Category Archives: Press reports

VOA Studio 7 23 March 2016 By Taurai Shava BULAWAYO — Politician David Coltart, who is also a veteran lawyer, maintains that he stands by remarks contained in his book regarding what Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reported to have said in 1983, when government deployed the North Korean-trained Five Brigade in Matabeleland and Midlands […]

Newsday 22 March 2016 Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday denied ever uttering inflammatory statements that could have stoked tensions during the Gukurahundi era, but the denial could yet trigger questions on his role during the 1980s killings. Mnangagwa said statements attributed to him that dissidents were cockroaches that needed DDT was to exterminate them were […]

News 24 22 March 2016 News24 Correspondent Harare – Zimbabwean presidential hopeful Emmerson Mnangagwa would be “poorly advised” to sue over claims in a recently-published book that he may have helped incite a notorious massacre, the book’s author David Coltart said Tuesday. Lawyers for Mnangagwa were “currently perusing” former education minister Coltart’s book before deciding […]

Herald 22 March 2016 Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dismissed as false and malicious, claims by former Education Minister David Coltart that he had made inflammatory statements that could have fomented Gukurahundi killings in the late 1980s. Mr Coltart’s sentiments were published in Alpha Media Holdings’ Southern Eye edition last week. In a statement yesterday, […]

Southern Eye By Richard Chidza 22 March 2016 VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s role in the Gukurahundi massacres has once again been thrust into the limelight, with former Education minister David Coltart accusing him of making inflammatory statements that could have formented the killings. In his autobiography, The Struggle Continues: 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe, Coltart […]

News24 22 March 2016 This is after Zanu-PF big wig took exception to a review of opposition politician’s new book The Struggle Continues Zim VP mulling legal action against ex-minister over ‘massacre’ claims Harare – Zimbabwean presidential hopeful Emmerson Mnangagwa would be “poorly advised” to sue over claims in a recently-published book that he may […]

Radio VOP By Sij Ncube 25 February 2016 Harare, February 25, 2016 – FORMER South African president Thabo Mbeki has all but confirmed the African National Congress (ANC) complicity in President Robert Mugabe’s continued misrule with critics saying Mbeki’s quiet diplomacy contributed to the failure of the government of national unity (GNU). Mbeki, who was […]

Newsday 20 February 2016 BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA NINE-YEAR-OLD Zvikomborero Mhondiwa (not real name) of Watershed area in Hwedza has to take her mother’s wrapping cloth to school every day. The school, Guruuswa Primary, was established during the land reform exercise around 2000. The government has done little to construct decent structures for the hundreds of […]

Radio VOP By Sij Ncube 16 February 2016 Harare, February 16, 2016 – VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa appears to be trudging towards the same fate that visited his predecessor Joice Mujuru but analysts are quick to so-nicknamed Crocodile is made of sterner stuff. Mujuru, the former Zanu PF and Zimbabwe vice president, was summarily fired […]

The Standard By Phyllis Mbanje 14 February 2016 The release of Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) Ordinary and Advanced Level 2015 examination results has seen proud parents and guardians of students who produced a string of A grades taking to social media to flaunt their children’s achievements. Some candidates scored as many as 30 points […]