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High Court dismisses ZAPU bid to halt Gukurahundi hearings
The Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an urgent application by the opposition party ZAPU seeking to stop the government-led Gukurahundi Outreach Programme, ruling that the matter did not meet the thre...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 17:22hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Zapu seeks court order to stop Gukurahundi hearings
The opposition Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (Zapu) has lodged an urgent application in the High Court seeking to stop the commencement of the Gukurahundi community outreach hearings scheduled to beg...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 09:11hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Zapu tips party candidate to win Insiza North by-election
Opposition party Zapu has thrown its full weight behind its candidate, Thabani Mlotshwa, in the upcoming Insiza North by-election set for June 14, declaring him the answer to the socio-economic aspira...Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:24hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
'Garwe must not bully the mayor'
Opposition party ZAPU has come out strongly in defence of Bulawayo mayor David Coltart, following a public rebuke by Local Government minister Daniel Garwe over the mayor's decision to host self-procl...Published: 02 May 2025 at 19:48hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Sibangilizwe Nkomo's ZAPU Presidency settled in court
In a significant legal ruling, the Bulawayo High Court has upheld Sibangilizwe Nkomo's nomination and election as the president of ZAPU during its 2021 elective congress. The decision, delivered by Ju...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 14:59hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Sandi Moyo's hero status rebuff sparks outrage
The government's decision not to grant the late former Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister, Eunice Sandi Moyo, national heroine status has ignited outrage in Matabeleland, with accusations that the r...Published: 21 May 2024 at 08:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Smith & apartheid regimes were angels compared to 44-Year-Old 'independent' Zimbabwe
Talking in terms of segregation, oppression and savagery towards those considered as foreigners or political undesirables, no present or past government in Southern Africa matches the black Shona supr...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:56hrs | 28 | by Israel Dube
'Stop Gukurahundi hearings'
STAKEHOLDERS and interest groups in Matabeleland have called on the government to stop the Gukurahundi hearings accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa of running the project like a personal show....Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:44hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Allow media at Gukurahundi genocide meetings
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Veterans Association has implored the President of the National Chiefs' Council, Chief Mtshane Khumalo, to allow media coverage of the upcoming Gukurahu...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu blast tribal ZBC presenters
ZAPU spokesperson Richard Gandari has blasted the ZBC presenters who made tribal attacks on the Ndebele King LObengula live on TV claiming he was depicted to sell the country to colonialis...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:24hrs | 49 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before'
ZAPU says Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before as there is no unity whatsoever, to warrant a whole public holiday, under the guise of commemorating the pivotal signing of the Unity Accord bet...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 13:44hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans yet to enjoy genuine unity'
OPPOSITION parties and critics said there was nothing to celebrate on Unity Day yesterday when government critics face threats of abductions, arrest and political violence.Zimbabwe declared De...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 09:52hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son foils Zanu-PF's plan to campaign using late father's name
ZAPU president and late Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's son Sibangalizwe has foiled Zanu-PF's plan to hold an all-night gala in commemoration of the late vice president at his rural Kezi home in Matebeleland S...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa's widow dies
MRS Zodwa Dabengwa, the widow of the liberation stalwart and national hero Dumiso Dabengwa has died.Mrs Dabengwa succumbed to cancer yesterday in the United Kingdom.Chronicle could not...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 20:48hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition parties ready to challenge Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION political parties have said they are ready to contest in the harmonised elections despite the failure by most of them to draw a consolidated list of candidates barely three weeks before the...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC urges members to join CIO, army
A SENIOR official in the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has urged party youths in Matebeleland to join intelligence and security services to save themselves from possible post-ele...Published: 17 May 2023 at 21:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zapu bigwig arrested
ZAPU secretary for security, Andrew Ndlovu has been arrested over an undisclosed land dispute amid fears that the arrest could be politically motivated.Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector A...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Zapu's Nkomo
Knives are out against Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo with some former top officials plotting his ouster for allegedly frustrating the growth of the opposition party.They also accuse Nkomo ...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF goes to congress amid power struggles, widening rifts
Zanu-PF is going to its 7th elective congress which will, among other expected outcomes, choose the party's first secretary and president, at a time the coup coalition which catapulted President Emmer...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son wants father's remains exhumed from National Heroes Acre
ZAPU president Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son to late liberation war hero and former Vice President Joshua Nkomo, is demanding the immediate exhumation of his late father's remains from the National Heroes A...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Harare govt removes shield signage at Joshua Mqabuko Airport
THE opposition Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) party has expressed anger over the removal of the shield signage at the Joshua Mqabuko International Airport in Bulawayo.Zapu described it...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa embraces MUgabe's land reform programme?
