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Police disrupt peace day commemorations
BULAWAYO police yesterday disrupted International Peace Day commemorations organised by Ibhetshu LikaZulu, a local civic group seeking restorative justice and redress of the Gukurahundi issue....Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:36hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged urged to respect people's rights
DISPLACEMENT of villagers from their ancestral land to pave way for corporate activities is increasingly becoming one of the major human rights violations in the country, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Ass...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:29hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
'Only removal of Zanu-PF from power will solve Gukurahundi issue'
MATABELELAND-BASED human rights activists say the Gukurahundi atrocities can only be fully addressed once the alleged perpetrators are out of power.The activists made the remarks on Sunday dur...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
'ERC call for reform in not push for regime change' - why apologise, it is consequence of free elections
Zimbabwe is in this economic mess and political paralysis (both the ruling party and the opposition are corrupt, incompetent and clearly have no clue how to get the nation out of the mess and paralysi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 17:14hrs | 310 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Daggers out in Zanu-PF restructuring
THE Zanu-PF restructuring exercise has exposed deep-rooted factionalism as well as infighting fuelled by jostling for positions ahead of the party's provincial elections.The party is set to co...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:17hrs | 2540 | by Staff reporter
Angry ex-Zipra fighters warn govt
Disgruntled Zipra war veterans say they will now take matters into their own hands because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is dithering about returning their properties seized during the Guk...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | 2565 | by Staff reporter
Why I wrote Mnangagwa book
Former MDC politician Eddie Cross says he could not turn down an opportunity to write President Emmerson Mnangagwa's autobiography because he was impressed with his attitude.Cross (EC), the au...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:34hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
President E D Mnangagwa @ 79 and overcoming the struggle in transition
The surfeit of one's proximity to a hero has a tendency of dissuading them from appreciating their rarely accorded access to greatness — such is the descriptive parable of the privilege I have to se...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 75 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Govt playing games with Zapu properties
ZAPU and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans yesterday accused the government of "playing games" with its properties seized in the 1980s.Zipra was the military wing of Za...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt blames US sanctions for IDs crisis
GOVERNMENT says delays in the processing of identity documents, passports and birth certificates is a result of sanctions imposed on the country by the West.Giving oral evidence to the Defence...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 19:19hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa demands Gukurahundi apology
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to apologise for his role in the Gukurahundi massacres.He also called for an end to the vandalism of memorial plag...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Son of a former army general demands Gukurahundi apology
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, who is son to the late General Chamisa, has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to apologise for his role in the Gukurahundi massacres.He also called for...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:05hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
Countrywide mobile registration blitz begins
A countrywide mobile registration started yesterday as part of Government efforts to ensure all citizens have access to primary documents and to address documentation challenges particularly in Matabe...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:02hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Who needs two VPs, anyway?
TODAY is six months and 11 days since former vice-president Kembo Mohadi resigned from his post following two weeks of juicy revelations of his bedroom commissions with two married women, one of who w...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 613 | by Tawanda Majon
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: The killer of our dreams
THIS week marks the second anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the first prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe, on April 18, 1980.While we acknowledge the fact that there ar...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 753 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Peace and reconciliation in the Second Republic
The inherent Western footprints in the ontology and epistemology of African nationalism in the past has stagnated the dream of realising how we can reconstruct the past and re-imagine the future....Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:45hrs | 127 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Remembering Mugabe
HISTORY has many lessons. Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, many a time people regret decisions they would have made. People sometimes fall into nostalgia.Zimbabweans are no differen...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:42hrs | 185 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
IDs are a basic right
REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General's office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns....Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:41hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles to disown 'gukurahundi' sellout Chiefs, blood on your hands!
Confidential information on our hands confirming that some Matabele traditional chiefs have accepted bribes from the genocidal Zimbabwe government to assist it to impose its suspicious Matabeleland ge...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 11:07hrs | 538 | by Israel Dube
Gukurahundi will haunt Mnangagwa in 2023
THERE is no doubt that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to address key economic issues and implement electoral reforms as recommended by various observer missions in the 2018 polls.Mnan...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:26hrs | 350 | by KK Zvauta
Ibhetshu Likazulu hits back at Chief Mtshane Khumalo
IBHETSHU LikaZulu has hit back at the Chiefs Council deputy president, Chief Mtshane Khumalo for accusing the pressure group for allegedly stifling the resolution of the post-independence Gukurahundi ...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 1517 | by Staff reporter
The lessons from Zambia
I have just celebrated my 77th birthday and have settled on two proud new titles. I have now added a new title to my repertoire. I was given the title of mukoma at the Manica Post. Governor Josiah Hun...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:03hrs | 338 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Chiefs must not aid murderers to escape jaws of justice: MLF
MTHWAKAZI Liberation Front (MLF) spokesperson Crispen Nyoni has warned chiefs in Matabeleland and Midlands not to allow Gukurahundi perpetrators to use them to escape justice by concealing evidence ar...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 13:13hrs | 714 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa: Ndebeles are not dogs (imigodoyi)
"You can never make Ndebeles dogs. You may wipe them out but the children of the Stars can never be dogs." Matabele Spokesman, Somabhulani Dlodlo spoke these words warning the white supremacists...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 11:49hrs | 4435 | by Israel Dube
'Consult on Gukurahundi victims reburial'
Transitional justice lobby group, the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) has said exhumations and reburial of victims of Gukurahundi victims must be conducted in consultation with fam...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Silobela Gukurahundi plague vandalised
THE second Gukurahundi memorial plaque erected on Sunday at a site where 12 Silobela villagers were killed during the State-sanctionned massacres has reportedly been vandalised.What remains of...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1120 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa removed Chiwenga from army to prevent another coup - Book
