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Arrests in plane haunt airports firm
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has summoned the Airports Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ) to explain the circumstances surrounding the forcible removal and subsequent torture of three activists ...Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 11:19hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims divided over Govt's compensation promise
As community hearings into the Gukurahundi atrocities continue across Matabeleland, the Zimbabwean government's recent promise to compensate victims has sparked a range of emotions among survivors and...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:14hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Maphisa police brutalise learners during crime awareness drive
What was meant to be a crime awareness campaign at Mahetshe Primary School in Maphisa has sparked national outrage and calls for accountability after police officers reportedly assaulted several pupil...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 17:39hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Young boys exploited for begging in Harare
In a disturbing incident that shook the nation, two individuals were caught on video in August 2024 exploiting young boys by forcing them to beg for money in Harare - only to keep the earn...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:13hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Generals are all style and no substance!
As I sit in my library in a far away foreign country, I see clearly what my brothers on the ground in Zimbabwe fail to see.An Ashanti idiom that says chickens are too close to the ground to se...Published: 11 May 2025 at 16:41hrs | 1675 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Man kills father after theft accusation
A 25-year-old man from Sabhuku Sanyika Village in Chief Nyamweda's area, Mhondoro, allegedly killed his father by beating him with a pestle and stabbing him in the chest with a knife after being accus...Published: 08 May 2025 at 12:12hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, Zimbabwe already has a new breed of heroes - but your regime persecutes them
A country's liberation struggle never ends.During the burial of the late Air Vice Marshal (Rtd) Winnie Cabby Mandeya at the National Heroes Acre, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that Zim...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:35hrs | 587 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Where is Nyokayemabhunu: the silence about him is Loud?
It is not only Nyokayemabhunu who has been used and quickly cast aside as a disposable. I listened carefully to Geza updating us about the demonstrations yesterday. Sadly, there was no mention of Nyok...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 20:55hrs | 1583 | by Nomazulu Thata
Civil war: Not Matabele-Shona but Zezuru-Karanga infightings!
Now that the impeachment is dead on arrival, Geza has changed his modus operandi multiple times, he wants people to make stay-away protests. His statement has again changed, and it now says: stay away...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 13:55hrs | 1635 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwean sister of UK child abuse victim blames the Church for brother's death
The sister of a 16-year-old boy who drowned while swimming naked at a Christian holiday camp in Zimbabwe run by child abuser John Smyth blames the Church of England for his death."The Church k...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:32hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa farm battle turns nasty
More than 150 families at Old Citrus Farm, located on the outskirts of Chinhoyi, find themselves homeless after their homes and belongings were destroyed amid a contentious land ownership dispute. The...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:20hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF's use of excessive force is a sign of fear, paranoia'
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has strongly condemned the "excessive use of force" by Zimbabwean authorities following the arrest and detention of Senator Jameson Timba and 78 othe...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:19hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police in violent crackdown against CCC
Police in Harare engaged in a violent crackdown on Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party activists gathered at leader Jameson Timba's residence on Sunday. The police accused them of holdin...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 06:57hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Harare man in court over 2021 murder
A 27-year-old man from Harare made a court appearance on Monday regarding a murder case from 2021.Elton Pardon was remanded in custody until June 4 by Magistrate Dennis Mangosi.Accordi...Published: 22 May 2024 at 09:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'You see skeletons' - the deadly migrant Limpopo crossing
The men who raped Portie Murevesi did not care that she was visibly pregnant. They attacked her with glass bottles too, she told us, pointing to a large and jagged scar on her forearm.Now, her...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Filabusi gold wars turn ugly
IN a harrowing ordeal that shook Filabusi District, Prosper Ncube, a young miner, recently became a victim of a vicious assault. Under the cloak of night, he was ambushed and mercilessly beaten by a g...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Selection of gukurahundi journalists opaque and dodgy
A group of local Zimbabwean journalists, whose selection has been clearly opaque and dodgy, are grappling with how media should cover the upcoming Gukurahundi outreach programme hearings into the 1980...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:44hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
A doomed holiday for unrepentant genocidaires!
