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How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1406 | by Irvine Sibhona
Gukurahundi genocide survivor loses court bid to stop exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese Friday dismissed with costs a case involving a Gukurahundi survivor, Charles Thomas, Zapu and Ibhetshu Likazulu who were seeking an interdict barring...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves
ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1622 | by Keith Silika
Zapu lobbies for consular offices
THE opposition Zapu is lobbying various embassies to consider opening consular offices in Bulawayo to serve those residing outside the capital, Harare, as is the norm in many countries.Embassi...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
'People must defend their vote' - never ever had a vote, can't defend what is not there
The root cause of Zimbabwe's crippling economic meltdown and political paralysis (politicians on both sides of the political divide are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless) is the failure to hold...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 13:59hrs | 1501 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's CIOs still pursuing activists linked to #31JulyProtests
SOME of the people linked to the foiled July 31 mass demonstrations claimed yesterday that they were still being trailed by suspected State security agents despite being recently cleared by the police...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:47hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF must not slam doors on helpers
WE have read stories re-garding Zanu-PF and South Africa and it comes as no surprise to us that Zanu-PF is adopting this stance with respect to South Africa. The arrogance of Zanu-PF knows no ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 304 | by Corruptionforce
'Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF happy to engage opposition'
THE ruling Zanu-PF says contrary to claims by its opponents, it is happy to engage with the opposition in a bid to find solutions for Zimbabwe's decades-old political and economic crises. In a...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:06hrs | 3384 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs opposed to national dialogue
SHARP differences have emerged in Zanu-PF over the push by South Africa and its ruling African National Congress (ANC) to help end Zimbabwe's decades-long myriad crises. At the same time, poli...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:03hrs | 2530 | by Staff reporter
Zapu urges ANC to be tough with Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION party Zapu has pleaded with South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), to do more to ensure that the ruling Zanu-PF is brought to order.Zapu spokesperson Iphi...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:01hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's planned Bhalagwe visit mischievious, insensitive, disrespectful and insulting
Bhalagwe; The place of bones in present-day Zimbabwe. Lying in the southern part of the country, with tens of thousand bones that have been crying for justice since the physical killings of ZAPU and p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 7104 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Joshua Nkomo's dislike and disdain for Emmerson Mnangagwa
"Nikita ngicela limkhiphe lumfana akalunganga" these are the words uttered by the legendary Zapu and Zipra commander in chief in 1962.He was referring ...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:24hrs | 11807 | by Posiwe Ncube
Thambolenyoka speaks about war experiences
THE mere mention of the name, Thambolenyoka, who operated as a dissident in the districts of Matabeleland South in the 80s during the post-independence disturbances used to send shivers down the spine...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1616 | by Staff reporter
King Mzilikazi's Commemoration 2020
The Covid 19 pandemic protocols made it impossible for formal annual first week of September celebratory gatherings and festivities to take place at the Royal Palace, Emhlahlandlela in the Matop...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:10hrs | 751 | by Prince Zwide Peter Khumalo
ZAPU statement on latest South African envoys mission to Zimbabwe.
The Revolutionary and Democratic party notes the seemingly sustained efforts by the South African National Congress party in trying to initiate a process of finding the ever elusive solution to the Zi...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 08:54hrs | 2669 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Court reserves judgment on Gukurahundi exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese yesterday reserved judgment in a case where Gukurahundi survivors were seeking an interdict order to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to fast...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa grudgingly accepted Ramaphosa mediation in Zimbabwe crisis
A delegation from South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Wednesday held talks with top Zanu-PF officials, aiming to break a political paralysis that has spawned a deep economic and h...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:29hrs | 9362 | by Staff reporter
ANC calls for Zimbabwe unity
THE talks between Zanu-PF and a delegation of the top brass of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) yesterday were described as "friendly but frank" last night.Sources who spo...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 15:47hrs | 1248 | by Staff reporter
ANC envoy leave after meeting Zanu PF only - rightly so, what is there new to say
The ANC envoy has flown back to SA after meeting the Zanu PF leaders. They did not meet any other party leaders although they had said otherwise."ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule has announ...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 08:21hrs | 2513 | by Nomusa Garikai
ANC wants peace, stability in its Zimbabwe 'province'
SOUTH Africa's governing party, ANC's secretary-general Ace Magashule has described Zimbabwe as a "province" that needs peace and stability recognising it has just emerged from a contested election....Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2222 | by newzimbabwe
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 | 990 | by Nomazulu Thata
If Jonathan Moyo's advice is premised on "cut yangu yakamira sei" in the future dispensation, then this country is in for a joke
Listening to the lecture Jonathan Moyo gave in last week one-hour video now circulating in the social media, it felt sick in the pit of the stomach. It is for this reason one must be careful what soci...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 20:22hrs | 6970 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa not ready to defend Gukurahundi exhumation bid
A Bulawayo High Court Judge was Thursday forced to postpone hearing into a case in which a Gukurahundi survivor and local pressure groups are seeking to stop victim exhumations linked to the 1980s hol...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1698 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Shelve Gukurahundi and move on, Mohadi says to Zimbabweans
