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Crisis Coalition slams secrecy around Mnangagwa, CSOs meeting over PVO Bill
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has described as unhelpful the secrecy surrounding last Friday's private meeting by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and a select group of Civil Society Organisations (...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NGOs meet Mnangagwa over PVOs Bill
CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) on Friday met President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a last-minute bid to lobby him to stop signing the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill into law....Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's difficult path to healing
ASS graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe.The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.The trauma persists even in t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:23hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide must not be swept under the carpet, says Gandawa
EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister, Godfrey Gandawa has called for truth telling and prosecution among perpetrators of the Gukurahundi atrocities before steps could be put in ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Emperor with no robes
The proverbial Emperor with no robes aptly describes the government of Zimbabwe and particularly President Mnangagwa following the August 29 2020 court interdict against unlawful reburials of Gu...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 08:18hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
Heroic mother who saved baby from crocodile grip honoured
CHIREDZI woman Morina Musisinyani (30) who, in April this year saved her three-year-old son from the jaws of a crocodile, was honoured on Friday by a feminist organisation.Whispers, whose lead...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide survivor loses court bid to stop exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese Friday dismissed with costs a case involving a Gukurahundi survivor, Charles Thomas, Zapu and Ibhetshu Likazulu who were seeking an interdict barring...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's planned Bhalagwe visit mischievious, insensitive, disrespectful and insulting
Bhalagwe; The place of bones in present-day Zimbabwe. Lying in the southern part of the country, with tens of thousand bones that have been crying for justice since the physical killings of ZAPU and p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 2 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Court reserves judgment on Gukurahundi exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese yesterday reserved judgment in a case where Gukurahundi survivors were seeking an interdict order to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to fast...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa lacks sincerity to resolve Gukurahundi conflict'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa lacks sincerity to resolve the emotive Gukurahundi issue as he has so far avoided meeting the actual victims based in rural parts of the affected areas, MDC Alliance vice-...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not ready to defend Gukurahundi exhumation bid
A Bulawayo High Court Judge was Thursday forced to postpone hearing into a case in which a Gukurahundi survivor and local pressure groups are seeking to stop victim exhumations linked to the 1980s hol...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa, Jenni Williams dragged to court
PRESSURE groups in Matabeleland have dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Matabeleland Collective leader Jenni Williams to court over the emotive Gukurahundi killings of the 1980s.Pressure...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 3 | by Lizwelethu Dube
'Keep away from Gukurahundi or shift residence' MLF threaten - Yeah, same unbridled desires led to Gukurahundi
Let me say from the on set that I totally subscribe to the notion of freedom of expression but in exercising one's freedoms and rights one must always be careful not to step trade on other people's fr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 10:14hrs | 4 | by Nomusa Garikai
Jenni is unqualified - MLF
MLF is pissed-off to learn that all along, Jenni Williams disguised as the human rights activist who herself out of her mouth said she would never share a platform with Emmerson Mnangagwa, the serial ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:26hrs | | by MLF
MLF pissed-off by Jenni Williams
MLF is pissed-off to learn that all along, Jenni Williams disguised as the human rights activist who herself out of her mouth said she would never share a platform with Emmerson Mnangagwa, the serial ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:24hrs | 1 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Mnangagwa to launch programme at Gukurahundi hot spot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is soon expected to launch a documentation programme for Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland South province.This was revealed by the leader of the Matabeleland Col...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi plan faces collapse
A coalition of civil society groups from Matabeleland that struck a deal with President Emmerson Mnangagwa that paved the way for a government intervention on the Gukurahundi killings is disintegratin...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs reject Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi plan
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cocktail of measures to pacify the south-western parts of the country that bore the brunt of the 1980s massacres by the army have been greeted by strident opposition fro...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Priscilla Mushonga sucked into Mnangagwa saga
Former MDC Secretary General Priscilla Misihairabwi has been fingered in an elaborate plan to hoodwink the people of Matabeleland into endorsing President Emmerson Mnangagwa using the Gukurahundi geno...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gukurahundi cannot be wished away: Williams
ON March 21 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa flew from Harare to Bulawayo on a jet chartered from the United Arab Emirates - an extravagant arrangement - for a meeting with Matabeleland-based civil ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi healing measures, a step in the right direction
The new dispensation has slowly but positively proven that there is an overhaul in the administration of the country's affairs, an indication that Zimbabwe is breaking from the old ways. In the recent...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 12:02hrs | 2 | by Anesu Pedzisayi
Shakespeare Maya joins Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
FORMER National Alliance for Good Governance (NAGG) president Mr Shakespeare Maya, who has since rejoined Zanu-PF, has hailed President Mnangagwa's triple-pronged re-engagement drive saying it has pla...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sorry! Matabeleland not for sell
We find no phrase that describes Jenni Williams and her little known organization Matabeleland Collective, better than "treacherous traitors". Some traitors would do their business under the cover of ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 12:21hrs | 1 | by MLO
Matebeleland civic groups 'sells-out' to Mnangagwa?
