OUTSPOKEN Gwanda traditional leader Chief Khulumani Mathema has rapped his colleagues in Matabeleland region for not speaking out about Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s, saying they should help pile pressure on government to bring closure to the matter. Chief Mathema made the remarks during a memo...
I ALMOST threw up in my mouth recently when I read that Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) secretary general, Victor Matemadanda had said former President Robert Mugabe was solely responsible for the Gukurahundi massacres. Yes, Mugabe was a bad leader, a fiendish one...
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matabeleland South have repeated calls for government to publicly apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres that claimed an estimated 20 000 innocent lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early 1980s. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has opened dialogue on the emotive subjec...
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Nhlanhlayemangwe Ndiweni has claimed that local traditional leaders were captured by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to “white wash” the Gukurahundi massacres. BY SILAS NKALA In a 17-page petition directed to Attorney-General Prince Machaya, Ndiweni, ...
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matebeleland South have repeated calls for government to publicly apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres that claimed an estimated 20 00...
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. ...
According to the letter which the chiefs say is yet to be responded to, the traditional leaders proposed January 5 this year (tomorrow) for the beginning of open talks on Gukurahundi. They said the time to continue shrugging off debate on the massacres as if they never happened was over. ...
In Bhalagwe, hundreds lie in mass graves at a disused mine, while in Silobela, a plaque was erected in memory of 12 villagers killed during the Gukurahundi massacres in 1985. Ibhetshu LikaZulu co-ordinator Mbuso Fuzwayo yesterday toldSouthern Eyethat they will replace the two plaques which...
Better be quiet than lie, Mnangagwa's critics say.In his biography, Mnangagwa carefully and unconvincingly opens the lid on the emotive Gukurahundi atrocities, describing his role in the massacres as "peripheral", while blaming his predecessor the late former president Robert Mugabe for the ...
Siphosami Malunga the son of the late National Hero Sydney Malunga has called for an International Commission of inquiry into the Gukurahundi massacre that claimed the lives of an estimated 20 000 people in Midlands and Matabeleland.Malunga who is the Executive Director at Open Society Initiative ...