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Ex-ZIPRA War Veteran Slams Land Reversals and Compensation to White Farmers
An outspoken ex-ZIPRA war veteran, Max Mkandla, has expressed outrage over two main reasons why Zimbabweans went to war against the colonial regime of Ian Douglas Smith, highlighting alarming developm...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 16:27hrs | 593 | by Stephen Jakes
Zipra war vets concerned over property release delays
ZIPRA war veterans have expressed frustration over the government's prolonged delay in returning their properties, which were confiscated during the Gukurahundi massacres in the 1980s. The properties ...Published: 01 Feb 2025 at 08:49hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war veterans condemn Zanu-PF's push for Mnangagwa term extension
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have strongly opposed a ruling Zanu-PF faction's proposal to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond the constitutional two-term...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:29hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Trending video from Blessed Geza - I don't buy it for once!
It's stuff and nonsense. When has Zanu PF become sympathetic to the Ndebele people? With all due respect, Mr. Geza, made a presentation on video now making rounds. Curiously he acknowledges the presen...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 17:57hrs | 2539 | by Nomazulu Thata
Gukurahundi survivors call for apology before it's too late
As Zimbabwe marks the anniversary of the Unity Accord on December 22, survivors of the Gukurahundi atrocities have renewed calls for justice, compensation, and recognition for the horrors they endured...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:16hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZIPRA combatants to hold meeting on property recovery efforts
Former ZIPRA combatants are set to convene an emergency meeting to assess progress regarding the recovery of properties seized by the government during the Gukurahundi era in the early 1980s. The upco...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:33hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP demands shares in mining for war vets
Zanu PF lawmaker Joseph Mapiki has proposed that war veterans should receive shares in lithium and coal mining companies, as well as plots and conservancies in Matabeleland North and Masvingo. ...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 13:42hrs | 812 | by Staff reporter
Zapu war vets rap Mnangagwa over violation of Unity Accord
Max Mkandla, leader of the Zipra war veterans, has criticized President Emmerson Mnangagwa for straying from the Unity Accord agreement signed by former President Robert Mugabe and Vice-President...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 10:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans pile pressure on Mnangagwa's govt
ZPRA veterans have submitted a list of their properties that were seized in the 80's by the government to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to push for their return.Mnangagwa promised to ensure the...Published: 19 May 2024 at 19:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Lookout Khalisabantu Masuku remembered
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants yesterday held a memorial service in remembrance of their commander Lookout Masuku who died in 1986 shortly after his release from prison....Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 16:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'War vets not a tool for Zanu-PF'
OUTSPOKEN Zipra War Veterans Association spokesperson Buster Magwizi has castigated the ruling Zanu-PF party for putting the former freedom fighters under its structures.The Zimbabwe National ...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets hails ED for appointing Mavhunga as their minister
ZIPRA war veterans have hailed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for appointing Monica Mavhunga as the Minister of War Weterans Welfare adding that as she is a war veteran herself she is bound to address a...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 13:05hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Skepticism over Gukurahundi hearings
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government have been accused of dragging their feet in addressing the emotive Gukurahundi issue by delaying the rollout of public hearings, which are a critical el...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Skepticism over Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi hearings
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government have been accused of dragging their feet in addressing the emotive Gukurahundi issue by delaying the rollout of public hearings, which are a criti...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 18:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
2023 another wasted year for Matebeleland
Former principal director in the office of the prime minister Samukele Hadebe, says 2023 has been another year of deferred hopes for Matebeleland, a region that has suffered years of marginalisation....Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 18:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zipra wary of conditions for properties return
Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have raised concerns about the conditions set for the return of their properties, fearing that the required information might expose them to p...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has forsaken Zipra war vets
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have repeated claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has forsaken them, leaving them wallowing in poverty.Zipra was the...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets fume over Moyo's hero status
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants have lashed out at government for dragging its feet to confer hero status on one of the country's liberation war pioneers, David Moyo....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Chiefs make tough demands
TRADITIONAL chiefs in Matabeleland and the Midlands early this week tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa a number of tough demands on top of a public apology that need to be fulfilled in order t...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs, CSOs demand return of Zipra properties
A REPORT by chiefs on the Gukurahundi issue states that civic society and chiefs in Matabeleland North and South want Zipra properties that were taken by government soon after independence to be retur...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Kariba ignore Heroes Day
HEROES' Day celebrations were poorly attended in Bulawayo and Kariba yesterday, with residents saying the holiday was no longer of significance because government is failing to honour the "real libera...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda demands return of Zipra properties
Zanu-PF Bulawayo province chairperson Jabulani Sibanda has demanded that government returns all Zipra-owned properties to Zapu war veterans.Speaking on Friday during the official opening of th...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF doesn't own war vets, says Zipra
ZIPRA war veterans have implored fellow former 1970s guerrilla war fighters not to be coerced by the ruling Zanu-PF party into committing acts of violence ahead of the 2023 elections."Zanu-PF ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets engage police over regalia
ZIPRA war veterans are seeking an audience with the police to help prevent possible future standoffs over their yellow regalia.The development comes a fortnight after police clashed with the w...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC condemns police conduct over Zipra march