VICE PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has urged Zimbabweans to stop reopening old wounds brought by the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres and others forms of citizen transgressions saying everyone has wronged the nex...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 453 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa, Jenni Williams dragged to court
PRESSURE groups in Matabeleland have dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Matabeleland Collective leader Jenni Williams to court over the emotive Gukurahundi killings of the 1980s.Pressure...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:36hrs | 4631 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can't lead Gukurahundi reburials, says Survivor
GUKURAHUNDI survivor Charles Thomas, Ibhetshu LikaZulu and Zapu have filed a High Court chamber application seeking to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting the exhumations of victims of Ma...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF comedians
In March this year the governing party appointed a young man into the position of Director of Information. Tafadzwa Mugwadi, a holder of a BSc in Political Science and a MSc in Finance in Internationa...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 14:32hrs | 1799 | by Patrick Gabavu
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 1050 | by Lizwelethu Dube
'Anjin corruption and meddling in Zimbabwe's affairs are not China's foreign policy' - nonsense, they are the core pillars
China and Russia are the two countries that have played a major role in many African countries' fight for independence. It is a historic fact that most of these African countries have since found that...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:28hrs | 1922 | by Wilbert Mukori
ZANU-PF applauds Mnangagwa for opening up on Gukurahundi
ZANU-PF has applauded communities in Matabeleland and some parts of the Midlands Provinces for cooperating with Government to bring to finality the emotive issue of Gukurahundi.This was said b...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:21hrs | 1279 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will never solve any substantive Gukurahundi matters - a cynical divide and rule
"The Government will also start issuing birth certificates to children of some of the people who were killed during the disturbances and have been failing to get the documents and death certificates o...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 2058 | by Wilbert Mukori
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 | 3468 | 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 | 1404 | by Irvine J. Sibhona
Bulawayo groups blast 'provocative' Mnangagwa meeting
SOME Bulawayo based civic society groups and political parties have described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Saturday's meeting with fellow organisations as provocative to the people of Matabeleland w...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:51hrs | 4288 | by newzimbabwe
Dr Obert Mpofu: How I joined the struggle at 16
THE Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration and former Cabinet Minister, Dr Obert Moses Mpofu, has penned his autobiography titled: On the Shoulders of Struggle: Memoirs of a Political Insider which amon...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:16hrs | 1119 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
'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
Mnangagwa, Chamisa must find each other
THAT Zimbabwe's socio-economic and political environment continues to worsen is undeniable. The question is how can Zimbabwe salvage herself from the abyss and forestall her implosion?The stan...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1399 | by Tawanda Zinyama
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
Zanu PF eager to repeat Gukurahundi: ZAPU's comment on Mutsvangwa's provocative words to Catholic Bishop Conference Pastoral Let
Zanu PF eager to repeat Gukurahundi: ZAPU's comment on Zimbabwe Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa's provocative words to Catholic Bishop Conference Pastoral Lette...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 11:46hrs | 1546 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'Mutsvangwa 'anti-Ndebele' diatribe stokes tribal hatred'
OPPOSITION Zapu says recent angry remarks against Catholic bishops by Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa were capable of stoking tribal tensions in the country.Party spokesperson Iphithule...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:31hrs | 3105 | by newzimbabwe
Sikhala: Our Father Zimbabwe
EDITOR,I have known Job "Wiwa Sikhala" since 1996 when I first met him in the revolutionary Complex 5 (Baghdad Student Hostel) at the University of Zimbabwe where his passion for the students ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 18:48hrs | 4583 | by Charles M. Mutama
ZANU PF eager to repeat Gukurahundi genocide
The mother party, concerned by the need for equality of the Zimbabwean people, respect of their constitutional and natural rights, as well as the need for a peaceful co existence of its citizens, is c...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 16:09hrs | 4080 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Open letter to Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Senator Monica Mutsvangwa The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Archbishop Robert C Ndlovu Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Commission ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 3685 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda - ADGN President
Bad apples and forces
In 1963 the dark forces of western intelligence identified a few bad apples within the Nationalist movement of Rhodesia, ZAPU, which had survived bans and detention of its leaders. Independence was ga...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1443 | by Patrick Gabavu
Zimbabwe authorities must respect human rights
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus (ICAC) Africa, South African chapter leader Chanda Chose has said there is a need for Zimbabwean autho...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:05hrs | 252 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe govt blasts 'genocidal, evil-minded' bishops
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has come out guns blazing against the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC), describing the bishops as genocidal and e...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khuphe - kambe uthembeni mtaka mama?
I am breaching my own covenant I made never to critique Thokozani Khuphe in the public taking into consideration the trauma she had to endure at the funeral of Richard Morgen Tsvangirai funeral in Bhu...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:28hrs | 5544 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zapu seeks meeting with ANC, uMkhonto we Sizwe Over Zimbabwe crisis
OPPOSITION Zapu has requested a meeting with South Africa’s main liberation movements, the ANC, South Africa Communist Party (SACP) and uMkhonto we Sizwe to demand the adoption of an inclusive engag...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and the Founders Sydrome (Foundiritis)
Let me introduce this article as an opinion piece by a pedestrian activist. I write from personal experience not other peoples lenses.l have been in the political field for a while now and with Covid1...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:46hrs | 798 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
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