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Vote candidates with solutions for Gukurahundi, says Chief Mathema
Mathema made the remarks last Thursday at Emkhonyeni village in Tsholotsho during the memorial of 22 villagers who were burnt alive on March 16, 1983 by government forces during the Gukurahundi era....Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 19:40hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi memorial ban sparks outrage
THERE is outrage in Bulawayo after police banned pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu from hosting a Gukurahundi memorial on Unity Day and arrested three of its members.The group organised a memo...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe, Nkomo Unity Day has lost relevance in Zimbabwe'
Unity Day celebrations have been described as a farce by analysts, who feel the holiday is no longer relevant.Zimbabwe declared December 22 a national holiday to commemorate the Unity Accord w...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:10hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube 'snubs' Gukurahundi programmes
HUMAN rights activists in Bulawayo have expressed concern over the failure by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to fund Gukurahundi national healing programmes.This is despite the launching of a G...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's re-engagement effort faces brickwall
The Zimbabwe's re-engagement drive is largely influenced by many issues, chief among them political instability, democracy, high inflation and unemployment.Through the ongoing re-engagem...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:50hrs | 419 | by Nomatter Jakachira
ZIPRA demands inclusion in Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi resolution initiative
FORMER ZIPRA cadres have demanded to be part of the Gukurahundi resolution stakeholders, warning that any efforts to resolve the longstanding conflict without them and ZAPU members will not yield the ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Will he really 'face down' China?
The UK has a new prime minister… Today's world news is evidently dominated by a variety of interesting and illuminating stories, expectations, theories, debates and analyses about Mr. ...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 11:25hrs | 817 | by Ndaba Sibanda
Mr President, how far with the hyped mega deals?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, there is still no evidence of the mega deals you hyped about during your inauguration. Corruption is still rampant. And, there is dead silenc...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | 322 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Matabeleland Chiefs make tough demands
TRADITIONAL chiefs in Matabeleland and the Midlands early this week tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa a number of tough demands on top of a public apology that need to be fulfilled in order t...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:22hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs, CSOs demand return of Zipra properties
A REPORT by chiefs on the Gukurahundi issue states that civic society and chiefs in Matabeleland North and South want Zipra properties that were taken by government soon after independence to be retur...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Row erupts in Zimbabwe parliament
A ROW erupted in Parliament Wednesday after Justice minister and leader of government business Ziyambi Ziyambi accused opposition members of causing "unnecessary tensions in the house" by bringing up ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 2704 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says citizens allowed Gukurahundi genocide issue to divide them
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pleaded with communities affected by Gukurahundi atrocities to co-operate with traditional leaders during consultations to solve the emotive issue.Addres...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bribes Matebeleland chiefs to submission?
GOVERNMENT has announced that in terms of Gukurahundi exhumations and memorials, traditional leaders will work with the affected families for verification purposes as well as identifying tradition and...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Mashonalanders and Mnangagwa takes over Gukurahundi genocide resolution
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has launched a manual on the Gukurahundi community engagement processes by chiefs including a report on their consultative meetings as the Second Republic takes a bold step towards...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
'Mashonaland politicians using Gukurahundi atrocities for mileage'
PRESIDENT EMMERSON Mnangagwa has accused unnamed political parties of weaponising the Gukurahundi atrocities in a bid to get political mileage.He was speaking at the launch of the Gukurahundi ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 20:22hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives for gukurahundi genocide indaba to cleanse himself
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa landed in Bulawayo yesterday to launch today the traditional leaders-led Gukurahundi public consultations during a meeting that will see the engagements roadmap being outlined....Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
'Don't muzzle Gukurahundi genocide survivors'
THE United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to stop restricting Gukurahundi survivors from mourning and holdin...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Lies have short legs, Cde Ziyambi
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi ZiyambiIN 1997, the first recognisable social media site, Six Degrees, came on stream, redefining the world of communication as ...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's Justice minister lied to the world'
ZIMBABWE'S civil society organisations (CSOs) have accused Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of misrepresenting the country's human rights situation at the 107th session of the International Convention...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1597 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi's Gukurahundi genocide remarks revealing
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi finally let the cat out of the bag when he told a United Nations panel that the government did not consider the Gukurahundi massacres as something that needs urgent re...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:45hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Unity Accord remarks torch storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has torched a storm after claiming that the 1987 Unity Accord is a key pillar of national peace and stability, and should never be challenged, breached or compromised....Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:50hrs | 2223 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabweans don't need to be reminded of painful history why does regime keep telling us about colonialism?
