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Writer/Editor/Translator, The Zimbabwe Heritage Trust.

Digging up the graves of Gukurahundi graves – and burying the evidence (Photo Archive)
COCA COLA

Digging up the graves of Gukurahundi graves – and burying the evidence

Exhumations of Gukurahundi graves risk destroying vital clues about the extent of the massacre and who was responsible

  • Thandekile Moyo
5 min read
Protests over economic hardships, fuelled by the 150% rise in the petrol price (above), led to security forces being deployed. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
EMMERSON MNANGAGWA

A Zimbabwean’s flight into exile: A voice inside me said ‘Run’

Fearing for her life, outspoken commentator Thandekile Moyo fled Zimbabwe this week with little more than the change in her pocket

  • Thandekile Moyo
6 min read
A man walks past graves of people killed during the massacre. (Phillimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
GUKURAHUNDI MASSACRE

G-U-K-U-R-A-H-U-N-D-I

We dare not speak its name

  • Thandekile Moyo
5 min read
Until South Africa’s higher education system produced African-centred knowledge that was internationally recognised
EMMERSON MNANGAGWA

Living with ghosts of Gukurahundi

Twenty-thousand Zimbabweans were slaughtered in a brutal purge of Mugabe’s perceived opponents. Mnangagwa played a role in organising the crackdown

  • Thandekile Moyo
6 min read