Fifth Brigade Zimbabwe

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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Thirty-four years later, Ellis Ndlovu still cannot bear to look at the tree in the schoolyard where Zimbabwean soldiers killed her son. “They hung him with his legs up and then with his legs down and they were beating him,” said Ndlovu,…
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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…
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Newly appointed deputy director-general of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Aaron Daniel Tonde Nhepera, received Z$650 901 from the War Victims Compensation Fund in 1997 after claiming to have suffered a shocking 98% disability…
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