ZANLA

While it has been pointed out that too much can be made of antagonisms between, and differences in the "modus operandi" of ZANLA and ZIPRA, there was nonetheless a legacy of unease between the two armies of liberation and their respective…
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Taken from a report on the 1980’s disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands. Compiled by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe, March 1997.
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Almost all those buried at the national Heroes Acre are former Zanu PF members. While being conferred hero status comes with honorary prestige and possibly benefits for the remaining families, some of those declared national heroes died…
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On the 15th of August 2011 the nation state of Zimbabwe woke up to the sad news of the death Solomon Mujuru aka Rex Nhongo. Mujuru, a decorated military expert died in a mysterious fire that gutted his Beatrice farm house.
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HARARE – A magistrate’s court on Monday rejected a request to exhume the body of former Zimbabwe army commander Solomon Mujuru to allow a fresh autopsy to establish the cause of his death six months ago.
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Democratic transition has not occurred in Zimbabwe in spite of the fact that Mugabe and ZANU-PF have previously lost elections. And the reason is clear. The security sector, which for the past decade or so has been running government…
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Jonathan Moyo, a Zanu PF politburo member who claims to be one of President Robert Mugabe’s foremost defenders advised the United States on how to penetrate Zanu PF and remove the 87-year-old leader from power, according to leaked US…
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Former guerrilla commander Wilfred Mhanda, known by his liberation war name Dzinashe Machingura, speaks to SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma on Question Time. Mhanda recently released the book “Dzino, Memories of a Freedom Fighter” in…
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Wilfred Mhanda, a former guerrilla commander, has released his war-time memoirs exposing how President Robert Mugabe ruthlessly suppressed him and other commanders in the late 70s on his way to becoming the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
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I first met Solomon Mujuru at the Geneva Airport when the joint delegation of Zipra and Zanla commanders who had formed ZIPA Zimbabwe People’s came to the Geneva Conference Rhodesian settlement talks in 1976.
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