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Protest against neocolonial regime held in Paris
This Monday, Paris was the scene of a significant citizen mobilization, with more than 100 posters pasted in emblematic places of the capital. Strong messages denouncing neocolonialism were placed in ...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 10:46hrs | 273 | by Staff Reporter
Church group protests against gays and lesbians in Zimbabwe
On Sunday, a group of protesters claiming to represent various churches vandalized the perimeter wall outside the offices of the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) in Harare. ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 17:55hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
TTI loses case in court against Bulawayo man
A Bulawayo resident has emerged victorious in a court case against Tendy Three Investments (TTI) parking solutions, who had clamped his vehicle without legal grounds.On July 14th, Mr. Farai Mu...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'One year under arbitrary detention in my oppressor's prison'
Chikurubi Maximum Security PrisonChikurubi FarmHarareTo My DEAR Zimbabweans,Regional and Worldwide FriendsWhere ever they may be found14 June 2023DEAR Z...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:24hrs | 4 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
Ex-council building inspector trial postponed
A HARARE court has moved to July 20 the trial date of council's former chief building inspector Roy Nyabvure, who is being charged with criminal abuse of duty.The court said the docket was not...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Graffiti protest' Zinasu activists' bail bid rejected
Four Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) activists, currently detained for allegedly spraying graffiti on government buildings, had their bail application turned down Tuesday by Harare magistrat...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jail nightmare for 'graffiti painting' UZ students
Four University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students who were arrested last week charged with malicious damage to property shall stay longer behind bars after the investigating officer (IO) who is key to their b...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala trial kicks off amid contradicting testimonies
THE trial of embattled Zengeza West lawmaker Job Sikhala, accused of inciting public violence, began this week amid inconsistent testimony by law enforcement agents.On Wednesday, Officer Comma...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students protest over 'judicial capture'
Students drawn from the country's various tertiary institutions on Monday took to social media platforms to protest against alleged ‘judicial capture' and weaponisation of the law against opposition...Published: 17 May 2023 at 21:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
British Council funds African artists with £700 000
The British Council's Sub-Saharan Arts programme has announced the success of its Culture Exchange open call for grants, an initiative that connects and promotes cultural exchanges through art. ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 15:31hrs | 20 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Does Zimbabwe ruling elite have capacity to court spouses without instilling fear?
During a recent conversation with a friend, I expressed how incomprehensible it was that someone with high levels of intelligence would even consider bein...Published: 02 Jul 2022 at 21:54hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Street mural exposes Zimbabwe's divided society
THE Shona and the Ndebele are Zimbabwe's two most dominant ethnic groups. Explaining the ever-present tension between them, historian Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni points to the abuse of the post-colonial st...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti
Zanu-PF targets people wearing yellow clothes
POLITICAL observers have noted intolerant behaviour towards anyone donning yellow clothes associated with opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) theme colour.In its latest long-term el...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) - Nothing new to behold
ON Monday, Mr Nelson Chamisa, the former MDC-Alliance leader formed a "new" party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) after throwing in the towel in the battle for the control of the MDC-T party, ...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chingoma ready for 2023 elections
The Zimbabwe Industrial and Technological Reform (ZITER) party president Daniel Chingoma has embarked on a 2023 presidential election campaign....Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 18:14hrs | 16 | by Edward Tapfumaneyi and Simbarashe Sithole
Haunted trailer intact after 11 years on roadside
ONE of the worst nightmares for any driver is a breakdown in the middle of nowhere. A common feature along the highways has been that any car left unguarded just for a few days, would be stripped by o...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance activists' 'fake' abductions trial opens
The trial of MDC-Alliance members Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova on allegations of faking their abductions sometime last year opened yesterday despite the trio's spirited efforts to...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Haruzivishe represents everything wrong about opposition politics
A young member of the MDC formation led by Nelson Chamisa, Makomborero Haruzivishe, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the Harare Magistrates Court this week for inciting public violence. ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's MDC suffers double legal blow
Opposition MDC Alliance today suffered a double legal blow after its violent member Makomborero Haruzivishe was thrown behind bars while the opposition party's attempt to claim finances from Governmen...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 18:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activists stage a flash demonstration
SUSPECTED MDC activists Thursday staged a flash demonstration outside the New Government Complex which houses the justice ministry offices in central Harare to demand to the resignation of Justice Min...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 18:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC's poor appreciation of economy rears its ugly head
Last week an image of a Chicken Slice outlet, which was vandalised by someone who used some spray paint to create a graffiti message appealing for the release of some MDC Alliance activists remanded i...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chadzamira breathes fire, says rates must fall
Emotions are boiling and tampers are flaring after the City of Masvingo increased rates by over 500 percent against objections from residents with Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devoluti...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 3 | by Samantha Power
Sikhala says 'Cops always came to my office for lunch money'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala, who is incarcerated at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, yesterday denied charges that he evaded arrest and went into hiding before his arrest la...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths turn Parly office into torture base
A ZANU-PF youth group known as Al Shabaab has grabbed Mbizo parliamentary constituency offices in Kwekwe amid reports that they are now using it as a torture base for opposition MDC supporters and for...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and the pretence to unity
AT the burial of liberation icon Dr Dumiso Dabengwa in Ntabazinduna recently, MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa postured as a unifying figure vowing to work towards uniting the people of Zimbabwe....Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Chamisa buckles under Bulawayo pressure
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has reportedly buckled to pressure from disgruntled Bulawayo members and agreed to reconvene the provincial congress to elect the structure's leadership. ...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora humiliates Chamisa?
