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Ex-farm workers deserve compensation: War vets
WAR veterans and labour activists have urged government to channel part of the US$3,5 billion meant to compensate white former commercial farmers towards ex-farm workers who lost their sources of live...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:04hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
War vets sue Mnangagwa
A WAR veterans group has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court seeking the nullification of the recently signed US$3,5 billion deal by government and commercial white farmers who lost their land...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 5610 | by Staff reporter
War vets' congress on the cards
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) is set to hold an elective congress this year in Matabeleland North. Association secretary-general Victor Matemadanda confirm...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:09hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
War veterans demand honorary degrees and tax exemptions
Veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war have made fresh demands including honorary degrees, diplomatic passports and automatic promotions in state institutions.Douglas Mahiya, the secret...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 11:16hrs | 2521 | by Staff reporter
War vets face eviction
SEVERAL war veterans resettled at Umvutcha Farm in Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, have been served with eviction notices after the son-inlaw of former owner Alister Micheal Fletcher successfully chall...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:15hrs | 1687 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mnangagwa and all politburo members
Mashonaland Central is burning and if left unchecked the situation will result in catastrophic political losses for ZANU PF. Several concerned party members have written letters, some have sought audi...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 8002 | by S. Utete
War vets reassure farmers over land
WAR veterans, who played a leading role in the Land Reform Programme at the turn of the millennium, have reassured farmers to prepare their land and disregard acts of mischief from the opposition whic...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
War vets back Mnangagwa over land
WAR VETERANS say they "strongly support" Government's recent move to compensate white former commercial farmers, black Zimbabweans and investors whose land was covered by Bilateral Investment Treaties...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 3018 | by Staff Reporter
War veterans blast MDC Alliance hypocrites
TOP leaders in the opposition who were always opposed to the Land Reform Programme have no moral ground to lecture the Zanu-PF Government on how to handle an issue that they have always opposed, veter...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:30hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
War vets go after Mutsvangwa
SOME members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) have demanded the dissolution of the Christopher Mutsvangwa-led executive on account of neglecting them.Addre...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:42hrs | 6145 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, war vets cross swords over land compensation
WAR veterans have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government demanding that he shelves his US$3,5 billion compensation pact with white former commercial farmers, describing the move as highl...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:41hrs | 11136 | by Staff reporter
War veterans warn 'sodomist' Catholic priests to stop playing with fire'
WAR VETERANS have stormed the raging tirade pitting government and Catholic priests with the militant pro-Zanu-PF group telling the clerics to stop "playing with fire".This comes after the men...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:30hrs | 863 | by newzimbabwe
Biti invited sanctions to be imposed on Kuda Tagwirei
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti has been accused of using his position as Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts to cause the United States of America to impose sanctio...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 5603 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War vets ratchet pressure on Mthuli Ncube
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has cranked pressure on the government demanding to have an increment similarly awarded to security forces.According to the l...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 19:30hrs | 5671 | by Staff reporter
'Need new GNU, too polarised for democracy' argue Gono - bull, Zanu PF doesn't want democracy
"The nature of our politics today demands, in my view, greater tolerance, cross-fertilisation of ideas from different corners of political and economic thought and inclusiveness. If I had my way into ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:46hrs | 1756 | by Wilbert Mukori
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 2315 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, war vets warn instigators
ZANU-PF and veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle yesterday warned opposition parties that are working in connivance with some Western embassies to subvert the will of the people through illegal ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:16hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to pay £3bn land grab compensation
WENTY years after a violent takeover of white-owned commercial farms by the Zanu-PF regime led by the late former President Robert Mugabe, the new administration led by his former deputy Emmerson Mnan...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1475 | by Staff reporter
War vets reconnected after 40 years
"Happiness is meeting an old friend after a long time and feeling that nothing has changed," wrote Cris Dar.It seems the prolific writer coined the statement with two wartime friends in mind (...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:38hrs | 4585 | by John Sigauke
Genuine liberation heroes never fought for Zanu-PF's unpatriotic institutionalized oligarchical corruption
As Zimbabwe mourns and buries another gallant liberation struggle hero, Stanley Gagisa Nleya - at the National Heroes Acre in Harare today - one can not help listening, with a very heavy and sore hear...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:24hrs | 511 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kasukuwere gets nod to evict war vets
The High Court has given exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere the greenlight to evict war veterans, who recently invaded his Corncorpia Farm in Mazowe.Kasukuwere had approached the court ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:36hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: G40 youths fight War Vets at Kasukuwere's farm
Sources in Mashonaland Central have informed this reporter that violent physical clashes between former G40 youths and War Veterans broke out at the farm owned by former ZANU PF Political Commissar Sa...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 14:14hrs | 7065 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fresh fissures rock war veterans body
WAR veterans secretary in the Zanu-PF politburo Douglas Mahiya torched a raging storm in the ruling party circles at the weekend after he "officially" launched the war veterans league without the cons...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 16:44hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
New War vets organisation throws ZANU PF Mash Central into turmoil
ZANU PF Provincial Chairperson Kazembe Kazembe has attracted the wrath of War Veterans after being accused of smuggling Richard Chirongwe into the War Veterans chairmanship for Mashonaland Central Pro...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 10:24hrs | 3831 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Children of war vets urged to safeguard Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF's future is in the hands of the youths and children of war veterans must safeguard the interests of the revolutionary party by playing a key role in society as they are the future leaders, a y...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 07:12hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF launches War Veterans League
