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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 | 4072 | 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 | 7457 | 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 | 4929 | 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 | 525 | 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 | 1933 | 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 | 2704 | 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 | 2627 | 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 | 13238 | 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 | 5139 | 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 | 32401 | 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 | 2413 | 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 | 632 | 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 | 1467 | 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 | 4483 | 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 | 1620 | 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 | 4596 | 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
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 | 735 | 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 | 979 | 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 | 1092 | 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 | 617 | 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 | 2545 | 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 | 2636 | 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 | 7746 | 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 | 3394 | 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 | 739 | 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 | 11664 | 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 | 5579 | 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 | 939 | 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 | 1720 | 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 | 1086 | 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
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 | 3299 | by newzimbabwe
Social media alone won't bring change in Zimbabwe
EXACTLY four years ago, in an opinion piece run by The Guardian, I argued that social media activists in Zimbabwe faced an uphill struggle finding momentum to steer themselves towards the path of demo...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 20:22hrs | 347 | by Bruce Mutsvairo
Abusive rogue regimes that violate international law shouldn't be allowed to hide behind 'protocol' and 'diplomacy'
When I was growing up, whenever an abusive husband battered his wife, the best she could do was either, keep quiet and accept her fate (even blaming herself as having 'deserved' the brutality as punis...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1122 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugabe's 'stupid and idiotic street girl' accused of breaching protocol
South African ruling party chairperson for international relations committee Lindiwe, Zulu ANC, Lindiwe Zulu, who on Tuesday insisted Zimbabwe was in a crisis, has been accused by Mnangagwa's spokespe...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 12485 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hopes fade under Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE has failed to end the culture of human rights abuses witnessed under its former leader Robert Mugabe, while the optimism generated by the election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has faded, a...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
SA lawyers sing for their supper against Mnangagwa
A SOUTH AFRICAN group of lawyers yesterday added its voice to the growing chorus of alarm on human rights abuses by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, chastising the Zanu-PF leader for ris...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2995 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spoils soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to continue improving security forces' working conditions in "recognition of the role and sacrifices" they have made "in the conduct of their duties".I...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:17hrs | 15625 | by Staff reporter
SA's Mbeki once claimed there was no crisis in Zimbabwe - then hundreds of people were butchered... Ramaphosa needs to show real
Saturday 12 April 2008, will forever be the day that most Zimbabweans would wish had never happened, and will forever be embedded in their minds as the day that a prominent and respectable statesman h...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 20:53hrs | 817 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Persons with disabilities concerned about Zimbabwe human rights violations
Zimbabweans had yet another opportunity to define their destiny as a collective when they exercised their constitutional right to choose a leader of their choice. The July 2018 elections had new conte...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 11:35hrs | 1001 | by Tsepang Nare and Abel Mavura
South Africa is in no position to help Zimbabwe
This week President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete and former Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi as special envoys to Zimbabwe. Their reported br...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 1319 | by Tafi Mhaka
Redefining Democracy, a Zimbabwean Rhetoric
Was it not Prof. PLO Lumumba who argued that, time limits are good things. No matter how good a dancer you are, you must leave the stage?Looking back, the realization is overwhelming just how ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:22hrs | 157 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
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
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:21hrs | 264 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu PF battered in social media despite monopolising state media
Political analyst Pedzisai Ruhanya has said Zanu PF has been battered seriously through the social media for violating human rights dispute being in full control of the state media which it uses as pr...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:08hrs | 812 | by Stephen Jakes
Malema berates Zimbabwean youths
FIREBRAND Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has berated Zimbabwean youths for sticking to social media to express their frustrations over poor leadership by government instead of throngin...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:03hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
New campaign targets 'looters diaspora children'
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean secessionist Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance leader Hloniphani Ncube has launched the #PunishZimLootersChildrenabroad to prod countries hostingZimbabwean top officials'...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:01hrs | 2701 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe activists decry ‘unprecedented clampdown' after arrests
INVESTIGATIVE journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has over the years leveraged his large social media following to share posts about human rights abuses and alleged government corruption.On June 20, ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:00hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Online #ZimbabweLivesMatter campaign jolts Mnangagwa govt
STUNG by the impact of an online campaign by Zimbabweans to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations in the country, top government officials are fighting back with claims that gory image...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:23hrs | 10033 | by Staff reporter
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