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I designed #ZanuPFMustGO masks, says Bulawayo activist
HUMAN rights activist and director of Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation, Mthulisi Hanana, yesterday revealed that he was the brains behind the #ZanuPFMustGo masks project, which was later hijacked by opposit...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:18hrs | 3358 | by Staff reporter
'Perrance Shiri died after repenting of Gukurahundi sins'
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri repented of his involvement in commanding the notorious 5th Brigade that killed more than 20 000 Zimbabweans from Matabeleland and Midlands. A WikiL...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 10:17hrs | 6148 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Another MDC Alliance activist 'abducted'
THE MDC Alliance Bulawayo province yesterday claimed that suspected State security agents on Tuesday night abducted and tortured another party activist, Nyasha Musundire.The opposition has bee...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Suspected state agents armed with AK47s storm Josphat Ngulube's house
Bulawayo activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube has reported that suspected state agents broke into his house and looted money, alcohol and took some of his personal documents. Ngulube is one of the p...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 18:40hrs | 6249 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Armed state agents storm Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Director's house
The Director of Dumiso Foundation Mthulisi Hanana has alleged that suspected state agents broke into his home on Tuesday morning in a bid to abduct him over the #ZANUPFMustGo masks that he has been ac...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 13:54hrs | 3142 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7384 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Council insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
As debate on the use of Khami Dam water to ease water shortages in Bulawayo continues, the local authority has insisted there is no need for panic as the water posed no health riskto residents contrar...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
City of Bulawayo, Mnangagwa govt headed for clash over renaming of roads
The government was on a collision course with the City of Bulawayo on Friday after the Local Government Ministry gazetted new names for some of its roads.The ministry, headed by July Moyo, ren...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:33hrs | 4577 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation director donates #ZANUPFMustGO masks
Human Rights Activist and Director of Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Mthulisi Hanana distributed masks written #ZANUPFMustGo to residents of Bulawayo of Saturday. ...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 17:17hrs | 3477 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2639 | by The Big Interview
Mnangagwa, Zapu cross swords over seized properties
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has angered opposition Zapu leaders after he met them shortly before the November 2017 coup and early last year where he pledged to return their seized properties before h...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2170 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo: A dream deferred but still attainable
Joshua Nkomo, perhaps like many great men and women before him saw a dream for Zimbabwe, one that would have seen the country cross over from colonialism to the proverbial Jordan. Born in 1917 he dedi...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 18:06hrs | 900 | by Lt Col JZ Dlamini
ZAPU President Isaac Mabuka speaks
Q1: Thank you Mr. Mabuka for your time. Please introduce yourself to the people. Who is Mabuka?A: I am Isaac Mabuka. I was born in 1953 on 26 April in Gwanda South. I did my primary education ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 13:15hrs | 3238 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Guerilla training was no picnic
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Friday conferred the national status on former Zipra deputy chief of operations Stanley Nleya pseudonym Elish Gagisa who died in Bulawayo last Tuesday.During the armed s...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:08hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU needs Shona president
Zapu is at crossroads as they seek to replace the late Dr Dumiso Dabengwa. Zapu has two big challenges on its hands. They need to rebrand big time if they are to survive until the next election and be...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:39hrs | 2292 | by Juliet Gumede
Axis of tribalism and African nationalism in conflict
