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Suspended army lawyer defended

The trial of suspended Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) legal officer, Grace Kurasha, took a dramatic turn yesterday after former Council for Legal Education secretary, Huggins Duri, testified in her defence and dismissed allegations that she …

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:33hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Record gold prices brighten Zimbabwe's trade outlook

Gold surged to a new all-time high on Tuesday, lifting Zimbabwe's economic prospects as the country continues to benefit from strong exports of the precious metal.Spot gold climbed 0,8 percent to a record US$3 508,54 per ounce, while Decem…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:31hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe plans overhaul of liberation war shrines abroad

Government will soon embark on a major facelift of liberation war heritage sites in neighbouring countries where thousands of Zimbabwe's fallen heroes lie in mass graves, many of them still unmarked.Vice President Kembo Mohadi revealed the…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:30hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe criticised over neglect of war veterans

The Sibangilizwe Nkomo-led opposition Zapu has criticised the government for failing to adequately care for veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, saying many have yet to benefit from the sacrifices made during the fight for independe…

Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 08:56hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter

Southern African liberation movement face crisis

Leaders of former liberation movements from Southern Africa, including Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu PF, have convened in Johannesburg for a crucial three-day summit aimed at addressing the existential crisis confronting their political parties.T…

Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 15:55hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter

Mr. President, Zimbabwe already has a new breed of heroes - but your regime persecutes them

A country's liberation struggle never ends.During the burial of the late Air Vice Marshal (Rtd) Winnie Cabby Mandeya at the National Heroes Acre, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that Zimbabwe needed a new generation of heroes and her…

Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:35hrs | 588 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

The war of liberation was not a walk in the park, lest we forget

Seized by the prophetic words of the mystic and condemned Mbuya Nehanda, "My bones will rise again", young Jorum left home without telling anyone. School, parents, and siblings did not matter anymore; none but ourselves would free Zimbabwe…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 18:33hrs | 430 | by Tondo Murisa

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 | 1104 | by Staff reporter

ZANU-PF's 'liberation' lie: The party never fought for democracy

In a recently circulating audio clip, a former senior Zimbabwean army commander made the shocking declaration that if there are any attempts to remove ZANU-PF from power, bloodshed will follow. He boasted that the ruling party came to powe…

Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 19:58hrs | 358 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Liberation hero to be exhumed

The late liberation War Hero, Dr January Rachilumela Makakavhule-Moyo's family has requested for his remains to be exhumed and reburied.According to a notice by the Beitbridge Registrar, Dr Makakavhule-Moyo's family wants his body to be ex…

Published: 10 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

War vets should be vanguards of Zimbabwe's independence

Our war veterans should be at the forefront of condemning the institutionalised plunder of our vast national resources by a small ruling eliteONE of the greatest tragedies to befall post-colonial Zimbabwe is that there has never been anyon…

Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Songs that liberated the country

The song Kubuhlungu Emoyeni (There is pain in my heart) by LMG choir evokes emotions of the liberation struggle and one of the singers, Happiness Sibanda, breaks into tears each time she explains the meaning of the song. Sibanda, a member …

Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:15hrs | 19 | by Bongani Ndlovu

Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's liberation pilgrimage

In my previous instalment in this publication, I indicated that Zimbabwe's independence history is connected to that of all post-colonial African nations. Likewise, Africa's liberation is also grounded on paternal nationalism constructed a…

Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:58hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva

Ex-ZIPRA combatants raise red flag over Liberation Struggle Act

FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) veterans have appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services and raised serious concerns over crafting of the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle A…

Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva

Lest we forget

Zimbabwe yesterday remembered its national heroes and heroines who selflessly contributed their lives, limbs or properties for the liberation of their fatherland, which is now in the hands of the African people like all other African count…

Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:33hrs | 5 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu

One Zimbabwe One people! (poem)

Those who dedicated their lives,Who dedicated their lives for our Motherland,They took a thorny path to Independence,United they stood with will power to liberate us,They got it through thick and thin,Living a regreattable life of their ti…

Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Edmore Kudakwashe Chaipa

Heroes never looked back! (poem)

Heroes never looked back,In their desire to liberate Zimbabwe,They took it forward like preying lions,They took the struggle to the top,Stiring those who had turned on their fearful hearts. The love to marry guns wedded in many,Beginning a…

Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 09:49hrs | 10 | by Edmore Kudakwashe Chaipa

Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation

Since his sad passing away on 1 July 1999 Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's name and life have continued to arrest public attention and imagination at a world scale.As I write the Zimbabwean historian and leading decoloniality theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-…

Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:18hrs | 6 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena

'Why MLF cannot participate in the elections in Zimbabwe'

Why Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) Cannot Participate in the Election Process of an Allien Country Zimbabwe  Mthwakazi Restoration Awakening Series 4By: Chrispen Khalipha Nyoni MLF Foreign Relations and Acting Spokesperson  &nb…

Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 20:08hrs | 1 | by Chrispen Khalipha Nyoni and Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza

Liberation struggle memory lane always triggers emotions

Going down the liberation struggle memory lane always triggers emotions. I find going down liberation struggle memory lane, lonely, sorrowful, sad and even sometimes amusing. When those who participated in the liberation struggle 24/7 meet…

Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:19hrs | 35 | by Retired Brigadier-General Abel Mazinyane

Gen Chiwenga gives an overview of the challenges of rebellion

The Sunday Mail Editor Mabasa Sasa and Reporter Tinashe Farawo spoke to Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander, General Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga about he joined the liberation struggle as a teenager and rose to become a ge…

Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:12hrs | 9 | by Mabasa Sasa and Tinashe Farawo

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