We shall always remember the 21st of February as a doomed and diabolic holiday which has been set aside by the unrepentant genocidaires for openly celebrating the physical Gukurahundi genocide, which ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:34hrs | 19 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General for Freedom Alliance)
Of CCC and the future of opposition politics in Zimbabwe
The ascent of Nelson Chamisa to the leadership of the MDC Alliance and later the CCC (Citizens Coalition for Change) with the support of Tendai Biti and Prof Welshman Ncube has been widely discussed. ...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 21:23hrs | 2 | by George Tshuma
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 13 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Thief forced to eat raw, unplucked chicken
A MAN from Pumula suburb in Bulawayo will forever rue his love for chicken when a vigilante group in the neighbourhood forced him to eat the raw meat of the bird that he had been caught stealing....Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Suspected rapist bashed to death
A 15-year-old boy from Plumtree lost his life following a brutal attack by three individuals who claimed it was punishment for his alleged rape of a teenage girl.The young boy suffered severe ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala fundraising drive launched
ZIMBABWEAN political leader Job Sikhala is severely ill, according to his legal team, but remains in custody at the Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.The opposition politician for the Citizens...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will cause political instability in Southern Africa
Without modicum of doubt, failure to run the economy and political affairs of the Zimbabwe government due to over four decades of unfettered large scale looting, corruption, economic mismanagement, Ma...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 22:12hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe Communist Party elections observer report for 2023 elections
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONGeneralFirstly, as Communists, we do not confuse democracy with voting.The word ‘democracy' is derived from Greek and means ‘rule by the pe...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Central Committee of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
Open letter to President Ramaphosa, Mnangagwa and HH
Open Letter from Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda a Constitutional and Human Rights law Practitioner and African Diaspora Global Network CEO The President of Zi...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:50hrs | 5 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Zanu-PF primaries chaos, a harbinger for bloody polls
ALLEGATIONS of kidnapping, guns being fired at polling stations, torture, intimidation, rape and beatings were the order of the day ahead of the Zanu-PF primaries a fortnight ago as aspiring candidate...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Alleged Plumtree witch violently bashed by Tsikamutandas in Matobo
A disturbing video has surfaced on social media showing two youthful men who describe themselves as traditional healers beating up an elderly woman, whom they accuse of being a witch, with tree ...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 13:52hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's party lobby international organisations to intervene
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it has sent an appeal to Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and African Union (AU) and will also lobby international organisations to...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vicious crackdown on opposition part of Zanu-PF election playbook
THE arrest of Citizens' Coalition for Change parliamentarians Costa Machingauta and Amos Chibaya (pictured in khaki shirt) alongside other party members, including the elderly and juveniles, for ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU accuses Chinese companies of rights' abuses
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has expressed concern over alleged continued disregard of labour laws by Chinese-owned firms operating in the country.The ZCTU raised the concerns ...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns anti-Zanu-PF teachers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a chilling warning to teachers saying they face beatings for failing to support the ruling Zanu-PF party.Addressing over 5 000 teachers at the launch of...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Remembering gukurahundi genocide
The spirit of Mthwakazi insecurity and why the Mthwakazi prosecutor general must bring the perpetrators of these henious crimes to justice.Greetings to all!For forty-two years, the insecur...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 18 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Call for probe into past violence perpetrated by 'Green Bombers'
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Monitors (ZHRM) has called for an inquest into alleged violations perpetrated by members of the feared National Youth Service (NYS), commonly known as ‘Green Bombers'....Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa bomb attack mystery deepens
Four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa survived an assassination attempt it has emerged that a former soldier, who was convicted by the military for the grenade attack, was in India on the day ...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ally, Zanu-PF implicated in gold leakages
A FRESH report has put President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Pedzisayi "Scott" Sakupwanya at the centre of gold leakages and violence at Redwing Mine in Penhalonga and surrounding areas in Manicaland pr...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:16hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
We must prepare for the coming 'war'
From tomorrow until Wednesday, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be mourning Patrice Lumumba - the country's first democratically elected prime minister - who was slain 61 years ago in the g...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
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 | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man pretends to be census enumerator, busted with married woman
THEY say desperate times call for desperate measures.It couldn't be truer for a man from St Peter's area near Old Pumula suburb in Bulawayo who pretended to be a census enumerator after he was...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Oppressive Zimbabwe govt to blame for Elvis Nyathi's death
While we do not condon the killing of foreigners in SA by South African mobs that have taken the law into their own hands, the death of Elvis Nyathi at the hands of vigilantes in South Africa and many...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 13:22hrs | | by Israel Dube
22 Gwanda villagers on the run after rampage
POLICE in Matabeleland South province have launched a manhunt for 22 villagers alleged to have kidnapped and assaulted fellow villagers whom they accused of stocktheft.This was revealed in a G...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Baby-faced Zimbabwean drug dealer jailed in the UK
A baby-faced drug dealer headed up a county lines operation from a base at a Premier Inn hotel room. Bradley Dhlamini, 23, of Parsonage Street, Bury, was arrested at the Premier Inn on Little Wind Str...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 12:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa talks tough
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of unleashing an orgy of political violence in anger after he spurned his offer for a unity gov...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns of mass uprising in Zimbabwe
AN incensed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa Saturday unequivocally savaged Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for presiding over a violent ruling party.Cha...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean maids lured to slavery in Oman
SCORES of Zimbabwean women employed as domestic workers in Oman are being subjected to deplorable living and working conditions that include constant beatings, overwork, underpayment and forced labour...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime should cease its narcissistic tendencies as world can't look aside in face of rights abuses
I would never look away! No one should! Some years ago, I noticed that a neighbour's wife would ill-treat her two-year old step-daughter - every time her husband left for work - throug...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 09:31hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
13 CCC activists further remanded in custody
THIRTEEN Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) activists arrested for holding a car rally in Harare were yesterday further remanded to Monday for bail application.They appeared before Harare Mag...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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