Matabeleland
latest news & developmentsWhose Zimbabwe is it anyway?
Beautifully made and emotionally rich, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight exposes the uneasy truth of who gets to tell Zimbabwe’s story
The ‘weight of heavy logs’: Masculinity and memory in Matabeleland
Filmmaker Nyasha Kadandara opens up about Matabeleland and the emotional journey behind her feature-length debut
We were separated by colonial borders and lost our ubuntu
Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies
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
Zimbabwe begins exhuming victims of Gukurahundi massacre
The targets were mainly from the Ndebele ethnic group, perceived as backing a rival to Mugabe, who is from the majority Shona group
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
Will Zim bury poll deaths report?
Kgalema Motlanthe investigated post-election violence but there are concerns President Mnangagwa will not release his findings
Gukurahundi ghosts haunt Mnangagwa
Mugabe’s successor was allegedly instrumental in organising the massacres of the Ndebele
Dirco: No Mugabe asylum request, yet
Addressing MPs following Mugabe’s historic resignation, Dirco dismissed social media rumours that the Mugabe family had applied for asylum in SA.
British policy towards Zimbabwe during Matabeleland massacre: licence to kill
The effects of President Mugabe’s post-independence security clampdown known as the Matabeleland massacre, continue to be felt.
Settler hubris watered the landscape of terror
<em>WHITENESS IN ZIMBABWE</em>: RACE, LANDSCAPE AND THE PROBLEM OF BELONGING by David McDermott Hughes (Palgrave Macmillan)
Row over North Korea’s Zim return
Invitation to the East Asian nation’s football team to train in Bulawayo evokes memories of a massacre.