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The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1623 | by Nomazulu Thata
WATCH: South Africa's ANC takes Mnangagwa head on over human rights abuses
South African liberation Movement the African National Congress has dispatched Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to confront ZANU PF leader and Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa over the alleged...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:25hrs | 6407 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'State-sponsored violence peaked in July'
THE month of July marked a peak in State-sponsored human rights violations on defenceless citizens, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) noted in its latest report released this week.In the report...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
SADC lawyers blast Mnangagwa
REGIONAL lawyers have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration of creating an environment of fear among citizens through wanton violation of people's rights.The Southern African D...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:01hrs | 4202 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC Alliance activist 'abducted'
THE MDC Alliance Bulawayo province yesterday claimed that suspected State security agents on Tuesday night abducted and tortured another party activist, Nyasha Musundire.The opposition has bee...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
July 31 will definitely come
Well, July 31 is now five days away; it will come and go largely without incident, but it simply represents the largely mutating strategies of the country's sworn enemies.EONS ago, on one fine...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1967 | by Bishop
Witchcraft accusations: Villager sues community for $900,000
A TSHOLOTSHO man accused of witchcraft, was kidnapped by fellow villagers who half-buried him in a shallow pit before sprinkling him with ashes and then urinated on him during a purported witch-hunt r...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:34hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa roped into Hopewell Chin'ono's court case
Nine top media organisations across the world have written to the as Chair of the African Union, and as the President of the Republic of South Africa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the crimi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 4707 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe protests leaders flee their homes
MANY leading players in the planned month-end anti-government mass protests have fled their homes as raids on their residences by suspected State agents continue.This comes as authorities and ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 19:04hrs | 7343 | by Staff reporter
Man sues tsikamtandas for defamation
A TSHOLOTSHO man, accused of witchcraft, was kidnapped by local community members and half buried in a shallow pit before he was sprinkled with ashes and urinated upon during a purported witch-hunt by...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 18:11hrs | 1455 | by Staff reporter
Raids on homes of Mnangagwa's critics escalate
THE government stands accused of escalating its clampdown on critics ahead of the planned July 31 mass demonstrations, which have raised fears of potentially bloody clashes between protesters and secu...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 3717 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Armed men break into teachers union leader's house...say they have orders to kill
Secretary General of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) Robson Chere has reported that armed persons stormed the house of ARTUZ President Obert Msaraure, broke in and threatened ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 7955 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mozambique becomes a hub of extremist islamic terrorists
The' “European” Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs says it fears that the nighbouring Mozambique is becoming a hub of extremist Islamist terrorism.According to reports, the EU Commi...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 10:48hrs | 4457 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC, the architects of Zimbabwe's misery
UNINFORMED Zimbabweans have continuously blamed Government for the current economic meltdown. For almost two decades, some sections of the society have continued to point fingers at the Government for...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 830 | by Khumbula Vodloza Sibanda
MDC Alliance abductees' bail hearing today
MDC-Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and two other party activists accused of lying to the police about being abducted, will know their fate today when the High Court is expected to determine their b...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt says 'UN experts jumped the gun'
Government has dismissed a joint statement by five United Nations (UN) human rights experts, which concluded that three MDC-Alliance youth leaders were abducted as "premature and unreasonable" since i...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Coup plotters, saboteurs outed
The #BlackLivesMatter campaign has been buoyed and given a significant jolt, following the senseless murder of a black man, George Floyd in the United States. Floyd was murdered by a predominantly whi...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1725 | by Trevor Shiri
MDC Alliance trio to know fate today
MDC-Alliance members - Joana Mamombe, Cecillia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova - will today know their fate when Harare regional magistrate Bianca Makwande makes a bail ruling in a matter in which they are...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:08hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Massive political implosion beckons
BACK in the day, there was nothing as maddeningly hectic and nerve-fraying as the monthly pilgrimage of shepherding cattle to the communal dip tank.It really tested your tolerance, patience, s...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:40hrs | 281 | by Bishop Lazarus
The abduction of the three MDC activists explained.
