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The Power of Nonviolent Resistance in Zimbabwe
No to third term. Zimbabwe's political landscape has long been dominated by fear and violence. For decades, the ruling party, ZANU-PF, has maintained its grip on power by instilling fear through a wel...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 16:09hrs | 364 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe's crisis of an ineffective opposition and messiah politics
Late on Saturday night, I was sitting in a hotel room in Guangzhou, China, streaming the announcement of the results of the presidential race in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans went to the polls on the 23rd of ...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 15:05hrs | 5 | by Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi
Evan Mawarire condemns Zimbabwe's Patriot Bill
ZIMBABWEAN activist and #ThisFlag movement founder Evan Mawarire has condemned the Criminal Law Code Amendment Bill (Patriot Bill) describing it as 'draconian' after it sailed through Parliament, Wedn...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The tragedy of Zimbabwe
Main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere last week spoke at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy - a major United Nations conference that shines a sp...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Fadzayi Mahere
Why the Zimbabwean Government is broken: The inherent flaws of democracy
Welcome to the land of opportunity, or rather, Zimbabwe. This country, located in southern Africa, is blessed with a diverse range of natural resources, cultural traditions, and historical heritage. H...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Mnangagwa's spin doctors rattled by Al Jazeera exposé
THE Al Jazeera documentary which exposed how people close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa are involved in gold smuggling and money laundering has torched a storm, with citizens openly expressing anger...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC urged to employ 'guerilla' tactics
Prominent civic leader and trade unionist Peter Mutasa has urged Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to adopt underground campaign methods in the wake of a state crackdown coupled with a systematic ba...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Green card holer Mawarire denounces Mnangagwa's record
ZIMBABWEAN pastor and international human rights activist Evan Mawarire had a meeting with United States secretary of State Anthony J Blinken on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr Gambakwe, Nomathemba wants to know where Albert Matapo is?
Dear Mr Gambakwe,I hope I find you well Mr. Gambakwe and that you are recovering from the Covid 19 virus that nearly took your life. We thank your ancestors for refusing to let you in so early...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 22:13hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Suffering Zimbabweans not alone: UN Watch
UNITED Nations Watch executive director Hillel Neue yesterday assured Zimbabweans that they were not alone in their suffering amid human rights abuses perpetrated on political activists and civilians ...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Writing my suicide note: Dambudzo Mnangagwa is inside us!
It is suicidal to critique the Mthwakazi parties in as much as to condemn infiltration by the Mnangagwa CIOs in Matabeleland. What I read in New Zimbabwe.com causes concern to those who are carefully ...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 08:51hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Where is Comrade Albert Matapo?
We always realize extremely late that we the general populace is taken for a ride by people without any conscience, unscrupulous chancers in politics who masquerade as genuine revolutionaries and yet ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
High Court reverses Mawarire's lawsuit loss
HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has rescinded a default judgment entered against #ThisFlag campaign leader and clergyman, Evan Mawarire, who had lost his $65 000 damages claim against the Zimba...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
#ThisFlag: Pastor Evan Mawarire duped us into his Mnangagwa project: Man of God please do not play around with our pain!
When Pastor Mawarire sparked life in our desperation for change in Zimbabwe, we were excited and excitable at the same time. The nation supported and believed in Mawarire in the sense of his hold word...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 21:19hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Mnangagwa presides over gross abuse of human rights'
During his first year as President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa has presided over a systematic and brutal crackdown on human rights, including the violent suppression of protests and a witch-hunt a...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 18:53hrs | | by Agencies
Tension grows as government clamps down on dissent
Teargas and truncheons returned to Zimbabwe's cities in recent days, as protesters took to the streets to express their discontent at the deteriorating economy.Protests began on August 16 in H...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mawarire's freedom bid dismissed
A Harare magistrate has dismissed an application for refusal of further remand by political activist, Pastor Evan Mawarire, trade unionists Peter Mutasa and Japhet Moyo who are facing charges of alleg...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 18:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe democratic space has shrunk
IT is indisputable that the little democratic space that existed during ex-President Robert Mugabe's tyrannical era has now even shrunk further.I write this article with a bleeding heart, as s...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
'Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF abusing the law to punish rivals'
Former cabinet minister and renowned lawyer David Coltart says the Zanu-PF led government disrespects the rule of law and has continuously used it as a weapon against its perceived enemies and not an ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt blocks abuses probe team
AT a time President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration says it is on a drive to re-engage the international community, it has emerged that the government is blocking an International Labour Organisat...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
US demands constitutionalism
United States Ambassador Brian Nichols has called on the Zimbabwean government to uphold the rights civil society as he met Pastor Evan Mawarire at the ES Embassy in Harare on Tuesday. ...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Evan Mawarire, Mutasa seek removal from remand
#ThisFlag founder and cleric Evan Mawarire and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union secretary-general Peter Mutasa, will file notices to apply for refusal of remand on the next remand date if the Stat...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must wake up before it is too late
Reading through the biography of Chris Hani, one can't help but notice the frustration that he went through during his days in exile in Zambia where the African National Congress (ANC) was preparing t...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:32hrs | | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda
Open letter to Tajamuka leaders
Attention: Promise Mukwananzi and your entire mercenary leagueYour pseudo campaign for an indefinite stayaway has dismally failed. The failure has erase...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:52hrs | 18 | by Erasmus Pongo
