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The uncanny parallels between Zanu-PF and the Rhodesian Front
THE white Rhodesian regime by all accounts waged a highly effective counter-insurgency war against the guerilla forces.Its successes were across the military and intelligence spheres.T...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:15hrs | 559 | by Rigid Kondongwe
Mnangagwa govt's lethargy to allocate land to war vets dominates indaba
A recent meeting of the Zanu-PF War Veterans National Assembly in Harare erupted into a heated verbal confrontation as war veterans expressed their deep dissatisfaction with President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 11:22hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, ANC were publicly sworn enemies
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and South Africa's old National Party government were publicly sworn enemies. Privately, their relationship was a bit more complicated.On 7 and 8 February, 1983, for instanc...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1265 | by Peter Fabricius
Zanu-PF's crude path
When things become unbelievably smooth on the trot, you just need to do a reality check by tuning into ZTV, for there you will certainly find the dose that will wake you up from your island siesta....Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | 59 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa picks Monica Mavhunga as new war veterans minister
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday named Mashonaland Central senator Monica Mavhunga as the new minister for veterans of the liberation struggle affairs after Christopher Mutsvangwa was sacked las...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to preside over another bogus hero burial
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today preside over the burial of liberation war stalwart and National Hero, Colonel (Retired) Kenny Ridzai Mabuya, who died last week after a short illness.In a statem...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President Mohadi mourns hero Mabuya
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi has joined President Mnangagwa and the nation at large in mourning Colonel (Retired) Kenny Ridzai Mabuya, who will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Wednesday....Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Umkhonto weSizwe fighter will never forget what a white man told him in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:11hrs | 15 | by Thula Bopela
How ZPRA, ZANLA were allocated camps in Entumbane
WE round-up our interview with former freedom fighter Lieutenant-Colonel (Rtd) Alson Masilinge Muleya. Lt-Col (Rtd) Muleya who trained as a regular officer cadet at the Zambian Military Academy in Koh...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slowing getting back to its feet at 43
IN 1893 my ancestors raised the Union Jack in a place they called Salisbury, in the middle of what is now called southern Africa. That is 130 years ago and for the next 87 years this tiny group of whi...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:19hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe-Zambia relations deteriorate
ZIMBABWE'S relations with Zambia have become frosty since the Sadc observer mission led by the neighbouring country's former vice-president Nevers Mumba revealed gross irregularities in the country's ...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why ZANU-PF Wins elections
Since 1980, ZANU PF has lost in two elections. They lost the 2000 referendum which forced the incumbent president to go with the old constitution albeit with later amendments which largely undermined ...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 10:43hrs | 1 | by Moses Moyo
Former ZUD President endorses CCC's Chamisa
OUTSPOKEN liberation war heroin and former Zimbabwe Union of Democrats leader, Margaret Dongo, has publicly endorsed opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa ahead of next...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's pluses ahead of Aug 23 polls
By addressing concerns about a runoff scenario, Chamisa has showcased his leadership qualities and strategic foresight, reassuring voters of his commitment to decisive victory in the first round again...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 12 | by Sharon Hofisi
'Gukurahundi was planned before Zimbabwe independence'
Former Co-Minister of National Healing and Integration, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, believes the Gukurahundi genocide that killed over 20 000 people in Matebeleland and Midlands was planned before independenc...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 20:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanla story on Salisbury fuel tanks is utter fiction
THERE has been a lot of confusion on the role ZIPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Joshua Nkomo's Contribution to the struggle for freedom
When the iconic Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo died on the 1st of July 1999, the generality of Matabeleland felt demobilised, further isolated and wondering if it would ever achieve peace in Zimbabwe. Father...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:50hrs | 9 | by Freedom Alliance
Joshua Nkomo's undying legacy
THE 1st of July 2023 marks 24 years since the passing away of Zimbabwe's former Vice-President of Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, after a long battle with cancer.Nko...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Taona Blessing Denhere
'Ace Magashule may be gone, but divisions in the ANC will mount'
The expulsion of Ace Magashule from the ANC is likely to divide the ruling party further, according to a political analyst.The former Free State premier was officially shown the door on Monday...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 17:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, it's great to be loved by the Brits, isn't it!
