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The only time I saw Eddison Zvobgo in the flesh I was on my way to Rezende Bus Terminus to catch a bus home on a busy Friday afternoon in 1992. His black ministerial Mercedes Benz was parked near Kingston Bookshop along Kwame Nkrumah Avenue. The late Masvingo Zanu-PF kingpin
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Being born into a Ndebele, Kalanga or Sotho family in Zimbabwe can be a bewildering, challenging and frustrating affair. If you were born in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, like Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was, in 1917, you could never become the head of state, because Mashona
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Tonderai Ndira will not be campaigning when Zimbabwe votes again. He will not rally his neighbourhood, as he did two months ago, for one last push against an unwanted regime. Instead, he is buried in an unmarked grave in the Warren Hills cemetery in Harare. A week on from his
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I started out as a teacher at Sagambe Secondary School. It is located in a small village near Eastern Highlands Plantation in Honde Valley, Manicaland. The place is hot and humid, rainy and remote and situated near Mozambique. The terrain is rough and uneven and the roads are
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Orchestrated killings
The documents also show that Cephas Msipa, one of the few remaining Zapu ministers of what had been a government of national unity, talked to other members of Zanu-PF, who claimed the killings were the result of a formal, broad-based decision by the
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Before Zanu-PF divided Zimbabweans on political and tribal lines, ZIPRA soldiers received a hero's welcome from residents of Chitungwiza - 22 km south of Harare - in November 1980.
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Joshua Nkomo endeavoured to unite and bring peace to Zimbabwe despite facing significant challenges, including the Machiavellian strategies of Robert Mugabe.
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It is the visit all Zimbabweans dread. For Jestina Mukoko, it came at 5 o'clock on the morning of 3 December. Six men and a woman appeared at her house in Norton, a short drive from the capital, Harare. They told her to come with them immediately but refused to say who they were
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Enos Nkala, who has died aged 80, helped to mastermind the suppression of the Matabeleland region of Zimbabwe in the 1980s, inflicting torture and terror at the behest of his master, Robert Mugabe.
The bitter twist was that Nkala came from Matabeleland and was himself Ndebele,
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Killed in a petrol bomb attack by Zanu-PF and state agents: MDC's Tichaona Chiminya's memorial service
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Tendai Biti and Learmore Jongwe lament Zanu-PF intimidation and violence
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Roy Bennett, who has been killed aged 60 in a helicopter crash in North America with his wife Heather, was a prominent white Zimbabwean, sometimes called “the white Mandela”, who became a close aide to Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change
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The Deputy Director General of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Menard Livingstone Muzariri, passed away at the age of 56 at St Annes Hospital in Harare early Sunday morning due to a liver ailment. Muzariri's name is closely associated with the Gukurahundi massacres
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A young Tendai Biti and Learnmore Jongwe vow the MDC will form a new government in Zimbabwe
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Lessons for Zimbabwe: Searching for genocide perpetrators in Australia |
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On 19 June 2000, Patrick Nabanyama, the election agent of Bulawayo MDC candidate
@DavidColtart
, was abducted from outside his home in Nketa (by suspected Zanu-PF militants) and dragged onto a truck; he was not seen again. He is still missing and is presumed dead.
AMANI Trust:
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I truly empathized with Joshua Nkomo's anguish here - his profound sincerity and disillusionment is evident in his tone - Mugabe had degrees in violence and political thuggery.
Nkomo's the President Zimbabwe should have had in April 1980.
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Stan Mudenge was a notably mendacious defender of Robert Mugabe’s tyranny during 10 years as foreign minister of Zimbabwe. In his role as chief apologist for Mugabe’s ruination of his country, Mudenge followed in a long and ignoble tradition. If he was not in the Molotov or
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On 29 June 2000, in Kwekwe, thirty Zanu (PF) supporters severely assaulted Mandishona Mutyanda, an MDC ward chair, with sticks, iron bars, stones and knobkerries. He suffered head injuries and loss of speech, and died never having regained consciousness. His house windows and
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Lookout Masuku is buried in this city at Lady Stanley cemetery. His status as a hero is beyond question. Ironically, he took the salute here when the colonial flag was lowered in 1980 while Solomon Mujuru did that in Harare. He could not be given a place in Heroes Acre in Harare,
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How can Johannesburg resolve the matter of hijacked properties and save lives?
Transport MMC Kenny Kunene says the property law must be amended.
