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Cops, vendors clash
VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance led Harare City Council raids vendors
Harare City Council and the national police yesterday launched raids against vendors in the central business district after pleas for the informal traders to leave the streets due to a cholera outbrea...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare vendors get 24-hr ultimatum to vacate
The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) yesterday started mobilising its members to leave undesignated vending sites in Harare's central business district today in order to contain the cholera ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Vendors stalls demolished at night
Vendors at the congested Copacabana termini in Harare arrived early in the morning on Saturday to find their market stalls destroyed with only heaps of rubble left.The demolishment was carried...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Forex dealers backbone of economy'
PARASTATALS yesterday made a beeline at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's scheduled meeting with Harare vendors, dangling sweeteners, including flexible cash-lending facilities to the small-scale traders...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa name-dropping saves Zvorwadza
National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) president Sten Zvorwadza was yesterday told to prioritise court business after he sought a postponement of his attempted arson trial to go and meet with Pres...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nobody wins spiteful wars
TWO separate news items from the past few days have been most instructive in their own way.The first was about MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda walking into Herald Hous...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
'Talibanisation' of Zimbabwe politics!
ZIMBABWEANS in general can take things in their stride. They can calmly deal with something unpleasant and not let it have a crushing effect on them.So it's good that some strong, principled v...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 13:47hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani
Zvorwadza urges vendors to embrace new dispensation
Informal traders in the Midlands Province have been urged to support the new dispensation and spurn attempts by some political parties to influence them against participating in the economic developme...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza praises ED 'for new dispensation' - how naïve, mamba with new coat is still deadly
There is always a problem when zeal is not tempered by reason, Sten Zvorwadza is one example. "The controversial political activist heaped praises on President Emmerson Mnangagwa for "ushering...Published: 17 May 2018 at 19:04hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mujuru visits police shooting victims
NATIONAL People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru yesterday visited victims of police shooting, where she lambasted the Zimbabwe Republic Police over its heavy-handedness, which she said had created u...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 10:33hrs | | by GIFT Nyandoro, PRC spokesperson
Mujuru visits police shooting victims
NATIONAL People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru yesterday visited victims of police shooting, where she lambasted the Zimbabwe Republic Police over its heavy-handedness, which she said had created u...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New police chief faces tough task
He is a career cop who walked the beat over the past 23 years before assuming the post of police commissioner-general.He graduated as a patrol officer in October 1982, and is a police veteran ...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Embrace G40 to unseat Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION parties have been challenged to unite and invite into their ranks members of the vanquished G40 faction in Zanu-PF if they are to entertain any chances of unseating President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Vendors vow to defy government
A vendor representative union yesterday vowed informal traders would defy a decree to leave street pavements across Zimbabwe's towns and cities until municipalities build alternative vending sites, de...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vendors give govt 48-hour ultimatum to create jobs
Vendors have given government a 48-hour ultimatum to create jobs for them so that they are able to leave the streets. The ultimatum comes barely a day after government also gave the vendors the same o...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 10:46hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans celebrate Chihuri departure
ORDINARY citizens, human rights activists and opposition parties yesterday hailed outgoing Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri's move to step down, with some describi...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chihuri humiliated
POLICE Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri was yesterday booed by thousands of Zimbabweans as he pledged allegiance to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Chihuri was firstly booed as he arrived a...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza cornered, assaulted in Mbare
NATIONAL Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza has claimed that he was assaulted by Zanu-PF youths in Mbare on Saturday, on accusations of disrespecting President Robert Mugabe....Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Mugabe is doing is 'Satanic and devilish'
A Zimbabwean students leader, Zvikomborero Haruzivishe, has compared President Robert Mugabe to "Satan" over the recently launched campaign to clear Harare’s streets of illegal vendors, says a repor...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe given a two-week ultimatum
NATIONAL Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza yesterday gave President Robert Mugabe a two-week ultimatum to clear his name over the harassment of vendors in the central business d...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza spends second night in detention
PRO-democracy campaigner and the leader of the National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) Sten Zvorwadza was on Wednesday condemned to spend a second night in police custody as Zimbabwe Republic Police (...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 13:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Activist in court for insulting 'day dreaming' Mugabe
National Vendors' Union of Zimbabwe chairperson Stendrick Zvorwadza yesterday appeared in court facing charges of insulting or undermining the authority of the President after he described President R...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe is daydreaming, says vendors
National Vendors Union Zimbabwe chairperson Sten Zvorwadza (pictured) has said President Robert Mugabe is "daydreaming" in his bid to ban street vending.Zvorwadza told the Daily News yesterday...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
National stutdown protest next week
Protest movements led by Tajamuka/Sesijikile have vowed to to join and bolster civil servants planned next week's strike to pile pressure on the government to address the social and economic pro...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 03:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF can't steal Christmas
A state media columnist has said it is absurd for people to claim that the ruling Zanu PF has the ability to steal Jesus and Christmas.The columnist, Bishop Lazarus said Zanu PF should not be ...Published: 25 Dec 2016 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Alice Dube
Trial of activists who 'torched' a police car fails to kick off
