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So, when will the UN hold a Summit on democracy and human rights?
As world leaders make their way back to their respective countries after the COP29 Climate Change Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, one can't help but ask: when will the United Nations (UN) hold a summit de...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 20:22hrs | 307 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe may suffer an internet shutdown
ZIMBABWE may suffer an internet shutdown in the 2023 general election, just like Uganda and Zambia in 2021. In 2019, Freedom House rated Zimbabwe as a "not free" country with a 28% global freedom scor...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Phillip Anjorin
Zimbabwe not ready for free, fair elections
FOR decades after independence, Zimbabwe seems to have been disillusioned by the electoral system.Democracy has been elusive. Elections have been marred by violence. Every past election has be...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 6 | by Innocent Mpoki
'Mnangagwa worse than Mugabe'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has a worse track record than the late former president Robert Mugabe in stifling civic space ahead of polls, a comparison by a human rights watchdog, the Zim...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 19:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe human rights situation still dire'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration of gross human rights abuses, with human rights defenders, activists and journalists b...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hope for reformed, democratic Zimbabwe under Mnangagwa fading
THE high levels of intolerance witnessed in most parts of the country in the run-up to last week's by-elections were enough proof that Zimbabwe is still far from being a mature democracy.If he...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe among world's 56 authoritarian States'
ZIMBABWE has been adjudged as one of the 56 countries across the globe whose citizens are increasingly living under authoritarian leadership, the latest 2022 Freedom House report has revealed....Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 15:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Warmongers will never preach peace
Do you still remember what the Bishop has been prophesying from the beginning?He hopes you still do!We will definitely inherit a different world order when the coronavirus finally runs...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Govt curtails internet freedom
THE Zimbabwean government has maintained a tight grip on internet control, curtailing the basic rights to freedom of expression and information, a report has revealed.According to the Freedom ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki: The Zimbabwe regime change agenda
SEPTEMBER 2008 became a watershed date in Zimbabwe's post-independence political history. Zanu-PF signed a political agreement, Global Political Agreement (GPA) with the opposition MDCs to protect its...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:20hrs | 3 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Covid 19, a blessing in disguise for despots and strongmen
The coming of a pandemic which Donald Trump, the former President of United States of America , referred to as 'Chinese Disease' has caused panic ar...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 20:14hrs | 2 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mnangagwa has not made the necessary political and economic reforms, says Biden
ONLY genuine national dialogue that includes the opposition and other key stakeholders in the country can energise Zimbabwe's faltering re-engagement efforts with Western powers, political analysts sa...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe downgraded from 'partly free' to 'not free'
Zimbabwe has been downgraded from "partly free" to "not free" over the intensifying persecution of opposition figures and rights activists, according to the 2021 Freedom House report on civil libertie...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden renewed draconic sanctions against Zimbabwe
RE-ENGAGEMENT attempts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration went up in smoke on Wednesday after United States President Joe Biden renewed sanctions against the southern African nation over...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono caught pens downs
Media freedom has been abused around the world over the past decade. In some of the most influential democracies in the world, populist journalists have overseen concerted attempts to effect undemocra...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 17:06hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Questions over Amnesty fraud unanswered
What is going on at Amnesty International? First, two staff members killed themselves last year. Then an internal review ordered by Amnesty secretary-general Kumi Naidoo revealed a "toxic" wor...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by International Policy Digest.
Mugabe 'not feeling well', in Singapore hospital
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is taking good care of his ailing predecessor, Robert Mugabe, who is currently in Singapore for treatment."He has not been feeling well. At the ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 20:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Unrepentant Mugabe at it again
On Sunday morning, 24 February 2019, the world woke up to the most unpalatable and distasteful utterances from former president, Robert Mugabe. While celebrating his 95th birthday at his Blue Roof Man...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa mirrors Mugabe - report
ZIMBABWE'S new dispensation mirrors the previous regime as President Emmerson Mnangagwa - who won a disputed election last year - fails to walk the talk on democratic reforms, the latest annual Freedo...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 21:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Married woman has 'sex' with lover in front of son (6)
A MARRIED woman from Bulawayo allegedly engages in extra-marital sex with her boyfriend in the presence of her six-year-old son. An official at Childline Zimbabwe, who declined to be named, ye...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
'How G40's power-grab plan collapsed'
ZANU-PF'S deposed generation 40 (G40) faction was "within touching distance" of snatching the party's presidency amid revelations that its vile plan included the capture of several strategic instituti...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 10:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
The folly of MDC's mission of shame
The latest excursion to the West by the MDC, donning the new coat of "Alliance", is nothing more than the opposition returning to its treacherous roots. The MDC, with the help of the United States (US...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa to reverse AIPPA and POSA
Newly-appointed Information Minister Christopher Mutsvangwa, has assured Zimbabwe's journalists that he will be bringing a new approach to their work, including revising controversial laws such as the...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Do we celebrate International Day of Democracy in Zimbabwe?
Friday 15th September 2017 is International Day of Democracy whereby we should be found promoting the need to strengthen democratic means world-wide including Zimbabwe. This would promote peace and st...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Pythias Makonese
Afrobarometer report timely warning
ZIMBABWE'S opposition parties, which are in the process of forming a grand coalition to mount a united challenge against President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party in the 2018 elections, cannot aff...Published: 19 May 2017 at 15:50hrs | | by Cyril Zenda
Men nabbed for stealing coal from NRZ
Three Makokoba residents are in trouble after they for stealing coal worth $280 from the National Railways of Zimbabwe.The three Lovemore Ndlovu (17), Prince Moyo (19) and Wellington Sibanda (...Published: 03 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gukurahundi: The Past Speaking to the Present - From the binoculars of a stranger.
