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The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 14 hrs ago | 3087 | by Nomazulu Thata
Darkest force in Zimbabwe
The strength that awakens the oppressed is stronger and unstoppable. The oppressed people of Zimbabwe are waking up. Amid all this the prince of demons dare to say we are the dark force when we call u...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 05:52hrs | 4122 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Mnangagwa's address of the nation inhumane: MDA leader
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance leader Hloniphani Ncube has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's utterances on the so called state of the nation address are inhuman, not presidential material, incisive a...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1005 | by Stephen Jakes
Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 10787 | by Robert Sigauke
Enough is enough, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties and hostile countries plotting his downfall and frus...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 8705 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF-Vampires on the hunt, once again
Mnangagwa's attempt at a speech this morning is a sobering reminder of what a bloodthirsty vampire-like cult ZANU PF is. It is a retell of the popular folktale story in which the hyena, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 15:27hrs | 1919 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Zimbabwe tragedy is the psychological warfare and propaganda machinery: Manyika
Build Zimbabwe leader Noah Manyika has said the tragedy in Zimbabwe is the psychological warfare and the propaganda machinery."The tragedy of this moment in the life of our nation is not just ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:39hrs | 468 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa enforces terror tactics he used in Gukurahundi days'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is using terror tactics that were used by the notorious 5th Brigade to implement a crackdown on persons who are labelled as opposition to his regime, Professor Jonathan Mo...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 11:32hrs | 2663 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 780 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
I do not know that Shiri was a hero
In the good old times at The Sunday Mail with editor Willie Musarurwa, if late news arrived when we were going to press, it would be typed in blue ink and labelled, Late News.So it was, when I...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:28hrs | 7517 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
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 | 742 | 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 | 91 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM on Perence Smallboy Chikerema Shiri's death
The most evil and barbaric man who led the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide accompanied with mass beatings, mass rapes, mass disappearances and mass starvation of the Matebele through curfews in the ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 10809 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
'Abducted Mduduzi Mathuthu's nephew detained by CIO at Mgnet House'
ZimLive Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu's nephew Tawanda Muchehiwa has been detained at the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation offices in Bulawayo after being abducted by state agents on Thursday, Prof...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:36hrs | 4633 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Burial of Gukurahundi Commander Perrance Shiri
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri has been buried at the National Shrine. His burial was attended by very few people who observed social distance in accordance with the World Health Organisa...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 15:15hrs | 5800 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL TEXT: General Sibusiso Moyo showers rare praises on Perrance Shiri
On behalf of the Deputy Minister, Dr David Musabayana, the Permanent Secretary, Ambassador James Manzou, the entire Ministry staff - including all Zimbabwean Ambassadors and diplomats serving abroad -...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:54hrs | 4698 | by Sibusiso Busi Moyo
'Perrance Shiri died after repenting of Gukurahundi sins'
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri repented of his involvement in commanding the notorious 5th Brigade that killed more than 20 000 Zimbabweans from Matabeleland and Midlands. A WikiL...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 10:17hrs | 6152 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Opposition party distances self from its leader's utterances
NEWLY-FORMED opposition party, The Patriotic Front (TPF) has distanced itself from utterances made by its leader, Darryl Collet last week where he urged the country to forget both colonialism and Guku...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Shiri died in his car while trying to get help
LANDS, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri, pictured, died in the wee hours of yesterday, days after his driver succumbed to the lethal coronavirus that is fast getting o...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reveals what killed Perrance Shiri
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed. Mnangagwa told mourners who were gathered at Shiri's house that, "Now that...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 17:38hrs | 9499 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Death of Gukurahundi commander splits Zimbabwe into two
We note with sadness that while we in Matabeleland remember, and painfully reflect on Perrence Shiri savagery and barbarism during Matabeleland genocide, Shona people are, without remorse or restraint...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 14:33hrs | 7813 | by Israel Dube
'Gukurahundi victims celebrate the death of Perrance Shiri'
Victims of the Gukurahundi genocide that took place in the 1980s are celebrating the death of former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri, Ibhetshu lika Zulu Secretary-General Mbuso Fuzwayo has said. ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 11:50hrs | 1884 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF youths, soldiers unleash terror
ZANU-PF youths led by Harare district secretary for transport Nicholas Hamadziripi yesterday unleashed violence, beating up MDC Alliance members, breaking water taps, uprooting fence poles and torchin...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:05hrs | 2604 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri timeline
Born 11 January 1955 Joined ZANLA in 1973 and rose through the ranks to become member of the High Command in 1977. Joined Zimbabwe National Army in 1980, attained Brigadier rank in 1982. Trans...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 2077 | by Staff reporter
People emulate leaders behaviour, rotten leaders stir rot in all the nation: APA
Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) has warned that people follow and emulate their leaders adding that rotten leaders bring the rot to the entire nation. The party said when in 1980 Mugabe mad...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 162 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mthwakazi nation, not mourning the Zimbabwean terrorist Perrence Shiri'
Today Zimbabwe happens to be grieving after the sudden death through the deadly Corona Virus, of the so-called "Black Jesus" of the 1980s. A self-proclaimed 'Jesus' figure during the 5th brigade opera...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 19:57hrs | 2779 | by Velile D Moyo
Suspected state agents armed with AK47s storm Josphat Ngulube's house
Bulawayo activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube has reported that suspected state agents broke into his house and looted money, alcohol and took some of his personal documents. Ngulube is one of the p...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 18:40hrs | 6254 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1340 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The mighty Air-Marshall assassinated by the global army: quick and easy- yave nyama yekugocha!!!
