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Mnangagwa to preside over another bogus hero burial
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today preside over the burial of liberation war stalwart and National Hero, Colonel (Retired) Kenny Ridzai Mabuya, who died last week after a short illness.In a statem...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
President Mohadi mourns hero Mabuya
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi has joined President Mnangagwa and the nation at large in mourning Colonel (Retired) Kenny Ridzai Mabuya, who will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Wednesday....Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
National hero Nkomo burial set for Sunday
Liberation stalwart Highten Nkomo, who died a fortnight ago and was on Wednesday declared a National Hero, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Sunday.Yesterday his body mad...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanla deploys in Matabeleland South
DURING the armed struggle some parts of Matabeleland South Province and its neighbour, the Midlands were shared operational areas by Zanla and Zipra guerrillas. Some of the shared areas were Mberengwa...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
SK Moyo too junior to be Vice president
In November 2017 Zapu Harare provincial secretary-general Elphacy Dube said the province was throwing its weight behind Khaya Moyo. Zapu Harare province jumped the gun and suggested SK Moyo without co...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 16:26hrs | 2 | by Colin Khumalo
Brigadier General Moyo died a bitter man
ZIPRA Veterans Association members, who mourned the late Retired Brigadier General, Collin Moyo, who died last Friday aged 66, said he died bitter over the marginalisation of the ex-Zapu military wing...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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: Struggle stalwart, war strategist, epitome of unity
he death of liberation struggle stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa after battling with a liver disease has robbed the country of a distinguished military strategist and leader who shaped and influenced the 16-y...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Give peace a chance
The immediate past government of Robert Mugabe assembled a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) mandated to investigate and make recommendations on past injustices in Zimbabwe. The need...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
War vets recommend hero status for late CIO
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Bulawayo province has recommended that the late senior officer in the President's Office and freedom fighter Austin Peter Moyo be dec...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex Zipra cadre raps comrades who for another Zipra association
An Ex-Zipra member Max Mkandla has warned other members for the PF Zapu military wing to stop plans to form another Zipra association using the same name which is currently used to the association led...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zipra veterans seek to meet Mnangagwa
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army cadres are planning to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over pertinent issues they claim former President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zanu-PF ignored for 37 ...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa takes aim at Mnangagwa govt
BULAWAYO - ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa is maintaining his onslaught on the new government led by Emmerson Mnangagwa saying the new political dispensation was no different from the old order under R...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 10:52hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Should we still be optimistic that we are heading for a new beginning?
So now that we are sober after celebrating Mugabe's departure, should we still be optimistic that we are heading for a new beginning?What normally guides a new beginning is the prescription pr...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 09:48hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
Should we still be optimistic that we are heading for a new beginning?
So now that we are sober after celebrating Mugabe's departure, should we still be optimistic that we are heading for a new beginning?What normally guides a new beginning is the prescription pr...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 22:37hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
How Zipra rose from the ashes
IN our previous instalments of our Column Lest We Forget we have been carrying out articles on former Zipra camp commander, instructor and a member of the High Command, Jack Mpofu. Mpofu, the late Rog...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:31hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko are you brave, man enough? - tell Mugabe to his face about Gugurahundi atrocities!
President Tsvangirai has his own weaknesses we all know them for sure. We have to ask ourselves who is cleaner than Tsvangirai in our political landscape: none whatsoever. For VP Mphoko to tell us now...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 16:43hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Alfred Nikita Mangena: Unique ZAPU Soldier
Lookout "Mafela" Masuku Memorial Lecture SeriesDelivered by ZAPU President Dr. Dumiso DabengwaIbhetshu likaZulu, Fidelity Towers, Bulawayo, 28 October, 2016Distinguished GuestsColl...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 07:08hrs | 55 | by Dumiso Dabengwa
'Joshua Nkomo saved Zimbabwe from civil war'
This year on April 5, Ibhetshu likaZulu gave me the honour to deliver the inaugural Lookout "Mafela" Masuku memorial lecture. This year is the 20th anniversary of the untimely death of Lt General Look...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 12:17hrs | 2 | by Dumiso Dabengwa
Mnangagwa 'begs for mercy'
Sensing danger, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was apparently forced to beg for his political life in the warring Zanu-PF on Thursday, disowning restless war veterans and other senio...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko, war vets exchange blows
War veterans yesterday responded with interest to a savage assault on them by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko who accused them on Thursday of engaging in "treason" by endorsing Vice President Emmers...Published: 04 Jun 2016 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VP Mphoko receive barrage of attacks over Dabengwa remarks
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has received a barrage of attacks from the People in Matabeleland after he attacked Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa saying the former intelligence supremo has soiled ...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 05:16hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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
How Mugabe survived Chimoio assassination, Mphoko narrates
I first met President Mugabe when he visited Bulawayo soon after his return from Ghana. We received him at Stanley Square.He was well-received, with everybody carrying him on their shoulders. ...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 12:02hrs | 6 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
Claims VP Mphoko deserted Joshua Nkomo before independence
HARARE - Zapu veterans are piling the pressure on newly-appointed Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, claiming that he deserted the late Joshua Nkomo and the party before independence - which effecti...Published: 28 Dec 2014 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF VP fight and the Unity Accord
TRUE unity between the liberation movements - Zanu and PF-Zapu - remains an elusive goal for as long as demands to reserve posts in the united Zanu-PF remain, according to leading political figures an...Published: 30 Aug 2014 at 08:00hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
The British engineered Gukurahundi Massacres
I understand how people hate Robert Mugabe but, to publish this report as a factual report is a horrible crime against the people of Zimbabwe. I can only assume you were neither witnesses to the t...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 06:52hrs | 9 | by Brian Sherif
CIO frustrating ex-Zipras in Mashonaland West
The Central Intelligence Organisation is reportedly frustrating efforts by ex-Zpra cadres to conduct programmes in Mashonaland west programmes where the PF Zapu military wing operated in the liberatio...Published: 21 Apr 2014 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zapu reacts to Zanu-PF's comment on its properties
ZAPU secretary-general Strike Mkandla on Tuesday dismissed Didymus Mutasa's pronouncements that Zapu properties confiscated after independence now belonged to Zanu PF by virtue of the 1987 Unity acco...Published: 01 Jan 2014 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Solomon Mujuru I knew: Dabengwa
SOLOMON Mujuru stayed in Bulawayo with his uncle in Mzilikazi suburb and became an organising secretary for the Zapu Youth League for the branch during the sixties. He then left for Zambia in 1967 to ...Published: 21 Aug 2011 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Dumiso Dabengwa
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