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Riot police besiege Bulawayo High Court
Heavily armed riot police yesterday descended on the Bulawayo High Court, blocking journalists and activists from attending a high-profile hearing in which opposition leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo sought ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 09:14hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZIPRA veterans, widows, and children demand return of seized properties
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) combatants, alongside widows and children of fallen fighters, have spent three cold nights camping on a piece of land in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West,...Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:46hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets back Geza's call for change
The ZIPRA Veterans Association has thrown its weight behind Zanla war veteran Blessed Geza's calls for good governance and leadership change, citing rampant corruption, economic hardship, and stagnati...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 15:17hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa successfully thwarted a premature revolution! We waited for a Geza signal that would never come!
There is open disdain in all societies about how President Mnangagwa failed the people. At the same time the open discussions about a rift between Chiwenga and Mnangagwa is known; hostilities are play...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 20:32hrs | 1805 | by Nomazulu Thata
ZANU-PF urges govt to return Zipra properties
ZANU-PF has called for the immediate return of properties belonging to the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) that were seized during the 1980s civil unrest in Matabeleland and the Midlands....Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 05:51hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
The truth about symbiotic survival of Mnangagwa and Chiwenga!
Citizens, forget about these fake social media channels news, one called Chatufa voices and his admirers. We are subjected in a web of fake news and meanings that spin themselves constantly, finding i...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 15:54hrs | 897 | by Nomazulu Thata
ZIPRA veterans reflect on Soviet training
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) fighters, who trained in the Soviet Union, gathered in Bulawayo on Thursday for a poignant exhibition that celebrated their contributions to the arm...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:45hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi perpetrators are exposed and cited to clarify the 2017 coup!
That the General Chiwenga was cited in the genocide atrocities that took place especially in Matabeleland South is not a coincidence but well calculated. The Zanu PF conference was in Bulawayo, curiou...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 20:22hrs | 1298 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ex-Zipra combatants await distribution of Nitram Properties
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) combatants and their beneficiaries have been urged to remain patient as the long-awaited distribution of assets under Nitram Properties approaches r...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 07:22hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must return Zipra assets
Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have criticized the government for retaining their properties, arguing that returning these assets should be a priority in addressing the Guku...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:11hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Zipra celebrates Mutsvangwa sacking
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans association has said the sacking of War veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa is good riddance after he snubbed their efforts to ...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zipra ups ante on 100 seized properties
ZIPRA'S Nitram properties committee has handed over its final list of 100 properties seized by the Zanu-PF government during the 1980s Gukurahundi disturbances to its patron Tshinga Dube.Dube ...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ex ZPRA commanders appeals for assistance
FORMER Zpra commander John Maluzo Ndlovu is bitter over the neglect of veterans of the liberation struggle as he appealed to well-wishers to fund his medical bills for injuries sustained during the wa...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zipra identifies 100 seized properties
Former Zipra ex-combatants claim to have identified around 100 properties that were confiscated by the Zanu-PF government during the 1980s amid the Gukurahundi period.Volta Ekem Moyo, the chai...Published: 05 Oct 2023 at 19:50hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war collaborators feel betrayed by govt
Tensions are mounting among former Zipra liberation war collaborators who underwent vetting in 2021 to determine their eligibility for monthly payouts promised to them.These unarmed combatants...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 20:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zipra urges war vets not to be used for violence
VETERANS of Zimbabwe's war of liberation should not be used by political parties to engage in violence during this year's electoral season, the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) has said....Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:35hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Return of Zapu, Zipra properties imminent, says Mohadi
Zanu-PF second secretary, Kembo Mohadi, yesterday claimed that the return of properties belonging to Zapu and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) is imminent.Zipra was the military...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere charms Zapu
SELF-EXILED independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has charmed the opposition Zapu after he promised to return the party's properties seized by the Zanu-PF governemnt in the 1980s...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Declare a holiday after Joshua Nkomo'
Opposition political parties and activists from Matebeleland have accused the government of systematically trying to erase the legacy of late nationalist, Joshua Nkomo, by rejecting calls to honour hi...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 09:34hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has forsaken Zipra war vets
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have repeated claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has forsaken them, leaving them wallowing in poverty.Zipra was the...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets fume over Moyo's hero status
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants have lashed out at government for dragging its feet to confer hero status on one of the country's liberation war pioneers, David Moyo....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Push for return of Zapu properties intensifies
ZAPU and Zipra veterans are set to meet on January 28 to elect a substantive committee to spearhead engagement with government and other processes towards the return of their seized properties....Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZIPRA demands inclusion in Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi resolution initiative
