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Mthwakazi State proponents have exhausted internal remedies
Mqondisi Moyo, leader of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), has announced that the party has exhausted all internal avenues in their quest to restore the Mthwakazi State and address issues such as th...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:15hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Why a farmer is riding from Zimbabwe to Windhoek on a horse
When Ben Freeth headed west on horseback from the derelict Mount Carmel farm near Chegutu in Zimbabwe on 28 November, he had to lay low. For about 800km, Freeth avoided roads and stuck to the bush, fo...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 20:05hrs | 16 | by GroundUp
Chamisa boycotts, Nhlanhla Ndiweni calls for sanctions on Zimbabwe
On Wednesday this week, the Mike Campbell Foundation (MCF), held its 10th Anniversary Celebrations at the Royal Geographical Society in London, themed: "An exciting journey of hope: Stories from the p...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
I voted multiple times for people living in the diaspora at the insistence of Tobaiwa Mudede
Tobaiwa Mudede, a Mugabe's apologetic civil servant who is somehow immune to retirement is a perennial electoral impostor, manipulator of the voters roll and an agent of corrupting the democratic elec...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 11:33hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Zimbabweans campaign against UK visa refusal
The Vigil has launched a petition to the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, following the refusal of visas to Zimbabwean human rights activists invited to address audiences in London.The pet...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 21:02hrs | 2 | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Zimbabwean activists denied UK visas
A leading British parliamentarian has said it is disgraceful that prominent Zimbabwean civil rights campaigners are being refused visas to visit the UK to talk about the struggle against Mugabe and hi...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 18:12hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Zimbabwe 'white farmer's arms cache' exaplained
The Mike Campbell Foundation has defended the white commercial farmer Geofrey Kelly McKinnon (66) after state media accused him of keeping firearms at his farm.According to the foundation, the...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 20:55hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Command Agriculture - the latest 'plan' to resolve Zimbabwe's hunger problem
Ever since 2001, a year after the brutal invasion of Zimbabwe's commercial farms began, the country has been dependent on vast volumes of international food aid. Thanks to the generosity of farm...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Ben Freeth, Zimbabwe
Heal Zimbabwe conduct consultative meting on NPRC bill in Harare
Last week the Heal Zimbabwe conducted a public consultative meeting on the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Bill at Crowne Plaza hotel in Harare attended by 503 people. According t...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's Zimbabwe slides into famine
Zimbabwe's schizophrenia is in vivid evidence on Friday afternoons in the capital Harare's leafy northern suburbs.At the Tin Cup restaurant round the back of the Chisipite Shopping Centre, whi...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 18:54hrs | 3 | by Newsweek
Tsvangirai's greatest gift to Zimbabwe would be to step down
Ben Freeth says Morgan Tsvangirai's greatest gift to his country would be to step down as the grandfather of the MDC-T.As Zimbabwe slides deeper into economic crisis, despondency and decay, pe...Published: 09 May 2015 at 15:28hrs | | by Ben Freeth
How to fight Zimbabwe-style land grabs
Speech by Ben Freeth to the Guide on Land Grabs in South Africa, AfriForum Conference, Pretoria, March 18 2015The Fight Using the Light for Property Ri...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Ben Freeth
Mugabe's rudderless regime
It is becoming clear that there is no one in charge in Zimbabwe. There is a leadership vacuum. No sooner does one minister make a policy statement than another contradicts it.After Finance Min...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 17:26hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Why I cannot endorse Zimbabwe's new constitution
We have all waited long for Zimbabwe's new constitution. I wish to focus on a fundamental and principle part of this long and wordy document which, at 164 pages, stretches to the length of a sho...Published: 31 Jan 2013 at 09:51hrs | | by Ben Freeth
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