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Chamisa endorses #ZimbabweanLivesMatter protest
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa resurfaced Tuesday with an emphatic endorsement of #Zimbabwelivesmatter and a surprise prison visit to incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition leade...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2731 | by newzimbabwe
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: 4 hrs ago | 3063 | by Staff reporter
'State-sponsored violence peaked in July'
THE month of July marked a peak in State-sponsored human rights violations on defenceless citizens, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) noted in its latest report released this week.In the report...Published: 4 hrs ago | 262 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala threatens 5 day protest
THE organisers of the abortive July 31 protest say they will roll out five days of demonstrations next week against alleged wanton looting and corruption. Last Friday, government unleashed the...Published: 18 hrs ago | 4350 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF-Vampires on the hunt, once again
Mnangagwa's attempt at a speech this morning is a sobering reminder of what a bloodthirsty vampire-like cult ZANU PF is. It is a retell of the popular folktale story in which the hyena, ...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1848 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'We will remove ZANU PF out of power' EFF leader vows
Economic Freedom Fighters Deputy Commander-In-Chief Floyd Shivambu has threatened that his party will remove ZANU PF out of power if the party continues undermining human rights of Zimbabweans. ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 10:17hrs | 9248 | by Mandla Ndlovu
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter trends on Twitter
PRESSURE on President Emmerson Mnangagwa escalated yesterday, with politicians and rights groups from the southern African region flagging the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe and worsening rights abuses ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 5848 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora shuts out Khupe
MDC-T acting secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has reportedly shut out acting party president Thokozani Khupe and her loyalists from Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House (previously known as Harvest House...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 10570 | by Staff reporter
Calls for Chinamasa's arrest get louder
HUMAN rights lawyer Agency Gumbo has filed for the arrest of Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa for allegedly inciting ruling party youths to violently crush last Friday's protests....Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 5864 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono, Ngarivhume's bail ruling on Thursday
HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi yesterday postponed bail ruling for journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume to Thursday.The two have been languishing i...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Jealous man douses ex-wife and son with petrol, sets room alight
A 26-year-old Bulawayo woman miraculously escaped from her burning bedroom and rescued her four-year-old son after her jealous ex-husband allegedly doused them with petrol before torching the room the...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda speaks on demos
ZIMBABWE's laws are there to safeguard the rights of all citizens and not only opposition parties, Zanu-PF secretary for Commissariat Victor Matemadanda has said. Addressing a Press conference...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2732 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC Alliance pushes for Chinamasa arrest
The MDC Alliance has laid a formal criminal complaint against Zanu-PF acting spokesperson for allegedly inciting violence. MDC Alliance youth secretary Agency Gumbo and spokesperson Fadzayi Ma...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 21:43hrs | 6153 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono and Ngarivhume to wait a few more days before learning their fate
Zimbabwean investigative journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition party leader, Jacob Ngarivhume, are set to remain behind bars after the High Court delayed delivering its judgment.The pai...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 21:39hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt taken to court over curfew
WOMEN'S Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) has taken the government to court arguing that the recent imposition of a 6pm to 6am curfew on citizens was a violation of people's righ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1914 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks now overdue, says Hlatshwayo
THE much anticipated political talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are now overdue and remain the only solution to Zimbabwe's socio-econom...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2383 | by Staff reporter
Thuli Madonsela pokes big nose into Mnangagwa Zimbabwean affairs
Former Public Protector and founder of The Thuma Foundation Advocate Thuli Madonsela says the Zimbabwean government needs to be called to account for the recent arrests of activists following anti-cor...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 4929 | by Staff reporter
11 protesters challenge arrest
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga and nine other political activists arrested in Harare over July 31 illegal demonstrations, are contesting their arr...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR secures release of protest detainees on bail
HARARE Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Saturday granted bail to 13 residents of the capital city, who appeared before him facing various charges after they were arrested by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZR...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 542 | by Stephen Jakes
George Charamba thanks Zimbabweans for boycotting 31 July mass protests
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has thanked the people of Zimbabwe for allegedly snubbing the 31 July mass protests. The planned mass protests were squashed by state agents who invad...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 14:40hrs | 4161 | by Mandla Ndlovu
We are tired of being abused: Sikhala
