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Over 275 border jumpers arrested
Police have arrested 275 border jumpers, including 23 minors after they allegedly attempted to cross into South Africa without valid travel documents at Beitbridge Border Post as the police services i...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:16hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa throws 'niece' under the bus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown his "niece", Shantel Chikafu, under the bus after she was arrested for abusing his name in a messy mine ownership wrangle in which she ejected John Maungwa from...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 4569 | by Staff reporter
Two more Zimra officials up for abuse of office
Two more Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials at Beitbridge Border Post have been arrested as Government intensifies crackdown on rent-seeking activities at the border.Nelson Chinguwo ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 23:27hrs | 957 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's deepening human rights crisis under the cover of lockdown
The outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa has exerted social, economic, political, health and environmental challenges on a continent that was already on its knees.These challenges thus pose a...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 91 | by Sitabile Dewa
MDC Alliance blames State Security Minister for members' arrests
The MDC Alliance has blamed Owen Ncube, the Minister of State Security for the conviction of six of it's members who have since been released following a fine payment of RTGS 20 000 (US$250) each....Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 21:22hrs | 604 | by Daniel Itai
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1954 | by crisisgroup
Army chief, minister sucked in mine row
ZIMBABWE Defence Forces (ZDF) commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda and State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube have been implicated in a messy mine ownership wrangle after Chantelle Chikafu, the...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 2220 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimra officials up for abuse of office
The police have arrested two more Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials deployed at Beitbridge Border Post, as the Government intensifies its crack down on rent-seeking activities at the border...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:06hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Police intensify border patrols
POLICE have stepped up patrols and checks along roads leading to and from the country's inland borders to fight rampant cases of smuggling.On Saturday, police in Beitbridge arrested three susp...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 11:47hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet Zanu-PF security dept as he bids to fix bickering party
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1421 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves in to end DCC chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
JOC assesses border security
THE National Joint Operations Command (JOC) met in Beitbridge yesterday and committed to beefing up borderline security to control rampant smuggling of goods and irregular migration which peaks during...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
Security beefed up at border post
THE Government is beefing up security at Beitbridge border post to curb smuggling and other illegal activities which authorities believe could be costing the country over US$1 billion annually in unpa...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance abduction skeletons tumble
A FORMER MDC official, Nqobizitha Khumalo, who is now with the People Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed how the opposition party has been faking abductions and causing terror in the country through ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:03hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
Sadc plots Mozambique rescue mission
SADC yesterday undertook to work on a robust regional response to the growing threat of terrorism and insurgency in parts of Mozambique, which it will put in action once finalised. This came o...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caps 3500 at MSU
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 3 507 graduates at Midlands State University (MSU)'s 21st graduation ceremony held at its main campus in Gweru.Due to Covid-19-induced restrictions, 3 397 ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:58hrs | 631 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF DCC chaos ravages Midlands province
Daily News reports that battle lines have been drawn between various influential groups in the Midlands Province as bigwigs are teaming up to prop up their proxies in the Zanu PF DCC polls. It...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs in a state of shock
MANIC Zanu-PF youths wielding machetes recently ran amok in the Midlands - assaulting party bigwigs and police officers, while also sowing terror among supporters of the former liberation movement in ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:44hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe firm battles to recover 'sanctions' blocked funds
Gweru-based Fuest Industrial Supplies is battling to recover US$33,414 export proceeds blocked by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) seven years ago....Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:24hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Journalist sues minister for unlawful arrest
MUTARE-BASED freelance journalist Sydney Saize has sued Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri and State security agents for humiliation and unlawful arrest in Chimanimani while investigating alleged theft...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa wants Matanga probed for corruption
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) has pleaded with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga for alleged corruption and abuse of offi...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1407 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt targets social media activists
GOVERNMENT has threatened to intensify its snooping into citizens' social media posts to thwart dissent and any plots to unseat or sabotage President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration.Home A...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:32hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Kwekwe violence ring leaders go into hiding
ZANU-PF youth leaders, who spearheaded the violent clashes at the party district offices last week leading to the abandonment of primary elections to choose a candidate for the vacant Kwekwe Central p...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
US warns Mnangagwa and other dictators
THE United States government has threatened dire consequences on African leaders closing democratic spaces in their countries and stifling citizens' rights just to retain power. In a statement...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 18235 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in fresh ouster fears
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday alleged a plot by Zanu-PF insiders to oust him from office after agreeing to pay white commercial farmers US$3,5 billion in compensation for land expropriated by...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:15hrs | 17842 | by Staff reporter
Rowdy Zanu-PF supporters attack police with stones
A VIDEO of the violence that rocked the Kwekwe Central Zanu-PF primary elections went viral yesterday, with the restive activists attacking police officers deployed to calm tempers after machete-wield...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: ZANU PF youths beat up police officers
