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Zambia's Hichilema arrests rival's wife as witch-hunt politics continues
Zambia's former first lady Esther Lungu was arrested and charged with possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime and money laundering offences Wednesday by the country's Drug ...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 10:57hrs | 1698 | by Staff reporter
Witch hunting is a criminal offence
In Zimbabwe, it is a criminal offense to accuse someone of witchcraft, a law designed to prevent social unrest and violence stemming from such accusations. Individuals found guilty of making these cla...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 08:19hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster launches witch-hunt
Musengezi High School head George Rambanepasi and bursar Sharon Kapende are embroiled in controversy over alleged financial mismanagement, particularly concerning a US$12,000 repair scandal involving ...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 10:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Lookout Khalisabantu Masuku remembered
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants yesterday held a memorial service in remembrance of their commander Lookout Masuku who died in 1986 shortly after his release from prison....Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 16:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Reunification sought by Tsvangirai 5 months before he died now in tatters
The implosion of CCC in Nelson Chamisa's hands is telling not only because it puts paid to Morgan Tsvangirai's widely publicised [see attached videos] last-ditch efforts - just five months before his ...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 12:48hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
Tsikamutanda powers fizzle out before cleansing
IN a strange twist of events, a witch-hunter popularly known as tsikamutanda from Tsholotsho, Matebeleland North province, ran out of his "magical powers" after he fell seriously ill shortly before a ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC election agents flee Zanu-PF terror
Several MDC supporters in Nkayi have reportedly fled their homes due to alleged harassment by Zanu-PF activists and State security agents. The situation arose after Chief Ndlovu, the MDC's candidate f...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tajamuka's Mkwananzi now a political refugee in an undisclosed country
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Promise Mkwananzi has skipped the border and is now a political refugee in an undisclosed country after police issued a US$1 000 cash reward for info...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in massive witch-hunt
Zanu-PF has reportedly initiated a massive witch-hunt to punish party leaders accused of sabotaging President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa after they won more votes than him in the August 23 and 24 electi...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF punishes Chamisa's supporters
Zanu-PF activists in Filabusi's Insiza, Matabeleland South, have threatened to exclude suspected Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters from various development programmes for voting for the o...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Umguza activists on post-election witch-hunt
Zanu-PF activists in Umguza, Matebeleland North, have threatened a witch-hunt targeting villagers who voted for opposition parties such as the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) last week.Acc...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peace commission knows nothing about attacks on Chamisa's supporters
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has blasted National Peace and Reconciliation Commissioners (NPRC), whom it has accused of turning a blind eye to violence meted on its supporters by Zanu-PF....Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief in Zanu-PF primary election backlash
VILLAGERS in Chief Chireya's area of Gokwe are living in fear after their traditional leader embarked on a witch-hunt to victimise people who led a campaign for the Zanu-PF candidate who won primary e...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Why SA is destination of choice for asylum seekers
CURIOUSLY but not surprisingly, post-apartheid South Africa has turned out to be one of the preferred destinations for political exiles.The country has played host to many prominent political ...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:10hrs | | by Dr Sizo Nkala
Outcry over witch hunters
HUMAN rights watchdog Coalition for Citizens Advocates (Coca) has petitioned Midlands police against the activities of witch-hunters popularly known as tsikamutandas in Zvishavane.They are rep...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
AUDIO: 'I am available and ready to lead' Kasukuwere says
Former G40 Kingpin Saviour Kasukuwere has broken the silence on his ambition to lead Zimbabwe as a Presidential candidate and his views on the state of affairs at the ruling party ZANU PF. In ...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 22:49hrs | 120 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zifa 'witch-hunt' audit out tomorrow
THE ZIFA Extraordinary General Meeting is set to be held this Saturday at the PHD Complex in Harare following reports ZIFA will receive the official audit tomorrow. ZIFAThe EGM will accord the...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shareholders fight directors over Tetrad Bank control and assets
TETRAD Investment Bank (TIB) shareholders are locked in a heated row with its directors for the control of the defunct financial institution's US$13 million assets. TIB has properties and othe...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 18:49hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa challenger's case rattles Zanu-PF
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials are reportedly on a witch-hunt to find out which of its members are allegedly backing Zanu-PF youth member Sybeth Musengezi, who is challenging the ascendancy of President Emm...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Witch-hunt scare hits UZ
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe students say they are living in fear and skipping lectures amid strong suspicion of an ongoing police witch-hunt to bring to book suspects behind recent demonstrations that rock...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We are no terror squad', says Zanu-PF's Mliswa-Chikoka
MASHONALAND West Provincial Affairs Minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has ordered heads of government ministries to support Zanu-PF party in implementation of projects to endear its presidential candidate...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police petitioned over Filabusi tsikamutandas
GWANDA-based human rights watchdog, Coalition for Citizens Advocates (Coca) has petitioned police in Matabeleland South to deal with tsikamutandas (witch hunters) who are "fleecing" Filabusi villages ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to announce congress dates
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has said he will announce the party's elective congress dates in the next few days as pressure mounts on him to hold the meeting.Mwonzora has been accused of dith...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war veterans in witch-hunt
WAR veterans are re-structuring in an exercise expected to claim some scalps to weed out "rogue" elements that "could disrupt" President Emmerson Mnangagwa's chances of being re-elected next year....Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreak havoc in Manicaland
