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The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Bulawayo provincial leadership has said former MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe betrayed the struggle like what Morrison Nyathi did during the liberation struggle and pledged not to work with her.…
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Bruce Grobbelaar, largely regarded as a football icon in the country because of his heroics for The Warriors and Liverpool FC, has revealed his ‘other side’ in a yet to be released new book, ‘Life in the Jungle’ that is being serialised in…
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By Sydney Chisi Revolutionary greetings to you maComrades. Hoping I find you well  wherever you might be especially after some good rains that might have unfortunately turned bad in other regions, but nevertheless, I believe that goho…
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By Alois Vinga Former Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) combatants are taking government to court over properties confiscated by the latter at the height of the Gukurahundi disturbances in the 1980s. The Financial…
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Brigadier General Misheck Tanyanyiwa, the country’s defence attache to China, has died. He was 58. Brig Gen Tanyanyiwa whose Chimurenga name was “Nemi Tichapedzerana” died in Beijing on Thursday last week. His body is expected in the…
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People were on occasion made to lie on thorny branches first, after which 5 Brigade ran along their backs to embed the thorns before the beatings. People were made to roll in and out of water while being beaten, sometimes naked.
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A summary of events specifically in Nyamandlovu/Tsholotsho), as revealed by The Chronicle, Bulawayo's daily newspaper, is given here. This tends to highlight dissident activity, and is a useful counterpoint to data from other sources.
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The numbers of dissidents were probably no more than 400 at their height. Their attrition rate was very high, with approximately 75% being killed, captured, injured or fleeing to Botswana. At their peak, dissident numbers in Matabeleland…
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Super ZAPU was the group of South African backed dissidents, which operated in Southern Matabeleland from late 1982 until mid-1984. Super ZAPU consisted of probably fewer than 100 members who were actually actively deployed in Zimbabwe.
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Factors contributing to the growth of dissident numbers are complex. The relative importance of these factors has been variously highlighted in existing accounts of these years, depending in part on the implicit agenda of researchers, and…
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