Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has reiterated that Gukurahundi is a Genocide and those that wish it away and don't want it to be discussed or solved are wasting their time and are brewing hatred in the nation.Speaking to Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights MIHR, Chief Ndiweni...
Matebeleland South provincial chiefs assembly chairperson Chief Masendu, speaking on behalf of traditional leaders in the province, said Gukurahundi could not be wished away. "Chiefs are the rightful people to handle the Gukurahundi issue because they belong to the people. We stay with them, they ...
PRESSURE groups coalescing under the banner of the Matabeleland Collective are ratcheting up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure that a truth-telling and associated prissuesprocess precludes any government intervention on the Gukurahundi genocide. By Nyasha Chingono This comes as government ...
They said the engagement would help heal the country and spearhead unity and development and thus implored Chiwenga to openly debate the issue with all the affected people. Mnangagwa has signed the Bill on National Healing and Reconciliation to deal with many issues, among them the Gukurahundi gen...
'Gukurahundi genocide fuelled regional illiteracy' SURVIVORS of the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands have blamed high il-literacy levels in the provinces on a cocktail of setbacks, chief among them the mass killings led by the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade in the 1980s....
Is this government committed to finding a solution to the Gukurahundi genocide? It is my considered view that any avenue to attain people's power though democratic means must be about justice and truth for Gukurahundi. As a nation we need to find this truth and justice while faces and foot ...
Earlier this year, Fuzwayo said plaques were significant in remembering people who were killed, and mothers and sisters who were raped and murdered during the Gukurahundi genocide. He said while they understood that truth-telling and peace and reconciliation were a process, there was need to ensur...
confirmed the development. “We are yet to get any response from the police but we will never rest until the Gukurahundi issue is resolved. We will keep piling pressure on government to attend to the 1980’s genocide,” he said. He, however, refused to be drawn into discussing where they...
If we agree with the narrative that the Gukurahundi genocide is an issue between the Ndebele and the Shona we are falling into the agenda of the criminal, which is the state," he said."We must be clear on who the perpetrators is, it is the not the Shona it is the government, which...
The International Association of Genocide Scholars estimated the death toll at 20 000.The atrocities came to an end after Mugabe and former Zapu leader the late vice-president Joshua signed the 1987 Unity Accord. After the peace pact Nkomo became the country's co-vice-president with the late...