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Paranoia and self-delusion
The longer dictatorships last the more paranoid they become as they resist the pressures of reality bearing ever more heavily upon them. They eventually come to the state of self-delusion shown in an ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 389 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa honoured by Harvard University in US
Top American institute of higher learning, Harvard University has honoured the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa for her philanthropic work and championing the fight against cancer.The University ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 913 | by Staff reporter
Magombeyi: Abduction mystery deepens
The mystery surrounding Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting president Dr Peter Magombeyi deepened yesterday following revelations that doctors are investigating the possibility that h...Published: 11 hrs ago | 6859 | by Staff reporter
'Prove abduction or go to jail'
HOME Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Ambassador Cain Mathema, has said Government will not hesitate to introduce new laws to regulate social media and warned individuals making false abduction ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1537 | by Staff reporter
Doctors vow to continue with industrial action
PUBLIC hospital doctors have vowed to continue with their industrial action despite the return of their abducted colleague, Peter Magombeyi, who went missing last Saturday before being dumped in Nyabi...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 17:35hrs | 2582 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges medical staff to resume work
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has addressed the nation this evening before his departure for New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.He expressed his dismay on the industrial act...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | 2020 | by Staff reporter
Sorry Dr Magombeyi, your story does not add up
While we do not want to rush ahead of police investigations on the alleged abduction of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting leader Dr Peter Magombeyi, we cannot resist the clear obser...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:00hrs | 2487 | by Editorial - The Herald
Zanu-PF is the 3rd force, says MDC
THE political rift between Zanu-PF and the main opposition MDC continues to widen amid counter allegations centred on the series of abductions, torture and assaults on human rights activists and trade...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:59hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted' and released Dr's saga rages on
Dr Peter Magombeyi, who was recently reported as abducted before surfacing on Thursday night, was yesterday attended to by a team of medical doctors from Government and his own doctors at a local hosp...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slams doctors' strike
ZANU-PF has condemned the ongoing strike by doctors and other health workers, saying their unilateral decision to withdraw their services and suspend all Health Services Bipartite Negotiating Panel me...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted' doctor to be interviewed by the police
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Cain Mathema said Dr Magombeyi had been examined by his own personal and Government doctors and would be interviewed by the police, in consultation with his...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns on fake abductions
Government has warned against the rising incidences of false abductions in the country and is contemplating measures to deal with the threat and punish those responsible. This was said by Pres...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
The rise of online traditional healers
Stories have been told about how people from various parts of the region used to frequent popular late traditional healer Sekuru Ndunge's homestead in Chipinge for various consultations. It is said th...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:52hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Govt, private doctors examine Magombeyi
Dr Peter Magombeyi, who was recently reported as abducted before he resurfaced on Thursday night, was yesterday attended to by a team of medical doctors from the Government and his own doctors at a lo...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:50hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shreds Magombeyi's abduction claims
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has come out guns blazing, tearing into shreds Harare doctor Peter Magombeyi's claims he was abducted by elements linked to his administration.Mnangagwa said on Fr...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
Prayer for Zimbabwe
People of Zimbabwe, the state of our nation is disturbing, discouraging, baffling and getting worse. The answer to our suffering is Jesus Christ. Our enemy is not President Mnangagwa or ZANU-PF, but t...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 20:48hrs | 1255 | by Sheila Magudu
Mnangagwa's 'witch-hunt' against opponents
On September 8, Zimbabwean union activist Dr Peter Magombeyi claimed he was receiving "death threats". Six days later he disappeared. His last WhatsApp message said: "I have been kidnapped by 3 men."...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 19:18hrs | 1455 | by AFP
Parliament to summon 'abducted' and released doctor
A parliamentary portfolio committee wants to call the leader of doctors' union Peter Magombeyi to explain what had happened to him during the days he went missing.Magombeyi went missing last w...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 19:13hrs | 2431 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'abducted' doctor probe gathers pace
The Harare medical doctor Peter Magombeyi, who was found last night in Nyabira after he, reportedly, went missing last Friday has been attended to by a team of private and Government medical doctors a...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 19:00hrs | 861 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy is palatial Blue Roof for himself and condemn povo to mud hovel - Sodom and Gomorrah of greed
-A lot has been said about Robert Gabriel Mugabe's legacy; some declared him a Pan-Africanist liberation hero per excellence, the founding father of Zimbabwe, etc. A picture speaks a thousand words an...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 18:42hrs | 1066 | by Wilbert Mukori
The abductor of Dr Peter Mugombeyi exposed
The story that unfolded in Harare seemed tailor-made to stare and brew some ugly scenes in Zimbabwe. During a plan for a labour dispute and a demonstration by medical doctors in Zimbabwe D...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 18:08hrs | 15340 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'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 17:25hrs | 3142 | by Staff Reporter
When the government chooses to be the third force
The reports by the government that there is a third force operating in Zimbabwe are just fat lies and can be dismissed with all costs.Doctors in Zimbabwe have been going on industrial action f...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 14:59hrs | 1434 | by Leonard Koni
'I remember being in a basement, being electrocuted', 'abducted' doctor speaks
The Zimbabwean doctor whose disappearance Saturday, sparked off a wave of doctors' strikes across the country, has reappeared, alive. However, the doctor's recollection of his disappearance, is vague....Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 13:01hrs | 10625 | by VOA
Doctors refuse to be capped by Mnangagwa
The 2019 class of graduating medical students at the University of Zimbabwe are to boycott their graduation ceremony at which they were due to be capped by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.This in...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 09:41hrs | 7977 | by Staff reporter
Does mindfulness training really work for preparing students to be in the moment?
