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The land issue won't go away
Fears of a land grab in South Africa have spooked investors. The ailing rand took another tumble when President Trump said his administration was closely watching the proposed seizure of land from whi...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 08:25hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Vigil mourns Roy Bennett 'Pachedu'
The Vigil was in mourning for Roy Bennett who encouraged us to mount our public protest outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London in 2002 and who remained a constant support in the many years since then....Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 16:54hrs | 10 | by Zim Vigil
Mnangagwa's forgive and forget?
President Mnangagwa's appeal to Zimbabweans to forgive and forget may, on the face of it, appear to be an appropriate Christmas sentiment. But in truth it is shallow and self-serving. Chr...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 14:23hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Mnangagwa's Ponzi scheme
An obscure Cairo-based bank has advanced Mnangagwa the money to launch Zanu PF Mark II in its new PF incarnation as the pragmatic fascist party - rather on the lines of the Egyptian regime itself. ...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 15:19hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Big anti-Mugabe march in Harare and demonstration in London
The Vigil has been sent the following message from a reliable source in Zimbabwe:Plans for a Solidarity March in support of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces in removing Mugabe are at an advanced st...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 13:15hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Selfish and sick - Zimbabwe Vigil
President Mugabe wants to reintroduce the death penalty. One can see why. How can a woman, a young woman, an American woman, a white woman, a young American white woman - a guest in Zimbabwe - be allo...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 17:03hrs | | by Zim Vigil
The missing Mugabes
News that Grace Mugabe has bought a Rolls-Royce for half a million dollars illustrates the poverty of imagination in our ruling class. They seem to have no respect for Zimbabwe's legacy. Surely, if th...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 23:09hrs | | by Zim Vigil UK
'Something stinks, Mugabe felt so close to death'
No sooner had Vice-President Mnangagwa returned from emergency surgery in South Africa for poisoning than Grace Mugabe announced that the President himself had been afflicted. Giving, if anything, too...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 20:34hrs | | by Zim Vigil UK
Mugabe's sons to relocate back to Zimbabwe for security reasons
The Mugabe family have dramatically expanded their property empire in the Mazowe area by giving themselves a billion dollars of government money to build a new university there to be called the Robert...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 13:55hrs | | by Zim Vigil
London protest at Zanu PF misrule
The Vigil is to mark the 37th anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence by a demonstration outside the Embassy in London next Saturday in protest at Zanu PF's misrule.At the same time, Zanu PF in...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:16hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Stony road ahead - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
As we begin a new year it is difficult to imagine that it will be a happy one in Zimbabwe. Even optimists will find it hard to see anything but a stony road ahead. We at the Vigil in the ...Published: 01 Jan 2017 at 20:24hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Unrepentant Mujuru Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 8th October 2016
There was no breast-beating or wringing of hands when Zimbabwe People First leader Joice Mujuru made a wooden pitch for respectability at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House ...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 20:48hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Who’s the tortoise now? - Zim Vigil
On Friday Botswana celebrated 50 years of independence. There has been a transformation. In 1966 it was the poor relation in the region. Some of us at the Vigil recall travelling through Botswana by t...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 10:19hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Exiled Zimbabweans demonstrate in London over xenophobic attacks in SA
Exiled Zimbabweans demonstrated outside the Zimbabwe Embassy and the South African High Commission in London on Friday 17th April in protest at the abduction in Harare of the civil rights activi...Published: 18 Apr 2015 at 07:24hrs | | by Zim Vigil
'Senile Mugabe not voice of Zimbabwe'
The Vigil has delivered a letter to the Ghanaian High Commission in London apologising for the insulting remarks about Ghana made by Mugabe at the Zanu-PF Congress. W...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 11:22hrs | | by Zim Vigil
'Mugabe has run out of options'
President Mugabe - having failed to sell Zimbabwe in Beijing - is now turning to other salesmen to bail out his bankrupt regime. Street vendors in Chitungwiza are being told they must register...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 16:52hrs | | by Zim Vigil
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