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All-out war on machete gangs
Police have deployed one of their largest ever forces in recent history to different parts of the country as they intensify a crackdown on machete -wielding gangs that have been terrorising small-scal...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:29hrs | 394 | by Staff rpeorter
Govt brutality on citizens bad example for nation
Every community and society's norms and standards are usually set by those in authority. That is why, even at family level, the parents' behaviour and teachings play a primary role in determining the ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:49hrs | 200 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mliswa to mobilise public to beat up Zanu-PF and MDC MPs
NORTON legislator Themba Mliswa (Independent) yesterday threatened to mobilise the public through social media to protest in Parliament and beat up legislators for wasting taxpayers money after Zanu P...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:28hrs | 6917 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt brutalization of citizenry sets bad example in campaign against domestic and gender-based violence
Every community and society's norms and standards are usually set by those in authority. That is why, even at family level, the parents' behaviour and teachings play a primary role in determining the ...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 14:04hrs | 612 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Police warn CBD hooligans
A 16-member male gang went on a rampage in Harare's central business district on Friday night and assaulted and injured three uniformed police officers before they broke into a few shops along Leopold...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:06hrs | 332 | by Staff rpeorter
Mwonzora bullied in front of Chamisa
THINGS took a turn for the worse in the warring MDC on Tuesday when party hooligans stormed a meeting that was being chaired by its leader Nelson Chamisa, threatening to deal with former secretary-gen...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:45hrs | 8417 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters get $100 bail each
10 of the suspected MDC hooligans who were arrested on the 12th of this month on allegations of assaulting a police officer have been freed on 100 dollars bail each. 10 suspected MDC hooligans...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 15:58hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi terror grips Zimbabwe's gold rich areas
Takesure Choga considers himself lucky to be alive after he was abducted by thugs driving an unregistered car, who stripped him naked and dumped him in a bush in Kwekwe.Choga, a human rights a...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:52hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops on the spot over violence
At least 500 Gweru residents have signed a petition calling on the police to rein in violent gangs of illegal miners who have been terrorising them.The residents say the artisanal miners known...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:47hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Police question Chibwe over anti-riot helmets
POLICE yesterday questioned Mitchel Chibwe in connection with the Zimbabwe Republic Police anti-riot and city council helmets which were recovered in the basement of Robinson House on Saturday night....Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 09:29hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs fight Mnangagwa over talks
Outspoken Zanu-PF youth league national political commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu, has accused unnamed party bigwigs of working to derail President Emmerson Mnangagwa and stopping him from engaging in m...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:15hrs | 11863 | by Staff rpeorter
Police recover anti-riot gear near Harvest House
POLICE yesterday recovered 210 anti-riot and 46 council police helmets which were hidden in a basement of Robinson House at the corner of Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and Angwa Street in Harare on Saturday. A...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1474 | by Staff reporter
Anti-riot gear found near Harvest House
Police recovered 210 anti-riot and 46 municipal police helmets stashed in the basement of Robinson House at the corner of Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and Angwa Street in Harare on Saturday. Also recovered we...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:36hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
EU pushes for Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks
The European Union (EU) is ramping up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to hold much-needed talks with opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. This comes as Mnangagwa is battling to put back ...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:53hrs | 2641 | by Staff reporter
REWIND: Mugabe: A good candidate for Egyptation
I am still looking and searching for the vocabulary and diction with which to name and describe what I saw in Bhengazi. After what I saw, I believe that God is the people and that the people are God. ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1191 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Chamisa's supporters jailed for killing Mnangagwa supporter
THREE MDC Alliance hooligans who killed a Zanu-PF supporter who was celebrating the revolutionary party's victory in the 2008 Presidential elections have been sentenced to a combined 10 years in jail ...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:04hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Street grocery sales take Bulawayo by storm
