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Commuter omnibus turf wars simmer
A TURF war is brewing in Harare's commuter omnibus industry as rival factions battle for control of lucrative routes amid fears that the tension could degenerate into bloody clashes.Senior pol...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 06:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF member dies as mob burns Mupedzanhamo
A Zanu-PF member died following violent clashes that were triggered by alleged opposition CCC space barons at the popular Mupedzanhamo Market in Harare which was also partly burnt by the rioting mob....Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Youth indaba divides Zanu-PF
THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF youths from across the country who were attending an indaba in Harare are departing the capital with bitterness, accusing party bigwigs of stifling democracy and fanning tribalism...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Villagers, cattle rustlers in bloody clashes
MASHABA area in Matabeleland South province was the scene of bloody clashes at the weekend after Botswana cattle farmers teamed up with Gwanda villagers to attack suspected cattle rustlers.The...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EU maintains sanctions grip on ZDI
STATE-OWNED arms manufacturing company, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI), remains under the tight grip of European Union (EU) sanctions due to the reported role of security forces in alleged huma...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
We own Zanu PF, say Chiefs
CHIEFS' Council president Fortune Charumbira yesterday openly defied the national Constitution which forbids traditional leaders from dabbling in partisan party politics after he publicly declared tha...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 14:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa warns 'name-droppers' in bloody clashes over gold claims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has distanced the Zanu-PF leader from the bloody clashes over the control of one of Manicaland's richest gold mines.Pedzai Scott Sakupwanya, a gold dealer...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs on SA crisis intervention
LEGISLATORS have called on Zimbabwe and its regional counterparts to urgently take action on the raging South African crisis to rescue locals who could have been caught in the crossfire following rece...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kindness Paradza's militia in violent clashes with fellow Zanu-PF youths
INFORMATION Deputy Minister Kindness Paradza is in the eye of a raging storm after an armed gang linked to the Zanu-PF politician fought running battles against fellow party youths in Chinhoyi Saturda...Published: 10 May 2021 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minerals Act fuels miners, farmers' fights
FARMERS yesterday bemoaned loopholes in the Mines and Minerals Act which gives more rights to miners than farmers, leading to bloody clashes and rampant pollution of agricultural land by mostly panner...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on edge
With jittery police saying yesterday that they are anticipating violence in today's mass demonstrations by the MDC - setting the stage for potentially bloody clashes between security forces and protes...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police deployed to quell bloody gold wars
The government is deploying more police officers to mining areas to deal with the violent clashes between illegal miners popularly referred to as makorokoza. The deployment follows an upsurge ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC condemns Kadoma by-election violence
The MDC Alliance has slammed the violence that broke out at the weekend during the Kadoma ward 2 by-election which saw several party activists being injured.Violence allegedly broke out after ...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South gold wars turn bloody as gangs rampage
Avigilant Masotsha considers himself lucky to be alive.Masotsha, who hails from Kwekwe, was one of the more than 20 illegal miners who were panning for gold underground when a tunnel suddenly ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nothing to show for it, 39 years on
ZIMBABWE today marks 39 years of independence with little to show for the sacrifices made in liberating this country.The only difference in today's celebrations is that former president Robert...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Editorial - Daily News
Provincial nominations to settle Chamisa, Mwonzora rivalry
THE MDC has entered a crucial week after it set the ball rolling on provincial nominations for the party's national leadership over the weekend, ahead of next month's do-or-die elective congress....Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crucial week for Chamisa's MDC
THE MDC has entered a crucial week after it set the ball rolling on provincial nominations for the party's national leadership over the weekend, ahead of next month's do-or-die elective congress....Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fresh cracks emerge in Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
Fresh fissures have emerged in the ruling Zanu-PF, with disgruntled members of its youth league passing a vote of no confidence on their leader Pupurai Togarepi and four other members of his executive...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga grilled over crackdown
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga was yesterday taken to task by Roman Catholic bishops, who demanded answers over the recent military crackdown, which claimed 12 lives following bloody clashes betw...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown on MDC Alliance leaders
Officials from the MDC Alliance were on tenterhooks yesterday as police embarked on what appeared to be a crackdown on those perceived to have been behind midweek protests, which degenerated into viol...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Army to stay on streets'
POLICE yesterday said they would continue seeking the services of the army to maintain order in Harare and other cities following Wednesday's deadly clashes which claimed six lives."The situat...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The emperor unmasked
