Ndabaningi Sithole

By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | Zanu PF politburo member and current Higher and Tertiary Education minister, Jonathan Moyo, is bitter that he did not become a commander during the war of liberation when his alleged father, Ndabaningi…
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By Roy Muroyi “I didn’t want to destroy Smith or the old lady, I did want to destroy the system that he had built “- Tongogara (De Waal 1990) In this article, I strongly argue that Robert Mugabe is a product and beneficiary of the…
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By Munyaradzi Musiiwa Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa has challenged Professor Jonathan Moyo to contest his claims that he was Ndabaningi Sithole’s illegitimate child, who was seeking…
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Soon after independence in 1980, Zanu PF came up with the criteria to be used to accord hero status to the fallen nationals. The main criterion was one’s “consistent” participation in the national liberation struggle. The other was one’s…
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HARARE - War veteran Margaret Dongo, has blasted Zanu PF for its failure to honour genuine war heroes like the late Wilfred Mhanda, whose burial passed unnoticed by the ruling elite. Mhanda, an indisputable national hero who fought…
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It’s a monumental task but with the help of our listeners and readers we know we can come up with a list of the 100 greatest Zimbabweans of all time. We are drawing up a list of ten candidates from ten categories to make a list of 100.
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AT the beginning of February 1986, I went to enrol for Lower Six at Founders High School in Bulawayo. The coverage of political events in and around Zimbabwe by the media at that time stay etched in my memory to this day.
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PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe at the burial of national hero, Zanu PF founder and former minister Enos Nkala, gave a profound narrative of the life history of the man he described as his personal friend.
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Vesta Zvemwaida Saungweme Sithole, the 71 year old widow of the late founding president of Zanu, Ndabaningi Sithole, died in the United States on Thursday after a long battle with cancer.
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During a Heroes Day special programme SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma spoke to former guerrilla commander Wilfred Mhanda (Dzinashe Machingura) and political analyst Pedzisai Ruhanya. The two share their views on national hero status…
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