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2008 violence haunts Zanu-PF officials
THE ghost of the 2008 violence ridden election has returned to haunt a Zanu-PF Councilor, a headman and eight other party activists who unleashed a reign of terror in rural Zaka at the height of the e...Published: 18 hrs ago | 695 | by newzimbabwe
Chombo trial hangs in the balance
FORMER Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo's corruption trial still hangs in the balance as the Supreme Court last Friday deferred ruling on whether he should get a permanent stay of prosecution on the g...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Chombo appeal hearing on today
The Supreme Court is today expected to hear an appeal by former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo, who is battling to stop his trial on charges of criminal abuse of office. Chombo (67), is seek...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:31hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Gushungo bomber writes to High Court
Zimbabwe People's Front political party president Owen Kuchata, who is serving a nine-year jail term for attempting to petrol-bomb the former First Family's Alpha Omega Dairy Farm in Mazowe, has claim...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:04hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala will never ever leave Zimbabwe because of Mnangagwa regime
I have received a number of inquiries from countless members of the press, colleagues, sympathisers and friends about my attitude towards my indictment for trial from 27 January to 30 2020 at the Masv...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 15:32hrs | 3220 | by Job 'Wiwa' Sikhala
RBZ must get its act together
IF there is any institution in the land requiring everyone's unwavering support at this critical point in the life of our troubled nation, it is the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), as it painstakingly...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top ally in trouble
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dealt yet another blow with US President Donald Trump on Friday adding his close ally, State Security minister Owen Ncube, to the sanctions list.Ncube who...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 10:37hrs | 2587 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa snatched Augustine Chihuri's lover'
Former police commissioner Augustine Chihuri did not side with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's faction in the days of the Zanu-PF succession battles when late President Robert Mugabe was still in power...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 18:04hrs | 28033 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF told to reform or suffer
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his lieutenants risk being slapped with more punitive measures by the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) - unless they start implementing much-...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 07:07hrs | 3534 | by Staff reporter
Trump fires warning shots at Mnangagwa
IN AN ominous development for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure government, the United States of America (USA) has slapped State Security minister Owen Ncube with sanctions over alle...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 10:50hrs | 17376 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean model tortured in South Africa, peri peri put in her privates
In a bizarre fit of rage two Zimbabwean women and a well-known musician are seen in a video that has gone viral putting powdered peri peri into a young model's private parts as they assault her. The i...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:55hrs | 2895 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: 'ZANU PF Youths stone funeral car carrying dead vendor'
The MDC Youth Assembly Secretary General Gift Siziba has alleged that ZANU PF Youths have stoned the funeral car carrying the body of the late Hilton Tafadzwa Tamangani during a funeral in Chitungwiza...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 17:46hrs | 7942 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC mourns political violence victim
The MDC Mashonaland East province has been plunged into mourning following the death of party stalwart Obed Pindu Muchabaiwa who died at Marondera Provincial Hospital on Sunday at the age of 81....Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:08hrs | 1788 | by Staff reporter
Police break up court protest
Police on Monday used truncheons to disperse a small group of activists protesting outside the Harare Magistrates Court following the death of a street hawker who died in prison, allegedly after polic...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:37hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
State-sanctioned human rights abuses at the core of the national crisis
The death of Hilton Tafadzwa Tamangani, who was brutally assaulted by the police and died while in prison, last Friday, is testimony to thefact that the real crisis in Zimbabwe is State-sanctioned...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 10:24hrs | 1947 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
'Tortured' vendor dies in prison
A Harare vendor died in remand prison yesterday after he was allegedly tortured by police, triggering an angry reaction from human rights defenders.Tafadzwa Hilton Tamangani was one of the 11 ...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:53hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Old habits die hard for Zimbabwe police
The death of a Harare vendor in remand prison after he was allegedly tortured during interrogation is yet another indication that old habits in the police force have not been banished.Hilton T...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:52hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Man dies after he was 'tortured' by police and denied access to doctor
A man tortured in police custody died on Friday night after prison authorities denied him access to a doctor, his lawyers said.In a statement, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said Hilton...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:46hrs | 441 | by ZimLive
Who is behind the spate of activist abductions in Zimbabwe?
