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Petition to The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education
Editor please publish our petition to the Minister of Primary and Secondary education for our pupils are not attending school due to the interference of powerful politicians who are protecting a viole...Published: 29 May 2023 at 22:58hrs | 4 | by Parents/Guardians - Murowa School
Zimbabweans bracing for fresh unrest as Chamisa plan protests
Zimbabweans are bracing for fresh unrest after the main opposition party unveiled plans for a series of major rallies starting this week and unions called for strike action.Any demonstrations ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 17:06hrs | | by The Guardian
Zimbabwe lawyers blast £118 000 outlay on judges' wigs
LAWYERS have hit out at government's decision to spend thousands of pounds on wigs made in England for local judges, saying the tradition evokes a colonial past that should not exist in modern Zimbabw...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:17hrs | 5 | by The Guardian
'UK accelerates deportations of failed Zimbabwe asylum seekers'
The Home Office has been condemned for working with the Zimbabwean government to accelerate the deportation of asylum seekers despite high-profile human rights abuses in the country.Asylum law...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 20:28hrs | 1 | by The Guardian
Zimbabwean police files implicate army in widespread abuses
Internal Zimbabwean police documents passed to the Guardian suggest the army has been responsible for murder, rape and armed robbery during the ongoing brutal crackdown in the southern African country...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 18:57hrs | | by The Guardian
Zanu-PF warns that Zimbabwe's economic crisis will deepen without aid
Zimbabwe will plunge further into economic crisis unless international lenders provide aid to the heavily indebted former British colony, senior officials from the Zanu-PF ruling party have said....Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by The Guardian
Zimbabwe economic collapse looms again
Zimbabwe faces a deepening economic crisis as hopes fade of a new wave of international investment and aid, following historic elections in July.Locals say conditions have deteriorated since J...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 16:33hrs | | by The Guardian
Chamisa supporter fights UK deportation
Human rights organisations have accused the Home Office of breaking international law after it decided to deport a Zimbabwean member of the opposition party whose life would be in danger if he returne...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 10:59hrs | | by theguardian.com
More Zimbabwe political activists go into hiding
Hundreds more activists have gone into hiding in Zimbabwe as security agencies intensify a crackdown launched shortly after the election 10 days ago.Millions of people cast votes in the poll, ...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by The Guardian
Chamisa vs Mnangagwa: 'It is a David - Goliath affair'
Nelson Chamisa steps down from the podium. The crowd is still cheering.Promises have been made, slogans shouted, jokes cracked and prayers said.The campaign is drawing to an end. The r...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:28hrs | | by The Guardian
MDC Alliance fears crackdown after Mnangagwa bombing
Opposition leaders in Zimbabwe fear the bombing of a ruling party election rally on Saturday will serve as a pretext for a wide-ranging crackdown by the government or the military in the southern Afri...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 16:43hrs | | by theguardian
Mnangagwa's saviour being investigated for fraud
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean businessman, Justice Maphosa, who is credited with sheltering President Emmerson Mnangagwa shortly before former leader, Robert Mugabe stepped down last November, is bein...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Mail &Guardian
Mugabe coup brings Mbare back to life
Like many ordinary Zimbabweans right now, Joy Mviro is adamant that things have changed for the better."We can now talk openly," she tells me confidently, as we stand outside the Edith Opperma...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:20hrs | 2 | by The Guardian
Chiwenga's trip to China last week raises questions on coup
When one of the architects of Zimbabwe's low-key coup landed in Beijing last week he was met by two of the most senior members of the world's largest military force."China and Zimbabwe are all...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 14:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter I theguardian
Mugabe ruling Zimbabwe from hospital bed, says opposition
Claim follows reports that 93-year-old president is undergoing medical treatment in Singapore for third time this year.Robert Mugabe's third trip to Singapore this year for medical treatment h...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 08:04hrs | | by theguardian
Mugabe's allies fear ousting him could see them sidelined
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's oldest allies favour letting the 91-year-old remain in office indefinitely rather than trying to oust him even as Zimbabwe's economy collapses, members of the decision-making...Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 12:06hrs | | by Mail and Guardian Africa
