zipra members have resolved to continue piling pressure on the government to return immovable properties that were seized at the height of the armed dissident crackdown in the 1980s.The ex-...Published: 25 Sep 2013 at 13:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra combatants takes properties fight to Mugabe
EX-ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) members say they have resolved to appeal to President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to facilitate the return of their properties se...Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu issued with an eviction order
BULAWAYO — The revived Zapu has been issued with an eviction order from its party headquarters in Bulawayo after failing to settle rent arrears amounting to ov...Published: 05 Mar 2012 at 04:57hrs | | by Nqobani Ndlovu
Zapu revives bid to recover properties seized by Zanu-PF
ZAPU is compiling information about its properties seized by government during political disturbances in Matabeleland and Midlands regions with a view of instituting legal action to recover them....Published: 15 Jan 2012 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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