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Several of the six Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) members, who were recently released from prison, have travelled to South Africa for medical attention.
The six former prisoners were among nine MRP activists who were arrested in March 2021 and subsequently jailed after they staged a demonstration at Bulawayo Central Police Station, demanding the release of party president Mqondisi Moyo.
The Chairperson of the MRP’s Women’s National League – Sibongile Banda and Busi Moyo, were released from Mlondozi prison, while MRP’s Council of Elders representative – Tinos Nkomo, Nkosinathi Ncube, Ackim Ndebele, Liveson Ncube who were released from Harare Central Prison.
Three MRP members, that is, MRP Youth Chairperson, Mongameli Mlotshwa, Maxwell Nkosi and Welcome Moyo, remained in jail (for another three months) as they had other charges.
In an interview with <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200025690/mthwakazi-activists-seek-medical-attention-in-sa">NewsDay</a>, Moyo asserted that it was more prudent for party members to seek medical attention in South Africa, given that they had been branded security threats by the State. Said Moyo:
<blockquote>
The MRP9 were labelled security threats to the State, of which seeking medical attention in Zimbabwe is not the best idea as it is also expensive.
The medical examination was also necessary considering the prison conditions and risks associated with Zimbabwe prisons, part of which was their clothing management and arrangement on their release.
There was no medical report or status we received from the Prison Services (Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services), but the findings we have are from their current check-ups.
</blockquote>
Ackim Ndebele, one of the MRP9, said he sustained some injuries in prison in addition to the harsh treatment they had to endure. Said Ndebele:
<blockquote>
I was not feeling well as I had sustained some injuries during my incarceration and the harsh treatment we received after our conviction and sentencing.
The few days that I have spent in South Africa have reminded me of what we all should strive to achieve, which is a society in which one can freely express themselves and where one does not have to look over their shoulder every minute of their life.
</blockquote>
Meanwhile, Moyo said party members were funding the medical examinations. He said:
<blockquote>
Our goal is for all members to be medically examined by the end of April. Tinos Nkomo, who had gone partially blind, will be provided with vision spectacles and will proceed to South Africa to also get a full medical examination.
We also had a report concerning Mongameli Mlotshwa, who had to be assisted while inside as he also had some sight problems.
</blockquote>
The Mthwakazi Republic Party is a political organisation established in 2014. This party is characterised as both secessionist and restorationist, aiming to establish an independent state separate from Zimbabwe while also reviving the Mthwakazi kingdom.
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Mthwakazi Activists Seek Medical Care In South Africa After Release From Prison

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has reportedly impounded a vehicle belonging to the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) which was stationed at Bulawayo Central Police Station.
As reported by the <a href="https://newsday.co.zw/southerneye/local/article/200022937/impounded-mrp-vehicle-disappears-from-police-station">Southern Eye</a>, the vehicle, a Toyota Dyna vehicle, registration number AFP0848, was seized by law enforcement agents three years ago.
The vehicle was seized during a flash demonstration by MRP activists outside the police station in March 2021.
MRP lawyer Dumisani Dube reportedly once wrote to the police demanding the release of the vehicle but the police declined to accept the letter.
MRP spokesperson Velile Dube told Southern Eye that when they went to check for the vehicle, it was nowhere to be seen. Said Dube:
<blockquote>
It was towed on February 2 this year to an unknown place. People say that it was seen being towed towards Egodini direction.
We suspect that it was being taken to Ross Camp Police Station, but we were not notified, we are now worried as we do not know whether our vehicle is also supposed to serve a sentence.
There was no document written by the police about our vehicle.
</blockquote>
Meanwhile, ZRP spokesperson in Bulawayo Province Inspector Abednico Ncube said he had not yet received such a report.
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Impounded MRP Vehicle "Disappears" From Police Station

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP)’s National Executive Committee (NEC) castigated some party members who announced on Monday that they had disbanded the party organ and fired president Mqondisi Moyo as power-hungry ZANU PF agents.
Speaking during a press conference on Monday, some MRP members claimed to have fired Moyo and dissolved the entire NEC for failing to lead the party and ignoring structures.
The disgruntled party members also announced that they had appointed Mbonisi Gumbo as their interim spokesperson.
Gumbo said their constitution allowed them to dissolve NEC for poor performance and that they were electing an interim leadership on 01 October this year and holding their national congress in April next year.
However, the MRP spokesperson before the “rebellion”, Velile Moyo, said Gumbo was not even in MRP structures.
Speaking to <a href="https://cite.org.zw/mqondisi-moyo-still-party-president-mrp-nec/">CITE</a>, Moyo said the NEC had been monitoring Gumbo since December 2022 when he ascribed himself status of an elder in MRP.
Moyo further claimed that Gumbo had left the party three times and on each occasion rushed to social media to settle his scores. He said:
<blockquote>
The last time Gumbo was in MRP structures was sometime last year when he was a committee member in the NEC. He left saying the position was too junior for him given that he was a founding member.
Around January 2023, Gumbo told his accomplices that by the time Zimbabwe holds its elections in August 2023 he would have ascended to the position of MRP president.
</blockquote>
Moyo questioned how Gumbo and a few other party members who numbered 13 could dissolve the whole NEC when they “were not even a fully constituted body.”
He accused Gumbo and his colleagues of lying when they claimed that they had the backing of MRP provincial structures.
Moyo claimed that Gumbo and two other officials namely Matabeleland North Chairperson – Thembisani Mfulongashi Mpofu and party youth chairperson – Chilumbo Mudenda were working with ZANU PF to destabilise MRP. He said:
<blockquote>
We are aware that ZANU PF gave them assurance that if NEC takes the matter to court, the courts will rule in their favour.
As such the MRP NEC leadership will not waste its time challenging such a useless matter in Zimbabwe courts. We know at the end of the day that ZANU PF would have won.
</blockquote>
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MRP NEC Says Mqondisi Moyo Is Still Party President

Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) members claimed to have fired party president Mqondisi Moyo and dissolved his entire National Executive Committee (NEC), <a href="https://cite.org.zw/mthwakazi-republic-party-members-fire-president-and-dissolve-nec/">reported CITE</a>.
Moyo and the NEC were fired for allegedly neglecting duties, ignoring lower structures, and failing to lead as expected.
The members said it would be futile for Moyo to challenge their decision as it was made by local provincial members and those based abroad.
Speaking during a press conference at the Bulawayo Media Centre on Monday, self-proclaimed MRP interim spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo said the party’s constitution allowed them to dissolve the NEC. He said:
<blockquote>
NEC failed to engage in meaningful and constructive dialogue with the lower structures in finding lasting solutions to the present crisis.
Instead of engaging in mature dialogue to resolve the matters, dissenting members are labelled state agents, spies, CIOs and all sorts of names.
Why can’t you be mature in your leadership? Now everyone is a CIO. What kind of a party are we honestly?
</blockquote>
Gumbo said Moyo has ignored concerns raised by party members and also refused to attend meetings he was called to attend. He said:
<blockquote>
We approached Moyo and told him we were unhappy with the manner in which the party was run. He decided in his own wisdom, or lack of it, to disregard the members and PEC. Moyo decided he would not attend the meetings he was called to attend.
We asked if we could have the national executive dissolved and he remains as president then members choose their leaders from the vice president going down, and Moyo rejected that idea.
We then told him that since he rejected it, we would dissolve everyone, including him because the party is by the people, for the people and you cannot continue to disregard the members.
</blockquote>
He also accused the party leadership of failing to appeal against the conviction and sentencing of the MRP nine.
Gumbo said the NEC has failed to inform party members about the number and nature of party assets including vehicles.
MRP National Youth Chair, Chilumbo Mudenda MRP was morphing into a dictatorship which they were opposed to.
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MRP Members Fire President, Mqondisi Moyo, And Dissolve National Executive Committee

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned SADC calling for the regional organisation’s involvement in its demand for the creation of an independent state (Mthwakazi) covering Matabeleland and the Midlands provinces, separate from Zimbabwe.
<a href="https://cite.org.zw/mrp-petitions-sadc-in-self-determination-push/">CITE</a> reported that MRP members, Tobias Fuyane, Chairman of Botswana South Gaborone, and Leonard Dube, Information and Publicity Secretary from the same province, delivered the petition to SADC offices on Thursday.
A letter written by MRP President Mqondisi Moyo and buttressing the call for Mthwakazi’s self-determination was attached to the petition, as well as a recently signed petition paper with 25 880 signatures.
The SADC Secretariat stamped, signed, and registered the petition under reference number 3951863. Reads the petition:
<blockquote>
PETITION BY THE MTHWAKAZI PEOPLE FOR THE RESTORATION OF THEIR KINGDOM &amp; STATE
1. This petition is inspired by the standing resolution of the United Nations with regards to the autonomy and self-determination of all minority groups whose human rights are being denied and their dignity trampled on by their majority ethnic groups anywhere in the world.
2. We are a proud and law-abiding nation kingdom nation that was established by King Mzilikazi Khumalo bringing together many ethnic groups and creating a sense of singular nationhood amongst them, that he then called the Mthwakazi kingdom state.
3. The colonization of our state was never associated with that of Mashonaland or Zimbabwe as we were still a sovereign state at the time this region of Southern Africa was colonized in 1890. Therefore, our decolonization could not have been synchronized and associated with that of Mashonaland or Zimbabwe.
4. Our country was invaded in November 1893 by the British South African Company (BSA Co) on November 4, 1893, in defiance of the authority of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. According to the Moffatt Treaty of Peace and Unity signed on the 11 of February 1888 between Queen Victoria and King Lobengula Khumalo, Britain and Mthwakazi were allies and allies did not invade each other.
5. We are aware however that after the invasion and conquest of Mthwakazi by the BSA Co, the British crown on the other hand, granted the Royal Charter of Incorporation to the BSA Co, conferring it with all the powers of a government on all lands north of the Limpopo River. In the subsequent action that the BSA Co referred to as the “Victoria Agreement of 14 August 1893” which is the instrument by which the British Crown legalized the action of displacing the Mthwakazi nation and looting our cattle. Such action on the part of the British Crown was illegal.
6. The British Crown also legalised the continued occupation of our kingdom state illegally by proclaiming the Matabeleland Order-in-Council on the 19th of July 1894 where it was claimed that our Kingdom had been broken down and replaced by a better system. Such a declaration was racist and false.
</blockquote>
In the letter, Moyo said there has never been a political agreement in Zimbabwe that has benefited the Ndebele people. He wrote:
<blockquote>
Whether the 1923 amalgamation, the 1980 Zimbabwe independence, the 1987 so-called Unity Accord, have not been in our favour, but in that of Mashonaland people. The 2017 military coup worked for the Mashonaland people.
They alone were at the table negotiating exit packages for Robert Mugabe, and posts in the new government. None from among us were invited.
The Global Political Agreement that followed the disputed election outcome of 2008 didn’t involve us either.
All principals in the deal were Mashonaland people. Whatever was discussed was for the good of Mashonaland, with nothing for Mthwakazi.
</blockquote>
He appealed to SADC to also consider “the Mthwakazi Self-determination agenda” when deliberating on Zimbabwe’s disputed 2023 Harmonised Elections.
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Mthwakazi Activists Petition SADC In Push For Self-determination

