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The PVO Bill is a threat to Zimbabwe's democracy
The recent passing of the Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Bill by the Zimbabwe Senate has sparked widespread concern among civil society organizations and democracy advocates. The bill, w...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 21:07hrs | 374 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe prisons death traps, says Guantanamo Bay detention camp handlers
A UNITED States embassy human rights report has described Zimbabwe's prison conditions as harsh and life threatening.In its latest report on human rights practices, the United States said pris...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa, please also explain why ZANU PF imposed sanctions on my one-year-old son!
I cannot stand it when the powerful and wealthy whine over clearly banal ‘injustices' inflicted upon their high and mighty little angels - yet, these same people have, themselves, perpetrated the mo...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 16:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Does the West, in particular, the US really respect human rights?
The continued incarceration of Job Sikhala, Gift Sithole and other CCC activists has become a global story as those in the political fray have waded in calling for their release.The calls have...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by AT Kadada
Mr President, patriotism cannot be legislated
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, with the noise surrounding the "sanctions on Zimbabwe" narrative increasing - as we draw closer to the October 25 "Sadc Anti Sanctions ...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Tendai Mbofana
Precedent that undermines credibility of Human Rights Council
On April 7, the UN General Assembly decided to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council. This establishes a destructive precedent not only for the future of the Human Rights Cou...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Alfred de Zayas
US duplicity exposed in Khashoggi fiasco
When you hear the United States of America's (USA) embassy in Harare talk of Chin'ono this and human rights that, you would think their own conduct is beyond reproach and that they are as pure as snow...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 17:38hrs | 1 | by Charles Motsi
'MDC Alliance protests are acts of banditry,' says Mangwana
THE government has come under pressure following allegations of abductions, torture and clampdown on pro-democracy activists in Zimbabwe, Blessed Mhlanga (ND) met government spokesperson and Informati...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 20:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
No democracy is a finished product
One day, if they follow instructions, Africa's new democracies will grow up to be "real" like those of Western Europe and North America. This assumption makes little sense — but it influences the wa...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Steven Friedman
New dispensation and the rotten apple theory
Election 2018 is over, and it ended with telling lessons for the two main parties in the race. Zanu-PF nearly paid the ultimate price for years of infighting; something that clearly affected the outco...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory
It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that one would think they take the world to be populated ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Politicians must deliver on promises
Every politician knows that the key to winning elections is to make great promises. Nelson Chamisa in apparent novice excitement of taking over the MDC-T leadership after the death of Morgan Tsvangira...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Keeping ZDERA alive
A key strategy of imperialism is raising false dust so as to cloud national focus and vision. Or to blur a clear identification and knowledge of who the real enemy is. History, including our own, is r...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
My 2017 Letter to Bulawayo Artists
Dear Bulawayo MusiciansThis is not an open letter to all Bulawayo artists, but as I work on my new 2017 Sinazo project, i was thinking, and thinking hard. I feel I need to empty all my 2016 th...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Tish Malaba Ncube
Mugabe opens gates of hell
I ended this column last week by asking the tormented question of who will protect us "from a vengeful police force so emboldened by a culture of impunity that they can break people's skulls in br...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 15:49hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Family of man who died from CIA torture speaks out for the first time
US Senate's 'Torture Report' documented 119 victims of CIA torture Al Jazeera speaks to the former secret prisoners, including the family of a man who died from his torture in CIA cus...Published: 19 Sep 2016 at 15:37hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
'Abducted' Prophet Wimbo speaks out
Johane Masowe Vadzidzi VaJeso leader Mr Aaron Mhukuta, popularly known as Mudzidzi Wimbo, has trashed repeated falsehoods in the private media claiming that he was abducted by church members and offic...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 06:28hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Reform UN first, Bob Crooker
International politics if followed carefully, will make one realize the West have no place for Africans in their definition of humanity. This approach is characterized by perpetual bulldozing of their...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 13:01hrs | | by Morgan Ngomwa
Zimbabwe police: Old wine in new bottle-skins
I SEEK reader indulgence in breaking a promise I made last week. I had committed this column to a follow-up article on the wider pointers beyond the media issues I dealt with. Little did I know that n...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Forked tongue: Obama applauds gay marriage, sings Amazing Grace
What is duplicitous and unacceptable is to enjoy the credibility that comes from confessing the Christian faith while simultaneously holding views that are explicitly condemned in that faith.I...Published: 29 Jun 2015 at 10:59hrs | | by Edmund Kudzayi
Islamic State opens new anti-US front with beheading video
Baghdad - Islamic State's beheading of a US journalist and its threat to "destroy the American cross" suggests it has gained enough confidence seizing large areas of Iraq and Syria to take aim at Amer...Published: 20 Aug 2014 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Obama urges Putin to make choice over Ukraine
Warsaw, Poland - President Barack Obama wants his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to take steps to rebuild the trust shattered by Russia's actions in Ukraine.Obama's comment came as he visi...Published: 03 Jun 2014 at 14:13hrs | | by CNN
EU policy under fire in Zanu-PF led 'sanctions' case
A legal challenge filed against the European Union (EU) by a Zanu-PF member has seen the targeted sanctions policy of the Brussels based body come under fire, with the outcome of the case set to ...Published: 09 Apr 2014 at 20:30hrs | 1 | by Alex Bell
Tsvangirai is self contradictory
It is embarrassing to us bona fide MDC-T supporters that we are being led to the verges of a steep cliff by Morgan Tsvangirai. He is actively participating in self contradiction and personal aggra...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 13:00hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Is Obama truly pro-black?
