A Gukurahundi survivor Hlanganiso Sithole ... were shot dead in June 1984 while he managed to escape from the firing squad. “There were four of us where we were seated at one of the family ...

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 ...

Harare - Zimbabwe on Wednesday said it will exhume ... is known infamously as Gukurahundi, which means "the rain that washes away chaff" in the local Shona language. Government will "facilitate ...

Many survivors say the ghosts of Gukurahundi are not yet at rest. For decades, justice has eluded the thousands of people who were killed by a feared army unit in Zimbabwe’s southwestern and ...

This was before any instability in post-independence Zimbabwe. The “Gukurahundi Brigade” was necessary for the one-party state. It is in the interests of all Zimbabweans that the village ...

Since the signing of the Unity Accord, efforts by survivors and families of the victims of the Gukurahundi genocide to get closure have been resisted for more than three decades by successive ...

The United Nations on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says it is disturbed by reports that the Gukurahundi atrocities ... In a statement, the Committee urged Zimbabwe to take measures to ...

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 ...