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Gukurahundi genocide initiative goes cold
TRADITIONAL leaders have lamented that the Covid-19 restrictions on public gatherings have prevented them from spearheading Gukurahundi exhumations and reburials, among other peace-building efforts ai...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:07hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Civic group remembers Gukurahundi abductees
A MATABELELAND-BASED pressure group, Ibhetshu likaZulu, will on Sunday commemorate the abduction of 16 Silobela villagers who disappeared at the height of Gukurahundi massacres on January 31, 1985....Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:07hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Furore over govt claims of killer doctors
DOCTORS yesterday reacted with alarm and anger over allegations by Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana that some medical practitioners were deliberately killing Zanu-PF politicians and hiding be...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:38hrs | 4707 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu likaZulu commemorates Gukurahundi genocide
MATABELELAND pressure group, Ibhetshu likaZulu will today commemorate Gukurahundi in honour of the estimated 20 000 people massacred by the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade in Matabeleland and Midlan...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:06hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
MP takes issue with govt over commissions' funding
DZIVARASEKWA legislator Edwin Mushoriwa yesterday blasted government for its failure to fund commissions in the 2021 national budget, saying that this was a threat to democracy. Mushoriwa said...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:29hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
'Greatest curse in Matabeleland is voting for Zanu-PF'
The greatest curse in Matabeleland is victims of the Gukurahundi atrocities who continue to vote for Zanu-PF despite its history of violence, said Bulawayo based political commentator and activist, Ef...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 18:34hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Zapu criticises government over Gukurahundi
THE opposition Zapu has criticised government and the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) for failure to consider the1980s Gukurahundi victims emotions inconducting research on the...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU statement on NPRC's purported research program on conflict in Zimbabwe
Following their recently rolled out program on the so called research on pre colonial, colonial and post colonial conflict periods, and also following ZAPU and NPRC meeting in Bulawayo on 11 December ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:34hrs | 474 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Gukurahundi genocide hearings postponed to next year
NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) commissioner Geoffrey Chada says the commission would look into the issue of the Gukurahundi genocidenext year during public hearings.Ch...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's difficult path to healing
ASS graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe.The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.The trauma persists even in t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:23hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Peace Commission shocked after Mnangagwa snub in Gukurahundi genocide reburials
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of acting unconstitutionally and leaving out the independent body in the contentious exhumation and reb...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:35hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings to start early next year
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is inching towards holding Gukurahundi hearings with preparatory meetings currently underway. President Mnangagwa has pledged Government...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:27hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Unite to resolve Gukurahundi impasse, says NPRC
NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has urged stakeholders to unite in the formulation of progressive strategies to resolve the contentious Gukurahundi issue.NPRC representativ...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Calls for new body to tackle Gukurahundi
ZIMBABWE needs an independent commission to effectively address the emotive Gukurahundi issue as the statutory National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has proven to be a disaster, critics ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:52hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi Commission mandate expires
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is set to be reconstituted following the expiry of the tenure of the Justice Selo Nare-led commission. Parliament's Committee on Standin...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
'NPRC should lead Gukurahundi genocide exhumations'
CIVIC society organisations and human rights groups have called on government to assign the responsibility of leading the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi victims to the National Peace and Recon...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Activists, parties blast 'sell-out' Obert Mpofu
MATABELELAND based pressure groups and political parties have angrily reacted to Zanu-PF top politician, Obert Mpofu's contemptuous dismissal of anti-Gukurahundi activists he claimed were least qualif...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:26hrs | 3640 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must openly apologise for Gukurahundi'
Victims of Gukurahundi have dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the massacre of approximately 20 000 innocent civilians, arguing that half-hearted approaches such as the issuanc...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:22hrs | 934 | by Staff reporter
Machete attacks resurface
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has raised concern over cases of violence involving machetes which have resurfaced in mining areas in Matabeleland South Province. The commissio...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts Gukurahundi genocide burials policy
GOVERNMENT is crafting a policy that will guide the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi victims as it implements measures aimed at national healing. President Mnangagwa has pledged Governme...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:08hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Emperor with no robes
The proverbial Emperor with no robes aptly describes the government of Zimbabwe and particularly President Mnangagwa following the August 29 2020 court interdict against unlawful reburials of Gu...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 08:18hrs | 1000 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Mohadi calls for all languages to be taught in schools
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi said Government should promote the teaching of all indigenous languages in schools, including those spoken by minority groups and urged Parliament to speed up the enactment...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi proposes peace studies for security sector
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has proposed peace studies for State security agents for the country to avoid unnecessary conflicts.Presenting the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPR...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 18:59hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide survivor loses court bid to stop exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese Friday dismissed with costs a case involving a Gukurahundi survivor, Charles Thomas, Zapu and Ibhetshu Likazulu who were seeking an interdict barring...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi genocide fuelled regional illiteracy'
