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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...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 19:47hrs | 7 | 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 br...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 19:57hrs | 12 | by Thulani Nkala
Zapu elective congress set for April 2021
ZAPU will now hold its elective congress in April next year to choose a new leader for the opposition party.After an extra ordinary meeting Saturday, the National People's Council (NPC) decide...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 18:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Every generation has its heroes
Today I felt encouraged as well as hopeful as I watched our comrades being escorted like criminals from Khami prison. Seeing Zimbabwe prison services officers in their unusual anti riot gear carrying ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 21:42hrs | 6 | by MRP Vice-president Ms Presia Ngulube
Jacob Zuma expected at church meeting in Bulawayo today
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma is expected in the country today for the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) regional conference to be held at Khumalo Hotel in Bulawayo. ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and the pretence to unity
AT the burial of liberation icon Dr Dumiso Dabengwa in Ntabazinduna recently, MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa postured as a unifying figure vowing to work towards uniting the people of Zimbabwe....Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
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 wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 4 | 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 l...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 P...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 16:51hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Election losers turn to campaign at Dr Dabengwa's funeral
The passing on of one of Zimbabwe's liberation war icons, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa on 23 May 2019, saw all people from all walks of life from far and near coming to pay their condolences in respect of the l...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 10:52hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
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 GeneralSatur...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:09hrs | 11 | by Dr. Strike Mkandl
Mnangagwa scared to face his own sins at Dabengwa's funeral
The lame excuse given by presidential spokesman George Charamba for Mnangagwa's failure to attend Dabengwa's funeral is that "it is in the spirit of respecting the bereaved family's request for privac...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 14:08hrs | | by Israel Dube
Hundreds grace DD funeral
CLOUDS of dust rose into the morning sky as vehicles, big and small, joined hundreds of feet shuffling to the late national struggle icon and hero, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa's, rural home in Ntabazinduna yes...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calls for unity as Dabengwa is buried
A SEA of people from all walks of life thronged Manxeleni Village in Ntabazinduna, Umguza District, about 37km from Bulawayo to bid farewell to national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa who was laid to r...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's excuse for not attending Dabengwa burial
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will not attend liberation struggle icon Dr Dumiso Dabengwa's burial today in the spirit of respecting the bereaved family's request for privacy. This was said by President...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 cr...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | | 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 compatr...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga and Kudakwashe Mugari
Dabengwa ranks high among the region's liberators, say SA Minister
Newly-appointed South African Minister of State Security Ayanda Dlodlo has said liberation icon and ex-Cabinet minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa ranks high among the region's liberators.Dr Dabengwa ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1 | 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
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 celebrat...Published: 30 May 2019 at 16:32hrs | 2 | 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 abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 6 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Dabengwa declared an international hero
CHURCHES yesterday said the late national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa is an international icon whose legacy transcends the political realm.Different church leaders under the banner of the Zimbabwe...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bury heroes at National Shrine- surviving ZAPU members told
Bulawayo-based prominent independent political commentator, Zifiso Masiye, has warned that ZAPU/ZIPRA history risk being obliterated if National Heroes who are declared continue to reject being buried...Published: 28 May 2019 at 11:30hrs | 2 | by ViewFromMatopos
No political bullying during bereavement
Some shameless Zanu-PF supporters in their regalia invaded the food serving points, not bothering to observe the queue on Sunday at the home of Zapu's departed President Dumiso Dabengwa. They ...Published: 28 May 2019 at 09:39hrs | 3 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokeperson.