Gukurahundi massacre claims add to Mugabe's pains
Australians usually cause headaches for Zimbabwe in rugby and cricket. Now, though, recently declassified Australian diplomatic documents are resurrecting ghosts President Robert Mugabe's governme...Published: 20 May 2015 at 08:22hrs | | by Mail & Guardian Africa
Zim comedians getting away with satirising Mugabe's govt
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation is notorious for several reasons. First, as a mouthpiece for the Zanu-PF party, whose 91-year-old president Robert Mugabe recently fell over at a press conference...Published: 09 Apr 2015 at 08:59hrs | | by The Guardian
Zimbabwe's 2002 election not free and fair - SA Report
THE 2002 Zimbabwean elections were not "free and fair", the long-awaited Khampepe report by then Pretoria High Court judge Dikgang Moseneke and Johannesburg High Court judge Sisi Khampepe has determin...Published: 16 Nov 2014 at 14:37hrs | | by Mail and Guardian
Facebook group aims to expose absentee fathers
Launched two weeks ago, 'Dead Beat Kenya' and its affiliated sites already have 125,000 likes. But can any good come from naming and shaming, asks Kagure MugoKenyan men, have you ever chosen t...Published: 30 Sep 2014 at 20:38hrs | | by Guardian
Zimbabwe poll secrets to be exposed
Repeated controversies that have dogged Zimbabwean elections could soon be laid bare after the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed with costs on Friday the latest attempt by Presiden...Published: 21 Sep 2014 at 11:32hrs | | by Mail & Guardian
Grace Mugabe degree raises eyebrows
FEW guessed that the First Lady of Zimbabwe was quite so multi-talented. Last week, Grace Mugabe graduated with a PhD at the University of Zimbabwe.Her thesis, according to The Herald newspape...Published: 16 Sep 2014 at 09:17hrs | | by The Guardian
ANC should keep its policy of 'accommodating colonisers'
ZIMBABWE and South Africa's ruling parties have crossed swords over policy differences after African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Gwede Mantashe attacked the country's...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 15:42hrs | | by Mail&Guardian
Zanu-PF not bothered by ANC criticism
JOHANNESBURG - Zanu-PF says its land reform programme has been a major success and is not bothered by criticism from ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.While addressing a rally in the Free S...Published: 21 Mar 2014 at 07:26hrs | | by Mail&Guardian
Chinamasa's number up as Mugabe cabinet reshuffle looms
President Robert Mugabe is contemplating a Cabinet reshuffle that could see Patrick Chinamasa axed as finance minister and replaced by former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono, according ...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 06:03hrs | | by Mail & Guardian
Mugabe's planned lavish 90th birthday celebrations criticised
Plans for a lavish $1m celebration of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's 90th birthday have been condemned as the country lurches towards another financial crisis.The tribute to Africa's old...Published: 20 Feb 2014 at 12:20hrs | | by David Smith I theguardian.com
Mandela was never a revolutionary, always a radical
Critics trying to prove or disprove Mandela's sanctity failed to grasp that he was simply a political leader guiding his country through transitionA fitting way to commemorate Nelson Mandela...Published: 08 Dec 2013 at 04:59hrs | | by Gary Younge I theguardian.com
Zanu-PF trying to mend its bad-boy image
Zanu-PF is trying to mend its bad-boy image by reforming its policies and softening hardline policy positions.But analysts say many are suspicious of its intentions and it may take time for bu...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 02:56hrs | | by Mail&Guardian
NoViolet Bulawayo shortlisted for Guardian first book award 2013
The Booker-shortlisted novelist NoViolet Bulawayo is among five writers shortlisted for this year's Guardian first book award.Bulawayo's We Need New Names joins three other novels and one non-...Published: 16 Nov 2013 at 06:04hrs | | by Guardian
US delegation walk out in disgust after Mugabe speech
NEW YORK - President Robert Mugabe's fiery condemnation of the West during the 67th UN general assembly resulted in the US delegation leaving in disgust.Mugabe used his opportunity to speak a...Published: 27 Sep 2013 at 18:16hrs | | by Mail & Guardian
Zanu-PF exorcises Tsholotsho ghost
THE ELECTION of former Matabeleland North governor Jacob Mudenda as speaker of Parliament marked a major milestone in the rehabilitation of top Zanu PF officials who were fingered in the so-called Tsh...Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 06:23hrs | | by Mail&Guardian
Tsvangirai warns of uprising
Fast running out of options, the MDC-T has given the biggest hint yet that popular uprising could be the only option it is left with to unseat President Robert Mugabe, who last week won a seventh mand...Published: 06 Aug 2013 at 09:10hrs | | by The Guardian
Zim media houses nail their political colours to the mast
IN Zimbabwe, the media is either green or red and during election period, media houses nail their political colours to the mast.While ECF-Sadc said it was happy with the establishment of the Z...Published: 06 Aug 2013 at 06:23hrs | | by Mail&Guardian
