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Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe intervention gets off to rocky start
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's cautious intervention in the current Zimbabwean crisis has got off to a rocky start, with the opposition warning yesterday that they will not be railroaded to accept any de...Published: 50 mins ago | 419 | by Staff reporter
30 Bulawayo MDC Alliance activists flee city
MDC Alliance has claimed that 30 of its members have fled from their homes in fear of falling victim to the alleged on-going crackdown of opposition activists in the city.In recent weeks sever...Published: 51 mins ago | 188 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa calls for local community leadership in stemming the spread of COVID-19
African Union (AU) Special Envoy for COVID-19 and businessman Strive Masiyiwa has called on community leaders - including chiefs, religious leaders, councillors and members of Parliament - to lead in ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 444 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans' political consciousness now very high
MDC Alliance deputy chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said Zimbabweans' political consciousness as a people can now be taken for granted by those blinded with oppressive power but in the mind of every pai...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1003 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa claims to be under siege
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says the government is trying to provoke opposition and civic society leaders into engaging in violence by pushing them into a corner through a crackdown by law e...Published: 11 hrs ago | 5272 | by Staff reporter
Online #ZimbabweLivesMatter campaign jolts Mnangagwa govt
STUNG by the impact of an online campaign by Zimbabweans to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations in the country, top government officials are fighting back with claims that gory image...Published: 11 hrs ago | 7088 | by Staff reporter
It is very much in SA's interest to ‘interfere' in Zimbabwe
For about 20 years South Africa has watched, rarely exerted pressure, and in some instances aided and abetted, the tragedy Zimbabwe has become.South Africa is now home to millions of Zimbabwea...Published: 11 hrs ago | 285 | by Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
Why the blockages on people's rights?
The deployment of the army to clamp down on protests threatens to create a subject political culture where timid citizens watch the state conversion into a complete authoritarian regime.Since ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 105 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
Chiwenga's appointment cynical
MY Dear People,The continued hardships that Zimbabweans have experienced since 1980 have sent them into a permanent state of stupor and numbness.As a result, the leadership, especially...Published: 11 hrs ago | 568 | by Dr Amai
White farmer compensation: A stunt that backfired
IF you have lived in the village, or had the chance to visit one, you will remember how an ass be-haves. Stubborn and carefree, but very poor of judgement. It spends the whole day hee-hawing, tossing ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 575 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Motlanthe Commission wasted Zimbabwe taxpayers' money'
THE Motlanthe Commission into the August 2018 fatal shooting of seven civilians by the army was a waste of taxpayers' money as two years after it completed its work, the government is yet to implement...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:40hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt welcomes Ramaphosa's envoys
THE government says it will co-operate fully with the special envoys that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed as the regional power tries to help resolve the country's challenges....Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:37hrs | 1556 | by Staff reporter
Renewed push for reforms
NATIONAL Convergence Platform (NCP), a group of churches, civil society organisations, diaspora networks and businesses are pushing for political reforms to be implemented by President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:36hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is not Zimbabwe: MDA
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance leader Hloniphani Ncube has said ZANU PF must get this right. He said a country is not them and they are not a country. "Campaigning against looting and c...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 16:53hrs | 1629 | by Stephen Jakes
Biti's Civic society demands answers over US$18 billion debt
CIVIC society groups have amplified their voices seeking to know how the country's debt ballooned to US$18 billion.The lobby groups are demanding debt transparency after taxpayers have been fo...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 3986 | by Staff reporter
Zesn presses for electoral reforms
THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has urged political actors not to abandon the push for electoral reforms in the face of COVID-19 that has forced the country's electoral body, Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
#ZimbabweLivesMatter Twitter revolution: Boots still needed on the ground
THE year 2011 redefined the African Arab world. The world witnessed what generally became known as the Arab Spring. The revolutionary demonstrations were in the main led by tech-savvy youths on their ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 368 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
What becomes of unwanted babies?
IT is a common national habit to turn a blind eye or be very judgmental about problems that we are too uncomfortable to deal with such as unwanted teen pregnancies or the necessity of providing contra...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:37hrs | 314 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Strong institutions needed in fight against corruption
WHILE reasonable progress has been made in strengthening capacity to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in the management of national resources, the institutional framework for dealin...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 464 | by Tawanda Zinyama
Gumbura's rape jail sentence slashed
RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura on Wednesday had his jail sentence on four counts of rape reduced, but his legal team claims it was not enough and is now seeking to appro...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1510 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to inspect roadworks
Progress on the dualisation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway by local contractors comes under spotlight tomorrow as President Mnangagwa inspects work. Government has prioritised road ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF government's conduct is smuggling 'outrage porn' into the public sphere.
