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Tshinga Dube burial this week
National hero Colonel Tshinga Dube (Retired) will be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare this week, with a funeral service scheduled for tomorrow at Bulawayo's Barbourfields Stadium. Col Dube...Published: 06 Oct 2024 at 10:00hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans lament Tshinga Dube's death before return of confiscated properties
The ZPRA Veterans Association has expressed profound sorrow over the passing of Retired Colonel Tshinga Judge Dube, who died on Thursday evening at the age of 83 due to kidney failure. His death comes...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 13:22hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZIPRA combatants to hold meeting on property recovery efforts
Former ZIPRA combatants are set to convene an emergency meeting to assess progress regarding the recovery of properties seized by the government during the Gukurahundi era in the early 1980s. The upco...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:33hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra combatants await distribution of Nitram Properties
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) combatants and their beneficiaries have been urged to remain patient as the long-awaited distribution of assets under Nitram Properties approaches r...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 07:22hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must return Zipra assets
Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have criticized the government for retaining their properties, arguing that returning these assets should be a priority in addressing the Guku...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:11hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans pile pressure on Mnangagwa's govt
ZPRA veterans have submitted a list of their properties that were seized in the 80's by the government to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to push for their return.Mnangagwa promised to ensure the...Published: 19 May 2024 at 19:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zipra ups ante on 100 seized properties
ZIPRA'S Nitram properties committee has handed over its final list of 100 properties seized by the Zanu-PF government during the 1980s Gukurahundi disturbances to its patron Tshinga Dube.Dube ...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
7 000 ex-Zipra members, identifies 100 properties
EX-ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants through their Nitram Properties will tomorrow submit a list of beneficiaries of buildings dotted across the country to Vice-President Kembo M...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZPRA cadres identify 100 properties
EX-ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) combatants have identified and listed at least 100 properties that are dotted across the country.This follows the appointment of a board to spear...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zipra identifies 100 seized properties
Former Zipra ex-combatants claim to have identified around 100 properties that were confiscated by the Zanu-PF government during the 1980s amid the Gukurahundi period.Volta Ekem Moyo, the chai...Published: 05 Oct 2023 at 19:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ex-combatants now listing title deeds for Zipra properties
EX-ZIPRA combatants have said that they are in the process of listing title deeds of identified properties for submission to Zanu-PF vice-president Kembo Mohadi (pictured) soon, as they seek to have t...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere charms Zapu
SELF-EXILED independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has charmed the opposition Zapu after he promised to return the party's properties seized by the Zanu-PF governemnt in the 1980s...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zipra-Nitram property ‘invaders' given 30-day notice
The Zipra-Nitram properties committee has given an ultimatum to those occupying its assets to surrender them within 30 days of notice. "We are inviting anyone who is in possession, using, occu...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Betrayal of former freedom fighters and the nation by the Zanu-PF government
I chronicle my political analysis in my capacity as a former Zpra freedom fighter, Northern Front 2, Regional Zone Commander who during the Liberation struggle had made many false promises to the peas...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 17:17hrs | | by Andrew Ndlovu (war name Volunteer Mkhwananzi NF2 Regional Zone Commander)
Push for return of Zapu properties intensifies
ZAPU and Zipra veterans are set to meet on January 28 to elect a substantive committee to spearhead engagement with government and other processes towards the return of their seized properties....Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZIPRA demands inclusion in Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi resolution initiative
FORMER ZIPRA cadres have demanded to be part of the Gukurahundi resolution stakeholders, warning that any efforts to resolve the longstanding conflict without them and ZAPU members will not yield the ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIPRA cadres accuse Mnangagwa of sidelining former combatants
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) commander, Jonh Gazi has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of sidelining former ZIPRA and fellows from main wing, Zimbabwe People's Union (ZAPU)...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Chiefs make tough demands
TRADITIONAL chiefs in Matabeleland and the Midlands early this week tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa a number of tough demands on top of a public apology that need to be fulfilled in order t...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt parcelling out ZPRA properties
FORMER ZPRA cadres who contributed their demobilisation payouts and managed to purchase various properties across the country are set to lose some of the properties after it emerged some of the assets...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wades into Zapu properties decades later
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, whose father is believed to have been a general in the Zimbabwe army, yesterday waded into the long-drawn Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) pro...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Christmas SOS for Zapu, Zpra veterans
CHILDREN of Zapu and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) have come together in a fundraising drive to mobilise financial resources to bring Christmas cheer to liberation war veterans.A...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans turn to Mohadi on seized properties
ZPRA veterans are now turning to Vice President Kembo Mohadi in their latest attempt to reclaim their property from the government.Their properties, now estimated to be worth billions of Unite...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 12 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Mnangagwa promises to return seized Zipra
