‘Poll results betrayal of one man, one vote’
Nelson Chamisa yesterday said in his Heroes Day message that the will of the people, expressed at the polls, must prevail in honour of heroes and heroines.
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Nelson Chamisa yesterday said in his Heroes Day message that the will of the people, expressed at the polls, must prevail in honour of heroes and heroines.
Cathy Buckle – In a few days time it is Heroes Day in Zimbabwe. Government VIP’s will descend on our towns and cities and brag about how many schools and hospitals have been built, how many school and university graduates we have every year and how this year this has been a bumper harvest.
By Njabulo Ncube and Andrew Kunambura | Financial Gazette | The weather was unpredictable on Monday, cloudy and chilly in the morning, sunny and hot later in the afternoon; and so were the proceedings inside the National Heroes Acre, the national shrine where scores of Zimbabwe’s heroes and heroines of the country’s war of liberation […]
By Johannes Chin’ombe Masvingo – As Zimbabweans across the country on Monday gathered for the Heroes Day celebrations, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai recently told party supporters after a well-attended demonstration against bad governance in Masvingo that the annual holiday has lost significance. Addressing thousands of his followers at a gathering opposite Masvingo Minister of State […]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses party supporters during a gathering to honor the country’s dead heroes, at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. The commemorations are held annually to honor the southern African country’s dead heroes, particularly those who fought in the 1970s independence war. Leaders of the Zimbabwe National Liberation […]
By Luke Tamborinyoka Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when we remember the huge sacrifice that went into liberating this country from the yoke of repression and colonialism. Yet, the biggest national folly over the years has been to regard heroism as only limited and confined to the gargantuan sacrifice associated with our liberation […]
By Mugove Tafirenyika and Ndakaziva Majaka HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru, ex-Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and scores of liberation war stalwarts who were brutally purged from the warring post-congress Zanu PF and government yesterday snubbed Heroes Day commemorations around the country. It had been suggested in the days leading to yesterday that Mujuru […]
By Alastair Leithead HARARE – The huge golden statue of three liberation soldiers – two men and a woman – form the centrepiece of Heroes’ Acre, the monument to Zimbabwe’s fallen. Alongside them in the shade of a small tent adorned in the colours of the ruling party sit two men and one woman, in […]
HARARE — Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Monday criticised the killing of Cecil the Lion, saying the animal was a key part of the country’s heritage. “Our wildlife, all our animals, belong to us. They should not be shot with a gun or with an arrow,” Mr Mugabe told thousands who gathered at a shrine […]
By Paidamoyo Muzulu HARARE – Main opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday extended an olive branch to the country’s “securocrats” and assured them that his party, if elected into government in 2018, would retain them despite their divergent political views. Tsvangirai, who served as coalition government Prime Minister until September 2013, gave the assurances in […]