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Zanu-PF elites perfect the catch-and-release strategy
THE release of Zanu-PF's Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena on grounds that the state was not ready for trial four months after arrest is proof of double standards and that the govern...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:09hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa slams selective application of law
INDEPENDENT Norton Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has slammed selective application of the law and lack of political will to fight corruption after Zanu-PF MP Mayor Wadyajena was removed from ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Kill Chamisa, his children and supporters,' Zanu-PF leader urges party members
Zanu-PF's Abton Mashayanyika has blatantly urged ruling party supporters to kill Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa, his children and supporters.Mashayanyika, who was...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lightning rod
God's emissariesI have nothing against clerics or pastors; in fact my reverence for them is a euphemism for the abject fear I hold of being denied the side and place of comfort in the world yo...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Jamwanda
CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe
Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU&n...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | 3 | by Jamwanda
Stop suppressing citizens' freedoms
The arrest on Friday of 34 people who were attending a prayer meeting in Harare was another demonstration of the government's lack of respect for freedom of assembly, which is a right that is enshrine...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police break up 'political' prayer meeting... arrest 36 worshippers
POLICE yesterday stormed into a prayer meeting in Harare and arrested at-least 36 church members, claiming the gathering was political.They were arrested at the Dutch Reformed Church building ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reveals he has been writing, sending emissaries to Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is stepping up the chase for talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to end the country's decades-long political and economic crises.Speaking in Harare yest...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 13:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF ministers only interested in fattening their pockets'
THE recent increase in government's brutality against dissenting voices is nothing other than attempts by senior ruling Zanu-PF officials in protecting their ill-gotten wealth accumulated over years o...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, allies run out of options, push for dialogue
THE opposition MDC Alliance and its key allies labour, student movements and church have resolved to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to convene a broad-based dialogue to end the country's multiface...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora appoints team to work on national dialogue strategy
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora has now appointed a formal MDC committee to work on a strategy to engage the ruling Zanu-PF and other key stakeholders in the country, as his push for all-inclusive ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's national dialogue 'window of opportunity' opens
WITH the momentum towards national dialogue continuing to gather speed, as Zimbabweans cry for an end to the country's decades-long political and economic challenges, analysts have urged the Church to...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pushed to engage Chamisa
CHURCHES have encouraged Zimbabweans to remain hopeful about the country's future, as they continue to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to help resolve th...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya wants clerics to 'Be frank with Mnangagwa on talks'
OUTSPOKEN Zimbabwe Divine Destiny Church leader Ancelimo Magaya says clerics must be frank with President Emmerson Mnangagwa as they push for an all-inclusive dialogue to end the country's decades-lon...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 19:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe churches differ on ANC visit
THE visit by a delegation from South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has divided churches with some saying they must investigate human rights abuses, while others feel they...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warms up to national dialogue
MANY Zimbabweans are warming up to the recent calls for national dialogue and an internal resolution of the country's decades-long political and economic crises, while also imploring President Emmerso...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Address past atrocities, says Magaya
ZIMBABWE Divine Destiny leader Ancelimo Magaya has urged the country's political leaders to unearth past acts of killings and violence and have them addressed if the nation is to achieve lasting peace...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned over abductions
Outspoken Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) cleric Ancelimo Magaya has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for the alleged abduction and torture of dissenting voices saying no amount of ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not safe, says top cleric who predicted Mugabe ouster
FIERCE government critic and cleric, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya says President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies, Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi, were not safe if the fundamental past political p...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:22hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa snubs August 1 army shooting victims
MDC President Nelson Chamisa on Thursday failed to turn up for commemorations organised to remember victims of the August 1, 2018 army shootings during ill-fated post-election protests in central Hara...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's move to go after rogue soldiers welcomed by analysts
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who first swept to power through a popular military coup in November 2017 - yesterday vowed to bring to book rogue members of Zimbabwe's gung-ho military who left a trail...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya urges Mnangagwa to repent
The Zimbabwe Devine Destiny Network leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya says President Emmerson Mnangagwa must own up to his and his party's past evils as this was the only way their hurting victims could f...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 08:08hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa must appear before Inquiry into August killings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa must appear before the Kgalema Motlanthe led commission of inquiry probing the post-election violence which left six people dead and several others injured in Harare on 1 ...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Police block ConCourt poll challenge prayer meeting
DOZENS of anti-riot and plain clothes police cordoned off the Harare Gardens Friday morning to stop a prayer meeting that had been called by some local preachers to pray for a fair judgement on a rece...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to President Mnangagwa
Zimbabwean elections: army shooting of innocent civilians Dear President Mnangagwa All of us in Zimbabwe and elsewhere are desperatel...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 20:45hrs | 1 | by Bishop Ancelimo Magaya
War vets in peace march ahead of elections
