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ZCTU vows to continue fight for democratic institutions
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has vowed to continue with its struggle to make sure the country has institutions that uphold democracy and impartiality in managing the electoral processe...Published: 38 mins ago | 27 | by Staff reporter
Japajapa arrested
MDC Alliance activist Paddington Japajapa, who was wanted by the police on allegations of inciting party supporters to embark on an illegal demonstration in Harare soon after the July 30 harmonised el...Published: 43 mins ago | 181 | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 12 hrs ago | 3309 | by newsZWire
Did the MDC really call for Zimbabwe sanctions?
ZANU-PF often makes the claim that it is the opposition that has called for sanctions. The opposition's stance on sanctions has shifted according to its proximity to power.In 2012, Tendai Biti...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1864 | by newsZWire
Mnangagwa ally sets soldiers on vendors
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Owen Ncube has set the dreaded Joint Operations Command (JOC) units on vendors to forcefully move them from the Gweru central business district (CBD).JOC i...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 4792 | by Staff reporter
No one ordered fatal shootings, claims Mnangagwa
PPRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sensationally claimed that none of his lieutenants gave orders for the fatal shooting of seven civilians, where soldiers opened fired into groups of protesters ...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:10hrs | 3782 | by Staff reporter
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 96 | by Reason Wafawarova
Why Chamisa beat Mnangagwa in his own backyard
After President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared winner of the July 30 elections, many expected Kwekwe to erupt into wild celebrations.The city had just produced Zimbabwe's only second leader i...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 16:13hrs | 4961 | by Staff reporter
Violence returns
It is a silent, sunny afternoon in Chihwayi village, located on an expansive swampy terrain that is surrounded by mountains, more than 20km from Mutoko business centre.Amid the scattered homestead...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 16:10hrs | 2642 | by Staff reporter
Churches pray for Con-Court impartiality
The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) has urged churches to pray for Constitutional Court (Con-Court) judges who are handling MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa's case to be impartial....Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:42hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Decolonising Political Philosophy in Africa
It is the argument of the present piece that in the history of the world Africans have and still can produce, independent of Europe and America, political and economic ideas that can save the world. F...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | 203 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
General Valerio Sibanda issued statement under duress, says Mutsekwa
Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda acted out of his professional reputation in blaming MDC Alliance supporters for the fatal shooting of at least six unarmed civilians d...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 14:03hrs | 5686 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Kenya (Part 2)
WE carry on looking at the similarities between Kenyan and Zimbabwean electoral politics. As noted, there are striking similarities in the politics and election systems between the two countries....Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:07hrs | 251 | by Miriam Majome
Gukurahundi commission engages Govt, MDC Alliance over post election violence
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has said it has engaged Government and the MDC Alliance to ensure that violent skirmishes that occurred in Harare at the beginning of this...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:58hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa battleground shifts to ConCourt
AS Zimbabweans anxiously await the outcome of the presidential election petition by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), which is set for next Wednesday, the two ...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 15:35hrs | 3318 | by Staff reporter
Woman plays loud music to taunt hubby
HOW to deal with an annoying wife!This is a question which is apparently boggling the mind of a Bulawayo man following his revelations that his wife was relentlessly taunting him by loudly pla...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 12:23hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter
Full Text: Zimbabwe Gender Commission Preliminary Election Monitoring Report on the 2018 Harmonised Elections
INTRODUCTION The Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) is one of the five Independent Commissions established in terms of Section 232 and 245 of the Constitu...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 10:31hrs | 1876 | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo blasts SB Moyo
Former Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo has rubbished the claims by Foreign affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo that lives were lost on August 1 due to MDC Alliance violence indicating that the killi...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 08:53hrs | 14398 | by Stephen Jakes
Losing Zanu-PF candidates blame SI64 for poll defeat
LOSING Zanu-PF council candidates in Beitbridge have blamed the enactment of Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016, which banned the importation of certain basic goods, for their defeat in the July 30 harmo...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:22hrs | 1756 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should stop holding nation to ransom
Local and foreign journalists were treated to a sumptuous feast of political hallucinations by Advocate Nelson Chamisa when he addressed a Press conference in Harare after Mnangagwa had been declared ...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:17hrs | 765 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Mnangagwa should face justice for crimes against humanity
There is an Shona adage: 'mhosva hairovi', which loosely translated means, 'no one can evade the tentacles of justice'.We have witnessed around the world, numerous people being charged, tried ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 07:13hrs | 2769 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
General Valerio Sibanda blames MDC Alliance
The commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), General Philip Valerio Sibanda, has blamed opposition political parties for the ugly scenes of violence witnessed in Harare just after the July 30 h...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 4120 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe
According to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, sanctions are defined as "official orders such as the stopping of trade, which is taken against a country in order to make it obey international l...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:18hrs | 841 | by Panganai Kahuni
Mnangagwa to respect Con-Court poll ruling
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo has said Government will respect the Constitutional Court ruling on an application lodged by the MDC Alliance challenging results of t...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:14hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scoffs at US sanctions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday scoffed at the decision by the United States of America to renew illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe.Mnangagwa implored newly appointed US ambassador to Z...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: A soldier simply fading away
There is nothing peculiar in challenging an election result in a court of law as that has been the tradition in many countries. Just a few instances suffice as examples. In the 2000 United Sta...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | 1018 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Nelson Chamisa: Your parents taught you better
The so-called experts fail to understand that it is the unshackled youths that can bring change in any country, not the rah-rah lying politicians. In addition, for street protests to work, they must b...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 22:27hrs | 12221 | by Sam Wezhira
Focus on Dzamara puts pressure on Mnangagwa
Amnesty International's new leader said on Wednesday his first act is writing to Zimbabwe's next president about the disappearance of activist Itai Dzamara: "Whoever leads the new government must move...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 16:09hrs | 4562 | by AP
The people have spoken Zanu must go
The brazen robbery of the election and the scale in which it was carried out is astonishing. ZANU PF is longer appealing to the masses due to systematic abuse of state's instruments and callous tortur...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 14:37hrs | 3573 | by Zenzo Siziba Poltical Analyst and Activist
Zimbabwe military should abandon Mnangagwa-Chiwenga junta, and stand with the people
As the nation of Zimbabwe commemorated Defence Forces Day on 14 August, it is quite saddening and troubling that the country's military that is supposed to be the people's protector, has, over the cou...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:44hrs | 6666 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
Are African elections only free, fair when opposition wins?
