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Zimbabwe govt to compensate genocide victims
The Zimbabwean government will compensate victims of the Gukurahundi massacres, with community hearings into the 1980s atrocities set to commence on June 26, 2025, Deputy President of the National Cou...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:21hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
SADC must kick out Zimbabwe for kiling and oppressing Matabeles
It is quite disturbing that members of the SADC region are falling over each other to condemn Israel for the war against Palestine while they wine and dine with the black apartheid government of Zimba...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 17:00hrs | 906 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa must stop abusing Matabele genocide victims and pay US$ 100 billion compansation
It is very unfortunate that Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa pretends as if he did not see the Notice of Demand For The Restoration Of Matabeleland State delivered to the President's office by MLO President Cde ...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:44hrs | 1222 | by Israel Dube
Shona youth that attack Matabele possessed by the demon of gukurahundi
Shona youth that drive all the way from Mashonaland to Matabeleland armed with machetes and fire arms to invade Matabeleland and violently attack and kill...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 23:53hrs | 69 | by Israel Dube
A doomed holiday for unrepentant genocidaires!
We shall always remember the 21st of February as a doomed and diabolic holiday which has been set aside by the unrepentant genocidaires for openly celebrating the physical Gukurahundi genocide, which ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:34hrs | 19 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General for Freedom Alliance)
Zimbabwe genocide victims must be protected during Mnangagwa hearings
CHURCHES and civic groups yesterday called on authorities to ensure the safety of Gukurahundi victims when they testify during the upcoming public hearings.Public hearings into the massacres a...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide survivors struggle for closure
AS the 10-year term of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe, aimed at bringing peace and healing to survivors and families affected by past atrocities, approaches its en...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Political intolerance, poverty, corruption dividing Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE remains highly polarised as a result of political intolerance, unresolved historical issues, growing poverty, corruption and a lack of a common shared vision among other social ills, observer...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of shedding crocodile tears
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has drawn fire after visiting Rwanda's Kigali Genocide Memorial site when his government has done little to address Gukurahundi atrocities at home.Mnangagwa was in...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Two-faced Mnangagwa honours Rwanda genocide victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday toured the Kigali Memorial to pay tribute to over 600 000 victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a sharp contrast to his continued crackdown on Gukurahundi memo...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 17:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits plight of Gukurahundi genocide victims
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted that most people in areas that were affected by the Gukurahundi disturbances soon after independence do not have identity documents and birth certificates....Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a safe haven for wanted genocidists
The Zimbabwe government is known for deploying the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to commit genocide in which over 40 000 Matabele civilians including women and children were dasta...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 11:54hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
So the Zimbabwe govt can murder innocent Matabeles, bury, exhume & rebury just like that?
So the government of Zimbabwe can deploy Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to murder more than 40 000 Matabele civilians, bury them in shallow graves, rape more than 100 000 Matabele ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
There can never be any genuine unity in Zimbabwe without justice for Gukurahundi genocide victims
Yesterday I was watching a very touching true crime television program on a cold-blooded murder that remained unsolved for over twenty years - eventually ...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 07:27hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 11 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa: Ndebeles are not dogs (imigodoyi)
"You can never make Ndebeles dogs. You may wipe them out but the children of the Stars can never be dogs." Matabele Spokesman, Somabhulani Dlodlo spoke these words warning the white supremacists...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 11:49hrs | 4 | by Israel Dube
There is no reason to desecrate graves of Gukurahundi genocide victims
GUKURAHUNDI remains a sore and divisive topic in Zimbabwe, and recent developments are showing that there are those who wish to keep the ghosts buried and victims who need closure to move on.A...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The desecretion of the memory of gukurahundi victims
Greeting to all! Just when the memory of victims of the Gukurahundi, was brought to the attention of all the people of Mthwakazi, by Ibhetshu Likazulu, through the erection of tombstones, it w...Published: 29 May 2021 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Prepare for devastating Matabeleland breakaway as Zimbabwe votes against UN measures to stop genocide
On Tuesday18 May Zimbabwe demonstrated before the people of Matabeleland and the world that it cherishes its genocidal past without any remorse when it voted against a UN Assembly measure that seeks t...Published: 21 May 2021 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe under renewed pressure to give up Rwandan genocide suspect
United Nations investigators tracking one of the most notorious killers in the Rwandan genocide believe he is hiding in Zimbabwe and are launching a new effort to convince authorities in Harare to all...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Are Matabele and Shona people sworn enemies?