The book that President Emmerson Mnangagwa colourfully endorsed recently claims he removed Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from the army to avoid another military coup.'A Life of Sacrifice...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:19hrs | 5263 | by Staff reporter
Prices continue to skyrocket beyond reach of citizens ...as basic commodities now beyond reach of many
MDC Alliance MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has said the basic commodities like bread, meat, sugar and cook...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | 2430 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu demands Govt to stop machinations on Gukurahundi
Opposition Zapu party has demanded the government to stop its machinations on Gukurahundi genocide.The party said these are aimed...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:40hrs | 713 | by Stephen Jakes
Unity accord died with his father and Mugabe
A SPIRING Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son to the late VicePresident Joshua Nkomo, has described the unity accord which his father and the late former President Robert Mugabe signed to end hosti...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:15hrs | 2598 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans demand apology
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa must set up a truth commission to address the 1980s army atrocities in Midlands and Matabeleland to bring finality to the issue, former Zimbabwe People's Liberation Army (...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Book exposes Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift
Z1MBABWEAN-born associate professor at the University of Oxford, Miles Tendi has poked holes into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's biography and exposed the widening rift between the Zanu-PF leader and ...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:59hrs | 5925 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF caught pants down
The Editor,This talk about an opposition sweep in Zimbabwe is misguided. Let us not waste time talking about oppression, changing people's votes, killing, closure, arresting, torture, ce...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 19:42hrs | 4827 | by Thembani Maphosa
Zapu position on Zimbabwe government's machinations on Gukurahundi genocide
It is an objective reality that Zimbabwe cannot move forward as a nation towards peace and development unless and until the thorny issue of Gukurahundi is properly and effectively addressed. The attem...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 19:41hrs | 590 | by Thembani Maphosa
Mnangagwa's 'charade' does not promote truth-telling, reparations and justice
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plan to address the Gukurahundi massacres has been dismissed as a "charade" as it does not promote truth-telling, reparations and justice.Mnangagwa - who was sta...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1051 | by Tarisai Mudahondo in Guruve
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga, Sekeramayi cornered over Gukurahundi
CHIEFS in Matabeleland have been urged to invite President Emmerson Mnangagwa, VicePresident Constantino Chiwenga and former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi, who were involved in the 1980s Gukurahu...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:09hrs | 6247 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Bulawayo endorses Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF Women's League has said President Mnangagwa is ticking all the national development boxes in line with his electoral promises and the wing had therefore, endorsed his candidature for the 2023 ...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:48hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa's efforts not sincere, says Dr Mpofu and Chief Ndiweni
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently met traditional leaders over the Matabeleland Genocide which occurred in 1982 to 1987, actually Dr William Jethro Mpofu contends that the genocide is still on-goi...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 20:11hrs | 2821 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must not be taken seriously
Following the meeting between the Head of State Mr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Traditional Leaders on the 21st of August 2021, I am convinced more than ever that the Government of Zimbabwe is not ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 15:05hrs | 1651 | by Sibangilizwe Michael Nkomo
So, in Zimbabwe one is more likely to get away with killing 20,000 people than murdering one person!
The much talked about meeting between president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Matebeleland region chiefs - on the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide perpetrated by the Zimbabwe regime on innocent civilians ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 09:10hrs | 698 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa agrees to compensate Gukurahundi victims
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has conceded to popular demands to compensate families affected by the 1980s atrocities in the Matabeleland and Midlands regions commonly referred to as Gukurahundi in whi...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:17hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's fresh gukurahundi plan raises eyebrows
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's fresh plan to address the Gukurahundi atrocities has been questioned because it excludes chiefs from the Midlands province and is silent on reparations.Mnangagwa...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:15hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi packages imminent
GOVERNMENT will provide social security benefits, among a host of other forms of assistance, to victims of Gukurahundi as part of President Mnangagwa's pledge to find a lasting solution to address pro...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not genuine on Gukurahundi'
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo has said any government initiative towards resolving Gukurahundi will not work as they dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's meeting with traditi...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 18:14hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, chiefs to deal with Gukurahundi exhumations on a case by case basis
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Saturday, met with Matabeleland chiefs in Bulawayo over the emotive Gukurahundi issue and resolved to allow a victim-centred process and case by case exhumations and rebu...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 18:13hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Gukurahundi issue should not be tribalised'
Today, this 21st day of August, 2021, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Dr. E.D. Mnangagwa met members of the National Council of Chiefs to receive recommendations to resolve th...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 12:49hrs | 845 | by Dr. E.D. Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa committed to close Gukurahundi issue?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is "committed" to bringing closure to the Gukurahundi issue, the Justice ministry said yesterday as the Zanu-PF leader meets traditional leaders in Matabeleland region tod...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives for Gukurahundi Indaba
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has landed at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo ahead of his meeting with traditional leaders set for tomorrow.The meeting is expected to deliberat...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 17:28hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa flies into Gukurahundi storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow fly into a storm as he visits Bulawayo to meet Matabeleland chiefs to review progress made in addressing Gukurahundi issues.Civic society organisatio...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:28hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Africa is not as bad as is portrayed by media
I AM really concerned about the role of mass media in this century. Firstly, because there is so much of it, secondly, because it can easily distort perceptions and understanding of what is really goi...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | 814 | by Eddie Cross
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