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UN raps Mnangagwa
POLITICAL polarisation, poor governance and a fragile economy have exacerbated people's discontent with government, but President Emmerson Mnangagwa should address the root cause of the problems rathe...Published: 11 hrs ago | 5681 | by Staff reporter
31 July protest organisers being stalked by CIOs
ORGANISERS of the July 31 anti-corruption march yesterday alleged harassment by suspected State security agents in a bid to stop the planned nationwide protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3648 | by Staff reporter
July 31 anti-Mnangagwa protests: Churches step in
LEADERS of Christian denominations under the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) have said they will today meet the country's main political leaders to enable them to find common ground in a move meant...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:18hrs | 16224 | by Staff reporter
Khupe distances her party from 31 July protests
ACTING MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has distanced her party from the July 31 anti-corruption protests being mooted by other opposition parties which she has described as untimely given the ongoing Cov...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:18hrs | 2336 | by Staff reporter
Panicky Mnangagwa spoils security forces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pampering security forces to forestall an uprising amid growing discontent over the deteriorating economic situation in the country, analysts have said.Mnangagw...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:12hrs | 11175 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to unleash supporters on July 31 protesters
ZANU-PF has threatened to unleash its own supporters to counter national anti-government protests planned for July 31 by the MDC Alliance and its opposition allies.Addressing the media soon af...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4634 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Not Worried About the 31st July Demonstrations.
Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to ...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 17:37hrs | 3131 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 21496 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume confident demo will attract multitudes
The organisers of the July 31 protests are confident that they will garner large crowds in the planned mass actions.Transform Zimbabwe leader, Jacob Ngarivhume who is main organiser of the pla...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:29hrs | 1743 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume leading calls for the planned July 31 protests
Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume, who has been leading calls for the planned July 31 protests, said the action they were taking would not be partisan."We are doing this for the gener...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 1970 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Chipangano commander leads protest against Chinese violence
ONCE feared Zanu-PF youth boss, Jim Kunaka will lead a public protest against continued violence allegedly visited upon Zimbabwean workers by Chinese employers.The demonstrations, organised un...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:12hrs | 992 | by newzimbabwe
'We demand release of Obert Masaraure now!' ZCP says
The incompetent and uncaring Zimbabwean government has once again unjustifiably arrested members of ARTUZ for peacefully demonstrating against the dire economic situation and protesting for a living w...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 12:53hrs | 1922 | by Zimbabwe Communist Party
Self service and saving lives
On the 17th of June health workers woke up to realise that their already compromised salaries had been further cut spurring them into an immediate industrial action that started at Parirenyatwa Group ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1142 | by Godard Thabani Bvungidzire
US worries over abuse of women in Zimbabwe and not blacks in America
THE United States has expressed concern over the State-sponsored violence and political persecution of women in Zimbabwe and called for investigation and prosecution of perpetrators.This follo...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Ramaphosa deploys soldiers to deal with Taxi drivers
President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's government has deployed members of the South Africa National Defense Force to remove striking taxi drivers from the streets. ...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:26hrs | 6774 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Bulawayo residents dump coffins at City Council offices
Disgruntled residents of Bulawayo’s Luveve township staged a mass action at Luveve Housing office to register their displeasure at the death of children who are said to have perished aft...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 11:48hrs | 7845 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Oxford college wants to remove Cecil John Rhodes statue
Oriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes to be taken down.The governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove the st...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 21:34hrs | 1812 | by Staff reporter
The US on the verge of momentous changes
In order to understand the present political turmoil in the American social fabric, one must keep as a background the fact that the US elites were shocked at the electoral victory of a street billiona...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:13hrs | 946 | by Kenneth Mufuka
For how long can Mnangagwa cling on to power?
It honestly did not have to come to this. Having suffered under Robert Mugabe's cruel pharaonic rule for the biblical 40 years, Zimbabweans desperately deserved a rescue. This explained their euphoria...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1182 | by Siphosami Malunga
Zimbabwe not US adversary
CALLS for re-engagement by Zimbabwe's Second Republic seem to have been futile, undoubtedly falling on deaf ears as the United States and its surrogates continue to burn bridges, this has been evidenc...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:45hrs | 198 | by Khumbulani Vodloza
US demands justice for abducted – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe says the abduction and torture of three young opposition women blamed on government agents didn't happen. It was all an invention by the MDC, western embassies, c...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 19:54hrs | 2719 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
George Floyd murder: A gamechanger for Donald Trump
Last week, I would have surmised that Us President Donald trump has a very good chance of being reelected in November 2020.the murder of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, though not unusual, has t...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:49hrs | 945 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Chiredzi villagers demonstrate at VP Chiwenga over ancestral land
Chiredzi South villagers on Wednesday raised placards in the presence of vice president Constantino Chiwenga to protest a lucerne grass farming project which is bound to displace over 1 000 families f...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5483 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF condemns killing of unarmed black man in US
ZANU-PF yesterday said the racial killing of a black unarmed man by US police despite pleas that he was chocking symbolises the nation's attitude towards the people of colour hence their equally chock...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
US, Zimbabwe diplomatic row escalates
ZIMBABWE has torched a diplomatic storm with the United States following remarks by key government officials, including Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda, describing the US as "e...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:32hrs | 4666 | by Staff reporter
Returnees riot over poor conditions