Are Matabele and Shona people sworn enemies? Well, Matabeles had no idea until Shona leaders announced it and even went on to declare an unprovoked war against them."Let's all Shonas, Zezurus,...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 07:44hrs | 23 | by Israel Dube
Chief Charumbira finally confirms that 5th Brigade targeted Ndebeles only
"We have heard lies being thrown around in the media. They are saying we have been captured to white-wash the gukurahundi reburial. Well let me make it clear that is not the case. Only Chiefs from Mat...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 10:18hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Civil society trashes Gukurahundi genocide plan
CIvIC and Church organisations, most of them drawn from the matabeleland region have unanimously agreed to declare government's position on the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi victims misplaced...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu Lika Zulu statement on government position on gukurahundi exhumations
Ibhetshu LikaZulu has in the past weeks consulted civic society groups, church leaders, political leaders, and individuals, to consult on the government position on Gukurahundi genocide exhumations an...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 08:03hrs | | by Ibhetshu Lika Zulu
When a Nguni Kingship chases his own agenda to undo other Ndebele Kings
We have been saying it for a long time that the Nguni Kings are chasing their own agenda but will want to ride at the backs of the Ndebele populations so that they get recognition by Zanu Government. ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 17:11hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Role of government and Matabeleland Collective under scrutiny
For decades, successive Zanu-PF governments have attempted to introduce developmental and political programmes in Matabeleland without consulting the locals. In all instances these programmes ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:01hrs | | by Lovemore Moyo
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 | 3 | by Lizwelethu Dube
Mwonzora apologises to Ndebeles over Gukurahundi
MDC-T Secretary General Douglas has apologized to the people of Matabeleland over statements attributed to him downplaying the Gukurahundi genocide as a civil war. Mwonzora had courted the wra...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bhalagwe heroes acre status rejected
A Matabelaland civic society organisation Ibhetshu lika Zulu has rejected the notion that Bhalagwe memorial site should be treated as a heroes acre. In a statement on Sunday issued by the Secr...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 20:48hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Open letter to President Mnangagwa
Today the 7th of August, is another unfortunate moment of the travesty of justice upon three Mthwakazi Republic Party activists at the Tredgold Magistrates Courts in Bulawayo. We write this lett...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 10:26hrs | 2 | by MRP
'Intellectually bankrupt' view Gukurahundi as tribal as did Mugabe for same selfish reasons too
"The Great African Afro-Centric philosopher Mwalimu Julius Nyerere said that those that are politically and intellectually bankrupt turn to ethnicity and religion as their major tool for mobilisation....Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:21hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa loses his cool as Matabele chiefs tell it all about Gukurahundi
Talk of a man who is sweating profusely under the searing heat of Matabeleland genocide, it is the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa. He has been to Matabeleland twice this year within a space ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 11:18hrs | | by Israel Dube
Join Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Day on 29th June 2019
Join Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Day on 29th June 2019Location: St Martin's Church Centre, 33 Parkstone Road, Desford, LE9 9HY, Leicestershire, United KingdomTime: 12:00...Published: 27 May 2019 at 14:36hrs | | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Gukurahundi play invited for SA festival
A play about Gukurahundi titled Uloyiko has been selected to be part of the Youth Expressions Festival to be held in Pretoria, South Africa, in June.The production, done by artistes based in t...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Commemorative Day 2019, UK
Each year the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), in partnership with stakeholders, will be organising and encouraging the organising of Matebeleland Gukurahu...Published: 04 May 2019 at 22:42hrs | 4 | by 1893 MHRRM
President Mnangagwa tampers with evidence
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to sanction the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi Genocide victims is an attempt to tamper with incriminating evidence South African based political analys...Published: 02 May 2019 at 10:43hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
1893 MHRRM Launches Genocide Memorial Day Commemorative Events in the UK and South Africa
Each year the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), in partnership with stakeholders will be organising and encouraging the organising of Matebelela...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
uLoyiko ensemble to Premiere at Pretoria's Momentum State Theatre in South Africa
South African theatre ensemble, uLoyiko has informed umthwakazireview.com that it will premiere at Pretoria's Grand Momentum State Theatre in South Africa in...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:54hrs | 18 | by Thembani Dube
Religious leaders must pray for bloodless separation of Matabeleland and Zimbabwe
China's revered revolutionary, Mao Zedong, was spot on when he said, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Zimbabwe is the product of the barrel of the gun so is the 2nd Republic tha...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by MLO
'Mugabe should compensate Gukurahundi victims before he dies,' says Matemadanda
Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe should compensate Gukurahundi genocide victims before he dies, Deputy Minister of Defence and War Veterans' Affairs Victor Matemadanda has said. Speakin...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Maduna and Ndiweni write to Mnangagwa's defence minister
Defiant Matabeleland chief Vezi Maduna and Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni have escalated their row with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government - this time demanding the appointment of an independent prob...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM: Merry Xmas and Happy New Year
From The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement's Information and Publicity Department#ThisMovement1893 MHRRM: Seskhona Thanking the leadership, membership and all keen followers...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 22:42hrs | | by 1893 MHRRM Information and Publicity Department
1893 MHRRM set to demonstrate against Motlante Commission outside RSA embassy
The 1893 Mthwakazi(Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement is set to demonstrate against Motlante and his Commisson on the 15th December 2018 outside the UK RSA embassy for its failure to prot...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 13:38hrs | | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Gukurahundi genocide victims compensation - a Possibility or an impossibility?
All peace loving people will agree with me that the disturbances which started in Zimbabwe soon after independence and saw approximately 20 000 people mainly of the Ndebele tribe constitute genocide a...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 11:14hrs | 4 | by Etiwel Mutero
Mnangagwa's govt tampers with Gukurahundi mass graves
Political activists here have taken a swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for tampering with Gukurahundi mass graves at Bhalagwe Shrine, in Kezi, Matabeleland South Province.Thi...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Shock developments at Bhalagwe Gukurahundi shrine
A visit by Mthwakazi Republic Party leaders to the Gukurahundi mass graves in Bhalagwe revealed some shocking developments. The delegation which was accompanied by victims and international journalist...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Khethani Ndlovu
MRP takes Spanish Journalist to Bhalagwe
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo, took along, a Spanish Journalist to his campaign program in Kezi which took them to the infamous Bhalagwe.The journalist, who is a professiona...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 13:00hrs | 1 | by Stephen jakes
Zimbabwe genocide victims accuse Britain of being complicit
GUKURAHUNDI victims and rights groups in Matabeleland region have accused the British government of being complicit in the mass killings and challenged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele chiefs must stay away from the Gukurahundi issue
With all due respect which should be accorded traditional chiefs, MLO would like to advise all Matabeleland chiefs to stay out of the sensitive issue of Matabeleland genocide as it is a political issu...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 14:53hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe genocide victims remembered in Bhalagwe
Activists in Matabeleland last week held a memorial service for Gukurahundi victims at the Bhalagwe mass graves in Maphisa to coincide with former president Robert Mugabe's 94th birthday....Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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