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Lawyers dig in to fight Mnangagwa
AS the government moved today to gazette controversial constitutional amendments to help President Emmerson Mnangagwa consolidate power as part of his 2023 re-election bid, agitated lawyers are diggin...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1562 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora is Mnangagwa's trusted tool?
FOR President Emmerson Mnangagwa's power consolidation and 2023 presidential election bid to succeed, he desperately needs MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora to be on his side since Zanu-PF no longer comma...Published: 8 hrs ago | 993 | by Staff reporter
Arthur Mutambara breathing fire over the Constitution amendment
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is breathing fire over the Constitution Amendment (No.2) Bill, saying it is meant to consolidate power and brazenly restore fully fledged authoritarian ru...Published: 8 hrs ago | 997 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill into law
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed the controversial Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill into law, which gives effect to 27 changes to the Constitution and giving him unfettered powers over the Ju...Published: 9 hrs ago | 394 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora and MDC-T working for their supper
THE move by the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora members of the National Assembly and senators to vote in favour of the Constitutional Amendment Number 2 in a marriage of convenience with Zanu-PF showed ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 136 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rights groups, opposition stage online protest against Constitutional amendments
ZIMBABWEAN opposition and rights groups have held an online protest against proposed constitutional amendments that would allow the president to handpick top judges. Thousands of people viewed t...Published: 22 hrs ago | 736 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primes for Patriotic Bill
ZIMBABWE now stares at the draconian Patriotic Bill for which Zanu-PF simply needs a majority, not necessarily two-thirds, according to legal experts.Zanu-PF managed to push through Parliament...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's new law will lead to another coup in Zimbabwe'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the now-defunct inclusive government, Arthur Mutambara has predicted the Constitutional Amendment Bill No.2, recently endorsed by lawmakers, will lead to another coup i...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1980 | by Staff reporter
We are vindicated!!! Mwonzora is indeed a Zanu puppet: MDC Veterans Activists Association (MDC VAA)
The MDC Veterans Activists Association faced a salvo of accusations and insults from the varakashi cyber bullies and The doggie sycophants for condemning the MDC-T's unholy tag team with ZANU PF...Published: 06 May 2021 at 07:11hrs | 2640 | by Mandava Blessing
Ex-mayor dumps Mwonzora's MDC-T
NORRIS Nyathi, the former Victoria Falls deputy mayor and senior executive in the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T has resigned from the party in protest over its legislators' voting alongside Zanu PF to am...Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:48hrs | 3440 | by Staff reporter
Judge tells Mamombe to respect laws she swore to uphold
The High Court on Wednesday ended the two-month incarceration of Harare West MP Joana Mamombe and MDC Alliance youth activist Cecilia Chimbiri who are accused of addressing a press conference which au...Published: 05 May 2021 at 18:33hrs | 2183 | by Staff reporter
Sad milestone for Zimbabwe democracy or momentous occasion?
CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment No 2 Bill sailed through Senate yesterday with three MDC-T senators, Piniel Denga, Morgan Femai and Jane Chifamba voting in Zanu-PF's corner to help the ruling party achieve t...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:34hrs | 1238 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bids to ban 'sanction beggars' 2023 elections
IN AN ominous message for the opposition, Zanu-PF says it wants all people who have supported the West's sanctions on Zimbabwe to be barred from taking part in the 2023 polls.In that light, th...Published: 04 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 4012 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional Amendment to give Mnangagwa Mugabe-era powers
Three years after sweeping into power through a military coup and promising a new and unfolding democracy, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now being compared to his authoritarian predecesso...Published: 04 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Opposition leader mocks MDC factions for barren politics
LITTLE known opposition Ma'at Zimbabwe leader Neferkare Nembaware says his party has all the credentials to dislodge MDC as the country's main opposition.He said MDC has squandered its chance ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1724 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has taken us back to 2008
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is plunging Zimbabwe back into the 2008 era when the regime survived on peddling lies. Let us unpack some of the lies and confront them for answers....Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:23hrs | 600 | by Isaac
Peter Hain's heinous plot against Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's justice system is under siege from foreign powers and their opposition proxies. The dishonourable Peter Hain, a member of the House of Lords in Britain, on April 27 2021, under the misguide...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:17hrs | 382 | by Charlene Shumba
Chin'ono wins court battle, but not the war
Zimbabwe journalist and documentary filmmaker Hopewell Chin'ono was vindicated by a court ruling this week, but he has two further cases hanging over his head.After the court ruling by High Co...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:14hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF afraid of Nelson Chamisa
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa grabbed power with the assistance of the military in November 2017, a lot of people were willing to work with him to improve the country's battered image but unfortun...Published: 03 May 2021 at 13:48hrs | 2343 | by Leonard Koni
Workers bemoan worsening poverty on Mnangagwa's watch
AHEAD of the 2021 Workers' Day commemorations, The NewsHawks (NH) caught up with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president, Peter Mutasa (PM), for an interview to mark the 2021 International Wor...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:29hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF could regret constitutional changes'
LIBERATION struggle stalwart and one of the founders of Zanu-PF, Rugare Gumbo, says the removal of the running mate clause from the country's Constitution could come back to haunt the ruling party whi...Published: 02 May 2021 at 18:33hrs | 3300 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora could be digging his own grave
Douglas Mwonzora's support for controversial amendments to the constitution is a mistake that could destroy his political career because the changes to the supreme law are not popular among the electo...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:36hrs | 2482 | by Staff reporter
Workers must be treated fairly, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, under siege from a restive government workforce constantly demanding increased and US dollar wages, has made a surprise appeal to Zimbabwean employers to treat their work...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:20hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Workers have kept us going, says Mnangagwa
THE nascent economic rebound being witnessed in Zimbabwe, characterised by increasing industrial capacity utilisation and a stable macro-economic environment, is a product of the country's dedicated a...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:55hrs | 288 | by Staff Reporter
A new hope… President Mwonzora's to do list
With a flood of optimism being poured to the new MDC'T President Douglas Mwonzora from the majority of both the MDC'T standing committee and the supporters at large the young and charismatic leader sh...Published: 01 May 2021 at 10:57hrs | 2195 | by Knowledge Hakata
CSOs condemn constitutional amendments
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) have accused MPs of abandoning the interests of people who voted them into power by supporting constitutional changes aimed at consolidating power in the office of t...Published: 01 May 2021 at 08:42hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Government must expeditiously engage ZIST
Zimbabwe has for a very long time been experiencing boorish governance which led to unprecedented economic abyss coupled with gross violation of human rights and other ignoble injustices manufactured ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 19:31hrs | 215 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Rare introspection on Chamisa's leadership
Since its formation, the MDC generally identifies itself as fighters for democracy and democratic changeIts, however, critical to interrogate whether the main opposition under the leadership o...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 18:06hrs | 2001 | by Tadiwanashe Mawunganidze & Colleen Rinemhota
NGO boss says Mnangagwa sponsoring new law to safeguard 2023 poll ambitions
ZIMBABWE Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika says frantic efforts to pass Constitutional Amendment No.2 is a sure sign President Emmerson Mnangagwa was anticipating contested elections...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
NGOs mustn't be surprised when Govt cracks whip
I am not a regular imbiber but once in a while I go into a decent bar for an hour of two, just to catch up. And just last week, I popped into a hotel bar, seeking decency, social distance and a bit of...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:34hrs | 239 | by Isdore Guvamombe
A call to all Mthwakazi organisations to have unity of purpose
