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Clerics, pro-democracy campaigners set free over prayer meeting
A ZIMBABWEAN court has set free 10 clerics and pro-democracy campaigners, who spent more than one year under prosecution on charges of disorderly conduct after they were arrested by the police last ye...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 11:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF elites perfect the catch-and-release strategy
THE release of Zanu-PF's Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena on grounds that the state was not ready for trial four months after arrest is proof of double standards and that the govern...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:09hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa slams selective application of law
INDEPENDENT Norton Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has slammed selective application of the law and lack of political will to fight corruption after Zanu-PF MP Mayor Wadyajena was removed from ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Kill Chamisa, his children and supporters,' Zanu-PF leader urges party members
Zanu-PF's Abton Mashayanyika has blatantly urged ruling party supporters to kill Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa, his children and supporters.Mashayanyika, who was...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean NGOs red flag weaponisation of law
CIVIL groups, churches and students yesterday voiced concern over the abuse of the rule of law.Addressing a joint Press conference in Harare, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) president Pete...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetsu Likazulu leader arrested
GUKURAHUNDI activist and Ibhetshu Likazulu coordinator Mbuso Fuzwayo was one of the people arrested at a prayer meeting in Harare Friday.The prayer meeting was part of the " Zimbabwe We ...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Police break up 'political' prayer meeting... arrest 36 worshippers
POLICE yesterday stormed into a prayer meeting in Harare and arrested at-least 36 church members, claiming the gathering was political.They were arrested at the Dutch Reformed Church building ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Difficult to find closure to Dzamara's disappearance'
MISSING journalist-cum-activist Itai Dzamara's wife, Sheffra yesterday said she was having difficulty finding closure on the disappearance of her husband, who was allegedly abducted at a barber shop i...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reveals he has been writing, sending emissaries to Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is stepping up the chase for talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to end the country's decades-long political and economic crises.Speaking in Harare yest...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 13:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, allies run out of options, push for dialogue
THE opposition MDC Alliance and its key allies labour, student movements and church have resolved to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to convene a broad-based dialogue to end the country's multiface...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora appoints team to work on national dialogue strategy
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora has now appointed a formal MDC committee to work on a strategy to engage the ruling Zanu-PF and other key stakeholders in the country, as his push for all-inclusive ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pushed to engage Chamisa
CHURCHES have encouraged Zimbabweans to remain hopeful about the country's future, as they continue to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to help resolve th...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya wants clerics to 'Be frank with Mnangagwa on talks'
OUTSPOKEN Zimbabwe Divine Destiny Church leader Ancelimo Magaya says clerics must be frank with President Emmerson Mnangagwa as they push for an all-inclusive dialogue to end the country's decades-lon...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 19:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Address past atrocities, says Magaya
ZIMBABWE Divine Destiny leader Ancelimo Magaya has urged the country's political leaders to unearth past acts of killings and violence and have them addressed if the nation is to achieve lasting peace...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned over abductions
Outspoken Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) cleric Ancelimo Magaya has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for the alleged abduction and torture of dissenting voices saying no amount of ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Churches hold peace roadshows
THE Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) on Sunday held roadshows in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South and Midlands provinces, calling for peace as part of a commitment to the peace-pledge signed by...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police block ConCourt poll challenge prayer meeting
DOZENS of anti-riot and plain clothes police cordoned off the Harare Gardens Friday morning to stop a prayer meeting that had been called by some local preachers to pray for a fair judgement on a rece...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to President Mnangagwa
Zimbabwean elections: army shooting of innocent civilians Dear President Mnangagwa All of us in Zimbabwe and elsewhere are desperatel...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 20:45hrs | 1 | by Bishop Ancelimo Magaya
Churches organise peace march
THE Churches Convergence on Peace Consortium (CCOP) will tomorrow hold a peace march and Ukuthula-Runyararo Peace Covenant signing ceremony in Bulawayo in support of the peace pledge initiated by the ...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya says Mnangagwa's govt is illegitimate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is illegitimate despite receiving a lot of support from within and outside the country, the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny's Bishop Ancelimo Magaya said Thursday....Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa walks Cabinet tightrope
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should appoint a corruption-free, younger, skilled and experienced Cabinet to take the country out of its current pitiful economic state within the shortest possible time,...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya quizzed by police over Christian Vote Campaign
ZIMBABWEAN police on Wednesday 05 July 2017 quizzed Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya over the launch of a Christian Vote campaign aimed at mobilising Christians to participa...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 12:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Supreme Court to rule on demo ban
The Supreme Court is today expected to hear an appeal by opposition political parties under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) contesting the High Court judgment endorsing a pol...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe christian vote campaign launch
Notice is here given that a consortium of church organizations in Zimbabwe will launch a bold, protracted and Bible-based campaign to mobilize Christians to VOTE in the crucial 2018 elections and perm...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 15:54hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe's dying economy a 'ticking bomb'
Long-suffering Zimbabweans have laid into President Robert Mugabe's misfiring government, warning that the country's dying economy, worsening cash shortages and rising poverty levels are "a ticking ti...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Civil groups pressure govt over Itai Dzamara
CIVIC groups and Western governments yesterday expressed concern at the Zimbabwean government and police's apparent lack of interest to bring closure to the mystery over abducted activist Itai Dzamara...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's government must be stopped, as anti-bond notes activists goes missing
THREE activists, who were allegedly abducted along High Glen road in Harare's Mufakose suburb by suspected state security agents in the early hours of Friday ahead of a planned anti-bond notes dem...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 13:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nera appeals Demo ban at the Supreme Court
OPPOSITION parties under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) have taken the fight against the police ban on demonstrations to the Supreme Court, vowing to escalate street pro...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Countless court challenges have failed to stop Mugabe banning demos!
