Gukurahundi

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that open discussions about the sensitive issue of the Gukurahundi Massacres are necessary to prevent similar killings from happening again. Ironically the Zanu PF leader played a key role as the State…
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Debating the controversial Patriotic Bill in Parliament, Norton legislator Temba Mliswa accused Zanu-PF of orchestrating the massacres. His sentiments caused pandemonium in the National Assembly resulting in the acting Speaker of Parliament…
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Vice President Constantino Chiwenga claims the government is seized with the issue of the Gukurahundi Massacres that claimed an estimated 20 000 innocent lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early 1980s and "a solution will…
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The Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu claims those vocal about the Gukurahundi Massacres were staying in urban areas during the time and have little appreciation of what happened during the genocide in which an estimated 20…
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Exiled former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi has advised President Emmerson Mnangagwa to take a step back from any process aimed at resolving the Gukurahundi issue because he was one of the "chief architects" of the killings.
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By Tafi Mhaka I never found it instructive that one of my dad’s best friends hailed from Matabeleland. It wasn’t VaNleya’s ethnicity that I regularly appreciated on Saturday afternoons, but his liberal, dynamic and jovial character. Mr…
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By Dr Obert Mpofu Zimbabwe attained its independence in 1980 after a gruesome and painful struggle which stretched over one-and-a-half decades. The decades of war probably exacerbated the ethnic and political divisions which were…
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The MDC has thrown its weight behind traditional leaders who are calling upon President Emmerson Mnangagwa to apologise over the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres.
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Eddie Cross: "In Zimbabwe we have no memorials to the Zipra and Zanla and Rhodesian armies who fought for control of this country from 1965 to 1980 in what the Americans called a 'low intensity Guerrilla War'. Like all wars between brothers…
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Dumiso Dabengwa’s Zapu has cast doubt on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s sincerity in dealing with Gukurahundi after the Zanu PF leader pledged government assistance in the exhumation and reburial of the victims.
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