The secessionist opposition political party, Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), said that the preliminary report by the SADC Electoral Observer Mission (SEOM) which criticised Zimbabwe’s 2023 Harmonised Elections should not come as a surprise.
MRP leader Mqondisi Moyo said the electoral irregularities highlighted by SEOM were a feature in all elections held in Zimbabwe since the attainment of independence in 1980.
In a letter seen by <a href="https://cite.org.zw/zim-has-been-holding-unfair-elections-since-1980-mrp/">CITE</a>, addressed to SEOM Head Nevers Mumba on August 31, 2023, Moyo first congratulated the SADC team for successfully observing the 23 August Harmonised Elections in Zimbabwe. He said:
<blockquote>
I noted from your Preliminary Statement that Zimbabwean elections fell short of meeting both SADC and Zimbabwean elections guidelines in many respects. This has been the case since 1980 when the country attained independence.
</blockquote>
Moyo, however, sought to draw SEOM’s attention to what MRP refers to as Mthwakazi, that is, the South Western part of Zimbabwe covering Matabeleland provinces and part of Midlands. He said:
<blockquote>
But even if elections were “free and fair,” Zimbabwean politics would still remain grossly unfair to the people of Mthwakazi.
</blockquote>
In the letter, Moyo claimed that the people of “Mthwakazi” have suffered since 1893 when people in Matabeleland, which was then an independent state, were defeated by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) forces. He added:
<blockquote>
In 1923, we suffered yet another demise, the forceful amalgamation of our country with Mashonaland. In 1980, our colonial status was transferred from Britain to Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
Moyo said people in Matabeleland endured a Zimbabwean government-led “genocide” in reference to the Gukurahundi killings between 1982 and 1987. He said:
<blockquote>
About 40 000 of our people perished. It is sad that SADC didn’t bother to pay any attention to what was happening in Mthwakazi.
That was despite its role of ensuring the safety of people in Southern Africa.
</blockquote>
Moyo implored SADC to intervene and facilitate the creation of a new State covering Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces, separate from Zimbabwe.
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Mthwakazi Activist Commends SADC Election Observers

The opposition Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has pleaded with the European Union Observer Mission to the 23 August elections to help it establish an independent Mthwakazi State, separate from Zimbabwe.
Early this year, MRP petitioned several institutions, among them the EU, as it sought 20 000 signatures of people from the Matabeleland region in a bid to push for Mthwakazi State “restoration”.
MRP president Mqondisi Moyo directed part of his speech during a rally at Bulawayo’s Stanley Square last week to the EU observers who attended the rally, asking them to assist Mthwakazi attain self-rule. Said Moyo:
<blockquote>
This petition is inspired by the standing resolution of the UN (United Nations) with regard to the autonomy and self-determination of all minority groups whose human rights are being denied and their dignity trampled on by their majority ethnic groups anywhere in the world.
We are a proud and law-abiding nation that was established by King Mzilikazi Khumalo bringing together many ethnic groups and creating a sense of singular nationhood among them, called Mthwakazi Kingdom State.
</blockquote>
He said before the merging of Matabeleland and Mashonaland to create present-day Zimbabwe, there existed a Mthwakazi State.
Moyo said the colonisation of Mthwakazi in the late 19th century was separate from Mashonaland or Zimbabwe because it was still a sovereign State when the latter was colonised.
He told EU observers that the British Crown also legalised the continued occupation of Mthwakazi illegally by proclaiming the Matabeleland Order-in-Council on July 19, 1894. The MRP leader said:
<blockquote>
In 1980, using the same Order-in-Council, the British Crown and government decolonised Mashonaland to create the Republic of Zimbabwe, and simultaneously transferred to them the mandate to rule Mthwakazi by conquest to a black majority supremacy regime.
When this regime came into power in 1980 within two years it started to train an army to kill unarmed civilians in Mthwakazi without any provocation or declaration of war, by creating the so-called “dissidents problem”.
The number of people killed was officially reported to be at least 20 000 civilians.
</blockquote>
Moyo said Mthwakazi had suffered 130 years of occupation, dehumanisation and oppression.
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MRP Courts EU Over Mthwakazi State "Restoration"

Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) Mqondisi Moyo has criticised former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere following his promise to have a US$1 billion budget for Gukurahundi.
Moyo said Kasukuwere must give that money to people from Mashonaland Province and leave Matabeleland people alone. <a href="https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-233147.html">Bulawayo24</a> quoted Moyo as saying:
<blockquote>
It is disheartening to learn that Mashonaland people think that they can take us for a ride. They reduce us to cry babies who are driven to sleep by a lullaby.
They think we are like stupid fish who can be lured by dangling a lifeless object as bait.
Kasukuwere is typical of Mashonaland folks who daydream of riding on our backs.
He is dangling US$1 billion, dubbing it as Gukurahundi Compensation Fund. Stupid! Who said we want money as compensation?
Did he, through his parents and Shona relatives murder our people so they could make such a foolish monetary promise?
Does he think that the almost 40 000 souls of Mthwakazi people who perished in the hands of the Fifth Brigade can be redeemed by money and the so-called development projects?
</blockquote>
Moyo added that people from Matabeleland are treated as second-class citizens in their own land. He said:
<blockquote>
You cannot talk of monetary compensation when the Genocide is still on. The Shona language that was spoken by the members of the fifth brigade, CIOs, and members of the Police Intelligence Services, continues to be the suppressive and oppressive language against our people.
We are being arrested by Shona police, the magistrate courts and the Bulawayo High Court is presided over by the Shona magistrates and Judges, the prison officers are Shonas.
If to you all this is not Gukurahundi Genocide in another form then I need to be examined mentally.
Remember your rule book which is the Shona Grandplan plan and its review 14-page document clearly states that in all the parts of Mthwakazi and Zimbabwe Shona is to be the official Language.
It clearly states that all government offices and departments in Mthwakazi should be manned by Shona people.
All the 11 Shona presidential Candidates for 23 August 2023 are the result of the Gukurahundi Genocide you claim you want to compensate for.
</blockquote>
Meanwhile, High Court judge Justice David Mangota on Wednesday, 12 July nullified Kasukuwere’s nomination as a presidential candidate.
The court said Kasukuwere was out of the country for over 18 months and therefore ceased to be a registered voter.
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Mthwakazi Activist Says Kasukuwere Should Keep "Gukurahundi US$1 Billion Budget" For Shona People

<a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Mthwakazi_Republic_Party">Mthwakazi Republic Party</a> (MRP) leader <a href="https://wiki.pindula.co.zw/Mqondisi_Moyo" title="Mqondisi Moyo">Mqondisi Moyo</a> has castigated a ZANU PF-affiliated group, Masvikiro4ED, for making a banner that portrayed Ndebele kings Mzilikazi and Lobengula as spirit mediums.
Masvikiro4ED placed images of the two pre-colonial Ndebele kings beside Shona religious figures Sekuru Kaguvi and Mbuya Nehanda in a banner with inscriptions “Amadlozi Elizwe, Spirit Mediums For ED”.
Speaking to <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/lobengulas-image-in-masvikiro4ed-banner-angers-mthwakazi/">ZimLive</a>, Moyo criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Masvikiro4ED for allegedly misrepresenting historical facts. Said Moyo:
<blockquote>
Kings Mzilikazi and Lobengula are revered among the Mthwakazi people.
Reducing them to being associated with Mnangagwa is an insult of the highest order. Mnangagwa’s Amadlozi (ancestors) are Kaguvi and Nehanda, the spirit mediums.
Mnangagwa cannot, and no one can claim for him, a spiritual relationship with Mzilikazi and Lobengula.
I urge the people who made the banner and Mnangagwa himself to shun reducing our departed heroes to nonentities.
Kings Mzilikazi and Lobengula were not spirit mediums. They were real, true fighters.
They were physical military men, commanders who physically trained armies that challenged colonialism in an unprecedented manner.
Hands off our ancestors. They are sacred.
</blockquote>
Founded in 2014, MRP has been described as both secessionist and restorationist, seeking to restore the <a href="https://wiki.pindula.co.zw/Mthwakazi" title="Mthwakazi">Mthwakazi</a> kingdom.
The party advocates for the creation of a separate Ndebele state which it claims initially lost its independence in 1893 to the British South African Company.
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King Lobengula’s Image In Masvikiro4ED Banner Angers Mthwakazi Activist

Self-exiled former ZANU PF Politburo member Saviour Kasukuwere reportedly offered Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo the post of deputy, while he was to be a president.
Speaking in an interview with <a href="https://cite.org.zw/mrp-leader-warns-against-celebrating-kasukuweres-return/">CITE</a>, Moyo claimed that Kasukuwere once sent emissaries to him in South Africa in 2019 asking that they work together. Said Moyo:
<blockquote>
I can’t recall the exact date but it was between September and December when Kasukuwere, who was also in South Africa sent emissaries to me because he wanted me to work with him and be his vice president.
The emissaries were Ndebele people, two of them were Msipa brothers and I knew one of them from our time together in ZAPU. So I think he might have told Kasukuwere that he knows me.
This Msipa fellow had a printing shop in Bulawayo and when we were in ZAPU, we once printed ZAPU t-shirts at his shop and when we met, he joked that ZAPU still owes him some money from that printing.
</blockquote>
Moyo further claimed that the emissaries told him that Kasukuwere was taking over ZANU PF. He said:
<blockquote>
They said Kasukuwere wants to form a party, where I was to be his deputy so that he wins the hearts of the people of Matabeleland.
I thanked them for their acknowledgement that Kasukuwere knew of my existence as Mqondisi Moyo and of MRP but in return I asked them when did Kasukuwere retire from being a Central Intelligence Operative because once one – always one.
</blockquote>
Moyo claimed he rejected the offer despite the emissaries telling him that Kasukuwere had money. He said:
<blockquote>
I pointed out that when Kasukuwere was Minister of Youth in 2013, he was given US$10 million for the 10 provinces, with each to get one million.
The money was given to CABS and CBZ. We strongly encouraged youth under 35 in Matabeleland to apply for those loans and even assisted some.
Guess what, out of all the youth we assisted to apply, no one received a loan.
AS MRP we discovered that youth from other places applied for the money pretending to be locals.
I refused their offer and told them if a child was born under ZANU, most probably the child will behave like most ZANU PF people, which was my way of telling them that I don’t trust anyone from ZANU PF.
I said I was not in this for money and as long as I see that you have disadvantaged Matabeleland, I am better off without money.
</blockquote>
Moyo said Kasukuwere’s emissaries went and “never brought back a reply”.
He urged Zimbabweans to be careful of who they vote for in their desperation for change.
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"Kasukuwere Offered Vice President Post To Mthwakazi Republic Party Leader"

