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Govt departments must respect senior citizens: Auxillia
GOVERNMENT departments and the private sector have been urged to respect senior citizens in their service delivery amid concerns that elderly people face challenges when they approach various departme...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:03hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Sober approach to the Gukurahundi genocide problem
I take a bow to my lovely sister Nomazulu Thata who says she lives in Germany and stays in Berlin and Bremen interchangeably. This is in particular to her article entitled 'Israel Dube: First Things F...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:03hrs | 201 | by Clemen Moyo
Sober approach to the problem
I take a bow to my lovely sister Nomazulu Thata who says she lives in Germany and stays in Berlin and Bremen interchangeably. This is in p...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 13:45hrs | 2213 | by Clemen Moyo
Zapu plunged into mourning again
ZAPU has again been plunged into mourning following the death of its top official, secretary for health Nikela Ndebele, less than a month after the demise of party leader Dumiso Dabengwa.Ndebe...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:09hrs | 2393 | by Staff reporter
Zapu urges supporters to attend Gukurahundi hearings
ZAPU has urged its supporters and Gukurahundi victims to attend hearings on national healing to share accounts of the 1980s mass killings to ensure the "truth is not hidden".The opposition par...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under confused leadership
People elect the kind of leadership they want and in most cases, unless forced otherwise, they are never wrong. If leadership imposes itself upon a people usually chaos is born and eradicating it will...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:24hrs | 2824 | by Clemen Moyo
Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Director's Life in grave danger: Q & A Interview
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) has had contact with the Director of the Dr Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation who is now in hiding and fears for his life. We put to him a co...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 16:46hrs | 900 | by Thembani Dube
Mzila-Ndlovu's unit used a strela heat-seeking missile to shoot down a Rhodesian troop carrier
Moses Mzila-Ndlovu relates how his unit used a strela heat-seeking missile to shoot down a Rhodesian troop carrier returning from the attack on Mkushi women’s camp. They were stationed near Mwembesh...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 09:19hrs | 2010 | 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 | 1882 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows
Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 318 | by Dr Mandla Nyathi
Dabengwa burial snub cannot erase his legacy
Twitter: @MuckrakerZimTHE presidium was last week conspicuously absent at the burial of Zimbabwe's liberation war stalwart, the late Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, at his Ntabazin...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 494 | by MUCKRAKER
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 | 3944 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Lead if you may, without power
The top left grandstand at the iconic White City Stadium gave me a vintage hawk's eye view of proceedings. Increasingly, White City has become an arena less popular for sport, for football and Boy Ndl...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:24hrs | 2757 | by Zifiso Masiye
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 | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Calls for unity as Dabengwa is buried
A SEA of people from all walks of life thronged Manxeleni Village in Ntabazinduna, Umguza District, about 37km from Bulawayo to bid farewell to national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa who was laid to r...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:20hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa: An epitome of courage, endurance and integrity
HE used to call me at random and odd times; almost always late at night. The last time he did was at 11pm several weeks ago. He wanted to tell me he was in South Africa and was not well. This was the ...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 15:55hrs | 1793 | by Siphosami Malunga
WATCH: Chamisa's promise to Dabengwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has hit at President Emmerson Mnangagwa for his failure to attend the funeral of the late ZPRA Intelligence Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa.Chamisa was speaking at the grave ...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 13:52hrs | 11439 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's excuse for not attending Dabengwa burial
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will not attend liberation struggle icon Dr Dumiso Dabengwa's burial today in the spirit of respecting the bereaved family's request for privacy. This was said by President...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:56hrs | 6852 | 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 | 927 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's State security minister arrives in Zimbabwe
South Africa's Minister of State Security Honourable Ayanda Dlodlo has arrived in the country to attend the burial of the late ZPRA Intelligence Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa who will be laid to rest in Nta...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:51hrs | 3450 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Thousands bid national hero Dabengwa farewell
THOUSANDS yesterday thronged White City Stadium to pay their last respects to national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa as speakers from a cross section of society testified to his impeccable liberation war cr...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa: A fad or paradox of the nationalist memory?
