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Schoolboy (17) 'commits suicide'
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy from Nkayi in Matabeleland North allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree at Mafela Primary School in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb. Mpilo Khumalo's body was ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 00:04hrs | 3121 | by Staff Reporter
Zpra reignites fight for seized war records
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) ex-combatants have re-ignited demands for their war records that were seized by the government in the early 1980's from the National Archives in Harare....Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:41hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA's Jeremy Brickhill narrates untold stories about Dabengwa
I have chosen to commemorate the life of Comrade Dumiso Dabengwa on the first anniversary of his passing by sharing some recollections of my own involving his less well known role in preserving the le...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:02hrs | 3539 | by Jeremy Brickhill
Laduma ladlula: lakhothama iqhawe lezwe.
Ibandla elidala le ZAPU lisungule inhlelo ezizathatha iviki eyodwa egcweleyo likhumbula owaye ngu Mongameli walo umuyi u Dr Dumiso Dabengwa owayesaziwa ngegama elithi"The Black Russian''loba ''DD'...Published: 23 May 2020 at 14:42hrs | 961 | by ZAPU
After internal strife, Zapu reorganises
Following the split in ZAPU in 1971, it was time to reflect and analyse the situation in order to meaningfully analyse and interpret events that led to the fallout. Armed with analysis and interpretat...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 598 | by Pathisa Nyathi
'Mnangagwa was not a ZPRA founder member'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not one of the founding members of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) as he recently claimed, former high ranking ZPRA and Zapu cadres have revealed.L...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 16:32hrs | 3920 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council's best & worst schools revealed
MAHATSHULA Primary School has been ranked the best performing council primary school in Bulawayo with an 86 percent pass rate while Aisleby Primary School is the worst performer, recording a 17 percen...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:44hrs | 2836 | by Staff reporter
Children of ZPRA veterans to meet army commanders
Children of former Zimbabwe African People's Union army ZPRA have formed an association that is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the former liberation movement. The movement which is dubb...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:14hrs | 668 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mahiya must stop misrepresenting us: Zipra war vets
WAR veterans in Bulawayo have distanced themselves from recent statements made by Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZLWVA) spokesperson Douglas Mahiya and warned him to stop misrepresenti...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 3697 | by Staff reporter
Mafela Trust wants war deaths documented
Mafela Trust, an organisation that has been documenting Zapu and Zipra's history, says there is need to account for people who died or disappeared during the liberation struggle.The organisati...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:49hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows
Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 372 | by Dr Mandla Nyathi
Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - End of an era, resilience of a vision
Speaking notes for ZAPU statement at the funeral of party President Dr. Dumiso DabengwaNtabazinduna, Umguza District, Matebeleland North, ZimbabweDr. Strike Mkandla, Secretary GeneralSatur...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:09hrs | 1234 | by Dr. Strike Mkandl
Ex-Zipra cadre predicts civil unrest
WHITE former Zimbabwe Peoples' Revolutionary Army (Zipra) freedom fighter, Jeremy Brickhill has warned that Zimbabwe is heading for conflict and urged citizens to find each other and stop the blame ga...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Ex-bodyguard bares all on Nikita Mangena
THE late Zipra commander, Rogers Alfred Nikita Mangena, was recently honoured by the Government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa by naming a cantonment area which houses Zimbabwe National Defence Unive...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:05hrs | 3579 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa and the theft of history
IT is with indecent haste that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has of late been seeking to flag his increasingly questionable presidential credentials and ambitions before Zimbabwe and the world. Th...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:21hrs | 6032 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
LEST WE FORGET: The Zipra commander who lost his sight in combat
PEOPLE from all walks of life will tomorrow converge on various places across the country to commemorate the Heroes Day, a day set aside to remember the sacrifices made by the gallant sons and daughte...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:09hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
The Chinhoyi Battle: Did Zanu send its guerrillas on a suicide mission
During the early years of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence, Zanu's military high command based in Zambia infiltrated its first group of Chinese trained guerrillas into Rhodesia with orders to carr...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 12:17hrs | 2348 | by Thabo Kunene
ZAPU helping communities
The Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) on Saturday donated 140 bags of cement to a community in Bulawayo Central District as the party lives up to its values and principles of empowering the people...Published: 22 May 2017 at 09:04hrs | 554 | by Iphithule Thembani KaMaphosa
'Zanu-PF executives fanning confusion'
THE Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial executive was yesterday attacked by members who accused them of fanning factionalism and creating confusion in the party during a stormy constituency meeting in...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 06:45hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
Mafela Trust plans joint Zipra, Zanla catalogue project
THE Bulawayo-based Mafela ...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 10:37hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
S'dumo's tombstone removed!
