ZIPRA

The Entumbane uprising led to mass defections of ZIPRA members from the Assembly Points (APs). Defectors interviewed in the 1990s have stated they saw their decisions to leave the APs as life-preserving, or alternatively as reflections of…
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Factors contributing to the growth of dissident numbers are complex. The relative importance of these factors has been variously highlighted in existing accounts of these years, depending in part on the implicit agenda of researchers, and…
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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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Last week, The Sunday Mail (SM) published a detailed question-and-answer interview in which Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri (AM) spoke about the joint Zipra-Umkhonto Wesizwe operations known as the Wankie Battles.
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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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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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This is Part 3 of a series of Interviews with Rugare Gumbo now ZANU PF spokesperson published by government-controlled The Herald newspaper on the eve of Zimbabwe’s first elections in 1980 in which he shared his views on President Robert…
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