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Twelve MDC MPs arrested as army continues crackdown
Twelve MDC members of parliament have been arrested so far at the joint operation between the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe Defense Forces continued a crackdown on MDC and civic soci...Published: 7 hrs ago | 4737 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Malema should mind his own business
Following the three-day protest stay away, which was ostensibly given as meant to register disquiet over the prevailing economic challenges, the South African controversial Economic Freedom Fighters (...Published: 9 hrs ago | 2595 | by Nobleman Runyanga
These bloody days have broken my heart
A day of wild torture in the hands of an authority is terrible enough to ruin the lusts of thrill and jubilation of a youthful child. The army rampage across the country that started as a repulsive re...Published: 10 hrs ago | 412 | by Fungayi Mukosera
'I am staying to rebuild nation' insist Coventry - how naïve, with an illegitimate and murderous regime
"I would like to make it clear that I have not resigned as minister. Whatever the problems, sport can and should be part of the solution and I will pour my energies in uplifting our sports, the youth ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 650 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe Youth Alliance leader charged with treason
Zimbabwe Youth Alliance president Kumbirai Learnmore Magorimbo appeared in court on Friday facing charges of seeking to subvert a constitutionally-elected government after he allegedly posted messages...Published: 12 hrs ago | 356 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF offices in Bulawayo burnt down, member's business looted
SEVERAL Zanu-PF properties in Bulawayo were targeted with several burnt down during last week's nationwide protests against a steep hike in the price of fuel as well as the general economic decay in t...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1006 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa to help looted businesses restock
GOVERNMENT will assist businesses in Bulawayo to restock following widespread looting and destruction of shops during last week's violent protests, the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Nqobizitha Ma...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa returns home
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has cut short his international re-engagements efforts in Europe and will return home today to attend to the economic situation in the country in the wake of violent prote...Published: 12 hrs ago | 9284 | by Staff reporter
Violence witnesses scared to testify
TWO State witnesses in the case of MDC-Alliance Member of Parliament for Chiwundura Livingstone Chiminya's alleged incitement to commit a crime fled after being intimidated by unknown people before th...Published: 12 hrs ago | 213 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's horror 2019 unfolds
The palpable fear among many Zimbabweans that 2019 would become yet another "annus horribilis" — Latin for a horrible year — has become a harrowing reality, with the country's political and econom...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:27hrs | 5892 | by Staff reporter
Cry my beloved Zimbabwe . . . as country is closed for business
Once open for business, Zimbabwe is closed for business.Shops are closed, people are scared and companies are closing just as is the democratic space that President Emmerson Mnangagwa opened u...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:25hrs | 2119 | by Staff rpeorter
Bulawayo looting had SA flare
Analysts and politicians in Bulawayo have hailed the significant uptake of the national shut down in the second capital, noting that citizens in the city heeded the call due to the unacceptable levels...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:25hrs | 7937 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa crossed the line and change is nigh,' declares Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday attended the burial of Kelvin Tinashe Choto, a 22-year-old man shot by the military during fuel protests on January 14, before declaring: "Change is nigh!"...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 10:00hrs | 7838 | by ZimLive
Chamisa in failed bid to reignite Mnangagwa talks
THE MDC Alliance and its partners in the civic society instigated last week's violent demonstrations so as to attract the attention and support of the international community in its failed bid "for ta...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:59hrs | 1766 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry not quitting anytime soon
Sport, Arts and Culture minister Kirsty Coventry says she will not throw in the towel.Coventry's comments come on the back of pressure being exerted on her to leave President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:43hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Gory tales of beatings, torture, anguish and military brutality
At the foot of a mountain lies a plot reportedly owned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Kuwadzana Phase 3. The mountain has come to be called by the locals as "Gomo raMnangagwa" loosely translated t...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:41hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | 725 | by Zifiso Masiye
Mnangagwa must shoulder shutdown blame
There is a very real danger that Zimbabwe may be plunged into serious social and political unrest unless the leaders of this country stop acting innocent victims of non-existant political plots and in...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:36hrs | 276 | by Editorial - The Standard
Zimbabwe army, police in fix over killings
Police and the army last night sought to clear themselves and throw blame on alleged impersonators following reports that at least 12 people were killed by soldiers and the police during last week's n...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:34hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's costly lie
The biggest lie last week was that the violence in urban areas were protests over fuel prices in particular and living costs in general, when in fact the protests were enforced by a small bullying min...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 3798 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on the Zimbabwe judicial system after wanton arrests
During the past week, there has been a hive of activity at police stations and courts around the country, following events surrounding the three-day stay-away.This current state of affairs is ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:29hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
MDC Chamisa has nothing to do with last week's massive protests
The MDC says it has nothing to do with last week's massive protests which brought the country to a standstill for at least three days. Thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets across the country i...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's economy to grow by 4,2%,' says AfDB
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) projects Zimbabwe's economy to grow by 4,2% this year before rising to 4,4% in 2020 underpinned by growth in the mining and agricultural sectors along with fiscal c...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Jason Ziyapapa Moyo
ON Tuesday marks 42 years since the death of Zapu Vice-President Jason Ziyapapa Moyo (JZ) in a parcel bomb in Lusaka, Zambia. JZ Moyo became the Secretary of the new ANC of Southern Rhodesia, which wa...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | 297 | by Rtd Brig-General Mazinyane
Zanu-PF urges members to defend the revolution
THE ruling Zanu-PF has encouraged its members to defend the revolution at a time when the country is under siege from rogue MDC-Alliance elements and its allies who instigated a damaging stayaway last...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:20hrs | 259 | by Staff rpeorter
Chitungwiza looters are well-known
Facts are and will always be stubborn.Fact one, the people who led last week's riots, particularly in Chitungwiza, were dominantly MDC Alliance youths.Fact two, the youths are well kno...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:12hrs | 1823 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa, take us back to Egypt!'