The tombstone has been temporarily removed and will be put back in a few days time. Mafela who had glued many South Africans to their television screens watching the legendary in action has his ow...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 12:33hrs | 1272 | by Staff reporter
Generations studio to be renamed Joe Mafela Studio
Generations: The Legacy creator has said that the main studio where the popular soapie is filmed will be renamed The Joe Mafela Studio.It is currently Studio 5 but Mfundi said that Joe bro...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 14:23hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Joe Mafela 'Sdumo' dies
Veteran actor Joe Mafela has passed away, The Sunday Sun, ENCA, EWN and SABC news reported on Sunday morning. The actor was born in 1942.According to Metro police spokesperson Edna Mamonya...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 08:03hrs | 3786 | by Staff reporter
Joe Mafela dies
Veteran South African actor and singer Joe Mafela has died. Mafela aged 75 died on Saturday night in a car accident in South Africa....Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:00hrs | 889 | by Alice Dube
REWIND: BCC urged to change City names to restore Ndebele legacy
UMHLAHLO Wesizwe SikaMthwakazi, a group which promotes the Ndebele culture in Zimbabwe is still waiting for the Bulawayo City Council to change some names of suburbs and schools in the city to "...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 21:17hrs | 1360 | by Mr. J.S. Silonda
State has no appetite to keep memory of Lookout Masuku- MDC official
An MDC official Discent Collins Bajila has accused the government of Zanu PF of showing no willingness to have anything identified with the name of the late Zipra commander Lookout Masuku after the Bu...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 04:04hrs | 944 | by Stephen Jakes
Letter To Dr Churchill Guduza: The Deputy of MLF in Relation Mafela Trust and Zipra.
This letter is fundermentally to oppose the views expressed in a news article published in your news platform Bulawayo 24.Without having to be specific on the dates it was published, the artic...Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 07:58hrs | 1038 | by Irvine J. Sibhona.
Behind the Closed Doors of the Mafela Trust - Inkunzi Series: Discussion Document 3
1. Introduction The former President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Ledum Mitee, observed that, 'In every era, in every c...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 00:26hrs | 670 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Churchill Guduza must be condemned for his attack on Zapu, Zipra and Joshua Nkomo
As a former ZIPRA cadre and a member of Mafela Trust, which is a group that does extensive research over ZAPU, its leadership as well as its forces ZIPRA, I think it is imperative that I correct my fo...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 20:39hrs | 646 | by Josiah Ndlovu
Neglect of ex-Zipra cadre irks Mafela Trust
Mafela Trust has expressed outrage at the government's failure to accord hero's status to a late ex-Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) intelligence official, Simeon Nkomo, who died last F...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 05:21hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa to headline armed struggles in Southern Africa conference
ZIMBABWE liberation war stalwart and Zapu president, Dumiso Dabengwa, is set to headline a conference on politics of the armed struggle in the region at Witwatersrand University in South Africa at...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 05:07hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Alfred Nikita Mangena: Unique ZAPU Soldier
Lookout "Mafela" Masuku Memorial Lecture SeriesDelivered by ZAPU President Dr. Dumiso DabengwaIbhetshu likaZulu, Fidelity Towers, Bulawayo, 28 October, 2016Distinguished GuestsColl...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 07:08hrs | 1588 | by Dumiso Dabengwa
'Joshua Nkomo saved Zimbabwe from civil war'
This year on April 5, Ibhetshu likaZulu gave me the honour to deliver the inaugural Lookout "Mafela" Masuku memorial lecture. This year is the 20th anniversary of the untimely death of Lt General Look...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 12:17hrs | 996 | by Dumiso Dabengwa
Ngenhlonipho enkule langokuzehlisa okukhulu phambi kukaMahlabezulu
I greet all who have suffered from the hatred from Zanu PF since day 1. Peace to you all. With reverence to the departed Lookout Masuku, and family. To all who have left us by the doing of the Zan...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 13:25hrs | 832 | by Mthwentwe Hlaba
Nikita Mangena: The military strategy genius
ON July 26, 1978, tragedy befell the Zimbabwean armed struggle when Rogers Mangena or Alfred Nikita, the commander of the Zapu's armed wing, ZIPRA, died.He was killed by a landmine planted by ...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:52hrs | 2105 | by Rtd Brig-Gen Abel Mazinyane
Generations Actor Nyembezi buried
SCORES of people turned up to pay their final respects to veteran actor Nyembezi Kunene at the Saul Tsotetsi Sports Complex in Sebokeng, in the Vaal, yesterday.Known for his role as Macingwane...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 09:52hrs | 4182 | by Staff Reporter
VP Mphoko vanished during war - ZAPU puts record straight on Mphoko's war credentials.