As I extend my greetings to you all, please note that I write to you as a citizen of Mthwakazi, whose identity, values, beliefs are Mthwakazian and whose allegiance is to Mthwakazi. What a journ...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 20:31hrs | 1240 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
High Court hears fresh bail appeal by Mamombe, Chimbiri
A High Court judge will on Wednesday hear a fresh bail application by Harare West MP Joana Mamombe and fellow opposition MDC Alliance activist Cecilia Chimbiri.The two have been locked up at C...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
No free ride for MDC defectors, says Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION members who defect to Zanu-PF will have to undergo re-orientation training at Zanu-PF's Chitepo School of Ideology for them to toe the party line. This was disclosed yesterday by Zanu-PF se...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says they've changed tact
Nelson Chamisa the opposition MDC Alliance leader says his party has tightened the criteria used to select parliamentary and local authority candidates to avoid infiltration by "fortune seekers" who d...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:19hrs | 2841 | by Staff reporter
US told that 'Democracy is not Coca-Cola' by China
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged Washington to abandon its ideological approach to foreign policy, arguing that it is wrong of the US to try to model the rest of the world in its own image S...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Constitution: Mnangagwa power play 'a great betrayal of people'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is repeating mistakes made by his predecessor Robert Mugabe by seeking to amend the constitution to entrench his rule, political analysts have warned.Mnangagwa and...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:12hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Put Zimbabwe first
For the second time this month, the Senate will be called upon to take an important stand on the future of Zimbabwe when it votes on proposed amendments to the constitution and it will be a tragedy if...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:09hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
Constitution changes clear sign of democratic relapse
Days after marking our 41st independence anniversary, a time at which we ought to be taking stock of progress made in consolidating our democracy, we mark a moment of monumental regression.The...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:08hrs | 275 | by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum
Constitution changes face new hurdle
Parliament's controversial passing of proposed amendments to the constitution is now being challenged at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on the grounds that the process violated the country's supr...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:49hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF creating dictator in Mnangagwa
The sailing through Parliament, of the Zimbabwe Constitutional Amendment Bill Number II, which among other things, gives President Emmerson Mnangagwa unfettered powers over the appointment and promoti...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 17:53hrs | 2225 | by Staff reporter
National Youth Service (Zimbabwe) a disservice!
The re-establishment of the National Youth Service in Zimbabwe is uncalled for and an unnecessary disservice. It is totally against ubuntu and the rule of law. The youth militia, infamously known as t...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:24hrs | 910 | by Inhokomo Yesizwe SikaMthwakazi
Zanu-PF tricked MDCs on running mates, says Charamba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that Zanu-PF tricked the opposition MDC formations to consent to the passing of the Constitutional Amendment No 20 with a conte...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:43hrs | 4126 | by Staff reporter
Free the airwaves
There are no limits to the depths this inept and rag tag regime is willing to sink.On the 3rd of May 2021 the globe shall be commemorating the World Press Freedom Day and thus the time to refl...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 13:27hrs | 581 | by Leonard Koni
Mwonzora in tight spot
EMBATTLED MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora was yesterday battling to douse fires sparked by his decision to whip his MPs to support Zanu-PF-championed constitutional changes that critics say would give P...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:34hrs | 5368 | by Staff reporter
South Africa tightens security on Zimbabwe borders
SOUTH AFRICA says it will make use of drones and other technologies to tighten security at its borders to stop Zimbabweans and other foreigners from illegally crossing into the country.The cou...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:31hrs | 5118 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T activist petitions for Mwonzora arrest
MDC-T activist Patson Murimoga has petitioned Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to arrest opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora for alleged theft of $6 355 000 from party coffers.According to the ...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
Sexually transmitted leadership will not take us anywhere
My previous article regarding the nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo to contest the Zapu presidential candidacy could have come across as too emotional for some people to appreciate my perspective....Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:55hrs | 549 | by Nomazulu Thata
Aaron Motsoaledi longs for apartheid-era electric fence on Zimbabwe border
South Africa's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says removing apartheid-era electric fences to secure the border was a "terrible mistake."Motsoaledi spoke on Monday as he expressed his e...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 17:14hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku says Patriotic Bill mustn't be allowed
POLITICAL Actors Dialogue (Polad) member and opposition National Constitutional Assem-bly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku has been critical of constitutional amendments which seek to grant President Emm...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 2563 | by Staff reporter
$6m 'theft' haunts Mwonzora
MDC-T activist Patson Murimoga is lobbying party members to demonstrate against their leader Douglas Mwonzora on Thursday this week to compel him to account for over $6 million which he allegedly stol...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:31hrs | 2935 | by Staff reporter
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