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DNA tests confirm MDC activist's dumped body
DNA tests results have confirmed that the remains found at a farm in Beatrice, in January were that of MDC activist Blessing Toronga, who was reportedly abducted and tortured during the State-led clam...Published: 4 hrs ago | 303 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Journalists invade Mayor's office in protest
Journalists in Harare stormed the Town House to see the Mayor Herbert Gomba to hand in a petition against police brutality.The protest comes after members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police worki...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 11:38hrs | 1109 | by Mandla Ndlovu
World now comprised of weak leaders who have caused more harm than good
As Rwanda commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 1994 genocide by Hutu extremists against largely the majority Tutsi and Hutu moderates, one can not help but wonder whatever happened to the World Wa...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 09:10hrs | 795 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mnangagwa won't rush to re-engage the West'
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday claimed that more foreign countries were warming up to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, but said Zimbabwe would not rush to re-engage the...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 12:37hrs | 3501 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's victory not free, not fair, not credible
When Zimbabwean soldiers shot civilians during riots against alleged election-rigging on August 1, 2018, many Zimbabweans were horrified - but they weren't surprised.The previous November, the...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:11hrs | 2999 | by Rahul Nagvekar
39 years without sniffer dogs…where is Zanu-PF taking us?
It is so embarrassing that for 39 years former President Robert Mugabe and his power hungry Zanu Pf party failed to acquire helicopters and sniffer dogs, of which the later had to be borrowed from Sou...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:46hrs | 1054 | by Knowledge Hakata
Discipline mustn't be administered through brutality
The problem of child abuse is getting out of hand and our society must act now to stop the terrible crimes against innocent children.Recently, the Midlands community awoke to the shocking news...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:55hrs | 1685 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Govt compensates brutality victim
GOVERNMENT has compensated activist Lynette Mudehwe $6 000 after she was brutally assaulted at the hands of law enforcement agents during a protest against former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko's p...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:24hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Zenzele Ndebele freed after arrest at Mnangagwa event
Charges brought by prosecutors accusing journalist Zenzele Ndebele of being in possession of "offensive weapons" after a search of his vehicle turned up a spent cartridge and a used tear gas canister ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:15hrs | 1395 | by ZimLive
PHOTOS: Zimbabwe Army joins the masses
The Zimbabwe National Army has been commended for standing with the people during the trying times of Cyclone Idai that has left 98 dead and hundreds missing....Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:26hrs | 17122 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF mocks doctors...as Cyclone Idai kills 98
In a thinly veiled attack on the Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights (ZDHR), Zanu-PF has called on doctors to come out and help the victims of Cyclone Idai as they did to the victims of Shutdown Zimbabw...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 07:52hrs | 7761 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Alliance dismantling patriarchy towards a people’s movement
Zimbabwe is in the throes of a deep economic and political crisis, further worsened by Cyclone Idai that has ravaged the eastern parts of the country leaving scores dead, hundreds injured and thousand...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 05:19hrs | 3631 | by Grace Kwinjeh
MDC will not campaign for sanction removal for now
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC has admitted that Western economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe were hurting ordinary people, but would only campaign for their removal once President Emmerson M...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:34hrs | 1354 | by Staff reporter
Man clobbers wife, sister with hammer, spears them to death
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva has described an Inyathi man who struck his wife and sister with a hammer before finishing them off using a metal spear following a rumour of infideli...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Death sentence for double murderer
AN Inyathi man who struck his wife and sister with a hammer before fatally stabbing them with a spear, following a rumour of infidelity has been sentenced to death for the double murder.Amos N...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:11hrs | 1850 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | 987 | by Human Rights Watch
Zanu-PF's behaviour invites sanctions
WITH respect to the elections of 2018, it is obvious to all, except those in Zanu-PF, that there were multiple breaches of the Electoral Act and our new Constitution.That Zanu-PF cannot see th...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 14:59hrs | 743 | by Corruptionforce
An ideologically rooted cadre is gone
Emilio Munemo, Comrade Revolution, the Brigadier-General is no more.Indeed the Chitepo School of Ideology, the Munemo family and the entire nation of Zimbabwe are in deep mourning.The ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 197 | by Munyaradzi Machacha
The scars of Zimbabwe military deployments
Soldiers are back at the barracks and things look normal. That is as normal as things can ever be in Zimbabwe. But that's an illusion. Beyond the veil of quiet are ruins — deep scars that will not g...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 13:40hrs | 3817 | by Tawanda Majoni
Advising Mnangagwa's presidential advisers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday held his inaugural meeting with the Presidential Advisory Council (Pac) recently appointed to assist in bringing in new ideas, policy proposals and solutions to ...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 470 | by Dumisani Muleya
Chibhebhe eyeing Chamisa job?
