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MDC Alliance ladies charm Thandie Newton
Veteran English actress Melanie Thandiwe Newton has hailed the MDC Alliance Youth leaders Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri for reaching out to rural areas to mobilise young people to register to vot...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 15:07hrs | 1947 | by Mandla Ndlovu
$60 million windfall to Mwonzora gives away Mnangagwa's game plan
THE swift allocation of funds under the Political Parties Finance Act to the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC- T by the government clearly reveals the aim by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF to d...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 6498 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume petitions Parliament over electoral reforms
TRANSFORM Zimbabwe president Jacob Ngarivhume, who organised the world famous #31July Movement last year, has petitioned the parliament to expeditiously implement electoral reforms and address t...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean heroes died for nothing, says SA white party experiment
SOUTH African opposition politician Mmusi Maimane yesterday said Zimbabwean heroes who sacrificed their lives during and after the liberation struggle, should be turning in their graves over the way t...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's SA remains concerned over Zimbabwe's worsening political situation
ZIMBABWE'S new foreign minister arrived in South Africa on Friday, his first official visit to the country since taking up his position.Frederick Shava met with International Relations and Coo...Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | 4155 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana fumes as Zanu-PF youth leader shows up 'inappropriately dressed' to meet Mnangagwa
INFORMATION Ministry secretary Nick Mangwana has warned people coming to State House to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa to be respectful and sharply dressed.His counsel follows a recent phot...Published: 10 May 2021 at 08:14hrs | 7431 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe deserves justice, not mercy
BRITISH actress Melanie Thandiwe Newton Parker has found her voice. For more than 30 years, she has been known as Thandie Newton, an anglicised version of her name. The missing "w" was dropped careles...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:45hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC Alliance leader left for dead
MDC Alliance national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo was attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into her Bulawayo home yesterday and severely assaulted her using a knobkerrie before stabbing her....Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:51hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo attacked at her home
MDC Alliance National Chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo, was, Saturday morning, attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into Saurcestown home in Bulawayo, severely beat her knees, head using a ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 13:56hrs | 6046 | by Staff reporter
Who will replace SB Moyo?
ZIMBABWE is a landlocked nation which relies heavily on its sisters in the SADC region.To the East Zim has Mozambique. A troubled neighbour who happens to be dealing with a growing insurgency ...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 17:26hrs | 3156 | by John Mbizvo
Mahere tests positive for COVID-19
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has confirmed that she tested positive for COVID-19. This comes two days after being released from remand at Chikurubi Maximum Prison on Monday. ...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 08:15hrs | 8104 | by Staff reporter
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 218 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Is the MDC burying its head in the sand?
The piece by former Zanu-PF elections strategist Jonathan Moyo chronicling the missed opportunities by the opposition in the political history of Zimbabwe has once again raised debate on the state of ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | 523 | by Karsten Noko
Zimbabwe's deepening human rights crisis under the cover of lockdown
The outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa has exerted social, economic, political, health and environmental challenges on a continent that was already on its knees.These challenges thus pose a...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 96 | by Sitabile Dewa
'Zim prison, a crime against humanity' twittered Biti, prisoner - true all because selling out on reforms
Tendai Biti, MDC A vice President, has been arrested and will spend Friday night in a Police Prison. He is charged with assault, after calling a Russian woman an idiot.Biti has denied any wron...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 00:04hrs | 1155 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Securocrats scale up surveillance
THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2753 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans on Twitter show Jah Prayzah the middle finger
Award winning superstar Jah prayzah had a rude awakening after Zimbabweans on Twitter snubbed his appeal to vote for him at the African Entertainment Awards USA Entertainer of the year category. ...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 11:11hrs | 19534 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa requests Zimbabweans to pray for Joana Mamombe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to pray for jailed MDC MP Joana Mamombe and other political prisoners who are languishing in prison. In a Twitter post on Saturda...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 11:06hrs | 4246 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa slams door on Ramaphosa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out allowing a delegation from South Africa to meet his critics, including opposition parties and civic organisations, slamming the door on efforts by the neighb...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | 7515 | by Staff reporter
ANC defiantly tells Zanu-PF that it will be back to meet MDC
THE South African ruling African National Congress (ANC) party yesterday defiantly told Zanu-PF that its delegation would soon head back to Harare to meet other stakeholders as part of efforts to init...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 5056 | by Staff reporter
Fake abductions: New tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change agenda, which dates to two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, stymied the developmental agenda, lately making Zimbabwe a house...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 534 | by Emmanuel Murema
Ramaphosa needs more diplomatic muscle to crack Zimbabwe's defiant government
Amid a spiralling economic and political crisis, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed the people of his country on August 4. His speech, though sudden - four days after his government's v...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:03hrs | 1963 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
Fake abduction: a new tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change ideological rhetoric which dates two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, so illocal and so ominous to the developmental agenda ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:58hrs | 2733 | by Emmanuel Murema
'Hashtags cannot sustsain a revolution' Jonathan Moyo says
Online hashtags are not an answer to Zimbabweans who want to sustain a revolution former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. Writing on Twitter Moyo said, "As a student of polit...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:09hrs | 2637 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
SOUTH Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is reportedly mobilising liberation movements in the Sadc region to pile pressure on Zanu-PF over rampant state-sponsored human rights...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:27hrs | 13288 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala orders state to fumigate prison cells