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) Youth League has threatened to close all the country’s borders and airports before the August elections to end the smuggling of precious metals including gold.
MRP accused individuals linked to ZANU PF of gold smuggling saying the Government was doing nothing to stop the vice.
Speaking at an MRP star rally held in Lobengula Hall in Bulawayo on Thursday, Mudenda Chilumbo, Chairperson of the MRP Youth League said Zimbabweans should restore the spirit of the liberation struggle to stop resource plundering by the ruling elite. <a href="https://cite.org.zw/mrp-youths-threaten-to-close-borders-and-airports-to-curb-gold-smuggling/">CITE</a> quoted Chilumbo as saying:
<blockquote>
We have the borders at Plumtree, Beitbridge and Kazungula plus airports that are the Joshua Mqabuko International Airport in Bulawayo and the Victoria Falls International Airport, we will take them to a halt.
No plane will fly from Joshua Mqabuko or Victoria Falls International airports. No haulage trucks will also move out of the border. This is the only way to stop this nonsense.
We have doctors, nurses and teachers who are suffering yet there are gold smugglers.
It is our duty to stop that nonsense. Let us restore the spirit of the liberation struggle.
</blockquote>
In March and April this year, Al Jazeera premiered “Gold Mafia” which exposed individuals, some with links to the Government and State institutions, allegedly involved in gold smuggling and money laundering.
“Gold Mafia” is a four-part investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) which exposed gold smuggling gangs in Southern Africa.
The gangs help criminals launder hundreds of millions of dollars, getting rich themselves while plundering their nations.
They use gold to turn dirty cash into clean, seemingly legitimate money for those with large amounts of unaccounted wealth.
The gangs do so by using a complex web of companies, counterfeit identities and fake documents.
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MRP Threatens To Seize Airports, Borders To Stop Gold Smuggling

The opposition secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) party has accused Chief Sinamagonde of Binga South of attempting to prevent people from attending their rally in Chibila Village, Ward 22.
MRP said the police cleared the rally for 18 May 2023 but Chief Sinamagonde instructed his headmen to arrange meetings in their separate villages.
The opposition party said the traditional leader did this to prevent villagers from attending their political rally.
MRP’s council candidate Coaster Mathe told <a href="https://cite.org.zw/mrp-accuse-binga-chief-of-blocking-rally/">CITE</a> that before the rally, Chief Sinamaginde started telling villagers not to attend their rally “because they must support ZANU PF.” Said Mathe:
<blockquote>
Nothing can stop Mthwakazi from going ahead but it was challenging to have the rally, which was supposed to start at 9 am and end at 4 PM.
Despite the chief’s efforts, we carried on with our rally with the people who were there.
</blockquote>
Chairperson of the MRP Youth League, Mudenda Chilumbo, also claimed that Chief Sinamaonde tried to disrupt their rally. Said Mudenda:
<blockquote>
There were eight meetings in one area so that people would be occupied but because the meetings had no agenda, some started protesting and others realised those meetings were a ploy to prevent them from coming to us.
Some people then left the meetings while some headmen who sympathise with us told the villagers they were acting under the chief’s orders to keep them.
</blockquote>
However, when contacted for a comment, Chief Sinamagonde told CITE that MRP was trying to hurt his reputation. He said:
<blockquote>
You must ask MRP if they came to me as chief of the area. Even after receiving police approval, they should have gone to me as the chief and informed me they will be meeting with people in the area.
I heard they were accusing me of withholding people from attending their rally.
I cannot deny anyone permission to attend rallies. As a chief, I lead everyone regardless of who they are.
How can I block people if people are the ones who don’t want to go, must I force them to attend rallies?
</blockquote>
Chief Sinamagonde said he doesn’t know why MRP insulted him, adding he holds his own meetings to revive village structures as he is a new chief.
In December 2022, MRP accused Chief Mzimuni Masuku of Gwanda of abusing his authority after he allegedly cancelled their rally that had been cleared by the Police.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Mthwakazi Republic Party Accuses Binga Chief Of Blocking Rally

