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The greatest tragedy to Zimbabwe was the hijacking of its liberation struggle
Yesterday, I received a heart-wrenching message from a former combatant of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, now residing in South Africa. His words, laced with pain and disillusionment, will fo...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 20:50hrs | 1320 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU-PF's 'liberation' lie: The party never fought for democracy
In a recently circulating audio clip, a former senior Zimbabwean army commander made the shocking declaration that if there are any attempts to remove ZANU-PF from power, bloodshed will follow. ...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 19:58hrs | 350 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Teaching Ndebele in Zimbabwe schools will have helped Shonas
There are times when you think you are spitting someone, when in fact, you are destroying yourself.One such instance was when Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in ZANU (before it became ZANU-PF...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:21hrs | 280 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Netanyahu orders UN to evacuate Lebanon peacekeepers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres withdraw UNIFIL peacekeepers from southern Lebanon, adding that by remaining there they are "providing...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 15:33hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Nobel Peace Prize circus as Zelensky is nominated
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but he is not expected to win Reuters reported.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been nomi...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 15:29hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance in Zimbabwe
No to third term. Zimbabwe's political landscape has long been dominated by fear and violence. For decades, the ruling party, ZANU-PF, has maintained its grip on power by instilling fear through a wel...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 16:09hrs | 364 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
SADC Summit lets rogue members off the hook
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is supposed to advance democracy and human rights in its 16 member states. But its annual summit, which took place in Harare on Saturday, 17 August, i...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:24hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
South African beauty contestant faces xenophobic backlash over Nigerian heritage
Chidimma Adetshina, a 23-year-old law student from Soweto, has recently found herself at the epicentre of a heated national debate, exposing a persistent strain of xenophobia within South African soci...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 18:31hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
How did things get so bad in Haiti? Here's what to Know
Things in Haiti have gotten so bad that Ariel Henry, the unelected Prime Minister, resigned and called for the installation of a tra...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 18:58hrs | 12 | 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 | 57 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shrugs off Chamisa
Zanu-PF, which got a fresh mandate in the August 23-24 elections, will not entertain "any talk of a rerun, a Government of National Unity, or the so-called Transitional Authority", as this "is a piped...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hichilema stands firm on Zimbabwe
AHEAD of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration today in Harare which will be attended by some regional leaders after his controversial and hotly-disputed re-election, Zambian Presiden...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Religion is new trump card ahead of Zimbabwe elections
EVER wondered why President Emmerson Mnangagwa has, in one breath, donned apostolic sect robes, practised traditional African religion, on the other, and congregated with the charismatic Protestants â...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war vet pleads for tolerance ahead of elections
Zanu-PF local government candidate and war veteran Ivan Mbengo has pleaded for tolerance ahead of elections to achieve multiparty democracy.The Mutare Urban ward 11 candidate, Mbengo spoke on ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition members condemn Ndlovu cockroach remarks
Human rights activists and opposition members have condemned Zanu-PF Matebeleland South chairman Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu, for referring to the opposition as ‘cockroaches', saying he does not des...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora kills MDC
AFTER Zimbabwe's fast-fading opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), led by Douglas Mwonzora, failed to field candidates in all constituencies around the country amid reports that it is too...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Palestine calls for intervention to curb massive killings
Israel's ongoing aggression against Jenin is a dangerous escalation that will drag the region into more bloodshed;The State of Palestine calls on the international community to immediately and...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 16:22hrs | 5 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Violence spectre casts shadow over elections
A NEW report by the Research and Advocacy Unit (Rau) has predicted increased organised violence and torture, particularly in urban areas, highlighting the need for more surveillance as the country hea...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwig dies
One of Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwigs, who defined an era in his field from Rhodesia to post-colonial Zimbabwe amid a record of brutality and terror, David Daniel "Dan" Stannard, later clos...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra commander says he has nothing to show for his sacrifices
AN 87-YEAR-OLD former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veteran, Moffat Hadebe says he has nothing to show for his sacrifices as he continues to face rejection from the same system he f...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
ZANU PF grassroots supporters should rid party of political elite who have destroyed Zimbabwe
Every time I teach my son about the history of this country, I can not help feel a deep sense of pride and respect for our nationalist movements, in their intrepid quest for the independence and freed...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 10:19hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe was colonized through a 'mega deal', and happening again with the Chinese and Belarusians
When people talk of colonization, there are those with the misguided notion that this only occurs via military conquest - usually, by a more powerful nation over a far weaker one.Yet, this cou...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Shock as blood oozes from the ground
Mabvuku residents are in shock following the mysterious flow of blood in a drainage canal recently.The blood is seen springing fr...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 66 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Bloodshed of Zimbabwe's past elections has citizens bracing for what's to come next year
"Just thinking of voting causes me to become more afraid," Maxwell Tauro told The Globe and Mail. I might be met with bullets. I'm just fearful that I might get shot like my son."With a new el...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:40hrs | 14 | by Jeffrey Moyo for The Globe & Mail
Zimbabwe violence signals bloody 2023 poll
THE storming of an opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change Press conference at the Media Centre in Harare by suspected Zanu-PF youths is yet ominous sign that the 2023 general elections could be vio...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must revisit his inauguration pledge
IN his inauguration speech on August 25, 2018, President Emmerson Mnangagwa clearly promised the nation a departure from his predecessor, the late Robert Mugabe's violent politics.On that sunn...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs political tolerance during, after elections
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to the most surprising, but welcome news that the country's main political parties shared the same platform to condemn violence and to promote peace in the run-up to the ...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Catholic bishop in acerbic attack on Mnangagwa
CONTROVERSIAL Catholic Diocese of Chinhoyi cleric, Bishop Raymond Mpandasekwa, has once again taken aim at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration's alleged misrule characterised by violen...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, please deliver a govt that will attract Zimbabweans back home
DEAR President MnangagwaI write to you humbly, as a pan-Africanist, one pregnant with hope that one day Africa will be one. I feel comfortable writing to you because I know that you are a pan-...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Maruping Phepheng
Well done Phophi Rhamathuba for calling a spade a spade!
