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MDC Alliance trio's ordeal continues
MDC Alliance activists Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova will spend yet another night in remand prison after Harare magistrate Wongai Muchuchuti Guwuriro deferred their bail ruling to ...Published: 59 mins ago | 61 | by Staff reporter
Both ZANU PF and MDC have betrayed and failed people of Zimbabwe, and it's time for citizens to reclaim their power
There is no better definition of 'fail', as the one provided by my trusted dictionary, which says, "Not to achieve a particular stated goal" - and as such, there is no other more appropriate way to de...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1008 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chilonga villagers challenge eviction
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has filed an urgent chamber application at the Masvingo High Court seeking to interdict government from going ahead with its plan to displace more tha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
MDC-A imploding
The occurrences within the MDC-A have left people wondering if Nelson Chamisa has finally met up with Karma and is being beaten up with what he dug up. In Shona we have a proverb that says "akarumwa n...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 08:21hrs | 2655 | by Prosperity Mzila
MDC-Alliance: Chickens coming home to roost
The occurrences within the MDC-Alliance have left people wondering if Nelson Chamisa has finally met up with karma and is being beaten up with what he dug up. In Shona, we have a proverb that says "ak...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 642 | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa, Ziyambi divided over Justice Malaba retirement
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants Chief Justice Luke Malaba to continue serving until 2023 so that he becomes his last line of defence should the presidential election be contested in court, se...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 5181 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Malaba to stay on 2023
DESPITE the fact that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's judicial reign is coming to an end by operation of law at midnight on 15 May 2021 when he turns 70, President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants him to stay on ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:15hrs | 3214 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo sued over floods
TWO Chitungwiza residents have taken Local Government minister July Moyo and the local authority to court over the poor drainage system in the town, which is causing flooding. Several houses i...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:48hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU rocked by battle for leadership
CRACKS have emerged in the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) ahead of the labour body's elective congress scheduled for December.Sources within the country's largest labour representati...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:45hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe talks not possible until political leaders put country first'
PROSPECTS of dialogue seen as the only solution in settling Zimbabwe's political and economic crises are gloomy because of "selfishness and egotism" being exhibited by Zanu-PF and opposition MDC Allia...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:21hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cabinet hiatus highlights Zimbabwe leadership crisis
AT a time when the surge in Covid-19-related deaths is dramatic, amid new rampant cases of the pandemic, the Zimbabwean government's primary policy-making body – cabinet – has not been meeting, Th...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:26hrs | 2082 | by Staff reporter
When the opposition runs rings around the opposition
Events in the opposition camp over the past few weeks have been amusing and amazing. Fierce contestation in the MDC followed the late Morgan Tsvangirai's unilateral and undemocratic declaration that t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:00hrs | 233 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Court dismisses lockdown challenge
The attempt by an organisation claiming to represent the informal sector to end the Level Four national lockdown failed after the High Court dismissed the urgent application on several grounds with th...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in a fix
The recent spate of deaths of top government officials, including ministers who succumbed to Covid-19, have left President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a predicament.Well-placed sources yesterday sai...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:12hrs | 8821 | by Staff reporter
Human rights activists demand release of UZ student who called for Mnangagwa ouster
THE hardest part about being a parent is watching your children go through difficult and rough experiences and not being able to do anything for them.Such is the feeling of Jephias Moyo, whose...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:08hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Let us desists from peddling falsehoods
Zimbabweans need to be warned over propagating malicious falsehoods. Members of the opposition party MDC Alliance have perfected this diabolical propaganda technique in pursuit of their "Kudira Jecha"...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 20:35hrs | 618 | by Grace Chekai
A new, ugly breed of politicians
Recently, I was appalled to wake up to the realisation that our social media streets have reared a new and ugly breed of politicians that lack tolerance and patriotism. The country is headed f...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:44hrs | 822 | by Prosperity Mzila
State lacks commitment towards Jim Kunaka case: High Court judge
HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has accused the State of lacking commitment towards the case of former Zanu-PF youth leader Jim Kunaka whose bail appeal hearing was postponed to today....Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 patient sues government over burial restrictions
A COVID-19 patient has taken the government to court contesting recent burial restrictions as he claims they would violate his cultural beliefs in the event that he dies and is not buried at his rural...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 14:00hrs | 1353 | by Staff reporter
Why movement to restore American democracy is needed
Wildlife-rich and climate change-vulnerable Sub-Saharan Africa has been following the political events unfolding in the United States with great interest. What happens in America still has worldwide c...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:07hrs | 389 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zec criticised for suspending elections during COVID-19 lockdown period
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been blasted for suspending electoral activities in the country during the COVID-19 lockdown period through Press releases without legal authority from a co...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance call for 'streetifying people's anger' - real change will come from implementing reforms
"It is Zanu-PF itself that has become a super-spreader of perfidy and unbridled falsehoods as exemplified by its statements alleging growth in the country's economy and the cheap allegation that victi...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:50hrs | 1626 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe regime brutal repression of dissent creating more liberation heroes than Smith's Rhodesia
As the nation mourns the sad passing away, yesterday 15 January 2020, of one of the pioneer founding nationalist leaders of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle against colonial rule and oppression, Morton ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:33hrs | 620 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa has 'nowhere to take his problems to' claims Matemadanda
THE ruling Zanu-PF says Nelson Chamisa and the MDC Alliance "made their bed and must now lie in it" - after they allegedly "repeatedly spurned the hand of friendship" extended to them by President Emm...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 15:55hrs | 2011 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono remanded in custody until Thursday
