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Zimbabwe activists on high alert amid pre-SADC Summit crackdown
Human rights advocates, activists, and opposition politicians are on high alert as they face pressure and intimidation from the government, which is allegedly growing nervous about possible protests d...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:40hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean professor kidnapped in SA
A Zimbabwean professor based in South Africa found himself embroiled in a harrowing ordeal when he was allegedly abducted by a group of eight men seeking to steal his cryptocurrency holdings valued at...Published: 22 May 2024 at 10:13hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - the Stockholm syndrome capital of the world!
This morning, my heart broke and fell straight into my guts!I watched with utter dismay and sadness as hundreds of rural villagers in Muzarabani converged, in the sweltering sun, to sing, danc...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 21:10hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
King Lobhengula: The Statesman Par Excellence
The man who is credited to have expanded Buthwakazi until it covered virtually the whole of Budlanondo (present day Zimbabwe and parts of present day Botswana) is King Lobhengula (named after Prince N...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 17:31hrs | 22 | by George Mkhwanazi
CID request access into Takudzwa Ngadziore Facebook to unmask MP's kidnappers
Detectives investigating Takudzwa Ngadziore's abduction rang the CCC MP Friday requesting log-in details of the young lawmaker's private Facebook account ostensibly to draw some raw data in a viral vi...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 10:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Student leader abducted in Chinhoyi' Mahere says
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere took to X (formerly Twitter) to report the alleged abduction and torture of Valentine Ziko, a student at Chinhoyi University of T...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 03:34hrs | 11 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Incompetent Western puppet faking political bravery
There is a sequence that can be employed to identify CCC leader Nelson Chamisa as a snollygoster!A snollygoster is a political candidate, usually willing to be an instrument of another country...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 9 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Car park guard jailed 20 years for killing suspected thief
HIGH Court judge, Justice Davison Foroma has slapped a guard at a Kuwadzana car park, Felix Muteve with a 20 year jail term after he fatally assaulted a drunkard who trespassed at the car park suspect...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC duo reveal abduction ordeal
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have revealed horrific accounts of torture, including being forced to sing war songs and drink each other's urine by th...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:31hrs | | 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
State terrorists, not human rights activists, should face trial in Zimbabwe
INSTEAD of fulfilling its obligation to prosecute the known perpetrators of the crimes against Tawanda Muchehiwa and other human rights activists, the State seems to be shielding the perpetrators and ...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Thandekile Moyo
Mutsvangwa castigates media over sub-Saharan Africa reporting
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday castigated the media for framing sub-Saharan Africa as poorly-run resulting in foreign intervention.Mutsvangwa made the remarks while presentin...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Abduction victims hostile, says Oppah Muchinguri
THE government is failing to complete reported abduction cases perpetrated by suspected state security agents as the victims are unwilling to cooperate or their evidence has been tampered with, Defenc...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Encounter with the Selous Scouts: A former guerilla shares personal experience
IN mid-1979 I left Lupane and Nkayi areas operations where I had been deployed to in 1977 and joined the furthest platoon in Bubi District. Most of the comrades I found there had been trained in Angol...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:48hrs | | by Retired Lieutenant-Colonel Stanford Moyo
Missing boy: Captors demand R50 000
NEARLY two months after a 16-year-old boy went missing from Crowborough, the mother is now receiving text messages demanding a ransom of R50 000 from the boy's cellphone number, confirming the senders...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mamombe arrest warrant cancelled
A court on Wednesday cancelled an arrest warrant issued against Harare West MP Joana Mamombe after she was forcibly discharged from a hospital by police and taken to court.The warrant was issu...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo poke holes into ZBC 'fake abduction' video
MDC Alliance and several political commentators have roundly dismissed as cheap propaganda, a ZBC documentary flighted this week, purportedly exposing as fake, the abduction of Harare West MP Johanne ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda councillors dump Chamisa
SIX Gwanda councillors elected on an MDC Alliance ticket have shifted their political allegiance to the rival MDC-T led by Thokhozani Khupe.This came at a time Khupe's party has been recalling...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abduction saga: MDC Alliance chair blames rivals within her party
MDC Alliance Bulawayo province women's assembly chairperson, Tendai Masotsha has pleaded her innocence in a case in which she is being accused of having a hand in the abduction last month of Tawanda M...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa aligned MDC Alliance chair implicated in Muchehiwa's abduction
The MDC Alliance has launched an investigation into the allegation that Bulawayo province women assembly chairperson Tendai Masotsha played a part in the abduction of Tawanda Muchehiwa, a journalism s...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car rental company hired out abduction vehicle
One of the vehicles used by state security agents in the abduction of Tawanda Muchehiwa, the nephew of ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, was hired from a Harare car rental company, ZimLive revealed....Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 18 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Zimbabwean brothers bound, tortured and killed in South Africa
Two brothers from a Bulawayo crime family are being buried on Sunday after they were tortured across several days, killed and their bodies dumped on a farm in South Africa.Sydney and Addmore G...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | 12 | by ZimLive
Latest on Mnangagwa's house arrest story
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not under house arrest and will be receiving his counterpart Dr John Pombe Magufuli, the President of Tanzania at the Harare International airport on Tuesday afternoon....Published: 28 May 2019 at 14:23hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Remembering the Black Russian
In 1982, Dumiso Dabengwa and Lookout Khalisabantu Vumindaba Masuku were detained at the behest of the administration of Robert Gabriel Mugabe on what turned out to be trumped-up charges of alleged tre...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:51hrs | | by Muchadeyi Ashton Masunda
