@Youbethe@bbmhlanga The evil that man do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.(Mark Anthony). We have forgotten that Mukanya sang for us during the liberation war we only remember that he is going to benefit from the gvt resources whilst the majority are suffering
On 3 March 2019, former Fifth Brigade commander Emile Munemo died aged 64. He became Perrance Shiri’s deputy in December 1982 and assumed overall command in April 1983.
During a 1996 interview, Munemo attempted to justify the killing of thousands of civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands. He described Gukurahundi as partly an attempt to settle “old scores” with the largely ZAPU-supporting Ndebele population.
He said military units had competed to deliver “the final solution to the Prime Minister,” Robert Mugabe—the Nazi euphemism for the extermination of Europe’s Jews.
Munemo also recalled that Mugabe had personally presented Shiri with a flag bearing the word “Gukurahundi” before the brigade was deployed.
Munemo never faced prosecution for the Gukurahundi massacres. Instead, he was declared a national hero and buried at the National Heroes’ Acre.
He died without answering in court for his role in Gukurahundi.
@KMutisi@edmnangagwa@Mtisi plse leave Chari alone it’s not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man , but what he is. U will never be half of what Chari is.
On 5 May 2008, at a "re-education" meeting in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central, led by retired Major Cairo Mhandu, ZANU-PF youths seized Joseph Madzuramhende and forced him to the ground in front of his relatives.
As they beat him, they accused him of allowing villagers to gather at his home to listen to Studio 7 broadcasts and hear the election results on his radio.
They stuffed a cloth into his mouth to silence his screams, then tied barbed wire around his genitals and fastened the other end to a heavy log.
They ordered him to drag the log with his penis as they continued beating him. When he failed, they pinned his genitals onto another log and struck them repeatedly before tying another length of wire around them and dragging him across the ground until part of them was torn away.
When the torture finally ended, Joseph could no longer walk. His relatives lifted him onto an ox cart and took him home.
He was still conscious and speaking, but his injuries were so severe that he could neither lie on his stomach nor his back. He died at about 8 p.m. that evening, propped in a leaning position because the pain made every other position impossible.
His crime was owning a radio and helping his neighbours, MDC supporters, hear the election results.
ZANU-PF murdered Joseph Madzuramhende.
He died for Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is rich.
Rich in gold. Rich in lithium. Rich in platinum. Rich in diamonds. Rich in 68 minerals.
So why are our people poor?
Why are our young people without jobs? Why are hospitals failing? Why are schools struggling? Why do families continue to suffer?
Today we raise our voices for a Zimbabwe where every citizen can live with dignity, opportunity, and hope.
Tonderai Ndira was not an accidental victim. As a leading organiser in the MDC Youth Assembly, he had spent years mobilising residents in Mabvuku and Tafara against ZANU-PF rule. In 2007, state agents tortured him alongside other opposition activists, after which he spent more than two months in remand prison before the charges were dropped.
After his abduction and murder, his wife reported the crime to the police. No meaningful investigation followed, and no one was held accountable. Human Rights Watch later recorded her warning that forgiveness without justice would allow political violence to return.
Ndira’s murder was not an isolated act. It belonged to a coordinated campaign in which suspected state agents and ZANU-PF supporters abducted and killed opposition organisers while the police protected the system through inaction.
🇬🇭 “I always tell my ministers that we should number our days.” — Ghanaian President.
What are the ministers and MPs of our republic being told?
“You will be there until 2030?”
That’s the difference between them and us!
In June 2000, ZANU-PF warlord Biggie Chitoro and party militia abducted MDC parliamentary candidate Finos Zhou and his brother James in Mberengwa West, Midlands Province.
For two days and nights, they stripped the brothers naked, beat them with an iron bar and burned them with melting plastic.
For two days and nights, Finos endured the beatings and burns, clinging to life before he died.
James crawled through the bush, his body flayed and burned, until he found help and survived.
The attack on the Zhou brothers became one of the earliest and most brutal acts of political violence in Zimbabwe's new millennium.
ZANU-PF militia abducted, tortured and brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans.
They murdered Finos Zhou.