Since the beginning of the year, some 50 people, mainly government detractors, have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be behind these heinous crimes.T...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 20:51hrs | 284 | by Cyril Zenda
SA taxi associations terrorising Zimbabwean immigrants in Pretoria
"We are living in fear. We do not know when they will strike next," says Ashley Johnson.Johnson, a Zimbabwean living in Pretoria, is nursing wounds after being attacked last week at a shop by ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:43hrs | 1316 | by Kimberly Mutandiro, GroundUp
'Doctors don't feed on court orders'
Striking doctors at public hospitals are likely to face a contempt of court charge for defying a Labour Court order issued last Friday compelling them to report for duty within 48 hours of the ruling ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1340 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean Cyber Crime Bill, a good way forward
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cabinet passed the long awaited Cyber Crime, Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill in what they say is an effort to "protect the country's cyber space...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 23:03hrs | 515 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mukoko's abduction horror scare that never fades away
IT is a harrowing experience that still haunts her 11 years on. Like a horror movie, it plays back each time Jestina Mukoko hears of another abduction case.The wounds never heal, she says....Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:51hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
An indictment on Mnangagwa's govt
THE hard-hitting report by United Nations special rapporteur Clement Nyaletsossi Voule on human rights pointing out that citizens' hope for a new dawn under President Emmerson Mnangagwa is fast fading...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:47hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now a country of glaring contradictions
ZIMBABWE, under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has now become a country of sickening contradictions.Last week, a visiting United Nations special rapporteur on human rights Clement Nyalessosi Voule issu...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:45hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is Open for incompetence, deceit and corruption
Damning comments on the situation in Zimbabwe by the UN and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expose Mnangagwa's government as incompetent, deceitful and corrupt.A bad week for Zimbabwe be...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 17:04hrs | 982 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mugabe looked after his own
THE drums reverberated at the home of the late former President Robert Mugabe as boys from the Roman Catholic-run Kutama Boys High Mission sang in smooth innocent majestic voices to bid farewell to a ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 2486 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's burial a cause for concern as Gucci 'won' Zimbabwe's game of thrones
Grace Mugabe got one more chance to spite the men who betrayed her husband and won this round in Zimbabwe's game of thrones. Gucci's decision lately to refuse the burial of her husband at the national...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 10:54hrs | 3475 | by Georgia Marlins
The truth behind Mugabe's burial in Zvimba
The former president and national hero cde Robert Mugabe has caused much tension in his death than in his life. He died in Singapore and three weeks down the line he is yet to be buried. It is rather ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 22:15hrs | 18128 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
FULL TEXT: UN Special Rapporteur releases scathing report on Zimbabwe
In my capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, I conclude today the first official visit carried by a United Nations Special Proc...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 13:39hrs | 6159 | by Online
Comrades, Zimbabwe is under attack!
Gloves are off, it is no longer clandestine as before, and the enemy has come out in the open attacking anything to do with Zimbabwe. Not that the clandestine black operations have stopped, far from i...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2618 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Why is Mnangagwa's govt panicking?
When we were kids, we used to enjoy a certain joke, in which a bus was stopped at a checkpoint, where police officers started searching all the bags in the luggage compartment, when they came across o...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1302 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Impunity has no place in a civilised society
LAST Sunday, my pastor said something significant: Zimbabweans are quick to boo at President Cyril Ramaphosa from the terraces of the National Sports Stadium, but what are they doing about those who a...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:37hrs | 63 | by Brezh Malaba
PHOTOS: World leaders boycotted Mnangagwa's speech?