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) says it is targetting to gain full control of the Matabeleland region after this year’s elections, reported the <a href="https://newsday.co.zw/southerneye/news/article/200009704/mrp-targets-full-control-of-matabeleland">Southern Eye</a>.
Speaking at a campaign rally at Nketa Hall in Bulawayo over the weekend, the MRP president said Mthwakazi is not a tribe but a nation. He said:
<blockquote>
This is part of what makes us different from ZAPU and other political parties which have been formed in Matabeleland.
We don’t seek to be countrywide like ZANU PF which calls itself Zimbabwe this and Zimbabwe that. In truth, we are only focusing on Matabeleland.
Our confinement within the Mthwakazi territory has led some people to think that we are a merely regional, tribal party.
If we were tribal, then all parties are tribal because they draw their membership from tribes.
Mthwakazi is a nation that harmoniously brings together a multiplicity of tribes, 13 of them.
Parties like ZANU PF paint themselves as national, but they are the ones that are tribal.
If ZANU PF was not tribal as it claims, why did it target Ndebele and all Mthwakazi people during Gukurahundi?
Why were the Shona people who were residents in Matabeleland and Midlands spared by the Fifth Brigade?
Why were ZAPU supporters of Shona origin in Mashonaland West, Manicaland and other Mashonaland areas which were ZAPU strongholds spared from the killings?
</blockquote>
Moyo said Zimbabwe’s governance system is designed to favour the Shona people and disadvantage Ndebeles and other tribes based in Matabeleland. He said:
<blockquote>
The system works only in favour of Mashonaland people. Mthwakazi people have to travel to Harare just for minor issues. Everything is dealt with in Harare, why?
Are there no government offices in Bulawayo, Gwanda, Filabusi, Binga, Hwange, Beitbridge, Tsholotsho, Matobo, Plumtree, Nkayi, Lupane, Gwelo (Gweru) and in other towns and cities?
Centralisation is one of the mechanisms by which Mthwakazi people are harassed.
</blockquote>
MRP has been described as both secessionist and restorationist, seeking to restore the Mthwakazi kingdom.
According to Moyo, the Mthwakazi kingdom is made up of Aba-Thwa, San, Asians , Chewa , Nyanja, coloureds, BaKalanga, Karanga of Mthwakazi , Nambya , Nguni , Shangwe , Dhombe Sotho, Tonga , Tswana, BaVenda, BaLemba, BaSankwe , BaHlengwe, White African and Xhosa tribes.
More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

MRP President Targets Full Control Of Matabeleland Region

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) cancelled its planned march to deliver a petition to Mhlahlandlela Government Complex in Bulawayo on Friday after the police ordered the party to send not more than five representatives.
MRP intended to march to Mhlahlandlela to present its petition on the status of education in Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South, and a part of the Midlands.
The secessionist party claims the poor pass rate in schools in the region is partly attributable to the deployment of teachers who are unable to communicate in local indigenous languages.
MRP leader Mqondisi Moyo told CITE’s <a href="https://cite.org.zw/author/lulu-brenda-harris/">Lulu Brenda Harris</a> that they decided to cancel the march and re-strategise after the police order. He said:
<blockquote>
Police delayed in releasing the clearance and they said our march will be restricted to five people if it was a peaceful demonstration.
We then thought no, we will re-strategise because we saw ZANU PF at Tredgold last week, singing, inciting public violence and causing disorder.
This is why our youth team is strategising for next week, we refuse to be given a number of five people, which is a restriction.
</blockquote>
Moyo said MRP will push the government to address the matter and will not hesitate to ensure that the schools are closed if it ever comes to that. He said:
<blockquote>
What we have since discovered in all these schools, particularly in Matabeleland North is that there are non-local speaking teachers.
So our petition is a guide to encourage communities to push, stand up for their rights and demand that their children be taught by teachers who can speak their mother language.
How can the government deploy non-local language-speaking teachers to teach children, including at the ECD level?
This makes us believe that the government wants to deprive Matabeleland of education, so that marginalisation continues.
As a party, we are doing all that is within our means to make sure this is addressed and if it means schools must close, they will close.
</blockquote>
In Lupane in 2016, MRP members including villagers and the school development committee (SDC) chairman were arrested for pushing for the removal of a non-Ndebele-speaking headmistress, Millet Bonyonge, from Mlamuli Secondary School.
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education subsequently transferred the headmistress and six other teachers from the same school. | <a href="https://cite.org.zw/police-thwart-mrp-march-to-mhlahlandlela/">CITE</a>

Police Block MRP March To Mhlahlandlela Government Complex

The opposition Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has claimed that one of its members Wilson Mathe and his wife Nomatter Dube were assaulted by 10 ZANU PF activists at the couple’s homestead in Nyezi village, Ward 9, Insiza South.
The alleged attack occurred on Thursday last week.
MRP president Mqondisi Moyo on Monday told <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/southerneye/local-news/article/200003566/mrp-official-wife-survive-mob-attack">Southern Eye</a> that the assailants accused Mathe and his wife of introducing MRP politics in the area dominated by ZANU PF. Said Moyo:
<blockquote>
The 10 attackers were armed with knobkerries, sjamboks, and axes. They attacked the couple accusing it of bringing MRP politics to the ward. They stated that they are ZANU PF members.
All 10 ZANU PF members are from the same area. A few days ago, they smashed window panes at Mathe’s house. They used sticks and sjamboks to beat up Mathe and his wife.
We sent a rescue team from Bulawayo which arrived on November 10 and found Mathe and his wife in a bad condition.
The victims were ferried to Filabusi Police Station to report the matter. They were also taken to Filabusi Hospital for treatment.
</blockquote>
Mathe is the MRP treasurer for Nyezi. He contested the 2018 council elections.
Moyo said police arrested two of the suspects last Thursday.
ZRP acting spokesperson in Matabeleland South Province Assistant Inspector Thandolwenkosi Moyo said he had not yet received a report on the issue.

