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White and black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe's land grabs
Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s....Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:49hrs | 808 | by Farai Matiashe, Al Jazeera
Chin'ono challenges Jonathan Moyo's view
Who holds the reins of power in Zimbabwe - civilian politicians or the military? The longstanding debate has resurfaced following a fiery analysis by award-winning investigative journalist Hopew...Published: 07 Apr 2025 at 20:23hrs | 2605 | by Staff reporter
Bonyongwe express irony over the death of Gen Mujuru
Former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe has expressed irony over the death of ex-army commander General Solomon Mujuru, a key power broker in Zanu PF, who wa...Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 12:09hrs | 3285 | by Staff reporter
A vote to remain masters of our own destiny
Here we reproduce excerpts of President Mnangagwa's speech to Zanu-PF supporters at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima, Matebeleland South province, yesterday.SalutationsWhen Jesus was b...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:39hrs | 29 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 14 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
PHOTO: Tongogara and Mujuru daughters meet
A rare photo of Maidei Mujuru daughter to the late General Mujuru and Nyaradzo Rahz Tongogara Hamphill daughter to the late General TJosiah Magama Tongogara has gone viral on the internet after being ...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 21:38hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences
Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 6 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Croco Motors managers in deep trouble
Reports reaching this reporter indicate that Croco Motors managers are reportedly in trouble after reports emerged alleging that Croco motors botched a Mercedes Benz service deal and went on to intimi...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 13:33hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 418 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
How to remove ZANU-PF: Overthrowing or Fair Elections?
This piece seeks to demonstrate that ZANU-PF has been provoking citizens to revolt since 1980s. President ED Mnangagwa should change his party's dictatorship system of governance and electoral fraud. ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Don Chigumba
The truth about Solomon Mujuru to be revealed
Miles Tendi the official biographer of the late ZANLA Military Chief and former Zimbabwe Defence Force Boss General Solomon Mujuru has announced that he will soon launch the much awaited tell all biog...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Civil society & opposition leaders' arrests normal for the democratic struggles
A struggle for democracy is not a romantic affair but a game of rugby without a referee. The players may be injured or die within the struggle anytime. I therefore want to take this opportunity to urg...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:41hrs | 4 | by Don Chigumba
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: 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...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
Chief Ndiweni's life in danger time now ripe for citizens' intervention
I used to undermine the supernatural powers of God but after the confrontation between ZANU PF youths and a defenseless Chief Ndiweni I am over-confident that God is the savior for the oppressed and d...Published: 15 May 2019 at 15:17hrs | 2 | by Don Chigumba
Mawarire exposes Strive Masiyiwa
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has alleged that Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa is a beneficiary of government tenders courtesy of the late General Solomon Mujuru and his wife Joi...Published: 08 May 2019 at 09:31hrs | 19 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mawarire defends ex-G40 members in MDC
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has defended the decision by MDC to elect Shadreck Mashayamombe who is former Zanu-PF Harare province secretary for commissariat to the po...Published: 01 May 2019 at 13:00hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
General Mujuru wanted to kill Masiyiwa
The late General Solomon Mujuru wanted to kill Econet Guru Strive Masiyiwa, the NPF Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has alleged."President Mugabe said, in his interview with the Indep...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 11:30hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The army and politics in Zimbabwe
There have been several calls on our Army to be non partisan from the opposition parties as well as civic organizations. Has the Army heeded the call, if they have it is just a smokescreen for they ar...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 18:58hrs | | by AT Kadada
Mnangagwa and David Stannard led Gukurahundi, says Mugabe
Former President Robert Mugabe has opened on several high profile secrets Zimbabweans have always had questions on.In a wide ranging interview with The Independent newspaper, Mugabe takes a sw...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 08:52hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Dear Mr Mugabe
I hope I find you well dear Former President of our Republic of Zimbabwe. I would like to make it glass clear dear Former President that you are misreading the moods of the people in Zimbabwe. I read ...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 20:56hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mugabe blame 'Ndebeles' and Zapu for Gukurahundi
Q: What role have you played in the formation of the National Patriotic Front, the new opposition party led by Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri? Are you a member? Is the former first lady a...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | | by Staf reporter
Mugabe one-on-one interview
Q: What role have you played in the formation of the National Patriotic Front, the new opposition party led by Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri? Are you a member? Is the former first lady a...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The Matabeleland genocide; Mugabe finally accepts his responsibility
In the early 1980s weapons were "discovered" in ZAPU owned farms, by the way by whom, the white led CIO and the newly intergrated ZANU- PF cadres. True arms of war were in some of these farms, but why...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 10:40hrs | 2 | by Clive Zulu
Mnangagwa has been captured by the Army
Recent arrests of Mthwakazi youths in Bulawayo and their subsequent detention at Army barracks points out to what we have been all saying. The Army is in total control of Zimbabwe and th...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 23:15hrs | | by Tawanda AT Kadada
Should army generals involved in gukurahundi be brought to book? #Zimbabwe
REVERED wartime commander and Zimbabwe's first black military General Solomon Mujuru might have been aware the post-war atrocities that continue to evoke emotions to this day.Commonly referred...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe has the unfinished explanation on the demise of General Mujuru
FORMER Zanu-PF stalwart, Dzikamai Mavhaire, has challenged President Robert Mugabe to come clean on the mysterious death of former army General Solomon Mujuru in an inferno at his Beatrice farm in 201...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru sweeps at graves in Gutu
