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Is oppression in Zimbabwe turning us into a violent nation?

There is something deeply troubling unfolding in Zimbabwe, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Over the past months, social media has been flooded with disturbing videos of violence: a stepmother viciously attacking h…

Published: 19 hrs ago | 288 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

South Africa & Zimbabwe; Collapsed governments; What is next?

What next for South Africa, what next for Zimbabwe? The aspirations of the people's freedom and independence have been thwarted by organisations that purported to be genuine fosters of UHURU: ANC and Zanu PF failed dismally to rise above c…

Published: 27 Oct 2025 at 07:09hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata

The horrors of Gukurahundi and complicity of World Bank and IMF

To put it into perspective, Gukurahundi was characterised by inversion of human rights violations, including torture, disappearances, abductions, sexual molestation, rape, ethnic profiling and arbitrary arrests, detainment in concentration…

Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 12:40hrs | | by Dr Gorden Moyo

Kembo Mohadi betrayed Matabeleland: Mthwakazi MRP is spot on!

Before he dies, Kembo Mohadi must be told how much he betrayed Ndebele people. To say it post humus is too late. His home region constitutes Matabeleland. Kembo must be told now that he will not be missed in Matabeleland and Midlands if he…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 15:05hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata

Mthwakazi rejects the genocide interviews: No justice under the perpetrator's gavel

The government of Zimbabwe has announced its so-called Gukurahundi Public Hearings, set to begin soon under the stewardship of none other than Chief Fortune Charumbira, a well-known ZANU-PF loyalist and unapologetic defender of the ruling …

Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 21:30hrs | | by Fikile ka Malikongwa

Genocide govt shifts gukurahundi probe to closed-door private testimonies

The government has abruptly altered the investigative framework and methodology for the upcoming state-sponsored probe into the Gukurahundi genocide, replacing an open public testimonial approach with a closed-door private witness testimon…

Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Nyarota the Gukurahundi Cheerleader

Geoff Nyarota, that Gukurahundi cheerleader and genocide supporter is no more. He died in a country with hospitals without medicine. Yet he died better than the thousands who were bayoneted in the killing fields of Matabeleland and the Mid…

Published: 25 Mar 2025 at 21:53hrs | | by Victim of Nyarota Gukurahundi Editorials

Origins of the Gukurahundi philosophy

The philosophy of Gukurahundism, as articulated by George Mkwananzi in FIGHT or PERISH, is rooted in a complex web of ethnic fears, historical grievances, and p

Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 20:06hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi hearings: Where from and possible outcomes

IT'S 42 years now since a dark cloud of Gukurahundi engulfed Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces, in which the Zanu-PF government, then led by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, unleashed  North Korea-trained 5 Brigade soldiers, o…

Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 08:19hrs | | by Silas Nkala

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 Paul Siwela in 2015. The Notice puts it…

Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 05:44hrs | | 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 innocent Matabeles, grab their land and resources are driven by the demon of gukurah…

Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 23:53hrs | | by Israel Dube

How Mzila's family suffered during Gukurahundi genocide

IN 1982, I was assaulted by five Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniformed young men donning red berets at my Luveve house number 4136 where I lived, while I taught at St Bernards High School in Pumula, Bulawayo.One of the weapons the Gukurah…

Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | | by Moses Mzila Nkalange

FULL TEXT: Ibhetshu likaZulu statement on Gukurahundi healing process

Ibhetshu likaZulu has noted with extreme concern the Government of Zimbabweâ€™s defiance of the constitution, its remorseless lack of empathy to the survivors of Gukurahundi and those that lost their lives, after executing genocide, one of…

Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 11:53hrs | | by Mbuso Fuzwayo

Mnangagwa and the death of Gukurahundi as a campaign trump card

DEVELOPMENT milestones achieved in the short stint of the Second Republic in the Matabeleland region have busted the opposition's political ideological bubble that was hollow of tangibles but inflated by the lack of engagement over the Guk…

Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 07:31hrs | | by Vincent Gono

Understanding the collapse of Zimbabwe

THE first two decades that followed the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980 were characterised by a number of major developments. Government expanded social services such as health and education â€” the total number of schools was increased f…

Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings

While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for the South African media who wrote stories about the Gukurahundi massacre…

Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | | by Stephen Bates

Gukurahundi genocide closure needs sincerity, maturity and solemnity

DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, it is not conscionable for you to rope in tribal chiefs in the process of bringing closure to the Gukurahundi atrocities. Commonly, crimes of violence are beyond their jurisdi…

Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana

Remembering gukurahundi genocide

The spirit of Mthwakazi insecurity and why the Mthwakazi prosecutor general must bring the perpetrators of these henious crimes to justice.Greetings to all!For forty-two years, the insecurity of the people of Mthwakazi has spiralled out of…

Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza

Gwayi-Shangani will not translate into votes and support for Mnangagwa

"Cockroaches, maggots need to be eliminated for someone to have clean house" these are the words [sic] of Emerson Mnangagwa in 1983 when he the late former murderous President Robert Mugabe unleashed the North Korean trained fifth brigade …

Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:21hrs | | by Phosiwe Ncube

No to extortion on maternal health services in council clinics

THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) calls upon the Harare City Council to act decisively and stop harbouring and nurturing extortionist practices by health personnel in council clinics against pregnant women seeking maternal h…

Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by ZUJ

Zanu-PF caught pants down

The Editor,This talk about an opposition sweep in Zimbabwe is misguided. Let us  not waste time talking about oppression, changing people's votes, killing, closure, arresting, torture, censorship of newspapers, interruption of the mea…

Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 18:42hrs | | by Thembani Maphosa

Zapu position on Zimbabwe government's machinations on Gukurahundi genocide

It is an objective reality that Zimbabwe cannot move forward as a nation towards peace and development unless and until the thorny issue of Gukurahundi is properly and effectively addressed. The attempts to assuage the pain and suffering c…

Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 18:41hrs | | by Thembani Maphosa

Life though the eyes of a Gukurahundi survivor

This week I was back in the village after a week away in the city and as usual to get the best of the news of what happened in my absence the first point of call is the home of my uncle, apart from being my neighbor, he is a brother to my …

Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 13:58hrs | | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda

A Gukurahundi genocide survivor's story

Last week I was back in the village after a week away in the city and as usual to get the best of the news of what happened in my absence, the first point of call is the home of my uncle.Apart from being my neighbour, he is a brother to my…

Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda

View from Up Here: Gukurahundi Genocide: An Open Wound Part 1

Gukurahundi is a thorny issue for our leaders. They do not want to talk about it, neither do they want it discussed. The objective is to relegate it to the dustbins of history. But can a nation move on without healing, especially after suc…

Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 08:21hrs | | by Peter Muzira

Healing pain through addressing Gukurahundi massacres

NOW that the government of Zimbabwe is opening up to ad-dressing the Gukurahundi massacres with the aim of healing the people of Matabeleland and Midlands provinces from the trauma and pain they suffered through the genocide, it is importa…

Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | | by Reinford Khumalo

The Unity Accord & Gukurahundi

The 1987 unity accord meant nothing then to the people of Mathebeleland and the Midlands and it means nothing to them today. We said it then and we are saying it today. It actually made the leader of Zapu Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo unpopular …

Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 08:30hrs | | by Clemen Moyo

Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves

ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together.He got there before me and started playing with what turned…

Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:00hrs | | by Keith Silika

The Dialogue

Dialogue is important and it has to be real and objective. All those steak holders capable of providing a solution to the problem should be represented in the dialogue. I don't know what is wrong with our African leaders because most of th…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 13:10hrs | | by Clemen Moyo

MLF pissed-off by Jenni Williams

MLF is pissed-off to learn that all along, Jenni Williams disguised as the human rights activist who herself out of her mouth said she would never share a platform with Emmerson Mnangagwa, the serial killer of her kith and kin, yet she is …

Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 19:24hrs | | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front

Just a little violence on civilians ...how satanic?

This is the arrogant advice given the South African leader by a Head of State of a neighbouring country ravaged to the ground by yet to be punished genocidists wallowing in the endless comfort of the culture of impunity. Cyril Ramaphosa ca…

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:01hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu

Open letter to Jacob Mudenda: What was your role during Gukurahundi?

