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State withdraws charges against 39 war vets
The State has withdrawn charges against 39 members of the War Veterans Welfare Pressure Group, who were arrested in October 2021 for allegedly participating in an unlawful gathering in Harare....Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 08:57hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for 39 war vets accused of public violence
The High Court has granted an application for review filed by 39 war veterans who were previously arrested for participating in an illegal gathering intended to promote public violence. Initi...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:07hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe criticises nonobjective corruption index ranking
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has called on developed countries to aid African nations in combating corruption by providing timely legal assistance and repatriating proceeds of crime....Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 18:27hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Street kids terrorise pedestrians in CBD
The Harare central business district has been plagued by a group of street children, aged between 10 and 20, who are involved in snatching wigs, jewelry, cell phones, purses, and other valuables from ...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 07:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reportyer
Harare battles acute public toilets shortage
Harare faces further risks of cholera infection with the shortage of public toilets in the city centre as the majority are closed or inaccessible.The city has public toilets dotted around the ...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
List of renamed places in Zimbabwe
Place names in Zimbabwe, including the name of the country itself, have been altered at various points in history. The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of indepen...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 16:46hrs | 56 | by Wikipedia
Sanctions divide Zimbabweans along partisan lines
Zimbabweans found themselves divided along partisan lines regarding sanctions. Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga claimed that the country had lost over US$150 billion in 20 years due to sanctions. I...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions have cost Zimbabwe US$150 billion
In the past 22 years, Zimbabwe has incurred a loss of over US$150 billion in potential revenue, opportunities, donor support, and loans due to the illegal sanctions imposed by the United States of Ame...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans call for sanctions removal
Zimbabweans from diverse backgrounds assembled in numerous locations across the country to protest against the damaging, illegal sanctions imposed by Western nations.Remarkably, primary and se...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's crisis of an ineffective opposition and messiah politics
Late on Saturday night, I was sitting in a hotel room in Guangzhou, China, streaming the announcement of the results of the presidential race in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans went to the polls on the 23rd of ...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 15:05hrs | 7 | by Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi
War vets tell Mnangagwa to improve their welfare
VETERANS of Zimbabwe's 1970s liberation struggle have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to improve their welfare by addressing the socio-economic challenges currently facing the country.M...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says some observers went beyond mandate
President Mnangagwa has joined a growing number of people who have criticised some election observer missions, especially the SADC Election Observer Mission, for straying into areas that were beyond t...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Zimbabwe's 'well-educated' myth
The widely acclaimed narrative - correlation fallacy - that Zimbabweans are "well educated" and are some of the highly literate people on this continent is a myth. Myths build egos, not economies; nei...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:47hrs | 81 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Mnangagwa delivers SONA at New Parly Building today
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today deliver his annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) when he officially opens the Fifth Session of the Ninth Parliament and sets the Government's legislative agenda for...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Parliament ready for business
President Mnangagwa will inaugurate the New Parliament building in Mt Hampden this week, when he delivers a State of the Nation Address (SONA) and officially opens the 5th session of the ninth Parliam...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Zimbabwe's Home Affairs over Itai Dzamara
MEMBERS of Parliament on Tuesday renewed pressure on Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to give an official update in the august House on the findings of investigations into the disappearance of a ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe activists threaten to protest without notifying the police
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition Director, Peter Mutasa, has said in future activists will go in the streets for anti-government protests without notifying the police.This follows consecutive bann...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 17:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CiZC takes on police over anti-violence demo ban
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has filed an urgent High Court application challenging a recent police ban on an anti-violence prayer rally which the firebrand civic group had set for Harare's ico...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police block CiCZ prayer rally
POLICE have banned a planned Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) prayer rally over the deteriorating human rights situation scheduled for Friday at the Africa Unity Square in the capital.In a ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Chinese Parly building complete
Epitomising magnificence, the imposing six-storey circular Parliament Building in Mount Hampden sitting on a 70-metre platform above the picturesque surrounding area, symbolically projecting legislati...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Magaisa declared national hero
CIVIL Society Organisations Wednesday declared the late Morgan Tsvangirai's advisor, Alex Tawanda Magaisa, a national hero.Addressing journalists in Harare, the Secretary for the Constitutiona...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Number of war vets quadruples
THE number of war veterans has more than quadrupled from 34 000 in 1997 to over 142 000 this year following a government decision to compensate more ex-freedom fighters, with critics warning that the ...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
War veterans trial moved to April 11
THE trial of 40 war veterans arrested last year while demanding a review of their monthly stipends has been set for April 11, after their application for exception was dismissed yesterday by Harare ma...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War veterans wants trial date or to be remove from remand
