Gukurahundi Massacres

BULAWAYO - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi hearing process, launched in July 2024 as the Gukurahundi Community Engagement Outreach Programme, is facing strong criticism for lacking any legal backing and falling short of internationally accepted transitional justice standards.

Bulawayo High Court Judge Justice Martin Makonese on Thursday postponed to next week a hearing into a case in which a Gukurahundi survivor and local pressure groups are pushing to stop exhumation of the victims of the 1980s genocide by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The Gukurahundi was a series of massacres of mainly Ndebele civilians carried out by the Zimbabwe National Army from early 1983 to late 1984. It derives from a Shona language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains".

The first Commander of the Fifth Brigade was Colonel Perence Shiri. The Fifth Brigade was different from all other army units in that it was not integrated into the army. It answered only to the Prime Minister, and not to the normal army command structures.

Thousands of historical documents are becoming available in a raft of foreign archival collections. The documents are wide-ranging and allege what survivors and scholars...

By Don Makanyanga Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has distanced Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities which killed an estimated 20,000 civilians...

By Jeffrey Muvundusi A Bulawayo-based pressure group — Ibhetshu Likazulu (Likazulu) — has appealed to Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko to intervene in their elusive bid...

By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | With President Robert Mugabe away on a shady “official” visit to Malaysia, his deputy who is acting head...

One of the key individuals behind the genocide that saw 20 000 innocent people massacred in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces will next week be back in the region to officially handover keys to the new Highlanders FC team bus.

HARARE - Vice presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko are under surveillance by the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) because of statements they made in recent weeks.