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Gukurahundi also aimed at killing ideas in Matebeleland
This month marks 40 years since the tragic death of ZAPU stalwart Jini Ntutha, who was shot and killed by government forces near his Nyamandlovu home during the Gukurahundi era in 1984. Ntutha, who wa...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:02hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Teaching Ndebele in Zimbabwe schools will have helped Shonas
There are times when you think you are spitting someone, when in fact, you are destroying yourself.One such instance was when Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in ZANU (before it became ZANU-PF...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:21hrs | 280 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
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 | 1264 | by Peter Fabricius
Mutsvangwa's 'tasteless behaviour' could worsen tensions in Zimbabwe
Political commentators have strongly condemned Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa after he laughed at the plight of incarcerated activists during a recent press briefing in Harare.The...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 13:17hrs | 2550 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings: Where from and possible outcomes
IT'S 42 years now since a dark cloud of Gukurahundi engulfed Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces, in which the Zanu-PF government, then led by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, unleashed No...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 09:19hrs | 358 | by Silas Nkala
Open letter to Rutendo Matinyarare
Dear Rutendo, We have reviewed your recent statements and the article in Bulawayo24. While we understand your frustration and the ...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 14:24hrs | 327 | by Zem
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
'Chiefs not fit to lead Zimbabwe genocide consultations'
TRADITIONAL leaders tasked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to lead Gukurahundi consultations are ill qualified to deal with the emotive matter, an academic Samukele Hadebe has said.Hadebe made...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 07:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt dismisses 'statelessness' report
The Zimbabwean government has strongly criticized an Amnesty International report that highlights the marginalization of migrant workers and their families due to the country's discriminatory and arbi...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide outreach to begin by July
Public hearings to document and address the violent disturbances of the 1980s are set to begin in July, marking the start of a significant national healing and reconciliation process.These hea...Published: 26 May 2024 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why an uprising against Zanu-PF will fail
I SEE some people advocating an uprising against Zanu-PF Have you people thought this through? If you really provoke a crisis, with the populace on one side and the machinery of the Zanu-PF go...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:32hrs | | by Kumbirai T Nhamo
Selection of gukurahundi journalists opaque and dodgy
A group of local Zimbabwean journalists, whose selection has been clearly opaque and dodgy, are grappling with how media should cover the upcoming Gukurahundi outreach programme hearings into the 1980...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:44hrs | 17 | 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
Gukurahundi survivors vent anger over Youths Day
GUKURAHUNDI survivors have vented their anger over yesterday's National Youths Day celebrated annually on the birthday of the late former President Robert Mugabe whom they accuse of causing the suffer...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland demands truth on Gukurahundi not this Mnangagwa charade
Matebeleland-BASED churches and civil society organisations are demanding testimonies by perpetrators of Gukurahundi as a critical step towards truth telling, justice and reconciliation in a developme...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide victims must be protected during Mnangagwa hearings
CHURCHES and civic groups yesterday called on authorities to ensure the safety of Gukurahundi victims when they testify during the upcoming public hearings.Public hearings into the massacres a...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Britain should be in Zimbabwe genocide dialogue'
WAR veterans from the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) have expressed concern over the exclusion of Britain in the Gukurahundi hearings arguing that the former coloniser had a hand in the ...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi outreach programme is Mnangagwa's personal project'
The Gukurahundi outreach programme is a personal project to President Emmerson Mnangagwa lacking a legal framework such that the chiefs will not achieve much in assisting the victims, a leading church...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major Zimpapers shake-up looms
THE state-controlled Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd (Zimpapers) will soon appoint new editors after announcing a new board chaired by former Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Siband...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 19:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU demands inclusion in Gukurahundi resolution process
ZAPU and its former military wing, ZIPRA, have declared that as the primary victims of the Gukurahundi genocide, they should be involved in finding a solution arguing that current efforts to resolve G...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 16:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa relative by marriage appointed to Zimpapers Board
The state-controlled Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd (Zimpapers) has announced a new board chaired by former Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda's wife Doreen Joyce Sibanda....Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 13:38hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Alleged gukurahundi genocide 'enforcer' meets Matebeleland chiefs
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa, who is alleged to be the gukurahundi genocide 'enforcer', is today expected to meet chiefs from the Matebeleland region and the Midlands Province to finalise the process that will...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former MDC senator recounts Gukurahundi disappearances
ONE will not understand the pain of another's wound until he or she falls into the same predicament, goes an adage.This is the feeling that many Gukurahundi victims and survivors ponder daily since 19...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt trying to create a certain narrative about Gukurahundi genocide
THE Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs will this month hold a Gukurahundi Community Outreach Programme in Bulawayo targeting the media sector where editors from different publication...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide survivors demand justice as hearings commence
It is now close to four decades since the end of Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands, but survivors and their relatives are still to find closure as the government continues to dither o...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ex-'dissidents' advocate for inclusion in Gukurahundi hearings
Former dissidents have suggested the government should have included them in efforts to solve Gukurahundi alongside chiefs as they were the target of the government-sponsored mass killings.The...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must face Gukurahundi victims for resolution to genocide!