It is surprising that the most cruel, genocidal, segregative and oppressive government in Southern Africa, has come out guns blazing in attack of the Limpopo MEC, Phophi Ramathuba for exposing t...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 21:36hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Can ED tell Zimbabweans where to find this elusive 'independence' we are supposed to be enjoying and 'jealously guarding'!
I honestly feel like screaming and banging my head against the wall, each time I hear those in the country's ruling elitist privileged clique make noise about some 'independence' that we, the people o...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:57hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Joshua Nkomo was a strategist, says Tshinga Dube
THE late Vice-President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, was a shrewd military strategist who championed military training initiatives for several freedom fighters, which led to the country's independence in...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans dreading 2023 elections'
THE 2023 polls have emerged as the leading cause of distress among Zimbabweans as political tensions heighten, a survey by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has showed.ZimRight...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Female village head breaks new ground
Twenty-five-year-old, Ms Ketumile Nare broke new ground after being installed Headman Mahopolo at a colourful ceremony presided over by the area's paramount Chief Tshitaudze (David Mbedzi) at the Mali...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a pariah state that can't even be trusted by fellow African countries!
Can African countries genuinely trust the rogue Zimbabwe regime?In fact, should African nations be so foolhardy and naive as to place their trust in a proven pariah state as Zimbabwe?W...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:41hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe, stop giving impunity to perpetrators of politically motivated violence and halt the needless bloodshed, particularl...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 6 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Biden admits that sanctions on Russia don't work and they make USA poorer
President Biden on Thursday made two big admissions about the US-led economic sanctions on Russia. The first is that the sanctions will lead to food shortages for many countries other than Russia, and...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 12:00hrs | 1 | by Ryan McMaken
Russia optimistic on Zimbabwe investments despite war
RUSSIA is bullish about its investment prospects in Zimbabwe despite the current economic restrictions triggered by the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine by Russia. The Zimbabwe Independen...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 17:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump's personality is what kept America out of war
Former President Donald Trump claimed his personality is what kept the US 'out of war' during his presidency while speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Saturday.'The fake news said my pers...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 18:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warmongers will never preach peace
Do you still remember what the Bishop has been prophesying from the beginning?He hopes you still do!We will definitely inherit a different world order when the coronavirus finally runs...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:00hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa calls for SADC, AU action on Mnangagwa
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has called for the African Union (AU) and SADC to immediately act before Zimbabwe is plunged into bloodshed following the murder of an opposi...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
We're defending ourselves from threats
CITIZENS of Russia, friends, I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Wes...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by President Vladimir Putin
200 Zimbabwean students stranded in Ukraine
At least 200 Zimbabwean students are stranded in Ukraine after flights were grounded as Russia began a military offensive this week.The students have sent a plea to the Zimbabwe government to ...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Putin warns that Moscow's response will be 'instant' if anyone tries to take on Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "military operation" in Ukraine's Donbas region.He made the declaration in a televised speech at the same time as the UN Security Council was implo...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hits back at Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party leader Nelson Chamisa has hit back at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his spokesperson George Charamba for allegedly lying to justify violence aga...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches roll out anti-violence campaign
CHURCH leaders across the country have started rolling out peace-building initiatives targeting political parties in a bid to ensure that a non-violent environment prevails ahead of the March 26 by-el...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has no chance in 2023?
ALL odds are stacked against opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and the divided opposition as the country marches towards the 2023 elections, with analysts predicting that Zanu-PF leader, P...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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