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Mphoko burial slated for Bulawayo tomorrow
Bulawayo is set to host the burial of national hero and former Vice President Phelekezela Report Mphoko tomorrow, in accordance with his family's wishes. Mphoko, who passed away at the age of 84, was ...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:23hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
The history of the liberation struggle is incomplete without mentioning Sipolilo (Guruve) Battles
Sipolilo was the entry point for freedom fighters in Rhodesia from Zambia and Mozambique during the liberation struggle. ZANLA and ZIPRA freedom fighters infiltrated in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) through the...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 15:04hrs | 72 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Mnangagwa and the politics of water in Matebeleland
Today, His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa marches back to history and affirmatively posts his legacy to posterity by officiating at the Gwayi-Shangani water pipeline groundbreaking c...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Hundreds grace DD funeral
CLOUDS of dust rose into the morning sky as vehicles, big and small, joined hundreds of feet shuffling to the late national struggle icon and hero, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa's, rural home in Ntabazinduna yes...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa ranks high among the region's liberators, say SA Minister
Newly-appointed South African Minister of State Security Ayanda Dlodlo has said liberation icon and ex-Cabinet minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa ranks high among the region's liberators.Dr Dabengwa ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa: A hero who rejected 'our time to eat'
APART from his phenomenal liberation struggle exploits and heroics that earned him the nickname "Black Russian" and his principled politics, former Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, who died...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Day Chikerema rebuked Mphoko
Today we round up our interview with veteran guerilla and nationalist Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane. In the past two weeks Nkiwane spoke about the state of education in the then Southern Rhodesia, rise of...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
We celebrate Heroes day grieving
Heroes day is celebrated every year in Zimbabwe in August but the question is "Why are some of the heroes which are well known denied hero status? People like Lookout Khalisabantu Masuku a well ...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Zapu applauds ULoyiko Play on Zimbabwean Gukurahundi Genocide
Zapu would like to make it categorically clear that it is fully behind the Uloyiko play based on the genocide perpetrated in Zimbabwe in the early to late eighties by the Mugabe regime. It has t...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by BMV
Zipra: The Sipolilo battles
The Wankie battles, which subsequently became known as the Western Front, lasted from 13 August to mid-September 1967. MK headquarters in Lusaka were able to follow events in Wankie, and when they hea...Published: 16 May 2016 at 14:16hrs | 39 | by facebook
Zipra strategy led to Lancaster House talk - Dabengwa
ZIPRA Intelligence Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa has said Zipra's turning point strategy introduced in 1977/78 gave birth to the idea of the Lancaster House talks.Dabengwa said this while giving a m...Published: 05 Apr 2016 at 15:05hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Zipra veterans, Umkhonto WeSizwe seek stronger ties
Zipra veterans and their Umkhonto WeSizwe counterparts have called for the strengthening of their liberation war alliance, which saw them fight in unison.Zipra are Zapu's former military wing...Published: 30 Aug 2014 at 15:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF a confused and confusing lot
In front of a strong crowd of 2 000 people in Johannesburg, Berea park on Saturday's ZPRA /MKVA commemoration of the fallen heroes of the Wankie and Sipolilo battles, the Zapu Yout...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 20:21hrs | | by Godknows Sibanda
ZIPRA and MK: Commemorate an alliance sealed with blood
On the 2nd August 2012, The South African President, Jacob Zuma launched a programme of honouring the MK veterans who fought running battles in Wankie/Sipolilo area in the then Rhodesia.&n...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 20:35hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
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