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ZANU-PF's 'liberation' lie: The party never fought for democracy
In a recently circulating audio clip, a former senior Zimbabwean army commander made the shocking declaration that if there are any attempts to remove ZANU-PF from power, bloodshed will follow. ...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 19:58hrs | 352 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Netanyahu orders UN to evacuate Lebanon peacekeepers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres withdraw UNIFIL peacekeepers from southern Lebanon, adding that by remaining there they are "providing...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 15:33hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa - Hichilema relations soured
The strained diplomatic relations between Zambia and Zimbabwe, culminating in Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema's boycott of the recent 44th Sadc summit in Harare, have deep roots tracing back to t...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 11:53hrs | 1276 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer told to report army boss Sanyatwe to the police
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has declined to publicly address army general Anselem Sanyatwe's suggestion that the military could impose command voting on Zimbabweans. Lawyer Thabani...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 07:39hrs | 2290 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe General's remarks raise alarm
Lieutenant-General Anselem Sanyatwe's recent statements, asserting "command voting" by the military and declaring perpetual rule for Zanu-PF, have ignited significant alarm and condemnation. T...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 13:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reportyer
Mnangagwa's 2023 strategy
Zimbabwe's general election is several months away but many opposition figures say they are already battling intense government repression similar to the iron-fisted rule of Robert Mugabe, the former ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt taking country back to Ian Smith era'
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) says the current Zanu-PF led government was taking the country back to the dark pre-independence period when the black majority was subjected to tough security laws...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe coalition bemoans heroes
Crisis in Zimbabwe coalition bemoans the strides made by the heroes during the liberation struggle and what has been attained since independence as we cel...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 13:48hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Respect Russia's interests, says Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday that the settlement of the situation around Ukraine is possible only if Moscow's interests a...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Crisis Coalition blasts Mnangagwa's spin doctor
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has vowed to continue with its pursuit for a democratic society in the wake of continued intimidation by some top government officials irked by the NGO grouping's w...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:33hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa remains ready to meet Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance secretary for presidential affairs Jameson Timba says Nelson Chamisa is still keen to meet with President Mnangagwa to help resolve Zimbabwe's decades-long political and economic challeng...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: ZCTU blasts General Chiwenga's move
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has learnt with dismay moves by the government to enlist into the army all graduating junior doctors before they could be employed by the government....Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 16:56hrs | 11 | by ZCTU
Chamisa's MDC begs SADC
MDC Media and Diplomatic Briefing ahead of the 21st Meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Ministerial Committee of the Organ (MCO) on Politics, ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 20:05hrs | | by Gladys Hlatywayo
Mnangagwa told to release all political prisoners
The continued clampdown on civic society activists by the government of Zimbabwe clearly reveals a deliberate attempt to close the democratic space in the country.Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition ...Published: 28 May 2019 at 12:25hrs | | by CiZC
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 12 | by PUMA
#myzimbabwedream - Playing our role
As the world commemorates Workers Day, National People's Party (NPP) joins the Nation in mourning the loss of freedom and happiness of our workers..Freedom for the workers means eradication of...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Themba Ndebele
Biti shreds Mnangagwa's new Peace and Order Act
MDC Deputy National Chairperson Tendai has blasted the proposed Maintenance of Peace and Order Act which is set to replace the notorious Public Order Security Act. Parliament has invited the p...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 18:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
The fallacy of Zanu-PF and civil society engagements.
Songs of praises from many quarters are now being sung for Mnangagwa after his minister pledged that following a meeting with a collection of Civic Society organizations the regime was going to allow ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 19:36hrs | 2 | by Lovejean Ndlovu
Teachers to engage in a crippling strike
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has resolved to engage in a massive job action to protest the low wages that teachers are getting. In a press statement released on Mon...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Way out of Zimbabwe's mess is for Zanu PF and MDC to step down - both are illegitimate
If MDC had listened, first, to the repeated appeals for the party to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU and then to the warnings not to take party in the elections without first implement...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's Statement to the Press
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa's Statement to the Press on the 6th of March 2019 - Morgan Richard Tsvangirai HouseDefining a new course for Zimbabwe.(New Direction, New Ideas)Ba...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:13hrs | 1 | by Adv. Nelson Chamisa
'The Negotiations'
The Movement for Democratic Change Alliance's new method of keeping sanctions on Zimbabwe, while pretending not to support sanctions is to keep on demanding "Negotiations." Nelson Chamisa said, "I am ...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Sam Wezhira
Mothlante Commission Report: Equating the victim to the perpetrator - MDC
The MDC notes the release into the public domain the report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Violence of 1 August 2018, which report has confirmed what we all knew that the military shot in...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 11:22hrs | | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
A year after Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean politics appear to have changed due to the media reportage of the past twelve months since Robert Mugabe's ouster in the political scene. The question of a new Zimbabwe in the name of the n...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Brian Maregedze
ED rigged the elections, first came cash shortage and next is the exodus - no lights to turn out
"If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights." Screamed the headlines in The Sun April 1992, Britain's leading tabloid newspaper. Neil Kinnock, Labour, did n...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ED rigged elections, per se, illegitimate and 'Chamisa holds the key' argue Biti - what a narcissist
Zimbabwe is in serious trouble already with unemployment at the dizzying heights of 90%, basic services such as clean running water and health all but collapsed and 75% of our people living on US$1.00...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 16:37hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa holds keys to economy, says Biti
