The ‘dead man’ finally dies

3 years ago | October 3, 2021

The ‘dead man’ finally dies

One by one, they are going. And now they seem to be going at a worrying pace. Shamwari dzeropa! A few months ago, I ...

3 years ago | July 11, 2021

Rest in peace Mudhara wedu Vhuu

Munyaradzi Huni ABOUT two months ago, the Deputy Chief Secretary in Charge of Presidential Communications in the Office ...

6 years ago | August 12, 2018

How heroes became victims of politicians

LAST week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) whose Chimurenga name was Cde Conary Mabuto narrated how the Rhodesian ...

6 years ago | August 5, 2018

How one could be ZIPRA, without being ZAPU

Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how ZIPRA gunned down Rhodesian Viscounts in 1978 and 1979 and ...

6 years ago | July 29, 2018

Zipra’s plan after downing Rhodesian Viscounts

Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how he left Tekwane High School with a group of 34 other students ...

6 years ago | July 22, 2018

A guerilla was an expensive fighter

COMRADE Agrippah Gava (born 1956) whose Chimurenga name was Cde Conary Mabuto grew up in Zvimba where he attended ...

6 years ago | June 24, 2018

How ZIPRA outgunned Rhodesians at Chirundu

In our last instalment, Cde Soft Magarasadza, a former ZIPRA commander, spoke about how he joined the liberation ...

6 years ago | June 10, 2018

Grad-P rocket: From Russia with love

COMRADE Elson Mupamawonde (born 1950 in Bikita), whose first Chimurenga name was Cde Dhuurani before  it was changed to ...

6 years ago | June 3, 2018

How come ‘the absence became the presence’?

Last week, Comrade Joseph Sibuko Mbedzi, whose Chimurenga name was Cde Joseph Sibuko, spoke about how he, as ZIPRA ...

6 years ago | May 27, 2018

Reliving ‘fiery’ Feira Battle . . . Six days of non-stop bombardment

Last week, Cde Joseph Sibuko Mbedzi (born 1951), whose Chimurenga name was Cde Joseph Sibuko, narrated how he joined the ...

6 years ago | May 20, 2018

Mgagao clashes: A ZIPRA narrative

COMRADE Joseph Sibuko Mbedzi whose Chimurenga name was Cde Joseph Sibuko was born in 1951 in Beitbridge. He grew up in a ...

6 years ago | May 13, 2018

The untold story of ZAPU and the late VP Nkomo

LAST week, Comrade Bulukani Masola (born 13/05/1959) ,whose Chimurenga name was Cde Peter Scotch narrated how Rhodesian ...

6 years ago | April 8, 2018

ZPRA High Command speaks out

The surviving members of the former ZPRA High Command feel it is their patriotic and revolutionary duty to defend ZPRA’s ...

6 years ago | December 24, 2017

I fought the war with my cooking stick

LAST week, Gogo Taripiwa Shawu narrated how in the early 1970s she was given the responsibilities to look after homwe ...