Applying lipstick on a pig will not work Mnangagwa
EACH American election cycle produces a phrase or word that either becomes controversial or defines the election.In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama found himself in the eye of a storm when he ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mawarire's freedom bid flops
THREE treason suspects - MDC MP Joana Mamombe, cleric Evan Mawarire and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) leader Peter Mutasa - had their separate applications for removal from remand dismissed ...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPA in Mawarire treason trial mistake
The National Prosecution Authority (NPA) was embarrassed after it erroneously assigned the case of cleric Evan Mawarire and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union president Peter Mutasa - who are being char...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe treason trials raise fears of relapse to Mugabe years
Twenty people have been charged with treason since the beginning of the year, prompting critics to draw parallels between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule with that of his predecessor Robert Mugabe...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
An abiding tortoise of White House goons
Politics, as an existential science, can be characteristically hot, heavy and heady.In its very extreme form, politics can be similar to religious fundamentalism, where it becomes a matter of ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
The ZCTU should choose between labour and politics
A few days before the violent and ruinous protests of 14 to 16 January this year in the main cities of Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president, Peter Mutasa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 13:13hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mawarire trial date set
Harare magistrate Mrs Babra Mateko on Thursday announced that the trial of #ThisFlag leader Evan Mawarire, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Gift Mutasa and secretary-general Ja...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tajamuka leader speaks on Gono Presidency
Tajamuka Spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi has warned Vice President Constantino Chiwenga that the people of Zimbabwe will resist him if he tries to impose former Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono as Pre...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 14:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies Analysis: Death of Jesus and the Brandon theory
Question: Critically analyse the Brandon theory on the causes of the death of Jesus.This paper seeks to analyze Brandon thesis on the cause of the death...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 11:06hrs | 12 | by Brian Maregedze
#Tajamuka wants Mnangagwa to give blanket amnesty to its members
Radical pressure group Tajamuka/Sesijikile has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to issue a blanket amnesty on its members who are currently in self-imposed exile after fleeing threa...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 13:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
225 Bulawayo protesters convicted
AT least 375 people - predominantly opposition activists, who participated in the January protests that resulted in 17 deaths, have been convicted with Bulawayo providing the bulk of the convictions....Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tajamuka leaders hired by army to demonstrate?
Promise Mkwananzi and other Tajamuka leaders were paid by the Zimbabwe National Army to engage in violent demonstrations in an effort to fight former President Robert Mugabe's rule National Patriotic ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Top USA University honours Evan Mawarire
#ThisFlag leader Pastor Evan Mawarire has been admitted into the 18th cohort of Yale World Fellows Program.The World Fellows program is Yale University's signature global leadership developmen...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZCTU bosses' freedom bid quashed
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for refusal of remand filed by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) president Peter Mtasa, secretary-general Japhet Moyo and #ThisFlag lea...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mawarire freedom bid flops again
#THIS Flag Movement leader Evan Mawarire on Tuesday failed in his bid for freedom after his application for refusal of further remand was thrown out.Mawarire is being charged with subversion, ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 20:13hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa to spy on NGOs bank accounts
GOVERNMENT has announced it will start spying on civil society organisations' bank accounts, in what it claims is aimed at plugging loopholes and stop the financing terrorism in the country.Pr...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:05hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | | by Human Rights Watch
Mnangagwa regime's weapon of choice against dissent
Joshua Nkomo, Morgan Tsvangirai, Dumiso Dabengwa, Lookout Masuku, Abel Muzorewa, Tendai Biti, Renson Gasela and Ndabaningi Sithole all have something in common.The firebrand politicians challe...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Desmond Chingarande
Chamisa ally acquitted
Kuwadzana MP Charlton Hwende (MDC), charged with treason this week, was freed on $3,000 bail on Friday – but a High Court judge ordered that he should stay away from social media as part of his bail...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
UK takes interest in MDC Alliance court cases
THE United Kingdom says it is following closely how the Zimbabwean government is handling the various cases of opposition legislators and pro-democracy defenders arrested and charged for participating...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joanna Madamombe breaks a world record - RG Mugabe 3 VS ED Mnangagwa 5
The former President Robert Mugabe charged three high profile politicians for treason during his more than 30 years in power. The three were Joshua Nkomo, Ndabanigi Sithole and Morgan Tsvangirai. In j...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Basic freedoms diminish under Mnangagwa reign
IDI Amin Dada Oumee (1923-2003), the late Ugandan dictator whose seven-year iron-fist rule gained notoriety for its sheer buffonery, brutality and repression, is infamous for coining the saying: "Ther...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahiya charged for trying to topple Mnangagwa's govt
Activist Rashid Mahiya has been arrested and charged with subversion following violent anti-government protests that rocked the country last month, his lawyer said on Tuesday.Mahiya is directo...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by AFP
Evan Mawarire a ZANU PF agent?
#ThisFlag Founder Pastor Evan Mawarire opposed former President Robert Mugabe after being asked by the Zimbabwe National Army, National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has alleged. ...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mawarire, Mutasa dockets merged
A HARARE court yesterday merged dockets of #ThisFlag founder Evan Mawarire, and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union secretary-general Peter Mutasa, who are both accused of attempting to subvert a constit...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire wants treason charges tossed
ACTIVIST cleric Evan Mawarire ramped up pressure on prosecutors Wednesday after his treason trial failed to take off.Through his lawyer, the cleric gave the State a notice to challenge further...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by newzimbabwe
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