Fifth Brigade

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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The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition is deeply concerned with the disruption of a prayer meeting by the police that was scheduled for Bhalagwe on Saturday 21 October 2017 under the theme: Dispossessed in Life and Dishonored in Death: Bhalagwe…
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In 2011 veteran nationalist and former Midlands Governor Cephas Msipa, told a packed auditorium at the Rainbow Towers Hotel the harrowing stories of former Zapu cadres who bore the brunt of a crackdown by the North Korea-trained Fifth…
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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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HARARE- Government made frantic efforts to pay off a US$1,5 million debt to secure the release of an Air Zimbabwe plane impounded in London mainly because President Robert Mugabe wanted to use it on his medical trip to the Far East.
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Former Defence Minister and ZANU PF founding member Enos Nkala has denied any involvement in the Gukurahundi Massacres. Nkala told SW Radio Africa’s Question Time programme that he was Finance Minister when soldiers from the notorious Fifth…
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Speech by MDC-T Treasurer General Roy Bennett in Des Moines, Iowa in the United States. He speaks about the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe. Bennett says Zimbabwe is not fighting for a return to democracy because the country has never…
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Robert Mugabe has stirred a hornet’s nest over the death of retired army general Solomon Mujuru by saying: “I have never seen a person die in such a horrific manner, we are all shocked.” Mugabe was addressing mourners, including Vice…
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