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Zimbabwe land reform scam - 13 years after the genocide in Matebeleland and Midlands
This article intends to capture the poignant moment when Zanu began its unpunished abuse of public office soon after Zimbabwe's independence.All along Zanu felt a false sense of achievement in...Published: 14 May 2025 at 21:00hrs | 355 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange (Ndlovu)
Why compensate white farmers, not ZPRA?
Veteran freedom fighter and opposition politician Moses Mzila Ndlovu has strongly criticised the Zimbabwean government's recent payment of compensation to white former commercial farmers, calling it a...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 19:02hrs | 1622 | by Staff reporter
'Tshinga Dube was a good man'
OUT SPOKEN Ex-Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has described the later Former War Veterans Minister Tshinga Dube as a figure father who loved and was loved by many due to his care for the well being of a...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 13:32hrs | 666 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF never helped ANC/Umkhonto wesizwe during Apartheid: MRP tells Ramaphosa
MTHWAKAZI REPUBLIC PARTY has corrected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for thanking Zanu PF and Zimbabwe for helping South Africa during the liberation war indicating that it was not Zan...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 22:35hrs | 1816 | by Stephen Jakes
Ex-combatants now listing title deeds for Zipra properties
EX-ZIPRA combatants have said that they are in the process of listing title deeds of identified properties for submission to Zanu-PF vice-president Kembo Mohadi (pictured) soon, as they seek to have t...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere charms Zapu
SELF-EXILED independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has charmed the opposition Zapu after he promised to return the party's properties seized by the Zanu-PF governemnt in the 1980s...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Push for return of Zapu properties intensifies
ZAPU and Zipra veterans are set to meet on January 28 to elect a substantive committee to spearhead engagement with government and other processes towards the return of their seized properties....Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi source of ethnic tension'
UNITED Nations experts on International Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination have said Gukurahundi remains a source of ethnic tension in the country.The UN said healing and cl...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Large arms shipment claim an excuse to deploy military in Matebeleland
President Emmerson Mnangagwa may be planning to launch a fresh genocide in Matabeleland following reports that security operatives seized a large shipment of weapons at West Nicholson in Matabeleland ...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU spurns Chamisa 'proposal'
OPPOSITION party Zapu has rejected an apparent proposal for support by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa in exchange for a return of the party's properties seized at the height...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Over 280 000 Zipra cadres not vetted
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has claimed that over 280 000 of its members were yet to be vetted amid fears that they might be left out of government programmes meant to empower freedom fighters....Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zapu mulls recalling ex-members in Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION party Zapu has announced that it was considering recalling its former members who remained in Zanu-PF after the party allegedly pulled out of the Unity Accord signed in 2008.The par...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Govt playing games with Zapu properties
ZAPU and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans yesterday accused the government of "playing games" with its properties seized in the 1980s.Zipra was the military wing of Za...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans demand apology
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa must set up a truth commission to address the 1980s army atrocities in Midlands and Matabeleland to bring finality to the issue, former Zimbabwe People's Liberation Army (...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not genuine on Gukurahundi'
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo has said any government initiative towards resolving Gukurahundi will not work as they dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's meeting with traditi...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police hold on to Mthwakazi Republic Party truck
BULAWAYO police are still holding on to a truck they seized from the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) during a surprise demonstration that the militant party staged outside Bulawayo Central...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wades into Zapu properties decades later
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, whose father is believed to have been a general in the Zimbabwe army, yesterday waded into the long-drawn Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) pro...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 3 | by Lizwelethu Dube
Zapu celebrates own heroes
ZAPU and ex-combatants of its Zipra military wing during the liberation struggle, celebrated the just-ended Heroes' Day by honouring their fallen and unsung heroes interred at Lady Stanley Cemetery in...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Of the Kambarami fiasco and Ndebele-Shona issues
It's just been a few weeks since the Deputy Mayor of the City of Bulawayo Mr. Tinashe Kambarami decided to fire the town clerk, Mr. Christopher Dube, in a move that would make Kambarami an internet se...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Mandla Tshuma
Election losers turn to campaign at Dr Dabengwa's funeral
The passing on of one of Zimbabwe's liberation war icons, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa on 23 May 2019, saw all people from all walks of life from far and near coming to pay their condolences in respect of the l...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 10:52hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa's dilemma over Dabengwa
TO go or not to go? That is the question. And damned if he does; damned if he does not.This is the dilemma President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces tomorrow over whether or not to attend the burial ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:22hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plunged into mourning
LIBERATION war stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa was a confidante of a number of Government ministers and helped them on issues of national importance, Deputy Minister of Defence...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Velaphi Burial; Mnangagwa shy away from Gukurahundi issue
After saying people are free to talk about Gukurahundi, Zimbabwean President himself avoided talking about the genocide when given the perfect opportunity to do so. In his speech at the National Heroe...Published: 11 May 2019 at 20:21hrs | 2 | by Harare Correspondent
MLF not hoodwinked by Mnangagwa's bluff over Mthwakazi issues
We warn those of us who are quick to see a saviour in Emmerson Munangagwa to put brakes in their quest to appease him and the Zimbabwe Government in Harare. For starters, it is mind-boggling to hear t...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:07hrs | | by David Magagula
Zapu cranks up pressure on Mnangagwa
