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Call for suspension of Zimbabwe's 2023 polls
PEACE activist, pastor and businessman Anglistone Sibanda says the Zanu-PF-led government should consider postponing this year's polls because the situation on the ground demands it.Sibanda ma...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
Biden, EU spoil Mnangagwa's party
United States President Joe Biden says actions and policies of some Zimbabwe government officials continue to undermine the country's democratic processes in a vote-of-no-confidence in President Emmer...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:26hrs | 2528 | by Staff reporter
European Union extends Zimbabwe sanctions by another year
The European Union has extended sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year after expressing concerns over the slow pace of reforms.Sanctions first imposed in 2002 previously targeted individuals ac...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 19:16hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
EU begs to deploy observers to Zimbabwe
THE European Union (EU) says it is ready to send an observer mission to help Zimbabwe hold free, fair and inclusive elections this year, which will guarantee the bloc's increased economic development ...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:06hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe security forces stifling dissent'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is expected to win the forthcoming general elections while the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will reject the results setting Zimbabwe on another disputed poll...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:24hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire
Civil society organisations have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of refusing to implement electoral reforms in order to gain an unfair advantage in this year's hamornised elections.The cl...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 15:11hrs | 5856 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa complicit in brutalisation of Zimbabweans
Of late, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been making a lot of noise over supposed "sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe".He has used every opportunity to speak to both his local audience ...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 1578 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ramaphosa complicit in brutalization of innocent Zimbabweans by regime!
Of late, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been making a lot of noise over supposed 'sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe'.He has used every opportunity to speak to both his local audience ...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 17:33hrs | 769 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF's G40 member quits politics
Former Harare South legislator, Shadreck Mashayamombe says he has quit active politics to focus on his business and farming.He said the decision was personal."It is true, I decided to ...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:10hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
MPs for sale, damnable loans
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, the Legislature ought to have felt unease about the impropriety of accepting housing loans from Treasury at a time hospitals are...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:43hrs | 330 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Bloodshed of Zimbabwe's past elections has citizens bracing for what's to come next year
"Just thinking of voting causes me to become more afraid," Maxwell Tauro told The Globe and Mail. I might be met with bullets. I'm just fearful that I might get shot like my son."With a new el...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:40hrs | 360 | by Jeffrey Moyo for The Globe & Mail
US NGO paints gloomy picture of Zanu-PF
A RECENT report by the World Justice Project (WJP) which ranked Zimbabwe among the world's most authoritarian states is a damning indictment on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lack of political will to...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs law for complaints against security forces
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has gazetted into law the Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission Act, which paves the way for people to report acts of misconduct by security services.The law ...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 20:59hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, how far with the hyped mega deals?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, there is still no evidence of the mega deals you hyped about during your inauguration. Corruption is still rampant. And, there is dead silenc...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | 327 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Will Mnangagwa ever learn, reform?
IN terms of the constitution, Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections will be convened either in July or August. Already, it seems inevitable that the Gukurahundi genocide could turn out to be one of Matabe...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:19hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi under fire over 2018 army shootings
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has written to Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi demanding answers on the compensation of August 1, 2018 army shooting victims.Six people were fatally shot a...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:42hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under pressure over Chamisa attacks
THE European Union (EU) has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to allow the opposition to campaign freely following increasing violent attacks on Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members by suspect...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:55hrs | 1458 | by Staff reporter
US$2 for 2018 army shooting victims
GOVERNMENT reportedly gave $1 000 only as "compensation" to families of the August 1, 2018 army shooting victims, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.The amount, given to assist burial of those kille...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:13hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
'No compensation yet for August 2018 shooting victims'
CRISIS in Coalition Zimbabwe (CiCZ) has urged government to account for the August 1, 2018 post-election shootings during which six civilians were shot dead by soldiers, and compensate survivors....Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:52hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shields killer soldiers from justice
ZIMBABWEAN human rights organisations under the Crisis in Zimbabwe banner have engaged former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, raising questions and seeking global support in dealing with th...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:59hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
SA likely to get observer status in 2023 Zimbabwe elections
Through its participation in regional governance bodies, South Africa will likely act as an elections observer when Zimbabweans go to the polls in 2023.According to International Relations and...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:51hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA friction laid bare as tensions rise
SIMMERING tensions between Zimbabwe and South Africa this week exploded after an outburst by a top provincial health official in the neighbouring country who took swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2777 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under pressure from EU over Chamisa attacks
THE European Union (EU) has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to allow the opposition to campaign freely following increasing violent attacks on Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members by suspect...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:19hrs | 3448 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ignores Motlanthe advice, 4 years on
SOLDIERS who shot and killed innocent civilians on 1 August 2018 have not been prosecuted, four years on, with growing calls for justice falling on deaf ears.Despite appointing former So...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:41hrs | 1322 | by Staff reporter
August 1 shooting victim wins $3m compensation
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri and her Home Affairs counterpart, Kazembe Kazembe, have been ordered to pay $3 million in compensation to a victim of the August 1, 2018 shootings by the army....Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1475 | by Staff reporter
Biti urges international intervention in 'abnormal' Zimbabwe situation
ON Monday, Zimbabwe marked the fourth anniversary of the August 1, 2018 tragedy when the military was unleashed to forcefully put down post-election violent post-election demonstrations resultin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2702 | by Staff reporter
2018 shootings still haunt victims
VICTIMS of the August 1, 2018 post-election shootings are still struggling to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones, four years on.None of them have received any form of government s...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC remembers August 1 shooting victims
ON this day four years ago, security forces fired on Harare residents in the central business district (CBD) following post-election protests after delays by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:08hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aide hunts for Mambo's owner, after Masarira diss
IRKED by a joke on opposition leader, Linda Masarira, by fast food outlet Mambo's Chicken's marketing team, chief director for strategic communication in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) ...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:27hrs | 3398 | by Staff reporter
So tragic that Zimbabwe regime respects animals more than its own citizens!
