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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: 11 hrs ago | 966 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles to disown 'gukurahundi' sellout Chiefs, blood on your hands!
Confidential information on our hands confirming that some Matabele traditional chiefs have accepted bribes from the genocidal Zimbabwe government to assist it to impose its suspicious Matabeleland ge...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 11:07hrs | 535 | by Israel Dube
Honey Bird Kop Farm seizure takes new twist
THE ownership wrangle of Honey Bird Kop Farm has taken a new twist as the white "owner" has finally spoken out after decades of silence, the Zimbabwe Independent reported.Honey Bird Kop Farm h...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 07:00hrs | 1892 | by Staff reporter
Abraham Lincoln and building national unity in Zimbabwe
There is a national consensus that the economic Structural Adjustment Programme (eSAP), imposed on Zimbabwe in 1991 by donors led by the IMF and the World Bank, has been one of the leading causes of t...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:17hrs | 243 | by Fay Chung
ZPRA veterans demand apology
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa must set up a truth commission to address the 1980s army atrocities in Midlands and Matabeleland to bring finality to the issue, former Zimbabwe People's Liberation Army (...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | 489 | 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 | 260 | by Staff reporter
Minister in fresh farm grab storm
MATABELELAND North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo has been sucked into a fresh farm invasion storm as it emerged he allegedly seized another black-owned farm and parcelled it out to members ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Defence Forces here to serve, says Gen PV Sibanda
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) are not only there to fight wars, but also uplift the lives of ordinary people through assisting Government in tackling emerging challenges such as Covid-19. ...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:30hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
'Form independent body for conferment of hero status'
THE opposition Zapu has called on government to facilitate formation of an independent body to confer hero status on deserving individuals regardless of their political affiliation.Zapu said t...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:55hrs | 177 | 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 | 414 | by Staff reporter
ZNA mourns Brig Gen Gatsheni, Colonel Muchero
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) yesterday announced the death of Brigadier General Mbonisi Gatsheni and Colonel Charles Pride Muchero, both succumbed to Covid-19 related complications. Brigad...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:47hrs | 1521 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism, regionalism cited in conferment of Zimbabwe National hero status
NATIONAL Assembly members Wednesday gave Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe a torrid time asking him to explain the criteria used by the government in determining who befits the national hero statu...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South seeks national hero status for Choeni
The Zanu PF leadership in Matebeleland South province has applied to the national leadership to confer national hero status to their provincial chairman Rabelani Choeni. Choeni (71) succumbed to Covid...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:39hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF provincial chairperson dies
ZANU-PF Matabeleland South provincial chairperson Rabelani Choeni has died.He was 71. Choeni died at his rural home in Malusungani in Beitbridge District on Friday due to Covid-19 related comp...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'go extra mile to uplift Zimbabwe'
AS the march towards Vision 2030 continues, loyal sons and daughters of the country must step up and advance national interests both among the country's diplomats and also in the security establ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:05hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Nkiwane snubs Heroes Acre burial
THE family of the national hero Abraham Nkiwane has said it is yet to come up with the burial date of the veteran nationalist. They agreed that the liberation stalwart will be buried at his farm in Um...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:54hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns Chimonyo, Nkiwane
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has consoled families of national heroes, Zimbabwe National Army Commander, Lieutenant-General Edzai Absalom Chanyuka Chimonyo and Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane. ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:53hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets bemoan shortage of registration forms
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has expressed concern over lack of registration forms in the Matabeleland region to enable former freedom fighters to register during the ongoing vetting exercise....Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:39hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra commanderAbraham Dumezweni Nkiwane dies
VETERAN nationalist and former Zipra commander Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane has died at the age of 93.Zanu-PF Politburo member Tshinga Dube confirmed the death.He said Nkiwane died in the...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:28hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams Zanu-PF for patronising army
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has slammed Zanu-PF for treating the Zimbabwe National Army as one of its wings and called on the party to respect the separation of powers in line with the provi...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 11:36hrs | 1488 | by Staff reporter
Ask why Dumiso Dabengwa crushed ZimRights Gukurahundi investigations while Minister of Home Affairs!
While accusations are still hot on Obert Gutu, can we revisit our past and see where things went wrong for the victims of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland and Midlands. I maintain that what Gutu uttered wa...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:13hrs | 2993 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Zanu PF - ZNA bond in unbreakable' said Chinamasa - rubbish, 2017 broke it and since feared another
Zimbabwe is not the first and only country to gain her independence and sovereignty after a bitter armed struggle; many other nations have in Africa, Asia, North and South America, etc. have had a sim...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:32hrs | 812 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zanu-PF, army inseparable'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would continue banking on the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) for political survival because the two are tied together by the liberat...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:57hrs | 2475 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF won't surrender bond with military
Zanu-PF acting political commissar Patrick Chinamasa says the ruling party was not ready yet to surrender what he said was an unbreakable bond with the country's military.He was addressing the...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:40hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hijacks war vets vetting'
THE Zipra War Veterans Association has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of manipulating the ongoing war veterans vetting exercise amid allegations that some undeserving party activists were being regi...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:03hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Kaunda supported Zapu, says Nkomo
SIBANGILIZWE, the son of the late for-mer Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, yesterday paid tribute to the late Zambian founding President Kenneth Kaunda, describing his relationship with his father...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:08hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Kenneth Kaunda: His dream for southern Africa came true: hailed & sung with praises in heaven!