SELF-STYLED witch-hunters commonly known as Tsikamutandas are wreaking havoc in Manicaland province where they are ripping off unsuspecting villagers of their livestock in the guise of "cleaning their...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teacher witch-hunt continue
GOVERNMENT has embarked on a witch-hunt, scrapping the recruitment of teachers as enumerators for the national census exercise as punishment for participating in a strike action when schools opened fo...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreaking havoc in communities
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area", reported Chronicle in Septemb...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections loss: Zanu-PF in witch-hunt
Zanu-PF has reportedly launched a witch-hunt targeting its supporters suspected to have voted for Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in the Saturday by-elections amid fears of a bhor...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Police turn down teachers' bid to march to Parly
POLICE have turned down the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)'s bid to march to Parliament today to submit a petition over educators' poor salaries and working conditions.PTUZ secr...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift exposed by rigging
Zanu-PF bigwigs accused of rigging January provincial elections have embarked on a witch-hunt to silence dissent in lower structures as infighting in the ruling party boils over following the disputed...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIFA officers being harassed by SRC
ZIFA legal advisor, Chenaimoyo Gumiro, says his clients are simply being harassed by the Sports Commission and have no case to answer at all in the fallout that has dominated domestic football. ...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:27hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere links trigger Zanu-PF witch hunt
Revelations that former Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere is plotting a political comeback to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa has triggered a witch-hunt in the ruling party with some officia...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Senior cop sucked in cattle rustling racket
A senior female police officer based at Lupane Police Station in Matabeleland North Province is at the centre of cattle rustling racket amid revelations that she allegedly connived with two witch-hunt...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa's political prisoner admitted to hospital
South Africa's jailed former president, Jacob Zuma, was admitted to hospital for medical observation on Friday, the government's Correctional Services department said.Zuma has been held at Est...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 12:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Impala Car Rental faces collapse
STILL reeling from the Tawanda Muchehiwa abduction scandal by state security agents with its connivance, subsequent desertion by spooked clients, the death of its chief executive Thompson Dondo in Jan...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of protests loom in South Africa
SOUTH African authorities fear a new wave of uprisings as networks loyal to jailed former president Jacob Zuma seek to force his freedom.Investigators believe the unrest last week, which kille...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spiritually healed chief warns against tsikamutandas
BINGA traditional leader Acting Chief Charles Sindeki from Mansenya area, who was grateful to be back on his feet after a lengthy wound-healing journey thanks to Bulawayo cleric Madzibaba Emmanuel Mut...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 20:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra launches witch-hunt
TOP Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) executives are panicking over recent revelations by The NewsHawks of corruption involving the tax collector's multi-million-dollar whistle-blowing fund as they s...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt goes after car sales
GOVERNMENT is planning to launch a blitz on car sales in Harare and Chitungwiza, accusing them of turning the urban areas into havens of drug peddling and prostitution.The move will likely spe...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Divisions rock Chinhoyi MDC Alliance councillors
Tensions continue to mount in MDC-Alliance amid revelations that six Chinhoyi councillors who survived last year's purges by MDC-T now led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora are squabbling over the recently held ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 23:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Female Judge fighting a merciless Zanu PF regime: worse than that of Ian Douglas Smith!
Justice Erica Ndewere is alone, fighting the evil regime of Mnangagwa's Zanu, worse than that of Smith's UDI. There is not a single women's organisation fighting on her side to give her emotional assi...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 23:24hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiri to audit Covid-19 donations
Auditor-General Mrs Mildred Chiri is taking stock of all donations and resources directed towards Covid-19. Mrs Chiri has ordered all Government departments to furnish her with details and she i...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reorter
Traditional healer speaks on Murehwa boy's murder
THE mystery surrounding the whereabouts of slain seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore's missing head and hands has deepened.The traditional healer suspected to be the brains behind the ritual murder i...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 07:51hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Probe into Gwanda goat deaths launched
AUTHORITIES have launched an investigation into mysterious deaths of goats in Makwe area, Ward 8 in Gwanda. A team comprising officials from Gwanda Rural District Council, Zimbabwe National Pa...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC alleges witch-hunt in graft probe
THE MDC Alliance Bulawayo province has alleged a witch-hunt by political foes using the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to target its councillors on accusations of being corrupt.Zac...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF launches witch-hunt for G40 infiltrators
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is vetting curriculum vitaes for district co-ordinating committee aspirants in a process believed to be a witch-hunt against perceived G40 members. Zanu-PF said its in...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreak havoc in Bulilima San community
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area". Notorious for preying...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor alleges Zacc witch-hunt
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) recently offered mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni a piece of land where he intended to build six town houses for an unjustifiable amount of US$2 500. According to cou...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Harare Mayor decries archaic billing system
In a veiled admission of failure, Harare's new Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume said the capital was behind in terms of development and was riddled with corruption.The MDC has been in charge of H...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goblins run riot
A worried man in Gokwe reported his mother to Chief Mkoka accusing her of owning goblins that caused his wife to produce milk for four years after she weaned her child and also led to the death of two...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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