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Pressure mounts on govt over Gukurahundi hearings

Political activists and opposition leaders in Matabeleland have called on the government to immediately halt the ongoing Gukurahundi public hearings, citing concerns over their lack of transparency and the emotional trauma inflicted on sur…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:34hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter

Pressure to investigate Chivayo mounts

Prominent Kwekwe-based human rights activist, writer, and artist Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo has threatened to take legal action against Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda for allegedly failing to act on a petition calling for an investigati…

Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 11:49hrs | 2114 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt under pressure over water crisis

Residents of Bulawayo are urgently calling on the government to acknowledge its failure in addressing severe water shortages by declaring the city a water crisis area, allowing for swift interventions. Despite petitions from local authorit…

Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:22hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans in UK pile pressure on Mnangagwa regime

A GROUP of Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom recently petitioned that country's Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, calling on Britain to use its diplomatic links to engage Harare authorities over the abduction and murder of opposition activists.…

Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:35hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

ZCTU under pressure

THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), which of late has been accused of being captured by government, is facing fresh controversy after it summoned Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure to …

Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 09:38hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

Arsenal buckle under the pressure

The only real surprise about Manchester City's march to a fifth Premier League crown in six seasons is that a callow Arsenal side managed to keep Pep Guardiola's serial winners honest for such a long time.Even until a few weeks ago the out…

Published: 20 May 2023 at 20:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Pressure group flags doctors for double dipping, shortchanging patients

Kwekwe based pressure group, Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has called on authorities to step in and stop some public hospital doctors from shortchanging poor citizens through spending much of their time in their private…

Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 17:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Pressure to send money home creates many problems in UK

Pretty Matekenya sat with her children in their small apartment in Luton, United Kingdom, just gazing at her payslip.Since she moved to England, she felt pressure from her relatives in Zimbabwe to send money. She chuckled sadly and said, t…

Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

Pressure mounts on Zimbabwe's Home Affairs over Itai Dzamara

MEMBERS of Parliament on Tuesday renewed pressure on Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to give an official update in the august House on the findings of investigations into the disappearance of a fierce critic of the Robert Mugabe admi…

Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa tells his followers to 'faka pressure'

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa was Monday encouraged his supporters to 'faka pressure.'Chamisa sent the cryptic message on Twitter.FAKA PRESSURE!â€” nelson chamisa (@nelsonchamisa) August 1, 2022It is not clea…

Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Pressure mounts over transport crisis

ZIMBABWE's transport crisis yesterday attracted global attention with the Amnesty International (AI) berating the Zanu-PF government for refusing to rescind the Zupco monopoly.This came as Zupco drivers and conductors reportedly downed too…

Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe under pressure as drug abuse cases spike

GOVERNMENT is under intense pressure to establish rehabilitation centres accessible to ordinary drug users owing to the growing demand of people in need of professional mental health care.An investigation conducted by the Zimbabwe Independ…

Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

Pressure group conducts Gukurahundi memorial

BULAWAYO-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Sunday conducted a memorial service for 22 Gukurahundi victims, who include 21 women and a man who were burnt to death by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade soldiers in Tsholotsho in 1…

Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa under growing pressure for failing to tackle Mnangagwa & Zanu-PF

LARGER-THAN-LIFE MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has advised his principal Nelson Chamisa not to think that popularity will guarantee him to become Zimbabwe's next leader.The firebrand Sikhala told Chamisa at …

Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa's ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa

South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has vowed to keep the Zimbabwe crisis on the table despite a spirited campaign by Zanu-PF to shrug it off.Lindiwe Zulu, the head of the ANC's international relations committee, said to …

Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa will succumb to pressure to have talks with Chamisa

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of betraying the late Morgan Tsvangirai by allegedly backtracking on concessions he made to secure the opposition leader's backing in the ouster of former president R…

Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa under massive pressure

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration faces a mammoth task to steady the ship and deliver the goods as pressure mounts from all angles amid massive economic, social and political turbulence which is shaking the country to the core.…

Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 10:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa commission

Pressure is mounting on the commission of inquiry into the August 1 shootings that left at least six people dead to do more to probe the role of the army in the whole incident.South Africa-based Right2Know has particularly raised concerns …

Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 14:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

High Court eases pressure on Chivayo

Pressure has eased on embattled businessman Wicknell Chivayo after High Court bail-judge Benjamin Chikowero observed that the state's case "was weak".This followed a $5 million fraud charge against the Intratrek Zimbabwe (Intratrek) founde…

Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa summoned by parliamentary

Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa and his executive have been summoned by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Sport, Education, Arts and Culture, amid disaffection from stakeholders over the management of football in the country.Chiyang…

Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

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