BUSINESS hours and shop location no longer matter when doing grocery shopping in Bulawayo as basic commodities are now easily accessible from the streets and pavements. A survey in the c...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2501 | by Staff reporter
ZBC vehicle arson case sucks in mayor
POLICE are analysing video footage in which a man, strongly believed to be Chitungwiza Mayor Councillor Lovemore Maiko of MDC-Alliance, torching a ZBC vehicle opposite Town House in Harare on August 2...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:16hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
Blood of foreigners flow in South African streets as locals swim in joy
If one can not be angered by the animalistic sadistic killings of our people in South Africa then one has a heart of a stone. Please be angry with me as we moan the patriots who are slaughtered like a...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 22:34hrs | 6553 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Kenneth Mhlophe-led management is partly to blame
HEARTBROKEN Highlanders supporters say the Kenneth Mhlophe-led management is partly to blame for the soccer giants' poor performance. Alarm bells are ringing at Bosso whose three-game losing streak ha...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:34hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 363 | by Bishop Lazi
Dembare hooligans at it again
Hwange 2-2 Dynamos HOOLIGANISM reared its ugly head in a Castle Lager Premiership match at the Colliery Stadium yesterday resulting in a 21-minute stoppage in the 55th minute when an overzea...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Demonstrations disrupting flow of business
THE opposition MDC-Alliance has been busy plotting to destabilise the country through nationwide demonstrations.The organisers claim they are demonstrating against the country's economic condi...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:35hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Why street protests don't work... How can so many demonstrations accomplish so little?
Street protests are in. From Cape to Cairo and Madrid to Moscow, in Hong kong it has taken ten weeks these days not a week goes by without news that a massive crowd has amassed in the streets of anoth...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:35hrs | 338 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa threatens to unleash more violence
MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa has threatened to unleash more violence in the streets after yesterday's planned illegal demonstrations failed to take off following a prohibition notice isued b...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:10hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC accuses Bulawayo residents of pushing a Zanu-PF agenda
TEMPERS are flaring in the country's second largest city with the opposition MDC which runs council accusing a local residents association of political posturing.MDC provincial spokesperson Sw...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 2961 | by newzimbabwe
Suspected CIOs send live bullets to ZCTU leaders
ZCTU President Peter Mutasa and Secretary Japhet Moyo on Tuesday received letters containing death threats and two live bullets from suspected members of the Central Intelligence Organisation....Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 10:42hrs | 4464 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kambarami: A pig in royal robes still finds amusement in mud
The Tinashe Kambarami cabal's crass exhibition of foolishness unmasks the failure of the MDC to run urban councils. The exalted office of councillorship has been defiled by the repugnant behaviour of ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1750 | by Ndabazabantu Sondokhulu
Nomazulu Thata Misinformed
Nomazulu Thata who regards herself as the custodian of all Mathebeleland issues has a tendency to twist facts to suit her agenda. It is very curious that she refers to Bulawayo as the City of Kings an...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:15hrs | 1845 | by Lizwe Dube
MDC Alliance declare war on Mthwakazi
There are licked audios and messages from the MDC Bulawayo group which are in bad taste. In one of the audios, a woman is heard calling upon all MDC members to meet at Bulawayo high court tomorrow at ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:45hrs | 5985 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Lying for his country
A diplomat was famously described as 'an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' Lieutenant-General SB Moyo, Zimbabwe's chief diplomat as Minister of Foreign Affairs, fell so...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:43hrs | 5887 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
MDC tribalists' plans exposed
It has come to our attention that the recently elected MDC-A Bulawayo leadership which is predominantly Shona, and stand accused of bribing their way up on tribal grounds is fully behind Kambarami in ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:40hrs | 1815 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
MDC councillors out of order
The purported suspension of the Town Clerk of Bulawayo by a Shona tribalistic cabal led by the convicted fraudster Tinashe Kambarami aptly demonstrates that even if one were to dress a pig in royal ro...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 18:59hrs | 1025 | by L Dube
Mnangagwa's govt condemns UK hooligans
