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Zipra war vets fume over Moyo's hero status
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants have lashed out at government for dragging its feet to confer hero status on one of the country's liberation war pioneers, David Moyo....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
MRP mourns ex-ZPRA fighter Sharp Shoot
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) says it is regrettable that liberation war heroes continue to struggle for survival as they are not recognised by the State, or if they are, it is late in their life...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:23hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Zipra's Sharpshoot denied National Hero Status
THE late liberation stalwart David Mongwa Moyo has been conferred a State-assisted funeral in honour of his contribution before and after independence and will be buried at the Bulawayo Provincial Her...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:23hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Sharpshoot MUST be declared a national hero
THE Presidium is dealing with a request for the late liberation stalwart and pioneer liberation fighter David Mongwa Moyo to be accorded national hero status.Moyo, whose war name was Sharpshoo...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:42hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Sharpshoot, a gifted sniper
On April 14 in 2019, the Sunday News published the first instalment of a two-part interview with North Korea-trained war veteran and nationalist David Mongwa Moyo.Moyo, who was affectionately ...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:40hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Vote candidates with solutions for Gukurahundi, says Chief Mathema
Mathema made the remarks last Thursday at Emkhonyeni village in Tsholotsho during the memorial of 22 villagers who were burnt alive on March 16, 1983 by government forces during the Gukurahundi era....Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 19:40hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
JZ Moyo's younger brother dies
FORMER Zipra senior commander David Moyo, nicknamed "Sharpshoot", has died.Moyo, was the younger brother to former Zapu vice-president Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo, died at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Survivors relive Gukurahundi horrors
A SOMBRE atmosphere prevailed on Thursday when villagers gathered at a site in Emkhonyeni Village, Tsholotsho district where 21 women and one man were burnt into ashes in a hut on March 16, 1983....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primary elections date set
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has set March 18 for Zanu-PF primary elections as the revolutionary party girds its loins ahead of this year's elections leaving nothing to chance to ensure a resounding victory....Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
ZimCopter inventor still wants to fly
"Since 1994, my social life has been a mess. The helicopter and African rifle project just consumed me."That's how the long-forgotten and probably never heard of by some – retired Flight Lie...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:15hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa compensates 258 ZIPRA cadres fired from ZNA during Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly ordered payment of compensation of 258 former ZIPRA combatants who were summarily dismissed from the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) during the height of the G...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:14hrs | 1877 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slams Western media onslaught
The onslaught being directed to Zimbabwe by the West and its media is as a result of vast wealth endowments the country has which they want to resume their old habits of looting, a Cabinet minister ha...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:27hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 1112 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Push for return of Zapu properties intensifies
ZAPU and Zipra veterans are set to meet on January 28 to elect a substantive committee to spearhead engagement with government and other processes towards the return of their seized properties....Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Zipra veteran blasts liberation war pretenders
PROMINENT Zipra war veteran Thomas Ngwenya says the country's independence has lost its essence 43 years on because people are failing to enjoy the fruits of the hard-fought for liberation struggle....Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 17:19hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
The enablers of Shona hegemony and enemies of Mthwakazi's peoples' emancipation from the MLF President
Greetings to all!, The compilation of this article identifies the enablers of Shona hegemony among others as the so-called "ZPRA Legacy Group". This group is comprised of charlatans who are in...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:37hrs | 1088 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
ZIPRA demands inclusion in Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi resolution initiative
FORMER ZIPRA cadres have demanded to be part of the Gukurahundi resolution stakeholders, warning that any efforts to resolve the longstanding conflict without them and ZAPU members will not yield the ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
ZIPRA cadres accuse Mnangagwa of sidelining former combatants
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) commander, Jonh Gazi has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of sidelining former ZIPRA and fellows from main wing, Zimbabwe People's Union (ZAPU)...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1489 | by Staff reporter
Another ploy of rewriting history by the Zanu-PF regime
Greetings to all! FROM THEMTHWAKAZI LIBERATION FRONT PRESIDENTDR CHURCHILL MP...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 15:13hrs | 1305 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Matabeleland Chiefs make tough demands
TRADITIONAL chiefs in Matabeleland and the Midlands early this week tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa a number of tough demands on top of a public apology that need to be fulfilled in order t...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:22hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei takes on ZIPRA Ex-Combatants
BUSINESSMAN Mr Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei has written a letter to the war veterans under the banner Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) and its coordinator demanding that they withdrew thei...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 19:37hrs | 1605 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs, CSOs demand return of Zipra properties
A REPORT by chiefs on the Gukurahundi issue states that civic society and chiefs in Matabeleland North and South want Zipra properties that were taken by government soon after independence to be retur...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
National hero Nkomo burial set for today
The burial of liberation war stalwart Highten Nkomo is set to take place today at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.In an interview last night, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Permanent Se...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
National hero Nkomo burial set for Sunday
Liberation stalwart Highten Nkomo, who died a fortnight ago and was on Wednesday declared a National Hero, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Sunday.Yesterday his body mad...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
First commander of Mkushi Camp declared National Hero
LIBERATION stalwart Highten Nkomo, who was the first commander of the Mkushi Women's Camp in Zambia, has been declared a National Hero.He was 70.Nkomo, who was also known as Billy Mzam...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu, Zanu-PF were successful in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
I was in a meeting recently when someone who is not a member of Zanu or Zanu-PF asked the question: Why was Zanu and Zanu-PF successful in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and not successful after 2001? ...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | 621 | by Fay Chung
War vets give Zanu-PF renewed strength
THE indomitable spirit of war veterans, coupled with their sacrifices over the years and sheer force of determination, can inspire Zimbabwe towards upper middle-class economic status by 2030, Presiden...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:20hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
'We did not send you to unseat the leadership'
We resume our interview with former ZPRA guerilla and now Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Moses Mpofu who during the armed struggle was also known as Cde Mzandeki. Dr Mpofu who joined th...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:56hrs | 1765 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, ZPCS given ultimatum to reverse prison transfers of jailed Mthwakazi activists
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) has given President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) a four-day ultimatum to reverse the transfer of its party activists from...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 20:03hrs | 1948 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's former adviser form his own party
UNITED STATES-BASED Maxwell Shumba (MS), a former chief adviser to the late MDC leader and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has decided to form his own party, Zimbabwe People First (ZimFirst), ...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:38hrs | 1733 | by Staff reporter
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 insecur...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 773 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
This & that with Mal'phosa: Freedom is coming tomorrow!