MRP Official, Wife Attacked By Mob

Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo has castigated the language used in crafting the chiefs’ manual on Gukurahundi Community Engagement Processes claiming that the words used downplayed victims’ experiences of the mass killings.
The chiefs created Volume 2 of the Manual on Community Engagement Processes to use as guidance when engaging Gukurahundi victims.
Speaking to <a href="https://cite.org.zw/mrp-tears-into-chiefs-gukurahundi-manual/">CITE</a>, Moyo questioned why the manual seen in Section 17 dealing with “Groups requiring special attention” used the phrase “alleged” in dealing with their comments.
He argued that the use of the term “alleged” suggests that the chiefs are in doubt that heinous crimes such as rape, torture, and extra-judicial killings ever happened. Said Moyo:
<blockquote>
The Manual identifies specific groups of people to be interviewed as ‘alleged’ rape victims, ‘alleged’ sodomy victims, ‘alleged’ torture victims, and ex-combatants.
Why should the Manual emphasise the term ‘alleged?’
Does it mean that the government and the National Council of Chiefs are in doubt that these crimes were committed, hence ‘alleged’?
To them, is it yet to be proved that people were tortured, that people were raped? Shame on the authors of the Manual which was endorsed by the government.
</blockquote>
He also questioned why the vast majority of Ndebele people were left off the list of victims to be consulted when, according to him, Gukurahundi targetted all Ndebele people. Moyo said:
<blockquote>
The derogatory language of the Fifth Brigade and the government was directed at all Ndebele people.
The word ‘cockroaches’ applied to all Ndebeles, physically tortured or not. That all Ndebeles, including the unborn, were labelled as dissidents making all Ndebeles victims of the genocide.
It follows that everyone who was there has to participate in the engagement exercise.
All Mthwakazi people are victims of Gukurahundi. They all underwent emotional torture.
Government and its National Council of Chiefs cannot expect people to be emotionally stable when they witnessed their own parents, children, siblings, relatives, and neighbours being raped, tortured, maimed, and killed.
</blockquote>
Gukurahundi is a term used to refer to disturbances in <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Matabeleland" title="Matabeleland">Matabeleland</a> and <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Midlands" title="Midlands">Midlands</a> in the 1980s which resulted in the death of an estimated 20 000 <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Ndebele" title="Ndebele">Ndebele</a> people.
It was carried out by the North Korean-trained <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/5th_Brigade" title="5th Brigade">5th Brigade</a> which was an elite regiment of the <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Zimbabwe_Defence_Forces" title="Zimbabwe Defence Forces">Zimbabwe Defence Forces</a>. 
Gukurahundi is derived from a Shona language term that loosely translates to “the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains”.

MRP Criticises Chief’s Gukurahundi Manual

Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) youths on Wednesday begged the United Nations (UN) to intervene in Zimbabwe to protect them from alleged persecution by the government.
MRP accuses President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government of persecuting its members.
In March this year, Mnangagwa threatened to “shorten” the lives of MRP activists while addressing a ZANU PF rally in Chitungwiza.
Later in Gweru, the President described MRP as a “bunch of people possessed by Biblical demon Legion”.
Addressing journalists during a Press conference in Bulawayo, MRP youth league member Mudenda Chilumbo, said:
<blockquote>
We demand the prosecution of living perpetrators of the Gukurahundi genocide by the intervention of the Criminal Court of Justice.
This will avert the barbaric systematic torture of people, especially Mthwakazi activists.
The perpetrators include Mnangagwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and Sydney Sekeramai, among others.
As MRP we believe that organisations like the UN have a possible provision in their charter to deal with the gross human rights abuses.
It should be known that our Mthwakazi people are ill-treated and justice should be done to avert future injustices.
</blockquote>
Chilumbo cited several incidences where Mnangagwa made threats against the Mthwakazi Republic Party. Chilumbo said:
<blockquote>
We are disgruntled against the laws that are put in place to suppress our party. This follows the utterances that were made by Mnangagwa on March 23, when he was addressing a rally in Chitungwiza and he said he will shorten the lives of Mthwakazi activists.
Again on 23 June, when he was addressing locals at Bata Company in Gweru, he referred to Mthwakazi activists as possessed by a demon.
In Marondera, he repeated his threats through the prosecution of our members leading to the sentencing of MRP members to three years each.
</blockquote>
He also demanded the release of the MRP9, that is, Welcome Moyo, Mongameli Xukuthwayo, Sibongile Mlotshwa, Latifa Banda, Busi Moyo, Livson Ncube, Nkosilathi Ncube, Maxwell Nkosi, Tinnos Nkomo and Ackim Ndebele who were jailed a combined 25 years.
Chilumbo alleged Bulawayo magistrate Tavengwa Sangster was under instruction from President Mnangagwa when he convicted the MRP activists.
More: <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2022/07/mrp-appeal-to-un-over-victimisation/">NewsDay</a>

MRP Calls For UN Intervention In Zimbabwe Over 'Persecution'