Surely to their word the police have finished their investigations in the alleged abductions of the three MDC Alliance women leaders. For sometime now the press is awash with the charges and arrests o...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 13:46hrs | 6068 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
3 MDC Alliance 'abductees' remanded in custody
Netsai Marova uses a crutch as she is assisted up a flight of stairs by Harare West MP Joanah Mamombe on arrival at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterdayTHREE MDC Alliance activists, who are ...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:39hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
'Time running out for Mnangagwa'
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED businessman Frank Buyanga has said time was running out for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to rein in his wife and children, and warned that his family could author his eventual demis...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:36hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's activists captured on CCTV shopping during time of abduction'
EMBATTLED MDC MP, Joanna Mamombe (27) and party colleagues, Cecilia Chimbiri (31) and Netsai Marova (25) will spend the weekend in jail after their bail ruling was postponed to Monday.The thre...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:14hrs | 10869 | by newzimbabwe
High court drama as police press more charges against abductees
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members on Thursday pressed a cocktail of charges including faking abduction and disappearance against three opposition MDC-Alliance party youth leaders, who are victims...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 12:17hrs | 4043 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa told to 'Stop these guerilla tactics'
Your Excellency,RE: FRANK BUYANGA SADIQI V CHANTELLE TATENDA MUTESWA: CUSTODY MATTERSAs the current President of Zimbabwe, it is prudent that I disclose information relating to the unw...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 8721 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti in crusade to deny Zimbabwe World Bank support
AT a time when the country is grappling with devastating effects of Covid-19, opposition officials are working flat out to ensure that Zimbabwe does not get assistance from international lenders such ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
'MDC-Alliance abduction claims inconsistent'
One of the three MDC-Alliance officials who was allegedly abducted recently comes from a village near where they claim to have been dumped by their abductors, undermining claims that they did not know...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:22hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman in SA court for murdering daughter
A ZIMBABWEAN woman based in South Africa was Wednesday remanded in custody after she appeared in court in that country facing murder charges following the death of her six-year-old daughter early this...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:28hrs | 1573 | by Staff reporter
America bullies Zimbabwe to avoid accountability
The world has been gripped with shock and anger over the cold blooded murder of a black American man by the police while the other officers looked on with not even an effort to stop such inhuman and d...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:21hrs | 1933 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC trio to challenge 'fake abduction' prosecution through ConCourt
MDC Alliance MP Joanna Mamombe and two-party activists are set to take their bid to stop prosecution to the Constitutional Court.The Harare West legislator and activists Cecilia Chimbiri and N...Published: 29 May 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1880 | by newzimbabwe
COVID-19 should not be used to clampdown on journalists - ZCTU
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has said it notes with concern that the government is using the outbreak of COVID-19 as a scapegoat to arrest journalists going about their business and thi...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:43hrs | 172 | by Stephen Jakes
Man kidnaps and rapes ex-lover
A Bulawayo man recently broke into his ex-lover's home and kidnapped her before raping her.This was heard by the Bulawayo magistrate Shepherd Mjanja when Quincy Manda (37) appeared befor...Published: 25 May 2020 at 08:42hrs | 2876 | by Stephen Jakes
Cops guarding hospitalised MDC activists accused of mental torture
POLICE details deployed to monitor three hospitalised female MDC Alliance youth leaders have been accused of mental torture on the activists through alleged harassment.Harare West MP Joanna Ma...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1562 | by newzimbabwe
Nick Mangwana our Joseph Goebbels: Where is Itai Dzamara?
Your nauseating article of today should put even Lucifer to shame. You must tell us where activist Itai Dzamara is. Is Itai Dzamara still stage-managing his ongoing abduction? If your government is go...Published: 24 May 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1094 | by Nomazulu Thata
Is Chamisa part of the plan?