Discussion over what to call the territory once ruled, as the song goes, by King Mambo and King Mzilikazi is a centre of political dispute; some population groups favour Mthwakazi while others opt for...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 21:24hrs | 972 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Ziyambi shuts hopes on Gukurahundi arrests
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says there shall never be any arrests carried out on those who killed and maimed thousands during the Gukurahundi massacres as the culprits were long forgiven by then ...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:51hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
War vets cry foul over rigging
Former liberation war fighters in Mashonaland Central say there is an elaborate plan to rig elections for a new Zimbabwe National Liberation Association (ZNLWA) executive.The former fighters f...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt must promptly return Zipra properties
CALLS by Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Jabulani Sibanda this week that government should return all properties that it grabbed from former Zipra combatants at the height of the Gukurahundi m...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Kariba ignore Heroes Day
HEROES' Day celebrations were poorly attended in Bulawayo and Kariba yesterday, with residents saying the holiday was no longer of significance because government is failing to honour the "real libera...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
'Real' Zimbabwe heroes struggling to survive
AS the country celebrates Heroes Day Monday, former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) instructor, Grace Ethel Noko remains one of the unsung liberation struggle heroines despite having play...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda demands return of Zipra properties
Zanu-PF Bulawayo province chairperson Jabulani Sibanda has demanded that government returns all Zipra-owned properties to Zapu war veterans.Speaking on Friday during the official opening of th...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:50hrs | 3156 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra guerilla now a successful farmer
EX-ZIPRA guerrilla Moses Moyo is a beneficiary of the land reform programme and owns a plot under the A1 model in Makokomba village in Umguza District. He now has what he fought for – the land....Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Report Mphoko never deserted Zapu to join Zanu
The former members of the Rhodesian special branch are the ones who claimed that I deserted the struggle in 1976, to join ZANU.They forget that ZANU was banned in Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambi...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:54hrs | 1861 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
'Military running Zimbabwe affairs'
ZIMBABWE has been described as a military-run State whose future is being determined by the army.This was revealed on Monday during a Twitter space discussion hosted by Open Parly, which discu...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:33hrs | 8090 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF doesn't own war vets, says Zipra
ZIPRA war veterans have implored fellow former 1970s guerrilla war fighters not to be coerced by the ruling Zanu-PF party into committing acts of violence ahead of the 2023 elections."Zanu-PF ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
Large arms shipment claim an excuse to deploy military in Matebeleland
President Emmerson Mnangagwa may be planning to launch a fresh genocide in Matabeleland following reports that security operatives seized a large shipment of weapons at West Nicholson in Matabeleland ...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:39hrs | 2409 | by Staff reporter
Storm over Mohadi ZEC appointment
A POLITICAL storm is raging over the controversial appointment of the daughter of Zanu-PF vice-president Kembo Mohadi (pictured) and the ruling party's Beitbridge senator Tambudzani Mohadi, Abigail Mi...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:36hrs | 2437 | by Staff reporter
Of Joshua Nkomo and the raging fires of Matabeleland independence
"The fly that does not heed advice follows the corpse to the grave", goes the Igbo proverb. MLO is happy that Matabeles refused to follow the Joshua Nkomo political corpse to the grave.It must...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:15hrs | 1122 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe's ruling elite has no conscience
As the sickening widespread looting of our national resources by the ruling elite in Zimbabwe continues unabated, even increasing at a maddening frequency, I cannot help wonder how far these people ar...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:10hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets engage police over regalia
ZIPRA war veterans are seeking an audience with the police to help prevent possible future standoffs over their yellow regalia.The development comes a fortnight after police clashed with the w...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:09hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
CCC condemns police conduct over Zipra march
OPPOSITION Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) has condemned the police for temporarily blocking a Zipra War Veterans Association (ZWVA) march to the Joshua Nkomo statue on Saturday.The march, ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
Zipra demands public holiday for Joshua Nkomo
THE Zipra War Veterans Association wants government to declare July 1 a public holiday to commemorate the death of the late former Vice-President and liberation struggle icon Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo....Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo fought for black empowerment'
AS Zimbabwe marks the 23rd anniversary of the death of Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, Zanu-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi has urged the nation to cherish the values of unity, freed...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:20hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
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