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Sifiso Dabengwa to be buried in South Africa

Zimbabwean-born South African corporate executive Raymond Sifiso Dabengwa, former CEO of MTN Group and Eskom board member, will be laid to rest in Johannesburg on Saturday. Dabengwa, 66, passed away on Sunday morning after battling colon c…

Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 15:09hrs | 2415 | by Staff reporter

Sifiso Dabengwa dies

Zimbabwean-born South African corporate executive Raymond Sifiso Dabengwa, former president and CEO of telecoms giant MTN Group and a board member of Eskom, has passed away at the age of 66.Dabengwa, a brother to the late Zimbabwean libera…

Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 15:52hrs | 6679 | by Staff reporter

Dabengwa snub irks war veterans

Zapu ex-combatants have expressed frustration after the state failed to recognise Zodwa Dabengwa nee-Khumalo, the widow to the late liberation war stalwart, Dumiso Dabengwa, as a national heroine.Her husband, the former Zipra intelligence …

Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:36hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Dabengwa's widow laid to rest

MRS Zodwa Dabengwa, nee Khumalo, widow of the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa, has been described as a courageous, kind and selfless woman, who steadfastly stood behind her husband as he fought for the country's independence.Mrs Dabengw…

Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:29hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Dabengwa's late wife granted State-assisted funeral

IN a poignant display of honour, the late Mrs Zodwa Dabengwa nee Khumalo, the widow of National Hero Cde Dumiso Dabengwa, has been granted a Atate-assisted funeral by the Government. Today, she will be laid to rest at Manxeleni in Ntabazin…

Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter

A Celebration of Life, Rest in Power Mrs Zodwa Dabengwa

When a person passes, we take stock. We look at what they achieved or lament at what they didn't achieve. We sum up the value of that persons life on the gap they leave in society. Depending on what you achieved in life a void is left eith…

Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 09:14hrs | 19 | by Duke Maplanka (Zapu Europe Chairman)

Dabengwa's wife was a courageous woman

The Khumalo and Dabengwa families have described the late Zodwa Dabengwa, wife of the late national hero and former ZAPU leader Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, who died in the United Kingdom as a courageous woman.Zodwa, popularly known as MaKhumalo, d…

Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 19:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

The ZAPU's hour of reckoning has come.

The ZAPU National Elective Congress starts tomorrow on the 28th October 2021 at Bulawayo Amphitheatre and it will run until the 30th. The first day is earmarked for receiving delegates from various branches, districts, and provinces and fo…

Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 19:57hrs | 22 | by Thulani Nkala

Remembering the peaceful giant

The last two months have been very important for the mother party and Zimbabweans as we have been engrossed with memories of giants who played prominent roles in our quest for a dignified and free life. Linked in life, linked in the strugg…

Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 12:02hrs | 10 | by Iphithule Maphosa

Dabengwa, Tongogara, Nkomo, Chitepo why did you leave us - as Zimbabwe's hijackers even more determined to crush our country?

In life we always have individuals whom we wished could have had the marvellous opportunity to have met, and even got to know on a personal level - and, certainly I am not to be left out, since I am amongst those who harbor such dreams, wi…

Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 16:27hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Leadership renewal divides Zapu

ZAPU old guards are allegedly resisting plans by party members to renew and rebrand the opposition party soon after the death of its leader Dumiso Dabengwa for fear that they could lose influential posts.The issue was revealed by party ins…

Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Dumiso Dabengwa must be remembered

It is now some weeks since Dr Dumiso Dabengwa passed on. This Office has two proposals for the people of Bulawayo to ponder over and if it's okay, implement with the approval of ZAPU and his family.1.    That there be a memo…

Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 09:16hrs | 4 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo

Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows

Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the world around them. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, wh…

Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | | by Dr Mandla Nyathi

Dumiso Dabengwa books to be published

TWO books and memoirs of the late liberation icon and national hero, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa are being finalised and will provide an insight into the life of the man who dedicated most of his life to the liberation of the country.Dr Dabengwa di…

Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Dabengwa burial snub cannot erase his legacy

Twitter: @MuckrakerZimTHE presidium was last week conspicuously absent at the burial of Zimbabwe's liberation war stalwart, the late Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, at his Ntabazinduna rural home in Matabeleland North.Despite b…

Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 10 | by MUCKRAKER

CIOs target Dabengwa's Director

Suspected state agents on  Thursday launched a manhunt for Director General of the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Mthulisi Mduduzi Ncube Hanana for crimes including undermining the authority of the President. Hanana  is accused of ma…

Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 16:51hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Dabengwa's death revibrates Zapu

Thousands of people thronged the White City Stadium on Friday the 31st of May 2019 and Manxeleni on the 1st of June 2019. It occurred there, and indeed, Zapu was reborn, rediscovered and emotionally and spiritually revived. It was total pa…

Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 14:56hrs | 7 | by Mkhululi Zulu

Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - End of an era, resilience of a vision

Speaking notes for ZAPU statement at the funeral of party President Dr. Dumiso DabengwaNtabazinduna, Umguza District, Matebeleland North, ZimbabweDr. Strike Mkandla, Secretary GeneralSaturday,  1st June 2019Dabengwa and Khumalo famili…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:09hrs | 15 | by Dr. Strike Mkandl

Dumiso Dabengwa: An epitome of courage, endurance and integrity

HE used to call me at random and odd times; almost always late at night. The last time he did was at 11pm several weeks ago. He wanted to tell me he was in South Africa and was not well. This was the third call he had made to say he was il…

Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 15:55hrs | 10 | by Siphosami Malunga

Thousands bid national hero Dabengwa farewell

THOUSANDS yesterday thronged White City Stadium to pay their last respects to national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa as speakers from a cross section of society testified to his impeccable liberation war credentials and contributions towards dev…

Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Dabengwa: The untold story

Civil disturbances that happened in the early years of Zimbabwe's Independence that came to be known as "Gukurahundi" were a conspiracy by former Rhodesian security operatives who set up black compatriots and erstwhile freedom fighters aga…

Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:40hrs | 7 | by Tichaona Zindoga and Kudakwashe Mugari

Its a mistake by Dabengwa to shun National Heroes Acre

AS a people and an ethnic minority, Ndebele lives have been lives of pain, anguish and real and perceived marginalisation by the Zanu-PF government and a Shona majority. It doesn't help to hear that ours is the fate of minorities the world…

Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:48hrs | 3 | by ZimLive Admin

Maj General Sedibe's speech at Dumiso Dabengwa memorial service

We are here to honour and celebrate the life of Cde. Dumiso Dabengwa. In South Africa, we regard him as a hero, and brother in arms. A highly treasured son to the people of Zimbabwe, and to all freedom loving Africans. We mourn a selfless …

Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:46hrs | 226 | by Major Gen. Jackie Sedibe

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 of liberation war hero Dumiso Dabengwa at his N…

Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

LIVE: Dumiso Dabengwa memorial service

The memorial service of the late Dr Dumiso Dabwngwa is currently underway at White City Stadium in Bulawayo.Thousands of Zimbabweans including family, friends, ZAPU and other political parties are in attendance.Government dispatched 11 bus…

Published: 31 May 2019 at 10:15hrs | 117 | by Mandla Ndlovu

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 yesterday after a long illness, was a …

Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:56hrs | 2665 | 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 today. The service is expected to start a…

Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

PHOTOS: Bulelani Khumalo attends Dabengwa's memorial

Friends of Dumiso Dabengwa held a memorial service of the late ZPRA Intelligence Supremo in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday. The South Africa memorial Service was aimed at celebrating the life and times of Dr Dabengwa.Those who were…

Published: 30 May 2019 at 16:32hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu

The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma

1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news about the untimely death of Dr Dabengwa reached me via the social media.  That wa…

Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 12 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza

Zanu-PF stance on Dabengwa correct

The corruption riddled ZANU PF party MPs whose clueless Government has impoverished and pauperised the entire nation were after all correct in their childish pettiness. A cabal that has driven millions into the region were undocumented Zim…

Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:38hrs | 6 | by Nkosenhle

Dabengwa, one of the last of a dying breed

WHEN the news of Dumiso Dabengwa's death filtered in, a colleague asked that I write an obituary, an offer I turned down politely because I hardly knew the former Home Affairs minister and our encounters were fleetingly few and far between…

Published: 30 May 2019 at 10:53hrs | 6 | by Nqaba Matshazi

Dabengwa Foundation threatens ZANU PF

The Director of Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Mthulisi Mduduzi Hanana Ncube has fired salvo at the ZANU PF Members of Parliament for their refusal to observe a momement of silence in parliament in honour of the late ZPRA Intelligence Supremo …

Published: 30 May 2019 at 10:37hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Zanu-PF MPs refuse to honour Dabengwa

TEMPERS flared in the National Assembly yesterday when Zanu-PF MPs refused to observe a minute of silence in honour of the late national hero and opposition Zapu leader, Dumiso Dabengwa.This followed a request by MDC chief whip Prosper Mut…

Published: 29 May 2019 at 15:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar

On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in Zimbabwe's independence struggle â€” p…

Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | 4 | by Blessing Miles-Tendi

Zapu, Dabengwa family block Zanu-PF

The body of the late Zapu leader and former Cabinet minister Dumiso Dabengwa, who died in Kenya last week, arrived at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo yesterday afternoon aboard South African airline Airlink.His arriv…

