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How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 3032 | by Irvine Sibhona
US keenly watching Mnangagwa
THE United States government says it is keenly watching how President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration was upholding constitutionalism, basic human rights and the rule of law.The statement ...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:15hrs | 4802 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF headquarters shaken as Africa calls spade a spade
Once you see the bigmouth trio of George Charamba aka Jamwanda, Presidential Spokesman, Victor Matemadanda aka Taximan, Deputy Minister of Defence and Monica Mutsvangwa, Minister of Information, spewi...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 11:13hrs | 12311 | by Israel Dube
Mthwakazi women rise and take a stand for the sake of your children
There is a lot of noise about the Zimbabwe crisis and it cannot be complete without mentioning Lindiwe Zulu an embodiment of IMBOKODO, she is doing a great job and should be commended. She understands...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 08:18hrs | 930 | by Mtshumayeli Makhanya
Terror in Seychelles Zimbabweans in crossfire
THIS is the second in a three-part series about the hijacking of an Air India Boeing 707 flying from Harare to New Dehli India on November 26, 1981. The plane flew into a coup attempt in the S...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 2631 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe churches differ on ANC visit
THE visit by a delegation from South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has divided churches with some saying they must investigate human rights abuses, while others feel they...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:06hrs | 2690 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's recolonization complete with Mnangagwa land giveaway to Europeans
The Zimbabwe Government has decided it will give back retaken stolen land--to the white Europeans who stole it in the first place during the colonial era.2020 is indeed a strange year....Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
The world has lost patience with Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile'
A YEAR ago this week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa strained credulity when he declared in a Bloomberg TV interview, "We have rejoined the family of nations."The international commun...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1474 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa finally starts to lean on Mnangagwa
THE Zimbabwe government wants South Africa's help with personal protective equipment (PPE) and other equipment to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as support in trying to secure international loan...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 5583 | by Peter Fabricius
ANC mediation divides Zanu-PF
SHARP divisions have emerged in the ruling Zanu-PF party with hardliners rubbishing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's efforts to intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis while moderates have welcome...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 9038 | by Staff reporter
'US ambassador's claims on Zimbabwe baseless'
The Government yesterday called to order the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Brian Nichols for violating the Vienna Convention which governs diplomatic missions, as he is dabbling in local po...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
ZUNDE condemns violation of the rule of law in Zimbabwe
On 24 November 2017, Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) issued a press statement in which we welcomed the fall of President Robert Mugabe and congratulated the incoming administration. We genuin...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 226 | by Moses Chamboko
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1870 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's govt rattled by Western countries' comments
THE ZIMBABWE government yesterday came out guns blazing, dismissing a statement made by western countries condemning alleged gross human rights violations saying they are being misled by the country's...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:18hrs | 4998 | by Staff reporter
ZHRO Walk for Freedom
ZHRO VISION 2020, Walk for Freedom is starting on Saturday the 29th of August 2020 in Brighton U.K. and ends some 110km later at Hampton Court train Station in London on Sunday 30th October 2020....Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 2650 | by ZHRO Team
Jonathan Moyo says 'South Africa, SADC, AU tainted to mediate Zimbabwe crisis'
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says the African Union (AU), SADC and South Africa have no moral authority to mediate in Zimbabwe's worsening political and economic crises as they are par...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:46hrs | 3260 | by newzimbabwe
African jurists angry over Mtetwa 'victimisation'
THE Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF) has called on the Zimbabwean government to immediately stop victimising human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa and blocking her from representing detained journ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1617 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's Finance Minister threatens Zambian President
South Africa's worrying big brother interference into regional countries governing took a new low on Saturday when South Africa's Finance Minister Tito Mboweni threatened Zambian President for sacking...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 20:07hrs | 3981 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy finally being 'rigged'
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC-Alliance lost the election in the July 2018 elections of the post-Mugabe era.Reacting to this loss, he cockily pronounced that it was of no consequence.His a...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:10hrs | 816 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe church leaders, hiding behind Bible, to defend regime brutality and corruption have sold souls to devil
I have always asserted that the Holy Bible is the most perverted book in the history of mankind, as it has found itself at the mercy of all manner of scandalous individuals - from abusive husbands, an...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1810 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why should Zimbabweans not open ZANU PF inflicted wounds, but freely open Rhodesian caused wounds?
As much as the highly emotive Gukurahundi genocide has never ceased to be one of the most central issues to grip Zimbabwe for the past four decades - being indisputably the darkest blot on this countr...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 18:58hrs | 2049 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Crooked Hillary calls on Mnangagwa to release all 'political prisoners'
Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called on the Zimbabwe government to "release all political prisoners", heaping fresh pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa who ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 12:58hrs | 4355 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime can't change global perception because people aren't fools, and can see through its shameful lies!
