IN 1982, most of Zimbabwe’s fixed-wing air power was destroyed during a nighttime raid on the Thornhill Air Base. The involvement of SA’s apartheid regime — and its collaborators — was ...

In July 1982, most of Zimbabwe’s jet fighters were destroyed during a nighttime raid on the Thornhill Air Base, but the identity of the perpetrators remained a mystery until this year.

A senior Air Force of Zimbabwe pilot died on Friday after his Chengdu J-7/F-7 aircraft went down in the Wazheri area of Gweru ...

In July 1982, saboteurs blew up most of Zimbabwe’s fighter aircraft during a nighttime raid on Thornhill, an air force base near the Midlands city of Gweru. Within minutes, the country’s fixed ...

After the war, he became a flight chief and Squadron Inspector and retired from Nellis Air Force Base in 1965. Thornhill then worked for Bonanza Airlines as a factory representative and assistant ...

In July 1982, saboteurs blew up most of Zimbabwe’s fighter aircraft at Thornhill, an air force base near the Midlands city of Gweru. The newly independent black government, led by Robert Mugabe ...

A South African government memorandum, squirrelled away by a former apartheid operative, has revealed the answer to a 42-year-old mystery: who was behind the devastating 1982 sabotage of the air ...