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Footprints in the chains: The life story of Job Sikhala
The book, Footprints in Chains: The Life Story of Job Sikhala, is less biographical than an indelible account of human rights abuses, the excesses of a securocratic state that is Zimbabwe under the cu...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 19:07hrs | 528 | by Author: Munyaradzi Savanhu, Reviewed by: Ibbo Mandaza
Uganda's long-serving Museveni to seek reelection
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni will seek reelection for another term in polls due early next year to extend his nearly four-decade rule, according to a senior official from the ruling party....Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 09:38hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Botswana president rebukes leaders clinging to power
Botswana President Duma Boko has condemned leaders who attempt to extend their presidential terms beyond the established limits, boldly stating that such leaders are failures. His remarks came during ...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:36hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Ballots and Bullets: The Struggle for Democracy in Africa
Since the wave of independence that swept across Africa in the 1960s, the promise of democracy has remained elusive for much of the continent. The dream of democratic governance, where leaders are acc...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 08:34hrs | 796 | by Rutendo Vanessa Chisi
Mnangagwa seeks to silence guns in DRC
SADC Chairperson and Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to depart for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, today to attend the joint SADC-East African Community (EAC) Summit. The high-level meeting se...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:36hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
SADC and EAC join forces to address DRC security crisis
Efforts are underway to restore full control of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to its central government as SADC and the East African Community (EAC) prepare for a joint Extraordinary Summit i...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 07:27hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Ugandan opposition's Bobi Wine claims to have been shot in leg
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has been injured in the leg in a confrontation with a policeman in uniform, his personal assistant has told the BBC.Najja Ssenyonjo said the pop star-turned...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 10:32hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dynastic ambitions laid bare
VIRAL images of President Emmerson Mnangagwa pictured alongside his twin sons Sean and Collins have raised eyebrows amid suspicions that this could be a strategy to psych the nation into accepting the...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 20:57hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can rescue legacy by simply following the constitution
THE overriding theme of this week has been the drive by elements of the ruling Zanu PF party to push for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to run for a third term at the 2028 elections. Bikita Sout...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to intensify lobby for UN Security Council seat
ZIMBABWE will take its lobby for a United Nations Security Council seat to the African Union (AU) when the continental bloc meets in February, President Mnangagwa has said.The Southern African...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs edgy over gay rights
SOME parliamentarians believe Zimbabwe must not grant members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) community freedom to openly exercise their sexual rights.T...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:57hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'World Bank really underestimate all Africans'
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday denounced the World Bank's decision to suspend new funding in response to a anti-LGBTQ law and vowed to find alternative sources of credit.The co...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ghanaian MPs back tougher anti-gay legislation
The lead sponsor of an amended bill warns that the country will target US economic interests if Washington sanctions officialsGhana's parliament has unanimously passed a motion to further tigh...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 16:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Single Mothers4ED Bulawayo Chapter launched
SINGLE Mothers for Economic Development (ED) launched their Bulawayo Chapter on Saturday with calls to involve single mothers in the mainstream economy through empowerment programmes that are responsi...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Museveni stands firm on anti-gay law
"No one will make us move," Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Wednesday in response to threats of sanctions from some Western countries since he signed into law the "Anti-Homosexuality Law 202...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US revokes visas after Museveni signs tough anti-gay Bill into law
In a swift response, the United States has revoked the visas of Uganda's Speaker of Parliament Anita Among following the stricter anti-gay Bill becoming law in Uganda.On Monday the Speaker rev...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe backs Sudan peace efforts
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has offered unwavering support to Sudan in an effort to attain a cessation of hostilities in the country.In a speech read on his behalf by acting Foreign Affairs Minister O...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:30hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
8 mistakes in Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution
ON May 22 2023, Zimbabwe's Constitution turned 10, having become effective on 22 May 2013. This year, we mark the 10-year anniversary. I choose to mark this day with a reflection, and my reflection is...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Musa Kika
Uganda lawmakers pass amended draft of anti-LGBTQI+ bill, retaining harsh penalties
Parliament in Uganda has passed a new amended draft of the anti-LGBTQI+ bill, maintaining the harsh punishments for same-sex acts.President Yoweri Museveni returned the bill to Parliament with...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Uganda ban gays
Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence....Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa postpones Cabinet reshuffle
President Cyril Ramaphosa postponed announcing changes to his executive on Thursday due to ill health. News24 says it understands that he was meant to meet with ANC officials at midday on Thur...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 08:44hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's links with kleptocrats, dodgy business networks solidify
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's state visit to Equatorial Guinea this week, where he met the world's longest-serving head of state, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, underlines his penchant for ...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:17hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 130 | by Jonathan Moyo