The day Barack Obama stood on that podium in 2009 accepting the 44th Presidential nomination of the United States of America, how many Africans within the international community that day would h...Published: 27 Sep 2013 at 07:41hrs | | by Tsungai Chipato
Zim security sector reform full of contradictions
According to the principles of Security Sector Reform as set out in the United Nation's Secretary General's 2008 report entitled Securing Peace and Development: The Role of the United Nations in Suppo...Published: 16 Jun 2013 at 06:47hrs | | by Tau Tawengwa
U.S. President, Obama, seeks to end 'war on terror'
Washington - Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islam...Published: 25 May 2013 at 04:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The two white, wicked ambassadors
Some will protest the unrestrained aggression of this title. I offer no apologies for stating facts as they are. If the American and British ambassadors, Bruce and Deborah, wish for a more favourable ...Published: 08 Apr 2013 at 04:58hrs | | by Mai Jukwa
Guantanamo Bay detainees on hunger strike
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - The military says about two dozen detainees at Guantanamo Bay are refusing to eat, up from 14 just a few days ago, reports the ...Published: 20 Mar 2013 at 16:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe caught in CIA web
As many as 54 countries, including Zimbabwe, participated in the overseas detention and rendition programmes overseen by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the years following the ...Published: 07 Feb 2013 at 05:31hrs | | by CNN
Pakistan frees eight Afghan Taliban prisoners
Islamabad - Pakistan has released eight Afghan Taliban prisoners, including senior former administration chiefs, in a bid to aid its war torn neighbour's peace efforts, officials said on Tuesday....Published: 01 Jan 2013 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nigeria opens secret detention centre for radical Islamist sect
Abuja - Nigeria is opening a secret detention centre to hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, a security of...Published: 20 Apr 2012 at 00:27hrs | | by AP
Open letter to Ambassador Charles Ray: Psychology Maziwisa
Dear Ambassador Charles Ray I read with interest your speech on the state of Zimbabwe-US relations and have decided to share my opinion on the matter, if only in brief. You have achieved many ...Published: 30 Jan 2012 at 09:24hrs | | by Psychology Maziwisa
911 '20th hijacker' sues U.S. government
Lawyers for the man known as the "20th hijacker" of 9/11 are suing the U.S. government to release "sickening" videotapes they say show Guantanamo Bay interrogators torturing their client.The l...Published: 10 Jan 2012 at 23:16hrs | | by NYDN
Mugabe's journey, thorniest and most difficult outside the biblical narrative
QUITE possibly, President Robert Mugabe's journey has been the thorniest and most difficult ever to be encountered by an individual outside the biblical narrative. All told, it's been an extremely...Published: 18 Aug 2011 at 11:13hrs | | by Psychology Maziwisa
War against racist myths of 'democracy'
There is a white racist myth of "democracy" which has taken root among certain groups in Zimbabwe in the last 15 years or so. It has been promoted through foreign-funded NGOs and foreign-sponsored med...Published: 12 Jun 2011 at 10:04hrs | | by Tafataona Mahoso
How America killed Osama bin Laden, 'TIP-OFF': Wikileaks
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks was repeatedly subjected to interrogated and torture methods including "waterboarding" and stress positions, provided the US' CIA with...Published: 03 May 2011 at 00:12hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
Latest Bin Laden files: Wikileaks
Washington - Al-Qaeda supremo Osama bin Laden and his deputy spent a frantic three months travelling non-stop across Afghanistan after 9/11, according to secret US military files released by WikiLeak...Published: 26 Apr 2011 at 06:19hrs | | by Byo24News
US to restart Guantanamo military commissions
US President Barack Obama is lifting the two-year freeze on new military trials for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.Mr Obama also announced a new process for continuing to hold those d...Published: 07 Mar 2011 at 20:31hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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