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Zimbabwe asylum seekers panic in UK diaspora
Zimbabweans without settled status in the UK have been alarmed by a report in a daily newspaper here, the Independent, that Britain is working with officials from the Zimbabwe Embassy to send them bac...Published: 3 hrs ago | 667 | by ZimVigil
Gun-toting Zanu-PF activist convicted
A Zanu PF activist from Nyabira has been sentenced to two months in jail after threatening to shoot a villager he found setting up a goat pen. Chinhoyi magistrate Letwin Rwodzi was last week t...Published: 6 hrs ago | 404 | by Staff reporter
Lumumba undresses Fadzayi Mahere
William Gerald Mutumanje (Acie Lumumba) on Friday engaged in a heated Twar with human rights lawyer Fadzayi Mahere over the announcement by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe that Mutumanje had ...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 14:36hrs | 5682 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dzamara and Linda Masarira clash
MDC-T Spokesperson Linda Masarira on Thursday clashed with Rights activist Patson Dzamara over Linda's outcry that people are investing too much time in invading and analysing her social life....Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 10:21hrs | 4223 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A community-based initiative in Nketa 9, Bulawayo highlights International Human Rights Month
Children's right to play and the right to participate in public life are some of the overlooked human rights of our time. At a time when hard core political issues gain more attention from human...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 08:47hrs | 438 | by Agencies
'Slain' MDC councillor's family arrested
The family of the late MDC Bulawayo Ward 28 Councillor Hapson Ncube has been arrested over allegations of accusing former Councillor Collet Ndlovu as being the one behind the death of their son....Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 14:56hrs | 3917 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mutumwa Mawere was a ZANU PF front?
A Zimbabwean activist Rutendo Matinyarare has accused business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere of being a beneficiary of ZANU PF's political patronage which saw him owning over 27 blue chip companies in Z...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 12:10hrs | 2642 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa says Chamisa is daydreaming
President Mnangagwa has ruled out the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU) with MDC-Alliance, saying the ruling Zanu-PF had won an overwhelming people's mandate in the July 30 harmonised ...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 04:45hrs | 2768 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira defends Chinotimba
MDC-T National spokesperson Linda Masarira has defended ZANU PF MP Joseph Chinotimba who is being accused of sexism and tribalism after referring to MDC National Chairperson Tabitha Khumalo as a prost...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 13:03hrs | 4063 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Legal aid for unpaid workers expanded
The Zimbabwe Network for Social Justice (ZimJustice), which has been struggling of late to meet the demand to provide legal services to employees who had not been paid their salaries or terminal benef...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 09:41hrs | 1022 | by ZimJustice
USA's latest demands on Zimbabwe a red herring
The submissions by one Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Dr. Todd Moss and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Matthew Harrington before the United States Senate Foreign ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 09:23hrs | 5323 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Zanu-PF celebrates terror leader return
ZANU-PF last week threw a lavish party to welcome back its official after he was released from jail, having spent 14 years behind bars for killing an MDC activist in the run-up to the 2002 general ele...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:54hrs | 5207 | by Staff reorter
It's time we have our Logan Act
A quick search on Wikipedia, specifies that, "the Logan Act is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the US. ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 21:28hrs | 1138 | by Christine Lethokuhle Mabhena
No leads in Mnangagwa bombing
Investigations into a bomb blast that missed President Emmerson Mnangagwa by a whisker nearly six months ago do not seem to be heading anywhere, with the probe team still to apprehend suspects linked ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira disowns article...fingers pastor
MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira has disowned an article that is making rounds on social media which is attacking civic society and MDC as being the problems that are behind the Zimbabwean crisis. Ma...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 11:58hrs | 2864 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US continues tangling in Zimbabwean politics
Problems of African development and integration with the world have continued to attract concern in the policy making within and beyond the shores of the continent as American hegemony continues to ta...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:05hrs | 2676 | by Daphine Zulu
1893 MHRRM UK Demo against Motlante Commission outside RSA
