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'There are no angels in Zimbabwe, President!'
Kapish Sir, forgive the Chinese, but such erratic, gladiatorial and unhinged exuberance, exuding brute visceral and coming from any one never too shy to publicly comport embedded bats in belfry charac...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 06:54hrs | 3700 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
ZANU PF Clueless as Nation Crisis Looms in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is in humanitarian meltdown; cases of corrupt officials and torture of citizens have become the talk of the day. The once breadbasket of Southern Africa has been reduced to begging for food a...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2015 | by Prince Njagu
Teachers' salaries frozen
TWO vocal unionists representing rural teachers in Zimbabwe have not been paid for almost two years after the government froze their salaries after they took part in last year's protests against a ste...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 5986 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa abducted, dumped near railway line
MDC Alliance youth chairperson for Goromonzi South, Davison Chamisa, who claims abduction by suspected state security agents in Ruwa Sunday, has been found, with claims of being drugged and dumped som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1897 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3253 | by AFP
'Mnangagwa facing an imminent end to his reign'
THE MDC Alliance leadership has come out guns blazing, threatening a showdown with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to "resign or face the wrath of the people" in the wake of severe economic a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 6231 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance itches for Mnangagwa showdown
THE MDC Alliance leadership has come out guns blazing, threatening a showdown with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to "resign or face the wrath of the people" in the wake of severe economic a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
Brutality and Aggression against journalists by security forces must stop
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, has called on the Zimbabwean government to ensure the safety of journalists following the latest incident in which two journalists were tortured by soldiers and...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:44hrs | 444 | by Stephen Jakes
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 10001 | by Brian Raftopoulos
The truth behind Temba Mliswa, Paul Westwood and Never Katiyo contested case
There has been a talk about Temba Mliswa and Westwood and the criminal activities Temba is alleged to have committed abusing ZANU PF and the first family then. A lot of complaints were lodged and accu...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:47hrs | 2009 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
No joy for MDC-Alliance activists
HIGH Court judge David Foroma has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by MDC-Alliance youth leaders - Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova - who have been denied bail for ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:20hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate who denied bail to MDC 'abduction' trio is promoted
A magistrate who denied bail to three female MDC Alliance activists accused of staging their own abduction has been promoted.Bianca Makwande refused bail for Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Nets...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 2539 | by Staff reporter
Africa celebrated a continent marred by criminality, slavery and human-organ theft
On the 25th of May the African time stood still: The rich continent was celebrating the 57 years of its existence: on this day, the AU acknowledges its successes and challenges. The continent has a hi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 13:23hrs | 541 | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | 1058 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance abductees' bail hearing today
MDC-Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and two other party activists accused of lying to the police about being abducted, will know their fate today when the High Court is expected to determine their b...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt says 'UN experts jumped the gun'
Government has dismissed a joint statement by five United Nations (UN) human rights experts, which concluded that three MDC-Alliance youth leaders were abducted as "premature and unreasonable" since i...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi faces contempt of court over abduction damages
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi and several former government officials have been taken to the High Court by a Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) employee, Pascal Gonzo, who wants them charged for contempt of c...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:18hrs | 1693 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt sets surveillance cameras in cities
Zimbabwe is planning to link its proposed National Data Centre with databases and information from the country's key economic players and state institutions as the country prepares for the creation of...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:48hrs | 5609 | by Dumisani Ndlela
Police brutality Why the Zimbabwe, US outrage is different
THE past few weeks have seen unprecedented global outrage at the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while Floy...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 725 | by Dzikamai Bere
Is Zimbabwe on the brink of collapse - yet again?
The three women were in tears, distraught, and seemingly faint with hunger, as they sat in filthy prison uniforms in the dock in a magistrate's court in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, waiting to hear if ...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 10:10hrs | 4276 | by Andrew Harding
Mnangagwa will remain a reject in the eyes of Zimbabweans
DEAR Mr President, Brace yourself Your Excellency, Sir. There aren't going to be any social niceties in this letter. This isn't going to be the sort of epistle that you would ordinarily expect...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1938 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Fresh disorder batters Harare
HARARE was once again hit by chaotic scenes yesterday, after security forces stopped tens of thousands of people from entering the central business district (CBD) - as the country held its day of nati...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2912 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi faces imprisonment
A LOCAL human rights activist, Pascal Gonzo has approached the High Court seeking to have Vice President, Kembo Mohadi held in contempt after failing to pay him US$80 000 in damages.In 2009, G...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:11hrs | 1280 | by newzimbabwe
BREAKING: Abducted MDC ladies denied bail...sent to Chikurubi
Harare' Regional Magistrate Bianca Makwande has denied bail to MDC officials Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimnbiri, and Netsai Marova who are accused of staging their abduction and communicating falsehoods...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 11:52hrs | 5899 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A nation kept hostage by Zanu-PF
(Zanu, a group of 2000 people holdimg a nation of more than 14 million people at gunpoint) The troubled people of Rhodesia lipped for joy in 1980...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1223 | by Mnu. Ngazimbi
I'm scarred, but not scared, says Artuz leader
OUTSPOKEN Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to bring socio-economic and political stability to the nation ...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance trio to know fate today
