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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: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:22hrs | 3894 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's two-year rule: The verdict is 'total disaster'
TWO years after winning the disputed 2018 poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has performed dismally towards implementing political and economic reforms perceived as key to ending Zimb...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2602 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe and police Boss Godwin Matanga sucked in human rights abuses
The #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign has put Zimbabwe's internal security enforcers under scrutiny. The government is accused of abusing and stifling citizens human rights and liberties. The wo...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:35hrs | 3714 | by Alex Muzuva
July 31 exposed Mnangagwa
In order to legitimise anti-democratic politics, violence and human rights abuses to the world, Zanu-PF has gone back to its exhausted ideological settings.This follows a widespread call by ac...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 9857 | by Phillan Zamchiya
I do not know that Shiri was a hero
In the good old times at The Sunday Mail with editor Willie Musarurwa, if late news arrived when we were going to press, it would be typed in blue ink and labelled, Late News.So it was, when I...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:28hrs | 7519 | by Kenneth Mufuka
13 arrests as army, police quash demo
PEACEFUL protesters, among them prominent novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, were arrested yesterday as heavily armed soldiers and police crushed the planned pro...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 142 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Zimbabwe businesses closed, streets deserted on day of protests
Businesses were shut and streets deserted around Zimbabwe on Friday as security forces increased patrols to stop anti-government protests called by activists over corruption and economic hardship....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 2257 | by Staff reporter
3 'abducted' MDC ladies and their lawyer arrested
Police in Harare have arrested opposition activists MP Joana Mamombe and activists Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova on their way to report at Central police station as part of their bail conditions....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:30hrs | 3754 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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
MDC Alliance, Zanu-PF trade insults
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti yesterday described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as a "terrorist organisation" and a "bloodthirsty" regime planning to spill the blood o...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:57hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF working on liquidating MDC Alliance'
MDC Alliance has accused Zanu-PF of using State machinery in its attempts to liquidate the opposition, party co-vice president Tendai Biti has claimed.Addressing the media Wednesday, Biti also...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:54hrs | 1287 | by newzimbabwe
Mr Mnangagwa: Are you not kicking the can down the road?
DEAR President ED Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, I hope I find you well. The political script playing out in Zimbabwe is quite familiar not only to me, but many other citizens now fed up with the ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 3709 | by Rashweat Mukundu
Mnangagwa has failed to justify imposition of curfew
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday announced a raft of measures to contain and mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) after a sharp increase in infections in the country....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:23hrs | 3275 | by Staff reporter
United Nations calls out Mnangagwa
THE Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) has reacted angrily to increasing cases of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown. In a statement yesterday, UNHCR...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 6376 | by Staff reporter
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1399 | by Brian T Kagoro
Absolute power, The precursor to deceptive democracy in Africa; The case of Zimbabwe
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (John Dalberg-Acton)In Shakespeare's Macbeth play, the relationship between the amount of power Macbeth obtained and the corrup...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:46hrs | 923 | by Peter Muzira
View from up here - Absolute power, the precursor to deceptive democracy in Africa; The case of Zimbabwe
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (John Dalberg-Acton) In Shakespeare's Macbeth play, the relationship between the amount of power Macbeth obtained and the corrupt a...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 446 | by Peter Muzira
#July31 and #Zanupfmustgo: Another failed political heist in the making
The 31st July movement which is being propelled mainly by Jonathan Moyo and his G40 associates is another failed political heist in the making, after all else has failed to unseat, a duly elected gove...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 13:59hrs | 2608 | by Zvinyaningwe Mangwiro
'Mnangagwa will continue to arrest rights activists'
THE government will continue arresting human rights for violating Covid-19 lockdown regulations, Nick Mangwana, the Information Ministry secretary has warned.In the past few weeks, Zimbabwe ha...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:22hrs | 4220 | by newzimbabwe
'Mnangagwa determined to re-engage'
ZIMBABWE is determined to re-engage the world and is doing everything it can to improve the economic welfare of its people but needs the albatross rock of illegal economic sanctions imposed by western...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest MDC Alliance youth chair
Disturbing news reaching us is that Emmerson Mnangagwa's illegitimate regime has once again illegally arrested one of our MDC Alliance Youth Chairperson, Sekai 'Muchaina' Marashe ahead of July 31. ...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 14:54hrs | 3590 | by Stephen Jakes
Fighting at funerals unAfrican, stop it
MY Dear People,I would like to start by paying my deepest condolences to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa following the death of his mother recently.The loss of a mother is a major blow ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:59hrs | 416 | by Dr Stop It
Journalists plead not guilty to disorderly conduct charges
TWO freelance journalists on Thursday pleaded not guilty when their trial on charges of failing to comply with instructions issued by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members to observe social dist...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 08:57hrs | 185 | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU PF Clueless as Nation Crisis Looms in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is in humanitarian meltdown; cases of corrupt officials and torture of citizens have become the talk of the day. The once breadbasket of Southern Africa has been reduced to begging for food a...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2088 | by Prince Njagu
