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Calls grow for victim-centred Gukurahundi hearings in Bulawayo

The Matabeleland region has renewed calls for the establishment of victim-centred centres in Bulawayo to address Gukurahundi atrocities, arguing that government-led traditional leader hearings are ineffective and exclusionary.President Emm…

Published: 19 Sep 2025 at 05:59hrs | 2164 | by Staff reporter

Women lead the charge in Gukurahundi hearings

Women are taking centre stage in the ongoing Gukurahundi Hearings, demonstrating their vital role in post-conflict healing and reconciliation.Statistics from Zimpapers as of 3 September 2025 show that out of all submissions received, 5,412…

Published: 17 Sep 2025 at 07:55hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter

Nearly 10,000 submissions recorded in Zimbabwe genocide hearings

Nearly 10,000 submissions have been received since the commencement of Zimbabwe's ongoing Gukurahundi public hearings, as traditional leaders in Matabeleland North and South actively engage with affected communities.Launched officially by …

Published: 09 Sep 2025 at 09:59hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter

The horrors of Gukurahundi and complicity of World Bank and IMF

To put it into perspective, Gukurahundi was characterised by inversion of human rights violations, including torture, disappearances, abductions, sexual molestation, rape, ethnic profiling and arbitrary arrests, detainment in concentration…

Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 13:40hrs | 15 | by Dr Gorden Moyo

Kembo Mohadi betrayed Matabeleland: Mthwakazi MRP is spot on!

Before he dies, Kembo Mohadi must be told how much he betrayed Ndebele people. To say it post humus is too late. His home region constitutes Matabeleland. Kembo must be told now that he will not be missed in Matabeleland and Midlands if he…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 16:05hrs | 624 | by Nomazulu Thata

Govt claims to have receives over 1 000 Gukurahundi submissions

The Government has received more than 1,000 submissions from survivors and families affected by the Gukurahundi atrocities across Matabeleland North and South provinces, marking a significant step in Zimbabwe's ongoing efforts towards nati…

Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:31hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe political parties demand Gukurahundi genocide transparency

Political parties, mainly from Matabeleland, have formed a united alliance to intensify calls for transparency and accountability in the ongoing Gukurahundi hearings, expressing deep concerns over what they describe as the government's lac…

Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:31hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi victims divided over Govt's compensation promise

As community hearings into the Gukurahundi atrocities continue across Matabeleland, the Zimbabwean government's recent promise to compensate victims has sparked a range of emotions among survivors and their families- ranging from cautious …

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:14hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter

Mthwakazi in global advocacy to address Gukurahundi

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned the United Nations (UN), seeking international intervention and support for justice over the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, and backing for i…

Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 08:54hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter

Matabeleland still waiting for justice, says Sikhala

The launch of opposition politician Job Sikhala's memoir, Footprints in the Chains, turned into a powerful platform for raw and impassioned calls for truth, justice, and national healing-particularly over the unresolved atrocities of Gukur…

Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 12:15hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter

Pressure mounts on govt over Gukurahundi hearings

Political activists and opposition leaders in Matabeleland have called on the government to immediately halt the ongoing Gukurahundi public hearings, citing concerns over their lack of transparency and the emotional trauma inflicted on sur…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:34hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe faces renewed scrutiny over Gukurahundi reconciliation drive

Zimbabwe's attempt to reckon with one of its darkest chapters, the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s, is drawing fierce criticism, with questions raised about the legitimacy of the process under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's leadership.T…

Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 07:51hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter

High Court dismisses ZAPU bid to halt Gukurahundi hearings

The Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an urgent application by the opposition party ZAPU seeking to stop the government-led Gukurahundi Outreach Programme, ruling that the matter did not meet the threshold for urgency.The outreach hearings…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 17:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

D-Day for Gukurahundi hearings court challenge

The Bulawayo High Court is set to hear a case today brought by ZAPU leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo, who is contesting the manner in which public hearings into the 1980s Matabeleland massacres, commonly known as Gukurahundi, are being conducted.…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:22hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter

Zapu seeks court order to stop Gukurahundi hearings

The opposition Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (Zapu) has lodged an urgent application in the High Court seeking to stop the commencement of the Gukurahundi community outreach hearings scheduled to begin today. The hearings, to be led by tr…

Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 09:11hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi hearings turned into 'a farce'

An international researcher and leading authority on state-sponsored atrocities has sharply criticised the ongoing Gukurahundi public hearings, describing the closed-door process as a "final betrayal" of victims seeking justice for the 198…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 19:00hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter

Another false start to the Gukurahundi genocide hearings

Pressure is mounting on the Zimbabwean government following yet another postponement of the long-awaited Gukurahundi community hearings, which failed to commence as scheduled on Thursday, June 26.The hearings, to be led by traditional chie…

Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 17:22hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter

Secrecy shrouds launch of Gukurahundi public hearings

Zimbabwe's long-awaited public hearings on the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities officially began today under a cloud of secrecy and mounting criticism, with observers and victims' groups describing the process as opaque, intimidating, and unli…

Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 09:58hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi hearings begin reopening old wounds

Public hearings into the Gukurahundi massacres, an initiative spearheaded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, are set to commence tomorrow amid rising concerns from survivors, civil society, and analysts that the process could inflame rather …

Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:01hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter

New powerful gukurahundi film premiers

As traditional chiefs from Zimbabwe's Matabeleland region embark on a controversial, state-sanctioned process to investigate the Gukurahundi massacres, questions persist about whether the initiative will bring truth, accountability, and he…

Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 13:10hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi survivors at risk of re-traumatisation

Mounting criticism is trailing the government's proposed structure for the upcoming Gukurahundi hearings, set to begin on June 26, amid fears the process will intimidate and re-traumatise victims - particularly women - due to its private, …

Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:33hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter

Mthwakazi rejects the genocide interviews: No justice under the perpetrator's gavel

The government of Zimbabwe has announced its so-called Gukurahundi Public Hearings, set to begin soon under the stewardship of none other than Chief Fortune Charumbira, a well-known ZANU-PF loyalist and unapologetic defender of the ruling …

Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 22:30hrs | 282 | by Fikile ka Malikongwa

Genocide govt shifts gukurahundi probe to closed-door private testimonies

The government has abruptly altered the investigative framework and methodology for the upcoming state-sponsored probe into the Gukurahundi genocide, replacing an open public testimonial approach with a closed-door private witness testimon…

Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:43hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi hearings under fire over lack of legal safeguards

The upcoming Gukurahundi outreach programme has sparked backlash from human rights advocates, who argue that the process lacks credibility due to the absence of a clear legal framework and independent oversight.The government recently anno…

Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 17:48hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt to compensate genocide victims

The Zimbabwean government will compensate victims of the Gukurahundi massacres, with community hearings into the 1980s atrocities set to commence on June 26, 2025, Deputy President of the National Council of Chiefs, Chief Fortune Charumbir…

Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:21hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter

Chiefs meet to finalise long-delayed gukurahundi outreach programme

Traditional leaders from Matebeleland North and South have convened in Bulawayo to finalise preparations for the long-awaited Gukurahundi Community Engagement Outreach Programme, a government-backed initiative aimed at addressing one of Zi…

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:32hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter

Senator demands justice over gukurahundi assault on Mahetshe learners

MATEBELELAND SOUTH Senator Nonhlanhla Mlotshwa has issued a scathing rebuke of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) following the brutal assault of pupils at Mahetshe Primary School in Maphisa during what was meant to be a crime awareness ca…

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:32hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi hearings constitutionality questioned

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has challenged the legality and execution of the government-led public hearings into the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities, raising constitutional concerns and demanding clarity on the exclusion of the Midland…

Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 09:44hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter

Lack of political will to resolve Gukurahundi genocide

As Zimbabwe joined the rest of the continent in commemorating Africa Day, human rights watchdog Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has amplified calls for global reparations and justice for Africans and their descendants who suffered unde…

Published: 26 May 2025 at 19:35hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter

21 mothers burned alive during Gukurahundi remembered

Human rights advocacy group Ibhetshu LikaZulu has issued an emotional tribute to 21 women who were burned alive in Emkhonyeni, Tsholotsho, on March 16, 1983, during the Gukurahundi genocide. The tribute coincided with Mother's Day on May 1…

Published: 13 May 2025 at 16:30hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter

Swiss Ambassador Outsmarts CIO

The Swiss Ambassador to Zimbabwe allegedly outsmarted the dread Zimbabwe Central Intelligence Organisation after successfully carrying out a series of clandestine meetings meant to influence the Gukurahundi reconciliation and healing proce…

Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 14:02hrs | 2680 | by Hilary Ntini

Geza's selective apology fails to extend the same for Gukurahundi atrocities

Geza apologizes unreservedly for the atrocities he and war veterans committed between the year 2000 and 2008 and he stops there: Gukurahundi atrocities are consciously excluded for fear of opening a pandora box; exposing his choice of pres…

Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 21:13hrs | 1620 | by Nomazulu Thata

