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Why Zambezi Water Project will never be achieved
The ambitious Zambezi Water Project to pipe water from the mighty Zambezi River 452km away to Bulawayo might remain a pipe dream a Bulawayo based academic Innocent Batsani Ncube has revealed. ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 537 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 7572 | 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 | 569 | by Staff reporter
After gukurahundi meeting, Mnangagwa gives Matebeleland Collective the Zambezi water project
Government has given back ownership of the Matebeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP) to Matebeleland Collective (MC) and its technical partner, the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT).The ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:32hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU's independence day message
As Zimbabweans remember the end of colonialism and the advent of independent rule on 18 April 1980, it is saddening to note that what every citizen celebrated as a new chapter has in actual fact been ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 2102 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'Mnangagwa should apologise first for his role in gukurahundi genocide'
DUMISO Dabengwa's Zapu has cast doubt on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sincerity in dealing with Gukurahundi after the Zanu-PF leader pledged government assistance in the exhumation and reburial of t...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1297 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Human Rights condemns planned Mnangagwa genocide mass grave exhumations
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) notes with grave concern the recent developments regarding the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide and the way the state crime of this m...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 20:52hrs | 1971 | by Thembani Dube
Dumiso Dabengwa defended
There is debate raging here on social media about what former Zipra commander and intelligence chief Dumiso Dabengwa has said. In short, Dabengwa said Mugabe and Zanu did not help the ANC and MK much ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:04hrs | 7671 | by Dimisani Muleya
Zapu cranks up pressure on Mnangagwa
Scores of veterans of the liberation struggle who fought on the side of the Zipra - the military wing of-PF Zapu- yesterday converged in Bulawayo to explore ways of recovering their party's property w...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | 2934 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF refused to shelter exiled ANC cadres'
ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa has said Zanu-PF staunchly refused to shelter South Africa's exiled ANC cadres in Zimbabwe just after independence, forcing his party to shelter the Umkhonto we Sizwe guerr...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 13:38hrs | 3890 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa blames Zanu-PF for 'toxic politics' in Zimbabwe
FORMER liberation movement, Zapu's wartime intelligence supremo, Dumiso Dabengwa has blamed the "politics in Zimbabwe" for his party's failure to document its exploits during the struggle years....Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:50hrs | 391 | by newzimbabwe
Dabengwa opens up on the ZIPRA/MK Wankie battle
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Intelligence Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa on Thursday retold the historic Wankie battle of 1967 where the ZPRA cadres combined with the UMkhonto we Sizwe ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 12:21hrs | 3458 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fierce battle for Bulawayo council seat
THE battle for the Cowdray Park ward 28 council seat has reached fever pitch with parties contesting in the by-election leaving nothing to chance.The by-election has been set for this coming S...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:26hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Zapu's seized properties now officially belong to Zanu-PF
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has reacted angrily to claims that its properties which were seized by the government during the early 1980s now officially belong to the ruling Zanu-PF.This comes...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:20hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Zapu fights for seized properties
The Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has reacted angrily to claims that its properties which were seized by government during the early 1980s now officially belong to the ruling Zanu-PF. This comes as...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1795 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Matabeleland leaders finally find each other
Yesterday, 21 March 2019, more than 120 civic societies, church bodies, faith based and community based organisations' leadership met the President of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Emmerson Dambudzo Mnanga...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 18:42hrs | 2164 | by Matabeleland Collective
'Mnangagwa won't return Zapu properties'
GOVERNMENT has declared it will not return Zapu properties confiscated before the advent of the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide in Matabeleland and the Midlands.Former guerrillas of Zipra, the arme...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1649 | by Staff reporter
Arbitrary arrests won’t solve Gukurahundi
Zimbabwe African People's Union is dismayed by the state's arrest on journalist Zenzele Ndebele at Bulawayo State House today. As much as it is a clear misplacement of priorities in a co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 17:44hrs | 1559 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Joshua Nkomo's family describe Mnangagwa's govt as a 'dead donkey'
THE family of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo has described government as a "dead donkey" accusing it of delaying the erection of a statue in the capital honouring the former liberation struggle ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:44hrs | 1763 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo family fumes over 'delayed' Harare statue
THE family of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo has described government as a "dead donkey" accusing it of delaying the erection of a statue in the capital honouring the former liberation struggle ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:34hrs | 720 | 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 | 9991 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mnangagwa regime's weapon of choice against dissent
Joshua Nkomo, Morgan Tsvangirai, Dumiso Dabengwa, Lookout Masuku, Abel Muzorewa, Tendai Biti, Renson Gasela and Ndabaningi Sithole all have something in common.The firebrand politicians challe...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:14hrs | 615 | by Desmond Chingarande
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 4394 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai estate executors in trouble
The late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai's estate executors have taken over a $50 000 lawsuit in the High Court in which a Harare man is demanding that principal amount from the late former trade unio...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:11hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
Treason craze hits military government
The military government today charged party Deputy Treasurer General and Kuwadzana East MP Hon Charlton Hwende with subverting a Constitutionally elected government.Most MPs including Hon Amos...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 19:39hrs | 8686 | by Hon Bekithemba Mpofu
Massive arrests of opposition/civic society leaders resonate with the dictates of the struggle
