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Zimbabwe 'crisis': UN steps inTHE United Nations says it is following the Zimbabwean crisis with concern, urging Harare to respect human rights amid pressure for the matter to be tabled at the glo...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1515 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa body-shames 'flat-bottomed' Zanu-PF rivals
FIERY Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has waded into simmering Zanu-PF factional wars, accusing some party elements of plotting to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa.In a leaked 16-minute audio...Published: 21 hrs ago | 2975 | by newzimbabwe
Bosso release Prince Dube
HIGHLANDERS yesterday agreed to release hitman Prince Dube to free-spending Tanzanian side Azam following three-hour negotiations between the club and Dube's manager Gibson Mahachi in Bulawayo yesterd...Published: 21 hrs ago | 589 | by Staff reporter
Ian Khama regrets attending Mnangagwa inauguration?
OUTSPOKEN former Botswana leader, Ian Khama has urged Zimbabweans to press harder in their quest to free themselves despite renewed onslaught on citizen freedoms by President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 21 hrs ago | 1060 | by newzimbabwe
South Africa plays an unofficial Big Brother to Zimbabwe
The government of South Africa and the ruling ANC have raised concern over the latest developments in Zimbabwe - perhaps so much earlier than many would have anticipated.South Africa plays an ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:41hrs | 3284 | by finx
Region turns heat on Mnangagwa
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has voiced his concern over the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe that has seen a spike in State-sponsored abductions, arrests and torture of opposition activ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 7193 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 3922 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Could a hashtag help achieve in Zimbabwe what protests have failed to do?
Could a social media hashtag - tapping into the energy and anger of the global #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon - help achieve in Zimbabwe what years of street protests, strikes and political campaigns ha...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 642 | by Andrew Harding Africa correspondent, BBC News
TPF blasts Zimbabwe security agents for suppressing dissent
The Patriotic Front (TPF) led by former commercial farmer Darrlyl Collet has blasted the security agents for suppressing dissent in the country.This comes in the wake of the police and the mil...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2108 | by Stephen Jakes
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere approaches Cyril Ramaphosa
Former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasulkuwere is seeking an audience with South African President and African Union Chairperson Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the Zimbabwean human rights situa...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 10:54hrs | 8676 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe tragedy is the psychological warfare and propaganda machinery: Manyika
Build Zimbabwe leader Noah Manyika has said the tragedy in Zimbabwe is the psychological warfare and the propaganda machinery."The tragedy of this moment in the life of our nation is not just ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:39hrs | 474 | by Stephen Jakes
SA based couple donates PPEs to Ezra Tshisa Sibanda Initiative
The South Africa based couple has donated personal protective equipment to the Ezra Tshisa Sibanda Initiative meant for the health institutions in Bulawayo....Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 12:19hrs | 3930 | by Stephen Jakes
July 31 exposed Mnangagwa
In order to legitimise anti-democratic politics, violence and human rights abuses to the world, Zanu-PF has gone back to its exhausted ideological settings.This follows a widespread call by ac...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 9857 | by Phillan Zamchiya
13 arrests as army, police quash demo
PEACEFUL protesters, among them prominent novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, were arrested yesterday as heavily armed soldiers and police crushed the planned pro...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Hope for Zimbabwe as coronavirus Covid-19 is not the end of the world
As CORONA VIRUS ravages the world and its ugly head makes upwards strides in Zimbabwe, we feel a great comfort in knowing that this world will never end b...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | 3543 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zesa workers rally behind Gata
ZIMBABWE Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) Holdings employees have taken sides with the parastatal's embattled executive chairperson, Sydney Gata, who is being investigated for corruption.Ga...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1914 | by Staff reporter
WFP urgently seeks US$250m for Zimbabwe crisis
With COVID-19 aggravating an already severe hunger crisis in Zimbabwe, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for an additional US$250 million to support a rapidly expanding emer...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1340 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2163 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Saved from the bad boys by bad boys
On Thursday 23 July prominent lawyer Alex Magaisa had an expose on the farm mechanisation scandal of 2007 of farm equipment that was meant to benefit the then newly resettled farmers in the government...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:04hrs | 1414 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
Khupe camp's fights escalate as Mwonzora accepts nomination to lead MDC
THE discord that has hit the MDC's interim leadership - including last week's move to block the nomination of reinstated secretary general Douglas Mwonzora as the party's next president - is escalatin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 17:09hrs | 7640 | by Staff reporter
'Politicians must stop victimising health professionals'
HEAlTH workers in Zimbabwe bear the brunt of savage politics and are victimised for providing professional services to victims of political violence and demanding better working conditions, United Kin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party mourns South Africa's Andrew Mlangeni
The Zimbabwe Communist Party (ZCP) has mourned the passing away of South Africa's Andrew Mlangeni, the last surviving anti-apartheid activist convicted with Nelson Mandela at South Africa's infamous R...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:17hrs | 369 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa feared being hanged by Mugabe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa told former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe he feared hanging by his predecessor if he heeded the latter's call to return home and be reinstanted as Vice President, days a...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:31hrs | 4955 | by newzimbabwe
War veterans, civil servants delight in housing programme
Scores of war veterans and civil servants on Sunday expressed their delight after benefitting from a housing project in Melfort, Goromonzi, that will see many of them becoming property owners....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:15hrs | 1591 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Was the shutting down of mobile money, ZSE a necessary evil?