Scores of veterans of the liberation struggle who fought on the side of the Zipra - the military wing of-PF Zapu- yesterday converged in Bulawayo to explore ways of recovering their party's property w...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu's seized properties now officially belong to Zanu-PF
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has reacted angrily to claims that its properties which were seized by the government during the early 1980s now officially belong to the ruling Zanu-PF.This comes...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu fights for seized properties
The Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has reacted angrily to claims that its properties which were seized by government during the early 1980s now officially belong to the ruling Zanu-PF. This comes as...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa won't return Zapu properties'
GOVERNMENT has declared it will not return Zapu properties confiscated before the advent of the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide in Matabeleland and the Midlands.Former guerrillas of Zipra, the arme...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bomb blast triggers fears
Opposition Zapu has claimed that last week's assassination attempt on President Emmerson Mnangagwa was calculated to destabilise the Matabeleland region like what happened in the early 1980s when gove...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 16:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa bomb an inside job'
THE opposition Zapu party has sensationally claimed that the fatal explosion that occurred during a Zanu PF campaign rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday was stage-managed to portray re...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa bomb blast a typical ploy to tarnish Matebeleland
ZAPU has described the blast which rocked White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday during a Zanu-PF rally as an act of terrorism meant to tarnish Matebeleland province."Zapu is concerned and...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa desperate to engage Dabengwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has renewed efforts to lure Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa into Zanu-PF structures and government, this time sending a top military commander to engage the ex-home affairs...Published: 18 May 2018 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIPRA cadres demand ZAPU properties
Veterans of the liberation struggle who fought as a military wing of Zapu have demanded to know what happened to properties that were acquired by their party during and after the war.The prope...Published: 11 May 2018 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Byo24News Reporter
New headache for Mnangagwa
A NEW headache afflicts President Emmerson Mnangagwa's financially broke government as 16 000-plus ex-Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) fighters pressure government for compensation for the...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu raps media for aiding Mugabe's inflammatory remarks about Gukurahundi
After Robert Mugabe's shameless insult on the Gukurahundi survivors and victims, the President Emmerson Mnangagwa controlled press deliberately added salt to injury when both its print and electronic ...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 14:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Presidium must solve the issue of Zipra/Zapu Properties with urgency - Ex Zipra cadre
An Ex Zipra cadre Max Mkandla has warned that it is becoming so detrimental and is likely to cause chaos if the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa fails to resolve the issue of Zipra and Zapu ...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 14:32hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa in fresh Zapu properties headache
Zapu in conjunction with its former military wing Zipra has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the return of properties that were confiscated by the State soon before the onset of Gukurahund...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU responds to Simon Khaya Moyo's ascendancy to the factional Zanu Pf presidium
ZAPU notes with great concern of a report in Newsday-Southern Eye of 15 December 2017 by one Elphacy Dube masquerading as a ZAPU secretary general for Harare province, making unfounded pronouncements ...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 16:32hrs | | by Iphithule T Maphosa
Zipra to confront Mnangagwa
ZIPRA has threatened to approach President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a fresh bid to force the Zanu-PF government to release former Zapu properties seized before the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord betwee...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the theft of history
IT is with indecent haste that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has of late been seeking to flag his increasingly questionable presidential credentials and ambitions before Zimbabwe and the world. Th...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:21hrs | 5 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
Dabengwa in demand
Opposition leaders seeking to challenge President Robert Mugabe in next year's crunch elections are falling over each other to partner Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa, pictured, it has emerged....Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 13:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa's three good lessons to Mnangagwa faction
According to newZimbabwe.com news and Bulawayo24 News, his honourable, ZAPU President Dr Dumiso Dabengwa gave the pro Mnangagwa negotiators a tough assignment when they were begging him and ZAPU to su...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 16:43hrs | 1 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Mnangagwa begs Dabengwa
THE Zanu-PF faction linked to vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa has approached opposition leader, Dumiso Dabengwa, offering him a role a "new government", it has emerged.Dabengwa, a former cab...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 10:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi origins: myths and reality
THE fundamental precondition for understanding Zimbabwe in the 1980s - and beyond - is to recognise the supremacist mentality that has underwritten Zimbabwean nationalism since its development in the ...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Stuart Doran
New 'Ndebele king' trashes Zimbabwe's 1987 Unity Accord
SELF-IMPOSED new Ndebele King - Stanley Tshuma - has trashed the 1987 Unity Accord signed between Zanu-PF and former-PF Zapu, and declared that Matabeleland region would now be referred to as Mthwakaz...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu Youth Front says, 'Mugabe must go'
37 years in power and 93 years in power is more than enough for a person to hold and occupy a high and more demanding officeZimbabweans have suffered enough to the extent that they are left wi...Published: 31 May 2017 at 15:38hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Is Mphoko the right man to talk about returning of ZAPU and Zipra properties
In his last utterances on press,the vice President of Zimbabwe Phelekezela Mphoko showed confidence by saying that the ex Zipra cadres must mention and note down all ZAPU properties which were seized ...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
'People pushing for Kasukuwere ouster are Mutsvangwa loyalists'
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday said people pushing for the ouster of Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere were loyalists of war veterans leader Mr Christopher M...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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