It was the famous British historian, E.H. Carr, who defines history as ‘a continuous interaction between the historian and his facts, an ending dialogue between the present and the past'. Therefore,...Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 12:54hrs | | by Nadir A. Nasidi
Zimbabwe proposes tighter controls over Social Media
In response to plans by the government of Zimbabwe to introduce legislation to tightly restrict access to social media and monitor private communications, with stiff criminal penalties for violato...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 10:40hrs | | by Freedom House.
Zimbabwe outstrips UK, France in internet freedom - report
ZIMBABWEANS are enjoying considerable freedom of the Internet, although a United States conservative think tank that has always been anti-Government has identified MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai as...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Lincoln Towindo
Zim Asset is failing
"In pursuit of a new trajectory of accelerated economic growth and wealth creation, my government has formulated a new plan known as the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformati...Published: 05 Jul 2015 at 08:08hrs | | by Tendai Kwari @tendaikwari
Vultures circling Robert Mugabe
Vice-presidential vultures are circling Robert Mugabe. First, his sacked VP Joice Mujuru formed a rival party to challenge the Zimbabwean leader. Now, his other VPs are said to be campaigning to take ...Published: 29 Jun 2015 at 20:53hrs | | by independent
Botswana sliding into a monocracy that is punishing the media
Africa's model democracy is sliding into a monocracy that is punishing the media a ...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 14:47hrs | 3 | by Joel Konopo
Whither Zimbabwe opposition parties
THE Zimbabwean economy is going through structural regression, with rapid de-industrialisation, burgeoning external debt, an over 85% formal unemployment rate and nominal growth due to declining inves...Published: 01 May 2015 at 19:09hrs | | by Nicole Beardsworth
'Zapu wanted to kill me,' says Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made sensational claims that a cabal of Zapu officials led by ex-intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa decided to kill him in Zambia in 1962 after falsely accusin...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 10:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Freedom House Report Needs Sober Reflection (2012)
August 26, 2012To: The Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Hon Morgan TsvangiraiCc: ...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Unemployed People's Association (ZUPA)
Who Killed Gomolemo Motswaledi?
The Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) President and Umbrella for Democratic Change deputy President died on Wednesday morning outside Pitsane village in a car accident that his party comrade...Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 07:50hrs | 104 | by The Voice Newspaper (Botswana)
Why Tsvangirai's MDC-T lost the 2013 elections
Ever since the heavy thumping of the MDC-T in the July 2013 harmonised elections, its leaders have cried foul and came up with at times, hugely creative and dramatic reasons on why the party lost...Published: 09 Apr 2014 at 16:12hrs | 6 | by Peacemaker Zano
Biti faction to boycott MDC-T congress
RIVAL factions in the MDC-T drifted further apart this week as it emerged that the group led by Secretary-General Tendai Biti was contemplating boycotting congress in protest over the purging of its ...Published: 21 Mar 2014 at 16:42hrs | 5 | by Owena Gagare
'Tsvangirai's complacency was due to hallucinations of Baba Jukwa'
How the MDC-T got doomedIt is quite clear that MDC-T is still in a state of shock and denial over its shattering loss in the July 31 2013 harmonised elections. This forms the background to their e...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by Hezvoka!
Zim in 'dire state' under Mugabe says Tsvangirai
SIX months after Robert Mugabe coasted to victory in Zimbabwe's hotly disputed July presidential election, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai used a holiday reference to describe the policies of hi...Published: 17 Jan 2014 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Unpacking Zanu-PF's disputed election victory
No one who is anybody in Zimbabwe politics can have been totally surprised by the outcome of the elections of July 31 2013. For about two years prior to the general elections, reputable pollsters like...Published: 11 Nov 2013 at 15:28hrs | 3 | by Ambassador Simbi Mubako
Zimbabwe needs our support says Mbeki
President Robert Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980, has certainly kept a ruthless hold on Zimbabwe. The implementation of his land reform programme, which sought to redress an odious s...Published: 10 Nov 2013 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
List of 22 Zimbabweans awarded scholarships to study at UK and SA varsities
Canon Collins Trust released its list of scholars who have been awarded scholarships to study at UK and SA universities for the academic year 2013. The Canon Collins Trust offers scholarships for stu...Published: 30 Aug 2013 at 11:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
US based NGO wants Sadc to say Zimbabwe elections were not free and fair
A United States-based non-governmental organisation has called upon member states of Sadc to revise their preliminary statements and acknowledge flaws in Zimbabwe's election process.In a press...Published: 08 Aug 2013 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex scandals cloud Tsvangirai's campaign
ZTV, Zimbabwe's sole television station, state-owned and tightly controlled by President Robert Mugabe, is targeting the private life of his arch rival Morgan Tsvangirai with "attack adsâ€Â...Published: 22 Jul 2013 at 05:38hrs | | by Reuters
When the media, diplomacy make midgets taller
I suppose they are still being apprenticed by President Mugabe. Otherwise how else do you explain an astonishing picture where the leader of a rival party, his estranged secretary general and his unsu...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
US can go to hell, says Zanu-PF
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF has dismissed calls by the United States (US) to allow international observers to monitor the forthcoming harmonised elections, saying the superpower "can go to hell"...Published: 10 Jun 2013 at 13:40hrs | | by Fungai Kwaramba
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