SURVIVORS of the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands have blamed high il-literacy levels in the provinces on a cocktail of setbacks, chief among them the mass killings led by the North ...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:08hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgment on Gukurahundi exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese yesterday reserved judgment in a case where Gukurahundi survivors were seeking an interdict order to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to fast...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa lacks sincerity to resolve Gukurahundi conflict'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa lacks sincerity to resolve the emotive Gukurahundi issue as he has so far avoided meeting the actual victims based in rural parts of the affected areas, MDC Alliance vice-...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors demand answers from Mnangagwa
RELATIVES of Gukurahundi victims and survivors in Lupane, Matabeleland North province, have demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should go to them to explain why people in the region were tortur...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi: MPs insist on truth-telling
OPPOSITION legislators have urged government to allow for truth-telling as a conflict resolution mechanism to address the emotive Gukurahundi issue. The MPs made the demand in Parliament on Th...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not ready to defend Gukurahundi exhumation bid
A Bulawayo High Court Judge was Thursday forced to postpone hearing into a case in which a Gukurahundi survivor and local pressure groups are seeking to stop victim exhumations linked to the 1980s hol...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1725 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi tables gukurahundi report
Devolution and the enactment of the Provincial Councils Act to operationalise provincial structures must be prioritised, the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has said. This is cont...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 1275 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can't lead Gukurahundi reburials, says Survivor
GUKURAHUNDI survivor Charles Thomas, Ibhetshu LikaZulu and Zapu have filed a High Court chamber application seeking to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting the exhumations of victims of Ma...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1740 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch issuance of documents in Gukurahundi affected areas
THE exercise to officially launch the issuance of civic documents in communities affected by post-independence disturbances in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces will be held at Maphisa Growth Point ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:30hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 533 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
Mnangagwa insincere on Gukurahundi
THE Matabeleland Forum (MF), a consortium of civic society organisations (CSOs), which recently snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's meeting with other regional civic groups, has dismissed governmen...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:33hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Siwela demands US$100bn Gukurahundi genocide compensation
MATABELELAND Liberation Organisation (MLO) led by the self-exiled Paul Siwela has petitioned government to pay a total of US$100 billion to the victims of Gukurahundi.The demand came after Pre...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:26hrs | 3217 | by Douglas Mwonzora
No need to over-regulate political parties: Veritas
LEGAL think-tank Veritas has expressed concern over Cabinet's recent move to introduce another code of conduct for political parties, saying this would lead to over-regulation as the rules for politic...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens noose on opposition
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking to suffocate opposition parties in the country by crafting tough laws that will regulate their operations.Mnangagwa's government is also drafting laws to...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:31hrs | 5126 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt drafts policy for victims of Gukurahundi
GOVERNMENT is drafting a policy to facilitate Gukurahundi exhumations and has also relaxed registration requirements to acquire identity cards, birth and death certificates for affected families. ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
'Chiefs want Mnangagwa to apologise for Gukurahundi'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it is pursuing the call by people from Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to issue a public apol...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 5314 | by Staff reporter
Slain man's family pushes for private investigator
HE family of a Bulawayo man fatally shot by the police in May, is pushing for the involvement of private investigators in the matter after expressing fears that there "is something the police want to ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:01hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Women's group call for justice for the abducted women MDC activists
The Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) together with WELEAD Trust, Economic Justice for Women Project (EJWP), Female Prisoners Support Trust (FEMPRIST), Imba Mukadzi Umuzi...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:22hrs | 350 | by Stephen Jakes
'Brutal' shona cops face internal discipline
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will institute internal disciplinary proceedings against six police officers who allegedly brutalised two women from Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb for allegedly vio...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1366 | by Staff reporter
MDC condemns police beating of Ndebele women
The MDC Alliance would like to express its utter disgust on the conduct Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers Tichaona Zariro, Christabel Munyondo, Elizabeth Denhere, Patson Gumoreyi, Zibusiso Masuk...Published: 10 May 2020 at 20:25hrs | 2865 | by Rittah Ndlovu
Shona cops brutalise Ndebele women for lockdown defiance
TWO women from Bulawayo had to seek medical treatment after allegedly being brutally assaulted for hours with batons on their backs, hips and legs by police officers who accused them of violating the ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
'Mealie-meal a source of conflict in Zimbabwe'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has said access to subsidised mealie-meal has become a source of conflict that needs to be diffused before it gets out of hand during the lockdo...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:11hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland Chiefs ratchet up pressure on Mnangagwa
CHIEFS in the three Matebeleland provinces are piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to allow the exhumation and reburial of victims of the 1983-1987 Gukurahundi genocide as fam...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 08:42hrs | 5222 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has lost 40 years, says Catholic bishops
THE Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC) says Zimbabwe has lost an opportunity in the past 40 years to redefine its history, foster national healing and to end corruption, international isolati...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:57hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Catholic bishops bemoan wasted years
THE Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC) says in the last four decades, Zimbabwe lost an opportunity to redefine its history, foster national healing and to end corruption, international isolat...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 17:15hrs | 1139 | by Staff reporter
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