ON June 26, 2020 the Information ministry announced in a tweet that all mobile money transactions and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) would stop transacting forthwith.The authorities halted ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2667 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
'General Chiwenga did not want a coup against Mugabe'
Former Commander Zimbabwe Defence Forces General Constantino Dominic Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga did not want President Robert Mugabe to be ousted from the Presidency through a military coup, former C...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 10844 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Digital trade is the next big thing in Africa
Wamkele Mene was recently appointed Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. Because of COVID-19, free trade for countries that have ratified the agreement did not beg...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 297 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Zimbabwe govt, Old Mutual smoke peace pipe
GOVERNMENT is set to hold a crucial meeting with Old Mutual over the standoff between the two parties in which the largest financial services company has been accused of stoking currency volatility on...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:21hrs | 4733 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono and Ngarivhume appear in court, protest against ill-treatment during detention
ZIMBABWEAN journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition Transform Zimbabwe party leader Jacob Ngarivhume on Wednesday appeared before judicial officers at Harare Magistrates Court answering to charges ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 11:34hrs | 3108 | by Stephen Jakes
Police search Chin'ono, Ngarivhume homes
POLICE yesterday searched the homes of freelance journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition official Jacob Ngarivhume in an attempt to look for evidence against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's critics...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:49hrs | 1362 | by Staff reporter
Fadzayi Mahere's special letter to Mnangagwa
I am a politician but I am not writing this letter to you in that capacity. I am writing to you as a young woman, as a citizen and as part of a generation to whom a debt is due. When we were l...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 16:52hrs | 10780 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Human Rights lawyers take Justice Malaba head on
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have condemned the directive by Chief Justice Luke Malaba that judgements of the High Courts and Labour Court be seen by the Head of Court or Division, before such Ju...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 12:11hrs | 3531 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police disperse 5 000 sect members
POLICE on Saturday dispersed more than 5 000 members of the Johane Marange Apostolic Church who had gathered on the outskirts of Masvingo for their annual Passover ceremony.The worshippers wer...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:22hrs | 1869 | by Staff reporter
Billion-dollar kitty for Zimbabwe's white ex-farmers
GOVERNMENT has tabled a multi-billion dollar offer towards infrastructure compensation to about 3 500 white former commercial farmers whose land was appropriated by the State during the Fast Track Lan...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:18hrs | 1878 | by Staff reporter
From herdboy to professor
WHEN Solwayo Ngwenya was herding goats, cows and donkeys in rural Lupane in the 1970s, never did he imagine that one day he would be a celebrated obstetrician. But on Monday he was appointed a full ti...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 2818 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance in forgery storm
MDC-Alliance officials have been accused of forging affidavits of legislators in a court application that has since been withdrawn as the battle for control of the troubled opposition party takes anot...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:40hrs | 6226 | by Staff reporter
Council hikes maternity fees 14-fold
Harare City Council has announced a 14-fold increase in clinic and maternity fees, a move that is raising opposition as the charges will now vary directly with weekly changes in the exchange rate, wit...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must heed UN rebuke on human rights abuses
A REPORT by the United Nations special rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, makes for interesting reading.Zimbabwe, he noted...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube takes Zimbabwe closer to hyperinflation
ZIMBABWE continued on its march back to hyperinflation in June, adding to the nation's economic woes.While annual inflation slowed for the first time in five months to 737.3% from 785.6% in Ma...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1443 | by Bloomberg
TelOne centre reduces service disruptions
In a move that will result in a significant reduction in internet service disruptions, TelOne has launched a Network Operations Centre (NOC). The central facility will work to support the infr...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
UN raps Mnangagwa
POLITICAL polarisation, poor governance and a fragile economy have exacerbated people's discontent with government, but President Emmerson Mnangagwa should address the root cause of the problems rathe...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 8436 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to regularise illegal settlements
Government has embarked on an exercise to regularise all illegal settlements in urban centres across the country and has engaged experts to expedite the process.Speaking at a Zanu-PF provincia...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2029 | by Staff reporter
'July 31 demo is not about graft'
THE government has said it is convinced that far from being an anti-corruption demonstration, the planned July 31 protests are meant to remove the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:25hrs | 3575 | by Staff reporter
Manhunt for 'killer' quarantine escapee
A ZIMBABWEAN man who is allegedly on the run after killing his landlord in neighbouring South Africa is said to have escaped from a quarantine centre in Beitbridge before killing a neighbour in Bulawa...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1444 | by Staff reporter
'Subversion plot will be thwarted'
A DEVIOUS agenda by the opposition to effect regime change on July 31 disguised as an anti-corruption march will be met with countervailing measures that will ensure that the will of the people as exp...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and only then, will Zimba...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 5191 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Millers table US$ price for subsidised mealie-meal
GRAIN millers have tabled a proposal to increase the price of subsidised roller meal from $70 to between US$2,50 and US$3,50 per 10 kilogramme to cushion themselves from operational challenges....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 620 | by Bishop Lazarus
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