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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 | 3565 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA veterans turn to Mohadi on seized properties
ZPRA veterans are now turning to Vice President Kembo Mohadi in their latest attempt to reclaim their property from the government.Their properties, now estimated to be worth billions of Unite...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:43hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
'Zanla cadres were poorly trained'
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary (Zipra) fighter Esau Ncube has sensationally claimed that his Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla) counterparts were poorly trained so much so that ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 2961 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 19676 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Mnangagwa mourns Brig-Gen Sambulo Ndlovu
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has described the late Brigadier-General Sambulo Ndlovu as decorated General who served the country with distinction. Brig Gen Ndlovu died on Tuesday due to Covid-19 relate...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Brig-Gen Ndlovu declared national hero, snubs heroes acre?
Brigadier-General Sambulo Ndlovu, who died in Harare on Tuesday and was buried in Bulawayo on Thursday, has been declared a national hero. This was announced by Bulawayo Provincial Affairs and Devolut...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1155 | 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 | 505 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU RSA provincial press statement on the province's roadmap to provincial conference and national congress
Zimbabwe African People's Union South Africa Provincial leadership Council sat on 04 October 2020 to take stock of the progress that has been made and the shortfalls that still need to be covered. ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 13:20hrs | 450 | by Cde Godfrey Viki
'Britain rigged polls on behalf of Mugabe'
THE British government of Margaret Thatcher rigged the 1980 elections in favour of the late former President Robert Mugabe out of fear his loss could trigger a civil war because he came from the triba...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:48hrs | 2511 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi calls for all languages to be taught in schools
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi said Government should promote the teaching of all indigenous languages in schools, including those spoken by minority groups and urged Parliament to speed up the enactment...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1254 | by Staff reporter
Ex-farm workers deserve compensation: War vets
WAR veterans and labour activists have urged government to channel part of the US$3,5 billion meant to compensate white former commercial farmers towards ex-farm workers who lost their sources of live...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:04hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 4921 | by Staff reporter
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 | 11877 | 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 | 1675 | by Staff reporter
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 | 997 | by Nomazulu Thata
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 328 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Gukurahundi: MPs insist on truth-telling
OPPOSITION legislators have urged government to allow for truth-telling as a conflict resolution mechanism to address the emotive Gukurahundi issue. The MPs made the demand in Parliament on Th...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1877 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation used and dumped us: Zipra
Zipra war veterans have complained that they were used by the new dispensation during the November 2017 military take over and later dumped.They also accused the government of squandering an o...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 13:40hrs | 2212 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa insincere on Gukurahundi
THE Matabeleland Forum (MF), a consortium of civic society organisations (CSOs), which recently snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's meeting with other regional civic groups, has dismissed governmen...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:33hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3483 | 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 | 1124 | 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 | 497 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru: The soldier, kingmaker
LAST week marked the fifth anniversary of the mysterious death of Solomon Mujuru (Rex Nhongo) a war hero, former military commander, politician, business mogul and Zanu-PF kingmaker until his demise. ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2888 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Criminals around the president: How Zimbabwe revolution was hijacked
WHEN the Zimbabwe Defence Forces grabbed power on November 15, 2017, they coined their take-over "Operation Restore Legacy".At the time, they told the nation that they wanted to round up and a...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 2309 | by Jonathan Chando
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 | 696 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube warns that failure to dialogue will lead to civil strife
FORTHRIGHT Zanu-PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube has once again warned that only dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition will save the country fro...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 21:39hrs | 5376 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa attacks Archbishop Christopher Ndlovu
Statement by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Hon Monica Mutsvangwa (Senator) on August 15, 2020TOMORROW (today) is Sunday, a holy day on the weekly Christian c...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:13hrs | 1077 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe security sector reforms debunked
US-funded studies on security sector reform in Zimbabwe have largely taken the radical view that more often than not, the military has acted undemocratically through uttering and overseeing an array o...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 09:15hrs | 7384 | by Staff reporter
Partnerships in lies, historical distortions and corruption now an ANC/ZanuPF game