FORMER Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) secretary general Wellington Chibhebhe could be a surprise inclusion among politicians vying to become MDC president.This is according to inside...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:56hrs | 341 | by newzimbabwe
Basic freedoms diminish under Mnangagwa reign
IDI Amin Dada Oumee (1923-2003), the late Ugandan dictator whose seven-year iron-fist rule gained notoriety for its sheer buffonery, brutality and repression, is infamous for coining the saying: "Ther...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:44hrs | 1560 | by Staff reporter
Is Democracy relevant? In MDC Alliance if you are not for Chamisa you are Zanu-PF
Soon after the detention of Chibaya the Gweru MDC MP and party's organizing secretary I joined a group call FREE CHIBAYA. This group I thought was made of democrats who want true democracy to prevail....Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 16:42hrs | 2358 | by Henry Madiro
Mugabe must apologise for Gukurahundi before masquerading as holier than though human rights defender
Former President, Robert Mugabe must first recognise Matabeleland genocide, confess and apologise unconditionally before he masquerades as a holier than though defender for human rights. Furth...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1757 | by Israel Dube
Comedian Gonyeti fined over #CharityCharambaChallenge skit
Comedians Samantha 'Gonyeti' Kureya and Sharon 'Maggie' Chideu were on Tuesday both fined $20 by the police for criminal nuisance over her skit featured in a 2016 YouTube video Busstop Television depi...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 20:31hrs | 4343 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is in trouble
EDITOR,We support the rule of law and sovereign constitutions. We thank the USA for its contribution to democracy in Zimbabwe. We, who are living and working in South Africa, are here because ...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 13:24hrs | 2994 | by Corruption force
Zanu-PF returns to terror tactics
Lawyer and former education minister Dave Coltart has appealed to the world to take action to halt the Mnangagwa regime's terror tactics against the opposition MDC.Senator Coltart was commenti...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:41hrs | 4878 | by ZimVigil
Rule of law cannot be matter of opinion
We live in this modern world that the United States purports to lead with God-ordained civility; yet in it the rule of law has been reduced to a matter of opinion, as has become the concept of democra...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:31hrs | 187 | by Reason Wafawarova
MDC National Council Resolutions
The MDC National Council met today, 22 February 2019 at the party headquarters Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue and made the following resolutions1. The National Situa...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 20:02hrs | 810 | by MDC
Evan Mawarire a ZANU PF agent?
#ThisFlag Founder Pastor Evan Mawarire opposed former President Robert Mugabe after being asked by the Zimbabwe National Army, National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has alleged. ...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 07:45hrs | 4140 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC officials abducted
MDC Alliance senior official Robert Saunyama, popularly known as Jack Roberts, and his younger brother and Chikanga-Dangamvura's ward 6 councillor Danmore Saunyama were on Tuesday night abducted by ei...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 16:59hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF only listens to violent rebellion!
