Robert Mugabe
Jul 3 2009, Robb

When the Gukurahundi was finally put to an end with the signing of the Peace Accord between Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of ZAPU in 1987, an enquiry was ordered into the first disturbances in Entumbane before the main Fifth Brigade thrust, but the findings...

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