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Gukurahundi hearings begin reopening old wounds
Public hearings into the Gukurahundi massacres, an initiative spearheaded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, are set to commence tomorrow amid rising concerns from survivors, civil society, and analysts...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:01hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors at risk of re-traumatisation
Mounting criticism is trailing the government's proposed structure for the upcoming Gukurahundi hearings, set to begin on June 26, amid fears the process will intimidate and re-traumatise victims - pa...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:33hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Genocide govt shifts gukurahundi probe to closed-door private testimonies
The government has abruptly altered the investigative framework and methodology for the upcoming state-sponsored probe into the Gukurahundi genocide, replacing an open public testimonial approach with...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:43hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings to start in April
Traditional chiefs have announced their readiness to commence public hearings on the Gukurahundi massacres as early as April after completing a refresher course on conducting the exercise.Pres...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:22hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Ahmed Kathrada Foundation's boss subpoenaed over deaths of MK combatants
Executive director of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation (AKF), Neeshan Balton has been subpoenaed to appear before the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Friday in connection with the death of two Lenasia-bas...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 16:23hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
South Africa is ruled by individuals who happen to wear robes
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the US were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?In ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 10:38hrs | 644 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
ZIM condemns Mnangagwa's US$3 billion white farmers compensation plan
The Zimbabwe Independent Movement (ZIM) has condemned Mnangagwa's US$3 billion compensation package for white farmers, describing the act as reversal for the liberation struggle gains.In a sta...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 11:28hrs | 931 | by Staff Reporters
Moyo urges Gukurahundi hearings rethink
Former speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo has cast doubt that the yet to be held Gukurahundi public hearings will deliver justice, healing and reconciliation as he urged authorities to consider the R...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Navigating the Zimbabwe crisis: Exploring paths to resolution
Introduction:Zimbabwe finds itself at a critical juncture, grappling with a multifaceted crisis that encompasses political instability, economic challenges, and social unrest. As the nation st...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 07:08hrs | 3 | by Josh Mhambi
Mnangagwa told to resolve Gukurahundi genocide issue
ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) chairperson Trevor Ncube this week said President Emmerson Mnangagwa should move swiftly and resolve the Gukurahundi issue as part of nation buildng.Gukurahundi is o...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide survivors struggle for closure
AS the 10-year term of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe, aimed at bringing peace and healing to survivors and families affected by past atrocities, approaches its en...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa using chiefs to sanitise Gukurahundi genocide'
Gukurahundi is haunting President Emmerson Mnangagwa as evidenced by his attempts to use traditional leaders to appease affected communities in the region, leader of Bulawayo-based political outfit, t...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UN doubts Zimbabwe Peace Commission's capacity to resolve Gukurahundi
THE UNITED Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has poked holes into the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), questioning its ability to resolve the long-standing and highly emotive...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
What Rwanda did to bring real reconciliation after brutal genocide is exactly what Zimbabwe refuses to do
The international community today, commemorates the beginning of one of the darkest, most horrific, and barbaric incidents in world history - the Rwanda genocide of April 7 to July 15, 1994, in which ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the United States were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 19:44hrs | 14 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess
At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
On unfair treatment of Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma: A personal view
Zuma and all the ANC chaps are not holy, including the late Mandela. What is at issue or at play here is whether Zuma is being treated fairly in comparison with others! A number of apartheid criminals...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 12:19hrs | 3 | by Thembani Lukhuni Sibhalwa Dube
Ndebele Chiefs are the problem and Obert Gutu is the scapegoat
As far as I can remember, our Chiefs have been a problem since this country was colonized by "those without knees", the British colonial master. During the colonial times, the Chiefs were the better h...Published: 28 Jun 2021 at 18:33hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe @ 41: The victim's lasting solution to the Gukurahundi Holocaust
Zimbabwe is still at rail-road crossing with regard to the Gukurahundi genocide whose resolution remains elusive forty-one (41) years on. The signage is unambiguously restricting any break-through wha...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 09:05hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City Concept
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City ConceptAuthor: Prince Zwide KhumaloDate: 26 June 2019Isilo seNtuthuko Bulawayo and the identity of Umthwakazi or the Ndebele nation are inseparabl...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:57hrs | 1 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
Mnangagwa meet Ndiweni
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday met controversial Matebeleland traditional leader and fierce government critic Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni but details of the closed-door indaba were not yet mad...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 23:25hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mnangagwa must come clean on Gukurahundi
Today the Vigil presented a petition to the UK Prime Minister's residence urging her to insist that President Mnangagwa accounts for the Gukurahundi genocide.The petition reads: 'Zimbabwe has ...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 17:29hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'Gukurahundi survivors perpetrators prosecuted'
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has been in the spotlight in recent days over its role in government's attempt to address grievances emanating from the Gukurahundi era, where a...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi cannot be wished away: Williams
ON March 21 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa flew from Harare to Bulawayo on a jet chartered from the United Arab Emirates - an extravagant arrangement - for a meeting with Matabeleland-based civil ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's aide defends Gukurahundi genocide
The announcement by the government that it was rolling out a number of measures to help victims of Gukurahundi to get birth certificates and death certificates for their slain relatives has divided op...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lack of truthful dialogue is hurting Mthuli Ncube
At any pivotal societal inflection point, wise nations have sought out to have structures of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Cases of these are as broadly traceable to South America, North Afri...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Chris Chenga
Truth the medicine for a sick nation
"Before a nation can get on with the routine task of nation building, it has to come to terms with its past" (Walter Wink).My family brought me up in Germany after World War I (1914-1918) and ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Fr Oskar Wermter sj
Zimbabwe needs healing to foster peace, development
REPORTS by political parties and civic groups that Zimbabwe is a wounded nation cannot be taken lightly, hence there is need to find ways of healing the nation before we can think of moving forward....Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lies about Gukurahundi commission, says Mathuthu
Former Chronicle Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of lying tying that the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission was put in place top deal with Gukurahundi issue ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa seems to be on track - ZUNDE
It is a matter of public record that, from inception, ZUNDE fiercely and consistently fought against President Mugabe and his destructive policies. On 24 October 2013, we came together to adva...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Moses Chamboko
In Zimbabwe commissions of inquiry will always fail
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's newly-established commission of inquiry into the politically-motivated violence of August 1 that led to the death of at least six civilians is bound to fail just like se...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 12:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Can Mnangagwa restore Zimbabwe?