MDC Alliance secretary general Mr Douglas Mwonzora left his leader Mr Nelson Chamisa holding his head in shame when he exposed the party's flawed process in the holding of internal polls that led to t...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fails to douse Bulawayo factional flames
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC national leadership on Monday failed to douse factional flames in Bulawayo, where a section of disgruntled party members is demanding a re-run of the provincial congress, ci...Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
More pressure for Chamisa in Bulawayo
Embattled MDC Nelson Chamisa is facing more and more headwinds as disgruntled party members here have vowed to put pressure on him to dissolve the current provincial executive or face a revolt in the ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:24hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets hostile reception in Bulawayo
DISGRUNTLED MDC Alliance officials in Bulawayo yesterday gave their leader Mr Nelson Chamisa a hostile reception to the city by painting graffiti at the party's provincial offices denigrating him for ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
The tragedy of littering
LITTERING everywhere is a despicable habit that has become common in our dwellings today.Whoever litters shows that they have no regard for other members of the community or for the environmen...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 09:54hrs | | by Clive Chiridza
3 Apps all Apple users should download on iOS 11
iOS 11 has had its share of troubles. It decimated battery life on many phones. It autocorrected the letter "i" to A ⍰. There have even been a few security threats that were only possible because of...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Tech Reporter
The creation of a new Zanu-PF
The Zanu-PF party, initially formed as Zanu on August 8 1963 when the likes of Ndabaningi Sithole, Henry Hamadziripi, Mukudzei Midzi, Herbert Chitepo, Edgar Tekere and Leopold Takawira decided to spli...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 09:58hrs | | by Conelia Mabasa
Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Recognizes Efforts in Bahrain, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. This year's laureates are Zimbabwean activist and playwright...Published: 06 May 2017 at 11:50hrs | 13 | by HRF
Bulawayo City Council covering potholes using gravel
THE Bulawayo City Council has proposed an "Adopt a Road" policy to enlist residents in rehabilitating roads in the outskirts of the central business district and residential areas.The sche...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
The boy who started the Syrian War tells his story on Al Jazeera
"If we had known what would happen, we'd never have written that graffiti," says Mouawiya Syasneh in The Boy Who Started The Syrian War, a recent Al Jazeera documentary that tells his story. ...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 21:37hrs | | by Al Jazeera
They Don't Deserve To Be Called Dogs, They Are Worse Than Dogs
Leaders of the so called placard gate can be likened to a foolish man who soils the well that he also drinks from and later cries foul when the whole well smells of his sh***t.The same state n...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Israel Dube
December 12 upstages ThisFlag at UN
FROM the moment Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi organised everyday Zimbabweans to courageously take up arms against Rhodesian settlers and invaders way back in 1896, the colonialist and imperialist wo...Published: 20 Sep 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr
MDC-T senator saves Mnangagwa from protests
Matobo MDC-T senator Sithembile Mlotshwa on Thursday rescued vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa from protests by angry villagers after she begged them to lodge a High Court application for ...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Regime change Agent Code words
Because the US-EU imperialist media apparatus prematurely and arrogantly proclaimed themselves victors of what was labelled in political circles as the Cold War, this led our former colonisers and ens...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
Zimbabwe’s HIFA kicks off with Classical Music Weekend
The new-look Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) in Zimbabwe begins its 2016 programme with a Classical Music Weekend between Friday 29 April and Sunday 1 May.Music Africa reporte...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 14:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Controversial 'Gukurahundi' artist exhibits in South Africa
Zimbabwe's controversial artist Owen Maseko is currently in neighbouring South Africa where he is exhibiting his "controversial" graffiti dubbed "Sibathontisele" in IsiNdebele, which translates ...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T, founding members clash over 'mafikizolo'
DAGGERS have reportedly been drawn between MDC-T Bulawayo provincial leaders and the party's founders, the MDC Veterans Activists' Association (MDCVAA), following the reinstatement of Bulawayo dep...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai endorse Gift Banda as party's chairperson
THE leader of the MDC-T, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday endorsed Councillor Gift Banda as the party's Bulawayo provincial chairperson, amid bickering by supporters of his rival for the post, Senator M...Published: 16 Aug 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Mbongeni Msimanga
'Mugabe must go' graffiti, MDC-T councillor arrested
GWERU Urban ward 11 councillor, Albert Chirau, was arrested last Friday on allegations of splashing anti-President Robert Mugabe graffiti at council buildings last week.Chirau was briefly ...Published: 05 May 2015 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe is mobilising to push a vote of no-confidence against Tsvangirai?
THE MDC-T may be headed for another split after its deputy president Thokozani Khupe yesterday allegedly organised protests in Bulawayo against party leader Morgan Tsvangirai's decision to boycott by...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 09:30hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Gukurahundi artist forms band
Controversial banned Gukurahundi Artists, Owen Maseko accused by the Robert Mugabe administration of offending the president through his paintings depicting the Gukurahundi atrocities, has...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Mandlenkosi Chinula
Joburg Methodist Church refugees evicted
Most of the more than 1 000 foreigners who had made Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church their home - some for a decade - have since left after they were ordered to vacate the building by Decem...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Robert Mugabe
SUBJECT - Legacy of the Africa Union Youth GamesYOUR Excellency, as a plebeian it is not common that one thinks and acts on the impulse of writing a letter to the highest office in the land. T...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 09:24hrs | | by Innocent Batsani Ncube
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