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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 kno...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:22hrs | 266 | 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....Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:23hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
History will absolve Mwonzora
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora (DM) has often been described as a sellout and likened to Rhodesia-Zimbabwe quisling Bishop Abel Muzorewa.Mwonzora, nicknamed "Mwonzorewa" by critics who are d...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:15hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's difficult path to healing
ASS graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe.The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.The trauma persists even in t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:23hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can't lead Gukurahundi reburials, says Survivor
GUKURAHUNDI survivor Charles Thomas, Ibhetshu LikaZulu and Zapu have filed a High Court chamber application seeking to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting the exhumations of victims of Ma...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How Jonathan Moyo survived Chiwenga's killers
Professor Jonathan Moyo's escape story from the then Commander Defense Forces Constantino Chiwenga's killers in November 2017 is a candidate for a Hollywood script. While Prof Moyo is ye...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 12:56hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mutasa wanted Mugabe tried at ICC over Gukurahundi
Former ZANU PF Central Committee member from Manicaland Muntsa Mutasa told a United States Ambassador in 2008 that America must make sure the then President Robert Mugabe was tried for treason the Guk...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 13:00hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 55 | by King Mzilikazi II
What Dabengwa said about Chiwenga and Perence Shiri
The late struggle stalwart Dr Dumiso Dabengwa told United States of America's Ambassador James D. McGee in 2008 that Vice President Chiwenga was a corrupt person who would not allow any reforms in Zim...Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:32hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matabeleland Collective demands gukurahundi truth from Mnangagwa
PRESSURE groups coalescing under the banner of the Matabeleland Collective are ratcheting up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure that a truth-telling and associated prissuesprocess prec...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police foil Gukurahundi march
BULAWAYO police yesterday foiled a march to the High Court by Gukurahundi survivors who intended to petition for the setting up of a special commission to address the 1980's mass killings. The march w...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police foil Gukurahundi march
BULAWAYO police yesterday foiled a march to the High Court by Gukurahundi survivors who intended to petition for the setting up of a special commission to address the 1980's mass killings. The march w...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's tribal agenda exposed
A senior and influential traditional leader in Matabeleland South has broken rank and petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to establish a special commission to deal with the Gukurahundi atrocities....Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 20:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Maduna calls for special Gukurahundi commission
A senior and influential traditional leader in Matabeleland South has broken rank and petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to establish a special commission to deal with the Gukurahundi atrocities....Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 17:05hrs | | by cite.org.zw
'Gukurahundi is our top priority'
Addressing the Gukurahundi Matabeleland massacres of the 1980's is among the top priorities that the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission will tackle, chairperson Selo Nare said.At a p...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Crocodile' faces tough challenges as president
He's known as "the Crocodile", named after a small band of guerillas battling white minority rule in the land once known as Rhodesia.Now the 75-year-old Emmerson Mnangagwa has another big chal...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by AP
The bones that haunt Mnangagwa
At the bottom of a crevice in the rocks - just as the eyewitness had said - was a parcel of bones, wrapped in a shirt. It was a shirt just like the one Fanta Ndlovu was wearing when he went missing 33...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:47hrs | | by BBC
Chiwenga should revoke firing of nurses, negotiate
There are a number of events in the past few weeks that flew under the radar, which I feel deserve more scrutiny, as they could have a telling effect on the route Zimbabwe takes in the not so distant ...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mugabe family 'left in peace', says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's long-time leader Robert Mugabe will be "left in peace" with a "lucrative" retirement package, his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.However, Mr Mnangagwa also told the BBC's Mis...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by BBC
Mangagwa must commit to national healing
ZIMBABWEAN civic society organisations (CSOs) have called on the government to commit fully to a "genuine people-driven" national healing process to address past human rights violations such as Operat...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 05:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged recognise that Zimbabwe belongs to all its citizens
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum have hailed the smooth transition in government but made demands which they expect the new administration to implement as soon as possible"We, the undersigned c...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa blamed for planning gukurahundi
When Zimbabwe achieved independence in 1980, Mnangagwa was appointed minister of security. He directed the merger of the Rhodesian army with Mugabe's guerrilla forces and the forces of rival nationali...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by AP
Mugabe still subject to civil lawsuit for massacres in foreign courts
The immunity granted to President Mugabe this Tuesday, while it covers criminal and civil charges in Zimbabwe, does not cover civil lawsuits filed in foreign countries on his person and which seek to ...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Ken Sibanda
Mugabe will not request asylum in South Africa
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has not received a formal request for asylum from ousted Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, Parliament has heard.Deputy Minis...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN should arrange emergency elections in Zimbabwe