#JHBFire
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In Masvingo, another woman reported:
When the Zanu-PF militia finished raping me they took off my blindfold and told me to stand up and cook meals for them using my own food. I couldn’t even stand but they forced me to. They made me cook all the chickens they had taken from my
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Mugabe vigorously defended Gukurahundi, to the delight of his Zanu-PF colleagues and supporters, but Nkomo always preached peace ⤵️⤵️
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Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi genocide: "They killed her because she refused to have sex with her sibling"
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Brigadier General Emile Munemo, the former commander of the Fifth Brigade known for the devastating genocide in Matabeleland in the 1980s, which claimed the lives of 20,000 civilians, has passed away in his late 60s.
In 1982, Chivi-born Munemo led one of the three Fifth Brigade
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On 25 April 2000, in Kariba. Nicholas Chaitama, an MDC supporter, was thrown out of a moving vehicle carrying Zanu (PF) supporters along with Luckson Kanyurira’s dead body, along with three other living people at Nyamhunga shopping centre in Kariba. Chaitama later died. All five
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Zanu-PF supporters call for Joshua Nkomo to be hanged - Pamberi ne Fifth Brigade
#Gukurahundi
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Dear "Shona" tribalists,
Here is what your beloved Robert Mugabe and his associates did on your behalf in Matabeleland during the Gukurahundi genocide.
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We never deserved to be in detention at all - Dumiso Dabengwa speaks about his and Lookout Masuku's imprisonment (1986)
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Dear Mr. Sydney Sekeremayi,
In the summer of 1983, you lied to Zimbabweans and attempted to rationalize the Fifth Brigade's actions as it murdered thousands of innocent civilians and perpetrated a genocide in the name of “Mashona” and Zanu-PF.
The people of Zimbabwe will always
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The skeletal remains of Julius Mvulo Nyathi: he was bound, tortured, burnt and killed by the Fifth Brigade in 1984 in Matabeleland South ⤵️⤵️
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ZAPU's George Silundika assures that a democratic, sovereign, and independent Zimbabwe will be inclusive of all people, without any exclusions:
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Sanderson Makombe recounted the events of 15 April in which Zanu (PF) supporters killed Tichaona Chiminya and a Buhera North campaign worker, Talent Mabika, with a petrol bomb. He described the killing again in detail. Zanu (PF) supporters stopped him, Chiminya, and Mabika, on
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ANC NEC meeting | 'There is a serious crisis in the ANC': Dr Ebrahim Harvey
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Shamva – On 23 April 2000 Peter and Howard Karidza, MDC supporters, were severely assaulted with sticks by fifty Zanu (PF) supporters for failing to produce a Zanu (PF) membership card. Peter died the following morning of a fractured skull. His house, two huts and toilet were
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20,000 dead:
The first six weeks of Fifth Brigade’s attacks were massive in their intensity but, as the documents show, an order was given for them to be curtailed after news had leaked to the outside world.
The killing did not end but was scaled back and conducted more
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A twenty-nine-year-old woman from Masvingo, who was forced to lie on top of her husband while multiple ZANU-PF men raped her, also saw other MDC women raped by multiple men in 2008 at a ZANU-PF base:
The ringleaders then directed the ZANU-PF to rape whichever woman they had
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David Coltart provided a detailed account of the involvement of Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa in the Gukurahundi massacres in his 2016 book, The Struggle Continues: 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“Mnangagwa was minister of state security at the time, responsible for the
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Prime Minister Mugabe promised to look into the human rights violations which were occurring in Matabeleland. This resulted in the Chihambakwe Commission in 1984, which gathered a huge body of evidence and testimony to the atrocities that were going on. This report was presented
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Zanu-PF attempted to cover up the brutal truth of the Gukurahundi genocide by controlling the flow of information and converting ZBC into a state propaganda outlet.
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North Korea had trained 5 Brigade at Nyanga—but what has been less well-publicised is that at least four North Koreans went into Matabeleland alongside the brigade. In addition, the Koreans trained a sixth brigade, which became an early version of the Presidential Guard, and this
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Emmerson Mnangagwa and the CIO carried out acts of sabotage to create a false pretext to introduce the Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland and Midlands. The Gukurahundi genocide was a carefully planned and coordinated exercise encompassing various government departments.
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December 1993: Matabeleland's top legislator Sydney Malunga, Matabeleland's governor, and the mayor of Bulawayo alleged discrimination in jobs and training against the Ndebele. They also claimed some Shona in ZANU-PF were preventing Ndebeles from getting a fair share of the
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Dear Gukurahundi deniers in "Mashonaland",
It wasn't a civil war - it was actually the systemic and extrajudicial murder of thousands of unarmed and innocent civilians.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa and the CIO carried out acts of sabotage to create a false pretext to introduce the Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland and Midlands. The Gukurahundi genocide was a planned and coordinated exercise encompassing various government departments.
