Southern Eye
October 27, 2020, Tue
SECCESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has dismissed as “cheap politicking” recent claims by former Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s People First (PF) project that it would compensate Gukurahundi and Murambatsvina victims.
FORMER Education minister David Coltart says MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo were not complicit in the Gukurahundi atrocities even if they were Zanu PF members at the time.
Former Education minister David Coltart yesterday courted the ire of Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo after he seemed to question why the Tsholotsho North MP remained a Zanu PF member during Gukurahundi.
FORMER Chronicle journalist and author of the book, Rule by Conquest: The Struggle in Mthwakazi, Jonathan Maphenduka, has accused the media of misinterpreting his work reporting that he was calling for the restoration of the Ndebele Kingdom.
A GUKURAHUNDI survivor has launched an ambitious plan to raise $100 000 to construct a university at Inyathi Mission, saying the area lags behind in development as the government has not invested meaningfully in education in Matabeleland North province.
President Robert Mugabe alienated one of the most level headed minds in Zanu PF by tacitly supporting the brutal purges that rocked the former guerrilla movement.
VICE-President Phelekezela Mphoko must lobby for the reburial of Gukurahundi victims and compensation of survivors instead of seeking to airbrush history, a top MDC official has said.
Ambitions play a catalytic role in the developmental gradient of humans. In Zimbabwean politics expressing political ambitions is sometimes an anathema.
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti says African diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe are eager to see Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeed President Robert Mugabe.
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, some of his ministers and senior army officials were closely involved in the planning and execution of the Gukurahundi massacres, new research and recently declassified Australian government documents have revealed.