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Sir Wicknell, actually you're the poorest man in Zimbabwe!
When I read a recent diatribe by self-proclaimed businessman Wicknell Chivayo, I felt like puking.He exhibited zero shame berating and disparaging legendary musician Thomas Mapfumo, as well as...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 08:12hrs | 3636 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Sikhala still undergoing treatment'
FORMER opposition Zengeza West legislator, Job Sikhala, is still undergoing treatment at a medical centre overseas after experiencing a running stomach and passing bloody stool due to suspected poison...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:38hrs | 970 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo begs Mukanya to accept his gifts
Wickell Chivayo strongly criticized journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in response to his remarks following musician Thomas Mapfumo's refusal of a contentious businessperson's car and home gifts.In ...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:47hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala launches operation Vhuserere-Imvuselelo
Zimbabwean veteran political activist Job Sikhala has launched a new civic organisation, Operation Vhuserere/Imvuselelo, to further a "mass democratic struggle" for freedom, reform and prosperity....Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 20:31hrs | 2295 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala - Morgan Komichi unite to revive Tsvangirai legacy
Veteran opposition figures Job Sikhala and Morgan Komichi are poised to forge a formidable alliance, signalling the birth of a new political movement reminiscent of the legacy of the late Morgan Tsvan...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:49hrs | 898 | by George Tshuma
Rights watchdogs condemn embarrassment of Zimbabwe lawyers
GLOBAL legal watchdogs, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L), have urged the government of Zimbabwe to urgently investigate the abuse of la...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 12:37hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
'US not Prosecutor-General of the world'
THE United States of America is neither the Prosecutor-General, nor the Judiciary of the world, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Jenfan Muswere has said.Reacting to...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:13hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala acquitted
FORMER CCC activist Job Sikhala was yesterday acquitted on charges of inciting people to engage in violence during demonstrations in July 2020.Sikhala had been charged with incitement to...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:45hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's zealots disrupts funeral
Moreblessing Ali's family was left fuming when the slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist's funeral in Chitungwiza Saturday was disrupted by political zealots who claimed loyalty to former...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 21:11hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala launches new movement
FORMER Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has launched a new movement, the National Democratic Working Group (NDWG), which he hopes will "free masses from political chains".The outspoken poli...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:00hrs | 3366 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube camp daydreaming
POWER wrangles in the beleaguered Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) are deepening amid revelations by a camp led by self-imposed secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu that it will not budge or enter ...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 20:19hrs | 2481 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters clash with Sikhala's at funeral
Two years after her tragic death, Moreblessing Ali, a prominent opposition political activist, was finally laid to rest on Saturday amidst chaotic scenes as supporters of former Citizens Coalition for...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:54hrs | 2083 | by Staff reporter
Tensions as Chamisa and Sikhala fight over Moreblessing Ali arrangements
Factions within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) are reportedly locked in a fierce battle for control over the funeral proceedings of Moreblessing Ali, scheduled to take place at Zororo Memoria...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 13:25hrs | 3351 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pan-Africanism is dead!
Twice, in as many weeks, I have heard Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speak on the need to preserve Pan-Africanism.Yesterday was the latest, as he attended a memorial service he...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:11hrs | 274 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sikhala appeals conviction
Prominent Zimbabwean opposition politician Job Sikhala has appealed his recent conviction and sentence after being found guilty of publishing or communicating falsehoods prejudicial to the state under...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 08:23hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
EXPOSED: Al Jazeera secret plot against ZANU PF unearthed
Al Jazeera News finds itself embroiled in controversy yet again as reports surface regarding its meddling in Zimbabwean political affairs.A source close to the matter revealed that the news networ...Published: 23 Feb 2024 at 12:26hrs | 3276 | by George Tshuma
CCC prepares to engage Sengezo
THE Interim leadership of the Citizens T Coalition for Change (CCC) still engage Sengezo Tshabangu in a bid to bury the party's recent chaos. At the same time, the party which has, for now, re...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 18:42hrs | 1977 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says Zanu-PF blocked him from 2023 polls
FORMER Zengeza West Member of Parliament Job Sikhala has accused Zanu-PF of locking him up to block him from taking part in the 2023 general election.In an interview with Alpha Media Holdings ...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:06hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged to court
FIRED top judge Justice Erica Ndewere has resuscitated her challenge over her "unlawful" dismissal from office in 2021 by dragging President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court.Ndewere was fired by Mn...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:05hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
Reunification sought by Tsvangirai 5 months before he died now in tatters
The implosion of CCC in Nelson Chamisa's hands is telling not only because it puts paid to Morgan Tsvangirai's widely publicised [see attached videos] last-ditch efforts - just five months before his ...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 12:48hrs | 648 | by Jonathan Moyo
Sikhala acquitted
Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda has found former Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala and councillor Lovemore Maiko not guilty and acquitted them on a charge of disorderly conduct. The two were represen...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:37hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala fined for publishing falsehoods
Opposition politician Job Sikhala was handed a wholly suspended sentence by Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka.This follows his conviction for publishing falsehoods after posting on his Faceb...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:02hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala soiled Zimbabwe police image'
The investigating officer into Job Sikhala's charges of publishing falsehoods says the former lawmaker should not be spared any corresponding punishment for allegedly tarnishing the image of the polic...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:53hrs | 3714 | by Staff reporter
Court defers ruling on Sikhala
Ruling on former Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala's case of publishing falsehoods on social media has been deferred to February 15 .This came out Monday when Sikhala and his lawyer Harrison N...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:30hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Curious case of Sikhala's conviction
EIGHT days after serving a 595day pre-trial detention at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, veteran opposition politician Job Sikhala was earlier this week convicted of publishing falsehoods, a charge...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
CCC in uncertain waters
WE are only a month into the new year, but it already feels like it has been long. The political year has started in earnest, lending credence to the counsel of political sages: A day is a very long t...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 10:02hrs | 2385 | by Ntando Dumani
Sikhala says his enemies planning to assassinate him
Outspoken opposition figure Job Sikhala has revealed fears of assassination plots orchestrated by his adversaries.Sikhala voiced these concerns during the unveiling of his new political endeav...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:02hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala launches his movement
Former Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has dumped Citizens Coalition for Change launching a mass nationwide democratic consultative process as he seeks to form a new national movement.Spea...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:00hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala dumps CCC
Former political detainee Job Sikhala has severed ties with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), likening the opposition group to a lifeless entity, and has established his own political movement....Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 20:16hrs | 4213 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has sunk beyond a banana republic!