Those who know me personally and intimately, have always regarded me as someone who is easy to convince of something - as I am fairly open-minded, and not blinkered and prejudiced - but, there has alw...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 14:04hrs | 2687 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Pope Francis Ambassador throws weight behind Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops
Pope Francis Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe, Archbishop Paolo Rudelli has thrown his weight behind the under attack Archbishop of Harare, Robert Christopher Ndlovu, the Vatican News has reported. ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 19:02hrs | 4582 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa govt attack on 'evil-minded Bishops' enrages Catholics
CATHOLIC organisations were yesterday outraged after government described its leaders as "genocidal and evil-minded" for calling it out on its increasing human rights violations and demanded an apolog...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:37hrs | 4240 | by Staff reporter
Compatible with the President's expectations on 'looting'
In 2016, APR, a US company won the Dema project through a proper tender system, and on the last minute the tender was reversed and awarded to Sakunda Holdings which is owned by Kudakwashe Tagwirei. Th...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2045 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa's govt rebukes Catholic Bishops
Government has taken note of a Pastoral Letter of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference which curiously opens with a eulogy to an American politician and purports to speak to the current situation ...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:04hrs | 3491 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jittery as pressure mounts
CORNERED President Emmerson Mnangagwa blocked envoys sent by his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa from meeting opposition political party leaders and civil society organisations fearing humil...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:08hrs | 11664 | by Staff reporter
CSOs ratchet pressure on Mnangagwa
PRESSURE continues to mount on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, with civic society organisations (CSOs) in the region yesterday imploring the African Union (AU) and the Southern Africa Development Commun...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and the Founders Sydrome (Foundiritis)
Let me introduce this article as an opinion piece by a pedestrian activist. I write from personal experience not other peoples lenses.l have been in the political field for a while now and with Covid1...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:46hrs | 798 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Matabeleland- Zimbabwe border to be the most guarded in the world
For security reasons, Matabeleland and Zimbabwe aka Mashonaland should be separated by a border wall which is so high that even the eagle would not be able to fly over it.To be extra vigilant ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:04hrs | 2680 | by Israel Dube
REVEALED: How Mnangagwa blocked Ramaphosa's envoys from meeting Chamisa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's Special Envoys Sydney Mufamadi, a former Cabinet minister, and Baleka Mbete, former Deputy President and Speaker of Parliament, were barred by President Emmer...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 19:17hrs | 8074 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africans after Peter Ndoro's job?
South Africans want their unemployed Journalism graduates must go replace Zimbabweans at the South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) because reading news is not a critical skill. A shadowy ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 20:20hrs | 12120 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is not Zimbabwe - so there's no anti-Zimbabwe campaign!
Over the past month or two - ever since the announcement by some opposition political parties, as well as human and labour rights activists, of a planned national demonstration on 31 July 2020 against...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:40hrs | 4366 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why US$3.5bn deal for farmers is problematic
PATRICK Chinamasa, acting spokesperson in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF government, has announced that, through the signing of the government's "Global Compensation Agreement" on July 29, 202...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:07hrs | 936 | by Ben Freeth
Tony Blair courts Mnangagwa
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair is prepared to meet President Mnangagwa to lend support to Harare's political and economic reform programme.Relations between Zimbabwe and its former c...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:41hrs | 1699 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: African Union speaks on Zimbabwe's human rights crisis
The African Union says they are monitoring the situation in Zimbabwe. This after activists and journalists were arrested for organising a protest against the Zimbabwe government to express their views...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1116 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
SA police clash with protesters at Zimbabwe embassy in Pretoria
South African police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse dozens of protesters outside the Zimbabwean embassy in Pretoria on Friday, an AFP photographer said.Close to 100 mainly ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:49hrs | 1492 | by AFP
Ian Khama endorses #ZimbabweLivesMatter
FORMER Botswana leader Ian Seretse Khama has emerged to land a shoulder and also call for prayer for suffering Zimbabweans in the wake of a fierce crackdown by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's governmen...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2437 | by Staff reporter
Dead Zanu-PF funder removed from US sanctions list
THE US government has removed from its targeted sanctions list, late Zimbabwe businessman and Zanu-PF benefactor, John Bredenkamp and 20 of his companies.Bredenkamp died 20 June this year aged...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:13hrs | 5015 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF youths chide Malema
ZANU-PF youths yesterday fired a salvo at South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, ordering him to stop poking his nose in the country's affairs and calling him a...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:20hrs | 1029 | by Staff reporter
Now that you have compensated white farmers, pay US$100 billion for Matabeleland genocide
Now that the government of Zimbabwe has finally signed a deal to pay white famers US$3,5 billion as compensation for their farms that it grabbed, we remind it to dig deeper into the same pocket and pa...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1872 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF claims to respect constitutional provisions
THE Global Compensation Agreement (GCA) on payment of improvements on land acquired under the land reform redistribution programme is a milestone and a significant phase in the trajectory of the natio...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda jumps on Malema's throat
Comrade Victor Matemadanda lashes out at "idiot Malema" outspoken South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema who has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a fool...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 00:40hrs | 8216 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Now that you have compensated white farmers, pay US$100 billion for Matabeleland genocide
Now that the government of Zimbabwe has finally signed a deal to pay white famers US$3,5 billion as compensation for their farms that it grabbed, we remind it to dig deeper into the same pocket and pa...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 21:25hrs | 1332 | by Israel Dube
#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 | 6398 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 delays jatropha energy project comeback
The outbreak of the corona virus, or Covid-19, has delayed the anticipated revival of the jatropha energy project in Zimbabwe.In 2017, the Zimbabwe government announced that it had rekindled t...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 130 | by Green Energy Zimbabwe
Death of Gukurahundi commander splits Zimbabwe into two
We note with sadness that while we in Matabeleland remember, and painfully reflect on Perrence Shiri savagery and barbarism during Matabeleland genocide, Shona people are, without remorse or restraint...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 14:33hrs | 7930 | by Israel Dube
Zanu PF rigged election and now rigging covid-19 data with tragic consequences
This Zanu PF regime blatantly rigging the coronavirus statistics with disastrous consequences to us all! "The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors a...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1743 | by Nomusa Garikai
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