MDC Alliance deputy chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said people are tired of being abused by the Zanu PF government which instead of taking time to listen to the people's concerns it oils its repressive...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 12:15hrs | 3383 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 9742 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Mwonzora's fight with Chamisa not personal
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says his fight with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is not personal, but is fuelled by his desire to instil constitutionalism in the opposition.Mwon...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:33hrs | 3292 | by Staff reporter
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 | 193 | 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 | 838 | by Staff reporter
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda miners disarm police to release friend
SIX miners, among them a woman, have been arrested for allegedly attacking three police officers and damaging a vehicle they were using in protest to the arrest of their workmate.Tawanda Msima...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Mahere and other political activists granted bail
ELEVEN political activists, including MDC-Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, filmmaker and novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and others from different pressure groups, yesterday appeared in court facing a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
13 arrests as army, police quash demo
PEACEFUL protesters, among them prominent novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, were arrested yesterday as heavily armed soldiers and police crushed the planned pro...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
British MP calls for more sanctions against Mnangagwa
BRITISH MP and former anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain has urged the British government to extend sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime because of "escalating human rights violat...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 136 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Tsitsi Dangarembga freed
Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier, an AFP journalist in court said....Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 19:31hrs | 2186 | by AFP
1893 MHRRM on Perence Smallboy Chikerema Shiri's death
The most evil and barbaric man who led the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide accompanied with mass beatings, mass rapes, mass disappearances and mass starvation of the Matebele through curfews in the ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 10691 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
Zimbabwean protesters in Cape Town dispersed by police
About 150 people protesting outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town were told to disperse by the police on Friday.When they refused, the police went to their cars to fetch their equipmen...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 4006 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa begs health workers
Health workers should put the nation first in the fight to contain Covid-19, President Mnangagwa said yesterday when assuring them that Government was attending to their grievances. In a movin...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 6782 | 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 | 3522 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe remains our partner, claims US
THE United States of America (USA) senate Foreign Relations Committee says Zimbabwe will remain its county's international partner despite Zanu-PF's hostile stance to it.This comes after Zanu-...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3693 | by Staff reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga 'arrested'
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist, filmmaker, Gender and cultural activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has tweeted that she has been arrested in the capital, Harare....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:29hrs | 3844 | by BBC/AFP
Perence Shiri the Zimbabwean own hero
Perrence Shiri was known best as Zimbabwean Air Chief Marshal. He was a Military officer Zimbabwe had ever had. Perrence Shiri was born in Gweru on the 11th January 1955. He was born as Bigboy Samson ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:58hrs | 2732 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
LIVE Update of #31July protest
AS ORGANISERS of the anti-corruption march remained defiant and insisted that today's planned protests will proceed despite a military clampdown, Bulawayo24News will be giving live updates of the situ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 10911 | by Staff reporter
Security forces clear city centre ahead of planned protests
SECURITY forces cleared people off streets in central Harare yesterday and forced shops to close, a day before planned anti-corruption demonstrations.The demonstrations against corruption in g...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:55hrs | 761 | by Staff reporter
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 | 344 | by Staff reporter
Protests will go on, organisers insist
ORGANISERS of the anti-corruption march remained defiant and insisted that today's planned protests will proceed despite a military clampdown.#Tajamuka leader Promise Mkwananzi, who is on the ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
US embassy warns its citizens to stay off Zimbabwe streets
THE United States embassy in Harare on Wednesday urged its citizens to avoid the streets today so that they are not caught up in violent confrontations between the government, opposition and ruling Za...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 411 | 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 | 1039 | 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
Mnangagwa vows to put down protests
AHEAD of tomorrow's planned mass demonstrations, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned that security forces will deal robustly with all unsanctioned protests, the Daily News reports.This com...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Security forces on high alert
SECURITY forces are on high alert and will be out in full force with adequate manpower to thwart any illegal protests meant to destabilise the country. Police yesterday said people should go a...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
3 in court over illegal gathering
THREE people yesterday appeared in court facing allegations of staging an illegal demonstration at Boka Auction Floors in Harare demanding the release of fellow Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
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