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Smith Debate is a Stroke of Genius
We have Lisah Ncube (Dutchess of Matebeleland) to thank for initiating the Smith was better than Mnangagwa debate. I don't know whether she planned it&n...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 14:04hrs | 905 | by Simon Peter Chamisa
Mamombe, Chimbiri demand original CCTV gadget
OPPOSITION activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have demanded the original CCTV gadget used to extract footage that the State wants to put as evidence.They face charges of faking their...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe nailed by owner of the Mercedes Benz in fake abduction trial
NEW details emerged yesterday during the trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe (Harare West MP), Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who are accused of faking their abducti...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 3297 | by Staff reporter
Fake abductions trial continues
TWO men who installed CCTV cameras at a food outlet in Belgravia, Harare, where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri allegedly bought food late in the afternoon they allegedly claimed to hav...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission chances are slim'
ZIMBABWE'S readmission to the Commonwealth might face hurdles due to continued human rights abuses in the country, political analysts said yesterday.This comes as the Commonwealth members are ...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Missing US$5 kicked-off events leading to Ali's gruesome murder
Pias Mukandi, alias Jamba, killed the Citizens Coalition for Change activist Moreblessing Ali following a row over US$5 that he allegedly lost at a bar, a court heard on Saturday.It has been e...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 18:56hrs | 1984 | by Staff reporter
There is need to professionalise ZRP
AN opinion written by Paidamoyo Muzulu titled Pro-lege, Pro-patria, Pro-populo: This is not our ZRP refers.I could not agree more with the writer. There is need to reform the Zimbabwe Re...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 425 | by Chief Chiduku
Chitungwiza turned into war zone as residents mourn slain activist
Six men sat in a tuckshop at a shopping centre in the Nyatsime where residents were roaming around waiting for the police to bring Pius Jamba to indicate how he allegedly killed Citizen Coalition for ...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:09hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Colonel Elliot Piki's house destroyed?
Human Rights lawyer Obey Shava says some youths stoned destroyed the house of the Rtd. Lieutenant colonel Elliot Piki who disappered and was found dead in 2018. Said Shava, "Just received news...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 12:39hrs | 2968 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe sliding into full-blown crisis
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chairperson Peter Mutasa was recently in South Africa for engagements with top officials from labour, political parties, civic society organisations and other solid...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | 701 | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Zanu-PF, CCC youths in running battles
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters yesterday clashed with their Zanu-PF counterparts, leaving a trail of destruction as tempers flared over the murder of activist Moreblessing A...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
God removes wicked rulers
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it has become common place for discredited and unloved failed national leaders in Zimbabwe to grasp at every straw to hold on to power, inclu...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 751 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Phone call records expose State
PHONE call records from Econet Zimbabwe have exposed possible State involvement in the abduction of two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists in May 2020.A State witness, who is a secu...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:36hrs | 1577 | by Staff reporter
Slain CCC activist's family demands answers
PRESSURE is mounting on the police to unearth the circumstances behind the alleged abduction and murder of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali by suspected Zanu-PF...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF on murdered CCC activist
Attempts by opposition political formations and foreign agencies to place blame for the kidnapping and subsequent death of Moreblessing Ali on Zanu-PF is perfectly choreographed to destabilise Zimbabw...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabwe ruling elite believes God appoints leaders then also know same God removes wicked rulers!
It has become common place for discredited and unloved failed national leaders in Zimbabwe to grasp at every straw to hold on to power, including the use ...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 315 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Questions for CCC Secretary General Hwende
1. If in your eyes Smith was worse than ZANU PF because "he killed our people simply because they were black", what does that say about how you see Ndebel...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:28hrs | 520 | by Simon Peter Chamisa
Mnangagwa accused of capturing judiciary
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) leader, Mqondisi Moyo, has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of capturing the judiciary and imprisoning his supporters Gukurahundi-style.In a strongly worded ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:14hrs | 2102 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi petitions over State brutality
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over State brutality on its members following incarceration of nine members for violence.Last week, Bulawayo magi...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:01hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of being vindictive, abusing power
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) leader, Mqondisi Moyo has challenged the judgment against nine party members known as the MRP9 who were jailed for public violence.Bulawayo magistrate Tavengwa S...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 18:42hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Conflicted EU red-flags govt on abductions
THE European Union (EU) has urged Zimbabwe to earnestly look into the issue of enforced disappearances and bring the culprits to book.Speaking to NewsDay after the fourth EU-Zimbabwe Dia...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe electoral violence looms'
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has warned that the country risks sliding into electoral violence similar to the 2008 mayhem which resulted in several opposition activists being killed or had their l...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
'Devious plots against Zimbabwe will come to naught'
MACHINATIONS by the country's detractors to cause unnecessary pain to the populace and damage Zimbabwe's reputation must be continuously exposed especially as the country heads towards the 2023 harmon...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF closing opposition's political space, says ZPP
Zanu-PF party members topped human rights violations, with 165 cases in April and 193 in May in a development rights groups say indicates the ruling party's penchant for violence.The figures w...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:19hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says the culprits are known, but untouchable
OUTSPOKEN politician and human rights lawyer Job Sikhala says a Zanu-PF leader for Nyatsime area in Chitungwiza, Simbarashe Chisango, who is allegedly linked to the disappearance of Moreblessing Ali i...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:14hrs | 2085 | by Staff reporter
ZimLive editor survives 'abduction' bid over Mnangagwa drink article
NewZimbabweVETERAN journalist and ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu has not returned to his Bulawayo home since Friday when individuals claiming to be police officers and driving unmarked vehicl...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:55hrs | 2114 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi replaces Zimbabwe flag with party flag at Zim Embassy in South Africa
A group of Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) youths on Tuesday stormed the Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria in South Africa and removed the Zimbabwean flag before replacing them with their party's flag....Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 3964 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC calls out police
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has dismissed the police version of events leading to the disappearance of party activist Moreblessing Ali on Tuesday last week.CCC claims that A...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2432 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activist 'abducted'?