He lies cold in his mortuary air-tight bag, tight not to continue to spread the lethal virus he succumbed to. We delight at the thought that even people who appear to be immortal are indeed mortal and...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:06hrs | 5775 | by Nomazulu Thata
Gukurahundi perpetrators evading justice by running to the realm of the dead.
Gukurahundi perpetrators evading accountability and justice by running to the realm of the dead. While not every death, and this particular one is a tragedy, it is with sadness that we learn o...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 14:00hrs | 970 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Perrance Shiri's death: A double loss to Gukurahundi victims
The Matabeleland All-Stakeholders People's Convention (known as Phutheho) has described the passing away of former 5TH Brigade Commander Perrance as a double loss to victims of the Gukurahundi Genocid...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1458 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Perrance Shiri's death
Professor Jonathan Moyo says it is unfortunate that the former Commander of the 5th Brigade Retired Air Marshall Perrance Shiri died without atoning for his sins. Moyo posted the statement on ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 8878 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Gukurahundi Commander Perrance Shiri dies
Former Commander of the notorious Fifth Brigade, Retrired Air Marshall Perrance Shiri has died. Shiri was admitted to a private hospital on Tuesday battling with Coronavirus symptoms. ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 06:45hrs | 8402 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe police in fix
LAW enforcement agents are struggling to balance respecting human rights and enforcing measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has said. The coronavirus...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:51hrs | 3930 | by Staff reporter
'Politicians must stop victimising health professionals'
HEAlTH workers in Zimbabwe bear the brunt of savage politics and are victimised for providing professional services to victims of political violence and demanding better working conditions, United Kin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lockdown is clumsy, weird
ONE thing that the "new dispensation" of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will always be remembered for with frustration and contempt is its clumsy articulation of policy.You would have thought th...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:15hrs | 5390 | by Tawanda Majoni
WATCH: The Patriotic Front President tells Zimbabweans to forget Gukurahundi
President of the newly formed Patriotic Front Darryl Collet says Zimbabweans must forget the colonial era and the Gukurahundi genocide if they are to move forward as a country. Addressing Bula...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 19:47hrs | 3353 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Forget Colonialism, Gukurahundi lets build a new Zimbabwe'
A newly formed political party, The Patriotic Front, says Zimbabweans must break from the past, forget wrongdoings and instead focus on the country's future.The party formed by expatriates mos...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 18:10hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
Typical Zanu-PF arrogance cannot mask its failings
NOTHING can be more arrogant than Zanu-PF's unequivocal declaration that they will not apologise or pay back loans that party officials, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa himself, took under the ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:04hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's Excelgate book to launch online
FORMER Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo said he was now planning to launch his hard-hitting book Excelgate online after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration blocked the bo...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:21hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa curfew a reminder of Rhodesia, Gukurahundi periods'
POLITICAL parties and activists in Bulawayo say the dusk to dawn national curfew imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesday brought back sad memories of Gukurahundi atrocities carried out by the ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:19hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Nationalist Particularism: A pitfall to the resolution of regional question of Matabeleland
In recent times the political framing of the question of regional development of Matabeleland has increasingly sought to locate Matebeleland citizenship and nationhood within the broader narrative of ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 4166 | by Ntando Dumani
Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF leaders are creatures of violence
Former cabinet minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has claimed that the Zanu-PF-led government is responsible for the human rights violations unleashed on citizens in order to cow them into silence and...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:48hrs | 5560 | by Staff reporter
Council insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
As debate on the use of Khami Dam water to ease water shortages in Bulawayo continues, the local authority has insisted there is no need for panic as the water posed no health riskto residents contrar...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF is not a revolutionary organisation'
ZANU PF is not a revolutionary party, but an organization of thugs and looters, Zimbabwe Communist Party General Secretary Ngqabutho Mabhena has said. Writing on Facebook Mabhena said, "A revo...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 15:24hrs | 3531 | 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 | 3208 | by Staff reporter
United we will conquer
As the Mnangagwa's government suffers from a shock stomach run, we must continue in unison fighting for our rights. They can dismiss it as a non-event to downplay their fears. BUT let's us all...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 23:15hrs | 2274 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
North Korean 'forced labour' in Zimbabwe, claims US
THE United States says some North Koreans may have been forced to work in Zimbabwe by their government amid concerns of human trafficking in the country.According to the 2020 Trafficking in Pe...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 841 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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