Elections in Zimbabwe appear to have been free and fair, according to observers, but the vote counting has not been satisfactory to the opposition parties.Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti, leade...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 16:00hrs | | by Omry Makgoale
Why Mnangagwa is unelectable
The current Coup President has just called for the watershed harmonised elections in Zimbabwe on the 30th July 2018. This is the first time Zimbabweans are going to the polls without the name Robert M...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by Frazer Muzondo
Reflections from the church learning and best practice
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Faith Based Organisations from Zimbabwe, Kenya, Burundi and Togo converged at Holiday Inn in Harare to reflect on the religious mandate of churches, strengthen c...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
What Zanu-PF was MDC has become
For some, South African struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who sadly passed away on April 2, 2018 (may her dear revolutionary soul rest in peace!) is a controversial figure, what with the percei...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Gukurahundi victims should not be weak by electing compromised leaders
As Zimbabweans brace themselves for the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, various sections of the nation have only two months left in which to seriously consider who, amongst the candidates, will bes...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
2023!! Marginalized Ndebeles should unite and rally behind Hon Tshinga Dube for Presidency
By It is not a secret that the Matabeleland people have been marginalized big time since Zimbabwe got its independence from Britain in 1980.These guys have played second fiddle in Zimb...Published: 17 May 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Knowledge Hakata
Dabengwa, Mzila-Ndlovu denied UK visas, blast British embassy in Harare
TWO Bulawayo-based opposition leaders Dumiso Dabengwa (Zapu) and Moses Mzila-Ndlovu (Alliance for National Salvation (Ansa) have blasted the British embassy in Harare for denying them visas to travel ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's BBC HardTalk performance made vote-rigging, murderous ED look 'mature, responsible and wise'!
Chamisa's credibility has been questioned again and again in the past. On the BBC HardTalk programme he has come through as a someone with a knack to shoot himself in the foot before a race. C...Published: 12 May 2018 at 22:40hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
BBC became a Mnangagwa international campaigning agency?
Has the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) become an Emmerson Mnangagwa international campaigning agency? The language used by Stephen Sackur when interviewing Nelson Chamisa was insulting...Published: 12 May 2018 at 16:22hrs | 6 | by Clement Moyo
Mnangagwa is 'new face of the old order', says Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not delivering change in the country after the years of Robert Mugabe, a Zimbabwean opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, has said.He told HARDtalk's Stephen Sacku...Published: 12 May 2018 at 14:13hrs | 3 | by Austin Karonga
Gukurahundi genocide case struck off court roll
A BULAWAYO High Court judge yesterday struck off the roll a case, where civic groups were suing former President Robert Mugabe and his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa over the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why a Gukurahundi victim is against public hearings
FOR Charles Thomas, an ex-Zipra activist, the five days between February 3 and 8 1983, will remain etched in his mind forever.These are the days when Thomas came face-to-face with the brutalit...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The dark chapter of Zimbabwe's history that won't go away
With Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa just concluding a 100-day timeline to addresses what he considered the country's most pressing issues, which focused on economic revival, human rights ...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 08:24hrs | | by IPS
'Civilian supremacy must rule over military in polls'
CANADIAN ambassador to Zimbabwe Rene Cremonese (RC) was in Bulawayo last week. Zimbabwe Independent reporter Nqobani Ndlovu (NN) spoke to him on several issues, including the need for free and fair el...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
What peace and reconciliation without truth
Mthwakazi National Party (MNP) note with concern in reference to the so called National Peace and Reconciliation Commission(NPRC) which it has started with its illegal duties in our land Mthwakazi....Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 12:42hrs | 3 | by S.V Mabhena
Zimbabwe's 'independent commissions' fail to deliver
Lack of funding and political interference has resulted in most independent commissions set up by government failing to deliver in terms of the Constitution, rendering them useless and a burden to the...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 14:40hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's Peace and Reconciliation Commission Flawed'
This week has been gripped with anticipation and emotions as the people from Matabeleland geared themselves to confront Mnangagwa's front line puppies in his endeavour to water down the issue of Gukur...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Mqondisi Moyo
'Zimbabwe 'coup' sets dangerous precedence for Sadc'
The SABC's Foreign Editor Sophie Mokoena speaks to Jonathan Moyo, the former Higher Education minister under former president Robert Mugabe. Moyo fled the country during the military-backed takeover b...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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