As the Covidgate scandal remain unresolved, can it be fair to attack journalists and the media for spreading "panic porn" as is being peddled by Emerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF?Are we in the...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:58hrs | 577 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1176 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ICAC calls for Youth, Liberation fighters,Women assemblies inclusion in AU
The International Coalition Against Coronavirus in Africa (ICAC) has called on the African Union to include the youth, liberation fighters, and women assemblies in the bloc so as to have it pushing th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 17:56hrs | 142 | by Stephen Jakes
Enough is enough, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties and hostile countries plotting his downfall and frus...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 8775 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF launches internal witch hunt
ZANU-PF has reportedly launched a massive witch hunt for party leaders who joined forces with civil society groups to stage the July 31 anti-corruption protests, and is systematically axing them, Sout...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:18hrs | 7760 | by Staff reporter
'Detractors, rogues will not stop us,' says Mnangagwa
My Fellow Zimbabweans, The world is in crisis. Borders have been closed, trade has ceased and businesses negatively impacted by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The virus breaches borders, and kn...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 436 | by ED Mnangagwa
'Mnangagwa values lives of all Zimbabweans'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa values the lives of all Zimbabweans and has put in place measures to ensure that all citizens come back home during the dark phase spawned by the Covid-19 pandemic and no country s...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
We'll triumph, says Mnangagwa
Despite several hurdles on the country's economic revival path in the form of natural disasters, successive droughts, divisive opposition politics and foreign economic aggression, the country will ult...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:04hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda jumps on Malema's throat
Comrade Victor Matemadanda lashes out at "idiot Malema" outspoken South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema who has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a fool...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 00:40hrs | 8121 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC Alliance responds to Mnangagwa's State of the Nation Address
The reason why Mnangagwa is labeling the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa a terrorist organization is to justify his current crackdown on our leadership. Our Entire Youth Assembly leadership is bein...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 14:11hrs | 10212 | by Charlton Hwende
TPF blasts Zimbabwe security agents for suppressing dissent
The Patriotic Front (TPF) led by former commercial farmer Darrlyl Collet has blasted the security agents for suppressing dissent in the country.This comes in the wake of the police and the mil...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2111 | by Stephen Jakes
Church leaders in renewed drongo call for Mnangagwa and Chamisa dialogue - make rational call or shut up
The drongo, "nhengure" in Shona, is a loud quarrelsome black bird with a shrill loud cry to march. Many of Zimbabwe's church leaders have started behaving like the drongo in their repeated calls...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 22:19hrs | 2752 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Church warns Mnangagwa
AMID the country's deepening political and economic crises, church leaders have once again implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, to take the initiative to launch an inclusive national dialo...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 19:25hrs | 10847 | by Staff reporter
South African celebrities take Mnangagwa head on
Top celebrities in South Africa have taken to social media to express their displeasure at the way President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is implementing a crackdown on opposition members, civic so...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 10:00hrs | 9342 | by Mandla Ndlovu
July 31 exposed Mnangagwa
In order to legitimise anti-democratic politics, violence and human rights abuses to the world, Zanu-PF has gone back to its exhausted ideological settings.This follows a widespread call by ac...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 9859 | by Phillan Zamchiya
CIO bosses violated the constitution
ONE crazy thing happened last week. Not quite surprising, but shocking, nonetheless. A brazen case of crass impunity and criminality in the ruling Zanu-PF.The ruling party held a politburo mee...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1616 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabweans still have a right to protest
Trade unions, political groupings and civil society organisations called on the public to take to the streets on July 31 to protest against economic mismanagement and public corruption.Some of...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:24hrs | 198 | by Veritas
Dangarembga arrest triggers global storm
The arrest of award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, a nominee for this year's Booker Prize, and several political activists on Friday has invited global condemnation and demands for thei...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tells off Malema
ZIMBABWE will not be lectured by misinformed and misguided regional parties such as the South African Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on anything as the country is not a province of South Africa. ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 8820 | by Staff reporter
Hope for Zimbabwe as coronavirus Covid-19 is not the end of the world
As CORONA VIRUS ravages the world and its ugly head makes upwards strides in Zimbabwe, we feel a great comfort in knowing that this world will never end b...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | 3544 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe businesses closed, streets deserted on day of protests
Businesses were shut and streets deserted around Zimbabwe on Friday as security forces increased patrols to stop anti-government protests called by activists over corruption and economic hardship....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 2257 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans labour under Zanu-PF debt concrete slab
ONE thing that makes me smile when I think constitutional democracy an elected government that shows unwavering love for its citizens. In perfect liberal or social democracies, elected governments fea...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 252 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
Protests are a human right: UN experts
HE UN Human Rights Committee yesterday said protesters across the world had a right to protest even in the wake of COVID-19 as long as they adhere to requirements to protect themselves.In a st...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Opposition party distances self from its leader's utterances
NEWLY-FORMED opposition party, The Patriotic Front (TPF) has distanced itself from utterances made by its leader, Darryl Collet last week where he urged the country to forget both colonialism and Guku...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Violence has no place in our civilised society
VIOLENCE, whether verbal, physical, emotional or psychological, should never any have place in a civilised society like Zimbabwe. Yet the use of State apparatus to perpetuate violence has been a defin...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:37hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Protests: Army takes charge
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army and the police yesterday shut down the central business districts (CBDs) of major cities and towns, kicking out civilians and barricading all roads into city cent...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 4411 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono bail hearing deferred to today
THE bail hearing for journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, who is accused of inciting the public to revolt against the Zanu-PF government, was deferred to today after the State failed to bring a transcript of...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns against demos
President Mnangagwa yesterday warned that the security forces "will be vigilant and on high alert" to deal with any attempts to destabilise the constitutionally-elected Government or create a public h...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
'Security forces ready to deal with demos'
President Mnangagwa yesterday warned that security forces "will be vigilant and on high alert" to deal with any attempts to destabilise the constitutionally-elected Government or create a public healt...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
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