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The young opposition leader
@nelsonchamisa
is everything President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not.
via
@AJEnglish
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Senior members of the Zimbabwean state security forces confirmed that the targeting of Ndebele civilians was a deliberate military strategy and that Operation Gukurahundi was not a “political matter but tribal, that [the] Matabele must be crushed” (see Doran 2017: 584).
Ken
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Former minister and retired Zanu PF Information secretary Nathan Shamuyarira died on Wednesday night at West End Clinic in Harare. He was 85. In 2006, Shamuyarira defended the Gukurahundi Genocide and said it was ‘not regrettable… as they [Fifth Brigade] were doing a job to
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I never found it instructive that one of my dad’s best friends hailed from Matabeleland. It wasn’t VaNleya’s ethnicity that I regularly appreciated on Saturday afternoons, but his liberal, dynamic and jovial character. Mr Nleya loved to drink beer and talk. And although my dad
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ZANU-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa threatens war against "post-imperial" plots and forces.
#ZimElections2023
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Fifth Brigade killed our Ndebele, Kalanga, Sotho, and Tswana brothers and sisters, among others, and left their bodies to rot in the sun.
#Gukurahundi
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Mugabe personally refused international media access to investigate large-scale atrocities and disappearances in Fifth Brigade’s Operation Gukurahundi.
#Zanufication
#GukurahundiGenocide
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Don't get it twisted.
Migrants - mostly Black Africans - live a tough and extremely precarious existence in Johannesburg, South Africa.
May the souls of the those killed in the Marshalltown fire rest in peace.
#jhbfire
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The emergence of Zanuisation, Shonalisation and the development of a personality cult centered around Prime Minister Robert Mugabe marginalized ex-Zipra combatants and transformed the newly formed Zimbabwean national army into a wing of Zanu-PF.
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“Julius Mvulo Nyathi died in 1984, which was when the Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland South,” Eppel said. “We heard that his arms and ankles were tied with wire and he was severely beaten by the Fifth Brigade, soldiers who came in uniforms with red berets and they
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Mugabe had for a long time grown and developed personal hatred for Joshua Nkomo and contempt for ZAPU that he could not conceal. An incident is reported where Julius Nyerere, the leader of Tanzania, was trying to mediate between Nkomo and Mugabe and get the two leaders to talk
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The former Commander of Two Infantry Brigade and a veteran of the liberation struggle, Major-General (Retired) Clever Shadreck Chiramba has died aged 66. Chiramba was the deputy commander of the 5th Brigade from 1985 to January 1988.
He played a leading role in the Gukurahundi
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Former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba claims he tried to solve the problems around hijacked buildings in Johannesburg, but the ruling ANC party prevented him from doing so.
At least 12 children were killed in the Marshalltown fire.
#JHBFire
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Joshua Nkomo hailed from the minority Ndebele-speaking people inhabiting Matabeleland and Midlands regions. Perhaps aware of his identity of a nationalist leader hailing from a minority group, Nkomo became a leading advocate for a pan-ethnic Zimbabwe. He actively played a role in
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In March 1983, Gugu was a young woman who had travelled by car to visit her boyfriend in a small town near the border with Botswana. They were preparing to marry. She had seen for herself the red berets of the soldiers of the Fifth Brigade camped at the Tsholotsho Business Centre
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The Zanufication of Zimbabwe's defence forces produced the Gukurahundi Genocide and nationwide violence in 2000, 2002, 2008 and 2018.
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At a base camp in Midlands in 2008, women were kept as slaves for the ZANU-PF men:
There was a man who looked like he was in charge of the base. I don’t know what his name was, but the others called him “chairman.” I was told he was my “husband”—I was supposed to cook for him
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Zimbabwe, a legacy in blood: the skeletal remains of Julius Mvulo Nyathi: he was bound, tortured, burnt and killed by the Fifth Brigade in 1984 in Matabeleland South ⤵️
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In 1983, Gukurahundi took the form of open massacres in Matabeleland North: public mass murders, mass graves, mass tortures, mass rapes, mass everything. By 1984, having waged a successful campaign of terrorization of the Ndebele in Matabeleland North the previous year, the focus
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Interviewed in 1980, Filabusi’s voters explained that they had willingly supported ZANLA until they had been asked to denounce ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo. They asked why they should ‘denounce a man who has fought and suffered together with Robert Mugabe for the freedom of their
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The man who has led Zimbabwe's campaign of violence against white farmers, Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi, who has always denied claims of racism, brutally terrorised his white ex-wife.
