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Mnangagwa regime should stop weaponising law
THAT the arrest of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono among others may complicate matters for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation's international re-engagement is not in doubt anymore.No...Published: 8 hrs ago | 641 | by Staff reporter
Lobby group decries abuse of criminal justice system
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum) has expressed concern over what they called an apparent trend of manipulation of the criminal justice system to punish dissent through prolonged and und...Published: 8 hrs ago | 293 | by Staff reporter
Weekend in jail for Mahere
MDC-Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala was yesterday denied bail while the party's spokesperson, Fadzai Mahere, will spend the weekend in custody as the court is expected to make a ruling on her ba...Published: 8 hrs ago | 459 | by Staff reporter
ZPCS warns journalists against blocking prisons vehicles
Journalists covering court cases have been advised against blocking vans carrying suspects to court, and disobeying orders from Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officials as that may ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 177 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala denied bail
MDC-Alliance's Job Sikhala has been denied bail in a matter where he is accused of spreading falsehoods on social media.Magistrate Nduna dismissed Sikhala's bail application and said he should...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 11:12hrs | 1807 | by Staff reporter
MDC implosion sets back the struggle for change
Zimbabwe is stuck in mud. People of my generation were in their late 20s or early 30s when Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. Those fortunate to be still alive are now elderly and on the cusp to ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1233 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Sikhala says he has been arrested 65 times without conviction
INCARCERATED MDC Alliance vice-chairperson and Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala yesterday told the court that he had been arrested more than 65 times since 2000 and had not been convicted.S...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:41hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisons a death trap, says EU
THE European Union has raised a red flag over the continued incarceration of journalists and opposition leaders in Zimbabwe, as well as the poor state of the country's prisons which it described as de...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mother denies baby's death in Sikhala case
THE mother of the child who was reported by MDC-Alliance activists as having been struck to death by a police officer using a baton in Harare, denied that her baby was beaten to death during the incid...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:30hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Drop charges against Chin'ono, Mahere and Sikhala, demands Amnesty International
Amnesty International has called on the Zimbabwean government to drop "malicious" charges against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition MDC Alliance officials Fadzayi Mahere and Job Sikhala....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance activists' arrests 'ploy for sanctions renewal'?
Recent allegations of targeted arrests and human rights abuses in the country have been described as a ploy by opposition linked political activists to influence the outcome of a sanctions review proc...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:12hrs | 1529 | by Staff reporter
All hope is not lost
Crushing the peoples' voices is not the answer. No nation has ever risen or built by crushing the voice of justice.Zimbabwean citizens in all walks of life have been fighting for change at gre...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 13:26hrs | 572 | by Leonard Koni
Why Zimbabwe needs judiciary reforms to be open for business
THE Zimbabwean Constitution enshrines the principle of separation of powers among three distinct arms of government, which are the executive, consisting of the President and Cabinet, the legislature, ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:52hrs | 595 | by Mirian Mangwaya
Mnangagwa's advisor on the arrest of Mahere, Chin'ono and Sikhala
The arrest of Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, Job Sikhala and Hopewell Chin'ono represents a chilling attack on freedom of expression by the State. That the three have been charged under a law that w...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 10:26hrs | 2579 | by Trevor Ncube
Western diplomats in Zimbabwe question Sikhala, Mahere, Chin'ono arrests
Western diplomats in Zimbabwe have expressed concern over the continued detention of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and MDC Alliance officials Job Sikhala and Fadzayi Mahere.The three are charge...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 09:05hrs | 2573 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala weeps in court, threatens a prison officer
INCARCERATED MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, who is being charged on allegations of communicating falsehoods through social media, yesterday wept in court, lamenting that he was being abu...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:07hrs | 5616 | by Staff reporter
'Chin'ono faces 20-year jail term'
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono is likely to be jailed for 20 years if convicted for communicating falsehoods, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday. This was revealed by an investigating officer from the ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:05hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono remanded in custody until Thursday
Magistrate Lazini Ncube has remanded journalist Hopewell Chin'ono to Thursday when he will deliver judgement in his bail application. The journalist faces the same charges as MDC Alliance offi...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 13:14hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Mahere's lawyers demand identity of 'dead' child's mother
LAWYERS representing MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere on charges of communicating falsehoods through social media yesterday told the court that they would want to know the identity of the woma...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:04hrs | 2897 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala disowns Facebook account
MDC ALLIANCE deputy chairperson and Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala yesterday challenged the State's bid to place him on remand, arguing that the Facebook account which he is alleged to have used ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1305 | by Staff reporter
Mahere protests jail conditions
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere will remain behind bars until Friday after a Harare magistrate deferred his ruling on the politician's application against placement on remand.The outs...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono, Sikhala remanded further
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono was back in court on Monday after spending the weekend behind bars with his lawyers challenging placement on remand.Chin'ono appeared before Harare magistrate Lazi...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Mahere says police cells are 'unbearable'
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, who was Tuesday remanded in custody to Friday on charges of publishing falsehoods, complained in court of the deplorable state of cells at the Harare Central ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 16:15hrs | 2570 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala lawfully before the courts, says Magistrate Nduna
THE MDC Alliance vice-chairperson, Job Sikhala is lawfully before the courts and was Tuesday remanded in custody to Wednesday for his bail hearing.He was arrested last Saturday on charges of p...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 1531 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala challenges arrest
FIREBRAND MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala believes his arrest is unconstitutional as the law he is being charged under was struck off by the Supreme Court in 2014.Sikhala is being ch...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 15:42hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Mahere remanded in custody to Friday 15 January