Hon Jacob Mudenda Sir,  I would like to applaud you for your speech recently. In this speech Advocate Jacob Mudenda, you urge the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to advocate for a national apology for past conflict…

Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:31hrs | 1095 | by Nicholas Ncube

Facilitate Gukurahundi apology, Mudenda urges NPRC

Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has urged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to advocate a national apology for past conflicts

Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1340 | by Staff Reporter

Mugabe wise to refuse hero funeral

Former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was recently reported to have told his family that he did not want to be buried at the national heroes shrine but instead wanted to be buried next to his mother's grave. He was reported t…

Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by Nicholas Mlamuli Ndebele

Gukurahundi offered a subtle entry point for disempowering the USSR's ideological strength

I CONCLUDED the previous article of this series by exploring how Zapu was a victim of neo-colonial treachery which was brazenly targeting its Matabeleland and Midlands strongholds. The aim of this policy by the West was to curtail the spre…

Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 06:32hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu

Mnangagwa can't just sweep genocide under the carpet

IT is normally serene on Zimbabwe's diplomatic scene, but there was high drama last week when government summoned United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols after Washington imposed sanctions on Ambassador-designate to Tanzania Ans…

Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 14:06hrs | | by Owen Gagare

Gukurahundi genocide revisited

Between 1939 and 1945, during WW 11, an estimated number of 6-7 million Jews perished at the hands of Hitler and the German Nazis. The International Military Tribunal was set up in Nurenberg in 1945 to investigate and conduct trials on cri…

Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 19:06hrs | | by Japhet M. Zwana

Of the Kambarami fiasco and Ndebele-Shona issues

It's just been a few weeks since the Deputy Mayor of the City of Bulawayo Mr. Tinashe Kambarami decided to fire the town clerk, Mr. Christopher Dube, in a move that would make Kambarami an internet sensation and a celebrity over a few hour…

Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:16hrs | | by Mandla Tshuma

Gukurahundi solution is to tackle poverty

GUKURAHUNDI has long been debated as a tribal issue and was presented to the younger generations and the world at large as a battle for tribal supremacy. This was until former Zapu cadre and former Minister of Home Affairs Dr Obert Moses M…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube

Reliving Gukurahundi and need for reparations by

It is now nearly four decades after the Gukurahundi genocide that saw more than twenty thousand people killed in a seemingly ethnic cleansing act in the Midlands and Matabeleland north provinces. Ghostly shadows of the thousands of innocen…

Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 13:33hrs | | by Makho Precious Moyo

Exploring the causes of Gukurahundi

It is true that the Matabeleland crisis resulted in a number of people losing their lives while some remained with permanent psychological and physical injuries.True that maybe, perceptions and views about the impact of Gukurahundi have be…

Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu

The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion

This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part of the Kingdom of Mthwakazi alias Matabe…

Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by King Mzilikazi II

Zapu's position on gukurahundi genocide

It is an objective reality that Zimbabwe cannot move forward as a nation towards peace and development; unless and until the thorny issue of Gukurahundi is seriously and effectively addressed. The assuaging of the pain and suffering brough…

Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Zapu

Mnangagwa and his shona speaking chiefs must blame Gukurahundi not Ndebele chiefs

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT PRESS STATEMENT01 JULY 2019As chiefs we are deeply disappointed by statements by some that Chiefs from the Midlands province were invited to a meeting with the President last Friday on tribal grounds. This canno…

Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni

Has the President Begun?

On 29 April 2019 I wrote an article titled 'The Gukurahundi Solution', which was published by the on line media, bulawayo24 on 30 April 2019. In that article I had highlighted the pain us victims of the Gukurahundi are still experiencing, …

Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 17:36hrs | | by Clemen Moyo

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 First', which was published in Bulawayo2…

Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 18:03hrs | | by Clemen Moyo

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 compatriots and erstwhile freedom fighters aga…

Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 06:40hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga and Kudakwashe Mugari

The Zanu-PF has our Money!

We were pleased to host President John Magufuli of Tanzania these past two days and he was kind enough to Cde Crocodile to speak the Zanu-PF party line and call for an end to sanctions on Zimbabwe, saying they hindered development and prog…

Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by GoodNess Nwachukwu

Reliving Gukurahundi and need for reparations

It is now nearly four decades after the Gukurahundi genocide that saw more than twenty thousand people killed in a seemingly ethnic cleansing act in the Midlands and Matabeleland north provinces. Ghostly shadows of the thousands of innocen…

Published: 29 May 2019 at 12:22hrs | | by Makhoprecious Moyo

Dr Dabengwa an undisputed war of liberation hero

Although Dr Dabengwa's (as rumoured) wish was not to be buried at the heroes acre, the heroes acre would be angry as he is an undisputed liberation hero who deserves 1000% to be buried there. If he gets buried there, the history of the lib…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 13:31hrs | | by Njabulo

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