Published: 28 May 2019 at 15:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Details on the funeral and burial of Dumiso 'The Black Russian' Dabengwa

This serves as an update on the developments as we continue celebrating the life of our departed leader and father, President Dumiso Dabengwa. We have finally received his body in Bulawayo after technical glitches we experienced yesterday.…

Published: 27 May 2019 at 16:55hrs | 3 | by Iphithule kaMaphosa

Mzilikazi II condolence message to the Dabengwa family

King Mzilikazi II and the Kingdom of Mthwakazi join the Family of the late Dr. Dabengwa in mourning his passing.We are saddened by his untimely death. We remember his courage and commitment during the imfazwe yesithathu that gained the ind…

Published: 27 May 2019 at 14:33hrs | 111 | by Greater Sibanda, Mzilikazi II Spokesperson

Dabengwa family welcomes hero declaration, but....

THE family of leading nationalist and ex-Cabinet Minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has welcomed Government's decision to declare him a national hero. Dr Dabengwa died on Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya, while being flown back to Zimbabwe from India w…

Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Dumiso Dabengwa an unrelenting fighter for the people

Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa passed away on 23 May 2019 and this led to a great buzz on Zimbabwe's political scene not common when opposition figures die. As a quick perusal of the media coverage soon after the news was announced, this unusual infl…

Published: 26 May 2019 at 21:32hrs | 7 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla - ZAPU Secretary General

Chief Ndiweni expected to steal the show at Dabengwa's burial

CHIEF Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni is expected to steal the show at Zimbabwe liberation war hero and intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa's burial.Dabengwa, who died in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday enroute to Zimbabwe after undergoing a month-lo…

Published: 26 May 2019 at 20:33hrs | 12 | by Ndou Paul

Dabengwa to be buried in Ntabazinduna

THE body of late national hero and Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa will now arrive in Bulawayo on Monday after family members and Zapu officials resisted government's move to ferry his body through Harare.Dabengwa, who died in Nairobi, Keny…

Published: 26 May 2019 at 19:39hrs | 20 | by newzimbabwe

1893 MHRRM condolence message to Dabengwa family and Nation

It is with deepest and most profound sadness that the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) has learnt of the passing of our great and illustrious liberator and freedom fighter, one of the greatest commanders of the…

Published: 26 May 2019 at 18:30hrs | | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity

Remembering the Black Russian

In 1982, Dumiso Dabengwa and Lookout Khalisabantu Vumindaba Masuku were detained at the behest of the administration of Robert Gabriel Mugabe on what turned out to be trumped-up charges of alleged treason.In 1983, they were both acquitted …

Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Muchadeyi Ashton Masunda

DD: The man, soldier, pacifier

The light of the armed liberation struggle icon has been extinguished. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, affectionately known as DD, passed on 23 May 2019.There was grief and anguish when news about his death in Nairobi, Kenya filtered through Zimbabwe …

Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | 283 | by Phathisa Nyathi

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 a message. After a few weeks l met elde…

Published: 26 May 2019 at 01:04hrs | 13 | by Benard Conrad Magugu

Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans mourn Dabengwa

It was with a deep sense of sadness and loss that the leadership and members of Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) received the devastating news that comrade Dumiso Dabengwa passed on at the age of 79 years, in Nairobi…

Published: 25 May 2019 at 19:34hrs | 7 | by Issued on behalf of the President of MKMVA, comrade Kebby Maphatsoe, by Carl Niehaus

Why Zimbabwean Heroes Acre would be a 'Fat Fraud' without Dabengwa?

A country which claims civilisation and top-notch Education like Zimbabwe, needs to be seen to be consistent with its claims in all respect. No one deserves to be buried at the National Shrine called "Hero's Acre", if Comrade Dabengwa is m…

Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:15hrs | 1953 | by Ryton Dzimiri

Mourn DD as He Was

When one of us departs it is dignified to mourn and remember the good things that the person did. It is very common that people pick up some lessons from his life. Those who know him best share the information about him with others. Before…

Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:15hrs | 784 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokesperson

Dr Dabengwa an undisputed war of liberation hero

Although Dr Dabengwa's (as rumoured) wish was not to be buried at the heroes acre, the heroes acre would be angry as he is an undisputed liberation hero who deserves 1000% to be buried there. If he gets buried there, the history of the lib…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 14:31hrs | 8 | by Njabulo

Mthwakazi National Party pay tribute to Dr Dumiso Dabengwa!

Dr Dumuso Dabengwa, the Zipra intelligence supremo. The worthy and courageous Black Russian. The militant of the great revolution. The one who gave his life for the freedom of our people. Crushing down imperialism and colonialism was …

Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:04hrs | 6 | by Mthwakazi National Party

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