Heroes are born out the willpower to reconstruct inequality to egalitarianism. True heroes define the course for the redemptive path to civilising and dignifying subjugated people. These are "men of t...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | 262 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Dabengwa: The untold story
Civil disturbances that happened in the early years of Zimbabwe's Independence that came to be known as "Gukurahundi" were a conspiracy by former Rhodesian security operatives who set up black compatr...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:40hrs | 736 | by Tichaona Zindoga and Kudakwashe Mugari
Its a mistake by Dabengwa to shun National Heroes Acre
AS a people and an ethnic minority, Ndebele lives have been lives of pain, anguish and real and perceived marginalisation by the Zanu-PF government and a Shona majority. It doesn't help to hear that o...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:48hrs | 8105 | by ZimLive Admin
Maj General Sedibe's speech at Dumiso Dabengwa memorial service
We are here to honour and celebrate the life of Cde. Dumiso Dabengwa. In South Africa, we regard him as a hero, and brother in arms. A highly treasured son to the people of Zimbabwe, and to all freedo...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:46hrs | 5805 | by Major Gen. Jackie Sedibe
Mnangagwa skips Dabengwa's burial
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not attending the burial of liberation war hero Dumiso Dabengwa at his Ntabazinduna rural home outside Bulawayo.Dabengwa died in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday las...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:41hrs | 5506 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dilemma over Dabengwa
TO go or not to go? That is the question. And damned if he does; damned if he does not.This is the dilemma President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces tomorrow over whether or not to attend the burial ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:22hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa ranks high among the region's liberators, say SA Minister
Newly-appointed South African Minister of State Security Ayanda Dlodlo has said liberation icon and ex-Cabinet minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa ranks high among the region's liberators.Dr Dabengwa ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | 2458 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2585 | by Staff reporter
Sadc dignitaries to grace Dabengwa burial
SEVERAL dignitaries from Sadc are expected to attend the late national hero and Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa's memorial service in Bulawayo today and burial in Ntabazinduna tomorrow, a party official h...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1660 | by Staff reporter
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 4661 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Zanu-PF stance on Dabengwa correct
The corruption riddled ZANU PF party MPs whose clueless Government has impoverished and pauperised the entire nation were after all correct in their childish pettiness. A cabal that has driven million...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:38hrs | 5181 | by Nkosenhle
Zanu-PF MPs' Dabengwa rebuff ignites anger
OPPOSITION political parties, war veterans and civic society organisations yesterday rapped Zanu-PF legislators for refusing to observe a minute of silence in honour of the late Zipra intelligence sup...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1913 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar
On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | 1582 | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
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 | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Zapu, Dabengwa family block Zanu-PF
The body of the late Zapu leader and former Cabinet minister Dumiso Dabengwa, who died in Kenya last week, arrived at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo yesterday afternoon aboard ...Published: 28 May 2019 at 15:06hrs | 2496 | by Staff reporter
Bury heroes at National Shrine- surviving ZAPU members told
Bulawayo-based prominent independent political commentator, Zifiso Masiye, has warned that ZAPU/ZIPRA history risk being obliterated if National Heroes who are declared continue to reject being buried...Published: 28 May 2019 at 11:30hrs | 7745 | by ViewFromMatopos
Zanu-PF panics over Dabengwa refusal to be buried at Heroes Acre
When the world recognised and colourful heroes like Dumiso Dabengwa who spent more than 14 years in the trenches fighting for the independence of Zimbabwe refuse to be buried at the National Heroes Ac...Published: 27 May 2019 at 14:39hrs | 13044 | by Israel Dube
Dabengwa's body expected in Bulawayo today
LIBERATION war icon and former Cabinet Minister, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, who died in Nairobi, Kenya, last Thursday has been declared a national hero. Dr Dabengwa was enroute to Zimbabwe from India...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:29hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF must back off
We are at the residence of the late Dr Dumiso Dabengwa's house. The official position is that the body of the late national and international hero was left in SA because of lack of space in the cargo....Published: 26 May 2019 at 18:31hrs | 2409 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
1893 MHRRM condolence message to Dabengwa family and Nation
It is with deepest and most profound sadness that the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) has learnt of the passing of our great and illustrious liberator and freedom fighter...Published: 26 May 2019 at 18:30hrs | 499 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Curtain falls on Dabengwa
Dumiso Dabengwa will be remembered as a legendary liberator who resisted trappings of power and stuck to his principles until the end.Dabengwa died last Thursday in Kenya on his way back home ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:59hrs | 3082 | by Staff reporter
The life of Misheck Velaphi Ncube: Connecting the dots
ORBITUARYMisheck Velaphi Ncube was buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on May 9, 2019, a well-deserved recognition from the ruling party and the state for his contribution to the libe...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:49hrs | 253 | by Ernest Malandu, Vivian Siziba and Strike Mkandla
Liberation war stalwart Dabengwa declared a national hero
Former Zipra intelligence supremo and liberation war stalwart Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has been declared a national hero.Vice president kembo Mohadi told a crowd that had gathered at the Joshua Mqab...Published: 26 May 2019 at 12:48hrs | 5422 | by Methusi Ncube
Unknown secrets about Dabengwa
It was in 2007 when l had four consecutive dreams about the same thing: l was talking to Dr Joshua Nkomo& he instructed me to go to Silobela&meet an old man from the Moyo clan& to deliver ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 01:04hrs | 13767 | by Benard Conrad Magugu
Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans mourn Dabengwa
It was with a deep sense of sadness and loss that the leadership and members of Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) received the devastating news that comrade Dumiso Dabengwa passe...Published: 25 May 2019 at 19:34hrs | 1495 | by Issued on behalf of the President of MKMVA, comrade Kebby Maphatsoe, by Carl Niehaus
Why Zimbabwean Heroes Acre would be a 'Fat Fraud' without Dabengwa?
A country which claims civilisation and top-notch Education like Zimbabwe, needs to be seen to be consistent with its claims in all respect. No one deserves to be buried at the National Shrine called ...Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:15hrs | 1861 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - 6 December 1939 to 23 May 2019 - A Tribute
A giant has fallen. Zimbabwe mourns. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa personified the war of liberation. Affectionately known as ‘the Black Russian', in reference to the fact he was one of the few liberation war ...Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:13hrs | 830 | by Lloyd Msipa
Zimbabwe plunged into mourning
LIBERATION war stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Dr Dumiso Dabengwa was a confidante of a number of Government ministers and helped them on issues of national importance, Deputy Minister of Defence...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:35hrs | 2850 | by Staff reporter
The fall of a liberator, national giant
Dr Dumiso Dabengwa was the archetype of a soldier, nationalist and nation builder. He became active politically in his early 20s. This resulted in his arrest and imprisonment in 1962 after the R...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:26hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
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