POLITICAL analysts yesterday hailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa for supporting the land reform programme saying that it showed that his new political outfit was different...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zapu not dead'
ZAPU president Sibangilizwe Nkomo has dismissed the notion that the party had no support and could not win elections as it was stuck in the past and basking in yesteryear glory.Nkomo, son of t...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo's journey over the years
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, who died yesterday at the age of 76, was born in Plumtree, Matabeleland South on October 1 1945 to Mr Robert Khaya Ngulani ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mthulisi Hanana takes over a interim ZAPU spokesperson
OPPOSITION party ZAPU has appointed its secretary general Mthulisi Hanana as interim national spokesperson until its new leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo makes substantive appointments.Nkomo, son to ...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Zapu SG, a real Political Testosterone
Innovation is a word only relative to the young, and this is what Zapu produced yesterday. Just to start from the right place, Zapu elected a Deliberate Black Log, Ugodo Olumyama Ngenkani,...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:17hrs | 12 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Sibangilizwe Nkomo still in the race
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, the son of the late Zapu founding leader Joshua Nkomo, yesterday dismissed attempts by some party members to sideline him from the opposition party's presidential race.Nkom...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unity accord died with his father and Mugabe
A SPIRING Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son to the late VicePresident Joshua Nkomo, has described the unity accord which his father and the late former President Robert Mugabe signed to end hosti...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo is never forgotten'
STATEMENT BY ASPIRING ZAPU PRESIDENT SIBANGILIZWE NKOMO ON THE OCCASION OF THE 22ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING ON OF FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE,...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 13:13hrs | 7 | by Sibangilizwe Nkomo
Joshua Nkomo's son confident of victory
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, the son of the late vice president Joshua Nkomo, is buoyed by his victory in a Zapu Matabeleland South provincial election to fill the vacant post of party president, saying this i...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Dumiso Dabengwa died a bitter man'
ZAPU acting president Isaac Mabuka says his predecessor and late liberation hero Dumiso Dabengwa died whilst still bitter about his lengthy jailing by then State leader Robert Mugabe despite being cle...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkomo's son warms up to Zapu presidency
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, the son of the late Father Zimbabwe and former VicePresident Joshua, has warmed up to the proposals to elect him Zapu president following the death of Dumiso Dabengwa in 2019....Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu President mourns paramount Chief Vezi Maduna
We have received with profound sadness the news of Chief Vezi Maduna's Departure. Chief Maduna inspired many of us as he was a man of distinguished courage who also possessed a rare quality of self sa...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 11:21hrs | 2 | by Isaac Mabuka Zapu President
Zipra veteran denied National Hero status
THE late director of Mafela Trust, who was also a former ZIPRA veteran, Zephaniah Nkomo (70) has become the latest senior ex-ZIPRA freedom fighter to be denied national hero status by the ruling Zanu-...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zapu mourns death of Mugabe torture victim
THE Opposition Zapu yesterday mourned the death of Mafela Trust national director Zephaniah Nkomo, who passed away on Sunday after suffering from a respiratory ailment.He was 70, and he died a...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Christmas and end of year message from ZAPU President
My fellow citizens, 2020 has been the most hectic year since the time our country and all Africa were fighting for self determination and independence from colonialism. The world, found ...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 09:09hrs | 9 | by Isaac Mabuka
Zimbabwe's Unity Day has lost its relevance, says Zapu
THE opposition Zapu party and political analysts have described the Unity Day holiday as a commemoration that has lost relevance as it no longer reflects the tenets of the unity accord which was signe...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Now is the time for Zapu to continue the liberation struggle
End of an Era: A Tribute to ZAPU/ZIPRA StalwartsThe dates 01 June and 01 July may well remain imprinted in our memories for generations to come. On 1 July 1999, Dr. Joshua Nkomo, founding ZAPU...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Zanu-PF blasted for monopoly over national hero status
ACTING Zapu president Isaac Mabuka yesterday said the Zanu-PF politburo should not have the monopoly to declare who national heroes are and called for an independent body to be set up to select people...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa family welcomes hero declaration, but....
THE family of leading nationalist and ex-Cabinet Minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has welcomed Government's decision to declare him a national hero. Dr Dabengwa died on Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya, ...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa to be buried in Ntabazinduna
THE body of late national hero and Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa will now arrive in Bulawayo on Monday after family members and Zapu officials resisted government's move to ferry his body through Har...Published: 26 May 2019 at 19:39hrs | 14 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa hints on Dabengwa hero's status
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has strongly hinted that the former Zipra intelligence supremo and Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa will be declared a national hero following his death in Nairobi, Kenya, yest...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks on Dumiso Dabengwa
President Emmerson Mnanagwa has issued a condolence message to the family and friends of the late ZAPU President Dumiso Dabe ngwa who passed on in Kenya on Wednesday.He was coming from an oper...Published: 23 May 2019 at 16:39hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Dumiso Dabengwa dies
ZAPU President and former Home Affairs minister, Dumiso Dabengwa has died. He was 79.Reports indicate that the former ZPRA Intelligence Supremo passed on in Nairobi, Kenya while ...Published: 23 May 2019 at 10:59hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matabeleland Collective demands gukurahundi truth from Mnangagwa
PRESSURE groups coalescing under the banner of the Matabeleland Collective are ratcheting up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure that a truth-telling and associated prissuesprocess prec...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa in India for medical attention
ZAPU President Dabengwa, who has been unwell since December 2018, has left for India where he will seek medical attention.The trip, that was planned since he was in South Africa a few mo...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
Fierce battle for Bulawayo council seat
THE battle for the Cowdray Park ward 28 council seat has reached fever pitch with parties contesting in the by-election leaving nothing to chance.The by-election has been set for this coming S...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa sidelined by illness
ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa has for over a month now been sidelined from hectic political activity as he has been holed up in South Africa where he was flown after his health reportedly deteriorate...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 15:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa taken 'ill' to SA
ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa is reportedly ill and is in South Africa where he is receiving specialist treatment, his party has revealed. In an interview on Wednesday, Zapu's secretary ge...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thabo Mbeki to grace Dabengwa Foundation awards
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki will be the guest of honour at the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation inaugural awards meant to celebrate the country's unsung liberation war heroes and heroines....Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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