FORMER Finance minister and opposition MDC Alliance co-principal, Tendai Biti yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to swallow his pride and engage his rival Nelson Chamisa for dialogue to ...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance demonstration an admission of imminent electoral defeat
On 23 April 2018 MDC Alliance presidential candidate and MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa, claimed that his party had unearthed Zanu PF's alleged election rigging machinery and was now confident of an out...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Nicole Hondo
Pressure must be mounted to demilitaries and democratise politics in Zimbabwe
A political commentator Pedzisayi Ruhanya has prompted that pressure must be piled to the international community to put more effort in forcing Zimbabwe to demilitarise and democratise politics in Zim...Published: 09 May 2018 at 11:09hrs | | by Stephen James
What Mujuru told the senate committee
Rainbow Coalition ( PRC) Leader President Dr JTR Mujuru met the Visiting United States of America Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Harare on the 6th of April 2018. The US Committee is...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 13:38hrs | | by Adv Gift Nyandoro
Like it or not Mr president they shall be electoral reforms
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by Dr J. R. Mujuru notes with serious concern that despite writing to Mr E. D. Mnangagwa a plea for political and electoral reforms on the 23rd of February 2018, a...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 14:02hrs | | by Adv Gift Nyandoro
Chamisa meets Carter Centre observer mission
President Nelson Chamisa today held meetings with the Carter Centre pre-election observer team where he bemoaned the lack of comprehensive reforms that will ensure the free expression of the sovereign...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 16:48hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
'Silaigwana appointment a consolidation of the militarisation of ZEC'
The appointment of Utoile Silaigwana as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Acting Chief Elections Officer has rattled pro-democracy activists in Zimbabwe who feel the move is a consolidation of t...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 15:54hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Change is good, only if its real
Change is always good in any environment, but then only if it is real.The army which from 1980 has been in charge of Zimbabwe hiding behind civilian authority came out in the open and sold people a du...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Albert T Kadada
1893 MHRRM on another Matebele 'Gukurahundi' Genocide Demo in the UK
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement's (1893 MHRRM's) supreme organ, the International Board, hereby announces that its 1893 MHRRM's UK Chapter will be holding another Matebele "Gukura...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 20:45hrs | | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Co-Secretary for Information and Publicity
Youth activists 'tortured' at military barracks, suffer severe fractures - CZC
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition notes with great concern the arrest, detention and torture of youth activists in Bulawayo who demanded that President Mnangagwa comes clean on his role in Gukurahundi ...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 11:20hrs | 7 | by Tabani Moyo, Memory P. Kadau
1893 MHRRM ups its Gukurahundi Genocide Demos Campaign in London and Johannesburg
Gratitude and many thanks First and foremost, we extend our gratitude and many thanks to the BBC and Al Jezeera for highlighting our Genocide. Many thanks a...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 15:08hrs | 1 | by Thembani Dube
1893 calls for a Matebele 'Gukurahundi' Genocide Demo in London on the 23rd December 2017
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) plans to conduct demonstrations against the Zimbabwean government for the genocide this government committed against the Matebele peop...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 20:08hrs | | by 1893 MHRRM
Zimbabwe lawlessness exposed
All hopes of the dawn of a new era after the military coup have suddenly been dashed by reported violence and incidents of human rights infringement by the military across the country. It is poor thin...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 15:39hrs | | by Zenzo Siziba
The Zimbabwean cabinet militarized
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said it is concerned with the deliberate militarization of cabinet and government by the coup leaders of this country."As well as recycling dead wood, this therefo...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 10:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi party raps Mnangagwa over new cabinet
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said it notes with concern the deliberate militarization of cabinet and government by the coup leaders of this country."As well as recycling dead wood, this ...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 11:18hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The Militarization of the Motherland
November 2017 will forever be etched in the Zimbabwean citizens' mind as the month that President Robert Mugabe was finally forced out of his position as President of the Republic of Zimbabwe....Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 10:11hrs | | by Gwinyai Regis Taruvinga
Beyond change of govt in Zimbabwe - Aspirations and expectations
A ZAPU perspective In the aftermath of events in November of 2017, events that ushered in a new dispensation in Zimbabwe, ZAPU remains cognisant of societal fears, aspirations, interests and e...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Iphithule Maphosa
UN should arrange emergency elections in Zimbabwe
[Extract from briefing to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutterres delivered by Ken Sibanda Esq]Dear Sir:No grievance can justify the unconstitutional removal of a government...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 17:22hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Mujuru Tsvangirai coalition a problematic exercise in futile gains
I, Farai Maguwu, am distressed to learn that MDC-T leader Morgan Richard Tsvangirai has signed an MOU with the National People First leader Joyce Mujuru. First, this coalition is insufficient to deal ...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 17:22hrs | | by Farai Maguwu
SADC must act on the Zimbabwean crisis
The People's Democratic Party urges SADC to act on the concerns of the Zimbabwean people instead of adopting the current passive by-standing approach.A crisis has been brewing in Zimbabwe for ...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 11:17hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
How Zanu PF underdeveloped Zimbabwe 1980-2018 -Tapiwa Mashakada
MDC-T Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs Tapiwa Mashakada has chronicled the events in how Zanu PF has run down the country since year 1980."To make the story short, i will not b...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
NTA will safeguard the people against Zanu PF bloodshed, says Biti
The proposed National Transitional Authority (NTA) will safeguard the people against bloodshed in the face of Zanu PF's failure to run the economy and manage its succession, President Tendai Biti ...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 17:20hrs | | by PDP
PDP's statement on Zambia elections
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) would like to congratulate the people of Zambia for coming out in large numbers and voting peacefully in last week's general elections.However, as PDP we no...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 20:06hrs | | by Settlement Chikwinya
The case of a National Transitional Authority
Waiting for GodotWananchi, the motherland continues to heave and suffocate under the weight of a sterile oligarchy, exhausted and indeed frail nationalism, downright statism, indifference and ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 16:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
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