He left his mark: he left a void in southern Africa just like Mandela, we are struggling to get the calibre of leaders to take over from where they left. KK was an indisputable great son of the soil. ...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 15:20hrs | 668 | by Nomazulu Thata
Correction of Zimbabwe history
The Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) never had a Military Command Structure called Special Affairs. The name Special Affairs was a Code name for the Armed Struggle, which ZAPU, (under the...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 15:27hrs | 3621 | by Phelekezela Mphoko (Zimbabwe former Vice President)
Mnangagwa under pressure to bring closure to Gukurahundi genocide matter
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly coming under pressure to bring closure to the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities with Kezi traditional leader, Chief Bhidi yesterday saying piece-meal efforts ca...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:54hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Security agents stalk war veteran
THE fight for control of Caps Holdings Limited (CHL) has turned nasty, with war veteran and businessman Frederick Mutanda alleging that State security agents were involved in a plot to assassinate him...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
If Mbuya Nehanda is a Heroine, why is Comrade Thenjwe Lesabe not one?
Some corrections at national level must be done because what is happening in Zimbabwe does not add up to full total. There are discrepancies openly done to provoke tribalism. Who does Nehanda represen...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 21:48hrs | 1751 | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | 654 | by Staff reporter
'Ordinary citizens bribing to register as war vets'
VETERANS of Zimbabwe's liberation war have claimed that ordinary citizens are paying bribes to register as freedom fighters in order to benefit from monthly pension stipends at the expense of real lib...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:12hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
'Probe Gukurahundi genocide mass grave desecration'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has been asked to investigate the alleged desecration of Gukurahundi mass graves particularly at Bhalagwe memorial site in Kezi, Matabeleland South pro...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 541 | by Staff report
Zipra war history under-reported
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra), the military wing of PF-Zapu, participated in the liberation struggle, but very little has been written about it.Its commander Alfred Nikita M...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:13hrs | 533 | by Alexio Rashirai
Honouring Mbuya Nehanda was a coup for Mnangagwa
We, from the Zipra side of the Zimbabwe nationalist movement, do not agree with President Ammerson Mnangagwa on many issues, but on the issue of honouring Mbuya Nehanda, reclaiming our history and rew...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 2025 | by Kenneth Mufuka
BCC writes to Mnangagwa's govt over street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council is waiting for Government approval on their own individual street name changes after the High Court ruled that they cannot adhere to the names that were effected through a St...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Police summon gukurahundi genocide activist over 2019 'violence'
POLICE in Bulawayo have issued court summons to Ibhetshu LikaZulu secretary general, Mbuso Fuzwayo over his alleged involvement in violent protests which rocked Bulawayo City Hall in October 2019 foll...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:06hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Dispelling the idiotic myths and stereotypes against Matabeleland
Although myths and legends have been useful tools of African philosophy for raising children since time immemorial, the way it has been used to enhance Shona supremacy and denigrate the people of Mata...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1264 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zapu reflects on Dabengwa legacy 2 years on
THE late Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa reportedly died a bitter man after his efforts to reclaim party properties seized by the ruling Zanu-PF party during the Gukurahundi era hit a brick wall.D...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:18hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
'Dumiso Dabengwa died a bitter man'
ZAPU acting president Isaac Mabuka says his predecessor and late liberation hero Dumiso Dabengwa died whilst still bitter about his lengthy jailing by then State leader Robert Mugabe despite being cle...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:11hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group conducts Gukurahundi memorial
BULAWAYO-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Sunday conducted a memorial service for 22 Gukurahundi victims, who include 21 women and a man who were burnt to death by the North Korean-trained Fi...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:55hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba intra-elite fights: Workers must seize the moment
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi's unhinged, incendiary attack not only on perceived opposition-nominated judges but in particular "securocrat" stalwart High court Jud...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:55hrs | 2255 | by Munyaradzi Gwisai
Debates on Zapu presidential candidacy: worth commenting
Admittedly some of the debates about the future of Zapu party and its leadership were interesting and how they articulated the future of this party in our political landscape. We cannot escape the fac...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 06:12hrs | 521 | by Nomazulu Thata
How my pistol sold me out: Tshinga Dube
AS we continue to commemorate our Independence Day, we revisit an article published earlier in this section in which our Assistant Editor Mkhululi Sibanda (MS) spoke to one of the pioneer guerillas, R...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 6187 | by Staff reporter
'Masuku death marked the demise of democracy'
CIVIC groups in Matabeleland have described the late Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) Commander General Lookout Masuku as the epitome of democracy, hence his inexplicable death on April 5,...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2612 | by Staff reporter
Lookout Masuku: An exceptional, patriotic fighter
SOME of the greatest wars in history were not only won through the competency of soldiers on the battlefield, but through the astute leadership of the men and women engaged in the fighting. Th...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:45hrs | 399 | by Walter Muchinguri
Matabeleland now the most feared territory in Zimbabwe - MLO
So afraid and concerned about Matabeleland is the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe that even an innocent fly that zooms past in the air in Matabeleland attracts nervous attention from the oppr...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 11:59hrs | 1455 | by Israel Dube
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 1506 | by Thembani Dube
Zapu plots SK Moyo, Mathema, Nyoni parly recalls
OPPOSITION Zapu is contemplating its own round of recalls from Parliament on all its former members, including Zanu-PF national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo, who went in the august House through the ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | 10595 | by Staff reporter
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