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MK Party refuses to be cowed by captured Cape Town High Court
Next week's Judicial Service Commission (JSC) sitting set for October 7 hangs in the balance after the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) revealed that it intends to appeal against last Friday's Western Cap...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 14:03hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema suspends judges who ruled in favour of rival in Zambia
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has suspended three top judges over alleged judicial misconduct, prompting accusations of political interference in the judiciary.In 2016, the three Const...Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 11:15hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants flee Dudula raids in Soweto
A STREET trader ran into her house and locked herself inside and watched in trauma while a group of people wearing Operation Dudula T-shirts ransacked her vegetable stall.For about 30 minutes,...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 11:44hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
The politics of Zimbabwe's land reform: winners and losers
The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe's land reform continue to occupy many.The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Ian Scoones
Chiwenga tightens army grip amid succession manoeuvres
ZIMBABWEAN Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga - a politically ambitious retired commander of the defence forces - has formally tightened his grip on the military as new Air Force of Zimbabwe boss Air...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
ZBC board threatens ex-CEO
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board of directors has threatened to take legal action against former chief executive Ms Adelaide Chikunguru if she does not formally file a complaint in th...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turns to Tshabangu's CCC structures
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's Blue Movement is using Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) structures to mobilise support amid concerns by political analysts that the organisation might just face t...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:55hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Church condemns Zimbabwe heartless evictions
THE government has taken a leaf from the colonial regime which prevented landless blacks from accessing productive land, a fellowship of Christian churches has said.In a statement, Zimbabwe Co...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ARTUZ political ploy threatens the planned ZUAWU strike
Opposition-affiliated Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is allegedly scheming to exploit the forthcoming strike being organised by the Zimbabwe University and Allied Workers Union (...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by George Tshuma
CCC factions face-off
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) factions are headed for a clash when they face-off at today's National Citizens Assembly.CCC has been thrown into turmoil after its leader Nelson Chamisa di...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Losing Zanu-PF candidate reclaims donation
A Zanu-PF losing council candidate has been accused of demanding goal posts which he donated to a school in Plumtree, Matebeleland South, ahead of the disputed August 23 elections.Richard Khum...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
NGO Forum kicks up dust over Zimbabwe judicial capture
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (NGO Forum) has raised alarm over suspected judicial capture as well as politicisation of the police, saying this compromised the two key State institutions....Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nevers Mumba has embarrassed SADC
Having gotten wind that Zanu-PF and President Mnangagwa were romping to victory through tallies from polling stations and the confirmation through the party's Treasurer Patrick Chinamasa's press confe...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Soldiers deface Mnangagwa posters
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces has dismantled the Cleveland Shooting Range in Harare amid allegations that some soldiers stationed there were defacing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's campaign posters in M...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 08:13hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
No blood should be shed in this election, says Mwonzora
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) president Senator Douglas Mwonzora has called on all political parties and citizens to maintain peace in the forthcoming elections, while encouraging tolerance of ...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbavwe sleepwalks into another unfair, discredited election
AS Zimbabwe sleepwalks into yet another sham election, amid the brazen subversion of citizens' constitutional right to vote for representatives of their choice, the 23 August polls are already irretri...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Partisan institutions a danger to Zimbabwe democracy
ZIMBABWE'S elections since 1980 have been blighted by disputes and August 23 polls look no different.The culprits are the same - partial or politicised State institutions ranking from the Zimb...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa takes the risk by sidelining army in polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken a huge political risk by sidelining the military - which has kept Zanu-PF in power directly since 2000 - from his dicey intelligency-driven presidential election...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Faz election project fuels tension within security forces
TENSIONS are mounting within state security structures and government, as well as Zanu-PF, over the role being played by the shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimb...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
6 years of false promises
IT is now six years since President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over political power from the now late former President Robert Mugabe with the assistance of the military.Mnangagwa promised a break...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Citizen
Bulawayo to crackdown on Vendors4ED
BULAWAYO councillors have resolved to launch a crackdown on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shadowy group operating illegally in the second-largest city under the moniker Vendors for ED.The gro...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 19:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Vendors4ED fuel lawlessness
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's shadowy group operating under the banner Vendors For ED is on a collision course with Bulawayo City Council after it violated city by-laws by establishing unsanctioned v...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenged to answer questions in Parly
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) member of Parliament for Mbizo, Settlement Chikwinya, has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to attend the National Assembly and answer to pressing issues fac...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Sikhala's 12 children struggling to survive