Numerous thoughts take place within your mind at the same time. More so, when you are students. It is sometimes challenging to concentrate on the present moment and focus on the things that will benef...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 09:37hrs | 167 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa urged to bury Mugabe's brutal legacy
THE United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has urged government to bury the late former President Robert Mugabe's legacy of brutality and bring to book those responsible for human rights ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
UN probes Zimbabwe amid 'abductions'
UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Clement Voule this week flew into a storm as his visit coincided with the reported abduction of the acting presiden...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:30hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
'Missing' doctor found alive
HARARE medical doctor Peter Magombeyi who was reported missing on Sunday, was yesterday found at Nyabira, some 20km from the city centre. Dr Magombeyi's alleged abduction and disappearance spa...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1193 | by Staff reporter
UN special rapporteur in Zimbabwe, to meet Mnangagwa
United Nations Special Rapporteur, Mr Clément Voule is today expected to meet President Mnangagwa after being invited by Government to make an independent assessment of the country's achievements and...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:44hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Of human rights demands and regime change in ZImbabwe
Chapter 4 of Zimbabwe's Constitution adopted in 2013 outlines various rights which are supposed to be enjoyed by Zimbabwean citizens as they go about their business. A few bad apples among us are busy...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 162 | by Elijah Chihota
'Blanket ban on demos, unconstitutional'
A blanket ban on demonstrations violates citizens' rights to protest as provided for in the Constitution of Zimbabwe, a lawyer has said.Esau Mandipa, a legal practitioner and law lecturer at M...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 19:50hrs | 2394 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: MIssing Zimbabwe doctor found alive
A Bulawayo doctor has said he got contacted by someone saying they had seen missing Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association acting chairperson Dr Peter Mugobeyi who was abducted almost a week ago....Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 19:15hrs | 22819 | by Staff Reporter
#BringBackDrPeter
At 22:19 on the night of Saturday, 14 September, Dr Peter Magombeyi - acting president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) - sent a message to the ZHDA junior doctors WhatsApp gr...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 18:41hrs | 730 | by Kubatana
Doctors march to parliament
Over 200 doctors joined by other health workers marched from Parirenyatwa Hospital to parliament on Thursday to protest against the disappearance of the leader of their union.The march was all...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:52hrs | 3478 | by Reuters
High Court allows doctors' march
High Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri has granted an order allowing Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) to peacefully march from Parirenyatwa Hospital to within a radius of 20 metres from th...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:37hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
MDC conspiracy exposed
The recent spate of alleged abductions in Zimbabwe has sent social media into over drive with opposition leaders, namely MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa and his Spokesperson, Dr Nkululeko Sibanda laying th...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | 2508 | by Claver Nyuki
Magombeyi's abduction requires a firm 'Jamal Khashoggi-style' solidarity response
The recent abduction of the acting president the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) Dr. Peter Magombeyi should be a wake up call for all Zimbabweans to finally stand strongly together again...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 12:10hrs | 2078 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 09:15hrs | 4394 | by Knowledge Hakata
Chombo's health deteriorates, denied passport to seek medical attention in abroad
FORMER Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday said his health was deteriorating and needed urgent medical attention abroad, but a Harare magistrate again denied him his passport to enable him to t...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:14hrs | 5764 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa trials Mnangagwa in America
Angered by the continued harassment of its supporters, as well as the escalating abductions of government critics in the country, the main opposition MDC plans to hold mass protests against President ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:10hrs | 10041 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces protests in New York
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York next week, will face angry protests from Zimbabweans based in the US over the deteriorating rights situation in t...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1804 | by newzimbabwe
‘We'll be watching' – a reporter's fraught return to Zimbabwe after 16 years
The immigration officer lifted his stamp to put the visa into my passport and I heaved a sigh of relief. But then my passport was taken by a smiling woman who asked, "Have you been to Zimbabwe before?...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1301 | by Andrew Meldrum I Associated Press
Mnangagwa's Politburo, Youths League slam abductions
The ZANU-PF Politburo yesterday criticised the alleged kidnapping of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association acting president Dr Peter Magombeyi over the weekend, and called for security agencies to int...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:37hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers to join protesting doctors over abduction
MEMBERS of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) have resolved to join doctors who are protesting the abduction of a fellow m...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 20:42hrs | 7476 | by newzimbabwe
4 dead, 22 injured in Harare road accident
Four people were reportedly killed while 22 others were injured Wednesday afternoon when a Hino truck driver tried to overtake a commuter omnibus in Kambuzuma Suburb, Harare.Three died on spot...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 20:27hrs | 7979 | by Staff reporter
Of human rights demands and regime change
Chapter 4 of Zimbabwe's Constitution adopted in 2013 outlines various rights which are supposed to be enjoyed by Zimbabwean citizens as they go about their business. A few bad apples among us are busy...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:34hrs | 1132 | by Elijah Chihota
Doctors demonstrations continue
Health professionals have been boycotting work since Monday claiming they wanted Government to furnish them with the whereabouts of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) acting president Dr Pet...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 14:27hrs | 1708 | by Staff reporter
High Court outlaws Mnangagwa government's illegal tax
In a landmark case argued by MDC Vice President Hon. Tendai Biti, the High Court today outlawed government's two per cent tax on despondent Zimbabweans in a move that vindicated the MDC position that ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 12:35hrs | 2809 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Riot police block doctors from marching to Parliament, standoff ensues
Doctors protesting the abduction of a union leader have been met by a line of police in Harare as fears grow about government repression.The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association says its pres...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:34hrs | 2285 | by Associated Press
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