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Tongogara's overt hostility toward Herbert Chitepo
Tongogara's overt hostility toward Herbert Chitepo eventually led to unfounded accusations that he had been responsible for Chitepo's death, despite a lack of supporting evidence. Chitepo was killed b...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 18:22hrs | 1393 | by Staff reporter
Dzino thinks Mnangagwa was a minor and peripheral player in the liberation struggle
Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraI later lose my autographed copy of Wilfred Mhanda's b...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 52 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Mnangagwa and Charamba are envious of Zambia's democracy
The day you remove the name George (Charamba) in your birth certificate is the day you will be able to think wisely. Your first name gives you hallucinations. A spokesperson who does not even respect ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:13hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
The fighting spirit of Honourable Joanne Mamombe deserves honour: Salute my girl-child
After 2 minutes of watching a video in New Zimbabwe news media, Honourable Mamombe was narrating how they got attacked by a snake in the prison cell in the middle of the night, I did not finish watchi...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 11 | by Nomazulu Thata
Dumiso Dabengwa: A fad or paradox of the nationalist memory?
Heroes are born out the willpower to reconstruct inequality to egalitarianism. True heroes define the course for the redemptive path to civilising and dignifying subjugated people. These are "men of t...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar
On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
Mugabe's former white minister pens biography 'Mugabe's White Hand Man'
FORMER Agriculture minister, Dennis Norman, flew into the country from his retirement base in England to launch his autobiography - The Odd Man In: Mugabe's White Hand Man - which traces his life in t...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
History repeating itself yet again! The arms catch in the 1980s versus Bombing in White City today
This bombing had to happen right in the city of Kings and Queens: Bulawayo. It was well staged to the extent that the bomber was not captured. The perpetrator of the silly bombing could not have escap...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 22:16hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mutsvangwa fighting attempts to unseat him as war vets leader
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor Chris Mutsvangwa is fighting attempts to unseat him as leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA by opponents emboldened by ruc...Published: 11 May 2018 at 13:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Momentary celebrity cannot erase Zimbabweans' common sense
There is a growing belief amongst the political elite that Zimbabwean voters are devoid of a political soul. That they can be shunted from one political deception to the next, exchanged between elites...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 08:43hrs | 9 | by Brian T Kagoro
It's those Zanu-elite-leaders and not majority Shonas
Mr Kernan Mzelikahle: hate speeches has become the culture of Zimbabwe since the inception of Zimbabwe as a nation in as much as violent culture is identity of the nation, hate speech is now Zimbabwe ...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 22:04hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zanu-PF's greatest opposition is not Tsvangirai's Alliance
AS THE Zanu-PF wars continue to grip the State, amid serious economic meltdown and a disjointed opposition, our reporter Tendai Kamhungira took time to speak to respected political analyst and civil s...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 13:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The light goes out of Sekuru Munya's eyes
My Sekuru Munya is a war veteran. He saw bloody fighting in Manicaland during the liberation war and his badge of honour is his left calf which has a chunk of muscle missing. Since independence, he ha...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 07:40hrs | 4 | by Tapson Muchena
George Rutanhire - A true hero who suffered neglect, says ZUNDE
The passing of Cde George Rutanhire prompts us to reflect on where we came from and where we are going to. Somewhere in the Game of Thrones, it is mentioned that it is not the business of the lion to ...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Justice Benjamin Paradza
Jonathan Moyo wanted to kill Chiwenga in Mgagao?
CID LAW AND ORDER, HARARE DR /3/17 STATEMENT" "BORROWDALE CR. 397/3/17JONATHAN NATHANIEL MOYO NR. 63-857281-M-73 STATES 01. I am a male adult bearing the ...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:57hrs | | by Online
Jonathan Moyo threatens to expose who wrote Chiwenga's doctorate
PRESS STATEMENT Re: "Air Marshall (Perence Shiri) exposes Professor Moyo lies" 9 JULY 2017Last week the Sunday Mail led with a front page story ...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 21:57hrs | 3 | by Hon Prof Jonathan. N. Moyo, MP Tsholotsho North
April 18th is coming: Wish Wilfred Mhanda: Dzino had lived to see these developments unfolding!