THIRTY-NINE members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) who are accused of participating in a gathering with the intention to cause public violence were today remande...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'faction' targets Mnangagwa
A Zanu-PF faction said to be sympathetic to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is alleged to be behind several manoeuvres seen as targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid revelations that war ve...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Liberation war veterans detained in prison over anti-govt protest
THIRTY-NINE liberation war veterans will spend the night in prison detention after Harare Magistrate Barbra Mateko deferred her ruling on their application seeking to be set free citing violation of t...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
War veterans under siege
War veterans plans to air out their plights was disrupted when they intended to submit a petition bearing a prolonged list of their grievances to Presiden...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 12:03hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Police thwart war vets demo, arrest 30
RIOT cops heavily descended on war veterans protesting their paltry monthly allowances in Harare Monday morning, arresting 30.The easily irritable ex-combatants once again took to the streets ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'faction' turns heat on Mnangagwa
A Zanu-PF faction said to be sympathetic to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is alleged to be behind several manoeuvres seen as targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid revelations that war ve...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe ordered to pay $175 000 to assault victim
HOME Affairs minister Kezembe Kazembe and Police commissioner General Godwin Matanga have been ordered by Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba, to pay $175, 000 damages to Lilian Chinyerere who was unl...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Jim Kunaka granted $15,000 bail
Ex-Zanu PF militant vigilante group Chipangano leader, political activist and National Patriotic front member Jim Kunaka was today granted ZW$15 000 bail by High Court Justice Tawanda Chitapi aft...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
State lacks commitment towards Jim Kunaka case: High Court judge
HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has accused the State of lacking commitment towards the case of former Zanu-PF youth leader Jim Kunaka whose bail appeal hearing was postponed to today....Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
$7bn for Covid-19 response
Government has set aside $7 billion for the heightened fight against Covid-19, with authorities yesterday calling for the tightening of restrictions to control the geographical spread of the virus. ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When local authorities become hopeless laggards
IF Bishop Lazarus' great-grandfather were to rise from the dead today God forbid! The man was just an unbearably torturous disciplinarianhe would pretty much be able to figure his way around Harare....Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 07:56hrs | 13 | by Bishoo Lazarus
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
No to enforced disappearances, says ZimRights
Itai Dzamara was a Zimbabwean journalist who left the pen for activism. In October 2014, Dzamara hand-delivered a petition to the late former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe at his Munhumutapa Off...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masarira pays tribute to Dzamara
Linda Masarira, leader of the opposition party, LEAD, has paid tribute to human rights activist, Patson Dzamara who succumbed to cancer earlier on today."26 August will remain forever remain a...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:09hrs | 1 | by Daniel Itai
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Isdore Guvamombe
August 16 exposes the MDC's insincerity
The much-hyped MDC's 16 August 2019 demonstration in Harare fell flat on its face despite the spirited attempts by some of its impressionable and excitable youths to defy the prohibition order issued ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare businesses count losses after crackdown
Harare businesses were left counting their losses on Friday after a violent crackdown by police on opposition supporters left the city centre deserted.The majority of businesses did not open a...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's image dented by police brutality
The violent crackdown by the police on opposition activists that gathered in Harare on Friday awaiting a court judgement on a planned demonstration once again put President Emmerson Mnangagwa's commit...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Abductions, torture, dragnet arrests amid vicious crackdown against dissent
Blessing Kunotonga is one of scores of opposition supporters left nursing serious injuries after state security agents launched a crackdown against the MDC ahead of the banned August 16 protests....Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is not a banana republic
Blessed Sunday good people.How was Friday?Has the Government changed yet?Is Nelson Chamisa now president of our teapot-shaped republic? Kikikiki.Yes, exactly as Bishop ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | 3 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa's protestors remanded in custody
Twenty-six suspects who were arrested on Friday for participating in an illegal demonstration organised by the MDC Alliance were yesterday remanded in custody to tomorrow for bail application....Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army is not a Salvation army' - Police ruthlessly crush MDC demo
ARMED police ruthlessly clamped down on protesters who gathered in Harare city centre for the Free Zimbabwe peace march organised by the MDC yesterday using teargas, water cannons and batons on suspec...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Failure of MDC Alliance protests good for nation
MDC Alliance's attempt to launch demonstrations in Harare failed spectacularly yesterday after the High Court upheld a prohibition order issued by police on Thursday night. The oppositio...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ShutDownZimbabwe demo: 91 MDC fans caged
The Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday arrested 91 people in and around Harare in connection with an illegal demonstration that was organised by the MDC-Alliance. In a statement last night, po...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's desperate regime will NOT stop the people of Zimbabwe
The High Court has not granted the people's lawyers' application against the police prohibition order. The people's lawyers have expressed totalshock and respectfully think the judgment was riddle...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:41hrs | 1 | by Daniel Molokele
Itai Dzamara Trust to be launched
The family of the missing journalist Itai Dzamara is launching a trust named after him and dedicated to perpetuate his memory. Announcing the launch activist Patson Dzamara said, "We are launc...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 12:25hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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