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Suspended army lawyer defended

The trial of suspended Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) legal officer, Grace Kurasha, took a dramatic turn yesterday after former Council for Legal Education secretary, Huggins Duri, testified in her defence and dismissed allegations that she …

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:33hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter

Record gold prices brighten Zimbabwe's trade outlook

Gold surged to a new all-time high on Tuesday, lifting Zimbabwe's economic prospects as the country continues to benefit from strong exports of the precious metal.Spot gold climbed 0,8 percent to a record US$3 508,54 per ounce, while Decem…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:31hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe plans overhaul of liberation war shrines abroad

Government will soon embark on a major facelift of liberation war heritage sites in neighbouring countries where thousands of Zimbabwe's fallen heroes lie in mass graves, many of them still unmarked.Vice President Kembo Mohadi revealed the…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:30hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter

Southern African liberation movement face crisis

Leaders of former liberation movements from Southern Africa, including Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu PF, have convened in Johannesburg for a crucial three-day summit aimed at addressing the existential crisis confronting their political parties.T…

Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 15:55hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter

Mr. President, Zimbabwe already has a new breed of heroes - but your regime persecutes them

A country's liberation struggle never ends.During the burial of the late Air Vice Marshal (Rtd) Winnie Cabby Mandeya at the National Heroes Acre, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that Zimbabwe needed a new generation of heroes and her…

Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:35hrs | 587 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

The war of liberation was not a walk in the park, lest we forget

Seized by the prophetic words of the mystic and condemned Mbuya Nehanda, "My bones will rise again", young Jorum left home without telling anyone. School, parents, and siblings did not matter anymore; none but ourselves would free Zimbabwe…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 18:33hrs | 429 | by Tondo Murisa

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 political ambitions that shaped the trajectory of Zimbabwe's post-colonial polit…

Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 20:06hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter

ZANU-PF's 'liberation' lie: The party never fought for democracy

In a recently circulating audio clip, a former senior Zimbabwean army commander made the shocking declaration that if there are any attempts to remove ZANU-PF from power, bloodshed will follow. He boasted that the ruling party came to powe…

Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 19:58hrs | 358 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Liberation hero to be exhumed

The late liberation War Hero, Dr January Rachilumela Makakavhule-Moyo's family has requested for his remains to be exhumed and reburied.According to a notice by the Beitbridge Registrar, Dr Makakavhule-Moyo's family wants his body to be ex…

Published: 10 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

War vets should be vanguards of Zimbabwe's independence

Our war veterans should be at the forefront of condemning the institutionalised plunder of our vast national resources by a small ruling eliteONE of the greatest tragedies to befall post-colonial Zimbabwe is that there has never been anyon…

Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Songs that liberated the country

The song Kubuhlungu Emoyeni (There is pain in my heart) by LMG choir evokes emotions of the liberation struggle and one of the singers, Happiness Sibanda, breaks into tears each time she explains the meaning of the song. Sibanda, a member …

Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Bongani Ndlovu

Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's liberation pilgrimage

In my previous instalment in this publication, I indicated that Zimbabwe's independence history is connected to that of all post-colonial African nations. Likewise, Africa's liberation is also grounded on paternal nationalism constructed a…

Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:58hrs | 3 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva

Lest we forget

Zimbabwe yesterday remembered its national heroes and heroines who selflessly contributed their lives, limbs or properties for the liberation of their fatherland, which is now in the hands of the African people like all other African count…

Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:33hrs | 4 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu

One Zimbabwe One people! (poem)

Those who dedicated their lives,Who dedicated their lives for our Motherland,They took a thorny path to Independence,United they stood with will power to liberate us,They got it through thick and thin,Living a regreattable life of their ti…

Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Edmore Kudakwashe Chaipa

Heroes never looked back! (poem)

Heroes never looked back,In their desire to liberate Zimbabwe,They took it forward like preying lions,They took the struggle to the top,Stiring those who had turned on their fearful hearts. The love to marry guns wedded in many,Beginning a…

Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 09:49hrs | 9 | by Edmore Kudakwashe Chaipa

Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation

Since his sad passing away on 1 July 1999 Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's name and life have continued to arrest public attention and imagination at a world scale.As I write the Zimbabwean historian and leading decoloniality theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-…

Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:18hrs | 3 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena

Liberation struggle memory lane always triggers emotions

Going down the liberation struggle memory lane always triggers emotions. I find going down liberation struggle memory lane, lonely, sorrowful, sad and even sometimes amusing. When those who participated in the liberation struggle 24/7 meet…

Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:19hrs | 33 | by Retired Brigadier-General Abel Mazinyane

Gen Chiwenga gives an overview of the challenges of rebellion

The Sunday Mail Editor Mabasa Sasa and Reporter Tinashe Farawo spoke to Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander, General Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga about he joined the liberation struggle as a teenager and rose to become a ge…

Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:12hrs | 7 | by Mabasa Sasa and Tinashe Farawo

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VP Chiwenga Applauds US$30 Million Orange Juicing Plant in Beitbridge

Man Jailed for Dagga Possession and Distribution

Mliswa takes aim at Charamba over handling of Geza protests

Chiefs raise alarm over resource extraction without community compensation

Harare prepaid water meter roll-out begins

Hopewell Chin’ono: Zimbabwe Is a Supermarket for South Africa

Mnangagwa's time 'running out'

The cartels running the Harare's transport system

Flooded rivers disrupt rural school attendance, government urged to act

Police launch manhunt for child kidnapper

Zimbabwe to introduce POS machines at police roadblocks

Zimbabwe's honest cop returns wallet with US$4,000

Zanu-PF activists invade school land, block road

Police crack down on illegal firearms as amnesty nears end

Lands officer of corruption in land allocations

Bodies of SA horror accident victims arrive at Beitbridge border post

Harare gives 7-day ultimatum to remove abandoned cars

3 dead, 18 injured in Harare-Mutare road head-on crash

Banks demand clarity on AI rules as compliance concerns grow

Woman found naked on in-laws' veranda

Man (42) impregnates minor (15) twice

Zimbabwe's statistics system crippled by antiquate laws

Chinese firm, Chief clash over mining rights

Gono not yet off the hook

Hunt for steel dries up Munyati river

Zimbabwean banks overcharging clients

Ministries defy Mnangagwa office's ban on looting

CIO bursts WhatsApp extortion web scam

US$600,000 school commissioned in Kwekwe

Bulawayo Councillors Alarmed by Water Bowser Shortage Amid Ongoing Crisis

CIO bursts WhatsApp extortion web scam

Businessman shoots wife dead, commits suicide

'Operation Dudula is a group of thugs,' says Malema

Zimbabwe to freeze civil service hiring in 2026

'A junior soldier, not Chiwenga, could remove Mnangagwa' analyst warns of a 'neat, sadly bloody' plot

Traditional ceremony ends in murder as siblings kill brother

Redcliff plans CBD relocation

Mliswa takes aim at Charamba over handling of Geza protests

Mnangagwa's time 'running out'

Hopewell Chin’ono: Zimbabwe Is a Supermarket for South Africa

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