Why Robert Mugabe scored landslide victory
THERE is a phenomenon in African politics called the preponderance of incumbency. Simply put, it maintains that it is difficult to defeat an incumbent president in an election because they control t...Published: 06 Aug 2013 at 05:20hrs | | by Blessing-Miles Tendi I Guardian.co.uk
Zanu-PF dismiss Zuma assassination plot claims
ZANU-PF has dismissed as "hogwash" and a "typical set-up" an apparently secret document said to be from intelligence sources that alleges an outlandish plot by President Robert Mugabe to hire a Lebane...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 06:41hrs | | by The Guardian (UK)
Courage of Beatrice Mtetwa captured in film
Beatrice Mtetwa grew up on a Swaziland farm with nearly 50 siblings. An average day involved waking at 4am, working in the maize fields, preparing breakfast for her family, walking barefoot to sch...Published: 19 Jun 2013 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by guardian.co.uk
Why Dali Tambo's Robert Mugabe interview was just PR
I don't entirely blame People of the South host D...Published: 04 Jun 2013 at 06:01hrs | | by Verashni Pillay I Mail & Guardian
Mugabes give rare glimpse into home life
FLOWERS, silver cutlery, and a box of tissues adorn the spotless white tablecloth. The family says grace and "bon appetit!" before tucking into their vegetables. Sitting at the head of the table, dad ...Published: 25 May 2013 at 11:58hrs | | by The Guardian
The rehabilitation of Robert Mugabe
HE has been a schoolteacher, freedom fighter and political prisoner. He has gone from admired independence leader to despised autocrat. Now a life that spans nine decades could be about to add its l...Published: 11 May 2013 at 21:45hrs | | by The Guardian
'South Africans are backward'
One of the most colourful men in African politics happens to be white. Guy Scott is the vice-president of Zambia but his race is probably the least exceptional thing about him.On a recent aft...Published: 02 May 2013 at 09:29hrs | | by David Smith I guardian
ANC pledges help to Zanu-PF
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has once again promised to support Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe's upcoming elections, saying the party is knowledgeable about the country's...Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 06:45hrs | | by Mail&Guardian
Mugabe's many faces
WELSHMAN Ncube, the Minister of Commerce and Industry and leader of one of the factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), lost his grandfather in the 1980s Gukurahundi. The violent Guk...Published: 04 Feb 2013 at 17:13hrs | | by Blessing-Miles Tendi I guardian.co.uk
'SA's gunship gift to Zimbabwe may be unlawful,' says DA
The Democratic Alliance has called for an immediate investigation into the SANDF's donation of retired military helicopters to the Zimbabwean army.David Maynier, the DA's defence spokesperson,...Published: 01 Feb 2013 at 07:45hrs | | by Mail & Guardian
Can the MDC-T still win?
A new constitution for Zimbabwe has been agreed on and now parties are looking to the elections.So, what does Morgan Tsvangirai have to do to win this time? His biggest task will be to reignit...Published: 29 Jan 2013 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Jason Moyo, Mail & Guardian
Mugabe-phobia fog clouds land reform success
ELECTIONS will be held in Zimbabwe later this year, leading with grim predictability to another bout of Mugabe-phobia in the British media.The trigger for the presidential and parliamentary po...Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 05:49hrs | | by Jonathan Steele I guardian.co.uk
Why Robert Mugabe may win 2013 elections
Zimbabwe's warring political leaders have finally agreed on a compromise constitution, starting a process that is expected to end in elections later this year. A referendum on the new constit...Published: 23 Jan 2013 at 14:05hrs | | by Blessing-Miles Tendi I guardian.co.uk,
Mugabe unlikely to call for elections in March
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is unlikely to carry out his threat to make a unilateral call for elections in March because the new Constitution, a prerequisite for the poll, remains bogged down by unresolve...Published: 12 Jan 2013 at 18:22hrs | | by Mail & Guardian
Mugabe plans to outsmart Zuma ahead of 2013 election
As Zimbabwe gears up for elections later this year, Robert Mugabe's opponents are welcoming the re-election of South African president Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC. Unlike his predecessor Thabo Mbe...Published: 07 Jan 2013 at 12:48hrs | | by Blessing-Miles Tendi I guardian.co.uk
Mail and Guardian battles SA government over Zim report
The Mail & Guardian notes that its long-running battle to gain access to a judicial report on the constitutional a...Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 07:28hrs | | by Mail & Guardian
Mugabe's land myths exposed
Thirteen years ago the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, most urban Zimbabweans and the international media were shrill in their condemnation when peasants and war veterans, soldiers, public...Published: 23 Apr 2012 at 07:25hrs | | by Mail and Guardian
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