Hunzvi's former wife detailed his vain and sometimes brutal behaviour in a book entitled White
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Lieutenant General Edzai Chimonyo, the commander of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), passed away yesterday morning after a prolonged battle with cancer. Chimonyo played a leading role in the notorious Fifth Brigade, which carried out the tragic Gukurahundi massacres in
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Martin Olds, 18 April 2000, Bubi-Umguza. In Nyamandlovu, at Compensation Farm, Olds was attacked by Abton Ncube, Pritchard Ndhlovu, and 100 other war veterans. Olds was ‘riddled with bullets’ in legs and head with other head injuries inflicted by iron bars and axes. His farm
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ZAPU was highly critical to the formation of the Fifth Brigade. Joshua Nkomo stated that Zimbabwe had adequate and efficient forces of law that could handle any internal problems, including the civil police. Nkomo was also critical about the fact that he was a minister in the
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When we left Lancaster House the expectation was that the Patriotic Front of ZAPU and ZANU would take part in independence elections as a united movement. Until the last moment Dr. Joshua Nkomo did not make arrangements for a separate campaign because he believed in the Patriotic
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December 1993: Matabeleland's top legislator Sydney Malunga, Matabeleland's governor, and the mayor of Bulawayo alleged discrimination in jobs and training against the Ndebele. They also claimed some Shona in ZANU-PF were preventing Ndebeles from getting a fair share of the
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Prime Minister Mugabe referred to the ZAPU, and its leader Joshua Nkomo, as a Cobra in a house, and the only way to “effectively deal with a snake is to strike and destroy its head”. Nkomo and the perceived ZAPU supporters were reduced to a cobra snake that needed to be hunted
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On 29 May 2000, in Bikita East, Thadeus Rukuni, the MDC candidate for Bikita East, was beaten to death by Zanu (PF) supporters. ZRP admitted death, but initially claimed it was not as a result of political violence but later admitted that it was.
AMANI Trust: Organised Violence
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Victims of Gukurahundi are not statistics - they are everyday Zimbabweans with heartbreaking experiences of brutal murder at the hands of the all-Shona Fifth Brigade ⤵️⤵️
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The number of Ndebele who passed through Bhalagwe will never be known; however, with an estimated 2,000–5,000 passing through every one to two weeks, it is plausible that up to 80,000 Ndebele may have been the victims of the cruelties of the camp during the four months of
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The implementation of rape in Operation Gukurahundi from 1983 to 1984 was a premeditated and methodical system of devastation and destruction in Zimbabwe. Those with oversight of the Fifth Brigade of the Zimbabwean National Army and the Central Intelligence Organization,
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A woman from Harare raped in the run up to the 2008 general elections said:
When the tenth Zanu-PF man finished raping me they said they were going to rape my daughter. I cried out but I could not even stand up at this time. After they finished with me, they raped my daughter
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Sally Mugabe was Robert Mugabe's wife and mother of the nation. Why didn't she counsel her husband and speak out against the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands?
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In Gukurahundi, the Fifth Brigade buried men while they were still alive.
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In Gukurahundi, Fifth Brigade soldiers forced men to rape their sisters and other family members or face possible death ⤵️⤵️
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Paul Ncube: Taken at night and never seen again - enforced disappearances in Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi genocide
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South African intelligence shows that Prime Minister Mugabe was, indeed, purposefully engineering a decisive military confrontation. In October 1980, he told a member of the Zanu central committee – who was a covert South African source – that “as far as a possible civil war in
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32 years before Itai Dzamara was abducted from a barber shop in Harare's Glen View suburb, countless men were disappeared by the Fifth Brigade in the Gukurahundi genocide ⤵️⤵️
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In Gukurahundi, the Fifth Brigade was a brutal killing machine ⤵️⤵️
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Not supporting Zanu-PF was a crime in Fifth Brigade's bloody Gukurahundi campaign ⤵️⤵️
#Zanufication
#Gukurahundi
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Zanu's ZBC and ZTV propaganda game was mighty strong from day one
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Wilson Kufa ‘Biggie’ Chitoro, Midlands chair of ZNLWVA and senior Zanu (PF) office-bearer gave instructions to war veterans and Zanu (PF) supporters to kidnap Fainos Zhou from his home at Danga in Masaga village on 4 June with two others. Some war veterans and Zanu (PF)
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Dear Prime Minister Robert Mugabe,
We would like to bring to your notice that despite constant appeals there is no change on official bias against ZIPRA and its contribution to the liberation of our motherland which we pointed out in our first memorandum paragraphs three (3) and
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"The truck would pick up detainees in batches of 21 people for execution": Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi genocide
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Related to President Mugabe, the young Phillip Chiyangwa went into business in 1982 as a middleman of the aforementioned type, using his address book for his clients, even extorting commissions by threatening black entrepreneurs to use his connections, thus inaugurating the
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