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Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 4837 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'No one can dethrone me'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has confirmed that there is a plot from within the ruling Zanu-PF party to unseat him, but dared his detractors to dream on. Addressing a Midlands provincial co-or...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:42hrs | 12177 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo is remembered in diverse forms fairly and unfairly
In year 1980, Joshua Nkomo was the most hated persona in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland and some parts of Midlands. The first elections were so toxic, a tribal card was key to get most of the people vote for ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:54hrs | 989 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiwenga is Joshua Nkomo of Mashonaland
Like Joshua Nkomo, Chiwenga is too generous with political power. Imagine a man who spent grueling weeks at the Blue Roof and State House in 2017 wrestling for political power from the late President ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 08:41hrs | 10265 | by Israel Dube
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 325 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Gukurahundi: MPs insist on truth-telling
OPPOSITION legislators have urged government to allow for truth-telling as a conflict resolution mechanism to address the emotive Gukurahundi issue. The MPs made the demand in Parliament on Th...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1798 | 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 | 2211 | by Stephen Jakes
Dabengwa's veterans were booked into brothel by Zanu-PF
FORMER ZIPRA cadres who were part of a war veterans team from both ZIPRA and ZANLA who plotted the downfall of former President Robert Mugabe, were ejected from the luxurious Rainbow Towers Hotel in H...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:18hrs | 3462 | by newzimbabwe
The Comrades that saved ZPRA from demise
The political changes that flew in the face of the struggle during the seventies were largely influenced by the governments of front line states which arm-twisted the liberation movements in the name ...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:52hrs | 1402 | by Irvine J. Sibhona
'Pungwes were not Zipra culture'
He made sure the long-standing rivalry between Zipra and Zanla cadres would not derail the objective of the guerrilla war. Daylight Mabanga (DM)'s strategy was for his platoon to move from Mashonaland...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:10hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's last Commissar can save region from crisis at play in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has at least since the coup been the epicentre of a crisis that has had ripple effects in the SADC region especially on its southern neighbour South Africa. Elections where highly dis...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 08:19hrs | 3949 | by Peter Moyo
Criminals around the president: How Zimbabwe revolution was hijacked
WHEN the Zimbabwe Defence Forces grabbed power on November 15, 2017, they coined their take-over "Operation Restore Legacy".At the time, they told the nation that they wanted to round up and a...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 2299 | by Jonathan Chando
Zpra reignites fight for seized war records
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) ex-combatants have re-ignited demands for their war records that were seized by the government in the early 1980's from the National Archives in Harare....Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:41hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa attacks Archbishop Christopher Ndlovu
Statement by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Hon Monica Mutsvangwa (Senator) on August 15, 2020TOMORROW (today) is Sunday, a holy day on the weekly Christian c...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:13hrs | 1074 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe security sector reforms debunked
US-funded studies on security sector reform in Zimbabwe have largely taken the radical view that more often than not, the military has acted undemocratically through uttering and overseeing an array o...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 09:15hrs | 7382 | by Staff reporter
Partnerships in lies, historical distortions and corruption now an ANC/ZanuPF game
I remember vividly in one of the last Zapu rallies held at White City Stadium in 1982 the ex Zipra choir singing, "Siyamkhalel`uMandela omunye wezinkhokeli zase Africa ezavalelwayo. Ngoba silobudlelwa...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:14hrs | 717 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Nelson Chamisa special message to Zimbabwe Defence Forces
Today, the MDC Alliance joins the nation in commemorating our Defence Forces. It is 40 years since the Zimbabwe Defence Forces came into being through the integration of the ZIPRA and ZANLA liberation...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4805 | by MDC Alliance
Explain Zpra's MiGs mystery
DURING the Second Chimurenga, Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) was the military wing of Zapu. Zanu's equivalent was the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla).These liber...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 2242 | by Cassius Sande
ZDF a formidable, disciplined force for the people: Gen Sibanda
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda shares his views on the significance of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day, below are excerpts of the interview. Q: What is the si...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53hrs | 5263 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Masvingo dumps colonial streets names
Masvingo City Council has completed renaming key streets in the ancient city after the country's living and departed heroes of the struggle against colonial rule that culminated with the attainment of...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
What happened to Zimbabwe - how could a principled Chimurenga/Umvukela produce such an uncaring rogue and brutal regime?
Last night (2 August 2020), I did something I had ceased doing in quite a long time - watched something on the state broadcaster, ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation), other than the news and some ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1426 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's condolence message
CONDOLENCE MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF AIR CHIEF MARSHAL (Rtd) PERRANCE SHIRI, MINISTER OF LANDS, ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:11hrs | 4802 | by Staff Reporter
Perence Shiri the Zimbabwean own hero
Perrence Shiri was known best as Zimbabwean Air Chief Marshal. He was a Military officer Zimbabwe had ever had. Perrence Shiri was born in Gweru on the 11th January 1955. He was born as Bigboy Samson ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:58hrs | 2839 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Go well Gudo Guru
ON Wednesday morning, the nation suffered a great and painful blow. Zimbabwe lost Honourable Perrance Shiri, the Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister. He was also a long-serving Air Mars...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:36hrs | 676 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Perrance Shiri timeline
Born 11 January 1955 Joined ZANLA in 1973 and rose through the ranks to become member of the High Command in 1977. Joined Zimbabwe National Army in 1980, attained Brigadier rank in 1982. Trans...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 2083 | by Staff reporter
Professor Jonathan Moyo is offside!