MATEBELELAND based civic groups have rowed bitterly over a recent decision by a section of them to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is largely a resented figure in the region because of his role ...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa, CSOs meeting divides Matabeleland
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent meeting with a vocal civic society grouping has received with mixed reactions.Mnangagwa surprisingly met with Matabeleland Collective at State House in Bu...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Collective & Jenni Williams are traitors - MLO
We find no phrase that describes Jenni Williams and her little known organization Matabeleland Collective, better than "treacherous traitors". Some traitors would do their business under the cover of ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:44hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Shock as Mnangagwa divides Ndebele leaders
United Kingdom based scholar Dr. Brilliant Mhlanga has come out gunz blazing against civic society leader Dumisani Nyongolo Nkomo over the meeting that the later had with President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:47hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa is a listening President: Jenni Williams
THE Matabeleland region has over the years witnessed the sprouting of what has been termed "Gukurahundipreneurs" and secessionists whose objective was not to pursue the interests of the people but to ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Matabeleland leaders finally find each other
Yesterday, 21 March 2019, more than 120 civic societies, church bodies, faith based and community based organisations' leadership met the President of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Emmerson Dambudzo Mnanga...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 18:42hrs | 2 | by Matabeleland Collective
Mnangagwa comes face to face with bitterness of Matebeleland people
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday came face to face with the simmering bitterness of the people of Matabeleland related to the Gukurahundi atrocities of the early to mid 1980s.This came a...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo takes on Mnangagwa over Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday came face to face with the simmering bitterness of the people of Matabeleland related to the Gukurahundi atrocities of the early to mid 1980s.This came a...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in frank discussions with Matebeleland civic groups?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday held frank and robust discussions with Matebeleland civic groups at the State House in Bulawayo, stressing the need for national cohesion and collective efforts in taking...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2,4m Zimbabweans food insecure as drought, rising costs bite
The 150% fuel price hike that sparked mass public unrest across Zimbabwe last month sent the cost of living skyrocketing: the price of bread nearly doubled in a week.Worse is likely to come....Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by IRIN
Thabitha Khumalo restrained from attacking WOZA members
MDC Alliance party national chairperson and the leader of the opposition in Parliament, Ms Thabitha Khumalo, allegedly had to be restrained from attacking members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) who...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jennie Williams set free
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) leaders, Jenni Williams, was set free by Bulawayo Magistrate on Thursday. Williams has been arrested more than 65 times.Bulawayo Magistrate Gladmore Mush...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civic groups want proper national healing
Civic and opposition groups in Matabeleland region have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to show commitment towards providing meaningful national healing to the victims of th...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 15:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No future under Zanu-PF rule'
Daily News reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi sits down for a chat with Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) leader Jenni Williams.Below are excerpts of the interview.Q: You have relentlessly held a...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Jeffrey Muvundusi
'WOZA won't be based in Harare,' says Jennie Williams
Renowned Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) co-founder Jenni Williams has said the movement will not be enjoying its current success if it was based in Harare.WOZA is based in Bulawayo b...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 14:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jenni Williams won't stop civil activism
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) is now a household name in Zimbabwe because of its members' pioneering work in civil activism.One of its leaders, Jenni Williams, has been arrested over 65 t...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
WOZA declares war on Mugabe
Pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise leader Jenni Williams says she will never be intimidated by President Robert Mugabe's threats on protestors who are against his failed government. ...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
WOZA members get bail
TEN Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) members who were arrested on Saturday and charged with criminal nuisance have been freed on bail.They were arrested at Queens Sports Club and accused of bloc...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 13:41hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
10 arrested over anthem, flag
POLICE yesterday arrested at least 10 people during the Zimbabwe cricket team's high-profile second Test match against New Zealand at Bulawayo's Queens Sports Club as spectators sang the national ...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 11:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police arrest '#ThisFlag' cricket fans at Queens Sports Club
Several suspected would be protesters including renowned WOZA leader Jenni Williams have been arrested in Bulawayo.According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights(ZLHR), police said the arr...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Power of Pink and the Zapu Woman - Why is there a history of women being sold short??
Women are always presented as the "weaker sex" but as my Granny used to say, the man may be regarded as the head of the family but the woman is the neck which controls and turns the head. All over the...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 00:19hrs | 4 | by Sipho Sibanda - ZAWU Provincial Chair-Europe
Kalanga demos spread to Harare
Some journalists and members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise were briefly held by police in Harare on Wednesday following a protest over President Robert Mugabe's recent jibe on the Kalanga people....Published: 14 May 2015 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru fluffing chances through prevarication, by being slow, cautious and unsure
THE OTHER SIDE Of course David Cameron has won, confounding and consigning the overweening Milliband, and worse, condemning those damn God's deputies, those notorious pollsters! I never knew that thes...Published: 09 May 2015 at 18:14hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Police disturb WOZA 'love day'
Bulawayo members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) selected Friday 13th February 2015 to conduct their 13th Valentine's Day procession.At 245pm, two processions began, one in 9th Avenue and on...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tsvangirai's nationwide protest call is a publicity stunt'
Jenni Williams is a Bulawayo based human rights activist and founder of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA). A vocal critic of President Robert Mugabe, she is one of many prominent guests at DW's Glo...Published: 04 Jul 2014 at 09:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt ordered to provide underwear for jailed women
A Supreme Court judge has ordered police to provide clean water, mattresses, blankets and toilet paper to detainees at Harare Central Remand Prison.The judge also ruled that women should be al...Published: 06 Jun 2014 at 10:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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