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Mnangagwa jittery as pressure mounts
CORNERED President Emmerson Mnangagwa blocked envoys sent by his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa from meeting opposition political party leaders and civil society organisations fearing humil...Published: 5 hrs ago | 5941 | by Staff reporter
'There is no crisis in Zimbabwe'
GOVERNMENT has refuted wide claims South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa sent special envoys to Zimbabwe to investigate alleged human rights violations, which include rampant state sponsored abductio...Published: 5 hrs ago | 986 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's rise, fall from grace
ON the afternoon of November 22 2017, a day after a cornered former president Robert Mugabe resigned under pressure from the military - which was holding his family captive while a parliamentary proce...Published: 5 hrs ago | 3003 | by Staff reporter
Zapu seeks meeting with ANC, uMkhonto we Sizwe Over Zimbabwe crisis
OPPOSITION Zapu has requested a meeting with South Africa’s main liberation movements, the ANC, South Africa Communist Party (SACP) and uMkhonto we Sizwe to demand the adoption of an inclusive engag...Published: 6 hrs ago | 285 | by Staff reporter
MDC leader's wife arrested for reporting that her husband was abducted
The wife of Tamuka Denhere the MDC Secretary for Security and Defence for Mkoba District was arrested on Thursday after going to report that her husband was abducted by suspected state agents. ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 8770 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's Economic Freedom Fighters plots Beitbridge border blockade
OPPOSITION party Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters (ZEFF) has revealed plans to mobilise its followers to blockade the Beitbridge Border Post on August 31 to protest against human rights violations b...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1629 | by Staff reporter
SA lawyers sing for their supper against Mnangagwa
A SOUTH AFRICAN group of lawyers yesterday added its voice to the growing chorus of alarm on human rights abuses by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, chastising the Zanu-PF leader for ris...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2883 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's emissaries will return to Zimbabwe
SOUTH Africa's ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mphakama Mbete, has refuted claims that President Cyril Ramaphosa's special envoys snubbed the country's opposition and civil society organisations when they cam...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:16hrs | 4318 | by Staff reporter
Mnanaggwa urged to amend laws
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu PF government has been urged to amend laws and enshrine the principles in the African Charter on Democracy and Governance (ACDEG) in order to improve issues of huma...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa fights to end Zimbabwe's political crisis
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's special envoys arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday and immediately went to work - meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other key stakeholders in the country.Interesti...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:57hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
SA envoys shows Chamisa the middle finger
SPECIAL envoys appointed by African Union chairperson, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to probe reports of gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe jetted out of the country yesterday after a...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:27hrs | 7823 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean liberators have turned oppressors
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions yesterday castigated "a few rogue elements" in the security sectorwho were allegedly benefiting from the feeding trough and abusing Zimbabwean citizens whenev...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1707 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa decries 'divisive falsehoods' over rights abuse claims
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday called criticism of human rights abuses by his government "divisive falsehoods" and said his administration was under renewed attack from domestic and...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 19:42hrs | 2063 | by Reuters
Mnangagwa blocks Ramaphosa envoys from meeting Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa risked a diplomatic spat with South Africa on Monday after blocking two special envoys sent by President Cyril Ramaphosa to gather information on human rights violations i...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 19:33hrs | 7838 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Ramaphosa's envoys snub Chamisa
Envoys sent by South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to Zimbabwe have cancelled a meeting that was supposed to be held with MDC President Nelson Chamisa and his delegation.The deleg...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:50hrs | 7399 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Malema calls for Beitbridge blockade
South African opposition leader Julius Malema on Sunday urged Zimbabwean youths to take decisive steps to end President Emmerson Mnangagwa's increasingly autocratic rule, warning that social media act...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 17:00hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to cooperate with SA's envoys
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa conferred with President Emmerson Mnangagwa before he appointed his two special envoys to Zimbabwe last week - amid allegations of human rights violations in the country - it...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 2132 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's open letter to President Ramaphosa
ON behalf of the people of Zimbabwe who have expressed themselves loudly on social media, and have expressed themselves on issues they want addressed legally, we are grateful that you have found it ne...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 1830 | by Job Sikhala
People must free themselves from ZANU-PF chains
To say our situation in Zimbabwe is not so different from the one Guatemala experienced is very wrong and lacks factual points.The Zimbabwean government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa mus...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:44hrs | 540 | by Leonard Koni
ZANU PF is not Zimbabwe - so there's no anti-Zimbabwe campaign!
Over the past month or two - ever since the announcement by some opposition political parties, as well as human and labour rights activists, of a planned national demonstration on 31 July 2020 against...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:40hrs | 4233 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe activists decry ‘unprecedented clampdown' after arrests
INVESTIGATIVE journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has over the years leveraged his large social media following to share posts about human rights abuses and alleged government corruption.On June 20, ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:00hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to stop harassing workers
INTERNATIONAL trade unions have raised concern over harassment of workers' representatives by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as pressure piles on the Zanu-PF regime to respect human rights....Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:57hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' political consciousness now very high
MDC Alliance deputy chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said Zimbabweans' political consciousness as a people can now be taken for granted by those blinded with oppressive power but in the mind of every pai...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 13:56hrs | 1622 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa claims to be under siege
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says the government is trying to provoke opposition and civic society leaders into engaging in violence by pushing them into a corner through a crackdown by law e...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:28hrs | 7494 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's rhetoric inflammatory
In a week that President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to "flush out" his political opponents, a young Bulawayo woman was allegedly abducted, sexually assaulted and badly tortured. Twenty-three-year-old...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:21hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
Why the blockages on people's rights?
