MatabelelandReport

The second outburst of fighting between ZIPRA and ZANLA forces spills over into Nyamandlovu, where army units
loyal to the Government intercept columns of ZIPRA troops heading for Bulawayo from Gwayi in the north.
APR
Two people are shot dead near Khami, and a third is injured, by "armed men".
1982
17 MAY
A Nyamandlovu farmer is ambushed by dissidents and sustains a gun-shot wound. Two days later a lorry driver is shot
and killed near Godzo, in Tsholotsho. In the same month, a farmer's wife drives through a dissident ambush but is not
injured.
JUN
Dissidents rob a bus, a beer garden and 4 stores in Nyamandlovu. They also burn out 2 resettled villages in
Nyamandlovu, leaving 75 families homeless. "One woman" is also killed.
4 JUL
The manager of Grant's Sawmills, Nyamandlovu, is shot at by dissidents - no injury.
13 JUL
A police auxiliary constable is shot and injured at Hillmiles store.
23 JUL
A local farmer drives through an ambush at the 76 km peg on the Victoria Falls road (in Nyamandlovu), does not stop
and sustains no injury - perpetrators, dissidents.
23 JUL
Six foreign tourists stop when ambushed at the 76 km peg on the Bulawayo Victoria Falls road, in Nyamandlovu, and
are abducted.
AUG2
mine-workers are shot dead 20 km north of Bulawayo. 7 off-duty soldiers are lined up against a wall in Ngoma beerhall,
Nyamandlovu, and are bayonetted: 5 die and 8 are wounded - by dissidents. Three buses are robbed, and so are "stores",
all in Nyamandlovu.
4 SEP
2 Swiss tourists witness a shoot out between security forces and dissidents, 90 km north of Bulawayo.
A curfew is imposed on Northern Matabeleland, banning buses and private vehicles in the
communal areas, and banning reporters.
OCT
Dissidents rob a bus in Nyamandlovu.
DEC
There are several incidents involving dissidents. In Tsholotsho, Z$2 million of Government equipment is destroyed. In
Nyamandlovu, 6 people including 2 children are shot dead in a farm ambush, on 31 December. One unnamed villager
and 2 named villagers are also reported murdered by dissidents in Nyamandlovu.
1983
6 JAN
The Government agrees to allow farmers to re-arm, to protect themselves against dissidents. They had all surrendered
their weapons at Independence.
26 JAN
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