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has claimed that its members Moreblessing Ali (47) was abducted on Tuesday last week in Chitungwiza by suspected Zanu-PF activists.CCC has raised...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors still struggling to get IDs
Twenty-five-year-old Charity Ncube (25), a villager from Lupane in Matabeleland North, doubts if she will ever obtain a birth certificate."My father disappeared and our homestead was burnt," s...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
There's absolutely nothing Pan-African and Anti-Imperialist about oppressing one's citizens and looting nation's resources
In all my 48 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 26 May 2022 at 21:13hrs | 503 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's activists cornered
CHIEF magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure yesterday allowed a crucial State witness from Econet Zimbabwe to testify in the ongoing trial of CCC members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, on charges of faki...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activists chicken out again
CCC members - Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri - charged with faking their abductions in May 2020, yesterday mounted a bid to block a crucial State witness from Econet Zimbabwe from giving evidence ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Witness in Mamombe, Chimbiri falsehoods case vanishes
A police officer who is set to stand as a witness in a case in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri are being accused of publishing falsehoods has va...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:57hrs | 1933 | by Staff reporter
CCC members trial postponed again
A State witness at the trial of CCC activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri on charges of faking their abductions sometime in 2020 could not attend court yesterday as she was ill, forcing the mat...Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:09hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Biti says Mnangagwa regime 'incorrigible'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader, Tendai Biti, has condemned the attempted abduction of party activist Makomborero Haruzivishe.Biti denounced the Monday night attack saying Pr...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:14hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's mob saves CCC activist from abduction?
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Makomborero Haruziviishe on Monday narrowly survived abduction after six unidentified men pretending to be police officers pounced on him in Kuwadzana 2, H...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri bid to delay trial flops
CCC activists, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, yesterday lost their bid to have Chief Magistrate, Mrs Faith Mushure, recuse herself from presiding over their case.The latest ploy has been ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri circus continues
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri want Chief Magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure to step down from presiding over the matter in which they allegedly faked their abductions sometime in May 2020 s...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 13:44hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party battling fresh internal turbulence in cockpit
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is battling fresh internal turbulence after some party bigwigs openly said that they were uncomfortable with party leader Nelson Chamisa extending an olive bran...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 3877 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's activists were not arrested'
CCC activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri lost their bid to block the State from tendering documentary evidence that their phones were active in Harare during the time they claimed to have been...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:44hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri reject incriminating POTRAZ evidence
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have opposed the admission of fresh evidence by a Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 18:07hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Hope for reformed, democratic Zimbabwe under Mnangagwa fading
THE high levels of intolerance witnessed in most parts of the country in the run-up to last week's by-elections were enough proof that Zimbabwe is still far from being a mature democracy.If he...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:53hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
New crop of opposition political parties in the region
It is believed that opposition political parties are a watchdog of central Government, ensuring that the people's lives and livelihoods are supported, that the country's economy is buttressed by susta...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 09:27hrs | 1838 | by Prosperity Mzila
Yellow Skies Rally took many by storm
Speculations had predicted a low turn up of supporters at the Citizen's Coalition for Change Rally that was held in Bulawayo on the 5th of March 2022. There was a talk about a general political detach...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 10:24hrs | 3144 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
CCC duo reveal abduction ordeal
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have revealed horrific accounts of torture, including being forced to sing war songs and drink each other's urine by th...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:31hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 190 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
CCC activists lose bid to block media coverage
EXPOSED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joana Mamombe and Cecillia Chimbiri's bid to block the Press from spotlighting their criminal trial at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday hi...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:36hrs | 122 | by Staf reporter
Chamisa's Mamombe, Chimbiri never said they were abducted
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activists, Joana Mamombe and Cecellia Chimbiri have made an about turn, sensationally claiming in their defence outline that they never communicated with anyone tha...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:29hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC chokes on abduction lies?
POLITICAL analysts have described the self-abduction tricks by the former Harare mayor, Hebert Gomba, of the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) last weekend as an overused and outdated scheme meant to...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
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