World leaders appear to have boycotted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's address to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday....Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 10:37hrs | 16653 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa calls for end to 'illegal' sanctions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is appealing for patience for his efforts to pull his country out of an economic collapse, and called on the U.S. and Europe to lift "illegal sanctions" that he blamed for...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Judge President raps State over Magombeyi detention
Judge president Justice George Chiweshe yesterday dismissed the State's urgent chamber application to stop Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) leader Peter Magombeyi from leaving the country...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:15hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
'Magombeyi not tortured'
Zimbabwe Republic Police has dismissed social media claims that Dr Peter Magombeyi who was found in Nyabira last week after an alleged abduction had been tortured and was wheelchair-bound. Res...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 20:01hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government responds to American Ambassadors
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi says the former American diplomats who wrote to Havard University to undo their decision to make First lady Auxilia Mnangagwa a goodwill Ambassador. ...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 13:25hrs | 2586 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa seeks former coup leader's help
Amid Zimbabwe's deteriorating political situation and worsening economic rot, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has held a meeting with former Nigerian Olusegun Obasanjo - in a bid to trigger dialogue ...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 07:25hrs | 9581 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted' doctor suffers brain dysfunction, referred to SA
THE High Court yesterday granted an order allowing the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association acting president, Peter Magombeyi to urgently seek medical examination and treatment in South Africa amid ...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 07:23hrs | 2810 | by Staff reporter
US diplomats pressure Harvard to rescind Mnangagwa's health award
A group of retired US diplomats and civil society leaders has penned a letter of protest to Harvard University, after Auxillia Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe's first lady, picked up an award for contributions to...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 21:32hrs | 3370 | by Staff reporter
MDC disgusted by violation of Dr Magombeyi's rights
The MDC is in solidarity with Dr Magombeyi and his family who are going through severe persecution in the hands of the Zanu-PF regime and its functionaries. The contemptuous behavior by the police to ...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 19:16hrs | 167 | by Innocent Gonese
Zimbabwe government is torturing, abducting and victimising the victims
Editor SirI am extremely disappointed by the Zanu-PF government run by Emmerson Mnangagwa. Emmerson is not committed to true democracy at all and is not even ready for any political ...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 12:27hrs | 865 | by Esther Tafadzwa Munyira
As Dr Magombeyi resurfaces, the third force debate rages on, as Job Sikhala narrates torture story
The acting president of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctor Associations Peter Magombeyi, who was allegedly abducted on Friday last week in Budiriro, was on last week Thursday night confirmed to have been releas...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 10:29hrs | 3595 | by Thomas Mukandi
Zimbabwe govt panicky reaction to Dr Magombeyi abduction raises more questions
When we were kids, we used to enjoy a certain joke, in which a bus was stopped at a checkpoint, where police officers started searching all the bags in the luggage compartment, when they came across o...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | 3511 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugabe abduction victim demands compensation
ELEVEN years since she was seized from her home at the height of former President Robert Mugabe's brutal repression of the opposition, Banket based MDC activists Violet Mupfuranhewe wants justice....Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 06:16hrs | 1012 | by newzimbabwe
MDC Alliance abduction 'movies' sickening
Ever since suffering electoral defeat during the July 2018 general elections, opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance has dumped liberalism for anarchism, in fulfilment of party leader Mr N...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 06:06hrs | 635 | by Lawson Mabhena
Mbeki's praise for Mugabe deeper than what meets the eye
The research by Mthwakazi Institute of Research (MIOR) has shown that people of the same philosophy tend to support each other. This becomes more pronounced if the people under scrutiny once have a ch...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:03hrs | 3234 | by Mthwakazi Research Institute
Magombeyi: Abduction mystery deepens
The mystery surrounding Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting president Dr Peter Magombeyi deepened yesterday following revelations that doctors are investigating the possibility that h...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 09:33hrs | 10581 | by Staff reporter
Sorry Dr Magombeyi, your story does not add up
While we do not want to rush ahead of police investigations on the alleged abduction of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting leader Dr Peter Magombeyi, we cannot resist the clear obser...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:00hrs | 2697 | by Editorial - The Herald
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