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SA lawyers sing for their supper against Mnangagwa
A SOUTH AFRICAN group of lawyers yesterday added its voice to the growing chorus of alarm on human rights abuses by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, chastising the Zanu-PF leader for ris...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Africans should interfere in Zimbabwe politics, says Mugabe's 'stupid and idiotic street girl'
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) says there is a political crisis in Zimbabwe, which needs to be resolved by Africans through various processes, including attempts by President Cy...Published: 5 hrs ago | 852 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says they are denied freedom to honour heroes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his administration had consolidated democracy, constitutionalism and rule of law in the pursuit of social justice, but main opposition MDC Alliance and othe...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
Redefining Democracy, a Zimbabwean Rhetoric
Was it not Prof. PLO Lumumba who argued that, time limits are good things. No matter how good a dancer you are, you must leave the stage?Looking back, the realization is overwhelming just how ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:22hrs | 154 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
Job Sikhala's open letter to President Ramaphosa
ON behalf of the people of Zimbabwe who have expressed themselves loudly on social media, and have expressed themselves on issues they want addressed legally, we are grateful that you have found it ne...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 1796 | by Job Sikhala
ZANU PF is not Zimbabwe - so there's no anti-Zimbabwe campaign!
Over the past month or two - ever since the announcement by some opposition political parties, as well as human and labour rights activists, of a planned national demonstration on 31 July 2020 against...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:40hrs | 4160 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's MDC spoils for bare knuckle fight
A TOP MDC Alliance executive yesterday ruled out the possibility of entering into another South Africa-mediated government of national unity (GNU) and threatened to scale up mass protests to force out...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:03hrs | 4826 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe activists decry ‘unprecedented clampdown' after arrests
INVESTIGATIVE journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has over the years leveraged his large social media following to share posts about human rights abuses and alleged government corruption.On June 20, ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:00hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe heroes' shrine sends clear message to the world - the country and people are not yet free!
Most people - both locally and globally - have always associated the National Heroes Acre in the Zimbabwe capital Harare, with largely being merely an impressive cemetery for those deemed outstanding ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2061 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UNcle Tom queries South Africa 'sham' envoys
Prominent South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane believes President Cyril ramamphosa's special envoys appointed to find ways of solving political problems in Zimbabwe are too compromised to lea...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:27hrs | 2305 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's rhetoric inflammatory
In a week that President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to "flush out" his political opponents, a young Bulawayo woman was allegedly abducted, sexually assaulted and badly tortured. Twenty-three-year-old...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:21hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa still keen on western hugs despite rights abuse storm'
WAR Veterans secretary general Victor Matemadanda says Zimbabwe's renewed row with the US and the West will not scupper President Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts with the country's former a...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 180 | by newzimbabwe
Redefining Democracy, a Zimbabwean Rhetoric
Was it not Prof. PLO Lumumba who argued that, time limits are good things. No matter how good a dancer you are, you must leave the stage?Looking back, the realization is overwhelming just how ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 333 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:22hrs | 4263 | by Nomazulu Thata
SA police clash with protesters at Zimbabwe embassy in Pretoria
South African police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse dozens of protesters outside the Zimbabwean embassy in Pretoria on Friday, an AFP photographer said.Close to 100 mainly ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:49hrs | 1488 | by AFP
Mnangagwa's two-year rule: The verdict is 'total disaster'
TWO years after winning the disputed 2018 poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has performed dismally towards implementing political and economic reforms perceived as key to ending Zimb...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2670 | by Staff reporter
Ian Khama endorses #ZimbabweLivesMatter
FORMER Botswana leader Ian Seretse Khama has emerged to land a shoulder and also call for prayer for suffering Zimbabweans in the wake of a fierce crackdown by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's governmen...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2412 | by Staff reporter
Namibia to keep distance from Mnangagwa abuses
THE Namibian government says it will not be cajoled into any undiplomatic condemnation or otherwise of the Zimbabwean government's brutal clampdown on citizens demanding better leadership and an end t...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:49hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Could a hashtag help achieve in Zimbabwe what protests have failed to do?