POLICE were yesterday called in to stop dozens of returnees quarantined at Belvedere Teachers College from protesting over poor living conditions.When NewsDay arrived at the centre, the protes...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:30hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has no role in US protests, says Mugabe coup announcer
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday told United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Brian Nichols that the country had no role in the violent protests spreading in th...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 08:59hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
George Floyd murder: Violence erupts across US on sixth day of protests
Violence has erupted in cities across the US on the sixth night of protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd.Dozens of cities imposed curfews, but many p...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 16:26hrs | 1453 | by BBC
American Ambassador confronts General SB Moyo
United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian A. Nichols has told Harare to end state-sponsored violations of the rights of citizens. The Ambassador the remarks in a press release afte...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:31hrs | 3669 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Protests erupt at isolation centres
Protests broke out at Covid-19 isolation centres for returning residents in Harare and Masvingo yesterday after returnees demanded to be released, saying they had overstayed.The returnees also...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:47hrs | 1703 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa administration failing to deliver on promises
Nurture rather than nature is more influential in moulding an individual's behaviour and character.President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF regime have consistently displayed a DNA, which ...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:44hrs | 226 | by Moses Julias wekwa Chibaya
MDC Alliance activists charged at hospital hearing
THREE MDC Alliance activists including Harare West Member of Parliament Joanah Mamombe were yesterday charged with breaking lockdown rules at a bedside hearing held at Parktown Hospital in Waterfalls,...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:13hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe in gridlock under Mnangagwa'
THE ruling Zanu-PF has failed to deal with Zimbabwe's multifaceted crisis as the socio-economic situation continues to deteriorate since 2018 elections, a survey has shown.According to a repor...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Attacks evoke memories of Gukurahundi tactics
LAST week on Wednesday night (May 13, 2020), I woke up to find several missed calls and messages from fellow human rights defenders telling me that Zimbabwe's youngest MP, Joanna Mamombe (27), and her...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:40hrs | 336 | by Thandekile Moyo
Chamisa should take some life and death lessons from Sudan ...Zimbabweans should brace for sleepless and massive demostrations
A year ago, protests triggered by a deepening economic crisis broke out in the Sudanese town of Atbara and quickly swept across the country. Four months later, the persistent demonstrations would lead...Published: 13 May 2020 at 11:55hrs | 2581 | by Knowledge Hakata
Mary Ndoro not in Zimbabwe contrary to government reports
Mary Ndoro, a Zimbabwean national who lived and infamously was part of a group that attacked Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo early July last year in the United Kingdom is not in the country as ...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3682 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
CONFIRMED - Mugabe coup announcer's attacker among UK returnees
ONE of the United Kingdom-based Zimbabweans who attacked Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo and his delegation while on Government business in London is among the 26 ret...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 07:13hrs | 4427 | by Staff reporter
Mzaca appeals for freedom
ANTI-Government activist, Josphat "Mzaca" Ngulube who is serving seven years in jail for burning three vehicles belonging to Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial women's league chairperson, Eva Bitu during las...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 19:53hrs | 1170 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean public fears police brutality than COVID-19
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week declared a 21-day national lockdown as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), which has seen 14 people test positive and three deaths, that o...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:43hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa turns instruments of repression into weapons against coronavirus
Zimbabwe's police began using water cannon on Friday to disinfect markets and bus ranks, turning instruments associated with repression into weapons against the new coronavirus.Zimbabwean poli...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 18:55hrs | 1454 | by Reuters
For autocratic regimes, COVID-19 is a window to consolidate power
Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them?Last Friday, the Zimbabwe government published ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:48hrs | 174 | by New York Times
Zimbabweans will never be united as long as only one political entity determines what is patriotism or national interest
Ever since Zimbabwe attained her political independence from Britain on 18 April 1980, the only dominant power in the country has been the ZANU PF party, which has ruled with an iron-fist - thus, sing...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 09:00hrs | 1831 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Living on the Edge'
A valiant group braved coronavirus to hold the Vigil outside the Zimbabwe Embassy despite the UK gradually going into lockdown as the disease claims more victims.Airliners are being grounded a...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:10hrs | 619 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa told that he has no choice
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been told by his allies that he has no choice but to implement reforms and end human rights violations in order to win over western countries that are increasingly tig...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:08hrs | 3932 | by Staff reporter
US wants Zimbabweans to stop Zanu-PF
THE United States yesterday said sanctions alone would not force the Zimbabwean government to end human rights abuses, and urged mass action to make Harare commit to stopping human rights violations....Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 05:59hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
US senators urge Trump to add more names to Zimbabwe sanctions list
Two influential United States senators on Wednesday reacted to the blacklisting of two Zimbabwean officials by saying "there remain several others who need to be held accountable", while urging Presid...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 23:50hrs | 2470 | by Staff reporter
Ray Kaukonde removed from US sanctions list
THE US Wednesday announced the removal of late Zanu-PF stalwart, Shuvai Mahofa from its list of targeted sanctions against senior ruling party and government officials.Also removed from the li...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
US blacklists Mnangagwa allies
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's state security minister and its ambassador to Tanzania, the U.S. Treasury Department said, accusing them of human rights abuses, includin...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 18:53hrs | 3149 | by Reuters
Zanu-PF host snap anti-sanctions rally at US embassy
THE Parliamentry Portfolio committee on Foreign affairs has visited the United State Embassy in Westgate where they addressed the anti-sanctions lobby group which has been camped at the embassy for 34...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
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