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David Coltart blasts George Charamba
MDC Treasurer General David Coltart has called Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba a brazen liar over his tweet that human rights lawyer Douglas Coltart funded the doctors to continue engaging i...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 07:05hrs | 6977 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF in denial
The dire situation in Zimbabwe has been getting of a lot of attention in the British media – particularly since the visit to Zimbabwe by a UN representative who warned that Zimbabweans were on the v...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 21:56hrs | 699 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Obert Gutu takes David Coltart and family head on
MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu has attacked the MDC Treasurer General David Coltart and his son Doug Coltart calling them hypocritical racists. Said Gutu,"The son of a Rhodesian-era Sel...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 12:21hrs | 2890 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Masiyiwa, $100m saved 2k doctors but condemning vote rigging would save nation and posterity - THINK!
"ECONET Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa and his wife, Tsitsi, through their Higher Life Foundation, have set up a $100 million fund which will see up to 2 000 junior and senior doctors employed by go...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:39hrs | 576 | by Nomusa Garikai
Police brutally assault David Coltart's son
Police in Harare on Saturday brutally assaulted MDC Alliance treasure general David Coltart's son and lawyer Douglas Coltart as he visited his client in h...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 07:30hrs | 4963 | by Staff Reporter
We are stuck in a (Zanu PF and MDC) 'man-made crisis' - they cannot be man-made solution too
"For months now, we have been asking our African brothers and sisters to look into the man-made governance crisis in Zimbabwe and help us restore the dignity of citizens," said MDC President, Nelson C...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 07:47hrs | 755 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Nightmare is madman wielding a stick - pity Zimbabweans have corrupt president wielding absolute power, for 39 years counting
"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1221 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC to launch online membership system
The MDC is working on a system that will allow potential member to apply via an online portal if they cannot travel to a nearby branch or office to purchase the membership card, the MDC Secretary Gene...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1213 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans to withdraw US$14 a week
Zimbabweans will be limited to withdraw a maximum of ZWL$300 (US$14) a week the State owned Sunday Mail has revealed. The paper said bank account holders should be able to start accessin...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:16hrs | 4970 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sinking ship
With almost half the population now registered for food aid, the government is taking decisive action to deal with the threat - not by providing food for the people but by fattening up the army and po...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 18:20hrs | 1889 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
David Coltart speaks on Chamisa vs Mnangagwa judgment
MDC Treasurer General David Coltart says the circulating judgment purportedly being the full Chamisa vs Mnangagwa election petition judgment is poor and riddled with inconsistencies. Chamisa l...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 09:35hrs | 9386 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zanu PF leaders are clueless' - established this 20 years ago, ask why they're still in power
"It is time that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and finance Mthuli Ncube wake up to reality. Both Leaders do not have a strategic and plausible solution to the economic problems prevailing in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 10:40hrs | 2117 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa, Chamisa in fresh fight
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa have shifted their rivalry to the constitutional front after the Zanu-PF leader moved to remove a clause on presidential running m...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:25hrs | 12074 | by Staff reporter
All signs bad - ZimVigil Diary
A number of reports this week exposed the worsening situation in Zimbabwe, facing hunger and malnutrition, continued abuse of human rights and a contracting economy. On Wednesday Veritas,...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2262 | by ZimVigil Diary
'Zimbabwe de-dollarisation is in tatters and with no political shift, no bailout' says expert
Most of us know that Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political trouble. It is only from reading expert analysis that one can start to comprehend the seriousness of our situation. Tony Hawkins a pr...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 08:59hrs | 3633 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa summoned private jet from France for Bulawayo trip
President Emmerson Mnangagwa summoned a private jet from France to fly him the round trip to Bulawayo from Harare, ZimLive reported.The US$30,000-per-hour Boeing 737 flew 11,330km to pick up t...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 20:28hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
MDC 'helmets' sold to security firm
Police laid siege on the MDC's headquarters on Monday, a day after over 200 old police helmets were found in the basement of a building in central Harare.Dozens of armed police officer prevent...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 08:58hrs | 483 | by ZimLive
