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Police warn against gatherings at polling stations
POLICE Commissioner General, Godwin Matanga, has warned members of the public against unsanctioned gatherings at polling stations as he urged voters to maintain peace and stability during the election...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Western countries trying all tricks to remove Zanu-PF from power
AS the clock ticks towards the 2023 harmonised elections, which some have described as "crunch" (interestingly all polls since 2008 have been dubbed as such!), Zimbabweans should brace for more shocks...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government apologies for the Removal JM Nkomo Airport signage
The government has apologised for the hasty removal of the Joshua M Nkomo international airport signage saying the previous signage was of low quality while the current was only temporary.In a...Published: 12 May 2022 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Desmond Nleya
$8,2 billion set aside for by-elections, registration blitz
A combined $8,2 billion has been set aside for the mobile voter registration and delimitation blitz, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chief elections officer, Mr Utoile Silaigwana, has said.Addre...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's SA remains concerned over Zimbabwe's worsening political situation
ZIMBABWE'S new foreign minister arrived in South Africa on Friday, his first official visit to the country since taking up his position.Frederick Shava met with International Relations and Coo...Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family dumps corpse at police station
CHAOS reigned supreme at Gweru's Mtapa high density suburb yesterday when aggrieved residents and family members dumped the body of Tatenda Kasinyore, known as "Nyale", near Monomutapa Police Station ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'90% Gukurahundi survivors suffer mental health'
SOME 90 % of Gukurahundi survivors are suffering from mental health impairments due to trauma and cannot access national documentation, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has revealed....Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF trashes ANC in explosive meeting
FRESH details have emerged from last week's stormy meeting between Zanu-PF and South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), revealing that the two former liberation movements main...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
The light shines at the end of the tunnel - MLF
Some days before the late leader of MLF, Mr David Magagula breathed his last breath, he alerted Mthwakazi that 33% of her independence had been won and what remained was 67%. Many people regarded it a...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 17:38hrs | 1 | by MLF
Mnangagwa's govt rolls out food aid for urbanites
GOVERNMENT will this year assist vulnerable families in urban centres with maize as part of its drought mitigation measures to ensure national food security, Zanu-PF provincial chairman for Mashonalan...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
NGOs told to stay out of Zimbabwe politics
GOVERNMENT has warned civil organisations, individuals and foreign forces engaging in nefarious activities seeking to unseat President Mnangagwa and his constitutionally-elected Government that they w...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
First 'Zimbabwe shutdown' after MDC Congress flops
The US embassy in Zimbabwe openly pinned its mast on the anti-Government movement in Harare yesterday after it made a desperate call for the opposition to demonstrate against President Mnangagwa's adm...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joyless Mayday
Comrade Mnangagwa's Mayday message to the workers was predictable: everything is going to be better. We know you are being exploited by businessmen's greedy price rises but we demand that employers ra...Published: 05 May 2019 at 14:26hrs | 2 | by zimvigil
Economic sanctions against Zimbabwe must be lifted
The opposition parties in Zimbabwe, MDC in particular, civil society organisations and other Government detractors have been unreasonably claiming that there are no sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by th...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:20hrs | | by Chido Chikuni
Economic sanctions against Zimbabwe must be lifted
The opposition parties in Zimbabwe, MDC in particular, civil society organisations and other Government detractors have been unreasonably claiming that there are no sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by th...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 11:37hrs | 3 | by Chido Chikuni
Mnangagwa - the face of a pathetic coward!
Do we all remember when we little children, and we could not sleep with the light off - otherwise, we would start seeing monsters and ghosts that were not there!That shadow of that tree outsid...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 08:29hrs | 2 | by Taurai Pachena
MDC Alliance and teachers plotting mega shutdown
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday cranked up the pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, confirming it would go ahead with its planned national strike this mo...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims remembered
BULAWAYO based pressure group, Ibhetshu Likazulu has urged President Emmerson Mangagwa to release the Dumbutshena and Chihambakwe commissions reports on the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres by the Zimbabwe...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:52hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mwonzora speaks on MDC demos
Opposition Movement for Democratic Change Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has called upon the MDC members to join the demonstrations despite governments warning that they will respond harshly...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
State terrorises Evan Mawarire
Social activist and #ThisFlag founder Evan Mawarire has claimed that the government has been sending state agents to his home. Mawarire was reacting the statement by the Minister of Home Affai...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trevor Ncube, Cain Mathema clash over demos.