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to return Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra)'s properties seized by government in the 80s. Mnangagwa made the landmark decision to return the...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu's position 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 seriously and effectively addressed. The ass...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Zapu
Ex-Zipra fighters fume over properties
Former Zipra fighters have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of having double standards after government unveiled plans to compensate white commercial farmers, but remained mum on properties seized...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu cranks up pressure on Mnangagwa
Scores of veterans of the liberation struggle who fought on the side of the Zipra - the military wing of-PF Zapu- yesterday converged in Bulawayo to explore ways of recovering their party's property w...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu's seized properties now officially belong to Zanu-PF
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has reacted angrily to claims that its properties which were seized by the government during the early 1980s now officially belong to the ruling Zanu-PF.This comes...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda prepared to assist Zipra combatants
DEFENCE and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda last week said the government was prepared to assist former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants establish projects that ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi documentary opens can of worms
A new documentary film on the Matabeleland and Midlands atrocities soon after Zimbabwe's independence claims the mass killings were probably planned before independence.The film by Bulawayo-ba...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
REWIND: Zipra fighters lost over 4,000 cattle to Mugabe
Ex-Zipra members have resolved to continue piling pressure on the government to return immovable properties that were seized at the height of the armed dissident crackdown in the 1980s. The ex...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo letter to Robert Mugabe from exile in the UK
JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon E6 2WLUnited Kingdom7th June, 1983INFORMATIVE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MUGABEDear Robert,1. I write...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:00hrs | 2 | by Joshua M. Nkomo
Zipra renews bid to recover seized properties
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) liberation struggle fighters are making frantic efforts to recover property worth millions of dollars seized by ex-president Robert Mugabe's regime ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
New war vets association on the cards
ZIPRA Veterans' Association leaders have resolved to lobby their counterparts in the Zanu-PF-aligned Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) to form a new all-embracing, non-pa...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra to confront Mnangagwa
ZIPRA has threatened to approach President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a fresh bid to force the Zanu-PF government to release former Zapu properties seized before the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord betwee...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Who bombed Salisbury fuel tanks: ZANLA Or ZIPRA?
BULAWAYO - THE story of who really bombed The Rhodesian fuel tanks in then Salisbury - now Harare - is one of the several liberation stories whose truism might remain a contested issue forever as the ...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 16:11hrs | 23 | by Divine Dube
Row erupts among Zipra war vets
A ROW has erupted between compatriots in the Zipra War Veterans Trust over occupation of Castle Arms Motel in Bulawayo, a property owned by the former fighters group known as Nitram Investments Pr...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadres demand properties
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) combatants are taking government to court over properties confiscated by the latter at the height of the Gukurahundi disturbances in the 1980s....Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets want properties back
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Bulawayo Province yesterday appointed a five-member committee which will press for the holding of a meeting of all ex-Zipra combatant...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 19:27hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
War vets who invaded Castle Arms Motel to be evicted
NITRAM Investment Holdings, a Zipra war veterans company is seeking the eviction of three war veterans who allegedly invaded the company owned Castle Arms Motel in Richmond Bulawayo.The three ...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
VP Mphoko opens up on Gukurahundi - Height of Hypocrisy
Mr Phelekezela Mphoko's interview that appeared in the Sunday Mail of the 15th February is a very provocative and insensitive piece of untruths as far as the gukurahundi/fifth brigade crusade is c...Published: 19 Feb 2015 at 16:15hrs | | by Jacob JD Dube
Fight over Zipra property takes new twist
THE fight by former Zipra combatants to reclaim their properties which were seized by government at the height of the Gukurahundi era in the early 1980s has taken a new twist with members of the form...Published: 08 Jan 2014 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zapu reacts to Zanu-PF's comment on its properties
ZAPU secretary-general Strike Mkandla on Tuesday dismissed Didymus Mutasa's pronouncements that Zapu properties confiscated after independence now belonged to Zanu PF by virtue of the 1987 Unity acco...Published: 01 Jan 2014 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZAPU response to Mugabe
Challenge to ZAPU Cadres: an initial responseBulawayo and the whole country were treated to major events on 22 December 2013 when President Robert G. ...Published: 29 Dec 2013 at 07:38hrs | | by ZAPU Presidency
Joshua Nkomo writes Mugabe from London (1983)
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO 2 Stevenage Road East Ham E6 2WL London E6 2WL United Kingdom 7th June, 1983 INFORMATIVE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MUGAB...Published: 24 Dec 2013 at 18:53hrs | | by SW Radio Africa
Dabengwa better off in Zanu-PF
IN 1960 two young boys drove into Bulawayo on Selbourne Avenue - now Leopold Takawira Avenue - from Shabane Mine (Zvishavane) in a borrowed car after lying to the owner.All of sudden they foun...Published: 29 Oct 2013 at 15:44hrs | | by Cont Mhlanga
Zipra 'ghosts' haunting people in Hurungwe
USPECTED Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) fighters who died during the liberation war are reportedly haunting people in Hurungwe, Mashonaland West, amid revelations traditional leaders in ...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zipra fighters demand eviction of families from its property
Zipra veterans yesterday demanded the immediate eviction of 50 families from Castle Arms Motel on the outskirts of Bulawayo during Nitram Investment's annual general meeting.About 200 veterans...Published: 29 Sep 2013 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
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