For those of us who have lived in Germany we know how the German system itself loathes the loyalty to one individual: individual loyalty should go to the nation, its constitution and its flag. The "De...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 08:14hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
War vets rally behind Mugabe, attacks G40
War veterans say they rally behind President Mugabe's leadership and the liberation legacy that brought the country's independence, saying their enemy was the G40 faction in Zanu-PF that wanted to...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimPF a rainless cloud?
WAR veteran, author and long-serving diplomat, Agrippa Mutambara, bared his soul early last year when he announced his decision to resign from his comfy government post to join the then newly form...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 06:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mfundisi Evan Mawarire: uzaqhobumphafa lapha eZimbabwe! You will wish you stayed in those comforts of USA
Barely a year ago, had you not told us never to fear: hatichatya, asisesabi, Tajamuka, asikijiki! We had trust in you we indeed did not fear: we thought we identified the new leader of the moment: we ...Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 22:50hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Sikhala accuses Mnangagwa of killing his aunt
MDC-T official Job Sikhala has written a letter directed to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing him of allegedly killing his aunt during Gukurahundi.In a letter posted on Facebook under...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 05:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Patrick Zhuwao! You must stop talking nonsense! Mnangagwa is better enemy than G40
Emmerson Mangagwa is an enemy of the peoples of Mathebeleland. We know this as far back as 1980. We know how he was assigned to deal with us people of Mathebeleland, on his capacity as Minister for Se...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 14:26hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
I never said I am retiring, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I notice that the media has been awash with misleading reports suggesting that I am abandoning the revolution by hanging my political boots. This is...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 17:09hrs | 1 | by CZ
Thoughtless politics is Zimbabwe's downfall - Welshman Ncube
Opposition MDC leader Welshman Ncube has applauded Zimbabweans for shrugging off passive nature and adopted an aggressive character. Ncube said the move has taken a short period to occur. The country ...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 13:19hrs | 3 | by Thobekile Zhou
Mathebeleland-laziness: top politician on a bootlicking spree
Who among us is a coward? A military commander who absconded from the bush-war and sort civilian life in Maputo at the height of liberation war, or the people of Matabeleland and Midlands who faced ge...Published: 06 Jun 2016 at 12:54hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Vivian Mwashita's national heroine status demeaning
The conferment of national heroine status to the late Vivian Mwashita is highly demeaning to the people of Zimbabwe but especially the late Victoria Chitepo who will also be buried at the national shr...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 16:46hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Bvumo - PDP Secretary for Defence
Open letter to Gen Solomon (Rex Nhongo) Mujuru
Dear Rex. Greetings to you in the name of the people's revolution. It has been long ever since you left us, when you perished in a mysterious inferno at your farm in Beatrice, Harare. A story ...Published: 28 Oct 2015 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Snr
Tsvangirai's Heroes and Defence Forces Day Message
Today, the nation remembers the gallant sons and daughters of this country who fought a brutal war to bring about self-determination in the country of our birth.We stand proud on their shoulde...Published: 09 Aug 2015 at 09:53hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
Ambassador Midzi got the status befitting of him
Recently, the private media has been awash with articles alleging that some people are complaining that the ZANU PF government erred in not awarding its former Harare provincial Chairman, the late...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 13:33hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Zimbabwe needs friends, every country needs friends
In the past six-months, we have witnessed some of the worst human created and natural disasters in the world. An AirAsia Airbus A320 crashing into the Java Sea destroying 160 lives; the tragic m...Published: 15 May 2015 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Welshman Ncube
Zanu - People First a non-event project
It is surprising that some delusional people like Didymus Mutasa and his beleaguered nephew Temba Mliswa with Rugare Gumbo, former spokesperson of Zanu-PF and their perceived leader former VP Joyce Mu...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by John Mukumbo
Jonathan Moyo on fleeing the liberation struggle
INFORMATION Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has dismissed claims by late war veteran Wilfred Mhanda that the Zanu-PF Politburo member fled from the war of liberation ...Published: 21 Feb 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Gukurahundi conspiracy of the West?