The Editor,There is something particularly unusual about Mamombe etl story. Torture is a standard investigative technique of most African countries' intelligence services and police, as the hu...Published: 17 May 2020 at 17:09hrs | 6208 | by Sam Wezhira
The Zanu PF affair is a curse to Zimbabwe
Immediately after the 2018 harmonised elections, Zapu in consultation with a number of Civic Organisations issued a statement calling for an all-inclusive dialogue that would culminate in the creation...Published: 16 May 2020 at 13:21hrs | 697 | by Mark Mbayiwa Zapu Treasurer General
MDC official recounts 'abduction' ordeal
ONE of the three MDC Alliance officials, Cecilia Chimbiri, who was allegedly abducted on Wednesday, yesterday recounted the horrific sexual and physical abuse they endured at the hands of the kidnappe...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:54hrs | 4473 | by Staff reporter
MDC 'self abductors' must help investigators
Although many of the reported so-called abductions have been shown to be fake in the past, each such report needs to be carefully and openly investigated to find answers to at least three questions: W...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga demands Matanga's suspension
African Medallion Group millionaire Frank Buyanga has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to protest claims by police chief Godwin Matanga that he is a "fugitive from justice."Buyanga wrot...Published: 13 May 2020 at 16:47hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Trio invokes ancient Tonga custom in 'kidnap and rape' incident
TWO brothers and their cousin who allegedly invoked an ancient Tonga custom to kidnap a girl (17) and take her to their homestead where one of them raped her before introducing her to relatives as his...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:40hrs | 883 | by Staff reporter
Sue China for Covid-19, I dare you!
No one felt quite pepped up as Bishop Lazarus when he heard news that some European countries and the United States of America were planning to sue China for the fallout caused by the coronavirus....Published: 10 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 382 | by Bishop Lazarus
Buyanga, Muteswa using courts as 'playground', says High Court judge
An exasperated judge on Thursday said he wished he could stop businessman Frank Buyanga and his ex-girlfriend Chantelle Mutesewa from using courts as a "playground" in their long, drawn-out child cust...Published: 02 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 2368 | by Staff reporter
Crocodile Tears for Workers
Today the world is commemorating the workers as a gesture to recognize their contribution to livelihood. There are indeed many words that sound good but i...Published: 01 May 2020 at 09:27hrs | 1650 | by F.A. Mageba Zapu Youth Front - Bulawayo East
Buyanga a fugitive from justice, says Police chief
Frank Buyanga, who snatched his five-year-old son from his ex-girlfriend movie style last month, is now regarded as a fugitive from justice after fleeing the country with the boy, Police Commissioner-...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga placed on Interpol red alert?
THE Zimbabwe government has enlisted the services of the International Police (Interpol) to help arrest flamboyant businessman Frank Buyanga claiming he is a fugitive.Buyanga has been involved...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 12:21hrs | 2109 | by Staff reporter
State wants judge's son's tried by retired judge
THE Prosecutor-General's Office yesterday demanded that High Court judge Justice Garainesu Mawadze's son, Munyaradzi's bail application must not be heard by any sitting judge of the High Court, but ra...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga's SA lawyers respond to 24-hour ultimatum
On 16 April 2020 the High Court in Zimbabwe made a provisional Commission and the Judicial Services Commission in March order that our client, Mr Frank Buyanga Sadiqi, must return his son,...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:41hrs | 938 | by William Wilcock
Buyanga hangs on to son despite court ultimatum
BUSINESSMAN Frank Buyanga, embroiled in a bitter fight for the custody of son with ex, Chantelle Muteswa, has vowed to appeal a Thursday High Court ruling ordering him to return the minor within 24 ho...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:58hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga challenges court order
Businessman Frank Buyanga, who was given 24 hours by the High Court to return his five-year-old child he forcibly took from the mother at Waterfalls Shopping Centre recently, Friday said he was filing...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 17:08hrs | 1350 | by Staff reporter
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