Nyarota the Gukurahundi Cheerleader

Geoff Nyarota, that Gukurahundi cheerleader and genocide supporter is no more. He died in a country with hospitals without medicine. Yet he died better than the thousands who were bayoneted in the killing fields of Matabeleland and the Mid…

Published: 25 Mar 2025 at 21:53hrs | 729 | by Victim of Nyarota Gukurahundi Editorials

Geoff Nyarota betrayed the people of Matabeleland and Midlands

The recent passing of Geoff Nyarota, an award-winning veteran journalist and writer, has reopened a painful chapter in Zimbabwe's history.While lauded by others as a doyen of journalism, both within the country and internationally, Nyarota…

Published: 24 Mar 2025 at 05:29hrs | 1676 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi massacre survivors want museum in Tsholotsho

Villagers from Mkhonyeni Village in Matabeleland North's Tsholotsho district are demanding national recognition for the atrocities committed by the Fifth Brigade during the Gukurahundi era, and have proposed turning their village into a mu…

Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 08:28hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi cover-up editor dies

Veteran journalist Geoffrey Nyarota, renowned for his pioneering investigative journalism and his role in exposing the Willowgate scandal in 1989, passed away on Saturday at the age of 74 after a prolonged battle with colon cancer. Nyarota…

Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 08:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi hearings to start in April

Traditional chiefs have announced their readiness to commence public hearings on the Gukurahundi massacres as early as April after completing a refresher course on conducting the exercise.President Emmerson Mnangagwa launched the outreach …

Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:22hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa disregards Gukurahundi: now fights in cahoots with Genocide perpetrator Chiwenga

This visceral loathing of Ndebele people. We have been saying multiple times that Chamisa is connected to Chiwenga and Zanu PF at several levels. Chatufa TV channels confirmed our fears about Chamisa's connection to Chiwenga. Chamisa has b…

Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:42hrs | 1260 | by Nomazulu Thata

Gukurahundi deployed on this day in 1983

January 20, 2025 marks the somber 42nd anniversary of one of the darkest chapters in Zimbabwe's history - the Gukurahundi genocide. This atrocity, carried out by the North Korea-trained Five Brigade under the command of Perence Shiri, alon…

Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 11:09hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter

Concerns raised over Gukurahundi hearings

Stakeholders have expressed concerns over the upcoming Gukurahundi hearings, expected to begin in the first quarter of this year, highlighting the need for transparency, inclusivity, and a clear budget to back the initiative.The hearings a…

Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:15hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe genocide public hearings to start first quarter

Public hearings on the Gukurahundi conflict are slated to commence in the first quarter of this year, marking a significant step towards national healing and reconciliation. A designated Command Centre in Bulawayo is being renovated to sec…

Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:02hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter

Chivayo rescues ailing gukurahundi cover-up editor

BUSINESSMAN Mr Wicknell Chivayo has donated US$15 000 to help assist in the medical needs of veteran journalist and former Chronicle Editor, Geoff Nyarota.Nyarota is arguably known for exposing the Willowgate Scandal in 1987, where corrupt…

Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:56hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter

Origins of the Gukurahundi philosophy

The philosophy of Gukurahundism, as articulated by George Mkwananzi in FIGHT or PERISH, is rooted in a complex web of ethnic fears, historical grievances, and political ambitions that shaped the trajectory of Zimbabwe's post-colonial polit…

Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 20:06hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi cover-up editor urgently needs medical help

Geoffrey (Geoff) Nyarota is in critical health and urgently requires medical treatment for a trio of serious conditions: cancer, heart disease, and kidney failure. Nyarota, who has a long career in journalism, having edited several promine…

Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 15:54hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter

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 was a steadfast advocate for truth and ju…

Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:02hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi hearings stalls amid logistical challenges

The Gukurahundi public outreach programme, initiated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in July 2024, has hit a major roadblock due to unresolved logistical issues.The programme, designed to provide a platform for Gukurahundi victims and surv…

Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 18:44hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi massacre survivors cry foul

For more than 40 years, Bongani Ncube and Patricia Baleni have carried the pain of losing their fathers in the Matabeleland massacres in which thousands of Zimbabweans were murdered in the 1980s.But neither believe village-level hearings l…

Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:23hrs | 313 | 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  North Korea-trained 5 Brigade soldiers, o…

Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 09:19hrs | 363 | by Silas Nkala

Matebeleland rejects command healing

Desire Moyo, the Nkulumane lawmaker, has emphasized the need for the Gukurahundi community outreach programme to be conducted in a manner that allows victims to forgive without feeling pressured. The outreach programme, officially launched…

Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:15hrs | 763 | 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 Salankomo in Tsholotsho district. Teachers were ki…

Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 07:26hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter

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