This is a question I found myself asking after Zimbabwe's opposition - MDC Alliance - vowed to challenge the results of the July 30 elections in court after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) dec...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | 668 | by newsday
Resident petitions council over 24-hour clinics
A BULAWAYO-BASED activist who has been lobbying council to open its clinics 24 hours a day has written to the local authority, requesting a meeting with management and incoming councillors as part of ...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa consoles families of political violence
President Mnangagwa yesterday said violence and intolerance have no place in the Second Republic, and condemned the barbaric acts by MDC Alliance that left six people dead during a protest over the pa...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:44hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe land reform irreversible says Mnangagwa
President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the country will not return land seized from former white commercial farmers almost two decades ago."It is now behind us, it is irreversible,"...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 15:33hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
2 more in court over MDC Alliance demo
Two Harare men accused of participating in a violent protest in Harare on August 1 that culminated in the death of at least six people appeared in court yesterday.Last Tinashe Vambe, 20,...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 15:32hrs | 1552 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe a common denominator of ZEC in disputed elections since 1996 - Ruhanya
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the Zimbabwe Electoiral Commission official Joice Kazembe has been a common denominator of the disputed election s in Zimbabwe since 1996....Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 09:44hrs | 4887 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa and Chiwenga turning Zimbabwe into a terrorist state!
As the Zimbabwe political situation becomes more and more precarious by the day, one can not help but be gripped by a fear that our leaders are busy scrupulously turning this nation into a terrorist s...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 09:34hrs | 10327 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
Motorist sues Obert Mpofu, police for wrongful arrest
BULAWAYO motorist Life Chinyike has filed a $30 000 lawsuit against Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and their subordinates for unlawful arrest after his c...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Vic Falls tourism boom excites international markets
THE resort town of Victoria Falls is inundated with inquiries from Zimbabwe's major tourism source markets keen on directly investing into the tourism sector, an industry official has said.Zim...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga won't be fired'
GOVERNMENT has vowed not to give in to international pressure to fire Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga or neutralise his grip on the country's security ministries amid speculative reports that he o...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:38hrs | 4855 | by Staff reporter
Army chief assures the nation
Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda yesterday assured the nation that the country remains safe and secure despite the recent politically motivated violence that erup...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga poised to topple Mnangagwa, as another coup imminent in Zimbabwe
The 30 July 2018 harmonized elections were like no other ever held in the country for so many reasons, but the most outstanding was the huge difference between the two-thirds majority won by the rulin...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 19:48hrs | 29543 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
How Zimbabwe's first election after Mugabe went wrong
Zimbabwe's July 30 elections were meant to be a new beginning for a nation driven to its knees during two decades of misrule by the autocratic Robert Mugabe. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took off...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 18:12hrs | 2484 | by Bloomberg
'Mnangagwa has always been at the centre of atrocities'
The recent re-emergence of violence by Zimbabwe's brutal regime, soon after the announcement of the 30 July 2018 harmonized elections, should never come as a surprise to anyone, as President Emmerson ...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 10:29hrs | 5316 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
'USA sanctions will harm the poor,' argue analysts - garbage in garbage out
"In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is where flawed, or nonsense input data produces nonsense output or "garbage"!" explained Wikipedia."The principle also applies more genera...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 07:51hrs | 869 | by Wilbert Mukori
Terror campaign spreads to opposition youth leaders' homes
DISTRICT and provincial youth leaders of the MDC Alliance have claimed mid-night raids on their homes by unidentified men in plain clothes believed to be military personnel and Zanu-PF hit squads....Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
'AU, Sadc toothless bulldogs'
THE presence of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (UN) observer missions during the just-ended elections has only served to rubber-stamp the political status quo ...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:49hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to continue engaging US on sanctions
Zimbabwe will continue to re-engage the United States of America despite the regrettable signing into law of the amended Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act (ZIDERA), Foreign Affair...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
'Opposition parties must close ranks for 2023'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has to swiftly turn the Alliance into a fully-fledged political party and unite parliamentarians who won seats under the coalition banner, analysts contend.A...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 15:02hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
105 km Walk for Freedom 2018 - it's Loser take all in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZHRO) members walked 105 km from Brighton to London to highlight the violence and election chaos in Zimbabwe. "Our 'Walk for Freedom' is not just a slogan, ...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 13:14hrs | 2211 | by Kingstone Jambawo
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