MDC-Alliance members - Joana Mamombe, Cecillia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova - will today know their fate when Harare regional magistrate Bianca Makwande makes a bail ruling in a matter in which they are...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:08hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
'Farcical and surreal'
'Farcical and surreal - like a poorly scripted Mr Bean film without the comedy' was how MDC Vice-President Tendai Biti described his arrest with other party leaders last week for trying to enter their...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:27hrs | 1077 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Coup talk mirrors a crisis
It seems that, in Zimbabwe, coup talk is one thing that won't go away. And there is always a story behind the buzz.Come to think about it. Even during Ian Smith's Rhodesia, there was such a bu...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:11hrs | 794 | by Tawanda Majoni
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
Mnangagwa govt faces growing international condemnation over crackdown
Zimbabwe has come under international scrutiny after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government launched a crackdown against its critics that include opposition leaders, lawyers and journalists....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:07hrs | 506 | by Brenna Matendere
'Lying' abductees deny lying over abduction
HARARE West legislator Joana Mamombe and two other party activists have denied charges they lied to police about being abducted and tortured last month, their lawyer said, as the women were remanded i...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 20:20hrs | 1437 | by AFP
Zimbabwe dismisses UN claims
THE government has dismissed the United Nations (UN) human rights experts' claims implicating authorities in disappearances and tortures of activists, arguing that it respected human rights laws, the ...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:57hrs | 1695 | by Staff reporter
3 MDC Alliance 'abductees' remanded in custody
Netsai Marova uses a crutch as she is assisted up a flight of stairs by Harare West MP Joanah Mamombe on arrival at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterdayTHREE MDC Alliance activists, who are ...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:39hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe deserves better
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday admitted that Zimbabwe was in a terrible economic situation and deserved better, but blamed COVID-19 and other natural disasters for militating against his effor...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:38hrs | 1452 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's activists captured on CCTV shopping during time of abduction'
EMBATTLED MDC MP, Joanna Mamombe (27) and party colleagues, Cecilia Chimbiri (31) and Netsai Marova (25) will spend the weekend in jail after their bail ruling was postponed to Monday.The thre...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:14hrs | 10864 | by newzimbabwe
High court drama as police press more charges against abductees
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members on Thursday pressed a cocktail of charges including faking abduction and disappearance against three opposition MDC-Alliance party youth leaders, who are victims...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 12:17hrs | 4042 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe punishes EU, America, and the World Bank!
Refusing Zimbabwe a corona bailout, World Bank and western countries must be severely punished. The punishment America and the western world received is greater than thunder itself. Three weeks ago, t...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 18:34hrs | 8010 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa faces a people-powered change
Emmerson Mnangagwa told us the voice of the people is the voice of God. He didn't listen to either. Now he faces a people's power movement.This article was first published by ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 22:50hrs | 11191 | by Siphosami Malunga
Mnangagwa panics
President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday that Zimbabwe's currency was under attack from businesses that were constantly hiking prices and this was part of a wider political plot against his gove...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 20:27hrs | 9968 | by Reuters
United Nations tells Mnangagwa to stop abductions and torture of Zimbabweans
United Nations human rights experts have called upon President Emmerson Mnanaggwa's government to, "immediately end a reported pattern of disappearances and torture that appear aimed at suppressing pr...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 13:45hrs | 3098 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti's six conditions for World Bank aid to Zimbabwe
Dear President Malpass IAM a senior official in Zimbabwe's largest opposition party and the chairman of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, but I am writing to you today as a private ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1916 | by Tendai Biti
Tendai Biti: The story of my arrest in Mnangagwa's tinpot Zimbabwe
"It was farcical and surreal like a poorly scripted Mr Bean film without the comedy", says MDC Alliance vice-president of his recent arrest.This article was first published by ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 19:23hrs | 6806 | by Tendai Biti
Impunity won't go unpunished
One of the alleged first causalities of the police brutality under the lockdown was Levison Ncube, a 25-yearold Bulawayo man, who was assaulted by police officers.Ncube was walking his girlfri...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:52hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation showing its traits
THE denials by government that the three MDC Alliance activists Joanah Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova were abducted and tortured show how evil this government is.President Emmerso...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 18:25hrs | 399 | by A Mbire
'Chamisa, diplomats stage-managed abductions for United States 10-month scholarship'
GOVERNMENT yesterday claimed opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, Western diplomats, human rights doctors and lawyers had connived to stage manage the recent alleged abduction and torture of...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:09hrs | 3773 | by Staff reporter
Americans' brave struggle for justice, in the face of state brutality, should inspire oppressed people of Zimbabwe
It is so easy for a perpetually oppressed, subjugated, and choked people to give up their struggle for justice, freedom, and equality - in the face of ever-growing brutality and brazen abuse of their ...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 13:59hrs | 957 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
George Floyd's killer already arrested, but Zimbabwe innocent civilians' killers not yet arrested since 1980!
As the furore surrounding the heinous and barbaric cold-hearted killing of unarmed African American George Floyd by a White United States (US) police officer Derek Chauvin, on 25 May 2020 in Minneapol...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:46hrs | 863 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MDC Allaince laments doggy govt behaviour in dealing with human rights violators
MDC Secretary for International Relations Gladys Hlatshwayo has lamented the doggy behaviour of the ruling Zanu PF government in dealing with the human rights violators making them to go scort free af...Published: 31 May 2020 at 10:14hrs | 1491 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC trio to challenge 'fake abduction' prosecution through ConCourt
MDC Alliance MP Joanna Mamombe and two-party activists are set to take their bid to stop prosecution to the Constitutional Court.The Harare West legislator and activists Cecilia Chimbiri and N...Published: 29 May 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1879 | by newzimbabwe
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