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Zanu-PF ignores Gukurahundi cries
Critics have voiced strong concerns regarding the ruling Zanu-PF party's failure to adopt a resolution addressing the Gukurahundi atrocities during its recent annual conference held in Bulawayo. The l...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:19hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Eligibility rules for ZIFA Presidential candidates questioned
Former Zimbabwe international and Notwane FC legend Fabian Zulu has publicly criticized recent proposals to restrict eligibility for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency and key positio...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:09hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Declining state of Bulawayo worries residents
Bulawayo residents have lamented the decline in the status of the city, once an industrial powerhouse and considered the smartest in the country. They attribute this decline to poor governance and an ...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 10:58hrs | 565 | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi tells people's chiefs to withdraw from Gukurahundi hearings
The secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has launched an online petition to prevent Matabeleland chiefs from leading the Gukurahundi hearings, a task assigned to them by President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:04hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos forced to pay Gwekwerere US$27,000
Dynamos FC faced a significant hurdle in their return to CAF inter-club competitions due to a US$27,000 debt owed to former striker Evans Gwekwerere. Gwekwerere claimed this amount was due from variou...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 11:10hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide survivor cannot forgive Mugabe's foot soldiers
An astounding number of mass graves surround Thabani Dhlamini's home in south-western Zimbabwe.One pointed out to the BBC lies near the ablution block at a primary school in the village of Sal...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 07:26hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya did not see the $82,000 Fifa fine coming
The ambitious Premier Soccer League (PSL) team Yadah Stars, owned by the charismatic religious leader Walter Magaya, has been fined $82,000 by FIFA for breaching the contracts of Brazilian expatriate ...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 08:06hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Tribalists defend Mnangagwa's actions
A DEPUTY minister's demands for the transfer from a primary school in Bubi of an early childhood development (ECD) teacher with a Shona name has been met with mixed feelings, underlining the sensitivi...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:42hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Norman Maroto dies
Norman Maroto, aged 40, the last forward to score over 20 goals in a premiership season, passed away in the early hours of Friday at a private hospital in Harare, where he had been admitted and placed...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's PVO Bill public hearing abandoned
A public hearing on the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill (H.B 2024) was abruptly halted in Harare after a female participant voiced strong opposition to the proposed ...Published: 18 May 2024 at 11:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Stop Gukurahundi hearings'
STAKEHOLDERS and interest groups in Matabeleland have called on the government to stop the Gukurahundi hearings accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa of running the project like a personal show....Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:44hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu, CCC differ on govt projects
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu says his party will support all government programmes, but colleagues in the party think otherwise.In an intervi...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu LikaZulu commemorates the burning to death of 6 villagers during Gukurahundi
Militant Matebeleland pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu co-ordinated by civic activist Mbuso Fuzwayo today commemorated the burning to death of six villagers in Salankoko area,Tsholotsho, Matebeleland ...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Vandalised Gukurahundi plaque replaced
Matebeleland-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Wednesday installed yet another memorial plaque at Bhalagwe in Maphisa, Matebeleland South province where dozens of Gukurahundi victims were buri...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over inhumane evictions
GOVERNMENT has been criticised for carrying out inhumane mass evictions in Masvingo and Chiredzi, among other areas, leaving families homeless.The latest wave of farm evictions targeting land ...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MASVINGO LAND EVICTIONS: Ibhetshu likaZulu steps in
In a shocking turn of events, the Ibhetshu Lika Zulu organization has issued a press statement decrying the eviction of villagers in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. Distress calls have flooded in from Ma...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:07hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL TEXT: Ibhetshu likaZulu statement on Gukurahundi healing process
Ibhetshu likaZulu has noted with extreme concern the Government of Zimbabwe’s defiance of the constitution, its remorseless lack of empathy to the survivors of Gukurahundi and those that lost their ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Mbuso Fuzwayo
Daft Charumbira in Gukurahundi storm
CHIEF Fortune Charumbira touched off a storm yesterday after saying the disturbances that rocked the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces in the 1980s in which thousands were killed by North Korea-trai...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chirinda signed two contracts with Dembare and Ngezi?
WARRIORS striker Obriel Chirinda is in the eye of a storm after allegedly signing two contracts with Premiership rivals Dynamos and Ngezi Platinum Stars.The forward is currently training with ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa Gukurahundi genocide project illegal, futile without truth telling'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa maintains his government is leading and bankrolling the entire process of "bringing finality" to the Gukurahundi atrocities cognisant of potential external interference se...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Passport seekers besiege Bulawayo, Gwanda offices
HUNDREDS of people are visiting the Bulawayo and Gwanda Civil Registry Offices to apply for passports saying they wish to leave the country after losing hope in Zimbabwe's political and economic situa...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide workshop raises eyebrows over chief's role
An invitation to a sensitisation meeting in Bulawayo sent to media editors regarding the Gukurahundi outreach community programme has cast doubt on the National Chiefs Council's authority over the gen...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 14:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Push to identify Gukaruhundi victims' mass graves
Ibhetshu LikaZulu, a Matebeleland-based human rights' watchdog, has sent an SOS for funds needed for installation of memoralisation plaques at unmarked mass graves where Gukurahundi victims are ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 13:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'No reason to celebrate Unity Day'
ZIMBABWE today celebrates the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord to end Gukurahundi, but critics are sceptical that traditional leaders are the best foot forward in finding closure to the massacres....Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Skepticism over Gukurahundi hearings
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government have been accused of dragging their feet in addressing the emotive Gukurahundi issue by delaying the rollout of public hearings, which are a critical el...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Skepticism over Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi hearings
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government have been accused of dragging their feet in addressing the emotive Gukurahundi issue by delaying the rollout of public hearings, which are a criti...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 18:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF played ‘dirty' in Binga by-election'
A ZIMBABWE Election Support Network (Zesn) report on the December 9 by-elections has claimed that the ruling Zanu-PF party intimidated voters and used vote-buying tactics to win seats.The by-e...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 03:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe showbiz awards rigged?