PHOTOS: Hero's welcome for Dabengwa's body
HUNDREDS of Bulawayo residents yesterday thronged Joshua Mqabuko International Airport to receive the body of national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, which arrived from Johannesburg, South Africa, at midday...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to snub Dabengwa's burial?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa may not be attending the burial of the late former ZPRA Intelligence Supremo Dr Dumiso Dabengwa sources close to the funeral arrangements have revealed. The source...Published: 27 May 2019 at 10:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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, ...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa's body expected in Bulawayo today
LIBERATION war icon and former Cabinet Minister, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, who died in Nairobi, Kenya, last Thursday has been declared a national hero. Dr Dabengwa was enroute to Zimbabwe from India...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF plots to hijack Dabengwa's funeral
The ruling ZANU PF party is plotting to hijack the funeral of the late ZPRA Intelligence Supremo Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, Mthwakazi Republlic Party founding Spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo has revealed. ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF must back off
We are at the residence of the late Dr Dumiso Dabengwa's house. The official position is that the body of the late national and international hero was left in SA because of lack of space in the cargo....Published: 26 May 2019 at 18:31hrs | 15 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Dabengwa family thanks Government as liberation icon's body arrives
THE body of the late liberation war icon and former Cabinet Minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa will arrive this afternoon at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Internationl Airport, accompanied by his widow, Zodwa....Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Liberation war stalwart Dabengwa declared a national hero
Former Zipra intelligence supremo and liberation war stalwart Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has been declared a national hero.Vice president kembo Mohadi told a crowd that had gathered at the Joshua Mqab...Published: 26 May 2019 at 12:48hrs | | by Methusi Ncube
Dabengwa's body expected home on Sunday
The family of late Dr Dumiso Dabengwa says the body of the late nationalist is expected in the country tomorrow morning, and has expressed gratitude to the government for assistance rendered to them d...Published: 25 May 2019 at 20:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 ...Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:15hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zimbabwe plunged into mourning
LIBERATION war stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa was a confidante of a number of Government ministers and helped them on issues of national importance, Deputy Minister of Defence...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
The fall of a liberator, national giant
Dr Dumiso Dabengwa was the archetype of a soldier, nationalist and nation builder. He became active politically in his early 20s. This resulted in his arrest and imprisonment in 1962 after the R...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mourns selfless hero Dr Dabengwa
ZANU-PF on Friday mourned the death of liberation stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa describing him as a selfless hero who embraced even those who hated him.Dr Dabengwa di...Published: 24 May 2019 at 21:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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. ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 14:31hrs | 2 | by Njabulo
Zimbabwe is poorer without Dr Dabengwa
Liberation war icon Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, who was popularly known as the Black Russian, has been described as a commander par excellence who dedicated his life to the freedom and betterment of the lives...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa snubbed heroes acre
"Ngizafika ngithini kubo JZ, kumdala uNkomo, kuMsika, lakumama uLesabe, kunye labanye bami bonke esasisonke empini if I were to die today and leave Zimbabwe in this state? We need to get our country g...Published: 23 May 2019 at 20:41hrs | 8 | by Methuseli Moyo
Dabengwa's photo on wheelchair explained
The Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation has explained that the photo of the former ZIPRA Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa on a wheelchair was taken after Dabengwa complained of fatigue and it does not mean he is now un...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 13:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa misses out on UK Gukurahundi Indaba Talk
ZAPU's Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has missed out on sharing the stage with the vibrant and eloquent Mzila at a grand event scheduled for 3 November 2018 in Luton, UK (Post Code LU3 1BS). This follows de...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 10:08hrs | 3 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Dabengwa, not Jonathan Moyo, is the brains behind POSA
ZAPU leader Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has revealed that he is the brains behind the original Public Order and Security Act (POSA) Bill but former President Mr Robert Mugabe refused to sign it because it was ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa needs to get on with the program now
It is now a full month since the Constitutional Court delivered its watershed ruling to dismiss with costs MDC Alliance Presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa's, application challenging the results re...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 16:34hrs | | by Charles Motsi
Dabengwa ditches Chamisa, endorses Mnangagwa?
ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa and called on Zimbabweans to accept his Government which he said was on the right path by implementing devolution. T...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Walter Nqabeni Mthimkhulu, legendary political activist and would-be hero (1940-2018)
This piece is being sent out on 14 August 2018, the last day of the long Heroes Day weekend of the year in Zimbabwe. This is barely two weeks after the country's critical presidential, parliamen...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 23:04hrs | 29 | by Dr Strike Mkandla
Mnangagwa preserving Joshua Nkomo legacy?
AFTER a 17-year-long wait, Ekusileni Medical Centre, a brainchild of one of the founding fathers of the liberation, Dr Joshua Nkomo will finally open its doors thanks to the new administration led by ...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Chamisa swallows Dabengwa
ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has said his party is backing the candidature of MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa in the forthcoming election.Dr Dabengwa said Zapu and the MDC Allian...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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