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Zimbabwe activists on high alert amid pre-SADC Summit crackdown
Human rights advocates, activists, and opposition politicians are on high alert as they face pressure and intimidation from the government, which is allegedly growing nervous about possible protests d...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:40hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 23 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwig dies
One of Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwigs, who defined an era in his field from Rhodesia to post-colonial Zimbabwe amid a record of brutality and terror, David Daniel "Dan" Stannard, later clos...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to make a public apology for his role in the Gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa in a closed-door meeting with chiefs on Monday at Bulawayo State House pledged to make a public apology for his role in the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide if the traditional l...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 2 | by Irvine Sibhona
Mugabe, former lieutenants shift blame: Who really was behind Gukurahundi genocide?
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was swept away through a popular coup, the world celebrated the departure of an "evil dictator". Many hoped for a fresh start but that dream remains elusive...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:13hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Mnangagwa hits back at Mugabe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has described his predecessor Robert Mugabe's claims that he was a Rhodesian spy as "rubbish and nonsense".On the eve of the July 30 elections, Mugabe told journal...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo says he has never been Mnangagwa's ally
EXILED former minister Jonathan Moyo has claimed he has never been a political ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa even during the days of the Tsholotsho Declaration, adding he holds the country'...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
How a mission to kill Mugabe was thwarted
A mission to kill Robert Mugabe before he seized power was thwarted - when the British tipped him off that assassins were closing in.Mugabe was leading the fight for majority black rule agains...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by dailymail
Jonathan Moyo speaks on his 'return'
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo remains one of former president Robert Mugabe's most vocal supporters, five months after the veteran ruler was ousted following a military-l...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa tackles Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, in an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent a fortnight ago, laid the blame of the Gukurahundi atrocities on the Zapu leadership which was then led by the late vice-p...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa tackles Gukurahundi head on
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, in an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent a fortnight ago, laid the blame of the Gukurahundi atrocities on the former Zapu leadership which was then led by the late...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and David Stannard led Gukurahundi, says Mugabe
Former President Robert Mugabe has opened on several high profile secrets Zimbabweans have always had questions on.In a wide ranging interview with The Independent newspaper, Mugabe takes a sw...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 08:52hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blame 'Ndebeles' and Zapu for Gukurahundi
Q: What role have you played in the formation of the National Patriotic Front, the new opposition party led by Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri? Are you a member? Is the former first lady a...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | | by Staf reporter
Mugabe one-on-one interview
Q: What role have you played in the formation of the National Patriotic Front, the new opposition party led by Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri? Are you a member? Is the former first lady a...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, allies respond to Mugabe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday counselled his predecessor, saying the country has already moved on since his resignation.This comes after former president Robert Mugabe, in a recent in...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 19:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why the CIO will determine the next Zimbabwean ruler
There are several historical issues that we have to look at in trying to see what the future holds for Zimbabwe and for that we need to look at some history before we get to a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe....Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:27hrs | | by wikileaks.org
Mafios calls for Mnangagwa's arrest
Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central chairperson, Dickson Mafios, has upped the ante against sacked former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying he must be probed for abusing Command Agriculture inputs and...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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