I can not help finding it thoroughly amusing how the ZANU PF regime is always so excited over the supposedly 'warming relationship' between Harare and London.We witnessed this with the embarra...Published: 08 May 2023 at 15:41hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zipra's Sharpshoot denied National Hero Status
THE late liberation stalwart David Mongwa Moyo has been conferred a State-assisted funeral in honour of his contribution before and after independence and will be buried at the Bulawayo Provincial Her...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sharpshoot MUST be declared a national hero
THE Presidium is dealing with a request for the late liberation stalwart and pioneer liberation fighter David Mongwa Moyo to be accorded national hero status.Moyo, whose war name was Sharpshoo...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sharpshoot, a gifted sniper
On April 14 in 2019, the Sunday News published the first instalment of a two-part interview with North Korea-trained war veteran and nationalist David Mongwa Moyo.Moyo, who was affectionately ...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC urged to employ 'guerilla' tactics
Prominent civic leader and trade unionist Peter Mutasa has urged Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to adopt underground campaign methods in the wake of a state crackdown coupled with a systematic ba...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
State-assisted funeral for former ZPRA commander Mbedzi
GOVERNMENT has accorded a State-assisted funeral for liberation war stalwart and former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) regional commander for the Northern Front Three (NF3), Joseph Mbedzi...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZPRA commander Mbedzi was a brave, committed freedom fighter
JOSEPH Mbedzi pseudo name Sibuko who died at Mvurwi Hospital recently belonged to a rare breed of freedom fighters who despite the odds heavily staked against them put their heads on the block all for...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Senate President set for Russia visit
THE Russian foreign ministry has confirmed the pending visit by President of Senate, Mabel Chinomona, in a move envisaged to cement relations between Zimbabwe and the former Soviet Union country....Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa flees from protesting Zimbabweans in New York
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday reportedly fled from angry Zimbabweans, who were waiting for him at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, it has emerged.The Zanu-PF le...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 19:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 2023 strategy
Zimbabwe's general election is several months away but many opposition figures say they are already battling intense government repression similar to the iron-fisted rule of Robert Mugabe, the former ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We did not send you to unseat the leadership'
We resume our interview with former ZPRA guerilla and now Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Moses Mpofu who during the armed struggle was also known as Cde Mzandeki. Dr Mpofu who joined th...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa charms traditional leaders
AS the country gears up for 2023 elections, the main opposition political outfit, Citiziens' Coalition for Change (CCC), has pledged to improve the welfare of traditional leaders, police officers and ...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 16:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Margaret Dongo lifts lid on liberation war sex abuses
WAR veteran Margaret Dongo says the story of sexual abuse of women ex-combatants by their commanders during the armed struggle in the military camps is yet to be told fully.Dongo lifted the li...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra guerilla now a successful farmer
EX-ZIPRA guerrilla Moses Moyo is a beneficiary of the land reform programme and owns a plot under the A1 model in Makokomba village in Umguza District. He now has what he fought for – the land....Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ncube casino economics killing goose that lays eggs
THE Zimbabwean dollar is tumbling at a fast rate and it will only respond positively when there is a change of government. As long as we are going to have this current leadership, nothing will c...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Fire Mthuli and Mangudya
The Zimbabwean dollar is tumbling at a very fast rate and it will only respond to the market when there is a change of government. As long as we are going to have this current leadership nothing...Published: 15 May 2022 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa at pains to charm Matebeleland
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made desperate moves to appease the people of Matebeleland over the early 1980s Gukurahundi genocide which claimed 20 000 lives.Mnangagwa, who is yet to public...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
LMG Choir: the cornerstone of revolution
THE battle for the freedom of Zimbabwe from the shackles of imperialism was pursued on various fronts.Some battled physically, others did so verbally while others provided the necessary resour...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has perfected art of repression
THE birth of Zimbabwe and many other African States came as a result of violent confrontations.Negotiations such as the Lancaster House Conference took place after violent confrontations betwe...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | | by Mukunda Chitova
CIO boss grabs Mhangura farm, evicts 200 school children
A SENIOR Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer, Hickman Nyarumwe, has reportedly seized a Mhangura farm and moved to evict over 200 from a satellite school situated there, NewZimbabwe.com ca...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lupane, Binga battles relived
TODAY as we continue our interview with Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Stanford Moyo pseudo name Lloyd Zvanananewako or Mabhikwa, the former freedom fighter takes us through operations in the Zipra oper...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo was never a coward, says Mnangagwa
THE success the country is making in the re-engagement drive with the international community is as a result of the foundation laid by sacrifices and dedication to service that was exhibited by the la...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's drinking habits explained
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa only takes alcohol in the first six months of the year, a routine drinking habit he has observed since 1978, presidential spokesperson George Charamba claimed yesterday....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 07:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Nothing new from tired Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF's annual conference is underway in Bindura and, predictably, the former liberation party is not proffering any fresh ideas to extricate Zimbabwe from the quicksand of corruption-induced povert...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF neglecting cadres, says Clive Malunga
JENAGURU Arts Centre founder and musician Clive Malunga has accused Zanu-PF of neglecting war veterans, adding that he was seeking an audience with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to air out areas of "gr...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has become replica of Rhodesia
THE birth of Zimbabwe and many other African States came as a result of violent confrontations.Negotiations like the ones at Lancaster House Conference took place after a violent confrontation...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Dadirai Nguva
Zanla deploys in Matabeleland South
DURING the armed struggle some parts of Matabeleland South Province and its neighbour, the Midlands were shared operational areas by Zanla and Zipra guerrillas. Some of the shared areas were Mberengwa...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Nexus of politics, music and snoozing masses
A FEW weeks ago, the country's social media streets were abuzz with what I call the "resurrection act" of one self-styled prophet and, to some folks, a sacrilegious poseur.This act was the act...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 13:09hrs | | by Addy Kudita
How my pistol sold me out: Tshinga Dube
AS we continue to commemorate our Independence Day, we revisit an article published earlier in this section in which our Assistant Editor Mkhululi Sibanda (MS) spoke to one of the pioneer guerillas, R...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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