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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 described the bloodbath as a war crime committed by the Zanu-PF government in its quest to establish Shona hegemony in the country.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has distanced himself from playing a role in awarding his wife Auxilia a gold medal for her charity work and claims that the committee who decided this is chaired by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has expressed his sorrow over the recent death of several army generals and vowed to write a book exhibiting his feelings towards the late government officials who succumbed to the deadly coronavirus disease.
By Sizo Nkala
While death is ordinarily and perhaps universally greeted with sombernes and sorrow, the recent and rapid deaths of the Zanu-PF bigwigs have elicited polarized and starkly contrasting emotions among Zimbabweans. Evidence that even the most sacred of our cultural customs and moral principles are not immune from our divisive politics.
On the one hand are the ruling party members and supporters who are solemnly mourning their fallen leaders. On the other hand are Zanu-PF opponents who seem to be celebrating or at least swearing that they will not mourn the deaths of their oppressors.
Some relatives of the late national hero Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri have requested DNA tests for some of his children despite them having birth certificates.
By Ken Mufuka
I was traveling to Bulawayo in September 1983 on Shushine Bus 84 when we were stopped by a Gukurahundi platoon. All passengers with Ndebele names were asked to leave the bus while those with Shona names were allowed to proceed.
I shudder to this day, and can imagine that their lives and those of their families were impoverished (by the breadwinners’ imminent deaths), lives were cut short, in a nasty brutal way (for that was the killers’ trademark) and the country was impoverished by their loss.
The family of the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri (pictured) said it suspected that he could have succumbed to food poisoning, not COVID-19.Shiri died yesterday morning while being taken to a Chinese facility for treatment of suspected COVID-19, but the family yesterday said he died after severe vomiting and was showing symptoms consistent with food poisoning.
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has claimed that he was not told that his liberation war colleague, the late former Agriculture minister, Perrance Shiri was ill when he died on Wednesday.
Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri (Rtd) died of Covid-19 and will be buried today in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.
Lands Minister Perrance Shiri who notoriously led the Gukuruhundi Massacres as the Fifth Brigade army commander has died from the coronavirus a day after his driver succumbed to the deadly virus. President Emmerson Mnangagwa issued a statement confirming his death.