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ZANU PF Politicians Protecting Nyokayemabhunu?
The Nyokayemabhunu extradition saga is still waters that are hiding a deeper truth. The battle for Nyokayemabhunu's custody is now exposing the vulnerability of activists in exile, but also the danger...Published: 12 May 2025 at 19:43hrs | 2137 | by John Mbizvo
Zimbabwe grinds to a halt as citizens protest against Mnangagwa's rule
Zimbabweans across the country staged a nationwide stayaway protest today, March 31, in a bold demonstration against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, which they accuse of corruption, eco...Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 14:56hrs | 4310 | by Staff reporter
Will Zimbabweans answer Blessed Geza's call for protest?
As Zimbabwe approaches March 31, 2025, the nation faces a pivotal moment. Blessed Geza, a controversial war veteran and former ZANU-PF insider, has called for an uprising against President Emmerson Mn...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 17:31hrs | 2643 | by Nomalizwe Mbulu
Army fights back Mnangagwa
WHEN Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa immobilised the military from running elections as they illegally had done mainly since 2000 at the height of militarisation of politics in fear of bhora m...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:54hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe history needs truth, justice and reconciliation
ZIMBABWE'S history is replete with human rights violations dating as far back as the colonial period. Sadly, such violations have continued even after the country gained independence in 1980. It is, t...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by NTJWG
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF fears economic implosion
Zanu-PF has admitted that economic implosion is a big threat to its bid to retain power in next year's general elections.In its central committee (CC) report released last week, Zanu-PF said h...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets 'regime change' UK lawmaker
THE ruling Zanu-PF has castigated a vocal United Kingdom lawmaker Jonathan Oates (Lord Oates), a British Liberal Democrat politician and member of the House of Lords, accusing him of being undemocrati...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will never surrender power, says Obert Mpofu
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has vowed that it will never surrender power to opposition parties, saying it will "rule for a very long time".This was disclosed yesterday by Zanu-PF secretary for ad...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri withdraws appeal filed at Supreme Court
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri yesterday withdrew her appeal filed at the Supreme Court where she had denied accountability for the assault of a Harare resident, Kudzai Makunde during the 2019 fuel...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'AU, Sadc can rein in rogue Zimbabwe soldiers'
MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have called on Parliament to appoint persons from the African Union (AU) and the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) to head the Independent Complaints Commission ...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe soldiers must respect human rights'
THE National Transitional Justice Working Group Zimbabwe (NTJWG) has called on government to ensure that soldiers do not perpetuate human rights violations in the country, adding that those found on t...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No to Zanu-PF army, Mnangagwa told
THE military and other securocrats have been urged to desist from being used as Zanu-PF agents and serve national interests.This was said yesterday by opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Cha...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC says Mnangagwa, Mswati are twins
THE MDC Alliance yesterday described embattled Eswatini monarch King Mswati III and President Emmerson Mnangagwa as "twins" in terms of the deteriorating human rights situation as well as shrinkage of...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland activists 'under siege'
HUMAN rights activists have accused authorities of employing unorthodox means to hound government critics following reports that armed police raided the house of a leader of a Matabeleland-based milit...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
EU ready to work with Mnangagwa
THE European Union (EU) has joined the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) in re-affirming its readiness to offer more support to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's UK re-engagement bid comes apart
ZIMBABWE'S attempts to restore normal relations with Western powers could be in jeopardy after British prime minister Boris Johnson's administration slapped sanctions on four top government officials....Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 18:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK targets Mnangagwa's security men
Britain on Monday announced its first set of designations of individuals under its Zimbabwe sanctions regime since leaving the European Union.State security minister Owen Ncube, police chief G...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe to stay
Former United States Department of State assistant secretary for African Affairs, Todd Moss has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the US administration will notlift sanctions and accused him ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must fulfil promises for sanctions to go,' says sanctions denialist UK
THE BRITISH government has reiterated its readiness to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration if they fulfil their promises of reform that were made when the late former president...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 18:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police to pay $4,3m over 2019 fuel riots killing
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has been ordered to pay $4,3 million, about US$34 000 at the auction rate, to the family of a Kevin Tinashe Choto (22), a talented footballer who was shot dead in Chitunwg...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, yesterday made a last ditch call to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to call off today's demonstration that many fear could degenerate into total chaos instead calling for "peac...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demos counter-productive
Democracy has become one of the most widely adopted political systems world over and Zimbabwe's Government is also a product of this dominating political system.It comes in different forms and...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:16hrs | 6 | by Wallace K. Musakanyi
ZCTU urges Zanu-PF to respect people's rights
The ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has implored the Zanu-PF-led government to respect people's rights and stop using intimidation tactics and abductions ahead of next week's planned demonstr...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chasing wrong priorities, says US Senate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is misdirecting his energy lobbying western governments and blaming Zimbabwe's economic crisis on United sanctions, said Senator Jim Risch, the chairman of the United Stat...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 16:45hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Chamisa imposed Shona councillors causing tribal may ham in Bulawayo
On 15 September 2018, when more than 12 Shona councillors took office in the City of Bulawayo on the ticket of MDC Alliance MLO released a statement that partly read as follows: "hoi! to the people of...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's govt readies itself for possible mass protests