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MPR) has dismissed claims that it is engaged in coalition talks with the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).
During his recent rallies in Bulilima West and Gwanda Central, Chamisa reportedly told his supporters that CCC was negotiating with MRP.
However, the MRP secretary for information and publicity for Matabeleland South province, Khethani Nxebalendoda Ndlovu, said CCC is no different from ZANU PF, hence, they will not negotiate with either of the parties. Said Ndlovu:
<blockquote>
The party’s Matabeleland south leadership had a successful visit to Madlambuzi. It emerged that the CCC led by Chamisa had just swarmed the area propagating blue lies that they had struck a unity deal with MRP.
They claimed that the MRP was working with CCC, hence people must attend CCC meetings. 
Even their party leader Chamisa was quoted as claiming to be working with Mqondisi Moyo (MRP leader).
Let it be known that, under no circumstances will we, as MRP coalesce with CCC. Working with CCC is exactly the same as working with ZANU PF.
We can’t cooperate with ZANU PF, a party that led to the genocide of our people in the 1980s, and continues to lead the marginalisation of Mthwakazi, CCC is no different from ZANU PF.
</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/radical-opposition-mthwakazi-republic-party-dismisses-claims-of-coalition-talks-with-ccc/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

MRP Dismisses Claims Of Coalition Talks With CCC

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has dismissed threats made by President Emmerson Mnangagwa against secessionist movements that are pushing for the creation of a Mthwakazi Republic in Zimbabwe.
Addressing ZANU PF supporters at a campaign rally in Chitungwiza on Wednesday, Mnangagwa warned those pushing for the creation of a breakaway state in southwestern Zimbabwe that their lives will be shortened.
He singled out the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), one of several other pressure groups in the region which share the secessionist agenda of the movement.
Responding to the threats, MRP described Mnangagwa as a criminal who should be hauled before the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). The party said on its Twitter page:
<blockquote>
The threat to Mthwakazi people’s restoration Movements by Emmerson Mnangagwa in his rally today at Chitungwiza is a travesty of Justice!
He, Mnangagwa is a criminal, not our people. Mthwakazi will be free at last.
The cries of the victims of Gukurahundi for Justice are confusing this president of Zimbabwe. His portion is at The Hague.
</blockquote>
People in southwestern Zimbabwe complain of alleged marginalisation which they say include deliberate exclusion from the economic system and lack of equal opportunity in various areas as well unresolved issues around the Gukurahundi killings.
<h4>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h4>

Mthwakazi Separatists Unmoved By Mnangagwa Threats

Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo has threatened to block National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) spokesperson, Obert Gutu from attending any of the commission’s future meetings in Matabeleland.
This follows the former MDC legislator’s claim that the Gukurahundi massacres were a “tiny fraction” of past atrocities that have been experienced in the country.
Speaking in an interview with NewZimbabwe.com, Moyo stated that Gutu’s remarks on Gukurahundi cannot go unchallenged. He said:
<blockquote>Foul utterances by Obert Gutu who was recently appointed to the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) on the emotive Gukurahundi issue cannot be ignored by any living soul.
Gutu has said without shame that the Gukurahundi genocide which left about 40 000 dead, thousands others disappeared is not significant to deserve attention.
For the record, Mthwakazi Republic Party will lead from the front to ensure that Obert Gutu won’t set his foot on Mthwakazi soil to talk about the genocide and reconciliation because we already know his position and that of his master Emmerson Mnangagwa. It is now known why he was appointed to NPRC.</blockquote>
Moyo also suggested that Gutu was appointed to the NPRC to serve the interests of the ZANU PF led government which presided over the mass killings.
<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/06/24/matabeleland-forum-alarmed-by-obert-gutus-remarks-on-gukurahundi/">READ MORE: Matabeleland Forum ‘Alarmed’ By Obert Gutu’s Remarks On Gukurahundi</a>
He added that Gutu’s comments were just a true reflection of the government’s position on Gukurahundi. Moyo said:
<blockquote>One wonders the criteria by which Gutu was appointed to serve in a Commission which is supposed to be composed of people with unquestionable commitment to true peace and reconciliation.
NPRC is supposed to close the wounds of injustice which the government of Zanu PF opened soon after independence.
Here we have Gutu, in line with the thinking and attitudes of his fellow kinsmen, relegating the genocide to an insignificant lot.
Who in their right senses will ever have faith in NPRC?</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/gutu-gukurahundi-comments-rile-mthwakazi/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Mthwakazi Threatens To Ban Gutu From Matabeleland Over Gukurahundi Remarks

Members of a Matabeleland secessionist movement, Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) on Thursday disrupted the Queen Loziba lecture series by researcher Panashe Chiguhamadzi at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) in Bulawayo.
The activists said that they disrupted the lecture because Chiguhamadzi was not fit to do so as she is from the Shona tribe.
As soon as the essayist and novelist, born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa took to the podium, six MRP activists stood up with placards, one of which was written:
<blockquote>Panashe Chigumhadzi, go lecture Mashonaland people on Mbuya Nehanda, &amp; Sekuru Kaguvi who never fought whites but were witches and spirit mediums.
We don’t need Panashe Chiguhamadzi to lecture us about Loziba &amp; Lozikeyi, the wives of the late King Lobhengula.</blockquote>
The activists left the gallery after NGZ Bulawayo director Butholezwe Nyathi to stood up and asked them to be escorted out.
Speaking after the lecture, one of the activists, Patson Nxaba said:
<blockquote>The history of our people (Ndebeles) is supposed to be told by people from our tribe. They should be able to pronounce the name Dlodlo properly not what we were hearing here.
We want people like Pathisa Nyathi, Voti Thebe, Sam Mkhithika and many other historians to tell us about our history.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/mrp-activists-disrupt-queen-loziba-lecture/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chronicle</a></h4>

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