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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
Releasing Chihambakwe report key to honouring Joshua Nkomo
TWENTY-FOUR years ago, politicians who caused Joshua Nkomo tremendous grief during his lifetime shed crocodile tears and speechified at his funeral.Their supporters joined in. Two weeks ago, Z...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Trevor Ncube
Opposition members condemn Ndlovu cockroach remarks
Human rights activists and opposition members have condemned Zanu-PF Matebeleland South chairman Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu, for referring to the opposition as ‘cockroaches', saying he does not des...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
KeYona TV starts fully fledged programming
KeYona TV yesterday started broadcasting live fully fledged programming with soapies such as Umntakabhudi and a morning show called New Dawn.KeYona TV which was officially launched in December...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
KeYona TV station goes live
THE forthcoming Kings and Queens Festival which will serve as a celebration of the launch of KeYona TV station on Saturday is set to be a permanent feature in the city's entertainment calendar....Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 00:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa threatens to fire members of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa has threatened to fire members of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) and accused the staff at the State Procurement Board (SPB) of ‘sleeping on duty'...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa plotting second genocide'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's threats that those calling for a separate state will have their lives cut short is declaration of a second genocide synonymous with the Gukurahundi atrocities that saw o...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to 'shorten' the lives of Mthwakazi 'separatists'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday threatened to "shorten" the lives of individuals advocating for a separate state in south western Zimbabwe.Mnangagwa maintained that Zimbabwe would rem...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'You are failing to sell Mnangagwa' Nick Mngwana told
Zimbabweans in Dubai have told Government Spokesperson Ndavaningi Nick Mangwana that the government was failing to market the great works that were being done by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in rebuil...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 10:35hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC attacks Khaya Moyo
A WAR of words has erupted between the country's two main political parties after the MDC Alliance Monday afternoon angrily reacted to Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo's claims that the oppositio...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZBC boss trial hits snag
The trial of Former ZBC acting chief executive Wisdom Hombarume on charges of fraud, criminal abuse of office and smuggling involving over US$6 700 has hit a brick wall following indications that the ...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 18:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Poly student in trouble over campus hug
HARARE Polytechnic has suspended a student for hugging a colleague inside the college premises in contravention of COVID-19 preventive protocols.According to the suspension letter dated March ...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa's 'Unity Day' speech, a sign of desperation and failure
Listening to President Mnangagwa's nation address yesterday, 22 December 2020, one could see nothing other than desperation and failure. In every platform...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 20:56hrs | | by MLF
Open letter to President Mnangagwa - Gukurahundi closure
Dear sirWith reference to the above, our understanding as MLF has been that this matter needs closure in the most conclusive of ways whereby the victims and survivors alike find closure to the...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Andrea Sibanda
Mnangagwa's fear over Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and top government officials, particularly Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and Agriculture minister Perrence Shiri, are scared stiff of personal criminal responsibilit...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi cannot be wished away: Williams
ON March 21 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa flew from Harare to Bulawayo on a jet chartered from the United Arab Emirates - an extravagant arrangement - for a meeting with Matabeleland-based civil ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, former lieutenants shift blame: Who really was behind Gukurahundi genocide?
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was swept away through a popular coup, the world celebrated the departure of an "evil dictator". Many hoped for a fresh start but that dream remains elusive...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:13hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mnangagwa Vs The Ndebeles (Mthwakazi)
One of the most iconic figure of the 20th century and Mozambique's first black democratic president CDE Sambora Machel once said "Tribalism is like cancer to the society". In many African countries tr...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 13:59hrs | | by Nkosana Malinga
Looking beyond Mugabe's advice to Mnangangwa
All of us could have been taken aback by Mugabe's advice to his "successor" against using the army on innocent civilians. This was Zimbabwe's only leader before he was unceremoniously removed by the m...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 11:26hrs | | by AT Kadada
'Mnangagwa cannot be a Khumalo'
Mthwakazi Liberation Front categorically rejects as pure lies and propaganda statement published by Mandla Ndlovu on Thursday 03 January 2018, aligning Zimbabwe President, Emerson Mnangagwa to the Roy...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 08:02hrs | 12 | by David Magagula
Mnangagwa exhibits double standards & hypocrisy while in New York
MLO was shocked but not surprised to see genocidist, Emmerson Mnangagwa, display hypocrisy, double standards and tribal biasness on international media outlets while in New Yoke.That Mnangagwa...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by Israel Dube
Not My President - I am an Urbanite
Our hearts bleed with those who were slain by the trigger-happy military on Wednesday. What is more flabbergasting is the lack of sensitivity by those responsible of arming the soldiers with live bull...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Dr Gus Manatsa
Mutinhiri won't stand down for Chamisa
Opposition NPF leader Ambrose Mutinhiri has spurned an appeal by former president Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, to throw his weight behind MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa in next month's...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents insist on 24/7 clinics
BULAWAYO residents have refused to back down on their quest to have 24-hour service delivery at local clinics, saying primary healthcare was a right that they should access at any time.This ca...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dirty prophets abuse God's name
The abuse of God's name and the bible by dirty politicians and fake pastors as available tools to brainwash, mislead, deceive and conquer is an out dated tactic. White colonisers came to Africa holdin...Published: 26 May 2018 at 18:00hrs | | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe Government must pay heavily for Matebele Genocidey
The so called National Peace and Healing Commission formed by blood stained Matebeleland genocide perpetrators is a waste of time and funds. We reject it with contempt it deserves. Those funds must be...Published: 20 May 2018 at 14:20hrs | | by Israel Dube
Dabengwa tackles Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, in an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent a fortnight ago, laid the blame of the Gukurahundi atrocities on the Zapu leadership which was then led by the late vice-p...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa tackles Gukurahundi head on
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, in an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent a fortnight ago, laid the blame of the Gukurahundi atrocities on the former Zapu leadership which was then led by the late...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Ndebeles 'got themselves killed' during Gukurahundi
In his first interview after he was subjected to a very humiliating coup by his close confidantes and fellow genocidists, the remorseless and unrepentant former President Mugabe has again blamed Matab...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 12:53hrs | | by Wilson Mahlafuna Sibanda Khohliso Maqhoba
WATCH: Mnangagwa personally lining up alleged dissidents during gukurahundi
President Emmerson Mnangagwa personally lining up alleged dissidents during gukurahundi. Mnangagwa is seen in the video in a blue shirt and a Afro hairstyle.On March 5 1983, at a rally in Vict...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 18:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe vs Mnangagwa and us all!