Mugabe's spooks boss bashed to death: Post-mortem
SLAIN central intelligence operative Peter Munetsi was not on medication as claimed by the government, but was beaten to death by his captors during the November 2017 military coup that toppled presid...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must continue travelling
When the US-EU imperialist media and propaganda apparatus looks back at this era, their expert historians, writers, and political pundits, will be forced to admit traditional white supremacist arrogan...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:07hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Ramaphosa was accused of being an askari
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday had to do something that none of his predecessors, including the corruption accused Jacob Zuma, has ever been forced to do: defend his struggle credentials....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 14:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers leave ugly terror trail
Horror stories are slowly emerging of how the country's trigger-happy security forces brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans this week - shooting 68 people and leaving dozens others requiring life-savi...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Sidney Malunga
TWENTY-four years ago on August 28 my father died. It was sudden, unexpected, shocking!BY SIPHOSAMI MALUNGAHe had endured and survived much suffering in his lifetime. He had struggled ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 15:47hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
John McCain dies at 81
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a self-styled maverick Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, d...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 07:17hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Defeating George Soros' agenda in Zimbabwe
It is no secret that after the convincing defeat of the MDC Alliance in Zimbabwe's recent inclusive elections, US-EU imperialism was forced to undergo a brief period of not only recuperation, a much n...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jr
It's a do-or-die for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is on a precarious course, as he faces critical and possibly realigning elections - which could usher dramatic changes in the political landscape - and bring to a sudden h...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?
Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Mugabe told to stop mourning job loss
EQUITORIAL Guinea President and close friend to former President Robert Mugabe reportedly told the ousted leader to count his blessings for having his life spared during the November coup that saw the...Published: 28 May 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff rperter
Zanu-PF has no supporters, only victims
Ax Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has claimed that the ruling Zanu PF party has no supporters but victims of its coercing and abuse."We present here a special case of a psychological condition ...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa linked with 1982 tourists' murder
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, has made a sensational claim about the 1982 murder of six western tourists in Matabeleland North, saying both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in 1982 tourists' murder
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, has made a sensational claim about the 1982 murder of six western tourists in Matabeleland North, saying both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Confusion as Zimbabwe promises review of elephant exports amidst global condemnation
Three weeks after 31 young elephants were exported, presumedly to China, Zimbabw...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 10:37hrs | 5 | by Adam Cruise and Christina Russo
Elephant calves exported from Zimbabwe as China bans ivory trade
China has reportedly imported more than 30 wild caught elephant calves from Zimbabwe in a controversial if not cynical move which took place on the very day China banned the sale of ivory.31 w...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 13:20hrs | 26 | by Christina Russo and Adam Cruise
Wither Zimbabwe?
For the last two years I have warned that Zimbabwe was facing a perfect storm - the unique convergence of several factors which could tear the country apart. The eye of that storm hit Zimbabwe in mid ...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 17:12hrs | | by David Coltart
Crime busting unit targets Wicknell Chivayo
HARARE - An elite crime-busting unit run by government is going after flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo over a string of energy deals entered with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) - a unit of Ze...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 21:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Wicknell released
Controversial and high flying Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo is reportedly back home following his arrest at the crack of dawn at his home on Monday. Zimbabwe's military had reportedly de...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wrong-footed by Mugabe Lacoste might fail to impeach, unless...
Robert Mugabe's refusal to resign which was played out in front of millions of Zimbabweans on national television and millions more on international news channels exposed a reality that Zimbabweans ha...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 07:16hrs | | by Makusha Mugabe
Mugabe offers to gag Grace, G40
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe emerged from near political extinction Sunday to pledge a gag on his garrulous wife, Grace and his infamous Generation 40 allies in veiled comments focusing on the goings-on wi...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exit plan talks deadlocked
IN a week of high political and military drama, President Robert Mugabe - barricaded at his Borrowdale mansion and effectively under house arrest - has told his security ministers, army commanders and...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri sucked into Prophet Wimbo saga
The fight to control and succeed mysterious prophet Madzibaba Wimbo is hotting up, with police commissioner general Augustine Chihuri - who is a brother to the revered diviner - now being accused of p...Published: 15 May 2017 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: Africa's finest son
Battles are won by men and women of physical, mental and moral mettle. They are fought in the trenches and the mind. The battles of the trenches are easier because the enemy is easily identifiable....Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Bernard Bwoni
Why it is treacherous to disrespect Judas Iscariot!
The Christian Easter festivities have hurriedly come and gone, but one name has remarkably stayed stuck on the lips of a large portion of Christians. As often the case every year, this mysterious name...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 15:33hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
Mugabe fails to free 'abducted' prophet
President Robert Mugabe's spirited efforts to rescue revered "abducted" prophet, Madzibaba Wimbo - who is acclaimed for allegedly foretelling the nonagenarian's presidency 60 years ago - are dead ...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
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