IN the days when I was young and my political philosophy had reached its formation stage, my hero was Mhunhuwepasi Mangwende. His name has an agreeable affinity for unhu/ubuntu and its rhyme is just p...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:11hrs | 270 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
In memory of Dumiso Dabengwa the legendary supremo
ON May 23 2019, exactly a year ago, Zimbabwe laid to rest one of Africa's illustrious freedom fighters and pseudo Black Russian. His nationality is Zimbabwean but they called him the Black Russian bec...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 507 | by Baster Willie Magwizi
Covid-19 lockdown delays Dabengwa replacement
CURRENT uncertainties regarding the country's lockdown period have forced Zapu to postpone its August congress, in what would have seen the opposition party replace its late leader Dumiso Dabengwa....Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:34hrs | 198 | by newzimbabwe
Zipra veterans claim continued marginalisation
THE ZIPRA Veterans Trust has reiterated its call for the formation of a National Transitional Authority (NTA), warning, the current political and economic situation in the country was a national secur...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:38hrs | 327 | by newzimbabwe
Dabengwa role in Kangai's arrest revealed
LATE former president Robert Mugabe allegedly protested against the arrest of former Agriculture minister Kumbirai Kangai as he pleaded with then Home Affairs minister Dumiso Dabengwa to order his rel...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:59hrs | 2468 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa: Remembering a hero
AT exactly 10:55am on May 23, 2019, a colleague, Gerald Mpofu, sent a message through a WhatsApp group, Real Politics, informing us of the passing-on of a liberation struggle stalwart, Dumiso Dabengwa...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:51hrs | 257 | by Edwin Ndlovu
The mafia was at work in the Nuanetsi Ranch
THE acquisition of Nuanetsi Ranch and its subsequent use as a base for the founding of the Development trust of Zimbabwe (DtZ) has an interesting historical link with the nationalist struggle for inde...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:46hrs | 622 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Zanu-PF must give way to an NTA, says ZAPU
The Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government must admit it has failed to run the country and must give way to a National Transitional Authority (NTA) to help revive the country's socio-economic situation tha...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 18:58hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA's Jeremy Brickhill narrates untold stories about Dabengwa
I have chosen to commemorate the life of Comrade Dumiso Dabengwa on the first anniversary of his passing by sharing some recollections of my own involving his less well known role in preserving the le...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2797 | by Jeremy Brickhill
'Simba Makoni was a scam' Top Zimbabwean artist
Prominent Zimbabwean artist Raisedon Baya has described the 2008 Presidential campaign by former Finance Minister Simbarashe Herbert Stanley Makoni as a political scam. "Simba Makoni was a pol...Published: 30 May 2020 at 16:22hrs | 6691 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Let's unite to end Zimbabwe crises'
SEVERAL organisations from labour, lawyers, academics and churches under the National Convergence Platform banner have resolved to unite citizens in a non-partisan manner to end the country's worsenin...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 2433 | by Staff reporter
Malema told to celebrate Joshua Nkomo and Tongogara
South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane has urged EFF leader Julius Sello Malema to cease from celebrating the late Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe because he was a ruthless dictator. ...Published: 26 May 2020 at 12:58hrs | 4373 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Not yet Uhuru for Africa: Africa Day message from ZAPU
Africa Day has come and gone on May 25 2020, just like any of the previous years. A day that was set aside by mother Africa herself for commemorations, recognition and appreciation of our African iden...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:41hrs | 477 | by Iphithule Thembani kaMaphosa
Dumiso Dabengwa died a bitter man
OPPOSITION ZAPU Sunday commemorated the 1st anniversary of the death of its leader, Dumiso Dabengwa with party incumbent Isaac Mabuka saying the late politician died a bitter man after his ambitions o...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 612 | by newzimbabwe
Zipra cadres celebrate Dabengwa's life
EX-Zipra cadres have paid tribute to former Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa (pictured) as the country marked the first anniversary of his death.Dabengwa died on May 23 in Kenya on his way back hom...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:01hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Laduma ladlula: lakhothama iqhawe lezwe.