WAR veterans, Christians from various denominations and civic groups in Harare are today expected to jointly participate in a peace-promoting march ahead of general elections slated for July 30....Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Embrace G40 to unseat Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION parties have been challenged to unite and invite into their ranks members of the vanquished G40 faction in Zanu-PF if they are to entertain any chances of unseating President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magaya says Mnangagwa's govt is illegitimate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is illegitimate despite receiving a lot of support from within and outside the country, the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny's Bishop Ancelimo Magaya said Thursday....Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa walks Cabinet tightrope
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should appoint a corruption-free, younger, skilled and experienced Cabinet to take the country out of its current pitiful economic state within the shortest possible time,...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya quizzed by police over Christian Vote Campaign
ZIMBABWEAN police on Wednesday 05 July 2017 quizzed Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya over the launch of a Christian Vote campaign aimed at mobilising Christians to participa...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 12:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Churches vow to take violent politicians head-on
VARIOUS churches yesterday came together in the capital to launch the Christian vote campaign for 2018, where they vowed to take violent politicians head-on.Zimbabwe Council of Churches secret...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dying economy a 'ticking bomb'
Long-suffering Zimbabweans have laid into President Robert Mugabe's misfiring government, warning that the country's dying economy, worsening cash shortages and rising poverty levels are "a ticking ti...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Civil groups pressure govt over Itai Dzamara
CIVIC groups and Western governments yesterday expressed concern at the Zimbabwean government and police's apparent lack of interest to bring closure to the mystery over abducted activist Itai Dzamara...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuzwayo leads Matabeleland into Human Rights Awards
Prominent Gwanda bases activist Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo on Friday night led the hopes of the people of Matabeleland in the presumed highly polarised Zimrights Community Human Rights Award. Wit...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 18:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's government must be stopped, as anti-bond notes activists goes missing
THREE activists, who were allegedly abducted along High Glen road in Harare's Mufakose suburb by suspected state security agents in the early hours of Friday ahead of a planned anti-bond notes dem...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 13:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean activists denied UK visas
A leading British parliamentarian has said it is disgraceful that prominent Zimbabwean civil rights campaigners are being refused visas to visit the UK to talk about the struggle against Mugabe and hi...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 18:12hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Politically affiliated churches embark on evil intentions against Zimbabwe
Opposition political elements, masquerading as leaders of some dubious Christian Churches, are on the overdrive against President Mugabe in Zimbabwe. These so called churches are being led by a malcon...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 10:28hrs | 4 | by Chadzimura Mhute
Zimbabwe on the cusp of changing its politico leadership, predicts Magaya
Outspoken leader of the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny, Ancelimo Magaya, who has had run-ins with the police in his quest for seeing a better Zimbabwe - says the country is on the cusp of changing its po...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ordered to repent or God's judgment imminent
President Robert Mugabe, a self-confessed Catholic, has been told to beg God for forgiveness for his catalogue of misdeeds over the years.Three pastors, Ancelimo Magaya, Useni Sibanda and ...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 13:18hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Churches drag police to court
ZIMBABWE DIVINE DESTINY23 September 2016Dear Sir or Madam INVITATION TO A PROPHETIC DECLARATION SERVICE IN HARARE: SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER 2016Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) co...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 12:07hrs | | by Bishop Ancelimo Magaya
Open letter to His Excellency R.G Mugabe from Magaya
23 September 2016 Dear SirWe the undersigned church based organizations, noting the deteriorating political situation in the country, worried about continued curtailing of people,s fre...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 12:05hrs | | by Bishop Ancelimo Magaya
Magaya to push for Mugabe's impeachment
The increasingly vocal local Church, alarmed by the country's escalating political and economic crises, as well as the current crackdown on dissenting voices by panicking authorities, is pressing ...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 19:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Devil invades the church
It would be an oversimplification for a rather complex issue to say that the churches should rise and condemn evil for what it is in order to eradicate the problems bedeviling the country. Cleric Ance...Published: 20 Sep 2016 at 08:07hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Court postpones judgement on demo ban
The judge president, Justice George Chiweshe has postponed hearing of another application challenging the ban of demonstrations in Harare.The ban was proclaimed on the 16th of September by...Published: 19 Sep 2016 at 17:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demo ban challenged again
Opposition political parties, civil society and churches have taken the government head on and are challenging the recent ban on demonstrations in Harare, arguing it was a backdoor imposition of a...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police quash church protests
Heavily armed riot police yesterday quashed a demonstration by churches despite them having a court allowing them to proceed with the protest. The church organisations wanted to march in s...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches seek Mugabe impeachment
Several church groups are expected to take to the streets of Harare tomorrow to protest against the government before submitting a petition to Parliament calling for a motion to impeach President ...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church Organisations plot anti-Mugabe protest
Church organisations are plotting an anti-Mugabe protest tomorrow in Harare. The organisations said they will proceed with the demonstration despite failing to get a police clearance. ...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
#ThisFlag Pastor given long term refuge in US
Activist clergyman Evan Mawarire - who waged a valiant social media campaign to press President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF to arrest the country's deepening rot, and who has now been for...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Watch out what you follow
Zimbabweans would do well if they draw some lessons from a bizarre incident that recently took place across Limpopo in which a self proclaimed prophet set himself and 21 church members on fire while t...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 10:09hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
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