About a year ago, a close cousin of mine committed suicide after repeated acts of adultery by her husband. This was a most terrible and traumatizing experience for the family as we felt deeply...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 15:03hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zimbabweans yet to enjoy genuine unity'
OPPOSITION parties and critics said there was nothing to celebrate on Unity Day yesterday when government critics face threats of abductions, arrest and political violence.Zimbabwe declared De...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 09:52hrs | 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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Unity Day has lost its lustre
TODAY Zimbabwe celebrates Unity Day. It is a day that is meant to unite Zimbabweans as they reflect on the dark past of the 80s in which about 20 000 people were killed in what is now known as Gukurah...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:12hrs | 7 | 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 | 4 | 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
Zapu celebrates 62 years
Zapu is today celebrating 62 years after its formation with the party spokesperson Mso Ndlovu saying they celebrate this milestone, as they continue on their journey to achieve the full emancipation o...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 11:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gukurahundi whitewashing hearings begin
PUBLIC hearings to document and resolve civil disturbances that transpired in some parts of the country in the 1980s are set to begin early next year, marking the commencement of a historically signif...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC youths link Tshabangu with 'second Gukurahundi'
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) youths in Bulawayo have have accused Zanu-PF of attempts to trigger a "second Gukurahundi" through allegedly sponsoring recalls on party legislators and councillors...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 08:00hrs | | 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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to resolve Gukurahundi genocide issue
ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) chairperson Trevor Ncube this week said President Emmerson Mnangagwa should move swiftly and resolve the Gukurahundi issue as part of nation buildng.Gukurahundi is o...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa boasts of being Zimbabwe's 'CIO Godfather'
BY his own admission this week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the architect of Zimbabwe's brutal security system which has left a trail of human rights violations, abductions, forced disappearances ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is unlikely to have a Ndebele President,' says CCC Spokesperson
Promise Mkwananzi, the spokesperson of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), asserted that the focus on tribalism diminishes the likelihood of having a Ndebele President. He made these r...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu demands Gukurahundi resolution
OPPOSITION PF Zapu has appealed to all former members to rejoin the party to collectively demand a lasting solution to the emotive Gukurahundi issue.Following the December 1987 Unity Accord th...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party elections observer report for 2023 elections
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONGeneralFirstly, as Communists, we do not confuse democracy with voting.The word ‘democracy' is derived from Greek and means ‘rule by the pe...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Central Committee of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
Gukurahundi survivors want closure
A former PF Zapu official, Felix Ndebele, was in tears last week as he narrated how he almost lost his life under the colonial regime and during Gukurahundi in the 1980s.Ndebele, from Silobela...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:19hrs | 2 | 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
Wife of original Zapu senior official dies
The wife of a senior original Zapu official and former Mines deputy minister Jini Ntuta - Emily Ntuta (nee Nyathi) - has died.Emily lived hell on earth as her husband, a fearless nationalist a...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 08:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Releasing Chihambakwe report key to honouring Joshua Nkomo
TWENTY-FOUR years ago, politicians who caused Joshua Nkomo tremendous grief during his lifetime shed crocodile tears and speechified at his funeral.Their supporters joined in. Two weeks ago, Z...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Trevor Ncube
Give that US$1 billion to your people Kasukuwere: MRP leader
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party Mqondisi Moyo has lashed out at former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere following his promise to have a US$1 billion budget for Gukurahundi.He said Kasukuwere...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 13:00hrs | 14 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF and its history of violence
ZIMBABWE'S ruling party subjugates the country's people so as to rule illegitimately and loot resources with impunity.This looting by individuals in Zanu-PF results in "unequal power and unequ...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:06hrs | | by Thandekile Moyo
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
Mnangagwa fooled us
Former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu says he supported President Emmerson Mnangagwa to take over power because he believed the former vice president had learnt the ropes after serving under ...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC claims Matebeleland North youth are heading call to register to vote
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Youth Task Force, claims youths in Matebeleland North have headed the call to register to vote under their flagship programme – the Register, Elect and Protec...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
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