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Chibaya in court for inciting public violence
Amos Chibaya, an activist of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), appeared in court yesterday facing charges of inciting public violence. Chibaya was remanded in custody, with his bail ...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:42hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Masaraure, 15 teachers off the hook
Obert Masaraure, president of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), along with 15 other teachers, was acquitted by a Harare magistrate on charges related to an alleged unlawful gat...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 15:23hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Timba and 77 CCC activists to spend another weekend in prison
Former Harare senator who is the Citizens Coalition for Change interim leader Jameson Timba and 77 others will spend another weekend in prison after their High Court bail hearing was postponed to July...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 12:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Jameson Timba and CCC activists to remain in remand until 27 June
The Harare Magistrates' Court on Friday, June 25, 2024, postponed its ruling until Tuesday, June 27, 2024, on the bail application by seventy-six (78) Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) activi...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 13:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Job Sikhala speech at the UN Geneva Summit
Iwant to greet you, honorable guests of this important summit for Human Rights and Democracy, from all the four corners of the world. I am Job Sikala, the surviving political prisoner from Zimbabwe. I...Published: 17 May 2024 at 16:38hrs | 34 | by Jo Sikhala
Lawyers rescue detained toddler, pregnant woman
POLICE have set free a toddler and a pregnant woman who were detained alongside other aggrieved villagers after they had protested maladministration by some school authorities at Sagambe Primary Schoo...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU slams Obert Mpofu
ZAPU has slammed an opinion piece written by Zanu-PF Secretary-General, Dr Obert Moses Mpofu, in which he claimed the ruling party is the ‘only viable' political entity in Zimbabwe that has outlived...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
Mthwakazi activists fined for doorstepping High Court
TWO members of the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) who were arrested on September 5 last year while submitting a petition to the Bulawayo High Court have been fined US$100 each.The...Published: 26 May 2023 at 18:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Coltart to challenge court placement on remand
Prominent Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Doug Coltart, who was arrested on Friday and charged with fraud, is challenging being placed on remand.Coltart was arrested at the Harare magistrate's ...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans not silent accomplices of Zanu-PF oppression
Zimbabweans have never been silent accomplices of their oppression with citizens expressing their grievances through cultural artefacts, a South Africa based academic has said.Speaking a...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi members granted bail
TWO members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) facing charges of participating in a gathering with intent to promote public violence, breaches of peace or bigotry have been granted bail.The...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Limpopo doctor's Nazistic remarks despicable
An ANC official and senior medical officer for Limpopo province spews Nazistic and hypernationalistic sentiments that go beyond the ideals of the medical profession against a stricken patient waiting ...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 20:47hrs | | by Sapien Sapien, Harare.
Mnangagwa's govt bans Chamisa documentary
THE Zimbabwe government has banned "President," Danish filmmaker Camilla Nielsson's Oscar-shortlisted documentary about the African nation's corrupt 2018 presidential election, Variety can exclusively...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 23:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for court absconding Dangarembga
AWARD winning novelist, Tsitsi Dangarembga, who is accused of participating in an unsanctioned gathering to cause public violence, has been issued with a warrant of arrest after failing to appear in c...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 19:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Dangarembgwa files for discharge
FILMMAKER and novelist Tsitsi Dangarembgwa has filed for discharge at the close of the State case in which she is being charged for participating in an illegal gathering aimed at causing public violen...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala faces 10 years in prison...as state opposes bail
CCC Member of Parliament Job Sikhala if facing up to ten years in prison after being charged with incitement to commit Public Violence as defined in section 187(1) (a) as read with Section 36 (1) (a) ...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 15:18hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trial of Tsitsi Dangarembgwa resumes
THE trial of novelist Tsitsi Dangarembgwa and Julie Gabriel Barnes who stand accused of participating in an illegal demonstration in 2020 resumed yesterday.Dangarembgwa and Barnes were arreste...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The ugly face of Zanu-PF, CCC intolerance
POLITICAL consciousness is nourished by a healthy discussion of competing ideas. Ultimately, political tolerance, be it among fierce opponents or fellow comrades, promotes a culture of political plura...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:03hrs | | by Brian Chitemba
Court frees opposition activists
A CHITUNGWIZA magistrate yesterday freed seven political activists arrested while on a voter registration campaign and chanting opposition MDC Alliance party slogans during a procession.Gibson...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
15 teachers in the dock over illegal gathering
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure and 15 other teachers have appeared in court after they were arrested in Harare this week for having an unlawful ga...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
MRP activist in court over public violence, theft charges
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) activist Partone Xaba was on Monday remanded to December 9 by Bulawayo magistrate Rachel Mukanga, in a case where he faces public violence and theft charges.This...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Brian Sedze
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
Police hunt for 70 Chamisa supporters
POLICE have launched a manhunt for over 70 MDC Alliance supporters who engaged in a voter registration campaign in Chitungwiza over the weekend.Seven activists were arrested and yesterday, fiv...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kwekweza, Zimudzi set free over protest against tinkering with constitution
HARARE Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro has set free two pro-democracy campaigners who had been on trial on charges of promoting public violence after they were arrested for allegedly protesting ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 15:55hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Teacher's protest conviction quashed by High Court