ZANU-PF has launched the War Veterans League at Altena Farm in Muzarabani District in line with the 2019 Zanu PF conference resolutions.Altena farm, in Muzarabani district where the first shot...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 16:37hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
War vets urged to focus on unity
LIBERATION war hero, Boniface Mlungisi Mabhena (63), who died on Thursday last week due to ill health was yesterday buried at the Bulawayo Provincial Heroes' Acre in Nkulumane, amid calls for war vete...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:19hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
NGO donates to widows of war veterans
A Bulawayo non governmental organisation, Smile for Africa, donated mealie meal to widows of war veterans as part of its initiative to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on vulnerable membe...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 09:52hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Russia donates to Zimbabwe's war veterans
RUSSIA has reaffirmed its commitment to further strengthen bilateral relations with Zimbabwe in various fields. This comes as the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Harare handed over of 1 500 tonne...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere runs to court as war vets invade farm
EXILED former cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere has filed an urgent chamber application seeking to evict some war veterans who have invaded his Mazowe farm and started helping themselves to his ora...Published: 29 May 2020 at 14:33hrs | 3877 | by newzimbabwe
War vet feasts on Tyson's oranges
MAZOWE district war veterans chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi is harvesting where he did not sow as he defies a High Court order barring him from interfering with operations at a sprawling farm belonging t...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
If Ian Smith rises from the dead & contest Mnangagwa, he would win with majority
Ian Smith is the devil in demand right now in Zimbabwe. If he were to wake up from the dead and contest Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa or any other Shona leader in a free and fair election, he woul...Published: 11 May 2020 at 16:31hrs | 9526 | by Israel Dube
Chief Sigodo grabs gold mine from poor widow and villagers
Chief Sigodo, official name Apollo Mhlophe, is still refusing to give back what he took from a poor widow. The widow's name is Sukoluhle Moyo her husband registered a trust (Silobela Community Develop...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 20:14hrs | 1020 | by Staff reporter
War vets, IIB respond to Bulawayo water crisis
WAR veterans in Bulawayo have partnered a humanitarian organisation to provide a state-of-the-art solar-powered borehole in Entumbane suburb, as part of a programme that will see eight boreholes being...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 07:27hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
War Veterans to get $4 800 salaries per month
The former war of liberation fighters will from the month-end of April be entitled to a combined pension plus allowance of ZWL$4 800. The Harare based law firm Kanoti and partners last month w...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 14:35hrs | 4717 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF hijacks mealie-meal distribution
CHIREDZI residents have declared that they will not comply with the 21-day lockdown order which began on Monday after Zanu-PF took over the sale of mealie-meal in the sugar-cane producing town....Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1823 | by Staff reporter
War vets support 'fungibility' ban
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has dismissed a story in a local weekly newspaper headlined "Fungibility shares ban unlawful", as an act of intimidation towards Gove...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:35hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Children of war vets vow to protect the liberation legacy
THE newly elected executive board of the Children of Zimbabwean Liberation War Veterans Association (CZLWVA) has vowed to protect the country's sovereignty and preserve the legacy of the liberation st...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should stand up to war veterans
ZIMBABWE'S war veterans have demanded high government office posts and want legislators in both the National Assembly and Senate to sing the national anthem before the beginning of each parliamentary ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:41hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should stand up to war veterans
WAR veterans in Zimbabwe have become synonymous with making outrageous demands as if the execution of the liberation war was exclusive to them, and that is unacceptable.While Zimbabweans appre...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:41hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
War veterans demand 20% quota system
WAR VETERANS want a 20 percent quota system in Government institutions and Parliament, while demanding for improved medical care and pensions allocation for ex-combatants.The former freedom fi...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 17:49hrs | 1670 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appeases war vets with mining claims
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reserved for war veterans 20% of mining claims in the chrome, nickel and steel sectors in what is seen as an act of appeasement.Addressing a post-Cabinet brief...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1893 | by Staff reporter
We all fought the war of liberation comrades
DearIt was no one's war. No. It was everyone's war since every living human being then contributed one way or the other but surprisingly we now hear some misguided people claiming that they ar...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 10:19hrs | 1260 | by Munya Shumba
War vets blast govt for neglecting them
Veterans of the 1970s liberation struggle have slammed the government for not fast-tracking the War Veterans Bill aimed at improving their welfare amid reports that the majority of them were living in...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2344 | by Staff reporter
Warring Zanu-PF MPs, war veterans meet ahead of Chiwenga visit
Zanu PF legislators in Mashonaland Central province have called for a meeting with war veterans to resolve their squabbles ahead of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's visit to Mvurwi for a clean-up...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:48hrs | 1183 | by Staff reporter
Remains of 11 war veterans reburied
THE remains of 11 people suspected to be freedom fighters that were exhumed in Mutoko last week were on Saturday reburied at Kapondoro Heroes Acre in Mutoko East constituency.The remains were ...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:09hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
War vets revive investment fund
LIBERATION war veterans have revived Zexcom Investment Fund Limited which has been under judicial management since 2001 to improve members' welfare and follow up on debtors. Zexcom's new board...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:02hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
War vets storm Mthuli Ncube's office
A group of ex-civil servants most of whom are war veterans on Wednesday stormed New Government Complex seeking Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's audience to discuss their welfare upon realising their fo...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 22:56hrs | 3874 | by Staff reporter
Perence Shiri's bloody history detailed
Perence Shiri is a man who operated in the Gaza front line during the liberation war, this area was largely Mashonaland central, he became some sort of legend and hero in the Mashonaland Central provi...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 15:40hrs | 8341 | by Dr S Utete
Chris Mutsvangwa; the hand behind ZANU PF factionalism
Chris Mutsvangwa wanted to be the Minister of Energy after the November 2017 revolution which ousted Robert Mugabe. While in South Africa organizing the revolution Mutsvangwa made promises to South Af...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:29hrs | 8337 | by Nicholas Ncube
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