I am sure the first time I came across the term 'banana republic' was in the early 1980s - when I was still a little boy in primary school.Obviously, I did not know what this meant.It ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:12hrs | 473 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sikhala convicted of publishing falsehoods
CITIZENS Coalition for Change senior member Mr Job Sikhala has been convicted by Harare Regional Magistrate Mrs Feresi Chakanyuka of communicating falsehoods after falsely claiming in 2021, that a jun...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:05hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe leaders need psychological help'
Walter Mzembi, an exiled former Cabinet Minister, has highlighted the need for psychological support within President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, suggesting that some officials may require as...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:49hrs | 1308 | by Staff reporter
There is neither second republic nor new dispensation
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, from where I stand, there is neither a new dispensation nor a second republic to talk about. As I see it, the late former President Robert Muga...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:43hrs | 312 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
CCC splits into three warring factions
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has disintegrated into three distinct yet fluid factions following last week's resignation of Nelson Chamisa which took some legislators and party officials by...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:36hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says Tsvangirai cried on his shoulders in a dream
Recently released former legislator Job Sikhala shared that he had a significant dream during his time at Chikurubi Prison, where late opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared, shedding tears and ...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:45hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's spin doctor hits back at 'ungrateful' Sikhala
CCC deputy spokesperson Gift "Ostallos" Siziva has implied that former Zengeza West MP, Job Sikhala, is unappreciative, following Sikhala's claim that the opposition party neglected him during his nea...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 09:26hrs | 3497 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala ordered to stop press interviews
Sikhala blames CCC leaders for abandoning himZimbabwean politician Job Sikhala, who was freed after spending nearly 600 days of pre-trial detention, says he is not a happy man and has little to ce...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 09:01hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala ordered to stop press interviews
Zimbabwe opposition figure Job Sikhala reveals that he is currently facing renewed threats of arrest after being released from Chikurubi Maximum Prison, where he spent the past eighteen months in pret...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:59hrs | 4394 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala movement shifts focus
THE Job Sikhala Solidarity Movement has been renamed the Zimbabwe Solidarity Movement to push for the release of other "political prisoners" who include nine Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP 9) members c...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:57hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates Gumbonzvanda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today met the newly appointed Deputy Director for Normative Support, United Nations System Coordination and Programme Results at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and t...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala not a political detainee'
The Government has dismissed assertions that opposition politician Job Sikhala was a political prisoner, saying instead he was convicted in terms of the country's laws for inciting violence and underm...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala has never met Tshabangu, but Chamisa has
Job Sikhala, the recently released former Zengeza West legislator, stated that he is unfamiliar with self-appointed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu and has neve...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:04hrs | 4357 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala confirms prison cell poisoning
Sikhala, the opposition activist recently released after spending 595 days in pretrial detention, has confirmed that he was poisoned during his time in solitary confinement at Chikurubi Maximum Prison...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | 2606 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala raring to flex muscle
FORMER opposition Zengeza Member of Parliament, Job Sikhala, says he will embark on "Thank You" rallies for the support he received from ordinary citizens across the country while he was in detention....Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1590 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala to appeal conviction, sentence
Freed opposition politician Job Sikhala is set to appeal his conviction and sentence for public violence incitement charges, his lawyers said Tuesday.The former Zengeza West lawmaker and co-ac...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 07:12hrs | 1447 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala gets suspended prison sentence
Former Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala will leave prison at 8AM on Wednesday after a court on Tuesday handed down a wholly suspended two-year prison sentence following his conviction on charges of incitem...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 18:22hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole sentencing today
CCC senior member Job Sikhala and his accomplice, former Chitungwiza North Member of Parliament Godfrey Sithole, will be sentenced today on a charge of inciting the public violence that broke out in N...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:19hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unwittingly creating a future president in Sikhala through his persecution!
This morning, my eyes could not move from the image of opposition activist Job Sikhala as he disembarked from a prison truck. This was on his arrival for his conviction hearing two days ago, w...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 19:32hrs | 2113 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Leaderless citizens urged to rally behind Sikhala
CITIZENS have been urged to unite in calling for the unconditional release of Job Sikhala who appeared in court on Wednesday.The former Zengeza West legislator, who was on Wednesday convicted for inci...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:44hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's judgement in communicating falsehoods case postponed
The judgement in Job Sikhala's case, where he is accused of publishing falsehoods, has been postponed to February 7 by the Harare Magistrates Court. Prosecutors submitted closing submissions on the mo...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 04:20hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
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