The authentic 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) once again reminds the public that there shall be a demonstration against the Motlante Commission outside the...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:01hrs | 1430 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
RBZ boss freed on $6,000 bail
Mirirari Chiremba, the suspended Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe director of financial intelligence appeared in court on Thursday charged with criminal abuse of office.Chiremba, of Marlborough, Harar...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 12:25hrs | 1459 | by ZimLive
Condemning Israel is not hate speech, SA Appeal Court finds
The South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) this week delivered a judgment that provided much needed clarity about the meaning of "hate speech" as prohibited in the Equality Act. Understanding wha...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 17:27hrs | 353 | by Wilmien Wicomb I GroundUp
1893 MHRRM RSA Student Wing thanks Dialogue participants
1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) RSA student Wing would like to thank all the people who participated on the 1st of December 2018 Matebeleland Gukurahundi G...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:13hrs | 387 | by Jabulani Sikhosana, 1893 MHRRM RSA Student Wing Secretary
Zimbabwe's white farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await govt compensation
WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe, who were evicted from their properties years ago, have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:03hrs | 1507 | by newsweek
Mnangagwa's 'new dispensation' in Zimbabwe stuck in the old ways
Veteran Zimbabwe opposition legislator Joel Gabbuza thought he was stating the obvious when he told mourners that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party was struggling to revive the econo...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 20:30hrs | 2070 | by Kitsepile Nyathi I The East African
2019 Budget responsive to the vulnerable
Allow me to give credit where it is due, the Second Republic showed its commitment towards the attainment of the Agenda 2030 as reflected in the recently announced 2019 budget statement.Mine i...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 11:14hrs | 508 | by Brightface Mutema
Danai 'General Okoye' Gurira appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador
United Nations Women on Sunday announced the appointment of Zimbabwean born internationally renowned award-winning actor-playwright Danai Gurira as its Goodwill Ambassador. Gurira will len...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 09:44hrs | 1118 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tsvangirai legacy activists say Chamisa illegitimate
ACTIVISTS claiming to be members of the MDC have demanded an urgent elective congress to choose a new party leader, claiming that incumbent Nelson Chamisa's hold on power is unconstitutional.C...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 08:25hrs | 3468 | by newzimbabwe.com
Murdered Lucia Duve remembered
Hundreds of mourners gathered at St Mary's Cathedral Basilica Parish in Bulawayo yesterday as hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their last respects to Lucia Duve (37) who lost her life in an allege...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 08:25hrs | 3183 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fidelis Fengu opens up
Disability activist and businessman Fidelis Fengu has for the first time opened up about his disability explaining how it all started. Fengu has in the past been linked to several Zanu PF...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:23hrs | 2053 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shooting report for Mnangagwa's eyes only
President Mnangagwa in his capacity as the Head of State and Government is the sole recipient of the report by the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence that left six people d...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe lived in Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb
Former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, who has been leading a commission investigating the killing of six protesters in Harare on August 1, has revealed for the first time his close ties wi...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 15:49hrs | 13624 | by Staff reporter
Call to end violence against women and girls in public transport
In pursuance of the creation, promotion of safe spaces for women and girls, and the provision of gender responsive public services, ActionAid Zimbabwe (AAZ) and the Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 13:30hrs | 600 | by Alfred Towo
Mnangagwa hits out at Prophet Magaya
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday launched a thinly-veiled attack on Prophetic Healing and Deliverance ministries leader Walter Magaya following his recent claims that he had discovered a cure f...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:42hrs | 12547 | by Staf reporter
Zimbabwe sex vendors dollarise
GRIEF is the real price men pay for sex!With the festive season around the corner, some commercial sex workers in Bulawayo are literally running a promotion in which they are reportedly offeri...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 14:29hrs | 2691 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa considered illegitimate by The West
WHEN Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the presidency following the November 2017 coup that toppled Zimbabwe's long-time ruler Robert Mugabe, he did not waste time in telling the world that his government ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:40hrs | 18646 | by Simukai Tinhu
