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Zapu rebels revive original Zapu
A group of former ZAPU members yesterday officially unveiled a new political party called the (Original) O ZAPU during a vibrant launch event held in Bulawayo.The party is led by Mathew Siband...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:54hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
'Mat South 5' express frustration over court delays in ZAPU leadership dispute
Five former members of ZAPU in Matabeleland South, known as the 'Mat South Five,' have voiced frustration over the prolonged court delay in ruling on their case challenging the legitimacy of Sibangili...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 17:30hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 13 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu, Zanu-PF were successful in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
I was in a meeting recently when someone who is not a member of Zanu or Zanu-PF asked the question: Why was Zanu and Zanu-PF successful in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and not successful after 2001? ...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | 2 | by Fay Chung
Sikhala incarceration is political persecution?
HUMAN rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa says the refusal by the State to grant bail to 14 persons arrested for the Nyatsime violence and two legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chi...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Of Joshua Nkomo and the raging fires of Matabeleland independence
"The fly that does not heed advice follows the corpse to the grave", goes the Igbo proverb. MLO is happy that Matabeles refused to follow the Joshua Nkomo political corpse to the grave.It must...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:15hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo through the eyes of his bodyguard
THE late Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo was an open -minded and friendly person who freely interacted with everyone throughout his entire political life regardless of social standing, one of h...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 4 | 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
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
'Joshua Nkomo was a man of peace'
THE late Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo was a man of peace, which led him to reaching an accord with Zanu PF to avoid further deaths from Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s his son Sibangilizwe N...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU's 70 year old SG launches party presidential bid
ZAPU's secretary-general, Dr Strike Mkandla (70) has launched his presidential bid ahead of the elective congress set for this August, saying the revolutionary party requires a leader who will value i...Published: 20 May 2021 at 18:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Debates on Zapu presidential candidacy: worth commenting
Admittedly some of the debates about the future of Zapu party and its leadership were interesting and how they articulated the future of this party in our political landscape. We cannot escape the fac...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 06:12hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
Sexually transmitted leadership will not take us anywhere
My previous article regarding the nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo to contest the Zapu presidential candidacy could have come across as too emotional for some people to appreciate my perspective....Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Sexually transmitted leadership will not take us anywhere: flouting democratic values
My previous article regarding the nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo to contest the Zapu presidential candidacy must have been too emotional to appreciate my perspective. What is disturbing is that be i...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 16:10hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Sibangilizwe Nkomo's interview was a disaster in the making
Not long-ago last month, Sibangilizwe Nkomo announced his Zapu candidacy to replace the late DD: Comrade Dumiso Dabengwa. I was excited about this, well as someone who grew up in Zapu and known the la...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 32 | by Thembani Dube
ZAPU Europe set for elective AGM
This Saturday, 13/03/21, Zapu Europe will be hosting a virtual elective AGM. This an exciting time for the Europe Chapter as it is now time for a smooth handover-takeover moment. The smooth running of...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 12:26hrs | 5 | by Mlindelwa
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
Activists, parties blast 'sell-out' Obert Mpofu
MATABELELAND based pressure groups and political parties have angrily reacted to Zanu-PF top politician, Obert Mpofu's contemptuous dismissal of anti-Gukurahundi activists he claimed were least qualif...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu Presidency Refutes Speculations on the Leadership Storm and Factions
The Zapu Presidency wishes to categorically dismiss the so called looming leadership storm following the death of its President Dumiso Dabengwa. Whereas speculations are expected after the fall of any...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Mkhululi Zulu - Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
Dumiso Dabengwa
Dabengwa: Please tell us how your mother died? This was a question Dumiso had to answer in a Zanu court when he was incarcerated by Mugabe regime in the early independent of 80s. He was holed up in pr...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 17:42hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
Dabengwa's death revibrates Zapu
Thousands of people thronged the White City Stadium on Friday the 31st of May 2019 and Manxeleni on the 1st of June 2019. It occurred there, and indeed, Zapu was reborn, rediscovered and emotionally a...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 14:56hrs | 2 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Dabengwa: A hero who rejected 'our time to eat'
APART from his phenomenal liberation struggle exploits and heroics that earned him the nickname "Black Russian" and his principled politics, former Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, who died...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa descends on Bulawayo
Newly mandated MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will be landing in Bulawayo on Friday to attend the memorial service of the late ZPRA Intelligence Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa which will be held at White City sta...Published: 28 May 2019 at 12:42hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
No political bullying during bereavement
Some shameless Zanu-PF supporters in their regalia invaded the food serving points, not bothering to observe the queue on Sunday at the home of Zapu's departed President Dumiso Dabengwa. They ...Published: 28 May 2019 at 09:39hrs | 3 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokeperson.