Could a social media hashtag - tapping into the energy and anger of the global #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon - help achieve in Zimbabwe what years of street protests, strikes and political campaigns ha...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 645 | by Andrew Harding Africa correspondent, BBC News
Zinasu condemns the persecution of students
The Zimbabwe National Students Union has said it is appalled by the continued targeted harassment of students by the military junta of Emmerson Mnangagwa."We condemn the inhumane, cruel and sa...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:33hrs | 223 | by Stephen Jakes
Enough is enough, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties and hostile countries plotting his downfall and frus...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 8818 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is back
Opposition MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa, accompanied by his lawyer Thabani Mpofu, on Tuesday visited incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono at Harare Remand Prison."Clearly we must...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 21:46hrs | 13996 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu clocks 19th day in quarantine, joins Twitter
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, who is in self-isolation, says he will use his new twitter handle to engage on the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the country and has since claimed more t...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1986 | by Staff reporter
TPF blasts Zimbabwe security agents for suppressing dissent
The Patriotic Front (TPF) led by former commercial farmer Darrlyl Collet has blasted the security agents for suppressing dissent in the country.This comes in the wake of the police and the mil...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2113 | by Stephen Jakes
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter trends on Twitter
PRESSURE on President Emmerson Mnangagwa escalated yesterday, with politicians and rights groups from the southern African region flagging the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe and worsening rights abuses ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 6367 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono and Ngarivhume to wait a few more days before learning their fate
Zimbabwean investigative journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition party leader, Jacob Ngarivhume, are set to remain behind bars after the High Court delayed delivering its judgment.The pai...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 21:39hrs | 1267 | by Staff reporter
Church warns Mnangagwa
AMID the country's deepening political and economic crises, church leaders have once again implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, to take the initiative to launch an inclusive national dialo...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 19:25hrs | 10880 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans see little change after leadership shift
WHEN the late Robert Mugabe was ousted as President of Zimbabwe in a coup in November 2017. many in the country hoped or an end to the repression and mismanagement that had characterised his 37 years ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
Dangarembga arrest triggers global storm
The arrest of award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, a nominee for this year's Booker Prize, and several political activists on Friday has invited global condemnation and demands for thei...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Tajamuka/Sesjikile leader explains no-show at #31July protests
#TAJAMUKA/SESJIKILE leader Promise Mkwananzi has claimed most organisers of last Friday's anti-corruption protests decided to go into hiding as a plan of action, and not derail their growing fight aga...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 142 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9867 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businesses closed, streets deserted on day of protests
Businesses were shut and streets deserted around Zimbabwe on Friday as security forces increased patrols to stop anti-government protests called by activists over corruption and economic hardship....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 2260 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown on activists intensifies ahead of July 31 protests
POLITICAL activists in Bulawayo have said the alleged abduction of opposition political party members and activists is an attempt to close the democratic space and clamp down on dissent.The ab...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC Alliance activist 'abducted'
THE MDC Alliance Bulawayo province yesterday claimed that suspected State security agents on Tuesday night abducted and tortured another party activist, Nyasha Musundire.The opposition has bee...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
The mighty Air-Marshall assassinated by the global army: quick and easy- yave nyama yekugocha!!!
He lies cold in his mortuary air-tight bag, tight not to continue to spread the lethal virus he succumbed to. We delight at the thought that even people who appear to be immortal are indeed mortal and...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:06hrs | 5789 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2165 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa aligned activist 'abducted' over July 31
BULAWAYO MDC Alliance youth activist Takunda Madzana was on Sunday night allegedly abducted by suspected State security agents who went on to quiz him on the planned July 31 protests.Governmen...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's propensity to fight dissent regrettable
THE Zanu-PF government's habit of crafting laws specifically designed to fight opponents rather than serve citizens and the nation for posterity is quite regrettable, and simply demonstrates the regim...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:31hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Bill gravely flawed, says Lawyers
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, which is government's response to global technological upheavals, has been described as gravely flawed and an illustration of the Zanu-PF administration's ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's opposition is weak, muddled'
AS ZIMBABWE'S political and economic crises continue to deepen, analysts have delivered a damning assessment of the country's opposition.Speaking during a virtual meeting that was organised by...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:22hrs | 1488 | by Staff reporter
Don't shoot the critic
IN order to solve our problems we have to first identify them, but we human beings have an inherent flaw of not being able to give ourselves an accurate self-evaluation more often than not, so who els...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:21hrs | 337 | by Black Edward
Mnangagwa snaps as July 31 beckons
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has lashed out at foreign powers after attempts to clamp down on organisers of the proposed July 31 protests were met with global condemnation.Mnangag...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:18hrs | 14727 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo raps Mnangagwa govt
Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo on Friday took another dig at the Zanu-PF government accusing it of failing to uphold the constitution thereby giving a wrong reflection of the essence of ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:08hrs | 10589 | by Staff reporter
Zim govt exposed, again, for its frivolous and unsubstantiated accusations of activists being Western-sponsored illegal regime c
What I love so much about the Zimbabwe regime's live televised press conferences, and parliamentary debates, is the way top government officials shamelessly stutter, struggle, and outrightly fail to a...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 262 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
America wants Biti, Sikhala to remove Chamisa?
Ever wondered why Nelson Chamisa chose to hand over reigns to the insipid WELSHMAN NCUBE as he grieved over loss of his dear mother? Or why the WELSH man got mired in TRUST FUNDS controversy soon afte...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 10:30hrs | 14574 | by George Charamba
United Nations calls out Mnangagwa
THE Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) has reacted angrily to increasing cases of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown. In a statement yesterday, UNHCR...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 6383 | by Staff reporter
Zinef condemns arrest of Chin'ono
Zinef has issued a statement castigating arresting of investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono as targeting at silencing the voice of reason in exposing deep-rooted corruption. Below is the ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 379 | by Stephen Jakes
UN warns Zimbabwe against using pandemic for clampdown
The UN's high commissioner for human rights on Friday warned Zimbabwe against using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for restricting freedoms, after an investigative journalist and an opposition ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 19:33hrs | 3820 | by AFP
Zimbabwe protests leaders flee their homes
MANY leading players in the planned month-end anti-government mass protests have fled their homes as raids on their residences by suspected State agents continue.This comes as authorities and ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 19:04hrs | 7350 | by Staff reporter
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