A magistrate court has granted MDC Deputy National Chairman Job Sikhala a request to have Chikurubi maximum prison to be fumigated against the deadly Coronavirus. The request was given on Mond...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 15:15hrs | 5195 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe flares up in flames.... as SB Moyo becomes face of yet another coup
As Zimbabwe flares up in flames in the latest repressive rendition of the country's multi-layered political crisis, the regime in Harare has ostrich-style decided to firmly bury its head in the ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 14:20hrs | 32641 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa says it is time to acton Zimbabwe crisis
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance (MDC-A) president Nelson Chamisa has called for urgent Sadc intervention in the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, saying the deteriorating political, economic and soci...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt intransigence self-destructive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa administration's intransigence towards overtures by the African Union (AU) and various civic organisations to urgently address Zimbabwe's drawn out political and economic ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:58hrs | 639 | by Golden Maunganidze
We are our own liberators, says Chamisa
Zimbabwe's socio-economic and political crisis has received the attention of regional political players and civil society, with many calling for SADC and the African Union (aU) to intervene. envoys se...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
NGOs warn Mnangagwa
FOREIGN FUNDED HUMAN rights lobby groups have rapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa for denying that the country was in a crisis, warning the deepening problems would not self-correct.In a state...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4520 | by Staff reporter
Can the Zimbabwe regime please tell the world what's so 'nefarious' about standing up against repression, brutality and corrupti
Having already written an article this morning, and spent the day submerged in other activities, the only thing I was looking forward to this evening was well-earned rest and relaxation - but, hearing...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 08:15hrs | 1631 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa tells 'evil' churches to go to hell
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged churches, which have openly criticised his govern ment's human rights record, to join politics instead of using "the pulpit to advance a nefarious agenda"....Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 4715 | 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 | 2692 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
There is no peace in Zimbabwe, but an intense crisis of paralyzing fear of a ruthless uncaring regime
It never ceases to thoroughly perplex me, if not downright shocking, whenever those in the Zimbabwe ruling elite engage in their usual self-congratulatory delusions of how they have managed to maintai...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 19:28hrs | 738 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SADC leaders pat Mnangagwa's back over regional peace
SADC leaders Monday ignored the deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe during deliberations at their virtual Sadc heads of state summit.Instead, they were full of praise for their co...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 985 | by Staff reporter
APA tells Zimbabweans to wait for 2023
SINCE the disputed 2018 elections, Zimbabwe has been undergoing difficult circumstances characterised widespread poverty, unemployment, hyperinflation, fuel and drug shortages and the COVID-19 crisis ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1098 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe divisions deepen as activists decry 'rampant abuses'
Facing high triple-digit inflation, a currency capitulation and corruption allegations, Zimbabwe has become fertile ground for civil unrest.a government crackdown on peaceful protesters and th...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:29hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ruling elite unfit to govern a democratic state - as not trained to serve and protect, but only to kill and destroy
Yesterday I experienced two things that clearly opened my eyes to why I have never seen eye-to-eye with those in power in Zimbabwe, and will forever be at loggerheads.The first was having to t...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 2569 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa condemned by bishops who failed to condemn Mugabe
CATHOLIC bishops in the country have called President Emmerson Mnangagwa to order over escalating human rights abuses and worsen-ing political and economic situation in the country, and warned him tha...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:01hrs | 2656 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer sensures AU
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's jittery administration - battling a multi-source tide over the deteriorating human rights situation in the country - Saturday strongly criticised the African Union Commi...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:50hrs | 7767 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must condemn armed riot police - MDC
MDC spokesperson Fadzai Mahere has urged Zimbabweans to condemn armed riot police who allegedly besieged incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's lawyer's office Beatrice Mtetwa."Every prog...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 07:44hrs | 3407 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Can Zimbabwean Christians and Church leaders honestly not see the regime's evil ways - why are they silent?
As a devout Christian, there is one thing that I have never been able to wrap my mind around - that is, can most Christians and Church leaders in Zimbabwe honestly tell me that they can not see the ba...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 16:13hrs | 750 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 11689 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's rise, fall from grace
ON the afternoon of November 22 2017, a day after a cornered former president Robert Mugabe resigned under pressure from the military - which was holding his family captive while a parliamentary proce...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:07hrs | 5600 | by Staff reporter
ZCC pursues multi-stakeholder dialogue process
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) is persisting with its efforts to initiate a national dialogue process, meant to address the country's intractable political and economic crisis.It also ...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime buckles under the tide of #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
THE growing momentum of the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign on microblogging site Twitter and other social media applications against President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s government is indicative...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:01hrs | 1737 | by Staff reporter
Leave us alone, says Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF has reacted angrily to the global outcry to stop human rights abuses and accused its critics, including the South Africa's ruling African National Congress officials of lying.The party...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 1092 | 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 | 632 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF benefactor fires naid over #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
A DOMESTIC worker in the small farming Banket town in Mashonaland West has been fired by her employer after posting messages advocating the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter movement.Emelda Chitsa (30) w...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:23hrs | 3310 | by newzimbabwe
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