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Tendai Biti's letter to World Bank on Zimbabwe COVID-19 aid
In May 2020, the World Bank dipped into a special health fund to provide US$7 million to Zimbabwe to help the country fight the spread of coronavirus.The US$7...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:09hrs | 4060 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance: An opposition effort built on a foundation of lies
Last week some of the issues making rounds on both the mainstream and social media included the arrest of MDC-Alliance deputy chairperson, Job Sikhala, MDC-Alliance spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere and ac...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:45hrs | 275 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's lawyer charged over tweet critical of Zanu-PF propaganda video
Prominent Harare lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu was arrested on Tuesday accused of obstructing the course of justice over a tweet published in September.Mpofu attended Harare Central Police sta...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 17:31hrs | 1408 | by Staff reporter
2020: The year Zimbabwe opposition was decimated
The year 2020 put Zimbabwe's democracy to the test as many political activists were arrested for trying to exercise their rights to demonstrate while others were allegedly abducted.Political a...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:28hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Trial date for Mamombe, five MDC-Alliance activists set
The trial on charges of particpating in an illegal demonstration in May of six political activists, including MDC Alliance members Joana Mamombe, Cecelia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova has been set for Ja...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's deepening human rights crisis under the cover of lockdown
The outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa has exerted social, economic, political, health and environmental challenges on a continent that was already on its knees.These challenges thus pose a...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 92 | by Sitabile Dewa
MDC Alliance moans over lack of political justice
The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly has bemoaned the lack of political justice that is being witnessed by some of their remembers.Over the past several months some members of the Youth Assembly have h...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 14:01hrs | 582 | by Daniel Itai
Jonathan Moyo claims to name Muchehiwa abductors
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has published names of more than a dozen people, allegedly intelligence operatives, accusing them of the July abduction and torture of 22-year-old university stud...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:12hrs | 3432 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance abduction skeletons tumble
A FORMER MDC official, Nqobizitha Khumalo, who is now with the People Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed how the opposition party has been faking abductions and causing terror in the country through ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:03hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Separation of trial granted in Mamombe case
DEPUTY Chief Magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande today ruled that MDC-ALLIANCE member Joana Mamombe stands on her own on allegations of faking abductions sometime in May this year while her co-accused Cece...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 17:32hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Separation of trial granted in Mamombe case
DEPUTY Chief Magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande today ruled that MDC-ALLIANCE member Joana Mamombe stands on her own on allegations of faking abductions sometime in May this year while her co-accused Cece...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 15:13hrs | 1145 | by Staff Reporter
Mamombe's case: JSC intervenes
The Judicial Service Commission has been joined to a case in which Harare regional magistrate Bianca Makwande had been personally slapped with costs after she ordered MDC Alliance MP Joana Mamombe to ...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 06:02hrs | 5491 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC, G40 clash over 'abductions'
CLAIMS by the opposition MDC-Alliance that its members are routinely abducted by State agents have been exposed as nothing but sheer fabrications following the recent exoneration of a senior party off...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 06:49hrs | 4505 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe summoned to trial for 'unnecessary movement'
POLICE have summoned MDC Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe to stand trial for allegedly violating a government ban on unnecessary movement during the height of the Covid-19 lockdown regulations Apr...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:22hrs | 1378 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe trial date set
HARARE West legislator Joana Mamombe (MDC Alliance)'s trial for breaching the national lockdown regulations will commence on November 24.Mamombe faces charges of contravening section 4(1)(a) o...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:49hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
'Mamombe not fit to stand trial due to mental disorder'
MDC-Alliance legislator, Joana Mamombe, has been deemed not fit to stand trial after results from three doctors revealed that she is suffering from a mental disorder. Mamombe is already receiv...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in a crisis
A crisis where the government deployed the army, rolled tanks into the streets and killed innocent unarmed civilians at 45°angle and a commission of enquiry instituted but no one is held accountable....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 10:04hrs | 6689 | by Leonard Koni
Mentally ill Mamombe faces Parly recall
MDC HARARE WEST legislator Joana Mamombe is facing a recall from Parliament after doctors confirmed that she suffers from mental illness. On Thursday ZANU-PF legislator for Mberengwa North Hon...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 2590 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe undergoing 'mental' treatment
MDC-Alliance member Joana Mamombe is now undergoing treatment following medical tests to ascertain her mental condition, her lawyer has revealed.Mamombe's lawyer Mr Alec Muchadehama today told...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:40hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scoffs at Britain's attempts to link Rushwaya to Mnangagwa
The Zimbabwean government has reacted with consternation a recent debate in the British House of Lords describing the animated and long deliberation as a "shocking level of invasive interest" in the S...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 08:09hrs | 4938 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP guns for 'mentally disordered' Mamombe
Harare West MP Joana Mamombe should be removed from parliament because she is "mentally disordered", a Zanu-PF MP said during a debate in the National Assembly on Thursday.The 37-year-old was ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:42hrs | 2516 | by Staff reporter
Britain to impose fresh sanctions on Zimbabwe?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration could be staring a fresh dosage of British sanctions after recent cases of human gross human rights violations and corruption got attention from the forme...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:09hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe sent to Psychiatric unit
A HARARE magistrate has ordered that MDC Alliance Member of Parliament for Harare West Joana Mamombe be treated for her mental disorder at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals' Annex Psychiatric Unit after...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 18:19hrs | 5514 | by Staff reporter
'Mamombe has psychological problems'
TWO medical doctors have concluded that MDC Alliance Member of Parliament for Harare West Joana Mamombe has psychological problems and recommended that she be treated and get help from a psychologist....Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 17:12hrs | 3192 | by Staff reporter
New reports claim Mamombe ill
Two medical reports handed over to court yesterday state that MDC Alliance member Joana Mamombe has a psychological problem that requires treatment, with her defence lawyer arguing for postponement of...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