HOLLYWOOD actor Denzel Washington once said, "man gives an award, God gives the reward", which suggests the thought of the validity and relevance of awards ceremonies and the worth of the gongs....Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 07:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi truth telling demands grow
ZIMBABWE is fast losing an opportunity to effectively resolve the emotive Gukurahundi issue through a truth-telling process as the victims and perpetrators are dying because of old age and other reaso...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Masuku award courts controversy
HUMAN rights defenders and activists in Matebeleland have expressed outrage after Zanu-PF Matebeleland North provincial chairperson Richard Moyo was conferred with the Lookout Masuku Consistency Award...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi genocide not taken seriously
Human rights activists in Matebeleland have described the government's purported attempt to bring closure to the emotive issue of Gukurahundi as a joke.Gukurahundi left more than 20 000 people...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eyebrows raised over Zanu-PF by-election candidate
Zanu-PF's prospective legislator for the Lobengula-Magwegwe constituency, Menziwa Dube, who is set to contest in the December 9 by-elections, was previously apprehended in Dubai for alleged involvemen...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 06:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt must protect Gukurahundi plaques'
Ibhetshu LikaZulu, a pressure group based in Matebeleland, has called on the government to deploy security personnel to protect memorial plaques that the organization erected on several Gukurahundi ma...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide survivors struggle for closure
AS the 10-year term of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe, aimed at bringing peace and healing to survivors and families affected by past atrocities, approaches its en...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents reject Chamisa's Vic Falls mayoral nominees
Residents in Victoria Falls have rejected the mayoral and council committee chairperson candidates nominated by the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). Reports indicate that the party attempted to im...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wants partners not donors
Zimbabwe is seeking partners rather than donations to help achieve its developmental goals of elevating livelihoods to an upper-middle-income status by 2030, according to Deputy Minister Davies Marapi...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF loses grip in Matebeleland
Zanu-PF's support in Matebeleland has shrunk as seen in the recent elections where the ruling party surrendered a number of seats to the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). Th...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's victory will not benefit people in Matebeleland
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory in the just-ended harmonised elections will not benefit people in Matebeleland region, civic society organisations (CSOs) have said.In separate interview...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makhadzi lashes Winky D
ORGANISERS of the "Africa Music Festival 2023 - The Legends Tour" which was held in Leicester in the United Kingdom on Saturday have come under fire for failing to manage the show well, leaving Makhad...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
High expectations for new Bulawayo councillors
Bulawayo residents have called on incoming Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors to restore the city's glory by tackling collapsing service delivery and recurrent water shortages among other...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's moment of truth
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's candidacy in Cowdray Park constituency in Bulawayo has revived debate on reports of systematic underdevelopment of the city and the whole Matebeleland region since 1980...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Political intolerance, poverty, corruption dividing Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE remains highly polarised as a result of political intolerance, unresolved historical issues, growing poverty, corruption and a lack of a common shared vision among other social ills, observer...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF red-flagged for child abuse
Zanu-PF has been asked to stop involving children in its political campaigns after some learners were paraded at a rally in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park high-density suburb chanting slogans against the opp...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 19:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Heavily armed anti-riot police patrol streets after CCC poll ruling
HEAVILY armed anti-riot police yesterday patrolled streets in Harare and Bulawayo after two High Court decisions against opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).A Bulawayo High Court ju...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 10:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere vows to bring 'closure' to emotive Gukurahundi issue
Former Zanu-PF political commissar and CIO driver under the late strongman Robert Mugabe's regime, and now independent presidential candidate, Saviour Kasukuwere intends to address the thorny Gukurahu...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Clerics, pro-democracy campaigners set free over prayer meeting
A ZIMBABWEAN court has set free 10 clerics and pro-democracy campaigners, who spent more than one year under prosecution on charges of disorderly conduct after they were arrested by the police last ye...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 11:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Zanu-PF abusing State resources'
CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) and opposition political parties have accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of abusing State resources by transporting its supporters to rallies across the country using ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 07:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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
'Declare a holiday after Joshua Nkomo'
Opposition political parties and activists from Matebeleland have accused the government of systematically trying to erase the legacy of late nationalist, Joshua Nkomo, by rejecting calls to honour hi...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 09:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu LikaZulu erects plaques in memory of Gukurahundi victims
Matebeleland-BASED human rights watchdog, Ibhetshu LikaZulu has erected a memorial plaque on a mass grave where six people were allegedly killed by the army in Salankomo village, Tsholotsho, in 1983....Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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