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Mnangagwa pardons former judge Paradza
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially pardoned former High Court judge Benjamin Paradza, who was convicted of corruption in 2006. Paradza holds the distinction of being the first sitting judge i...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:10hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's rot of corruption began at the top - that's where it must end
No one can deny that Zimbabwe has become synonymous with corruption.This morning, I woke up to deeply disturbing news reports that shook me to the core - not because they were shoc...Published: 01 May 2025 at 19:53hrs | 983 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Biden's pardons 'void and vacant', says Trump
US President Donald Trump has claimed that pardons signed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, lack legal force, alleging they were never properly considered and authorized.Shortly before leaving of...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 15:21hrs | 1305 | by Staff reporter
Jail in America is for commoners
Just remember that jail in America is for commoners, not for the rich and politically connected. You can do drugs, traffic women, evade taxes, buy and toss away guns and your father will spare you jai...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 10:00hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Biden exposes politicisation of the US judiciary
OUTGOING US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN EXPOSES POLITICISATION OF THE US JUDICIARY AS HE PARDONS HIS CONVICTED SON HUNTER BIDEN WHOM HE CLAIMS WAS "SELECTIVELY AND UNFAIRLY PROSECUTED"Things are falli...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 08:27hrs | 492 | by Jonathan Moyo
Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter in office abuse move
Outgoing US President Joe Biden has gone back on his word and pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who was convicted earlier this year of breaking federal gun and tax laws.In June, the younger Biden...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 08:06hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has nothing to apologise for even if he appoints his qualified relatives
President Mnangagwa does not appear to be having trouble finding experienced candidates around him and at the moment Zimbabwe has no rules which govern appointments to the Cabinet by the President....Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 17:54hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's amnesty to rapists raises a stink
Pressure is piling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reconsider the release of dangerous criminals, including rapists, who benefited from an amnesty that saw the release of 4 000 prisoners. R...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC blasts Mnangagwa
Some of the more than 4,000 prisoners released on amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week include child rapists, it has emerged.One fiend who raped a nine-year-old girl had served ju...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Don't open border with SA' Zimbabwe doctors fear impact of covid-19 variant
Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights (ZDHR) have advised the government not to open land borders with South Africa when it reviews the current lockdown.The end of the extended lockdown coincides ...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doctors fear Covid variant outbreak if Zimbabwe opens border with SA
Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights (ZDHR) have advised the government not to open land borders with SA when it reviews the current lockdown.The end of the extended lockdown coincides with SA's ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 20:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bank closes Donald Trump's accounts
A Florida bank announced Thursday that it has closed down former President Trump’s account, joining a growing list of entities that have cut ties with the former president following the deadly Jan. ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former gove...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by AP
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | | by Terence Simbi
NSSA pardons defaulting employers
THE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has extended a three-month amnesty to unregistered and defaulting employers to regularise their contributions.It's a statutory requirement for eve...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court pardons granny for destroying Chamisa poster
A 59-year-old woman from Kungisai village under Chief Nhema, Zaka district, appeared before magistrate Peter Madiba on Wednesday, July 11, and was given a warning after being convicted of pulling down...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The dark chapter of Zimbabwe's history that won't go away
With Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa just concluding a 100-day timeline to addresses what he considered the country's most pressing issues, which focused on economic revival, human rights ...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 08:24hrs | | by IPS
Mnangagwa pardons another MDC-T activist
THERE were jubilant scenes yesterday at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison as MDC-T activist Yvonne Musarurwa left the prison walls alongside 87 of the 3 000 other inmates freed under the Presidential ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministry seeks amnesty for over 2 000 prisoners
THE Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs wants more than 2 000 prisoners to be pardoned to ease congestion in the country's prisons in its 100-day plan and is engaging President Emmers...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai pardons Hwende, Bhebhe remain suspended
Morgan Tsvangirai, the Movement for Democratic Change leader, has lifted the suspension party deputy treasurer Charlton Hwende who had been sanctioned for apparently condoning violence in the oppositi...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judges shoot down Mnangagwa's plan