The recent violent protests that rocked most Zimbabwe cities between 14 and 16 January 2019, have offered enough proof that the only way the ZANU PF regime will ever seriously listen to the people's g...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 10:51hrs | 1335 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Two MDC officials released from military custody after heavy torture
MDC has announced that its two officials Robert and Danmore Saunyama who were abducted by armed military personnel on Tuesday have been released from military custody after being heavily t...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 3343 | by Mandla Ndlovu
UK volunteer facing Zimbabwe deportation praises 'heartwarming' support at rally
A Sheffield volunteer fighting deportation to Zimbabwe thanked supporters for their ‘heartwarming' backing, as he addressed protesters today.More than 75,000 people have signed a petition ca...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:19hrs | 603 | by thestar.co.uk
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga are scaring investors away
The recent military crackdown on Zimbabwean citizens is not only a grave infringement on the citizens' fundamental constitutional rights but it ultimately presents Zimbabwe as a volatile business envi...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 17:27hrs | 4320 | by Frazer Muzondo
Cops charged with assault
Four police officers have appeared in court facing charges of assault following a High Court ruling that ordered them to pay $17 000 as compensation for brutality.The four officers, George Puk...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 14:05hrs | 1404 | by Staff reporter
When 45 Degrees falls to Zero, Freedom is nigh!
President Mnangagwa has pruned Mugabe Military and retired some acidic elements, and that does not mean that Mnangagwa is an angel. It is just that the law of conservation states that the total energy...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 11:38hrs | 1491 | by Multiverse Dungani
Two MDC officials abducted by armed soldiers
MDC has reported that armed members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces on Tuesday abducted two of its officials in Manicaland after assaulting their family members. The two members Jack Roberts an...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | 7634 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe situation needs proper strategic development plan
We lack basic fundamentals to fulfil the benchmark of legitimacy and credibility. We need to correct a lot of things on the ground. We have so much potential, we simply need to pass the legitimacy tes...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 16:11hrs | 1473 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa vows to crush Chamisa protests, hails army crackdown
President Emmerson Mnangagwa admitted Saturday that he deployed the army to carry out a brutal crackdown against opposition and civil society activists, which allegedly left 17 people dead and saw sev...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:15hrs | 941 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa issues chilling warning, ready to deploy the soldiers again
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted that he deployed the army to carry out a brutal crackdown against opposition and civil society activists, which allegedly left 17 people dead and saw several ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:18hrs | 4280 | by Staff reporter
'Why we are talking to Mnangagwa'
The MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe is one of the opposition parties that have embraced calls for dialogue by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which is meant to address the country's political and economic ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Newsday lies over Kaitano exposed
MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa and the privately-owned, opposition-leaning newspaper Newsday, peddled fake information about the death of Tinashe Kaitano, of Kadoma, in the recent anti-Zimbabw...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, NewsDay shamed
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa and pro-opposition daily NewsDay peddled fake news about the death of Tinashe Kaitano of Kadoma in the recent anti-Zimbabwe propaganda campaign, The Herald report...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:09hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
SADC and AU have the blood of Zimbabweans on their hands
In life there are always those things that one always finds baffling - which never seem to make any sense - and, similarly, I also have two such things in my life.One of those seemingly inexpl...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 11:12hrs | 2701 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa still hopeful about joining Commonwealth
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has scoffed at reports that an influential British lawmaker wants the UK to withdraw its support for Zimbabwe's application the Commonwealth.Mnangagwa told French tele...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 14:23hrs | 1155 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe internet shutdown proves ZANU PF's illiterate support base
This morning I have been experiencing slow social media connectivity, and was suddenly overcome by a disturbing sense of déjà vu, as I remembered those days in January when the Zimbabwe regime shutd...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:03hrs | 670 | by Taurai J. Pachena
Zimbabwe violent protests 'false flag' operations by ZANU PF to suppress opposition?
One of the most efficient and effective strategies of dictatorships - that has been used since time immemorial - to suppress any form of opposition, has been the employment of 'false flag' operations,...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2612 | by Taurai J. Pachena
Mnangagwa under fire over private jets
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under fire for using expensive chartered flights at a time when the majority of Zimbabweans are wallowing in poverty.Mnagagwa on Friday flew to Ethiopia f...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | 2971 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa dialogue hits dead end
AN ad hoc meeting of last year's presidential candidates, which President Emmerson Mnangagwa hastily convened on Wednesday in an effort to lay the groundwork for national dialogue, ended in futility a...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:55hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
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