Gukurahundi Massacres

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s sincerity to promote Gukurahundi national healing programmes has once again been questioned following the failure by his government to allocate money towards the issue that many insist must be resolved to…
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Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) director and top human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga has published a research paper on the 1983-7 Gukurahundi Massacres explaining the role of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Malunga…
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Top human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga said the resolution of Gukurahundi issue needed a comprehensive approach where the system of the day (Zanu-PF) need to come in the open, taking responsibility and accountability for the genocide…
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The move by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday to pay tribute to victims of the genocide in Rwanda has earned him blunt criticism with many people reminding him that he should do the same for victims of the Gukurahundi Massacres in…
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Former journalist Geoffrey Nyarota has reacted angrily to any article that covered a recent interview in which he appeared to downplay the Gukurahundi Massacres in the 1980's and accused Nehanda Radio of being used by former cabinet…
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Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition implores President Emmerson Mnangagwa to censure the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission spokesperson, Obert Gutu over his recent reckless statement on the Gukurahundi massacres.
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A Gukurahundi memorial plaque, erected by pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Tuesday at Bhalagwe in Kezi, in memory of thousands of civilians who were massacred by the notorious Fifth Brigade army unit in the Midlands and Matabeleland…
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An opposition activist has expressed revulsion at President Emmerson Mnangagwa hosting executives of Highlanders Football Club without "any historic peace initiative, reconciliation or truth telling process" over the Gukurahundi Massacres…
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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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