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Teacher flees after students protest
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has thrown its weight behind Njube High School biology teacher, Brian Mutsiba, who has gone into hiding after police in Bulawayo launched a manhunt to...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2788 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has threatened to unleash more violence on the streets in 2020, the Harare Post can exclusively report.Addressing his party followers at Stodart Hall in M...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants dialogue with military
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he is ready to dialogue with his rival President Emmerson Mnangagwa, but on condition the military is involved.Addressing his supporters at the launch o...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:37hrs | 3632 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows street protests on the way
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader said Tuesday he will roll out anti-government street protests this year, declaring that the collapsing economy will improve only if political issues, including a long...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:35hrs | 459 | by AP
'Mnangagwa has failed on human rights'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week released a damning report, describing Zimbabwe's human rights record as appalling despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reform pledges...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 297 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe faces serious political instability'
ZIMBABWE is highly likely to face serious political instability due to failure by the government to address challenges being faced by its people, a respected South African-based think tank has said....Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:45hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to close window for negotiations very soon
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will tell the nation on Tuesday that his party has tried negotiation to solve Zimbabwe's political impasse, but that the window "is closing fast".Chamisa was stopped ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:38hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
'Trump is a pierrot'
Iran's supreme leader lashed out at Western countries as he led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years, dismissing "American clowns" who he said pretend to support the Iranian nati...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:20hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
British govt issues travel warning to Zimbabwe
The British government on Friday issued a travel warning to Zimbabwe citing possible political upheavals and regional flight services disruptions.A ...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:43hrs | 16839 | by Staff reporter
Junior cops rebel over poor working conditions, police abort operation
A PLANNED police anti-riot operation in residential areas of Bulawayo was Thursday aborted after over 50 officers based at Mzilikazi Police Station rebelled in protest over poor working conditions, Ne...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:37hrs | 647 | by NewZimbabwe
Journalist acquitted on anti-govt protest charge
HARARE-BASED freelance journalist, Doubt Asima, who was arrested in August last year on public violence charges after he was found rendering first aid to an elderly woman during an anti-government pro...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:32hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, a coward politician
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa has proved to be the most coward politician of all times as far as Zimbabwean political history is concerned. This follows his egocentric decision not to join other politica...Published: 16 Jan 2020 at 13:56hrs | 5655 | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
MDC, unions plan to defy state threats over demos
DARK clouds are hanging over Zimbabwe once again following the threat by the MDC and labour unions to hold rolling anti-government protests around the country despite the State's stern warning against...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Police thwart MDC event scheduled for tomorrow
The police have today proscribed Agenda 2020, a key event for the party that was scheduled for tomorrow in Mbare, Harare, citing flimsy excuses that the event cannot proceed because the police...Published: 14 Jan 2020 at 16:01hrs | 3661 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Tysonwabantu Movement Statement on ama Shurugwi
Lets unite in our numbers & confront massacre of our people by government sponsored Amashurugwi_Our movement has mandate to be a weapon in the hands of the oppressed people of Zimbabwe. We...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 18:26hrs | 3499 | by Ntokozo Msipha
ZRP shot a vendor hides the case
It has come to our attention that on the 16th of September 2019 at around 18:40hrs some overzealous police officers fired live bullets randomly in the process shooting in the head a vendor Sinikiwe Nd...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 09:23hrs | 2113 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Police shooting victim appeal for help
A victim of police shooting that occurred during the protests on the day when a Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni was jailed has appealed for assistance in funds so that she gets medic...Published: 03 Jan 2020 at 10:15hrs | 2111 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF under siege
THE ruling Zanu-PF party fears that the worsening economic crisis could be used to as an excuse to overthrow the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration by "foreign sponsored anti-government cam...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 06:17hrs | 2471 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army defends $340k suit
THE Defence and War Veterans ministry and commander of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Edzai Chimonyo have filed court papers challenging a $340 000 suit filed by a Harare man who claimed he was assa...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 18:23hrs | 3261 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt takes plunge to compensate white farmers
ONE of the most interesting developments in the recent budget statement is government's decision to compensate former white farmers after nearly 20 years following the 2000 land reform programme. The ...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:39hrs | 168 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa rejects Chamisa talks
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will not hold any talks with opposition leader Nelson Chamisa outside the platform he set up with fringe political parties that took part in last year's elections....Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:37hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa urges Chiwenga to repent
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called Vice President to order, telling the country's number two that God restored him to good health so he could dump his bad deeds for good ones.Chamisa was spe...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:18hrs | 9799 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa vows Zimbabwe will 'never, never' dollarise again
President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed on Friday not to revert to using the United States dollar after the Zimbabwe plunged against the greenback since its introduction this year, fuelling inflation and e...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 18:15hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns Chamisa
TOP Zanu-PF officials have declared war on the opposition MDC, describing the party as made up of malcontents fond of fanning violence to grab power from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration....Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:07hrs | 2583 | by Staff reporter
REVEALED: Iran helping Zimbabwe to build a cyber army
In a desperate bid to thwart feared mass uprising in the country over a worsening food security situation, health crisis, and economic disfunction, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, has a...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 06:35hrs | 5354 | by Itai Mushekwe
Kasukuwere to lead young people in economic revolution
