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Lucky Montana did not employ Mthimkhulu at PRASA
Former Group Chief Executive of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) Lucky Montana expressed sadness at the jailing of the agency's former head Engineer, Daniel Mthimkhulu, and committed ...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 13:23hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
South African beauty contestant faces xenophobic backlash over Nigerian heritage
Chidimma Adetshina, a 23-year-old law student from Soweto, has recently found herself at the epicentre of a heated national debate, exposing a persistent strain of xenophobia within South African soci...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 18:31hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa taking over SADC chairmanship a travesty'
ANC of Ramaphosa ranked 16th most corrupt organisation worldwideIOLCorruption indexes around the world aim to measure the most corrupt businesses, non-profit organisations, and even political ...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 07:09hrs | 1826 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa taking over SADC chairmanship a travesty'
Zimbabweans living abroad have expressed concerns over the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) lack of action against President Emmerson Mnangagwa for leading what they consider an "illegi...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 07:08hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Cold Monday morning for DA, FF+, ACDP, BOSA as Dr John Hlophe elected to JSC
Several parties in the new governing coalition firmly supported Hlophe's nomination, while the Inkatha Freedom Party stayed on the fence.The National Assembly on Tuesday designated John Hlophe...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 12:53hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa power retention scheme raises dust
Manoeuvres by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to amend the constitution have raised concern that the 82-year-old ruler wants to reverse progressive electoral reforms and return the country t...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
War vets leader pushes for reburials
A war veterans' leader Sam Parerenyatwa has petitioned Parliament to exercise its powers to cause the repatriation and reburial of the remains of thousands of Zimbabweans buried mostly in mass, ...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Men are not angels, Mr President
GOOD day, President Emerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, the August 23 and 24 harmonised elections left no electoral fundamental standing. They were a sham and conspicuous by hollowness.They we...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:08hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe Elections lack transparency and credibility
The recent ruling by the court of appeal dismissing a request by the main opposition party (CCC) to have access to an up-to-date voter's roll is now a major cause for concern. Why is the Zimbabwe Elec...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 20:12hrs | 12 | by Simbabrashe Jingo
Biti says availed voters roll copy is a 'crime scene'
OUTGOING Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member Of Parliament Tendai Biti has described the availed current voters' roll as a "crime scene" demanding an urgent national audit.This comes af...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nomination fees divide Zimbabwe Parliament
PARLIAMENT has been torn apart after its Legal Committee issued a non-adverse report, effectively endorsing the exorbitant nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for candidates wishi...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC calls for Sikhala's release as he marks one year in prison
Zengeza West legislator, Job Sikhala, has completed a full year in remand prison with members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) demanding his release.Sikhala was arrested on June 14 l...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala clocks 365 days under pre-trial detention
Tormented legislator Job Sikhala clocks one full year under pre-trial detention this Wednesday, becoming the second sitting opposition legislator to endure lengthy imprisonment since 2000.Comm...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Zimbabwe's 'well-educated' myth
The widely acclaimed narrative - correlation fallacy - that Zimbabweans are "well educated" and are some of the highly literate people on this continent is a myth. Myths build egos, not economies; nei...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:47hrs | 61 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
SA reporters fear arrest after exposé links businessman to Zimbabwean president
Journalists Sam Sole, Micah Reddy and Dewald van Rensburg, of the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism believe they are under threat of arrest because of an exposé they wrote implicating b...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt out to silence critical voices'
AMNESTY International says (AI) the conviction of Citizens Coalition for Change spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere for "publishing falsehoods" is part of a wider plot by government to silence critical ...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahere conviction unjust
THE country bleeds today because of lack of an independent Judiciary.Some judgments and sentences being handed to members of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party need to be...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 10:18hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Mahere conviction on 'dead crime' draws anger
The conviction Wednesday of opposition politician Fadzayi Mahere following a two-year long trial on a crime lawyers argue was long parked away from national statutes has drawn anger from her party and...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 20:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dzamara's wife demands answers 8 years on
The wife of "abducted" journalist-cum-activist Itai Dzamara's wife, Sheffra yesterday expressed disappointment over the failure by the State to provide answers to what happened to her husband who has ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Eight years on, authorities yet to give update on the disappeared journalist and pro-democracy activist
Eight years after journalist and pro-democracy activist, Itai Dzamara went missing authorities are yet to give progress report on their investigation efforts to ensure his family receives justice, tru...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:15hrs | | by APO/Amnesty International
Outrage over Wadyajena's removal from remand
THE removal of Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) from remand after a Harare magistrate ruled that the legislator had no case to answer following money-laundering and fraud ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zifa weeds out unqualified coaches?
