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Mnangagwa's rise, fall from grace
ON the afternoon of November 22 2017, a day after a cornered former president Robert Mugabe resigned under pressure from the military - which was holding his family captive while a parliamentary proce...Published: 6 hrs ago | 3252 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe leadership fight spills to Supreme Court
THE messy tug-of-war between MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his MDCT nemesis Thokozani Khupe has taken a new twist after it emerged the two will once again square off in the Supreme Court over...Published: 6 hrs ago | 3893 | by Staff reporter
ZCC pursues multi-stakeholder dialogue process
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) is persisting with its efforts to initiate a national dialogue process, meant to address the country's intractable political and economic crisis.It also ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 690 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime buckles under the tide of #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
THE growing momentum of the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign on microblogging site Twitter and other social media applications against President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s government is indicative...Published: 6 hrs ago | 819 | by Staff reporter
CSOs ratchet pressure on Mnangagwa
PRESSURE continues to mount on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, with civic society organisations (CSOs) in the region yesterday imploring the African Union (AU) and the Southern Africa Development Commun...Published: 6 hrs ago | 466 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not on Sadc agenda
Zimbabwe is not on the agenda of the Sadc summit to be held next Monday, neither is it up for discussion at the African Union (AU), since there is no crisis to warrant its placement on anyone's agenda...Published: 7 hrs ago | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zim court imposes sanctions on Chin'ono, gags media from covering prison ordeal
HARARE Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Wednesday barred media practitioners and the public from covering and following proceedings in a Zimbabwean courtroom in the matter in which freelance journalist Hopew...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1606 | by Stephen Jakes
'Have identified problems, will now revive health service' promised Chiwenga - No: 1 problem remains, Zanu PF
"Things will never be the same again. We are restructuring and reforming our health delivery system. We want to rebuild the structures from village to referral level. Things will never be the same aga...Published: 16 hrs ago | 6517 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'SA leaders, including Mandela, toothless to solve Zimbabwe crisis' - Not true, especially of the big man
"So, why is it that Vorster could bring about real change, twisting Smith's arm to engage in negotiations with his liberation movement opponents that eventually led to a settlement and a transition to...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1298 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe and the Founders Sydrome (Foundiritis)
Let me introduce this article as an opinion piece by a pedestrian activist. I write from personal experience not other peoples lenses.l have been in the political field for a while now and with Covid1...Published: 16 hrs ago | 686 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Decolonisation of Zimbabweans
Dear fellow Zimbabweans we need to remove this yoke of bondage and free our minds, spirit and bodies from this Zanu-PF and its government and their colonised leaders' minds that still continue to suff...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1126 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
We must Occupy the Decision making tables @40!
The truth has to be said when there is nothing much left to life to protect. Life is unbearably difficult for many of us and l have personally felt the de...Published: 18 hrs ago | 871 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
'No crisis in Zimbabwe which needs external intervention'
THESE has been a number of assertions, claims and even misconceptions in the media space on a number of very topical issues. The government has since felt duty-bound to put the record straight....Published: 19 hrs ago | 1122 | by Statement by Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa:
SA envoys had 'no obligation' to meet anyone other than Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa rebuffed a South African attempt to help end his nation's economic and political crisis, and downplayed the problems it's facing, two people familiar with the matter said....Published: 19 hrs ago | 677 | by Bloomberg
Khupe to replace 15 MPs
MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe will tomorrow replace 15 proportional representation MPs as well as senators she recalled from Parliament recently for siding with her rival, Nelson Chamisa's fa...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3710 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa advised 'go to Harare and meet opposition' after envoys forced to eat humble pie - even worse will follow
"The decision by the Zimbabwean government to deny President Cyril Ramphosa's envoys an opportunity to meet with opposition leaders was not only disrespectful to the office of the African Union Chairp...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1947 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Abusive rogue regimes that violate international law shouldn't be allowed to hide behind 'protocol' and 'diplomacy'
When I was growing up, whenever an abusive husband battered his wife, the best she could do was either, keep quiet and accept her fate (even blaming herself as having 'deserved' the brutality as punis...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1110 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
An MDC govt around 2025
WHILE the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating.On the other hand, the centreleft MDC's democratic project has been bas...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:24hrs | 3674 | by Robert Sigauke
Zimbabwe hopes fade under Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE has failed to end the culture of human rights abuses witnessed under its former leader Robert Mugabe, while the optimism generated by the election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has faded, a...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Economic Freedom Fighters plots Beitbridge border blockade
OPPOSITION party Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters (ZEFF) has revealed plans to mobilise its followers to blockade the Beitbridge Border Post on August 31 to protest against human rights violations b...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1630 | by Staff reporter
Botswana opposition leader chides Zanu-PF
BOTSWANA opposition leader, Dumelang Saleshando has challenged churches and civic society organisations in the neighbouring country to add their voice against human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.S...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe at crossroads - The new Zimbabwe we crave for
An attempt to build one nationalist liberation movement failed in the 1960s when most of the nationalists of Shona extraction split from Zapu to form a pro-Shona Zanu which was largely mobilised...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:41hrs | 1882 | by Hon Lovemore Moyo
Ramaphosa advised 'go to Harare and meet opposition' after envoys forced to eat humble pie - even worse will follow
"The decision by the Zimbabwean government to deny President Cyril Ramphosa's envoys an opportunity to meet with opposition leaders was not only disrespectful to the office of the African Union Chairp...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:32hrs | 6251 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Disappointment of Ramaphosa's envoys and the Zimbabwean problem
Exciting it was when announced. Successful mission. Disappointing it was when it ended. This is a precise description of the South African President Ramaphosa appointed team of envoys and ...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2997 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Partnerships in lies, historical distortions and corruption now an ANC/ZanuPF game
I remember vividly in one of the last Zapu rallies held at White City Stadium in 1982 the ex Zipra choir singing, "Siyamkhalel`uMandela omunye wezinkhokeli zase Africa ezavalelwayo. Ngoba silobudlelwa...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:14hrs | 705 | by Mkhululi Zulu
