Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa maintains he is trying to heal deep 40-year-old wounds from the country’s Gukurahundi, an ethnic cleansing in the 1980s, but critics say he is shifting the ...

The issue of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe, a tragic chapter in the country’s history, remains a sensitive and contentious topic. The recent launch of the Gukurahundi outreach program by President Emmerson ...

Zimbabwe has experienced several violent epochs, which have largely remained unresolved. Chief among Zimbabwe’s unresolved violent episodes is the Gukurahundi massacres. According to the Catholic ...

This story was originally published by Minority Africa and a shortened version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing partnership agreement. As the 10-year term of the National ...

On 22 December 2022, Zimbabwe celebrated Unity Day, a national holiday. It is meant to mark the anniversary of 22 December 1987, when the leaders of Zimbabwe’s then-largest political parties, PF-Zapu ...

The Catholic Priest who played a key role in exposing the Gukurahundi massacres of the mid-eighties, was laid to rest last Friday at a ceremony attended by thousands. Archbishop Henry Karlen, who was ...

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to meet chiefs from the Matabeleland region and the Midlands Province to finalise the process that will ultimately mark the beginning of the Gukurahundi hearings ...

Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa’s administration plans to repatriate from the UK the remains of the country’s iconic heroes who were murdered during the resistance to colonial rule in the early 1890s ...

Zimbabwean actors perform on stage in a production of "1983 - The Dark Years", a play once banned by Robert Mugabe, that relives the horrors of a government crackdown on rebels loyal to political ...

This detailed and dispassionate account of a particularly bloody military repression of opposition to the early Robert Mugabe-led ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) government in Zimbabwe shortly ...

A Zimbabwean researcher based in South Africa says there is need for the Southern African nation to address Gukurahundi atrocities of the 1980s if the nation wants to succeed. Cynthia Chigwenya, who ...

I have had close encounters with two devastating modern genocides in Africa; one through lived experience, and the other through witnessing how a better nation can build after unthinkable loss.