ZIFA is adamant that there will be no sacred cows as they fully implement standardisation of coaches, with the association's acting president Gift Banda saying unqualified gaffers will not be allowed ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pathisa Nyathi angry over CCC butchering of Ndebele language
Historian and cultural activist Founder of Amagugu International Heritage Centre Pathisa Nyathi is an angry man after hearing an MP4 CCC campaign audio that has gone viral on the internet. ...Published: 02 Jan 2023 at 15:21hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZESA and government corruption and incompetence to blame for perennial power challenges in Zimbabwe
As I write this article, I am preparing for a scheduled eight-hour power outage - from 08:00 to 17:00 hours - and, as can be seen, translates into an enti...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zuma's persecution by courts painful and unnecessary, says top ANC official
ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize has weighed in on former president Jacob Zuma's impending return to prison, describing it as painful and an unnecessary punishment for an 80 year old.Mkhi...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities must release opposition MPs
THE continued arbitrary detention of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-chairperson and Members of Parliament Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) is rev...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by SeeD
Zimbabwe drops on world peace rankings
ZIMBABWE has continued to slide on the Global Peace Index (GPI) rankings and is currently perched on number 127 in the world and number 31 out of 44 nations in sub-Saharan Africa.The latest ra...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 19:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Free Sikhala, Sithole & the Nyatsime 16
I am calling for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to uphold the rule of law which states that bail is a constitutional right for everybody regardless of their social, economic and political background....Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 18:44hrs | | by Leonard Koni
CCC leaders go on mute while Sikhala pays the price of opposition in solitary prison cell
When Zimbabwean lawmaker Job Sikhala settles down to sleep at night, he does so on the floor of an ageing maximum-security prison in Harare.The 50-year-old opposition MP has been held in solit...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 15:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kenya's Odinga copies from Chamisa's playbook
Opposition figure Raila Odinga said Tuesday that he would challenge the results of Kenya's close presidential election with "all constitutional and legal options" after Deputy President William Ruto w...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Continued detention of Sikhala and Sithole a travesty of justice' - CCC
Citizens Coalition for Change Deputy Spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba has described the continual detention of Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole as a trave...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 08:45hrs | | by George Swarei
Cyril Ramaphosa is an agent of imperialism and white monopoly capital
On the 8 July 2021, I was arrested in front of the Estcourt prison where President Jacob Zuma was illegally imprisoned because of a travesty of justice committed by the Constitutional Court (CC)....Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 11:53hrs | 7 | by Carl Niehaus
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya
Old habits die hard
DEAR President Emmerson MnangagwaYour Excellency, as Bulawayo hosted the 42nd independence anniversary, one thing for certain is that there was apparent resentment all over. Ordinarily, there ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:11hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Nkosana Moyo queries Mnangagwa's wasteful use of resources
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been advised to do away with the culture of splurging on top of the range vehicles for ministers and top bureaucrats and instead use the funds to develop the country....Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZBC employees should learn that a dog used to hunt down other animals is always given leftovers!
I never revel in others people's misery and suffering - since, due to the same compassion that drives me to fearlessly stand up, and speak out for oppressed and unjustly-treated Zimbabweans - I simila...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:54hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF youth league challenges ANC youth to condemn xenophobic attacks
THE Zanu-PF youth league has challenged the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) to strongly condemn the ongoing xenophobic attacks on Zimbabweans in that country.This follows last week's killing of the Z...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
NJNC misrepresenting civil servants, claims Teachers unions
Teachers unions have distanced themselves from a salary deal that was agreed and signed between the government and the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) on Monday.This comes after it e...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Khupe goes to court over MDC-T funds
EXPELLED Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) deputy president Dr Thokozani Khupe has approached the High Court seeking an order barring Government from disbursing funds to her rival Mr Douglas Mwon...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mwonzora in dogfight over money
THE fight to access $149 million from the government between MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe and Douglas Mwonzora has spilled into the courts with the former Deputy Prime Minister insisting that she was...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lifestyle audit is needed at BCC
WHY do local authorities in Zimbabwe think it is normal to be owed money by residents?Take for example, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) which is failing to effectively collect revenue to the exten...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Agriculture as the trigger to industrialisation
"The sacrosanct cornerstone and golden thread upon which any successful productive economy can be built is the legal protection of private property ownership."We all know that Zimbabwe's agric...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 6 | by Vince Musewe
Merry Chiwenga is unfit to see her children but fit to stand trial: What a travesty of justice
Of all the events of injustice that happened in 2021 is that of Merry Chiwenga. This is a woman, not so long ago, was saluted by Zanu PF members and supporters as the second lady of the Republic of Zi...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 15:05hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Cont Mhlanga and the endless search for King Lobengula's grave
IT is the story that has been told a million times.It is a story passed from generation to generation. It is the story that is sold to all children, whether they sit on grass mats around crack...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' own political myopia and desperation underpin their continued suffering
This morning I was planning to write an article imploring our veterans of the liberation struggle to revert to their 1960s and 1970s unrelenting resolve - anchored by unquestionable patriotism and uns...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 16:04hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tiri pama one: Now it's the people of Mashonaland demanding a cake for all
You can't help but wish Joshua Nkomo was alive. This is exactly what he prophesized. Josh said in his own words: "This tribalism will not take you anywhere Robert. This pasi newe, pasi naye cannot be ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 20:27hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
QR-coded Covid-19 vaccination verification system needed now
NOW that it is business as usual, following the announcement that bars and nightclubs will be open and allowing only vaccinated individuals to attend these premises, worldwide Covid-19 is here to stay...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:03hrs | 6 | by Jacob Mutisi
Resident petitions govt over Lupane Local Board appointees
LUPANE resident Martin Stobart has petitioned Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo, challenging the appointment of Pardon Kuipa and Ennet Sibanda as caretakers of the Lupane Loc...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Headmaster cleared of rape after 2 years in jail
FORMER Makumbe Mission primary school headmaster Silas Chitate has been acquitted of raping an orphaned Grade 7 pupil at the school, after serving two years of a 15-year prison term. Chi...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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