Many have said it, and it is much true that our politics is the politics of the stomach, they have said bring principles to a hungry man on one hand, and a bag of mealie-meal on the other hand, the ma...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Gukurahundi: When sorry seems to be the hardest word to say
In the past few days, two things happened that make me worry about this country's future, as there seems to be a concerted, but tragic effort to airbrush the country's history in an effort to portray ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Letter to US Holocaust Museum; Mnangagwa the architect of Zimbabwe death camps
Dear Sir/ US Holocaust Museum. My name is Devine Mafa, a Zimbabwean living in American. I left my home land and was offered asylum in the USA.Zimbabwean Ndebele tribe that ...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 11:10hrs | | by Devine Mafa
Whoever claims Mnangagwa wasn't involved in Gukurahundi is a denialist
Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Thembani Maphosa has said those who claim that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not involved in the Gukurahundi kills are denialists who need help.Some sector...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Another Gukurahundi Judas Iscariot humiliated in Mashonaland
A few days back we wrote, "We are aware of Judas Iscariots of our times who are enjoying blood money in the cult called Zanupf. They once believed that the surrender document called the Unity Accord h...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Wilson Mahlafuna and Khohliso Maqhoba
To hell with your National Peace and Healing Commission Mnangagwa - MRP President.
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to to to hell with his National Peace and Healing Commission if he does not acknowledge wrong doing through his part...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 08:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gukurahundi can not be wished away - Chief Ndiweni
Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has reiterated that Gukurahundi is a Genocide and those that wish it away and don't want it to be discussed or solved are wasting their time and are brewing...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Matebeles too alert to fall for the so called "New Era"
Mischievous elements in the political circles in Zimbabwe have worked around the clock to put lipstick on a pig. They have described a clear coup d'etat as the new era, new dispensation or bloodless c...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 15:21hrs | | by Wilson Mahlafuna and Khohliso Maqhoba
The Voice of the People is the Voice God
The 21st December 2017 was a taster and a forerunner of what is to become for President Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. A handful but very vocal group of people from Matabeleland were demonstrating at the...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 20:36hrs | 1 | by Victor Sibanda
'Stop shedding crocodile tears,' First Lady told
The Mthwakazi Republic Party Secretary General Ackim Mhlanga has lambasted the Zimbabwean first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa for her visit to Bulawayo hospitals during the week, describing the visit as a m...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 18:33hrs | | by Tonderai Sigauke
1893 MHRRM ups its Gukurahundi Genocide Demos Campaign in London and Johannesburg
Gratitude and many thanks First and foremost, we extend our gratitude and many thanks to the BBC and Al Jezeera for highlighting our Genocide. Many thanks a...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 15:08hrs | | by Thembani Dube
Gukurahundi won't go anywhere until Mnangagwa and allies acknowledge their role
In a school-yard in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland region, a group of children laugh as they throw themselves into the air on a rusty set of swings.It seems like a happy setting, but the children are...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 12:55hrs | | by Aljazeera
Victims of Zimbabwe genocide still wait for justice
In a school yard in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland region, a group of children laugh as they throw themselves into the air on a rusty set of swings.It seems like a happy setting, but the children are...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, a past tainted by a brutal massacre
When the soldiers in the red berets arrived in Alice Mwale's village in the fading light, they were not happy, ...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 11:51hrs | | by CNN
'We are the survivors of DDT,' Mthwakazi leader tell mourners
Mourners were left asking for more after the address by MRP President Mqondisi Moyo at the boundary of UMzingwane, Gwanda North and Matobo North constituencies. This happened at the occas...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
1893 calls for a Matebele 'Gukurahundi' Genocide Demo in London on the 23rd December 2017
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) plans to conduct demonstrations against the Zimbabwean government for the genocide this government committed against the Matebele peop...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 20:08hrs | | by 1893 MHRRM
Egg on face for MDC-T and Zimbabwe Opposition - MRP
Mthwakazi Republic Party has claimed that the opposition MDC-T has been left with an egg on the face as when President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced cabinet ministers without including the opposition m...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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
'Govt has to burn down all villages infected with dissidents'
Chronicle 5 March 1983The offensive by the Government of Zimbabwe continued, with Minister of State for Security, Emmerson Mnangagwa, making a public statement on 4 March, at a rally held not ...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wishing the first lady, Dr G Mugabe speedy recovery
Zimbabwe Unemployed People's Association, the organisation that represents the interests of millions of economically disadvantaged Zimbabweans and primarily the unemployed, if true is wishing for a sp...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 18:21hrs | | by ZUPA The Presidium
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