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CIO trio in court on robbery, extortion charges
Three state security agents attached to the Presidential Guard appeared in court yesterday, facing serious allegations of extorting and robbing a Chinese national of US$2,800.The accused, Cham...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:43hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
SA-based miner loses R440,000 to fraudster
A South Africa-based mining company, Davure Mining, was defrauded of R440,000 by a suspected fraudster while attempting to acquire a motor vehicle. Harare magistrate Stranley Mambanje remanded the acc...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala faces new threats?
Veteran political activist Job Sikhala has faced relentless persecution since delivering a powerful speech exposing Zimbabwe's human rights abuses at the 16th United Nations Geneva Conference for Huma...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 15:34hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's New Year Message
CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONNEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONDear Zimbabweans and my Worldwide friends.My dearest Zimbabweans and Worldwide friends, ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 20:19hrs | 8 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
Sikhala solidarity rally on the cards
A SOLIDARITY rally demanding the release of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) politician Job Sikhala is scheduled for Chitungwiza on Saturday.Sikhala has been in remand prison for more than ...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Members of MDC Alliance standing committee launched CCC
JOB SIKHALA, AS VICE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE MDC-ALLIANCE, chaired the National Council meeting of the MDC-ALLIANCE, which on 22 January 2022 formed and founded CCC.About that day and that me...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:27hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Job Sikhala fundraising drive launched
ZIMBABWEAN political leader Job Sikhala is severely ill, according to his legal team, but remains in custody at the Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.The opposition politician for the Citizens...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:16hrs | | 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
'One year under arbitrary detention in my oppressor's prison'
Chikurubi Maximum Security PrisonChikurubi FarmHarareTo My DEAR Zimbabweans,Regional and Worldwide FriendsWhere ever they may be found14 June 2023DEAR Z...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
No joy for Sikhala demo students
FOUR University of Zimbabwe students, who were arrested for protesting the continued incarceration of Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala were yesterday remanded in custody to June 1 after the State p...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jail nightmare for 'graffiti painting' UZ students
Four University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students who were arrested last week charged with malicious damage to property shall stay longer behind bars after the investigating officer (IO) who is key to their b...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 57 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Sikhala a habitual offender
Empty vessels make a lot of noise. CCC interim vice national chairperson, Job Sikhala, has of late been making unfounded claims about the country's judiciary as being captured.This is stemming...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Zivanai Dhewa
Job Sikhala denied bail..Magistrate says he is an unrepentant criminal
Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament (MP), Job Sikhala was denied bail again by a Harare magistrate in a case where he stands accused of inciting public violence and defeating the...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 18:12hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa feels Sikhala, Sithole's prison torture
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that the State is maliciously exposing incarcerated legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North)...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
100 Days for Job 'Wiwa' Sikhala
Whenever one talks about the weaponization of law in Zimbabwe, one name comes to mind, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala. From the so called First republic to the Second republic, Wiwa has come to regar...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 11:12hrs | | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
Job Sikhala: Arrested over 70 times under Mugabe, Mnangagwa
ZENGEZA West Member of Parliament Job Sikhala shows signs of defiance as he fights for freedom.Having spent this week battling it out in the courts to secure bail following the latest of multi...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Police threaten CCC official with death' Job Sikhala says
Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC) Vice National Chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has alleged that the Chitungwiza Ward 7 Council candidate Lovemore Maiko has received death threats from a senior police offi...Published: 05 May 2022 at 10:57hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Duo aims to export Zimbabwe music
GWERU-BASED duo of Nathan Marufu (27) and Munyaradzi Machaya (25) said its recently established Prime MediaZW is meant to showcase the country's music. beyond the borders.Speaking to NewsDay L...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Tendai Biti's remarks on Welshman Ncube
CCC Vice President Tendai Biti has come under fire from social media users who are accusing him of suggesting that his co-Vice President Professor Welshman displayed passive conduct during rallies lit...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 16:57hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NPA declines to prosecute Chamisa's councillor
POLICE were left embarrassed Wednesday after National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) officials in Karoi declined to prosecute Nyaminyami Rural District Council (NRDC) ward 3 councillor, Taiti Busumani (3...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Ngarivhume arrested for picking litter in Mbare
TRANSFORM Zimbabwe President and the founder of the July Movement, Jacob Ngarivhume has been arrested in Mbare.He is currently detained at Matapi Police Station.Ngarivhume had notified...Published: 04 May 2021 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'It is sink or swim time for the MDC'
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, says the opposition will receive a heavy electoral shellacking in 2023, unless it changes tack quickly and ditches confrontational politics.In addition, the MDC bo...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs the Patriotic Act
A debate on the possibility of a Patriotic Act to be enacted in our country's laws has been raging on ever since the Bill got tabled in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. A lot of diverse views have co...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:04hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Chamisa's spin-nurse relives prison nightmare
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere was arrested recently and charged for allegedly communicating falsehoods in a matter involving a baby who was initially reported dead following a baton stick st...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sikhala says he has been arrested 65 times without conviction
INCARCERATED MDC Alliance vice-chairperson and Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala yesterday told the court that he had been arrested more than 65 times since 2000 and had not been convicted.S...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala weeps in court, threatens a prison officer
INCARCERATED MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, who is being charged on allegations of communicating falsehoods through social media, yesterday wept in court, lamenting that he was being abu...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala disowns Facebook account
MDC ALLIANCE deputy chairperson and Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala yesterday challenged the State's bid to place him on remand, arguing that the Facebook account which he is alleged to have used ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
President E.D engage your political nemesis
ContextIn 1999, the then MDC leader and former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, whilst he was addressing more than 20 000 supporters in Rufaro stadium, called for the ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:24hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Sikhala to be arrested over a tweet?