MDC Alliance National Spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has been remanded in custody to Friday 15 January 2021.Advocate Mahere will spend 3 days in prison custody to Friday when Magistrate ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:30hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC leader arrested as fight for 'headlines' hots up - all deserted fight for reforms
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was launched by Morgan Tsvangirai and his friends in 1999 to answer the nation's cry for democratic changes as the only way to end the de facto one party, Zanu...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:16hrs | 982 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa a dictator, fascist, says Sikhala
OUTSPOKEN opposition MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala says his latest arrest and those of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere were testimony of President Emme...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:54hrs | 2180 | by Staff reporter
Rule of law now a pipe dream, says ZPP
THE Zimbabwe Peace project (ZPP) has castigated government over the recent arrest of civil rights and political activists, saying the move shows lack of respect for democracy and the rule of law....Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:47hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to spend another night in custody
MDC ALLIANCE vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has been remanded in custody facing charges of publishing falsehoods.The politician-cum-lawyer appeared before Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna and throu...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 20:30hrs | 1774 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono to ignore bail application
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono, arrested Friday, says he will not apply for bail as he wants to challenge the state to withdraw its charges against him.In a handwritten statement he handed over ...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 16:06hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chamisa's spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere arrested
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has been arrested and charged with 'publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the state' for posting widely circulated video which purported ...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 08:56hrs | 7437 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC says arrests, torture won't deter it
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has vowed that its supporters will not be distracted from their goal of unseating the Zanu-PF regime by State-sponsored arbitrary arrests, torture and abductions....Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:02hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Mafume's health deteriorates
INCARCERATED Harare mayor Jacob Mafume's condition reportedly further deteriorated yesterday morning amid fears he could have contracted the deadly COVID-19 virus, NewsDay reported.Mafume's la...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:01hrs | 1212 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala, Chin'ono charged under non-existent falsehoods law'
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala was arrested Saturday and charged with publishing falsehoods and promoting public violence the same charges laid against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono after th...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala arrested
POLICE have arrested MDC Alliance top politician Job Sikhala outside the Harare magistrate's court.Sikhala, a lawyer, was part of the legal team representing freelance journalist Hopewell Chin...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 15:45hrs | 2458 | by Staff reporter
Police hunting down Sikhala
Police yesterday arrested Chin'ono and were reportedly hunting down MDC Alliance national vice-chairperson Job Sikhala over their social media comments on a report claiming that a Harare police office...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:39hrs | 2929 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to be arrested over a tweet?
Job Sikhala, vice chairman of the Nelson Chamisa led Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-Alliance), has alleged that the Mnangagwa regime wants to arrest him today.He was last arreste...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 11:17hrs | 3866 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to offer Trump a word of advice?
Chamisa sits in his office feeling highly encouraged by the events in America. Should he offer Trump a message of solidarity? Amidst all the hypocrisy and pretence of democracy and being a democratic ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 09:44hrs | 2949 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC Alliance remains a cry baby
Whenever die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was hell manifesting, except that this time it is a braai not hell. It is common cause that the victims of Tho...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1677 | by Robert Sigauke
The tale of a captured judiciary
THE year 2020 did not see any major judicial decisions, but was replete with prolonged postponement of trials.At one time, chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi threatened to sit on a Sunday for...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:08hrs | 766 | by Miriam Mangwaya
Mnangagwa will not be removed by demonstrations and social media activism
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his Zanu-PF government would not be removed from power by demonstrations and social media activism.Addressing central committee members, Mnangagwa s...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala 'berates' Mnangagwa - 20 years of posturing, it is reforms Mnangagwa fears
"MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proved to be one of the worst authoritarian leaders to ever lead Zimbabwe, an accusation that comes as the nation n...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 00:07hrs | 1250 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Sikhala 'berates' Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proved to be one of the worst authoritarian leaders to ever lead Zimbabwe, an accusation that comes as the nation ne...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:32hrs | 2036 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe magistrates fear granting bail
Time and again, magistrates have been lambasted and ridiculed by High Court judges for denying bail in the lower court. The phrase "magistrate misdirected himself" is now a daily routine. Why do...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | 461 | by Fidelicy Nyamukondiwa
What ZANU PF would do as an Opposition - PART 1
It was at the funeral gathering of the late MDC Alliance MP, Anna Muyambo (MHSRIP) where Job Sikhala noted that the MDC Alliance, despite its so called huge following and popularity, will still be elu...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 12:40hrs | 1322 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
2020: A year of political drama
IN a few weeks' time, we will all be saying good bye to the year 2020, a year that was pregnant with lots of political drama that left citizens in awe.It is the year that the over confident Ne...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 14:16hrs | 675 | by Khumbulani Vodloza
Unpacking Nelson Chamisa; MDC Alliance turns into a coven under Chamisa
The word Coven is defined as "a meeting of witches". Witches are associated with the highest level of cruelty mass destruction and inhuman actions covered in catastrophic end. So in a meeting of w...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 23:55hrs | 1481 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Sikhala cases spill into 2021
Criminal cases against politicians Job Sikhala, Jacob Ngarivhume and Godfrey Tsenengamu, who are accused of inciting public violence ahead of the foiled July 31 demonstration, will soill into 2021. ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:36hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Mnangagwa is sole Zanu-PF candidate in 2023 elections
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga appears to have put to rest, once and for all, claims that he is jostling for power with President Emmerson Mnangagwa - after he recently publicly endorsed his boss...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:19hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
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