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
DD: The man, soldier, pacifier
The light of the armed liberation struggle icon has been extinguished. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, affectionately known as DD, passed on 23 May 2019.There was grief and anguish when news about his dea...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Phathisa Nyathi
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 21 | by PUMA
PHOTOS: Heavy police presence at Chef Ndiweni solidarity march
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police surrounded the Joshua Nkomo statue at the Bulawayo CBD on Friday after hearing of a planned Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni Solidarity March. Photos that...Published: 17 May 2019 at 11:23hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gukurahundi was planned by Zanu and the West
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants have denied that some of their colleagues were dissidents who were deployed to topple then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's government afte...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Freedom that never was'
We continue chronicling the political life of Agrippa Samuriwo. The former Whawha detainee who tells our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati – from his farm in Chitomborwizi, Mashonaland West Province ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fare thee well dear Comrade Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu
He was never a mainstream thinker because he thought outside the box all the time, appearing as if he was a rebel in the Zapu leadership setup. In many ways he was controversial because he was...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:29hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
'True heroes, heroines never die'
We publish the final part of an interview by our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati with nationalist Jane Lungile Ngwenya. In this instalment, Ngwenya chronicles how she earned mistrust in both Zapu and...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:00hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeortet
ZAPU Presidency Appalled by the violence and brutality
The Presidency of ZAPU unreservedly condemns the violence that has been going on in our country. It is an unacceptable abomination. We are dumfounded by the childish finger pointing and scapegoating. ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | 2 | by Mkhululi Zulu, ZAPU Presidential Spokesperson
The death of Tongogara as told by Lookout Masuku and Dumiso Dabengwa.
Josiah Magama Tongogara : The interview that cost his life:This excerpt was taken from a Rhodesian Combat Pilot who played a pivotal role in the Cease Fire Agreement and the formation of the N...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:29hrs | 1035 | by Social media
Surviving Ian Smith's hit list
We continue chronicling the political life of Jane Ngwenya. This week Ngwenya narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati of her release from Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp and fleeing Rhodesia u...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU used as a cash cow
Many people have left the party forced by ditactorship of its leader that were bought by Barbara Nyagomo to hand the Vice President post to her. When she realised how unpopular she was within ZAPU ran...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 18:21hrs | 2 | by Godknows Khumalo, Zapu member - Kwekwe Province
Gukurahundi has lost value as a political currency
Now that the 2018 plebiscite has emphatically placed my party ZAPU in its rightful political space, it is time for members to sober up to reality. Let me begin by congratulating all those who stood in...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | | by Mso Ndlovu
Whither ZAPU: The morning after
Now that the 2018 plebiscite has emphatically placed my party ZAPU in its rightful political space, it is time for members to sober up to reality. Let me begin by congratulating all those who stood in...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 11:35hrs | 1 | by Mso Ndlovu
Bashed ex-CIO boss pledges to follow Mohadi path
FORMER director in the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Albert Miles Nguluvhe, who was recently elected to be the Zanu-PF candidate for the Beitbridge East National Assembly seat has pledged t...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa tackles Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, in an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent a fortnight ago, laid the blame of the Gukurahundi atrocities on the Zapu leadership which was then led by the late vice-p...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa tackles Gukurahundi head on
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, in an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent a fortnight ago, laid the blame of the Gukurahundi atrocities on the former Zapu leadership which was then led by the late...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Ndebele Nationalits Leaders a disgrace'
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has said the so called Ndebele nationalists have disgraced to their fellow Ndebeles as some of them have connived with the outsiders to trample on thei...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Matabeleland electorate be careful about evil intentions of Jonathan Moyo on social media
We are indeed weary of Jonathan Moyo's tweets. At best he should give the electorate a break and he shuts up from wherever he is. The tweets relay the same message: GUGURAHUNDI! We shall lose this cau...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 21:10hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans and their strange choices - invites ridicule from onlookers
For some strange reason, Zimbabweans have become notorious for their paradoxical choices. They embrace and kiss the Devil and reject the Benign. At every crucial moment of truth in their history they ...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 10:24hrs | | by George Mkhwanazi
Zimbabweans and their strange choices
For some strange reason, Zimbabweans have become notorious for their paradoxical choices. They embrace and kiss the Devil and reject the Benign. At every crucial moment of truth in their histo...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by George Mkhwanazi
Where was Chiwenga when our People were butchered during Gukurahundi?
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has said the level of hypocrisy and grandstanding by the Zimbabwe military through Constantine Chiwengwa cannot go unchallenged if the unfolding events...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 09:19hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Dabengwa and Zapu are for and with the people…
As the harmonised general elections in Zimbabwe approach, many political dramas are being staged. Some are probably attempts to solve the crisis in our country while others are obvious political jokes...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 07:41hrs | | by Mkhululi Zulu
Dabengwa pokes old wounds
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa has sensationally claimed that he was dragged to be part of the Unity Accord by the late Vice President Joshua ...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 13:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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