The trial of 20 Tajamuka group members, who are facing public violence charges after they allegedly torched Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) vehicles during a p...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'pro-democracy' groups fight over demo funding
Zimbabwe's pro-democracy groups have started to fracture, with anti-President Robert Mugabe civic groups crossing swords with an opposition political party over last week's failed anti-bond notes ...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 13:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Naive docile - Morgan Tsvangirai should resign
It's sad that I have come to this conclusion. It was in 1999 when the MDC party was formed, Zimbabwe a country we all love had suddenly derailed and was heading towards nowhere, I was young then a...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 08:39hrs | | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
Zvorwadza surprises Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti
National Vendors Union (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza staged a dramatic plea for a postponement of his cases when he stormed the courtroom with his luggage and an air ticket for a flight that...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Naïve and docile - Morgan Tsvangirai should resign
It's sad that I have come to this conclusion. It was in 1999 when the MDC party was formed, Zimbabwe a country we all love had suddenly derailed and was heading towards nowhere, I was young then a...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
Mugabe promised war vets $500k and/or prosperity only to deliver poverty
Financial Gazette columnist CZ's (satirizing he who must not be named, the satanic satyr Robert Gabriel Mugabe, totem Gushungo) latest contribution "I never promised any war vet US$500k Cdes" Bulawayo...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 19:28hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Anti-Mugabe protestors chicken out, change strategy
Activists under the banner "This Constitution Our Constitution" have changed their strategy after police in Bulawayo sealed their starting point which was at the Bulawayo City Hall. Police...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Dzamara found at a local hospital
Reports coming in say that Patson Dzamara who was reported to have been abducted has been found in a local hospital. Details are still sketchy as to his state of health.Earlier we had reports ...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans braces for crippling demo
Organisers of today's demonstration say they are ready to confront police brutality, as they take to the streets protesting against the impending introduction of bond notes and rampant corruption ...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Patson Dzamara abducted - Report
Reports coming in say that Zimbabwe State Security Agents have abducted Patson Dzamara, beat up and severely injured 3 activists and 4 activists are not accounted for at this moment. Two vehic...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Anti-Mugabe activists gets international support
After spending more than three weeks in the Diaspora, militant leader of the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe Sten Zvorwadza says he now has the resources to hold sustainable demonstrations unti...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sten Zvorwadza has case to answer'
HARARE - The State yesterday argued that National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe leader, Sten Zvorwadza, has a case to answer on allegations of disorderly conduct emanating from a January 2013 incident....Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zvorwadza do not blunt rejection of bond notes with careless whispers from Magaisa
Let me say upfront that I admire people like Sten Zvorwadza and all the other of the social media heroes and heroines for their courage and passion in leading street protests from the front. However, ...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 20:12hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chain protests to rock Harare
Human Rights activist and Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) board chairperson Sten Zvorwadza is planning to roll out a string of street protests dubbed #MunhuWeseMuRoad.Zvorwadza has set Novem...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 11:08hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
EU Parliament invites Dzamara
The European Union Parliament has invited activist and anti-President Robert Mugabe protester Paston Dzamara to France, to present on civil movements and status of human rights in Zimbabwe this we...Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 21:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
ThisFlag's Pastor Mawarire denied UK entry
Zimbabwean pastor Evan Mawarire who is leading protests against the brutal dictatorship of President Robert Mugabe has been refused entry into the UK.Mawarire was told by immigration offic...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 15:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mugabe activists get UK visas
Anti-President Robert Mugabe activists - including exiled musician Thomas Mapfumo are next week headed for the United Kingdom (UK) where they will next week, mobilise Diasporans to bring back the ...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 13:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'It's my property,' insist Tsvangirai of $4 m mansion - maths does not add up
We all know that Politics is not an exact science with clear cut answers but rather an art with no clear cut answers.Arithmetic, for an example is an exact science, so 1 + 1 = 2 and will never...Published: 07 Oct 2016 at 20:04hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Diplomats slam latest Zimbabwe activist 'abduction'
Abducted, assaulted, injected with an unknown substance and left for dead: another Zimbabwe activist is being treated in hospital after what appears to have been a terrifying ordeal at the hands o...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 14:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Arrest Kasukuwere or citizens will,' Chihuri told
Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri has been urged to speedy arrest Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere over residential stands scandal or citizens risk taking the law into their ha...Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 13:11hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
DARE Statement on demo court victory
We want to thank the lawyers and ZLHR who stood by us and saw the merits of this application.The court ruling is a reminder that Zimbabwe is a republic and not a monarchy which panders to the whim...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 21:50hrs | | by Gilbert Dzikiti
MDC-Terror and anti-people uprising
There have been attempts to frame the recent disturbances in Zimbabwe, which have been characterised by violence between protesters and police, as social or civil "uprising". Nothing could be ...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Protest aftermath - state security agents, police clampdown on political and pro-democracy activists
HUMAN rights lawyers on Friday 26 August 2016 endured a hectic day as they mounted searches for several political and human rights activists, who were reported missing after they were picked up by som...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Soldiers deployed to quell protests, embassies 'concerned'
Soldiers were on Friday deployed into central Harare to reinforce police reaction to a protest organised by more than a dozen political parties seeking electoral reform ahead of the 2018 elections....Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
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