ZAPU notes with sadness the level of unprofessional journalism that was displayed by the Chronicle edition of Wednesday 06 April 2016, in which its reporter Nduduzo Tshuma openly and unashamedly displ...Published: 08 Apr 2016 at 17:22hrs | 13380 | by Staff Reporter
Lookout Mafela Masuku is our hero, source of inspiration,dedication and hope - MLF
Its as fresh as if it happened yesterday to us in the struggle for Matabeleland (Mthwakazi, that we bade, in rivers of tears, our last salute and farewell, to our brother, leader, commander and ...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 16:40hrs | 5234 | by MLF
'Joshua Nkomo averted civil war in Zimbabwe
ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa says the late national hero and former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's unwavering commitment to unity in the face of treachery is the main reason why Zimbabwe did not g...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa's Lookout Masuku memorial lecture
ZIMBABWE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S UNION (ZAPU) 15 JMN Nkomo Street/Connaught Avenue, Bulawayo Lookout "Mafela" Masuku Memorial Lecture Presentation Notes by ZAPU President Dr. Dumiso Dab...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 08:18hrs | 5724 | by Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa
Zipra combatants to rewrite 'distorted liberation war history'
DISGRUNTLED former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants, who recently broke ranks with the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA), yesterday said their new ...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
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Zimbabwe bleeds because of corruption - Joshua Nkomo once said
Political commentator Pedzisayi Ruhanya has said late Vice President Joshua Nkomo had seen long back ago that Zimbabwe was bleeding due to rampant corruption and lack of peace among political pa...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 05:54hrs | 2511 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu RSA Chair, Bongani Halimana Speech - Joshua Nkomo Day
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Commemoration Hillbrow Theatre, JohannesburgJuly 25, 2015Organisers,Esteemed Guests,All protocol observed,L...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 14:41hrs | 5126 | by Bongani Halimana Ndlovu, ZAPU RSA Provincial Chairman
Zipa's collapse never explained fully by both Zapu and Zanu
In 1975 Zimbabwe's two liberation movements, Zapu and Zanu came together and formed a military alliance allowing their guerrillas to fight the Rhodesians under the name Zimbabwe People's Army(Zipa)....Published: 20 May 2015 at 14:52hrs | 6493 | by Thabo Kunene
Former Rhodesian soldiers release videos showing raids on guerrilla camps
Pretoria - Some former members of the Rhodesian special forces who took part in daring cross border raids on guerrilla camps in Zambia and Mozambique towards the end of the liberation war have re...Published: 12 May 2015 at 15:21hrs | 16442 | by Thabo Kunene
'Zipra failed to protect us from Mbokodo abuses,' claims MK veteran
Cape Town - Former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadre who testified at the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission (TRC) about human rights abuses committed by the ANC in exile says former Zipra commanders s...Published: 07 May 2015 at 09:31hrs | 3628 | by Thabo Kunene
Youth of Zimbabwe Arise and fight for your lost future
Do you remember the day when we all rejoiced, the day when we all thought we were free?Do you remember that day when Bob Marley performed his song 'Zimbabwe' in front of thousands jubilant peo...Published: 10 Dec 2014 at 20:24hrs | 2976 | by Lenin Mafela
Joshua Nkomo, the legacy of unity
Part of the legacy of Father Zimbabwe, the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, is that as PF-Zapu leader together with Zanu PF leader President Mugabe they signed the historical Unity Accord in December...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 10:03hrs | 2022 | by The Zim Mail
What Joshua Nkomo said about Lookout 'Mafela' Masuku
Let's go back a little bit, Joshua Nkomo at the funeral of Lookout "Mafela" Khalisabantu Vumindaba Masuku, in Bulawayo on Saturday 12 April 1986. Tens of thousands of people converged to pay their las...Published: 18 May 2013 at 15:58hrs | 5690 | by online
Find your nearest polling station in Bulawayo
PROVISIONAL POLLING STATIONS USED DURING 2013 CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM Bulawayo Provinc...Published: 16 Mar 2013 at 06:29hrs | 3662 | by Moyo Roy
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