Children of Zimbabwe War Veterans Association has posted a video of alleged ZANU PF mafia group Alshababa beating up members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police in Kwekwe on Sunday.One police offi...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 09:30hrs | 7540 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The dictator's handbook
President Mnangagwa appears to have launched the final stage of his plan to eliminate the opposition. This is the obvious inference from the wild accusations made by State Security Minister Owen Ncube...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2035 | by ZimVigil
Chaos in Mnangagwa's backyard
ZANU-PF was forced to abandon primary elections in Kwekwe yesterday after violence broke out at the party district offices, leading to several arrests.Machete-wielding youths stormed polling s...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 7824 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC is imploding
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A), is imploding as the country's ruling Zanu-PF conspires with a tiny MDC splinter group, the Movement for Democrati...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:21hrs | 4830 | by Peter Fabricius
Mnangagwa says no room for political violence
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a chilling warning to opposition parties and individuals he accuses of plotting to topple his government through violence and delinquency, saying they have no p...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 21:28hrs | 2087 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs shred Cyber Security Bill
OPPOSITION Members of Parliaments on Tuesday poked holes into the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, saying that it takes away some freedoms enshrined in the national Constitution.The Bi...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:33hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Owen Ncube's nephew guns for Mnangagwa backyard
A NEPHEW to State Security Minister Owen Ncube has expressed interest to represent Zanu-PF in by-elections set for December this year in Kwekwe Central Constituency.The seat fell vacant follow...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:45hrs | 11627 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces Parly grilling
LEGISLATORS yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of appointing incompetent ministers who were incapable of giving lucid responses in Parliament.Norton MP Temba Mliswa demanded that M...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:31hrs | 3223 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC should take government threats seriously'
ANALYSTS and rights groups have advised MDC leaders to beware after authorities said the party was linked to a plot aimed at overthrowing President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the government from power. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3866 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's faction speaks about 'MDC guns'
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has denied reports that it is smuggling guns into the country in preparation to violently overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime. State Security Mi...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 2882 | by Staff reporter
'Mashurugwi' lord minister cannot speak against violence, says MDC
MDC Alliance says State Security Minister Owen Mudha Ncube's links to a violent vigilante group in his Kwekwe backyard placed him in an awkward position when he starts making utterances of an intended...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU blasts Mnangagwa ally over 'reckless' coup claims, threats
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on State Security Minister Owen Ncube to retract his threats to deal with labour activists, civil society and the opposition he collectively acc...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warned by State security
STATE Security minister Owen Ncube yesterday sensationally accused the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance of engaging in acts of sabotage and banditry by smuggling guns into the country and setting up mi...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 8214 | by Staff reporter
Plot against Zimbabwe exposed
ROGUE elements, that include MDCAlliance and G40 members, have been conniving with hostile Western nations to smuggle guns into the country and set up so-called Democratic Resistance Committees to des...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
'MDC smuggling guns and training violent militias under Operation Light House'
State Security Minister Owen Mudha Ncube says the opposition MDC is smuggling guns into the country and training violent militias to overthrow the government. Speaking at a press conference on...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 16:48hrs | 2769 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL TEXT: CIO Minister Owen Ncube fires warning shots at MDC
Zimbabwe's security and stability is currently under siege from a number of threats being fomented by internal and external actors. The objective of this attack is to effect an unconstitutional change...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 16:26hrs | 5362 | by Owen Mudha Ncube
Mnangagwa turns to Israelis as populace gets restive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's edgy administration, battling to contain a restive populace amid a worsening economic crisis, has engaged the Israeli government for possible deployment of security expe...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:58hrs | 5437 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Security Minister left exposed by State Agents, claims Jonathan Moyo, Zhuwao
FORMER cabinet ministers Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao have made sensational claims against National Security Minister Owen Ncube alleging Special Forces (SAS) recently, and on two occasions, broke...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | 7465 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, police victims sue
Two human rights activists are suing the government demanding the enactment of an Act of Parliament to comply with a provision of the constitution which says there must be an independent body to recei...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:08hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ministerial briefings continue
THE governing party, ZANU-PF, will continue briefings with Cabinet ministers as it tries to add impetus to ongoing efforts to grow the economy.The consultations are part of the party's thrust ...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:47hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dangerous drift puts Mnangagwa under spotlight
ZIMBABWE is quiet for now after President Emmerson Mnangagwa clamped heavily on dissent while figures who have led calls for protests have been locked up in jail, with investigative journalist Hopewel...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 2381 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
Mnangagwa pledges IDs for Gukurahundi genocide victims
GOVERNMENT has committed itself to immediately roll out a process of issuing identity documents to victims of Gukurahundi who were rendered stateless by government-sanctioned mass killings.Pre...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa confirms Gukurahundi killings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Saturday met a faction of civil society groups based in Matabeleland and pledged to expedite the issuance of death certificates on those killed by his government during th...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:49hrs | 1448 | by newzimbabwe
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