MASVINGO High Court Judges Justice Sunsley Zisengwe and Justice Garainesu Mawadze on Wednesday 15 September 2021 quashed the conviction and 16-months imprisonment of Shilla Chisirumunhu, a Masvingo-ba...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 16:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Anti-govt protest cases crumble
NINE Harare and Chegutu residents have been set free after being hauled before the courts on charges of committing public violence for allegedly participating in last year's anti-government demonstrat...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 13:19hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Midnight release for war vets persecuted over bread crumbs protest
ZIMBABWEAN police on Friday 27 August 2021 set free nine liberation war veterans whom they had arrested and detained for allegedly protesting against low pension payouts.The liberation war vet...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 12:41hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Violent storms in South Africa will not stop: a chance for new Zimbabwe Republic
A new republic we are talking about is not renewing Zanu or does it mean placing our hope and aspirations on MDC-Alliance, currently the only viable opposition, as the hope for our future. In any misf...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 19:37hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chin'ono application for exception dismissed by court
HARARE magistrate Vongai Guwuriro yesterday dismissed journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's application for exception to the public violence charge, saying the issues raised against him have to be heard in a...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial date for MDC trio set
Harare magistrate Mr Dennis Mangosi has set May 27 as the trial date for MDC trio Makomborero Haruziveshe, Allan Moyo, Denford Ngadziore who are facing charges of participating in a gathering with int...Published: 20 May 2021 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court to rule on Chin'ono violence case
THE court ruling on journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's application for exception to the charge of incitement to commit public violence will be delivered tomorrow by Harare magistrate Vongai Guvuriro....Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean gay denied asylum in SA
A REPORT released recently by several civil society organisations has found evidence that LGBT refugees are being denied asylum in South Africa despite being "eligible for protection under internation...Published: 05 May 2021 at 15:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono wins court battle, but not the war
Zimbabwe journalist and documentary filmmaker Hopewell Chin'ono was vindicated by a court ruling this week, but he has two further cases hanging over his head.After the court ruling by High Co...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti implies that Chipinge is a habitat of witches, apologises
Opposition MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti apologised on Wednesday over a stereotypical tweet suggesting people from Chipinge, Manicaland province, widely practiced witchcraft.Apparent...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti insults Chipinge people calls them witches
The tweet by honourable Tendai Biti of the MDC A to Professor Madhuku has shown that Tendai Biti is a tribalist who cannot be called a nationalist. Tendai Biti has exhibited his intoxication wit...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 17:04hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Of power and our intrinsic failings
Like so many of you, I too could never quite wrap it around my head. Just how does arguably the world's most developed nation connive to vote into the most important leadership position an unabashed b...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:56hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Mamombe press conference snubbed
Harare West legislator, Joana Mamombe's press conference which was aimed at calling for the release of Makomborero Haruzivishe, has been snubbed by many who called the legislator to order and lead the...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 13:27hrs | | by Political Writer
Cigarette tycoon rubbishes Maverick Citizen bigotry
Businessman Adam Molai has denounced allegations that his Pacific Cigarette Company is part of powerful cartels accused of plundering Zimbabwe's economy and impoverishing the country's population....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 22:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC activist in court for kidnapping
MDC-Alliance youth activist and former Zimbabwe National Students Union secretary-general, Makomborero Haruzivishe, yesterday appeared in court on allegations of forcing his way together with others, ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:10hrs | 4 | 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
Social media driving us to doomsday
Bishop Lazi is convinced that nostalgia is a timeless disease.It is normally associated with selective amnesia and the romanticisation of cherished memories.This is why it is unsurpris...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Bishop Lazarue
Jailed Artuz leader granted bail pending appeal
Sheila Chisirimhuru, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz)'s Masvingo provincial gender welfare secretary, who was sentenced to 16 months in prison over a peaceful salary protest he...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader jailed 16 months over salary protest
A MASVINGO magistrate yesterday jailed a teacher's union leader for 16 months over a peaceful salary protest which was held in July this year.Sheila Chisirimhuru, the Amalgamated Rural Teacher...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magistrate acquits ARTUZ leader, convicts another
A MASVINGO magistrate has acquitted Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure of violence charges but convicted the union's provincial gender and welfare secretary...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Protesters deny public violence charges
THE trial of two budding pro-democracy campaigners accused of public violence kicked off on Tuesday at the Harare Magistrates' court with the activists denying the charge.Namatai Kwekweza (22)...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa police's conduct in RoilBAA awards laced with tribal bigotry
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni has said the police's conduct in storming the stage disrupting the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards (Roil-BAA) ceremony over the weekend at the Bulawayo Large City Hall was disap...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
19 ZCTU leaders acquitted for 2018 tax protests
NINETEEN Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders, who were arrested for protesting against the high cost of living and the imposition of the 2% transaction tax by President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Thugs in Zanu PF soiling the good name of the party
In this time of DCC elections, a lot of hero-worshipping and name dropping within the party is rife. Many people are abusing the name of the president in order to gain momentum. Some in provinces are ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 13:04hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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