Government has slammed an attack by opposition protesters directed at a Zimbabwean delegation in London led by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo who are on a four day r...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 18:47hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to appear before Bikita magistrate
The MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job Sikhala, who was arrested on Monday for allegedly subverting a constitutionally elected Government is expected to appear before a Bikita magistrate to...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
'Coup plotter' Sikhala to appear in court today
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala was yesterday arrested on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government and is expected to appear in court today. He was by last ...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Machete wielding gangs terrorize villagers in Zvishavane
The 2008 violence that saw most rural Zimbabweans decapitated and maimed by Zanu-PF militia is being relieved in rural and urbanZvishavane and Shurugwi in the Midlands Province following a new wave of...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 18:36hrs | 3150 | by MakhoPrecious Moyo
A protest without direction
IT is within the constitutional rights of every Zimbabwean or organisation in the country to protest as a way of registering their disquiet over any matter.Social-citizen group Tajamuka has ca...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:28hrs | 639 | by Newsday - Editorial
Why Zanu-PF youths are targeting heavy weights
Zanu-PF youths threw the cat among the pigeons recently when they released a list of alleged corrupt people that included senior ruling party officials such as Obert Mpofu and Prisca Mupfumira....Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:20hrs | 6284 | by Staff reporter
Citizens fret over deployment of army during protests
THE public yesterday expressed mixed views over the proposed Maintenance of Order and Peace Bill (MOPA), with the majority saying lawmakers should remove clause (18), which will allow the Home Affairs...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 18:05hrs | 1986 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military government abandons senior citizens
When l was growing I just loved to be near my maternal mother she taught us a lot of things about life, she would also tell us traditional folk tales around a fire, everybody loved her she would wrap ...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:45hrs | 1544 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Khupe deserves Respect
The rabidly tribal and sexist letter by Eric Muzamhindo reflects that the MDC is a poor imitation of ZANU( PF). It is the citadel of intolerance and the epitome of the devilish Gukurahundi spirit that...Published: 14 May 2019 at 20:38hrs | 5509 | by Nkosenhle Ndlovu
Chamisa's hooligans force Khupe to skip Tsvangirai's memorial
THE Thokozani Khupe led MDC Saturday skipped the late founding MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's memorial with a party official saying this was out of concern for their security.Khupe survived an...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:16hrs | 1653 | by Staff reporter
Where is Dzamara?
Mazowe-based human rights activist Evans Matola has challenged government to update the nation on the whereabouts of missing rights defender Itai Dzamara, who was reportedly abducted by suspected Stat...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1206 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos FC hooligans slammed
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has lashed out at Dynamos FC hooligans for hurling missiles onto the pitch after failing to stomach their 2-0 defeat to Chicken Inn in a Castle Lager Premier...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:50hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance official left for dead
An MDC-Alliance official from Mashonaland West Province was recently attacked with machetes by suspected party hooligans for questioning the conduct of district elections to choose delegates to the pa...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:30hrs | 1915 | by Staff reporter
Protesters faint after sentencing
There was drama at the Gweru courts when two of five suspected MDC hooligans fainted after being jailed for three years for public violence. The two failed to come to terms with their sentence...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 17:13hrs | 5463 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance congress exposes log in party's eye
Time has an uncanny habit of exposing hypocrisy, and often times, vindicating formally perceived villains. It is a double-edged sword. In Zimbabwe, time has helped us unravel the duplicitous behaviour...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | 583 | by Philemon Mutedzi
Undemocratic 'democrats'
Over the years, the US-backed and Western-sponsored opposition politics in our country has been in many ways a replay of Washington's mindless games that started soon after the declaration of the Amer...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 23:48hrs | 936 | by Reason Wafwarova
Gang leaves cops for dead
Two Mwenezi police officers were last Thursday left nursing severe injuries after they were attacked by unidentified hooligans who were evading arrest at Maranda Business Centre in Mwenezi West, TellZ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 21:34hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
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