[Extract from briefing to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutterres delivered by Ken Sibanda Esq]Dear Sir:No grievance can justify the unconstitutional removal of a government...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 17:22hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Chiwenga, Mugabe, Sekeramayi, Shiri and Zvobgo : The real gukurahundi culprits
THE Ndebele people of western Zimbabwe have a proverb, walutheza olule nkume, which, roughly translated, means "A person picked up firewood in which there was ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Stuart Doran
The demise of Mnangagwa
What Grace Mugabe said on Sunday about how her husband, Robert Mugabe, mistrusted his then Deputy President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is not a new story.Many years ago, one of Mugabe's old friends ...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 15:51hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Rugoho-Chin'ono
British policy towards Zimbabwe during Gukurahundi massacre: licence to kill
In January 1983 Robert Mugabe's government launched a massive security clampdown in Matabeleland. It was led by a North Korean-trained, almost exclusively chiShona-speaking army unit known as the Fift...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:35hrs | | by Hazel Cameron, University of St Andrews
All aboard Mamvemve Express Motorways: Zimbabwe has no soul left brothers and sisters
I adored the soulful action on Thursday nights. Lovemore Majaivana could do the classic leg shuffle and shimmy with resourceful elegance noticeably better than the self-styled godfather of soul James ...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Britain's vested interests in the newly independent Zimbabwe
THIS is the third in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 198...Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:57hrs | 8 | by Hazel Cameron ,British academic
Mugabe mum on Gukurahundi report
THE Zanu-PF government has refused to comment on recently-released allegations that it worked with British diplomats and military officers to hide the Gukurahundi massacres.A report on a study...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe conspired with Britain to Kill over 20 000 people in Matabeleland- British researcher
Fresh revelations over 30 years after President Robert Mugabe’s government of Zanu PF unleashed the fifth brigade soldiers to butcher suspected PF Zapu members of the Ndebele origin exposes that Bri...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 18:22hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Mphoko's gukurahundi genocide conspiracy theory invalidated
The recently released Research report by Hazel Cameron a renowned academic, titled The Matabeleland Massacres: Britain's Wilful blindness, has settled one question which has been doing rounds ...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 16:23hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
Britain wilfully turned a blind eye to Gukurahundi
President Robert Mugabe not only got military support, but was actively aided by the British government to conceal to the world Gukurahundi atrocities soon after the country's independence, a ...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bad governance keeps secessionist movements in Africa alive
In 1981 African leaders met in the Gambian capital,Banjul where they adopted the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.But the so-called Banjul Charter has largely been ignored by Africa...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 10:27hrs | 11 | by Thabo Kunene
China, West trap Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is a trapped man, having now presided over Zimbabwe's indebtedness to both friend and foe, an economist has said.University of Cape Town Business Graduate School lectur...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundists running scared as SA actors pile up pressure on them
South African performing arts group, Siphesakhe will stage another show that exposes the Zimbabwe government's post independence ethnic cleansing campaign now referred to as "Gukurahundi Genocide."...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 10:03hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
IMF bailout can only entrench Grace Mugabe, Mnangagwa
ON September 30, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second stage of its review of Zimbabwe's progress toward economic reform.President Robert Mugabe, whose rule since 1980 has...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 17:31hrs | | by Jeffery Smith and Todd Moss
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Mutasa's ouster
The minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services, Jonathan Moyo, has suggested that there was no other option for Zanu-PF except to expel former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutas...Published: 21 Feb 2015 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi killer soldier apologises to survivors of Matabeleland massacres
In 1983, Mathew Kazembe (not his real name) was part of Zimbabwe's notorious Fifth Brigade army unit that massacred over 20 000 civilians - members of the country's ethnic minorities living in the op...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 19:59hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
Dr Grace Mugabe angers Bulawayo pressure group
BULAWAYO-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu Likazulu has been angered by the First Lady Grace Mugabe equating President Mugabe to a priest ordained by God.The pressure group said a true priest has ...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi artist' trial resume at Supreme Court
The Supreme court of Zimbabwe will on Wednesday hear the case of visual artist Owen Maseko who is accused of undermining the authority of the president through his works.The visual artist was ...Published: 29 Oct 2013 at 11:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi memorial coincides with Enos Nkala burial
A BULAWAYO pressure group will today hold a Gukurahundi memorial service to coincide with the burial of founding Zanu member, Enos Nkala, whom observers hold responsible for the 1980s Matabeleland mas...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Hopes fade for finding missing Zim political activist
Friends and colleagues of Zimbabwean human rights campaigner Paul Chizuze are losing hope of finding him alive. Some fear the prominent figure was abducted by the country's central government agents. ...Published: 04 Aug 2012 at 06:34hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Mugabe not immune to prosecution says ICC
INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor - elect Fatou Bensouda has hailed efforts to bring to justice Zimbabwean officials accused of committing crimes against humanity, saying such moves would...Published: 03 Jun 2012 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
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