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 3 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 23 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Uganda's 'preferred' next President General Muhoozi celebrates birthday
Ugandan Army General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is set to celebrate his birthday on the 24th of April and Uganda is buzzing with messages urging the General to take over from President Yoweri Museveni. ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 17:20hrs | 2 | by Nicholas Ncube
Embarrassing moment as Jacob Mudenda fails to join Africa in mourning Ugandan Speaker of Parliament
The new dispensation has been busy building relations at a global level. It comes as a surprise that Uganda lost its Speaker of Parliament, several Speakers of Parliament across Africa sent their cond...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 09:44hrs | 3 | by John Mbizvo
How the West is plotting to exploit Africa
IF designs of global money are not stopped in their tracks, Africa is threatened with environmental degradation and nutritional poverty. If we, as Africans, do not begin to think deeply about what is ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Linda Apollo
Chinese firm yet to start airport job seven months after contract
The multi-million-dollar contract to fix Zimbabwe's Air Traffic Control Communication Systems (ATCCS) by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is yet to commence, seven months after the Chinese mul...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 11 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Nexus of politics, music and snoozing masses
A FEW weeks ago, the country's social media streets were abuzz with what I call the "resurrection act" of one self-styled prophet and, to some folks, a sacrilegious poseur.This act was the act...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 13:09hrs | 1 | by Addy Kudita
On land, Mugabe walked path other African leaders would not
Forget what you may have read in Western press about the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Forget the propaganda and Western hate. Forgive the excesses of his rule – human rights abuse and ex...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by John Kamau
Biti rubbishes IMF over 7% Zimbabwe growth rate
FORMER finance minister Tendai Biti has describe the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a naive and dishonest institution after it published a report forecasting a 7% growth in Zimbabwe's economy....Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm to fix Zimbabwe’s troubled aviation system
A Chinese multi-national, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), has just signed a contract worth close to US$5 million to fix Zimbabwe's troubled aviation air communication systems despite a flawe...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet blames fuel availability for congestion
CABINET yesterday agreed to set up an inter-ministerial team to deal with congestion on the country's roads that has become a menace especially in urban areas.This was announced by Information...Published: 12 May 2021 at 06:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jets off to Uganda
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose government continues to keep land borders shut, has left the country again for Uganda where he is set to witness the swearing-in of the East African country Preside...Published: 11 May 2021 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ugandan former child soldier turned rebel commander jailed for 25 years for war crimes
A former Ugandan child soldier who became a rebel commander has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, said Domini...Published: 06 May 2021 at 13:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Covid 19, a blessing in disguise for despots and strongmen
The coming of a pandemic which Donald Trump, the former President of United States of America , referred to as 'Chinese Disease' has caused panic ar...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 20:14hrs | 2 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Stop giving despotics regimes in Africa a free pass
Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient, and they threaten Africa's chances of unleashing the productive potential of its youth, writes Nelson Chamisa....Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by MDC Alliance President, Nelson Chamisa.
Chamisa unhappy with Ramaphosa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa remains concerned over South Africa's reluctance to censure its northern ‘wayward' neighbour, Zimbabwe warning the ‘see no evil, hear no evil' approach fuelled ele...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters stage protest at ZEC offices demanding by-elections
Suspected MDC Alliance youths staged a flash protest outside the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) premises on Friday demanding the holding of by-elections.A few dozen opposition activists p...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Countering reactionary and authoritarian politics in Africa
Africa cannot afford to continue with the authoritarian, dictatorial and despotic forms of governance that are predominant on the continent.Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repres...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Uganda to maintain Facebook ban
Uganda will maintain its shutdown of Facebook, Twitter and other social-media platforms until the government deems they're safe from being used to inflame tensions in the East African nation, New Visi...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa yet to congratulate Uganda's Museveni
President Cyril Ramaphosa is taking a wait-and-see approach on the outcome of the Ugandan elections, which resulted in Yoweri Museveni being declared president for a sixth term."We have been l...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 20:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 7 | by Leonard Koni
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:12hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa warns Mnangagwa against 'stoking political fires'
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against "stoking political fires" through arbitrary arrests of his opponents and silencing of divergent voices....Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Internet restored in Uganda but not social media
The internet shutdown in Uganda that had entered its fifth day on Monday has ended.Social media is however still blocked and only accessible through VPN, the BBC's Patience Atuhaire says....Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 11:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK welcomes the relatively calm passing of elections in Uganda
Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, said:"The UK Government welcomes the relatively calm passing of the elections in Uganda and notes the re-election of H.E. Yoweri Museveni as President....Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 10:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Museveni takes commanding lead in polls
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has taken a commanding lead in the country's presidential election, according to provisional results released yesterday, with 34 percent of the ballots counted....Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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