Don't be left holding an empty bag
WHAT has emerged from the hearings into the events of August 1 has shown that the setting-up of the commmission of inquiry was the right step in the circumstances.The hearings have amply demon...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:33hrs | 1850 | by Conway Tutani
Mudzuri murdered constitutionally by Chamisa
Engineer Elias Mudzuri vice president of the MDC Alliance faces political death threat for doing his work. Is MDC ALliance playing politics or playing with politics in disrupting parliament and sancti...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 07:00hrs | 6285 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Soldier 'escapes from kidnappers'
In a dramatic twist to the saga involving Elliot Piki - who was allegedly abducted from his home on Sunday afternoon - the retired army colonel suddenly pitched up at the official probe looking into t...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 11:59hrs | 3690 | by Staff reporter
'24 women raped daily in Zimbabwe'
As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, which commenced on November 25, the nation continues to record high rates of violence agains...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:55hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Col. Elliot Piki's wife approaches high court
The wife of a retired army colonel who was allegedly kidnapped at his home on Sunday, has approached the High Court seeking an order compelling the government to investigate the incident and to establ...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 10:38hrs | 1999 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo launches water documentary
A new documentary commemorating a century of the Matabeleland Zambezi Water project will be launched in December , giving the public a unique insight into the water woes of Matebelelan...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 06:38hrs | 1275 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa calls for Gukurahundi probe
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday questioned government's decision to cherry-pick for a full public inquiry, the August 1 political disturbances which killed six in Harare while failing to institute...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 11:01hrs | 2603 | by newzimbabwe.com
'I am the dissident that the Fifth Brigade was looking for'
Secessionist movement Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists have taken their Gukurahundi advocacy to another level after they unveiled T-shirts labelling themselves dissidents to the government....Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:49hrs | 6139 | by Staff reporter
Kidnapping claim hits killing probe
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a retired army colonel who was allegedly abducted from his home on Sunday afternoon by masked men - amid claims that he was due to testify before the official prob...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:23hrs | 3925 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa
FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | 13907 | by Reason Wafawarova
King Mzilikazi and the Mambo people created a nation
The nation needs to congratulate the movers for the creation of the Mambo Dynasty Trust and indeed the creation of the BaKalanga Movement, if I have quoted the names of the organisations correctly. It...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 13:20hrs | 1903 | by Prince Zwide Peter Khumalo
Define your struggle, activist tells youths
ACTION Aid Zimbabwe director Joy Mabenge has challenged youths to shape their revolution if they want to change the country's political and economic environment.Speaking on the formation and c...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget: The good, bad and ugly
In September, while meeting fund managers in New York, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said what the economy needed was a "big bang", a shock to the system. A week later, he brought that big bang; on th...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:08hrs | 1731 | by NewZWire
Militia gangs in ZANU PF: Ex-member speaks out
A former ZANU PF activist Setfree Mafukidze has for the first allowed Zimbabweans to peep into the dreaded militia gangs that are used by the party to inflict violence on opposition member...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 15:40hrs | 7332 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Politicians react to Jim Kunaka's testimony
Politicians and political activists have registered their reactions to the statements by the former Chipangano terror leader Jim Kunaka that he was working with the military to unleash violence ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 07:41hrs | 7622 | by Mandla Ndlovu
When even shame could not save us . . .
VOTING came and went.The election madness hung over our heads for some time, until the Constitutional Court made a ruling with regards to who had won the presidency.President Emmerson ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:45hrs | 564 | by Garikai Tunhira
Chamisa led Municipalities accused of extravagance
CIVIC Society and Churches Joint Forum (CSCJF) activists drawn from Bulawayo and Gweru yesterday besieged Bulawayo City Council offices and the Holiday Inn Hotel - where Gweru city councillors are att...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:41hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
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