FORMER ZIPRA cadres have demanded to be part of the Gukurahundi resolution stakeholders, warning that any efforts to resolve the longstanding conflict without them and ZAPU members will not yield the ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZIPRA cadres accuse Mnangagwa of sidelining former combatants
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) commander, Jonh Gazi has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of sidelining former ZIPRA and fellows from main wing, Zimbabwe People's Union (ZAPU)...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Kariba ignore Heroes Day
HEROES' Day celebrations were poorly attended in Bulawayo and Kariba yesterday, with residents saying the holiday was no longer of significance because government is failing to honour the "real libera...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC condemns police conduct over Zipra march
OPPOSITION Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) has condemned the police for temporarily blocking a Zipra War Veterans Association (ZWVA) march to the Joshua Nkomo statue on Saturday.The march, ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, war vets square off over Zipra properties
ZIPRA veterans in Matabeleland North have demanded that Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu must visit the province to show them some Zipra properties, which he claims he bought in Nyaman...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Bulawayo war vets vetting exercise
CHAOS has rocked the war veterans vetting exercise in Bulawayo and Matabeleland provinces amid claims that some associations were being sidelined in the exercise.On March 14, Defence and War V...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vet collapses, dies in vetting queue
A 66-YEAR-OLD war veteran collapsed and died while awaiting her turn to be vetted at Elangeni Training Institute in Bulawayo on Sunday.The vetting process is also targeting non-combatant cadre...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes Bulawayo judge, lawyer
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched a probe into Bulawayo High Court Judge Justice Martin Makonese and lawyer Josphat Tshuma for alleged misconduct in cases involving land disp...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Sibangilizwe Nkomo elected new Zapu President
THE son of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, Sibangilizwe was Saturday elected new Zapu new president during a drama-filled elective congress held in Bulawayo.Nkomo polled 793 votes to lan...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 18:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Citizens were misled by unity accord
Zipra Veterans Association member Jethro Mkwananzi has accused late former President Robert Mugabe and late former Vice President Joshua Nkomo of misleading the nation in their signing of the unity ac...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 15 | by Stephen Jakes
Angry ex-Zipra fighters warn govt
Disgruntled Zipra war veterans say they will now take matters into their own hands because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is dithering about returning their properties seized during the Guk...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Govt playing games with Zapu properties
ZAPU and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans yesterday accused the government of "playing games" with its properties seized in the 1980s.Zipra was the military wing of Za...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zapu honours own heroes
ZAPU, whose ZIPRA cadres have been denied national hero and heroine status by the Zanu-PF government on numerous occasions, has resolved to recognise and honour some of its departed cadres...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zpra veterans to be honoured
THE Zipra Veterans Association will honour their living liberation struggle stalwarts during this year's Heroes Day commemorations.Petros Sibanda, secretary-general of the association, told Su...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
New vetting exercise for war vets, Zipra
A NEW national vetting exercise for former freedom fighters in Zimbabwe is expected soon, and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) has urged its members to prepare and take part in the scr...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:10hrs | 2 | 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
Joshua Nkomo's son for Zapu presidency
THE late Vice-President and iconic statesman Joshua Nkomo's son, Sibangilizwe, has been nominated as one of the candidates to contest for the opposition Zapu presidency. The party also wants t...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu, Zipra mourn Nkomo
ZAPU and Zipra have said the death of Mafela trust director Zephaniah Nkomo has dealt a blow to efforts to rewrite the true history of the party which used to be led by the late vice-president Joshua ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Zipra war vets urge security forces restraint during lockdown
Ex-ZIPRA liberation war fighters have implored the Zimbabwean military and other security agents to refrain from harassing citizens during enforcement of Covid-19 prevention measures.This foll...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to establish welfare fund for its vetarans
OPPOSITION party, Zapu, is set to establish a social welfare fund to meet the needs of its members and wartime comrades who are wallowing in poverty, the party's social affairs department has said....Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZIPRA combatants raise red flag over Liberation Struggle Act
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) veterans have appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services and raised serious concerns over crafting of th...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Zipra combatants cry foul
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans have accused the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government of leaving them out on planned new liberation fighters' benefits.This comes a...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZIPRA veterans dismiss struggle law
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) fighters have petitioned parliament to amend the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Act which they argue was not reflective of their contributions....Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu celebrates own heroes
ZAPU and ex-combatants of its Zipra military wing during the liberation struggle, celebrated the just-ended Heroes' Day by honouring their fallen and unsung heroes interred at Lady Stanley Cemetery in...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meet Zipra leaders
Zipra Veterans Association leaders recently met President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House in Harare where they discussed issues of properties confiscated by government in the 1980s, Gukurahundi and ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds grace DD funeral
CLOUDS of dust rose into the morning sky as vehicles, big and small, joined hundreds of feet shuffling to the late national struggle icon and hero, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa's, rural home in Ntabazinduna yes...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu lines up massive memorial for Dabengwa
The Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (Zipra) Veterans Association and Zapu have called on all war veterans, who worked with the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa (DD), to join a mass memorial s...Published: 29 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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