Key among the duties of MPs is not only to pass laws in parliament but can also be arrested or even die for the sake of the struggle. Josiah Magama Tongogara never saw a new Zimbabwe, he spent his ent...Published: 02 Mar 2019 at 09:52hrs | 1431 | by Don Chigumba
Callistus Ndlovu's hero status angers Zapu
The honouring of the late former Cabinet minister Callistus Ndlovu as a national hero has left the Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) seething with anger - as it sees him as "a...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 19:27hrs | 3058 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa hospitalised in SA
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa is hospitalised in South Africa where he is receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment.Party spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa told the Zimbabwe Indepen...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa sidelined by illness
ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa has for over a month now been sidelined from hectic political activity as he has been holed up in South Africa where he was flown after his health reportedly deteriorate...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 15:37hrs | 3378 | by Staff reporter
'I will never apologise for POSA and AIPPA' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has vowed that he will not apologise for the enactment of two laws that are largely repressive in Zimbabwe; the Public Order and ad Security Act and t...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 18:21hrs | 5979 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZAPU Presidency Appalled by the violence and brutality
The Presidency of ZAPU unreservedly condemns the violence that has been going on in our country. It is an unacceptable abomination. We are dumfounded by the childish finger pointing and scapegoating. ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | 973 | by Mkhululi Zulu, ZAPU Presidential Spokesperson
Post-Election violence commission submission
I am an independent member of the Zimbabwean society, meaning that I make rational decision and conclusions on political matters. Officially I am trained in the accounting profession henceforth in my ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 13:17hrs | 1177 | by Terence Simbi
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | 821 | by Zifiso Masiye
Dabengwa taken 'ill' to SA
ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa is reportedly ill and is in South Africa where he is receiving specialist treatment, his party has revealed. In an interview on Wednesday, Zapu's secretary ge...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:20hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
The death of Tongogara as told by Lookout Masuku and Dumiso Dabengwa.
Josiah Magama Tongogara : The interview that cost his life:This excerpt was taken from a Rhodesian Combat Pilot who played a pivotal role in the Cease Fire Agreement and the formation of the N...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:29hrs | 21614 | by Social media
'Rhodesians kidnapped Ethan Dube, killed JZ Moyo'
This week we continue with a narration by Jane Lungile Ngwenya who speaks to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati from her home in Bulawayo. An indefatigable revolutionary, Ngwenya recounts events lea...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:46hrs | 537 | by STaff reporter
'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 | 3439 | by David Magagula
Mugabe mired in Tongogara's death
HARARE - Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has made sensational claims that she was stopped dead in her tracks by former president Robert Mugabe over an explosive book that she had written reg...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 18:14hrs | 3644 | by Staff Reporter
Mutsvangwa's anti-Mnangagwa project suffers still birth?
Presidential advisor Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa's initiative for the establishment of a Transitional Authority to run the affairs of the country between now and the next elections are seemingly hitti...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 07:40hrs | 4564 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zapu frets govt will cheat in devolution
Opposition party Zapu led by Dumiso Dabengwa fears that Zanu PF government will keep power rooted in central governance against the spirit of decentralization wanted by citizens.Zapu secretary...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:51hrs | 1325 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu backs Chief Maduna on Petitioning President Mnangagwa to address Gukurahundi issue
The Dumiso Dabengwa led Zimbabwe's oldest opposition party Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) has declared its support for the Matabeleland elderly chief Vezi Maduna Mafu for petitioni...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:25hrs | 931 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu pickets at Joshua Nkomo statue
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led opposition Zapu party on Friday besieged the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's statue in Bulawayo, protesting over the deteriorating economic situation in the country....Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:02hrs | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane: A hero of many talents
Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane was a giant in terms of his contributions to society, and is very difficult to encapsulate in a mere obituary.He was simple and highly approachable while at the same...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:51hrs | 316 | by Emeritus Professor Ngwabi M Bhebhe
WATCH: Chamisa meets Dabengwa
The MDC President Nelson Chamisa on Friday attended the launch of the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation in Bulawayo. The event was graced by struggle stalwarts including the wife of the late Nikita Mangena a...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 11:08hrs | 5484 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe I want
What is the truth? What does it set you free from? The Webster's Dictionary definition below says what the word truth means: "truth: being in accord with fact or reality." Thus, the truth sets you fre...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 14:07hrs | 1324 | by Enos Denhere
ZAPU calls for the release of Gukurahundi commision report
Zimbabwe African People's Union, the primary target of the 1980s Gukurahundi Genocide stands in full support and defence of Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu of Filabusi and his call for addressing of the issue....Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 08:08hrs | 1613 | by ZAPU
Bulawayo launches water documentary
A new documentary commemorating a century of the Matabeleland Zambezi Water project will be launched in December , giving the public a unique insight into the water woes of Matebelelan...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 06:38hrs | 1288 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Thabo Mbeki to grace Dabengwa Foundation awards
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki will be the guest of honour at the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation inaugural awards meant to celebrate the country's unsung liberation war heroes and heroines....Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:51hrs | 2115 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 2767 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Revealed: Full List of Mugabe's preferred President and Cabinet
A former officer in the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation has revealed to us the full list of Mugabe's preferred President and Cabinet who were supposed to take over power after the 2018 elect...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 19:27hrs | 13208 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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