The deployment of the army to clamp down on protests threatens to create a subject political culture where timid citizens watch the state conversion into a complete authoritarian regime.Since ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:18hrs | 158 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
Dabengwa foundation director hounded over Zanu-PF masks
THE Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation's director Mthulisi Hanana has skipped the country, fearing for his life and that of his family after his home was broken into and children harassed by unknown people....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
UMD condemns Mnangagwa's brutal crackdown on civilians
The UMD condemns in the strongest terms permissible the current wave of abductions, brutality, torture, sexual abuse, suppression of freedoms and other human rights violations perpetrated by the...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1717 | by Luxon Mudzimiri
'Zimbabwe has nothing to hide over unfounded abuse allegations'
ZIMBABWE Liberation War Veterans Association Secretary-General, Victor Matemadanda has slammed the country's detractors over the continued misinformed onslaught regarding alleged human rights abuses i...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 21:27hrs | 2630 | by Staff reporter
America slaps notorious African army General with stiff sanctions
United States of America has responded to a global call by the United Nations for all UN member states to implement sanctions on Bi Sidi Souleman who leads the Central African Republic (CAR)-based mil...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:42hrs | 3147 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Another long weekend for Chin'ono, Ngarivhume
Zimbabwe 'crisis': UN steps inTHE United Nations says it is following the Zimbabwean crisis with concern, urging Harare to respect human rights amid pressure for the matter to be tabled at the glo...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1764 | by Staff reporter
'Need new GNU, too polarised for democracy' argue Gono - bull, Zanu PF doesn't want democracy
"The nature of our politics today demands, in my view, greater tolerance, cross-fertilisation of ideas from different corners of political and economic thought and inclusiveness. If I had my way into ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:46hrs | 1698 | by Wilbert Mukori
WATCH: Mukupe exposes South Africa journalist for not doing his homework
"There is no unrest, there is no war in Zimbabwe...There are no claims of abductions and police brutality"- Zimbabwe's former Deputy Finance Minister, Terence Mukupe. Meanwhile, South African ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:11hrs | 1879 | by Staff reporter
SA police clash with protesters at Zimbabwe embassy in Pretoria
South African police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse dozens of protesters outside the Zimbabwean embassy in Pretoria on Friday, an AFP photographer said.Close to 100 mainly ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:49hrs | 1489 | by AFP
SADC called to intervene in Zimbabwe's crisis
South African opposition leader General Bantu Holomisa has called upon SADC to intervene and assist Zimbabweans to find a solution to the crisis that is intensifying in their country.In a pres...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 12:05hrs | 3056 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's two-year rule: The verdict is 'total disaster'
TWO years after winning the disputed 2018 poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has performed dismally towards implementing political and economic reforms perceived as key to ending Zimb...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2674 | by Staff reporter
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 2283 | by Staff reporter
Region turns heat on Mnangagwa
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has voiced his concern over the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe that has seen a spike in State-sponsored abductions, arrests and torture of opposition activ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 7990 | by Staff reporter
Ian Khama endorses #ZimbabweLivesMatter
FORMER Botswana leader Ian Seretse Khama has emerged to land a shoulder and also call for prayer for suffering Zimbabweans in the wake of a fierce crackdown by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's governmen...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2415 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa breathes fire
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa for labelling innocent citizens as terrorists after they expressed anger over his maladministration.Chami...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:58hrs | 11628 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dismisses crisis, implosion allegations
THERE is no crisis or implosion in the country, neither has there been any abduction or "war" on citizens, secretary for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Mr Nick Mangwana has said. Ra...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:50hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Namibia to keep distance from Mnangagwa abuses
THE Namibian government says it will not be cajoled into any undiplomatic condemnation or otherwise of the Zimbabwean government's brutal clampdown on citizens demanding better leadership and an end t...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:49hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
G40 fugitives in anti-Zimbabwe crusade
FUGITIVE G40 members, who are hiding in South Africa, are behind the recent anti-Zimbabwe campaign responsible for inventing a non-existent crisis and have been engaging various regional players in a ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:44hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Darkest force in Zimbabwe
The strength that awakens the oppressed is stronger and unstoppable. The oppressed people of Zimbabwe are waking up. Amid all this the prince of demons dare to say we are the dark force when we call u...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 05:52hrs | 4185 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
There is no crisis in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is yet again the target of a relentless attack from its detractors who want to create a non-existent crisis in the country when there is none as the nation is only observing stringent measure...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:33hrs | 5593 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe human rights abuse videos and pics are old and fake' Governmnet says
The Government of Zimbabwe has refuted allegations of human rights abuses which it says has been peddled by known political activists and misinformed individuals and global actors.In a stateme...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:00hrs | 2524 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kazembe Kazembe and police Boss Godwin Matanga sucked in human rights abuses
The #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign has put Zimbabwe's internal security enforcers under scrutiny. The government is accused of abusing and stifling citizens human rights and liberties. The wo...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:35hrs | 3731 | by Alex Muzuva
Could a hashtag help achieve in Zimbabwe what protests have failed to do?
Could a social media hashtag - tapping into the energy and anger of the global #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon - help achieve in Zimbabwe what years of street protests, strikes and political campaigns ha...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 646 | by Andrew Harding Africa correspondent, BBC News
Inclusive dialogue can save Zimbabwe
THE Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) has called for multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the country's worsening socio-political and economic crises.In a pastoral letter, EFZ said fai...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:09hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Zinasu condemns the persecution of students
The Zimbabwe National Students Union has said it is appalled by the continued targeted harassment of students by the military junta of Emmerson Mnangagwa."We condemn the inhumane, cruel and sa...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:33hrs | 223 | by Stephen Jakes
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