Bishop Lazarus had a pleasant revelation on Monday and is seriously considering participating at next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.With Usain Bolt happily retired and sipping margarita...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:11hrs | 865 | by Bishop Lazarus
MDC hawks in the dock
But law enforcement agents have been working around the clock to account from criminals implicated in last week's violent demonstrations.Our Bulawayo Bureau reports that four MDC-Alliance legi...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:06hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's violence streak
MDC-Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa - who is easy bedfellows with the NGOs who are doing his bidding - has even been intimating that the MDC-Alliance has the capacity to take up arms.Duri...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:06hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe protest death toll from riots rises to 12
As normalcy slowly returns to Zimbabwe after days of tensions between protesters and security forces following this week's deadly riots - human rights groups yesterday said the death toll from the cla...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 15:55hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Army deployed to Bulawayo streets
Government has deployed the much-dreaded Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) in the city as part of its desperate move to contain the civil unrest that was fast getting out of hand.All roads leading ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:45hrs | 6206 | by Staff reporter
Suspected MDC protesters denied bail
SEVEN Mvurwi MDC activists, who were arrested on Tuesday following this week's violent protests against the fuel price increases, have been denied bail by a Bindura provincial magistrate.The s...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:34hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Bid to loot Nkulumane Shopping Mall thwarted
BRAVE vendors operating from Nkulumane bus terminus have emerged as heroes after repelling violent protestors who wanted to loot shops at Nkulumane Shopping Complex in Bulawayo on Monday and Tuesday. ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:15hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans need to find each other as a nation
As we begin 2019, there are key lessons from the coup and Zimbabwe's post-coup experiences. The key lessons going forward relate to ethical leadership, public sector performance management, service de...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:00hrs | 111 | by Brian Kagoro
Mnangagwa needs a proper team
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is now" - African proverb.It has just been six months since Zimbabwe held its general elections and, for the better part of...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:48hrs | 419 | by Cephas Msipa
Plot to oust Chiwenga thickens
The factional fights between Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and President Emmerson are far from being over with revelations that some ZANU PF Youth aligned to President Mnangagwa have been target...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:25hrs | 26216 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Protesters shot at close range, eyes gouged'
SUSPECTED protesters during this week's three-day national stayaway were allegedly shot at from close range, with some having their eyes gouged, NewsDay Weekender reported.The atmosphere in th...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 09:24hrs | 2280 | by Staff Report
Plot to assasinate Promise Mkwananzi?
Tajamuka leader Promise Mkwananzi has alleged that the state has ordered his assassination after being accused of having a hand in inciting citizens who participated in the recent protests to be viole...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 16:34hrs | 12821 | by Mandla Ndlovu
More MDC leaders arrested
The opposition MDC has reported that Member of Parliament Settlement Chikwinya was arrested on Friday while the trial of Mkoba MP Amos Chibaya was fast tracked.They stand accused of inciti...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 15:56hrs | 9429 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The case for the internet shutdown
The bygone violent and destructive protest stay away in most urban centres of Zimbabwe which ran from Monday to Wednesday this week triggered an internet shutdown since Tuesday morning. This was on th...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 13:33hrs | 1764 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Murder accused Zanu-PF youth leader 'freed on Chiwenga orders'
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga ordered police to release and apologise to Godwin Gomwe, the Zanu-PF Youth League chairman for Harare, after he was arrested over the shooting deaths of two peopl...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 13:16hrs | 7801 | by ZimLive
Protests meant to topple Mnangagwa
EVENTS of Monday to Wednesday this week, which were characterised by wild acts of violence among citizens, were calculated to unseat the government, Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Cain Mathema told f...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 13:00hrs | 5030 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF responsible for terror, says Chamisa's MDC
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's spokesperson, Nkululeko Sibanda has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga cannot be absolved from the reign of terror that happened in the p...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:21hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Army, Zanu-PF role in protests exposed
A SERVING top military official and a police officer were yesterday unmasked as leaders of the deadly protests in the Epworth dormitory town, which led to the death of civilians and looting of shops....Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:11hrs | 1918 | by Staff reporter
MDC perpetrating violence, violating human rights
THE events of the past days since the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) called for mass protests and stay away, have not only been unfortunate but also turned out to be catastrophic. Th...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:55hrs | 209 | by Anesu Pedzisayi
Bosso players to undergo medicals
HIGHLANDERS FC players are set to undergo medical examinations when the team regroups on Monday to start their pre-season training. The medicals, according to Highlanders' chief executive officer Nhla...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:46hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
9 facts, myths about Zimbabwe mayhem
On Monday and Tuesday, the opposition in Zimbabwe staged what they called a national "shutdown" which was supposed to be a popular mass protest against the Government over the rising cost of liv...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:44hrs | 630 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Kirsty Coventry speaks on resignation
Minister of Youth, Arts and Sports Kirsty Coventry has opened up for the first time about her alleged resignation from Ministry that circulated on social media on Thursday.Writing on micro-blo...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 10:51hrs | 4183 | by Mandla Ndlovu
EFF condemns brutal army killings
Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters categorically condemns the use of brutal force by government security services on innocent Zimbabwean citizens who were legitimately exercising their constitut...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 08:43hrs | 713 | by Innocent Ndibali
Chamisa rallies Zimbabweans
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called upon Zimbabweans to commit to peace in solving the challenges that triggered the violent protests that were followed by a brutal crackdown on citizens by the army ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 07:22hrs | 4085 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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