Archive for Category: "Lest We Forget"

Minister of state involved in violence and murder

Minister of state involved in violence and murder

This week SW Radio Africa focuses on the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Didymus Mutasa, and the violent political campaigns he has led in his Headlands constituency and other parts of the country. As a former Minister responsible for the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) he has often used its agents.

Former ZBC boss unleashed terror in Norton

Former ZBC boss unleashed terror in Norton

Christopher Hatikure Mutsvangwa, the former director of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) unleashed a reign of terror in the Norton constituency after losing to a little known MDC-T candidate in 2008. Several opposition activists died at the hands of terror mobs he personally directed.

Kasukuwere exposed as violent gangster

Kasukuwere exposed as violent gangster

Youth and Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has been anything but a ‘saviour’ for Mount Darwin South, where he is an MP. A dossier supplied to SW Radio Africa exposes him as a violent thug who from 2000 to 2008 beat up opposition activists using an iron bar, while hunting them down using militia gangs.

More CIO agents revealed in supplementary list (Part 1)

More CIO agents revealed in supplementary list (Part 1)

After six weeks serializing the leaked 2001 list of CIO agents working in and outside Zimbabwe, SW Radio Africa will begin publishing a supplementary list of agents who, for various reasons, might not have been on the previous document.

Joseph Chinotimba and his violent past

Joseph Chinotimba and his violent past

War vets leader Joseph Chinotimba might be well known for being the butt of jokes which mock his broken English and clownish behavior, but today on our Crimes of the Past series we look at his trail of violence, rape and murder.

Mugabe had lust for power: Gumbo

Mugabe had lust for power: Gumbo

This is Part 3 of a series of Interviews with Rugare Gumbo now ZANU PF spokesperson published by government-controlled The Herald newspaper on the eve of Zimbabwe’s first elections in 1980 in which he shared his views on President Robert Mugabe’s treatment of his political opponents, and his lust for power.

Zanu PF’s Rugare Gumbo a bitter man

Zanu PF’s Rugare Gumbo a bitter man

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition publication “The Daily Catalyst” published verbatim stories written by The Herald Newspaper in 1980, in which the current Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo, a member of the Zimbabwe Revolutionary Council, DARE and former rebel to President Robert Mugabe’s leadership during the war shared his thoughts about Mugabe.

Lest We Forget, Wife Basher George Charamba

Lest We Forget, Wife Basher George Charamba

On the 24th February 2005 Charamba who has a black belt in Karate battered his wife Rudo after she accused him of infecting her with the deadly HIV virus that causes AIDS. Close associates said the beating was an attempt to kill her. Not only did he severely beat up Rudo but he also went on to beat up her baby.