Ibandla elidala le ZAPU lisungule inhlelo ezizathatha iviki eyodwa egcweleyo likhumbula owaye ngu Mongameli walo umuyi u Dr Dumiso Dabengwa owayesaziwa ngegama elithi"The Black Russian''loba ''DD'...Published: 23 May 2020 at 14:42hrs | 953 | by ZAPU
Dumiso Dabengwa - Tribute from a civic and personal perspective
The first time I had a close engagement with the late iconic hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa was when he was Minister of Home Affairs and I was President of the Junior Association of Christian Communica...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:34hrs | 627 | by Dumisani Nkomo
Dabengwa's dreams of the future and frustrations
Dumiso Dabengwa, the late President of Zapu always had dreams for the future. Evidence is awash showing that his life was full of big future dreams for Zimbabwe as a whole.History tells that h...Published: 20 May 2020 at 09:07hrs | 1011 | by Zapu Information And Publicity Department
The Dumiso Dabengwa story that I know
On the 23rd of May 2019, Zimbabwe lost one of its sons of contemporary revolutionary struggle against social, political as well as economic injustice since the early 60's.Coming from a ZAPU in...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:55hrs | 956 | by Mlondolozi Ndlovu
Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation, Zapu host virtual Dabengwa anniversary
THE Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation in conjunction with Zapu will next week hold a week-long virtual first-anniversary celebration for the late Zapu leader and national hero, who passed on in May last year...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:54hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa, the upright legend
There is one assurance and certainty of life, it's the journey between the womb and the tomb, how long it will take remains medical assumptions and predictions. What lies in between are our deed...Published: 18 May 2020 at 15:48hrs | 1539 | by Brian Ncube
Zapu, MLF clash over Joshua Nkomo legacy
OPPOSITION Zapu has blasted the secessionist Mthakwazi Liberation Front (MLF) for casting aspersions over the late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo's rich legacy. This was after former MLF lead-er...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
Zapu scorns 'useless' ex-secretary general Absolom Sikhosana
OPPOSITION Zapu has slammed late Zanu-PF politburo member Absolom Sikhosana for being a "useless and harmless" man who did not deserve to be conferred with the highest honour of the land.Sikho...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1274 | by newzimbabwe
How Dabengwa Made me a Freedom Fighter - Confessions of a Zipra Cadre
I must have been 15 years old herding cattle EMlageni near Siwubu along the Manzamnyama river in 1967. I remember the year very well. It was a very hot day and it was schools holiday. So, it was aroun...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1316 | by ZAPU Department of Information Publicity and Marketing.
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
BackgroundIt all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Le...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:40hrs | 813 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
It all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Lecture Series o...Published: 16 May 2020 at 14:12hrs | 1220 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Nguluvhe details Manama wartime recruitment
IN January 1977, the ring of a bell, usually alerting pupils at Manama High School in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, of the time to go to the dining hall for supper, signalled a new chapter for ...Published: 04 May 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1509 | by Staff reporter
After internal strife, Zapu reorganises
Following the split in ZAPU in 1971, it was time to reflect and analyse the situation in order to meaningfully analyse and interpret events that led to the fallout. Armed with analysis and interpretat...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 591 | by Pathisa Nyathi
ZAPU mourns cadre Charles Madonko
ZAPU has described the late Charles Madonko as a selfless individual who was committed to fighting injustice and inspired others to confront the white settler regime.Madonko (83) died on Monda...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 13:25hrs | 1593 | by Staff reporter
Boy Madonko dies
FORMER Cold Storage Company (now CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe) board member, Mr Charles Boy Madonko, has died. He was 83. The late Mr Madonko, who also served as the Nuanetsi Ranch manag...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 23:36hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
'Why I was arrested' Josphat Ngulube speaks out
Now I am free to talk about it because I was tried and found guilty for nothing! Josphat Mzaca Ngulube didn't burn Zanu Pf cars or participated on what he was accused for!On the day 14th of Ja...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 13:49hrs | 6637 | by Josphat Mzaca Ngulube
Crossing points during Zimbabwe/ Rhodesia bush war
WHAT do the following places share in common: DK (point along the Zambezi Valley), Kanyemba, Chirundu, Mlibizi, Kavira Forest, Chisuma? Some guerrillas may identify them as crossing points into Rhodes...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:13hrs | 651 | by Pathisa Nyathi
PF ZAPU to be launched in South Africa?
OPPOSITION ZAPU has accused the State of destabilising its operations by allegedly sponsoring the formation of a replica organisation, which has adopted similar logos and colours.Party secreta...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:13hrs | 636 | by newzimbabwe
MZWT vows to end Bulawayo water woes
THE Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT) has ramped up plans to complete the Zambezi Water Project to resolve Bulawayo's perennial water woes which have seen residents subjected to a 108hour water-...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1760 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo memorial lecture
The fifth Joshua Nkomo Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Joshua Nkomo Museum (JNM) was held on Saturday, 18 April via online broadcast.The annual lecture commemorates the late influential and re...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 19:40hrs | 1828 | by Staff reporter
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