The Patriotic Front (TPF) notes with concern comments attributed to former Zanu (PF) Politburo member and former Zimbabwean Minister of Information, Professor Jonathan Moyo, on this week's retirement ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 10:21hrs | 10108 | by Andrew Nyathi
'Ex-ZPRA Commanders takeover Zimbabwe's security forces'
Former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the retirement of Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi was a historic end to the post...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 09:16hrs | 20950 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 642 | by Jonathan Chando
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2702 | by The Big Interview
So much lies and distortions in Zimbabwean history - the true story needs to finally be told
When renowned pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey famously said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots", he had a very valid point, as indeed,...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1846 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zanu-PF not political party but army appendage'
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF has ceased to exist as a political party but was now an appendage of the military.He was sharing his thoughts on Twitter.Moyo,...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1278 | by newzimbabwe
'Zanu-PF is debris, embrace Nelson Chamisa' advised Moyo - two faced buzzard, celebrated MDC GNU blunders
When Mai Mujuru was booted out of Zanu-PF in 2014 within months she was criticizing Zanu-PF and her former mentor, Robert Mugabe, for mismanagement, corruption, vote rigging, murderous oppression, etc...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:29hrs | 4251 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2785 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Dr Nkomo: The triumph and paradox of the liberation agenda
Early career timing and ideological wiringTHE nationalist anti-colonial movement in modern Zimbabwe directly intertwines the ideological efforts and political charisma of the late Vice-Preside...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 176 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Bread does not grow in supermarkets
IF there is an immutable truism that has stubbornly stood the test of time, it is the fact that common sense is not at all common.It is fair to say while common sense is rare, nonsense is ubiq...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:14hrs | 182 | by Bishop Lazarus
Factionalism not peculiar to Zanu-PF
FACTIONALISM is not a phenomenon peculiar to Zanu-PF. Political parties, the world over, are plagued by "parties within a party" whose members band together to achieve particular goals and advance the...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 141 | by Lovemore Sibanda
Factionalism in Zanu-PF: G40 vs Lacoste
Factionalism is not a phenomenon peculiar to the ZANU PF. Political parties are plagued by "parties within a party" whose members band together to achieve particular goals and advance their agenda wit...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:08hrs | 4763 | by Lovemore Sibanda Ph.D.
ZAPU President Isaac Mabuka speaks
Q1: Thank you Mr. Mabuka for your time. Please introduce yourself to the people. Who is Mabuka?A: I am Isaac Mabuka. I was born in 1953 on 26 April in Gwanda South. I did my primary education ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 13:15hrs | 3262 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mutsvangwa disowns Twitter account
War veteran's leader Chris Mutsvangwa Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa has disowned Twitter accounts in his name saying they are creations of self-exiled G40 kingpin Jonathan Moyo.This comes after ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1163 | by Staff reporter
National hero Nleya's burial set for Wednesday
NATIONAL hero Stanley Nleya will be buried at the National Heroes' Acre on Wednesday and not on Tuesday as earlier reported. Nleya (72), described as a true soldier, died on Tuesday at the Uni...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU needs Shona president
Zapu is at crossroads as they seek to replace the late Dr Dumiso Dabengwa. Zapu has two big challenges on its hands. They need to rebrand big time if they are to survive until the next election and be...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:39hrs | 2301 | by Juliet Gumede
MDC and politics of denial psychology and deflection
WE are a pretty impressionable people. We all like to say that we are independent, free individuals who make up our own minds, but the reality is that we are heavily influenced by the company we keep....Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1706 | by Jonathan Chando
Joshua Nkomo's costly heroism
I first suffered the consequences of being a critical analyst and a questioner of orthodox opinion at my early secondary school. In one incident, I totally lost the kind favour of my Bible Knowledge t...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 18:06hrs | 2892 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
A nation kept hostage by Zanu-PF
(Zanu, a group of 2000 people holdimg a nation of more than 14 million people at gunpoint) The troubled people of Rhodesia lipped for joy in 1980...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1237 | by Mnu. Ngazimbi
Coup talk mirrors a crisis
It seems that, in Zimbabwe, coup talk is one thing that won't go away. And there is always a story behind the buzz.Come to think about it. Even during Ian Smith's Rhodesia, there was such a bu...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:11hrs | 812 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's govt neglects liberation war pioneer
GOVERNMENT is yet to honour a promise to assist ailing Zipra combatant Moffat Hadebe, an 83-year-old veteran and pioneer of the liberation struggle.Hadebe, who is reported to have fired the fi...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:33hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA's Jeremy Brickhill narrates untold stories about Dabengwa
I have chosen to commemorate the life of Comrade Dumiso Dabengwa on the first anniversary of his passing by sharing some recollections of my own involving his less well known role in preserving the le...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:02hrs | 3539 | by Jeremy Brickhill
Celebrating an auspicious Day
TOMORROW is Africa Day, a truly and deeply auspicious day on the continent's calendar.On this day, various leaders of African nations that had wrestled freedom and independence gathered in Add...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:11hrs | 180 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
ZCP Central Committee condemns ZANU PF sponsored abuse against women
Three recent incidents involving the beating of 6 women by police and army unmask not only the patriarchal nature of the Zimbabwean society but also, the reluctance of government to take disciplinary ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 15:18hrs | 1510 | by ZCP
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