Last month, September 2016, the Police announced that all street protests were banned for a period of two weeks. The banning orders were challenged in a Court of Law, rightly so too. Judge Priscilla C...Published: 05 Oct 2016 at 20:07hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
High Court to rule on demos ban today
High Court Judge President Justice George Chiweshe is today expected to deliver judgment in the two urgent chamber applications filed by opposition parties and residents' associations seeking to s...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches call for Mugabe ouster
Church organisations has deposed a petition at Parliament calling for the impeachment of President Robert Mugabe, claiming his mental and physical condition was no longer fit for him to continue leadi...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Magaya call on Parliament to impeach Mugabe
PETITION TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE29 September 2016 Petition to Impeach the President for failure to uphold the Constitution of Zimbabwe1.&n...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 15:58hrs | | by Churches
Politically affiliated churches embark on evil intentions against Zimbabwe
Opposition political elements, masquerading as leaders of some dubious Christian Churches, are on the overdrive against President Mugabe in Zimbabwe. These so called churches are being led by a malcon...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 10:28hrs | 4 | by Chadzimura Mhute
Zimbabwe on the cusp of changing its politico leadership, predicts Magaya
Outspoken leader of the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny, Ancelimo Magaya, who has had run-ins with the police in his quest for seeing a better Zimbabwe - says the country is on the cusp of changing its po...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches drag police to court
ZIMBABWE DIVINE DESTINY23 September 2016Dear Sir or Madam INVITATION TO A PROPHETIC DECLARATION SERVICE IN HARARE: SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER 2016Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) co...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 12:07hrs | | by Bishop Ancelimo Magaya
Open letter to His Excellency R.G Mugabe from Magaya
23 September 2016 Dear SirWe the undersigned church based organizations, noting the deteriorating political situation in the country, worried about continued curtailing of people,s fre...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 12:05hrs | | by Bishop Ancelimo Magaya
Magaya to push for Mugabe's impeachment
The increasingly vocal local Church, alarmed by the country's escalating political and economic crises, as well as the current crackdown on dissenting voices by panicking authorities, is pressing ...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 19:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church mauls Mugabe, says it fears repeat of Gukurahundi massacres
The increasingly vocal local church ,alarmed by the country's escalating economic and political crisis as well as the current crackdown on dissenting voices by panicking authorities is pressing Ro...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Protest hearing postponed to September 27
HIGH Court Judge President George Chiweshe on Monday postponed the hearing of two urgent chamber applications seeking to set aside a proclamation by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to ban marches and d...Published: 19 Sep 2016 at 15:08hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Demo ban challenged again
Opposition political parties, civil society and churches have taken the government head on and are challenging the recent ban on demonstrations in Harare, arguing it was a backdoor imposition of a...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches call Mugabe to order
Zimbabwe's main Christian denominations long regarded as supporting President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime have broken their silence and demanded the Zanu-PF leader to urgently get off his high ...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches seek Mugabe impeachment
Several church groups are expected to take to the streets of Harare tomorrow to protest against the government before submitting a petition to Parliament calling for a motion to impeach President ...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pseudo churches, shame on you!
Churches should be real churches and stick to the mandate of their business. It really boggles the mind how some pseudo churches under the banner, Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD), immorally calls for an...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 14:34hrs | | by Chido Chikuni
Magaya urge protestors to keep the momentum
Keep the momentum, churches urge protestersOutspoken preacher Ancelimo Magaya has urged Zimbabweans protesting against President Robert Mugabe's policies to "keep up the momentum" so as to force t...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe should step-down now - Magaya
The leader of the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) church, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya, on Tuesday urged President Robert Mugabe to resign over the reported harassment, abduction and torture of innocent citiz...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwe Divine Destiny: a church or political party?
After learning that Zimbabwe Divine Destiny Church leader, Ancelimo Magaya is visually impaired, I forgave him for 'seeing' human rights violations where there is none. Honestly where are the acts of ...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 10:35hrs | 2 | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
Police interrogate Magaya
Paranoid Zimbabwean authorities interrogated outspoken preacher Ancelimo Magaya on why he was planning a convergence of political parties, churches and civil society, the Daily News on Sunday reported...Published: 04 Jan 2016 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Mujuru to attend Dzamara prayer
THE family of missing activist Itai Dzamara and the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) will on Saturday (July 11) hold a prayer meeting to put pressure on the police to find him.According to Newsda...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
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