'You are a sell-outs!' - discredited opposition undermine ED's legitimacy
Up to now, many Zimbabweans have not fully appreciated the negative role the country's opposition politicians have played in our struggle to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. It is pleasing to note that m...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1178 | by Wilbert Mukori
Rural vote key in propelling the MDC
The MDC party led by Nelson Chamisa celebrated 20 years of existence at Rufaro Stadium on September 28 2019, under the theme, "celebrating courage, growth and people's victories". As the MDC celebrate...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:11hrs | 144 | by Mtape Mamuse
'People vote Zanu PF notwithstanding hardship and repression' - repressed, per se, don't have free vote
Professor Lovemore Madhuku, leader of the opposition party the National Constitution Assembly, should wash his mouth with bleach; the foul insults coming from him are intolerable. "Go to a by-...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 06:09hrs | 268 | by Nomusa Garikai
'ED Mnangagwa must learn to listen' - forget him, he is beyond the pale and so is Chamisa
"ED Mnangagwa, You must learn to listen first so that you are listened to," wrote Luke Tamborinyoka MDC party deputy spokesperson."Listen to the suffering cries of those abductees, the 2,6 mil...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 18:25hrs | 1494 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC @20: The journey continues
TWENTY years after it was formed amid high hopes, the opposition MDC's pathway to power remains hazy amid concerns it lacks the gravitas to mount a formidable challenge to dislodge Zanu-PF from power....Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Judge President raps State over Magombeyi detention
Judge president Justice George Chiweshe yesterday dismissed the State's urgent chamber application to stop Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) leader Peter Magombeyi from leaving the country...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:15hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
'Abductions' wave worries Zanu-PF youths
THE Zanu-PF Youth League says it has noted with concern the recent wave of alleged abductions in the country which are a ploy by the MDC-Alliance and its allies to destabilise and tarnish the country'...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 06:59hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
'Punish Mnangagwa for his barbarism vis-a-vis Dr Magombiye,' called Coltart - why is MDC propping up regime
"This is a regime which is increasingly paranoid and unhinged. It has dug itself into a deep hole. In seeking to exculpate itself from the crimes against humanity it is alleged to have committed in re...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1289 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Voters are under siege from Zanu PF, MDC will educate them come 2023' - new excuse for participating again
The root cause of Zimbabwe's devastating economic meltdown is the country's failure to remove this corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF dictatorship from office. Ever since our independence in 1980, Zanu P...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 881 | by Nomusa Garikai
U.S. told to come clean about knowledge of 1980s Mugabe genocide in Zimbabwe
Human rights groups and activists are demanding the release of CIA and State Department files showing how much the U.S. government knew about what they say was a genocide in the 1980s under Zimbabwean...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 14:06hrs | 1021 | by Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times
As Dr Magombeyi resurfaces, the third force debate rages on, as Job Sikhala narrates torture story
The acting president of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctor Associations Peter Magombeyi, who was allegedly abducted on Friday last week in Budiriro, was on last week Thursday night confirmed to have been releas...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 10:29hrs | 3636 | by Thomas Mukandi
Zanu-PF Youth League on abductions
THE Zanu-PF Youth League says it has noted with concern the recent wave of alleged abductions in the country which are a ploy by the MDC-Alliance and its allies to destabilise and tarnish the country'...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
What good is 95% literacy without common sense to stop Mugabe madness
"The record is mixed, at best. No doubt he (Mugabe) gave black Zimbabweans dignity, pride and opportunity. In the early days of independence, we built a new school every day, every district got a hosp...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 08:09hrs | 400 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Jonathan Moyo as dodgy as Jimi Hendrix' - David Coltart
MDC Alliance treasure general David Coltart says while former Zanu-PF spin doctor and minister Professor Jonathan Moyo is as "dodgy as Jimi Hendrix" with his checkered past, he can "play a mean guitar...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 16:25hrs | 3251 | by Staff Reporter
MDC vow anti-Mnangagwa demos at UN GA - why bother, all know you are ones keeping him in power
Next week world leaders will be in New York, USA, for the annual UN General Assembly talk-shop. Yes, Zimbabwe's leader Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa will be there with the usual large entourage of hanger...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:50hrs | 2680 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
When a government starts abducting its own doctors…
While the President of the Republic is busy trying to be endorsed by a dead man called Robert Mugabe, all the country's referral hospitals are without doctors, after the Doctors Association called for...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:15hrs | 4415 | by Knowledge Hakata