Mnanaggwa urged to amend laws
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu PF government has been urged to amend laws and enshrine the principles in the African Charter on Democracy and Governance (ACDEG) in order to improve issues of huma...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa betrayed as Biti throws his name for presidency 2023
The year 2020 has not been a good year for Nelson Chamisa the leader of a heavily fractured MDC A as he presides over a breaking up party. Nelson Chamisa had rode on the lightning of firm and glory as...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 00:32hrs | 16213 | by Masimba Mavaza
Ramaphosa fights to end Zimbabwe's political crisis
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's special envoys arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday and immediately went to work - meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other key stakeholders in the country.Interesti...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:57hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
SA's Mbeki once claimed there was no crisis in Zimbabwe - then hundreds of people were butchered... Ramaphosa needs to show real
Saturday 12 April 2008, will forever be the day that most Zimbabweans would wish had never happened, and will forever be embedded in their minds as the day that a prominent and respectable statesman h...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 20:53hrs | 806 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'No human rights violations in Zimbabwe'
Permanent Secretary of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana, has rubbished claims that there are human rights violations in the southern African country."There are no...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 20:52hrs | 552 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Persons with disabilities concerned about Zimbabwe human rights violations
Zimbabweans had yet another opportunity to define their destiny as a collective when they exercised their constitutional right to choose a leader of their choice. The July 2018 elections had new conte...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 11:35hrs | 750 | by Tsepang Nare and Abel Mavura
Ian Khama calls on Zimbabweans to make personal sacrifices
Former Botswana President Seretse Ian Khama called on Zimbabweans to make personal sacrifices to free themselves from the repressive Zanu-PF-led government.Speaking on Botswana's Duma FM, Kham...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:27hrs | 5818 | by Staff reporter
SA envoys shows Chamisa the middle finger
SPECIAL envoys appointed by African Union chairperson, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to probe reports of gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe jetted out of the country yesterday after a...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:27hrs | 7825 | by Staff reporter
Zec risks flouting the law over recalled MPs
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has been warned that it risks flouting the law if it lets the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T fill the gazetted 15 proportional representation (party list) seats that were ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 2319 | by Staff reporter
ZEC declares 15 formerly MDC Alliance seats vacant
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has declared 15 seats in the National Assembly and Senate vacant after the MDC-T recalled the legislators. In a gazetted notice recently, ZEC chairperso...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
'I have consolidated democracy and rule of law' insist Mnangagwa - dog claiming to put out furnace fire with its puny fart
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" is a Shona adage highlighting the disparity between what one says they can do and actually doing it. "What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would nev...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 05:58hrs | 3480 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Magufuli bans Tanzania's media outlets from broadcasting foreign content
Tanzanian government has officially banned all local media outlets from broadcasting foreign content without government permission.As crackdown on free press and dissident voices intensifies i...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 20:46hrs | 7166 | by Staff reporter
South Africa is in no position to help Zimbabwe
This week President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete and former Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi as special envoys to Zimbabwe. Their reported br...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 1311 | by Tafi Mhaka
African Union Chairperson talks tough on Zimbabwe human rights abuses
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Moussa Faki Mahamat says the African Union is following closely the political developments in Zimbabwe as the country mounts concerted efforts in...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:39hrs | 2555 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to cooperate with SA's envoys
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa conferred with President Emmerson Mnangagwa before he appointed his two special envoys to Zimbabwe last week - amid allegations of human rights violations in the country - it...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 2132 | by Staff reporter
An MDC Government Around 2025
Whilst the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating. On the other hand, the centre-left MDC's democratic project has been bashed a...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:46hrs | 1458 | by Robert Sigauke
People must free themselves from ZANU-PF chains
To say our situation in Zimbabwe is not so different from the one Guatemala experienced is very wrong and lacks factual points.The Zimbabwean government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa mus...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:44hrs | 541 | by Leonard Koni
Can Ramaphosa force Mnangagwa to step down; that is all that real matter?
In life, one must always make a honest assessment of what one can and cannot do. And proceed accordingly. There is logic in doing otherwise especial when that means repeating the same foolish mistake ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:39hrs | 556 | by Wilbert Mukori
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 | 4867 | 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 | 458 | by Staff reporter
Biti lashes Khupe
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has called on the rival MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe to stick to its name which it used to contest the 2018 election and stop attempts to bully the former's par...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:47hrs | 1890 | by newzimbabwe
Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe intervention gets off to rocky start
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's cautious intervention in the current Zimbabwean crisis has got off to a rocky start, with the opposition warning yesterday that they will not be railroaded to accept any de...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 20:37hrs | 12772 | by Staff reporter
Bloodbath looming in ZANU PF Mash Central as structures square off
Embattled ZANU PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman Kazembe Raymond Kazembe has embarked on a systematic rigging campaign ahead of the ZANU PF District Coordinating Committee DCC elections for M...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 17:29hrs | 7412 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu PF are obsessed with power retention, 'Chinhu chedu!' ranted Biti - hypocrite's own actions speak louder than ranting
Tendai Biti and his fellow MDC leaders are hypocrites the same Lord Jesus warned against. "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So you must obey them and do everything...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 17:21hrs | 3262 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga's shock move: Details emerge
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga opted to take over the Health and Child Care portfolio following differences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the sacked Obadiah Moyo's successor, it has emer...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 33417 | by Staff reporter
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