THERE has been an unusually heavy police presence in Harare's central business district since Tuesday as government readies itself for possible mass protests over the deteriorating economic situation....Published: 30 May 2019 at 10:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF not invincible in rural areas'
MUTASA Central MP Trevor Saruwaka (MDC Alliance) yesterday said the ruling Zanu PF was not invincible in the rural areas after his party's victory in Mutasa Rural District Council ward 10 by-election ...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa won't rush to re-engage the West'
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday claimed that more foreign countries were warming up to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, but said Zimbabwe would not rush to re-engage the...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 12:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anti Zanu-PF figures targeted for Zimbabwe 'political dialogue'
Former Botswana President Ian Seretse Khama and South Africa's former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela are among some of the names being considered to mediate talks between President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:36hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Rights Commission finalising probe into Zimbabwe army crackdown
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) will soon release a report detailing the brutal crackdown by the army in the second city, which left several injured, and maimed.The crackdown in th...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 18:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zenzele Ndebele freed after arrest at Mnangagwa event
Charges brought by prosecutors accusing journalist Zenzele Ndebele of being in possession of "offensive weapons" after a search of his vehicle turned up a spent cartridge and a used tear gas canister ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:15hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Piece-meal austerity without reforms a wild goose chase
AUSTERITY measures introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) will have a devastating effect on the economy and is at variance with Zanu-PF's elec...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the ZUPCO urban transportation model
The re-introduction of ZUPCO buses to ply urban routes in the aftermath of January fuel protests was a welcome move for most urban commuters. This is largely because commuter omnibus operators had tak...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 13:58hrs | 2 | by Victor Bhoroma
Chamisa's supporter turns up dead after January 24 kidnapping
The body of a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party supporter kidnapped days after fuel protests shut down the country in January has turned up at a mortuary in Chitungwiza, his devastated family...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:34hrs | | by ZimLive
Gukurahundi haunts Mnangagwa
More than 22 years after the Gukurahundi massacres ended, that sad episode in Zimbabwe's history continues to rear its ugly head with the deputy minister of Defence, Victor Matemadanda this week rushi...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 12:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF starts process to oust Mliswa's sister
ZANU-PF Mashonaland West provincial coordinating committee has commenced a process that will lead to the suspension of provincial minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka from her position in the party, the Daily...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe twists knife into Mnangagwa
Former president Robert Mugabe has denounced the use of lethal force by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to crush last month's protests, and warned that his successor faces the spectre of being overthrown...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 19:27hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
The people will one day demand Mnangagwa's corpse, Mugabe warns
Former President Robert Mugabe has warned his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa that civilians being killed by the military under his command will one day demand his death in the same way.Mugabe, c...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
On the run MDC MPs, not on the run, says MDC
THE MDC yesterday said its MPs Charlton Hwende (Kuwadzana East), Joanah Mamombe (Harare West), and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North), who have been absent from Parliament, are not on the run and had...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lawyer assaults MDC MP's lawyer in court
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer Tinomuda Chinyoka was arrested on Monday after a human rights lawyer who is representing several individuals detained during last month's fuel protests accused hi...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by ZimLive
Chamisa, Mnangagwa trade barbs
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying he is the chief culprit in causing violence against innocent Zimbabweans. Mnangagwa blamed the opposition for t...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA civic groups blast Sadc over Zimbabwe rights violations
SOUTH African civic society groups, under the banner of the Southern African People's Solidarity Network (SAPSN), have accused Sadc of glossing over the human rights' violations in Zimbabwe.SA...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa more brutal than Mugabe at his worst, says Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is "more rabid than Robert Mugabe at his worst."Chamisa spoke outside the Harare Magistrates Court where the MDC's Harare ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 18:19hrs | | by ZimLive
Tsvangirai was duped by Mnangagwa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa revealed yesterday that his revered late predecessor, Morgan Tsvangirai, had died a bitter man after he was allegedly duped by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his all...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU calls for more Zimbabwe sanctions
The European Parliament recommended the tightening of sanctions on senior Zimbabwe officials and institutions on Thursday citing increased repression by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government....Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by ZimLive
NPA declines to prosecute CIO, MI, police 'armed robbers'
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday declined to prosecute a team of police officers, Military Intelligence and Central Intelligence Organisation agents arrested for armed robbery....Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's response an insult to victims of State violence
THAT our very own dearest President has chosen to confess ignorance about the killings and gross human rights abuses perpetrated by security forces last month, in the wake of violent protests over a 1...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:38hrs | 2 | by Editorial - newsday
Zanu-PF hit by fresh wave of purges
A fresh wave of votes of no confidence against senior officials in Zanu-PF has consumed the ruling party.The Daily News reported that a number of Zanu-PF officials now face an uncertain future...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 10:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU tells Mnangagwa 'No reforms, no aid'
THE European Union (EU) has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the bloc would only consider extending aid to his government if the Harare administration met certain conditions that include respect...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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