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) - which includes top judges - is resisting Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Constitutional Amendment (No 1 Bill) 2016 whose main agenda is to amend Section 180...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman pardons 2 men for gang raping her
A 20-YEAR-OLD Plumtree rape victim has withdrawn charges against two men who allegedly took turns to attack her saying she had forgiven them as they committed the crime while under the influence o...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pardons 11 suspended members
THE Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Province has endorsed President Mugabe as the party's candidate for the 2018 presidential elections and recommended for the lifting of suspensions on 11 party member...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 12:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's chances of leading a grand coalition slim
The prospects of a grand coalition of opposition political parties against ZANU PF rule in Zimbabwe is proving to be a mammoth task as the concerned leaders are all power hungry. The two main opposi...Published: 25 Oct 2016 at 14:56hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Mujuru what a disgrace
The recent utterances by the Zimbabwe People First (Zim PF) leader Dr Joice Mujuru that she wants to compensate the former owner of the farm she and her late husband, (rtd) General Solomon Mujuru grab...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 15:15hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Mujuru destroying herself
It is surprising for some local tabloids to say that ZANU PF is plotting for the demise of the Zimbabwe People First (Zim PF) leader Joice Mujuru. These papers and politicians should not take people f...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 14:42hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Zanu-PF big wigs press panic button
With former Vice President Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) continuing to attract dozens of disgruntled senior Zanu PF officials to its ranks, the ruling party is stepping up its efforts to ...Published: 04 Apr 2016 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lungu frees 500 prisoners
Zambian President Edger Lungu has reoportedly free 500 prisoners amid praise by Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRICCA) which said the latest pardoning of prisoners is a clear demonstr...Published: 24 Feb 2016 at 14:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hailstone storm has broken on Mugabe's parade!
Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa, have bitten the bullet and submitted the Court challenge of legality of Mugabe's rigged 2014 Zanu PF party elections. Many people were beginning to fear the two would ...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe pardons Sekeramayi, elevates him to politburo
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East heavyweight Sydney Sekeramayi has dramatically landed a politburo post after he almost lost the central committee nomination after his name was among those rejected by Pre...Published: 10 Dec 2014 at 14:26hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Malawi's new President pardons 403 prisoners
Blantyre - Malawi's new President Peter Mutharika pardoned 403 prisoners on Saturday ahead of celebrations to mark 50 years since the country gained independence from Britain."The pardon of th...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman pardons hubby for HIV infection
A 50-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman who had filed charges against her husband for infecting her with HIV yesterday dropped the charges in court after he promised to take care of her until death....Published: 19 Mar 2014 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Angeline Mpofu
Mugabe pardons prisoners
Congestion in Zimbabwe's prisons is set to ease a bit after President Robert Mugabe acceded to pleas by prison authorities to pardon some prisoners.Mugabe granted the ...Published: 16 Feb 2014 at 14:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai led MDC pardons Gweru mayor
GWERU Mayor Councillor Hamutendi Kombayi his deputy Councillor Artwell Matyorauta and three other councillors who have been on suspension after they defied the MDC-T position on mayoral elections have...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 19:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe pardons DJ Chilli after announcing that he is Malawian
A popular radio and TV presenter suspended for announcing on radio that President Robert Mugabe is of Malawian origin has returned to work.Hazvinei Sakarombe, widely known as DJ Chilli, is ba...Published: 09 Apr 2013 at 13:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ethiopia - Journalists are not terrorists
Reporters Without Borders has just visited Ethiopia, where two Swedish journalists, Kontinent news agency reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson, were sentenced to 11 years in prison ...Published: 24 Jan 2012 at 21:10hrs | | by APO
US man executed despite doubts over his 1991 murder conviction
The US state of Georgia went ahead and executed Troy Davis despite doubts over his 1991 murder conviction that made him a poster child for global efforts to end the death penalty.Former US pr...Published: 22 Sep 2011 at 06:50hrs | | by AFP
Before Elections - Abolish Presidential Temporary Powers
It was shocking to learn that Zimbabwe's coalition Cabinet has approved the Electoral Amendment Bill which bars those in the Diaspora from voting in the next elections. Even more scary is the possibi...Published: 02 Jul 2011 at 22:09hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri | Political Analyst, London
Perpetual Fear: Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe
The failure of Zimbabwe's government to investigate and prosecute killings, torture, and politically motivated violence since the 2008 elections is fueling further human rights violations, Human...Published: 08 Mar 2011 at 17:05hrs | | by Byo24News
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