This morning I watched, in profound amazement, a news report on the Zimbabwe government's impassioned pleading with the EU (European Union) to support the country's cause at this year's CITES Conferen...Published: 17 May 2022 at 11:01hrs | 1593 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chegutu villagers relive night of terror
"THEY must rot in jail!" Selma Modi (38) of Kalembo Farm in Chegutu yelled as she narrated her harrowing ordeal of last Tuesday night at the hands of armed Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) personnel....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Lux exposed - The disturbing picture behind the masks of the man heading Operation Dudula
Nhlanhla "Lux" Mohlauhi (also Dlamini) has been churning up anti-foreigner sentiment and bursting into people's homes like a vigilante, instilling fear and panic in refugee and immigrant communities....Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 10:41hrs | 8549 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has ignored calls to stop torture'
ZIMBABWE has adopted only 127 out of 264 recommendations made during the third cycle of Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process on January 26 and ignored recommendations on torture and other hum...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:59hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
NPRC: The paper tiger that never dared to bite
When the 2013 constitution ushered in the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission, there was a ray hope that the long-standing conflicts in the tumultuous history of Zimbabwe would finally be res...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:06hrs | 61 | by Tapiwanashe Chiringa
SA position on Zimbabwe exemption permit holders will trigger humanitarian crisis
THE South African government recently made a decision not to extend the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) regime that expired on December 31, 2021, opting instead to let the programme lapse.Th...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 399 | by Rebone Tau
Time to end political violence culture
WITH by-elections scheduled for March 26, a few weeks away, there is rising concern over pockets of violence being recorded in some parts of the country.Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Chan...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, break these chains
ONE of Zanu-PF's defining traits is impunity - accentuated by the party leaders' utter disdain for the rule of law and constitutionalism.The primitive arrogance is on display everywhere. Someo...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:34hrs | 237 | by Brezh Malaba
Mnangagwa, who has bewitched you?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as I see it, the spirit of the Lord is not upon the clerics who surround you. They were not anointed to preach the good news to the poor. The...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1131 | by Cyprian Muketiwa
'Unity Day commemorations now ritualistic, meaningless'
ZIMBABWE's Unity Day has become a mere ritual, with Zanu-PF failing to adhere to the principles of the 1987 agreement, observers said yesterday.Zanu-PF, then under the late former President Ro...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:23hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Fifa dismisses Bafana Bafana's attempt to qualify through the back door
The SA Football Association (Safa) has had its protest to Fifa against the result of Bafana Bafana's 1-0 World Cup qualifying defeat to Ghana in Cape Coast on November 14 dismissed. The heavil...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 18:43hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's mustn't greenwash his govt's crimes
SINCE becoming President in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly paid lip service to calls for democratic reform, did little to further human rights and democratic freedoms in the co...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:30hrs | 37 | by Tafi Mhaka
The Hypocrisy Of Mnangagwa
SINCE becoming the president of Zimbabwe in November 2017, despite repeatedly paying lip service to calls for democratic reform, Emmerson Mnangagwa did little to further human rights and democratic fr...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slowly morphing into a Mugabe
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, it was typical of Zanu-PF banality that its 19th National Annual People's Conference, held in Bindura last week, rubber-stamped your candidac...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 13 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
EU demands Zimbabwe reforms
THE European Union (EU) has maintained a tough stance on Zimbabwe saying that the southern African country must fully implement the 2018 election observer mission recommendations (EOM) before the 2023...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Sadc ignores Zimbabwe 'crisis'
SADC has not responded to a plea by Zimbabwean civil society organisations (CSOs) which last month petitioned the organ to intervene and order President Emmerson Mnangagwa to, among other things, call...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt excitement over UK trip premature
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's planned visit to the United Kingdom for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change next month has generated a lot of excitement in the corridors of power....Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Polad financing is illegal'
UNITED Kingdom (UK) based Law Lecturer Alex Magaisa has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to seek amendment of the Political Parties Financing Act (PPF Act) if he wants to use public funds to pamper ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Punitive sanctions will tame rogue parties: Zec
The Zimbabwe electoral Commission (Zec) has called for enactment of laws to penalise political parties which violate the code of conduct during election campaigns.Speaking during an election o...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'AU, Sadc can rein in rogue Zimbabwe soldiers'
MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have called on Parliament to appoint persons from the African Union (AU) and the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) to head the Independent Complaints Commission ...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa flies into Gukurahundi storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow fly into a storm as he visits Bulawayo to meet Matabeleland chiefs to review progress made in addressing Gukurahundi issues.Civic society organisatio...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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