Magistrate Lazini Ncube has remanded journalist Hopewell Chin'ono to Thursday when he will deliver judgement in his bail application. The journalist faces the same charges as MDC Alliance offi...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 13:14hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa not bankrolling Chamisa's MDC'
OPPOSITION political party, the MDC Alliance has dismissed claims that South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa was secretly funding the embattled organisation saying the mischievous reports were part o...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:04hrs | 2669 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono, Sikhala remanded further
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono was back in court on Monday after spending the weekend behind bars with his lawyers challenging placement on remand.Chin'ono appeared before Harare magistrate Lazi...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono to ignore bail application
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono, arrested Friday, says he will not apply for bail as he wants to challenge the state to withdraw its charges against him.In a handwritten statement he handed over ...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 16:06hrs | 1346 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents clash over positions
THE Bulawayo United Residents Association (BURA) has been rocked by serious conflict after its leader, Winos Dube, allegedly dumped the existing ward 21 leadership structure and replaced it with his l...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:01hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Rule of law must be observed during COVID-19 lockdown
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) calls upon the government to uphold human rights and observe the rule of law during the COVID-19 national lockdown.This follows the issuance of ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:34hrs | 91 | by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum
'Zanu-PF, police leading human rights violators'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have been ranked top in the violation of human rights which occurred in December last year, latest findings by the Zimbabwe Peace Projec...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:29hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Furore over non deployment of Kalanga teachers
The Kalanga Language and Cultural Development Association(KLCDA) has expressed concern over failure by the government to deploy Kalanga teachers in Kalanga communities after graduation.The org...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:39hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
The tale of a captured judiciary
THE year 2020 did not see any major judicial decisions, but was replete with prolonged postponement of trials.At one time, chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi threatened to sit on a Sunday for...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:08hrs | 773 | by Miriam Mangwaya
Jim Kunaka denied bail
Political activist and National Patriotic Front (NPF) member Jim Kunaka was on Tuesday denied bail on allegations of trying to incite the public to engage in violence in August. Kunaka was fac...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:31hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime crippled by fear more than us, we're more powerful together
Zimbabweans have borne the brunt of unflattering worldwide ridicule over our perceived cowardice and fear in boldly standing up, and speaking out, for our God-given rights to a dignified and respectab...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:48hrs | 1584 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
National pledge reciting out of order, says ConCourt
THE Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe (ConCourt) yesterday ruled the national pledge, which schoolchildren were obliged to recite during assemblies, invalid.This came after a parent, Mathew Sog...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri raises a red flag
ONE of the four candidates contesting the MDC-T presidency, Elias Mudzuri, has raised a red flag over preparations to hold the extraordinary congress (EOC), saying the party did not have enough money ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 11:12hrs | 4323 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa targets new first-time voters
BULAWAYO'S MDC Alliance provincial youth assembly has been given a task of recruiting 12% of the targeted one million new first-time voters as the party forges ahead with its recruitment drive in a ca...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe magistrates now zombies very afraid to practice their legal knowledge as police now review their judgements
Zimbabwean judicial officers are feeling the heat of total disrespect and unreasonable interference by the police and Prosecution. To think that the prosecutors are supposed to be lawyers is a farfetc...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 08:58hrs | 1863 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Church seeks eviction order against pastor
UNITED Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) has approached the High Court seeking an eviction order against its excommunicated pastor who is allegedly refusing to vacate the church house. R...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:07hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
Greed costing Khupe-led party
I HAVE seen Press statements from the MDC-T 2014 Matabeleland South and Harare provincial leadership teams instructing people from their respective provinces not to attend the extraordinary congress w...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:38hrs | 967 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Mudenda urges colleges to play role in economic development
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday urged the higher education sector to play an active role in governance issues as stipulated in the new economic blueprint, the National Develop...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:10hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Bosso to hold elections, AGM
HIGHLANDERS will go ahead with its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections due next year despite the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic.Gatherings of more than 100 people are banned and Highlande...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Peace Commission shocked after Mnangagwa snub in Gukurahundi genocide reburials
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of acting unconstitutionally and leaving out the independent body in the contentious exhumation and reb...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:35hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe army not trained to feed porridge'
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army are not trained to feed porridge to the masses, but to ruthlessly crush any public protests whether peaceful or not, deputy defence minister Victor Matemadanda ha...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1685 | by Staff writer
Petitions won't remove Govt, says Mudenda
Civic organisations are free to petition Parliament, but a constitutionally-elected Government will only be removed through an election rather than unconstitutional regime change means, Speaker of Par...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Securocrats scale up surveillance
THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2749 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC-A should give Zimbabwe a break
ON October 25, Zimbabwe will be walking tall, arm in arm with its regional partners in calling for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on the country by Western nations that seek to...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2795 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt targets social media activists
GOVERNMENT has threatened to intensify its snooping into citizens' social media posts to thwart dissent and any plots to unseat or sabotage President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration.Home A...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:32hrs | 1949 | by Staff reporter
Mahere, Dangarembga case deferred to October 22
THE court ruling on MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, prominent author Tsitsi Dangarembga and 13 other activists who had challenged their placement on remand was yesterday deferred to October 2...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
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