Gukurahundi

In a controversial move, Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) Chairperson, Professor Ruby Magosvongwe, has announced that media organizations unwilling to endorse a contentious code of conduct, crafted in collaboration with a select group of journalists, will face restrictions from reporting on the upcoming Gukurahundi outreach program. This stance by the ZMC poses a significant challenge to […]

Three activists in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe were arrested on Unity Day, which is a day observed in the country since 1987 to mark the signing of the Unity Accord between two major political parties.The activists, Thamsanqa Ncube, Melusi Nyathi, and Samkeliso Tshuma, were participating in a memorial for the victims of the Gukurahundi massacres and calling […]

Zimbabwe has launched a programme to engage with families affected by the 1980s military operation, dubbed Gukurahundi, that left an estimated 5,000 people dead. The crackdown that targeted mainly opposition strongholds in the south and western Matabeleland provinces has remained a sensitive and divisive subject. A 1987 pact which united former leader Robert Mugabe’s party […]

Former Security minister Didymus Mutasa is probably the only Government official from the Gukurahundi era who has said the truth, that the entire cabinet, not Mugabe or Mnangagwa alone, contributed to the collective decision to kill an estimated over 20000 people in Matebeleland and Midlands regions in an effort to crush the opposition. Honest Mutasa’s […]

November 2017 will go down in the history of Zimbabwe as the beginning of the end of Robert Mugabe’s 37 year tyranny. A tumultuous week finally culminated in his resignation on November 21st. One cannot understate the widespread jubilation at the demise of Mugabe and his desire to create a dynasty for himself through his wife Grace. But the optimism […]

The anti-riot police blocked Ibhetshu likaZulu from holding a memorial service at Bhalagwe camp in Kezi Matabeleland South. The police mounted a road block at the Bhalagwe turn off.  Zapu leader and Zpra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa was among the delegates expected to grace the occasion when the police blocked the entourage. The pressure group […]