So, the Zimbabwe ruling establishment believes that the people of this country - especially, those who suffered the brunt of the regime's unimaginable cru...Published: 31 May 2022 at 19:48hrs | 823 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Obert Mpofu torches Gukurahundi storm
MATABELELAND pressure group Ibhetshu likaZulu has blasted Zanu-PF bigwig Obert Mpofu for downplaying the Gukurahundi massacres in a video that went viral this week.Gukurahundi is a thorny issu...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1583 | by Staff reporter
Old habits die hard
DEAR President Emmerson MnangagwaYour Excellency, as Bulawayo hosted the 42nd independence anniversary, one thing for certain is that there was apparent resentment all over. Ordinarily, there ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:11hrs | 895 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mixed feelings on Uhuru celebrations in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents and human rights groups have expressed mixed feelings on government's move to commemorate Independence Day in Bulawayo, saying it would make no difference to the marginalisation and...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2381 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
'Mnangagwa plotting second genocide'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's threats that those calling for a separate state will have their lives cut short is declaration of a second genocide synonymous with the Gukurahundi atrocities that saw o...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:36hrs | 2454 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt must stay out of Gukurahundi genocide hearings
HUMAN rights watchdog, National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG), has called on the State to stay away from organising public hearings into the Gukurahundi massacres saying its involvement w...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:05hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC to launch Gukurahundi policy document
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it will draft a Gukurahundi policy document detailing how it proposes to bring closure to the issue.Gukurahundi atrocities, which happen...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:49hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Lifting lid on Gukurahundi exposes opposition's ideological bankruptcy
ICONIC Pan-African philosopher Mwalimu Julius Nyerere once opined that those that are politically and intellectually bankrupt turn to ethnicity and religion as their major tool for mobilisation....Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 309 | by Vincent Gono
Ex-army general's son says gukurahundi is his priority
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday pledged to bring closure to the Gukurahundi issue once he assumes power, saying Zanu-PF officials were not in a hurry to ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 5102 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa govt's gukurahundi redress methods inadequate'
PRESSURE group, Ibhetshu Likazulu has poked holes on the government's proposed Gukurahundi public hearings, saying the approach is inadequate and will not produce the desired results.Tradition...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:11hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Chief Charumbira identifies panellists for Gukurahundi hearings?
TRADITIONAL leaders have resolved to establish inclusive panels consisting of chiefs, traditionalists, pastors, counsellors, women, men and youth to conduct Gukurahundi public hearings.Chiefs ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:35hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch Gukurahundi hearings
CHIEFS from Matabeleland region are set to meet today and tomorrow in Bulawayo as part of their final engagement ahead of the official launch of hearings by President Mnangagwa to tackle the Gukurahun...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:56hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says CCC has plans to thwart ZEC rigging
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa says his party has infiltrated the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and informants are giving him daily briefings which will help thwart...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 2302 | by Staff reporter
Zec can't cheat us this time, says CCC
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday claimed that his party was now alert to Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) rigging machinations ahead of the 2023 gener...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Dry spells will not cause hunger, says Mohadi
ZIMBABWE's food security remains guaranteed, despite dry spells that have affected the 2021-2022 summer cropping season, ZANU-PF vice president Kembo Mohadi has said.Addressing thousands of pe...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt avails funding for Gukurahundi programmes
BUDGETARY allocations for chiefs to roll out Gukurahundi programmes have been approved and disbursement is expected to commence shortly, giving impetus to the national healing exercise.For the...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidate to tackle Gukurahundi in Parly
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC)'s parliamentary candidate for Tsholotsho South constituency, Tapson Sibanda has vowed to make a lot of noise about the Gukurahundi issue in Parliament if he wins th...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:39hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
CiZC blasts govt over Gukurahundi comments
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has accused government of insincerity in dealing with the Gukurahundi issue and failure to bring closure for victims over three decades later.In a statement...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs compile database of undocumented citizens in Matabeleland
CHIEFS in Matabeleland region have started compiling a database of community members who have no national identity documents as part of efforts to address challenges arising from Gukurahundi.T...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:33hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide apology without truth-telling won't work
A BULAWAYO based pressure group advocating for Gukurahundi reparation says has welcomed Matabeleland South Chiefs' demands on government to apologise publicly over the Gukurahundi atrocities but said ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:11hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must apologise for gukurahundi genocide, - Chiefs
CHIEFS, once described by the late president Robert Mugabe as paragons of virtue, have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to publicly apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres that ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland Chiefs demand Gukurahundi genocide apology
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matebeleland South have repeated calls for government to publicly apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres that claimed an estimated 20 000 innocent lives in Matebeleland and Mid...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:19hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Bombing of Gukurahundi memorial plague censured
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) has strongly condemned the recent bombing of a Gukurahundi memorial plaque at Bhalagwe in Maphisa, Matebeleland South, describing the act as barbaric.It add...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 05:25hrs | 2059 | by Staff reporter
Conflict resolution training for chiefs ahead of Gukurahundi hearings
CHIEFS are set to undergo training on conflict resolution before they roll out hearings on Gukurahundi, with proceedings being recorded as Government moves to ensure that victims get closure on one of...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:54hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Government must be seen to be actively promoting unity
AN old English adage which says: "Actions speak louder than words," can best be applied to the serious issue of holding all the citizens united regardless of tribe, race, creed, language, gender, poli...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:40hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rivalry rocks NPRC
Zanu-PF's factional fights have spilled into the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), where President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reconfigured the commission booting out a top commissioner ...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:32hrs | 4672 | by Staff reporter
Zapu mulls recalling ex-members in Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION party Zapu has announced that it was considering recalling its former members who remained in Zanu-PF after the party allegedly pulled out of the Unity Accord signed in 2008.The par...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1553 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa scuttling Gukurahundi resolution'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa undermined the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) by setting a parallel structure with traditional chiefs from the Matabeleland region in trying to resolv...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:15hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
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