Opposition MP Job Sikhala refused to go to court this week for the ruling on his 10th bail application in protest against what he knew would be the outcome.His lawyer, Freddy Masarirevu, told ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally under massive pressure over Rufaro
ZIFA has taken a dig at Harare City Council for "dragging politics into sport" after Sakunda Holdings formally withdrew their proposal to modernise Rufaro Stadium, citing "toxicity" in the local autho...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala rots in jail as High Court denies him bail again
JAILED main opposition lawmaker, Job Sikhala's bail appeal in a case he is accused of defeating the course of justice has been dismissed for the umpteenth time by the High CourtSikhala, who is...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 19:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe securocrats asked to account for proceeds of DRC war
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for "proceeds" from Zimbabwe's participation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) war of the late 1990's....Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wife's politicised prayer event flops
A SCHEDULED prayer session in Chinhoyi, where First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was set to give a keynote address, failed to take place Saturday after she failed to pitch up amid a low attendance....Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Teachers for ED' project raises 2023 rigging fears
THE recent launch of the ‘Teachers for ED' project by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has raised fears of rigging of next year's general elections as the same educators who have endorsed him will be am...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 19:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says he's got nothing to hide
In his weekly column in the state-run weekly, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that next year Zimbabwe would "hold elections in the full glare of world attention"."We have nothing to hide...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to seize Chihuri farm
GOVERNMENT is intensifying its vindictive approach to seizing farms belonging to its critics, most of whom were the late former president Robert Mugabe's loyalists in the twilight years of life and ru...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe abstains from inflammatory UN vote condemning Russia
Zimbabwe on Wednesday joined 34 other countries that abstained from a United Nations vote to condemn Russia's "attempted illegal annexation" of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.The U...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 20:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole innocent, claims Chamisa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has launched a diplomatic offensive in the region and abroad to secure the release from remand prison of legislators Job S...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Zanu-PF-State conflation
A LEAKED government correspondence has exposed the State-Zanu-PF conflation after it emerged that the party's second secretary and former Zimbabwe's vice-president Kembo Mohadi was being allocated fue...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities must release opposition MPs
THE continued arbitrary detention of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-chairperson and Members of Parliament Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) is rev...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by SeeD
Tsvangirai's former adviser form his own party
UNITED STATES-BASED Maxwell Shumba (MS), a former chief adviser to the late MDC leader and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has decided to form his own party, Zimbabwe People First (ZimFirst), ...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Kariba ignore Heroes Day
HEROES' Day celebrations were poorly attended in Bulawayo and Kariba yesterday, with residents saying the holiday was no longer of significance because government is failing to honour the "real libera...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC says liberation war gains eroded by political oppression, persecution
The country's biggest opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says ethos and gains of the liberation war have been tainted by political oppression and persecution by President Emmerson M...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi in no show
Zanu-PF vice-president Kembo Mohadi, who was supposed to be the guest speaker at Chinhoyi Agricultural Show, failed to turn up last Friday amid reports that Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) support...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi snubs agric show amid fears of CCC protest
FORMER State vice president, Kembo Mohadi Friday snubbed the 75th edition of Mashonaland West Agricultural Show 2022 after security details reportedly sniffed an alleged protest plot over his eligibil...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lest we forget our heroes
This is the month which we remember and celebrate the illustrious fallen sons and daughters of Zimbabwe who sacrificed their fresh blood to liberate the country.Traditionally August is a month...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF 'hijacks' IDs registration
Zanu-PF has reportedly hijacked the mobile national identity registration blitz and commandeered the services to the party's perceived strongholds to make sure its supporters obtain identity documents...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should prioritise returnees in land allocations
LAST week, I came across two seemingly unrelated media stories that forced me to consider the link between land governance in Zimbabwe and the migration crisis affecting Zimbabweans resident in neighb...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Admire Mjamaru
Moreblessing Ali family won't be intimidated
THE family of slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Moreblessing Ali, says the arrest of its lawyer Job Sikhala, is a State ploy to force them to bury their relative before her killers a...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC lost all humanity in search of power
One of our fellow-citizen has lost her life being victim of a heinous crime and heartless violence at the hands of one whom she had, at one time, shared her soul with.Moreblessing Ali had been...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:55hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF hijacks National IDs, birth certificates programme
Zanu-PF members Saturday commandered officials from the Registrar-General (RG)'s office to serve only ruling party members seeking birth and death certificates as well as national identity cards in Mh...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politicised military threatens 2023 poll
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is abusing state institutions, including the military, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and judiciary, to maintain his tight grip on power ahead of the...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
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