CIVIL disturbances that rocked Zimbabwe in the early years of Independence were part of a region-wide conspiracy to destablise Southern Africa and not part of any anti-Ndebele agenda by Shonas, Vice-P...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko opens up on what triggered Gukurahundi
Civil disturbances that rocked Zimbabwe in the early years of Independence were part of a region-wide conspiracy to destablise Southern Africa and not part of any anti-Ndebele agenda by Shonas, Vice-...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Mabasa Sasa
War vets used as 'runner dogs' in Zanu-PF politics
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has routinely used veterans of the country's 1970s liberation war to keep himself in power, particularly after the emergence of a vibrant opposition in the form of the MDC in 1...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 10:23hrs | | by Phillip Chidavaenzi
State media turns on Gumbo as Mugabe blasts him for being a traitor
The state media reports that President Mugabe has expressed reservations about Rugare Gumbo's loyalty, while making reference to the fact that the ruling party's spokesperson has previously sought t...Published: 09 Nov 2014 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
ZUNDE, one year on
Galvanized into action by the ominous results of July 31st elections, what started off 12 months ago on 24 October 2013 as a noble idea between three people, has grown steadily into a global pheno...Published: 21 Oct 2014 at 10:33hrs | 5 | by ZUNDE
Rugare Gumbo displayed rare courage, hardly seen in Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo last week displayed rare courage, hardly seen in Zanu-PF when he openly told President Robert Mugabe to be wary of divisive elements in the party and to focus mo...Published: 07 Sep 2014 at 15:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Prof Jonathan Moyo deserves a pat on the back
Speaking at the funeral of veteran journalist, Nathan Shamuyarira, President Robert Mugabe branded the minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Jonathan Moyo a "devil incarnate" becaus...Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 12:42hrs | | by Pious Wakatama
Wilfred Mhanda; a hero's unfinished story
Great men can never be made by other men, they must live their lives and do that which they must do unhindered by circumstances. "Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus...Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
Museum for Solomon Mujuru
Ruzambo Farm, the place where revered liberation war hero and post-Independence Zimbabwe's first black military general Solomon Mujuru died in an inexplicable inferno, is set to be turned into a museu...Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 10:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dongo blasts Zanu-PF
War veteran Margret Dongo, has blasted Zanu-PF for its failure to honour genuine war heroes like the late Wilfred Mhanda, whose burial passed unnoticed by the ruling elite.Mhanda, an indisput...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 16:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Liberation war commander's body parts missing
Liberation war commander Wilfred Mhanda was buried yesterday with vital body organs missing, family members said. Taona Mhanda, brother to the deceased, said they only discovered that his ...Published: 02 Jun 2014 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No fitting send-off for 'hero' Mhanda
The late former Zanla commander, Wilfred Mhanda dodged bullets in trenches alongside other liberation war fighters who are now national heroes or senior government officials.But when he came b...Published: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZUNDE - Tribute to our founding Chairman Wilfred Mhanda
Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) is deeply sorrowful for the loss of its founding Chairman Wilfred Mhanda, Dzinashe Machingura or simply Cde Dzino. We are particularly hurt that I and some in ...Published: 31 May 2014 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Farai Mbira ZUNDE Interim President
'Mhanda not a national hero' says Zanu-PF
The late former liberation war top commander Wilfred Mhanda may not be buried at the National Heroes Acre but he remains a true cadre, Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo has said.In an yesterda...Published: 31 May 2014 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanla commander, Wilfred Mhanda, dies
Former guerrilla commander Wilfred Mhanda, known by his liberation war name Dzinashe Machingura, has died, his close friend said on Thursday.Happyson Nenji, a Zimbabwe Liberation Platform boar...Published: 29 May 2014 at 18:24hrs | 3 | by Tichaona Sibanda
ZUNDE mourns true national hero, Comrade Dzino
Yes, we are all meant to die one day. The only uncertainly is when, how and where. This is a reality none of us can run away from nor deny. Nevertheless, whenever we lose a beloved one, we mourn a...Published: 29 May 2014 at 15:50hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
'MDC members will never be buried at Heroes Acre,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday vowed that members of the MDC formations would never be buried at the heroes Acre, saying the shrine was only reserved for Zanu-PF cadres.Speaking at the buri...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 12:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
If we vote for evil, we will reap destruction
Once again Mugabe has challenged my conscience. Recently Mugabe challenged journalists by wondering if they had a conscience and "that sense of truth, sense of honesty". Herald, of all institut...Published: 26 Jul 2013 at 03:23hrs | 3 | by Farai Mbira
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