Zimbabwe's political landscape saw a new entry in the form of the #TysonWabantu movement and Saviour Kasukuwere announced that he is considering a run at the 2023 polls.Saviour Kasukuwere a fo...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 10:06hrs | 5096 | by Ntokozo Msipha
'MRP not a tribal outfit'
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has insisted that it is not a tribal outfit following accusations that the Matabeleland based opposition party is not only pushing a tribal agenda but cultivating tr...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has reached deepest depth of a crisis'
Zimbabwe has reached the deepest depth of a crisis, which is a culmination of unresolved political and economic problems, Briggs Bomba, the convenor of the Zimbabwe Citizens Manifesto has said....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 1969 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to 'deal' with doctors
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threatened to "deal" with striking doctors, claiming they were being paid by unknown organisations to continue with their job boycott.Doctors at governme...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:53hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
'Let Zimbabweans find one another, by themselves' diplomats instructed - after 39 years, ravenous hyena midwife to a goat
It is a real tragedy that Zimbabwe is now in a serious mess; millions are facing heart breaking hardship from lack of water, no food, no work, no fuel, no medicine, etc. The situation is now so bad th...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 09:13hrs | 769 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mugabe coup announcer rules out external mediation
Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo has again ruled out the use of external mediators to resolve the political and economic crises in the country, saying Zimbabweans must be allowed and afforded th...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:31hrs | 2088 | by Staff reporter
EU takes Mnangagwa govt on over rights abuses
THE European Union (EU) has taken government to task over the slow pace of reforms and the country's deplorable civil rights record following a series of incidence where state security agents have use...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1269 | by Staff reporter
British MPs plot Zimbabwe Commonwealth ban
CONSERVATIVES in the House of Commons are lobbying the UK government to block Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin the Commonwealth citing Harare's chequered property and human rights record, a move that is likel...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1024 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dares authorities
In a fresh test for the country's jittery authorities, who stand accused of brutally clamping down on the opposition in recent months, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday announced a series of meeting...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:40hrs | 8008 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatened with arrest
Government has threatened to arrest MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and other opposition officials pushing for the ouster of President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power.Information deputy minister Energ...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:33hrs | 2185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's current environment not ideal for social dialogue
SINCE the beginning of the year, Zimbabwe's government has been confronted by restive workers and their leadership from different labour unions, either threatening industrial action or alleging incapa...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:18hrs | 202 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Zacc zeroes in on Gokwe Town Council
THE Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has petitioned the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to investigate alleged corruption and maladministration at Gokwe Town Council....Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:17hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa being fooled by events in Latin America
There are very interesting parallels between political developments in Zimbabwe and in four South American countries, namely Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. In all these countries, ther...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1950 | by Bevan Musoko
Excesses against MDC crowds making bad situation worse
THE term rogue State is largely a curious one in political science, with grave connotations on how a country is perceived by other progressive nations. There is no State that formalises and prides its...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1537 | by Learnmore Zuze
Chamisa plots final push
THE opposition MDC is ganging up with citizens, civic society, churches and labour to launch a spirited campaign to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power through an initiative they say will b...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3484 | by Staff reporter
Activists ambush Mnangagwa's Health minister
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo was yesterday ambushed by Masvingo demonstrators protesting the lack of drugs and the continued doctors' strike at major hospitals.The incident occurred as the min...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers are trained to kill, says Matemadanda
ZANU-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda has warned that if people fail to comply with the law they will be dealt with by soldiers who are trained to kill unlike the police.Speaking durin...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
If amnesia is a disease, we are all sick!
Fate and fortune, just as life itself, have a weird sense of humour.Just as Bishop Lazarus was busy narrating the age-old anecdotal tale of the "Arab and The Camel" last week, well, our very o...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:47hrs | 79 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zimbabwe lawyers march against police brutality
Dozens of Zimbabwean lawyers took to the streets on Friday to protest against police brutality that has escalated since President Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power in 2017.Wearing black court r...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 14:35hrs | 429 | by AFP
War veterans, minister clash over land
War veterans in Mashonaland Central province have accused Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mavhunga of allegedly grabbing land from stalwarts of the liberation struggle and re-allocating it to peopl...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:44hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party speaks on doctors' strike
ZCP Statement On the Incapacitation of Workers: Senior Doctors' Strike 26 November 2019 In November 2017 when the late President Robert Mugabe was forced to resign from power after a military coup whi...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 14:23hrs | 1288 | by ZCP
Chamisa's MDC has had enough, planning to roll out fresh protests
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC says it is tired of the political stand-off in the country and of government using the police to crush opposition activities and is, therefore, planning to roll out fresh pr...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:46hrs | 5328 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mnangagwa activist challenges incarceration
LAWYERS representing political activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube have challenged the incarceration of the aspiring Bulawayo legislator who was last week jailed six years for public violence.Ngulu...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1543 | by Staff reporter
War veterans, minister clash over land
War veterans in Mashonaland Central province have accused Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mavhunga of allegedly grabbing land from stalwarts of the liberation struggle and re-allocating it to peopl...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:41hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools post best results for Grade 7 exams
BULAWAYO Province was the best performing nationally once again in the 2019 Grade Seven public examinations and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has hailed the province for hard work. ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 4457 | by Staff reporter
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