Rising crime worries govt
THE government is very concerned about the increase in violent crime in the country, as well as the continued abuse of social media.This comes as the country has witnessed a spate of armed rob...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:23hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Doctor examines Mamombe's fitness
MDC-Alliance member Joana Mamombe has so far been mentally examined by one medical doctor to ascertain if she is capable of comprehending trial proceedings. The court ordered her mental examin...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1492 | by Staff reorter
BREAKING: Judge orders immediate release of Joana Mamombe from Chikurubi prison
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have secured the release of Harare West MP Joana Mamombe by obtaining a court order issued by Justice Muremba for her immediate release from Chikurubi prison.&nbs...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 18:54hrs | 2563 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Judge orders Mamombe release
The High Court on Wednesday ordered the release of Harare West MP Joana Mamombe from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison where she had been detained since September 24 on the orders of a magistrate who ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 18:18hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
Joana Mamombe mental exam stalls trial
THE trial of MDC-Alliance youth members, who are facing charges of staging an unsanctioned demonstration in Warren Park, has been postponed to October 13 pending the mental examination of one of them,...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 20:16hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda blocks debate on Mamombe incarceration
OPPOSITION MDC legislators this week unsuccessfully tried to bring the case of incarcerated Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe up for discussion in bid to get the youngest MP in the National Assembl...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1828 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa slammed for not putting Zimbabwe first in their fights
AS THE vicious factional wars that are tearing apart Zimbabwe's main opposition plumb new lows with each passing day, political analysts say the MDC may have reached the end of the road in its current...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:20hrs | 3298 | by Staff reporter
MDC is not only falling apart, it has actually fallen apart
THE Daily News has been a lone voice over the past few months in highlighting the folly of the country's opposition engaging in self-immolation, and taking counsel from dubious characters.For ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's potential endangered by mismanagement of the country
Dear Editor, Corruption has roots and protection within the corridors of power in the Zimbabwean clueless government. When they fail, they blame sanctions. Journalists that expose it lan...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 19:30hrs | 829 | by Bigboy Sibanda
Chamisa, Khupe wrangling hits rock bottom
THE suicidal bloodletting consuming the main opposition MDC is now stomping towards its funereal end, with the party's interim leadership led by Thokozani Khupe now planning to recall about 38 more le...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:01hrs | 7950 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa requests Zimbabweans to pray for Joana Mamombe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to pray for jailed MDC MP Joana Mamombe and other political prisoners who are languishing in prison. In a Twitter post on Saturda...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 11:06hrs | 4225 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa blows top over Joana Mamombe's arrest
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has called dupon an Independent inquiry into matters surrounding the incarceration of MDC leader Joana Mamombe. A Harare court remanded the legislator for Ha...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 13:02hrs | 7233 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 doctors to examine Mamombe's fitness
Two neutral doctors will examine MDC Alliance activist Joana Mamombe to determine her fitness to stand trial, a Harare magistrate ruled yesterday. Mrs Bianca Makwande ruled that Mamombe be exa...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe's mental challenges case ruling to be handed down today
The public prosecutor handling the matter in which MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and party members, Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri are facing charges of faking their abduction in May this ...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 05:33hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
MP stalking saga in new twist
OK Zimbabwe was forced by the courts to release video footage of Harare West MP Joana Mamombe doing her shopping amid concerns the authorities violated the young legislator's privacy, it has emerged....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:21hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe arrest warrant cancelled
A court on Wednesday cancelled an arrest warrant issued against Harare West MP Joana Mamombe after she was forcibly discharged from a hospital by police and taken to court.The warrant was issu...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 19:16hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
'Mamombe should undergo mental exam'
THE State yesterday indicated that it wants MDC-Alliance member, Joana Mamombe, to be examined by two Government doctors to ascertain her mental condition after her doctor indicated that she was suffe...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1521 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe 'faking' illness
The State has received video evidence from the investigating officer, which suggests that MDC-Alliance member, Joana Mamombe, is not suffering from anxiety disorder as she was captured on CCTV shoppin...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:12hrs | 3417 | by Staff reporter
Shock as Joana Mamombe is arrested on hospital bed
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police are said to have stormed the hospital where MDC official Joana Mamombe at a medical facility where she was receiving treatment. The operation was issued...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 14:14hrs | 11931 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Court issues warrant of arrest for Joana Mamombe
A Harare Court has issued a warrant of arrest for MDC-Alliance Harare West Member of Parliament Joana Mamombe for failing to attend court for trial on allegations of faking their abductions.Ma...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 11:37hrs | 4203 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC 'abduction' trio in bid to avoid trial
The trial of MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and two other party activists Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who are facing charges of communicating false statements prejudicial to the State af...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:10hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
Fake abductions: New tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change agenda, which dates to two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, stymied the developmental agenda, lately making Zimbabwe a house...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 534 | by Emmanuel Murema
Zimbabwe in its own league
Readers had a lot to chew last week. So much to chew that if one was not perceptive, he or she could have ended up in a maze. Let's dissect events of last week one by one and assess their impa...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Fake abduction: a new tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change ideological rhetoric which dates two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, so illocal and so ominous to the developmental agenda ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:58hrs | 2726 | by Emmanuel Murema
MDC Alliance trio turns to prophets
MDC-Alliance activists who faked abduction in May this year have now turned to apostolic prophets in what appears to be a desperate bid, wrapped in superstition and mythology, to have the State's case...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2557 | by Staff reporter
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