I remember vividly in one of the last Zapu rallies held at White City Stadium in 1982 the ex Zipra choir singing, "Siyamkhalel`uMandela omunye wezinkhokeli zase Africa ezavalelwayo. Ngoba silobudlelwa...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:14hrs | 718 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Nelson Chamisa special message to Zimbabwe Defence Forces
Today, the MDC Alliance joins the nation in commemorating our Defence Forces. It is 40 years since the Zimbabwe Defence Forces came into being through the integration of the ZIPRA and ZANLA liberation...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4823 | by MDC Alliance
ZDF a formidable, disciplined force for the people: Gen Sibanda
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda shares his views on the significance of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day, below are excerpts of the interview. Q: What is the si...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1750 | by Staff reporter
Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53hrs | 5277 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Zimbabwe: False narratives and false solutions
Donkey years ago I was preparing for a doctoral dissertation defence when my professor called me to say I had been "referred". That was a nice word for saying the dissertation was unacceptable to one ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 762 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Exiled Zipra ex-combatants slam Shiri
FORMER Zipra cadres yesterday said they were still bitter with the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri because he commandeered the North Korea-trained 5th Brigade military unit that committed atr...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Compensating white farmers hypocritical, says Zapu
Zapu accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of hypocrisy.Government on Tuesday inked a US$3,5 billion compensation deal with white former commercial farmers for improvements on the ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:00hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Go well Gudo Guru
ON Wednesday morning, the nation suffered a great and painful blow. Zimbabwe lost Honourable Perrance Shiri, the Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister. He was also a long-serving Air Mars...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:36hrs | 679 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Ex-ZPRA Forces: The power behind Mnangagwa's Presidency
Serving members of the Zimbabwe National Army who are former soldiers of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army are the force that sustains President Emmerson Mnangagwa's power, it ahs emerged....Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 14:25hrs | 8401 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zipra veterans dare Mohadi to act over seized properties
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants have challenged Vice-President Kembo Mohadi (pictured) to prove his mettle in government by facilitating the smooth return of their prope...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 3232 | by Staff reporter
'Ex-ZPRA Commanders takeover Zimbabwe's security forces'
Former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the retirement of Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi was a historic end to the post...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 09:16hrs | 20958 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2721 | by The Big Interview
Mnangagwa, Zapu cross swords over seized properties
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has angered opposition Zapu leaders after he met them shortly before the November 2017 coup and early last year where he pledged to return their seized properties before h...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2182 | by Staff reporter
Perence Shiri gives ZPRA property to ZANU PF
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement Hon. Air Chief Marshal P. Shiri (Rtd) has instructed ARDA's Acting Chairman J. Makado to transfer Nijo Estate comprising eight (8) propert...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 11:46hrs | 6469 | by Mandla Ndlovu
So much lies and distortions in Zimbabwean history - the true story needs to finally be told
When renowned pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey famously said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots", he had a very valid point, as indeed,...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1847 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
So-called liberation struggle afforded people a chance to get married - Mpofu
Former MDC legislator Norman Mpofu has said the so-called tough liberation struggle afforded people a chance to get married, "the Zanu PF way" Chihuri needs to explain what he exactly meant by this....Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2757 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zanu-PF is debris, embrace Nelson Chamisa' advised Moyo - two faced buzzard, celebrated MDC GNU blunders
When Mai Mujuru was booted out of Zanu-PF in 2014 within months she was criticizing Zanu-PF and her former mentor, Robert Mugabe, for mismanagement, corruption, vote rigging, murderous oppression, etc...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:29hrs | 4251 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2788 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Dr Nkomo: The triumph and paradox of the liberation agenda
Early career timing and ideological wiringTHE nationalist anti-colonial movement in modern Zimbabwe directly intertwines the ideological efforts and political charisma of the late Vice-Preside...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 176 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Bread does not grow in supermarkets
IF there is an immutable truism that has stubbornly stood the test of time, it is the fact that common sense is not at all common.It is fair to say while common sense is rare, nonsense is ubiq...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:14hrs | 182 | by Bishop Lazarus
General PV Sibanda slams Zimbabwe leaders for becoming 'corrupt'
Gen Philip Valerio Sibanda, commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), says the level of corruption displayed by some of the country's leaders is tantamount to selling out.Speaking in a r...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 18:49hrs | 6356 | by Staff reporter
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