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
NGO director imprisoned over anti Mnangagwa slur as Haruzivishe, Masaraure are freed on bail
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Tuesday condemned Epraim Mutombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRD), a local non-governmental organisation, to prison afte...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 2995 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa abducted, dumped near railway line
MDC Alliance youth chairperson for Goromonzi South, Davison Chamisa, who claims abduction by suspected state security agents in Ruwa Sunday, has been found, with claims of being drugged and dumped som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1898 | by newzimbabwe
We have no power, we are just civilians
I'm writing this to Emerson Mnangagwa, the Minister of Defence, the Minister of Home Affairs and the Minister of Central Intelligence Officer or whatever he or she might be called.Please do no...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 23:13hrs | 2541 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chamisa's activists freed on $10 000 bail each
HIGH COURT judge, David Foroma Friday freed embattled MDC Alliance MP Joanna Mamombe and two party activists on $10 000 bail each.Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova are being accused ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:11hrs | 678 | by newzimbabwe
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 10090 | by Brian Raftopoulos
Kazembe cornered over MDC 'abductees' case
HUMAN rights lawyers have put Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on the spot, demanding that he proves State claims that three MDC Alliance officials currently in remand prison raised false allegat...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 2306 | by Staff reporter
Students, unionist set free for protesting against detention of abductees and demanding US$ salaries
CHINHOYI Magistrate Felix Mawadze on Tuesday released eight Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) students, who had been arrested for allegedly protesting against the clampdown on human rights defen...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 14:08hrs | 1326 | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe's MDC-T pleads with govt to free 'abducted' MDC Alliance activists
MDC-T spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni has pleaded with the state to free MDC Alliance MP, Joanna Mamombe and two female party activists who are languishing in remand prison for 'falsely' claiming abdu...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 21:53hrs | 4317 | by newzimbabwe
No joy for MDC-Alliance activists
HIGH Court judge David Foroma has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by MDC-Alliance youth leaders - Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova - who have been denied bail for ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:20hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
MDC 'abduction' trio's lawyer quizzed by Justice Foroma
THREE MDC Alliance officials charged with faking abduction have denied publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the state and instead, accused the law enforcement agency of leaking their recorded statemen...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 5185 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, activists' freedom bid ruling judgement reserved
HIGH COURT judge, David Foroma has reserved his judgement on bail appeal by three MDC Alliance activists, Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova.The three was being accused of publ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 20:01hrs | 2926 | by newzimbabwe
Magistrate who denied bail to MDC 'abduction' trio is promoted
A magistrate who denied bail to three female MDC Alliance activists accused of staging their own abduction has been promoted.Bianca Makwande refused bail for Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Nets...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 2652 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hates women: Tanyanyiwa
MDC Alliance women's assembly member Barbra Tanyanyiwa has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa hate women so much that his government has resorted to harassing young women such as the MDC Alliance legis...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:49hrs | 1635 | by Stephen Jakes
US worries over abuse of women in Zimbabwe and not blacks in America
THE United States has expressed concern over the State-sponsored violence and political persecution of women in Zimbabwe and called for investigation and prosecution of perpetrators.This follo...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
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 | 864 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Your prayers are going nowhere!
Under different circumstances, a call by the country's leadership for atonement, supplication and prayer brings about a sobering moment to the populace. It is my painful duty to inform you that the ca...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:38hrs | 404 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Is Zimbabwe on the brink of becoming a dictatorship?
Barely a month after three MDC-Alliance cadres, legislator Joanna Mamombe, youth leaders Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova were arrested and mysteriously went missing under police custody; two more b...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:41hrs | 1271 | by Prince Njagu
Police, army cannot deny daylight atrocities
IF denials by the Zimbabwe National Army and the Zimbabwe Republic Police are to be taken for truth, our country has certainly become a dangerous place to live and invest in, where marauding bogus arm...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:31hrs | 971 | by Kennedy Kaitano
MDC trio says their arrest a cover up
MDC Alliance youth leaders - Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova - have said their arrest over falsifying abduction was meant to cover up their alleged abduction and tortu...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:17hrs | 4930 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces sterner test
EMBATTLED President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing his sternest economic test since assuming power in 2017 as the crash of the Zimbabwean dollar pushes up prices, amid growing disenchantment with his le...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 9792 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality Why the Zimbabwe, US outrage is different
THE past few weeks have seen unprecedented global outrage at the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while Floy...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 731 | by Dzikamai Bere
Another bleak weekend for 3 MDC 'abductees'
THE MDC Alliance officials, who are facing charges of publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State and defeating the course of justice, will have to endure another weekend behind bars after their ap...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activists approach High Court for bail
INCARCERATED Harare West MP, Joanna Mamombe and two female MDC Alliance activists, Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri have approached the High Court seeking bail.The trio is facing allegations...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 282 | by newzimbabwe
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