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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 | 445 | 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 | 288 | 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 | 642 | 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
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 | 792 | 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
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 | 3143 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
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 | 705 | 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
Mamombe, Chimbiri trial continues
THE trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, yesterday continued at the Harare Magistrates Court with the State witness saying call data records on one...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa election rigging plot boomerangs?
IN what could be a tip of the iceberg, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate in the upcoming March 26 by-elections, Herbert Gomba, has been arrested for fraudulently facilitating registration ...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri trial opens
CELLPHONES believed to be owned by Citizens Coalition for Change members – Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri were active on internet and various social media platforms during the time the two claim...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:31hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri Constitutional Court referral application dismissed
CHIEF magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure today dismissed Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri's application for referral of their case where they allegedly faked the...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 15:51hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nationals deported from UK to Harare
HUMAN rights groups have said they fear for the lives of Zimbabwean nationals deported on a Home Office charter flight on Wednesday night.One campaigner, who was on the phone to a deportee on ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:51hrs | 4034 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's star rally rolls into Mashonaland West
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to address legions of Zanu-PF supporters in Mashonaland West as he continues with his crusade to ensure the revolutionary party triumphs in the upcoming by-electi...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Police finger Zanu-PF in CCC Kwekwe violence
POLICE have accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of perpetrating the weekend violence in Kwekwe which left two opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters dead and 17 others injured, with ei...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter
Citizens' new hope for a New Great Zimbabwe
In the last quarter of 2021, it seemed as though the political arena of Zimbabwe was hopeless due to the enemy-fuelled split in the main opposition party. The turning of the tables was hatched overnig...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 08:51hrs | 1462 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
Exiled CCC activist seeks virtual trial
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Netsai Marova, who is believed to have skipped the border, has requested Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to set up a virtual court trial after a Harare m...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:43hrs | 1536 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should emulate teachers in fighting for our own liberation without placing the responsibility onto others!
If there is one major lesson that teachers have taught the people of Zimbabwe, it is - we can, indeed, stand up for ourselves, and fight for our own liberation, without fear and without transferring t...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 11:33hrs | 746 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mamombe feigning illness to delay trial'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has claimed that Harare West legislator Joanah Mamombe (Citizens Coalition for Change) has been employing delaying tactics in the finalisation of her "fake abduction" ...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe mum on abduction
LEGISLATOR Joana Mamombe yesterday refused to tell the court what happened after they left Harare Central police station in a police vehicle on the day they alleged to have been abducted sometime in M...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has put the final nail into the MDC brand
THE move by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to change his party's name to Citizens' Convergence for Change (CCC) has put the final nail into the MDC brand, which has since 1999 emerged as one of the ...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:33hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship
The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the depar...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1464 | by Hosia Mviringi
Police probes abducted MDC-Alliance activist
A 29-YEAR-OLD Masvingo MDC Alliance youth activist is under police investigation on charges of faking his own abduction barely a week ago, but the opposition party has rubbished the claims as ludicrou...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:39hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, activists application thrown out
The application by five MDC-Alliance activists to refer their charges of staging an illegal demonstration in Harare during the high level lockdown in May last year to the Constitutional Court was reje...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe's application dismissed
ACTING Chief Magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure on Friday dismissed MDC-Alliance members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri's application for the quashing of charges of faking their abductions saying she h...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:31hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Africa will never have another Tutu or Mandela because oppression is only oppression when committed by Whites!
The world was yesterday morning (26 December 2021) shocked with the tragic news of the passing away of legendary anti-apartheid and human rights defender, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, at the age of 90 yea...Published: 27 Dec 2021 at 19:07hrs | 838 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mamombe trial moved to January
MDC-Alliance members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, yesterday failed to appear in court for their hearing on allegations of faking their abductions sometime in May last year, after they both all...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:45hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, is Zimbabwe a sovereign state or a pariah, failed state?
What is sovereign about Zimbabwe whose government fails to give its people basics such as food securities for all, good education for all, basic health facilities, good all-weather roads, water & ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 11:48hrs | 453 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's mustn't greenwash his govt's crimes
SINCE becoming President in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly paid lip service to calls for democratic reform, did little to further human rights and democratic freedoms in the co...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:30hrs | 24 | by Tafi Mhaka
The Hypocrisy Of Mnangagwa
SINCE becoming the president of Zimbabwe in November 2017, despite repeatedly paying lip service to calls for democratic reform, Emmerson Mnangagwa did little to further human rights and democratic fr...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF regime's uncivilized and undiplomatic savage diatribes main impediment to international re-engagement
In any relationship and encounter on this planet, there are bound to be some disagreements and misunderstandings.Even in the animal kingdom, there is always conflict to be expected - whether i...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:41hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Second Republic marred by litany of unfulfilled pledges
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa got into power in 2017, a lot of promises were made, creating the impression that Zanu-PF was ready to give Zimbabweans a fresh start.Four years later, it see...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa desperate for international community support to remove Zanu PF
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is on a diplomatic charm offensive to ensure that he wins the impending 2023 polls.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjTLBpyxX4Zimbabwe has frosty rel...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 18:34hrs | 138 | by Chamunorwa Guzha
MDC Alliance's fake victimhood, internal ructions and sanctions
Over the years, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction has perfected the art of creating stunts to attract the West's attention in the vain and ill-placed hope of besmirching President Mnangagwa and to wrin...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 6 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa's govt, Chamisa's MDC in fresh abduction war
GOVERNMENT and the MDC Alliance are embroiled in a fresh abduction war as Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday accused the opposition of making fake claims that its party vice-president Ten...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police, MDC dismiss Biti abduction claims
Both the police and the MDC-Alliance have dismissed social media reports that MDC-A vice president Mr Tendai Biti was abducted at his Harare home on Monday.Social media stories had indicated M...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate recuses self in Mamombe, Chimbizi case
HARARE regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro today recused herself from presiding over MDC-Alliance members loans Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri case where they allegedly faked their abductions someti...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa keeps $90,000-a-month US lobbying contract after feud
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime has broken its contract with the lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs and hired Actum International UK, which was set up last month by a band of Mercury alumni le...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 17:20hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Egg on face for Mnangagwa in Glasgow
The much anticipated COP26, UN Summit in Glasgow (Scotland) has turned tables upside down on ED and his entourage who were expecting merry-making at the expense of suffering tax payers back home. Inst...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2710 | by Zakhele Maphosa
EU ready to work with Mnangagwa?
The European Council, which includes all European Union Heads of Government that sets the EU agenda, is ready to work with Zimbabwe, including in the fight against climate change, Council President Ch...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 11 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Zimbabwe the new Cold War front
ON February 5, 2018 United States President Donald Trump wrote to the US Congress that he was extending sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year. This year President Joe Biden did the same.The gi...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 4 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade finds few takers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade, including rallies and marches devoid of concrete political reforms, is senseless escapism from what the government ought to do to convince the We...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
We need each other as Zimbabweans
Dear Zimbabweans, Greetings my fellow countrymen, guess I find you well despite the simmering October heat and the economic hardships. I'm really sorry to the Chinmasa family on the loss of th...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:14hrs | 11 | by Munya Shumba
Chamisa's MDC not cooperating with police
The MDC-Alliance is refusing to co-operate with police detectives assigned to investigate claims that the vehicle carrying party leader Nelson Chamisa was shot at, with no one in the group of vehicles...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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