Chamisa $720k richer as Mnangagwa's treasury releases $3.4 million to MDC
TREASURY has released $3,4 million to the opposition MDC under the Political Parties Finance Act.The money was released two weeks ago following months of bickering, with the opposition party a...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:37hrs | 11180 | by Staff reporter
Nick Mangwana blames doctor's abduction on Mnangagwa attempted assassins
INFORMATION Secretary Nick Mangwana has blamed Saturday's abduction on doctors union leader Peter Magombeyi on what he termed third forces which he linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock escap...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:02hrs | 1189 | by NewZimbabwe
Fight over Zpra properties gets ugly
A prominent war veteran says he has been receiving death threats for campaigning for the return of properties seized by the government from war veterans.John Gazi, the chairperson of Nitram, a...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:05hrs | 5222 | by Staff reporter
The other side of Mugabe
In the late 1990s, a big birthday bash was planned for the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo at Ascot racecourse, with the late former president Robert Mugabe being the guest of honour.When Mug...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 864 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Dictator Mugabe denied million a vote - now they can finally 'vote', by boycott his funeral
David Coltart has proven to be a confused, corrupt and incompetent opposition politician; the kind very nation dreads. Coltart was a senior member of the MDC during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and they faile...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 21:21hrs | 1438 | by Nomusa Garikai
Why chiefs are breaking ranks with Zanu-PF
The late Robert Mugabe's nearly four decades in power became possible because of a tight grip on the rural electorate where traditional leaders were a vital cog in mobilising votes for the ruling part...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 677 | by Silas Nkala
Flower hopeful for Zimbabwe's future after Mugabe's death
Andy Flower, the former Zimbabwe cricket captain and England coach, hopes his country can emerge from "a quagmire of corruption" following the death of ex-president Robert Mugabe.Mugabe died o...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:42hrs | 328 | by PA
Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played
The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played.The closest I have to feeling anything is quiet, seething rage.Rage that ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 272 | by Siphosami Malunga
Mixed reactions to Mugabe death
ZIMBABWEANS and political leaders from across the globe yesterday expressed mixed reactions to news of the death of former President Robert Mugabe, with some describing him as a judicious leader while...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:11hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Condolences pour in for Mugabe
CONDOLENCE messages from across the world yesterday poured in following the death of former President Robert Mugabe with many describing him as an icon of liberation who dedicated his life to the free...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:09hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe was a brilliant man but complex man,' says Coltart
Tributes are being paid to former President Robert Mugabe who died aged 95 on Friday.Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years before he was overthrown by the military in 2017, died in a hospita...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 14:38hrs | 2316 | by ZimLive
Mutodi apologises for controversial comments on Ndebele nationhood
Deputy Information Minister Energy Mutodi was forced into a climbdown on Wednesday after he withdrew controversial comments which critics said questioned the nationality of the Ndebele people....Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 3234 | by ZimLive
Mutodi suffers backlash after he labels Ndebeles refugees
Deputy information minister Energy Mutodi received a backlash on Tuesday after appearing to suggest that Ndebeles were refugees in Zimbabwe.The gaffe-prone minister was calling on South Africa...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:34hrs | 2241 | by ZimLive
'Sham 2018 poll resulted in illegitimacy' CIZC finally admit - yet still can't resist urge to appease Zanu PF
It is heartening to see that organisation like Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition (CIZC) are finally calling a spade a spade! "The sham 2018 polls resulted in a serious legitimacy crisis that c...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | 908 | by Nomusa Garikai
A history of abductions, assassinations in Zimbabwe
October 15, 1975: Edson Sithole and his secretary Miriam Mhlanga were grabbed by unknown assailants, bundled into a car and were never seen again. A few weeks earlier, Sithole had fallen out with othe...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:04hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
'As long as Ramaphosa plays big brother to ED, I'm staying put' - see speck in his eye but not log in yours
"As long as Ramaphosa plays big brother to an illegal president (Emmerson Mnangagwa) then we (Zimbabweans in SA) are staying put and not going anywhere," twittered Kudakwashe KadenheThere is n...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:30hrs | 2672 | by Nomusa Garikai
Welshman Ncube takes up Chief Ndiweni bail application case
The bail hearing for Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe set for Tuesday was postponed after the state prosecutor asked for more time to respond to his application.Instead, the matter sh...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:26hrs | 4446 | by Staff reporter
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