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Topical: Chris Nyathi, left, and Oumi Ndaba in Nyasha Kadandara’s documentary Matabeleland about a
Zimbabwean immigrant’s journey home from South Africa to retrieve his father’s bones. Photo: Supplied

Whose 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

Set against the backdrop of the 1983 Gukurahundi massacres — in which the Zimbabwean army brutally targeted civilians in Matabeleland, killing thousands — the film follows protagonist Chris Nyathi. (Photo supplied)

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

Taking advantage of local communities’ despair and desperation, the politicians agitate by blaming foreigners for stealing jobs (Getty)

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 (Photo Archive)

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

Zimbabweans want justice for the Gukurahundi massacre. (Ziyange Aurony/AFP)

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

Protests over economic hardships, fuelled by the 150% rise in the petrol price (above), led to security forces being deployed. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

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

Silvia Maphosa is buried after he and others died during violence in Harare a day after the elections. A commission has completed its investigation into the bloodshed. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Will Zim bury poll deaths report?

Kgalema Motlanthe investigated post-election violence but there are concerns President Mnangagwa will not release his findings

Justice Maphosa rescued Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa when Robert Mugabe was pursuing his former vice-president as part of a purge in Zanu-PF in November last year

Gukurahundi ghosts haunt Mnangagwa

Mugabe’s successor was allegedly instrumental in organising the massacres of the Ndebele

In a televised address

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.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s clampdown on dissent in Matabeleland claimed up to 20 000 lives.

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

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

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.