In a major statement against political violence, former Vice President and National People`s Party (NPP) president Joyce Mujuru visited Gutu District last week, cleaned and swept at several graves of ...Published: 30 May 2017 at 13:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
I have nothing to do with Gen Mujuru death: Kasukuwere
Zanu PF national political commissar and Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere has vehemently refuted social media reports that he was the last person to s...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF is not limiting its anti-Mujuru propaganda -Mawarire
A National People's Party spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has said the ruling Zanu PF's Anti Joice Mujuru propaganda has gone extra miles to a point where they try by all means to vilify her.Th...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
The Mujurus wealth revealed
DETAILS of the late Retired General Solomon Mujuru's vast empire have started emerging despite concerted efforts by his widow, former Vice President Joice Mujuru, to conceal the riches, The Herald can...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 12:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a problem in Zanu-PF's unity
The Republic of Zimbabwe is in need of a statesman, a leader and a nationalist. Emmerson Mnangagwa is far from being a statesman, leader nor nationalist.Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa does not ha...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 13:51hrs | 2 | by Cde. Zvotapira
Its time Mai Mujuru started answering many questions
I like NERA. No, let me rephrase that, I like the ideas that NERA stands for. Our electoral system is a shambles, created and managed with one aim and only one in mind, keeping Ebagum in power, and hi...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Tinomudaishe Chinyoka
Gukurahundi massacre haunting Mujuru in his grave following CIA revelations
"Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!" (Evil, no matter how well you conceal it, will always come out to haunt you!) goes the Shona saying. The Gukurahundi massacres are haunting the late Solomon Mujuru even in ...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 19:56hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mujuru's Gukurahundi skeletons tumble
REVERED wartime commander and Zimbabwe's first black military General Solomon Mujuru might have been aware the post-war atrocities that continue to evoke emotions to this day.Commonly refe...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Sikhala accuses Mnangagwa of killing his aunt
MDC-T official Job Sikhala has written a letter directed to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing him of allegedly killing his aunt during Gukurahundi.In a letter posted on Facebook under...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 05:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru's Awkward Performance in the United Kingdom
The leader of Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), Dr Joice Mujuru's awkward performance in the United Kingdom, whilst addressing various platforms, has left many Zimbabweans wondering whether she can be trus...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 14:42hrs | | by Chadzimura Mhute
'Mujuru being insensitive and very insulting to victims of political violence in Zimbabwe'
Former ZBC presenter Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda has critized the move by Zimbabwe People First's leader Dr Joice Mujuru to compensate a white farmer her family had taken a farm from. Sibanda said M...Published: 08 Oct 2016 at 11:39hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
'Mujuru rose through sleeping with powerful men'
OPPOSITION leader Dr Joice Mujuru was at the periphery of the Second Chimurenga, primarily rising through the ranks via a combination of benevolence and her romantic liaisons, senior struggle stal...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
State media 'unmasks' Joice Mujuru - 'rose through sleeping with powerful men'
This article was originally published by the state media, Sunday Mail. Opposition leader Dr Joice Mujuru was at the periphery of the Second Chimurenga, ...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 08:15hrs | | by Sunday Mail
Mujuru - Tsvangirai: When a widow decides to go out on a binge with a long-time lover
Ice cubes in the freezer can never change the weather in the kitchen, I keep telling people. In politics, anything goes, more so for people who delight in pelting opponents. It is downright foolish to...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 09:37hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mujuru continues to haunt Mugabe
As the country's eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections get ever closer, former vice president and now leader of the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), Joice Mujuru, continues to haunt President Ro...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 21:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC has no regrets for showing solidarity with genuine war veterans
The MDC is a social democratic political party that has always held deep respect for the revolutionary struggle against settler colonialism; which heroic and selfless struggle ultimately led to th...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 09:24hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Fresh questions emerge over Gen Mujuru's death
A panicked Zanu-PF has gone into overdrive in its desperate bid to scupper the pending 2018 electoral deal between opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice President Joice Mujuru, while...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is ungrateful, says Mujuru
FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru has said her late husband and former army commander, General Solomon Mujuru, was "turning in his grave" in reaction to the recent desecration of his venerated na...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Solomon Mujuru's role in union exposed as Tsvangirai, Mujuru go public
THE union between MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru that played out publicly for the first time in Gweru over the weekend is a project that started before the...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Was the Zimbabwe guerrilla war of liberation worth it?
The article written by Tsolo Dube on Bulawayo24 asks a very painful but pertinent question: The War Veterans owe the Nation an Explanation: why they went to fight in the liberation of our country. Thi...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 11:49hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Dabengwa urged youth not to flee Zimbabwe but fight against the ills
The Zapu Leader Dumiso Dabengwa has challenged the youth in the country to stop fleeing the country but remain in it to fight the misrule and government for failing to provide for the citizens....Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru loses multi-million dollar hunting concession
COLOGNE - The late war hero, General Solomon Mujuru, has allegedly lost a multi-million dollar massive hunting concession he acquired in 2007, as his estate continues to crumble apart, amid claims the...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
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