OPPOSITION Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) has condemned the police for temporarily blocking a Zipra War Veterans Association (ZWVA) march to the Joshua Nkomo statue on Saturday.The march, ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zipra demands public holiday for Joshua Nkomo
THE Zipra War Veterans Association wants government to declare July 1 a public holiday to commemorate the death of the late former Vice-President and liberation struggle icon Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo....Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 8 | 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
Angry ex-Zipra fighters warn govt
Disgruntled Zipra war veterans say they will now take matters into their own hands because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is dithering about returning their properties seized during the Guk...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets bemoan shortage of registration forms
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has expressed concern over lack of registration forms in the Matabeleland region to enable former freedom fighters to register during the ongoing vetting exercise....Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hijacks war vets vetting'
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of manipulating the ongoing war veterans vetting exercise amid allegations that some undeserving party activists were being regi...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
New vetting exercise for war vets, Zipra
A NEW national vetting exercise for former freedom fighters in Zimbabwe is expected soon, and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) has urged its members to prepare and take part in the scr...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
We were sold dummy, says ex-Zipra cadres
FORMER Zipra ex combatants have complained that government has not honoured its promise to give them shareholding in the Gwayi based China-Africa Sunlight Energy coal mine project.The Matabele...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi calls for all languages to be taught in schools
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi said Government should promote the teaching of all indigenous languages in schools, including those spoken by minority groups and urged Parliament to speed up the enactment...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation used and dumped us: Zipra
Zipra war veterans have complained that they were used by the new dispensation during the November 2017 military take over and later dumped.They also accused the government of squandering an o...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa promises to return seized Zipra
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to return Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra)'s properties seized by government in the 80s. Mnangagwa made the landmark decision to return the...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra fighters fume over properties
Former Zipra fighters have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of having double standards after government unveiled plans to compensate white commercial farmers, but remained mum on properties seized...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rhodesian chemical-biological war crimes
As Zimbabwe celebrates its 39th year of Independence, as Africans we have either chosen to ignore or have been brainwashed to forget the terrible things white Rhodesians did to our own freedom fighter...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 3 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Ndebele Chiefs' letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa - Fulltext
From the Office of.... CHIEF VEZI MADUNA MAFU OF AVOCA FILABUSI COMMUNAL LANDS 9 October 2018 The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe His Excellency President E.D. Mnangagwa ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 20:46hrs | 18 | by Chief Maduna, Chief Jahana and Chief Sibasa
'ZAPU still regarded a terrorist organisation'
Opposition political party, Zapu is still regarded as terrorist organisation decades after the party assisted the country in attaining its independence.The party was not delisted as a terroris...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 17:09hrs | 6 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
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
Zipra veterans throw weight behind Mnangagwa
THE Zipra War Veterans Trust which all along has been opposed to the ruling Zanu-PF yesterday threw its weight behind the country's new President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying they were impressed with h...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra remembers snubbed heroes
AFTER realising that most ex-liberators who fought on the Zipra front were not being recognised by the ruling Zanu-PF during the annual Heroes Day celebrations, Zipra has come up with an initiative to...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 12:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Row erupts among Zipra war vets
A ROW has erupted between compatriots in the Zipra War Veterans Trust over occupation of Castle Arms Motel in Bulawayo, a property owned by the former fighters group known as Nitram Investments Pr...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bad governance keeps secessionist movements in Africa alive
In 1981 African leaders met in the Gambian capital,Banjul where they adopted the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.But the so-called Banjul Charter has largely been ignored by Africa...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 10:27hrs | 11 | by Thabo Kunene
Mujuru blames Mugabe for war vets misery
A majority of war veterans are wallowing in poverty across the country and many have been turned destitute because of corruption and politics of patronage in President Robert Mugabe's government, ...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra war veterans are scavengers at Ngozi Mine - Mujuru
Zimbabwe People First interim leader Joice Mujuru has said several ex-Zipra war veterans are scavengers as they are living at a garbage dumpsite in Bulawayo.Addressing thousands of ZimPF suppo...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 08:09hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
War vets meet Mugabe in solidarity indaba
WAR veterans from all corners of the country converge in Harare today in a show of solidarity with their patron, President Mugabe.War collaborators and ex-detainees have also been invited to t...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 08:06hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara/Tendai Mugabe
Nobody can destroy the Unity Accord
The historic unity accord signed between Zapu and Zanu PF in 1987 is here to stay forever. Neither Dumiso Dabengwa nor any other ex-Zapu member has the power to abolish or even put an iota of amendmen...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 12:21hrs | | by Mthulisi Sibanda
War vets who invaded Castle Arms Motel to be evicted
NITRAM Investment Holdings, a Zipra war veterans company is seeking the eviction of three war veterans who allegedly invaded the company owned Castle Arms Motel in Richmond Bulawayo.The three ...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF fears Jabulani Sibanda could be hiding firearms
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has called on the police to investigate the organisation's deposed leader Jabulani Sibanda fearing that he might be hiding arms aimed...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 11:18hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
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