Job Sikhala, vice chairman of the Nelson Chamisa led Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-Alliance), has alleged that the Mnangagwa regime wants to arrest him today.He was last arreste...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC to discipline members for using WhatsApp
THE desperate state of affairs within the country’s unravelling opposition has once again been thrust into the spotlight after the MDC Alliance ordered its feuding officials this week to stop discus...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 21:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Squabbles keep Zimbabwe opposition busy
THE desperate state of affairs within the country’s unravelling opposition has once again been thrust into the spotlight after the MDC Alliance ordered its feuding officials this week to stop di...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala bids to end Zimbabwe's myriad challenges
FIREBRAND opposition grandee, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has joined other MDC bigwigs in calling for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, to end the country's myriad challenges.Spe...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says 'It's time for talks with Mnangagwa'
FIREBRAND opposition grandee, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has joined other MDC bigwigs in calling for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, to end the country's myriad challenges....Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Healing pain through addressing Gukurahundi massacres
NOW that the government of Zimbabwe is opening up to ad-dressing the Gukurahundi massacres with the aim of healing the people of Matabeleland and Midlands provinces from the trauma and pain they suffe...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 70 | by Reinford Khumalo
'Chamisa tactics miserable'
AS TURMOIL consumes the country's opposition, renowned professor of World Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Stephen Chan, has once again warned Nelson...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Sikhala publicly warns Chamisa
LARGER-THAN-LIFE MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has advised his principal Nelson Chamisa not to think that popularity will guarantee him to become Zimbabwe's next leader...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa under growing pressure for failing to tackle Mnangagwa & Zanu-PF
LARGER-THAN-LIFE MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has advised his principal Nelson Chamisa not to think that popularity will guarantee him to become Zimbabwe's next leader...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala tells Chamisa that popularity alone won't be enough
LARGER-THAN-LIFE MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has advised his principal Nelson Chamisa not to think that popularity will guarantee him to become Zimbabwe's next leader...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another Catholic Bishop takes Mnangagwa head on
Bishop Tapiwa Mupandasekwa of the Roman Catholic Church Chinhoyi Diocese has fired salvo at president Emmerson Mnangagwa's government accusing it of oppressing the citizens and collapsing the country....Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 08:34hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe, Chamisa slammed for not putting Zimbabwe first in their fights
AS THE vicious factional wars that are tearing apart Zimbabwe's main opposition plumb new lows with each passing day, political analysts say the MDC may have reached the end of the road in its current...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC is not only falling apart, it has actually fallen apart
THE Daily News has been a lone voice over the past few months in highlighting the folly of the country's opposition engaging in self-immolation, and taking counsel from dubious characters.For ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala exhibiting leadership Chamisa is lacking
FIREBRAND MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, says the struggle for a just and better Zimbabwe for all will never be derailed by the alleged persecution of individuals like h...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 17:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe wrangling hits rock bottom
THE suicidal bloodletting consuming the main opposition MDC is now stomping towards its funereal end, with the party's interim leadership led by Thokozani Khupe now planning to recall about 38 more le...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC divisions plumb new lows
NOTWITHSTANDING the internal damage that the MDC's infighting is causing, the party's senseless wars are escalating - amid growing fears that the once formidable movement could soon implode altogether...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe out thinking Chamisa?
NOTWITHSTANDING the internal damage that the MDC's infighting is causing, the party's senseless wars are escalating - amid growing fears that the once formidable movement could soon implode altogether...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's CIOs still pursuing activists linked to #31JulyProtests
SOME of the people linked to the foiled July 31 mass demonstrations claimed yesterday that they were still being trailed by suspected State security agents despite being recently cleared by the police...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's legs swollen
LAWYERS for incarcerated MDC deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, say his health is continuing to deteriorate after prison authorities allegedly barred him from accessing a private doctor....Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala need urgent medical attention
LAWYERS representing firebrand MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson Job "Wiwa" Sikhala say the heavily-built and larger-than-life Zengeza West legislator's health is deteriorating at Chikurubi Max...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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