Media mogul Trevor Ncube has clashed with Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage over the later's statements that the government will crush any demonstration organised by the opposition. ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 15:30hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Anti-Mnangagwa protests to be crushed'
Government has put in place security measures to deal with malcontents planning to disturb the peace prevailing in the country through illegal demonstrations, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minis...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 04:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Planned demonstrations retrogressive
Government recently introduced fiscal measures meant to address the economic challenges that the country is facing, and against this backdrop, there has been a surge in planned protest action by oppos...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 09:42hrs | 5 | by Anesu Pedzisayi
Gukurahundi commission, Mthwakazi radicals find each other
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) which has been at "war" with Matebeleland-based political parties and civil organisations have smoked peace pipe with the activists after the co...Published: 20 May 2018 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Haters not convinced by Obert Mpofu's defence
ANALYSTS yesterday ratcheted up pressure on Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu, saying he should give a detailed account of how he a...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe desperate to meet Mnangagwa
DEPOSED President Robert Mugabe is desperate to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ironically correct the illegality that led to his military-led ouster last November.In his first intervie...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
1893 MRM launches the Movement and opens its offices in Bulawayo
February 10 2018 will go down as a significant historical day to the nation of Mthwakazi and certainly to those that made history happen as members and leaders of various political parties, religious ...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 16:00hrs | | by Thabo Siziba
Thokozani Khupe's Triple Jeopardy
Life is amazing. If you are lucky, you might just be in the right place at the right time and things turn out great for you. Sometimes you have it all planned, but bang! in a flash of an eye, you miss...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 11:31hrs | 2 | by Rejoice Ngwenya,
Ex-Zipra combatants hold own Heroes Day commemorations
EX-Zipra combatants yesterday teamed up with Ibhetshu LikaZulu activists and held their own Heroes Day commemorations at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo in honour of the many unsung liberation war h...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Social movements have transformed Zimbabwe's politics
ZIMBABWEANS have mostly relied on political parties and elections to make their preferences known, but recently there has been an upsurge in protests, demonstrations, petitions, campaigns, marches, an...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
Civil organisations complain over lack of political will to do reforms in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has reported that Civil Organizations which gathered during its stakeholders conference recently expressed concens over the lack of political will to do re...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 08:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Joice Mujuru rattling feathers
As plans to form a coalition ahead of the 2018 general elections gathers momentum Dr. Amai Joice Mujuru briefly graced the march organised by President of MDC-T Dr Morgan Tsvangirayi march in Gw...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 13:02hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Mujuru rattling feathers
As plans to form a coalition ahead of the 2018 general elections gathers momentum Dr. Amai Joyce Mujuru briefly graced the march organised by President of MDC-T Dr Morgan Tsvangirayi march in Gweru on...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Piecemeal protests will never force real change in Zimbabwe
The recent wave of peaceful protests and shutdowns that have rocked Zimbabwe, due to an ever increasing unbearable economic and political situation brought about by the ZANU PF government, have been v...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 12:07hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'US, French Ambassadors had a hand in recent riots,' says Chombo
UNITED States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Harry Thomas and his French counterpart, Ambassador Laurent Delahousse, helped engineer last week's civil disturbances in Harare and Bulawayo, Home Affairs ...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
CSOs campaign against national pledge
The Civil organisations have embarked on an anti- national pledge campaign denouncing the government over the move and urging citizens to resist the move.Christians have since lambasted the Mi...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Rape accused Zwilinzima Vavi says 'Zuma will turn SA into another Zimbabwe'
Former Congress of the South African Trade Unions General-Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi who was accused of raping a fellow Cosatu employee has warned that South Africa will become the next Zimba...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 13:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Itai Dzamara's prayer meeting exposes West duplicity
In Zimbabwe all people are equal but those from Mashonaland are more equal than others. Itai Dzamara prayer meeting that was held in Harare last Saturday revealed just that, people from Matabeleland a...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Bulawayo to go ahead with prepaid water meter installations
BULAWAYO City Council is going ahead with the installation of prepaid water meters despite resistance from some residents and civil organisations.Last year, scores of residents, led by civ...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 09:44hrs | | by Loveness Bepete
Shona teachers in Matebeleland Primary and Secondary Schools
People with a defeatist mental say that it is too late to address the issue of domination of the Shona-speaking teachers in Matabeleland schools. They state it is the proverbial locking of stable...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 10:25hrs | | by Bokane Vundla
Thank you Chombo for residents debts cancellation order
ZUPA, the organisation representing the interests of millions of economically disadvantaged Zimbabweans especially the unemployed would like to thank the Ministry of Local Government through Minister...Published: 23 Jul 2013 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Thamsanqa Zhou and Innocent Ndibali
US warns its citizens in Kenya of possible unrest
Nairobi - The US embassy in Kenya has warned its citizens of possible unrest this weekend when the Supreme Court is due to rule on a legal challenge to the outcome of the presidential election by losi...Published: 26 Mar 2013 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe-phobia fog clouds land reform success
ELECTIONS will be held in Zimbabwe later this year, leading with grim predictability to another bout of Mugabe-phobia in the British media.The trigger for the presidential and parliamentary po...Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 05:49hrs | | by Jonathan Steele I guardian.co.uk
Spy infested Zimbabwe Electoral Commission stall Zimbabwe election roadmap
MDC-T and Zanu-pf are at loggerheads on the composition of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission which has led to the stalling of the political road map which is the pre-condition for a free and fair e...Published: 26 Apr 2011 at 18:09hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
‘Complement human rights with economic empowerment’
Professor Arthur Mutambara has attacked civil organisations and trade unions for “worshipping human rights and good governance” without advocati...Published: 20 Dec 2010 at 15:22hrs | 5 | by Victoria Falls correspondent
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