THE bloody clashes that broke out in Harare yesterday, as soldiers and police used brute force to disperse unarmed disgruntled opposition activists protesting over alleged vote-rigging by the ruling Z...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Candidates must shun hate speech
WITH the general elections due in 20 days and political temperatures at their peak, we call on the political actors to exercise extreme restraint and stick to the dictates of the peace pledge which th...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let them march, says Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa said the uninterrupted demonstration by the MDC Alliance in Harare yesterday was a sign the opposition was enjoying democracy in the country after he instructed security agencies t...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC-T rocked by intra-party violence
INTRA-PARTY violence continues to rock the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T as the opposition party is failing to complete its primary elections in most constituencies amid allegations of rigging and impositi...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
#ShutDownHarare demo on, Zanu-PF backs down
POLICE yesterday gave the greenlight for the MDC-T's planned pro-electoral reform demonstration in Harare today, as Zanu-PF activists, who had threatened to counter the opposition party's protest marc...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns party members against violence
The Zanu-PF leadership here has strongly warned party members against instigating or perpetrating violence, saying the culprits would be prosecuted in line with the revolutionary party's rules, irresp...Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
5 Zanu-PF supporters arrested for intra-party violence
Zanu-PF will soon dispatch a probe team to Gutu East following bloody clashes between ruling party supporters at Chin'ai Business Centre last Friday that left several people injured and hospitalised....Published: 22 May 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive vote-rigging rocks Zanu PF
ZANU PF primary elections ended farcically yesterday amid reports of massive vote-rigging, bloody clashes and the defeat of party bigwigs, while some losing candidates seized and burnt the ballot pape...Published: 01 May 2018 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T violence cross-examined
Succession wars rock MDC again, MDC Bulawayo violence hugely condemned, MDC intra party violence worrisome. Bloody clashes rock MDC T, MDC T succession violence and tribalism. These are some of the he...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by Believe Chikomo.
Thabitha Khumalo condemns the arrest of violent MDC-T officials
MDC-T Party acting spokesperson Thabitha Khumalo HAS condemned what she termed selective application of the law. Authorities arrested three top MDC officials and 16 party youths in response to intra-p...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 11:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloody clashes rock MDC-T
SEVERAL MDC-T activists were injured in a wave of violence that rocked the party's Bulawayo provincial offices yesterday, after party youths allegedly stormed and violently disrupted a meeting organis...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Villagers celebrate notorious gangster's death
COMMUNITIES in Insiza District celebrated the death of a notorious gangster who succumbed to a headache on Tuesday last week.Mthandazo Sibanda (28) of Denje village under Chief Maduna allegedl...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 09:52hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism in Zanu-PF succession poses danger to Zimbabwe
AS the intriguing Zanu PF succession race trudges towards what looks like a climax, the frightening spectre of a chaotic end has been exacerbated by the emergence of a tribal dimension.Analyst...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai appoints Khupe as acting President
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has appointed his deputy Thokozani Khupe acting president while he recovers from his current illness in a move widely seen as mending relations between the two heavyweight...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 14:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold wars claim lives in Filabusi, Kensington
TURF wars in goldfields in Filabusi and Kensington in Matabeleland South have claimed the lives of two illegal gold panners, Sunday News can reveal.In Filabusi a man who was only referred to a...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe succession brawl turns bloody
President Robert Mugabe's crude politics of playing Zanu-PF factions against each other to manage his succession has been cited as one of the reasons behind the spike in violence rocking the ruling pa...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faction block Mphoko's address
VICE-President Phelekezela Mhoko was prevented from addressing the Bulawayo provincial coordinating committee meeting last Sunday due to clashes between warring Zanu-PF factions.This was a wel...Published: 27 May 2017 at 17:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF fast reaching 'a tipping point
Terror-stricken supporters of President Robert Mugabe's warring ruling Zanu-PF say the former liberation movement's mindless bloodletting is fast reaching "a tipping point" - after its followers in Bu...Published: 23 May 2017 at 13:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloody run-up to the Zimbabwe 2018 election
OPPOSITION parties yesterday predicted a bloody run-up to the 2018 election judging by the high levels of violence and intolerance already exhibited by rival Zanu-PF camps since the beginning of this ...Published: 23 May 2017 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF violence condemned
Zanu PF bloody clashes at its Bulawayo headquarters on Sunday have been condemned.Police have been urged to bring the culprits to book.Heal Zimbabwe said such violence 'poses a grave t...Published: 22 May 2017 at 19:40hrs | | by Mary Charamba
WATCH: Zanu-PF factions in bloody clashes
THERE was a bloodbath at the Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial headquarters, Davis Hall, yesterday as members from the ruling party's rival factions fought one another over the fate of under fire political ...Published: 22 May 2017 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T, Zanu-PF activists in bloody clashes
MDC-T and Zanu-PF activists were at the weekend involved in bloody clashes in the dormitory town Epworth, invoking fears that the 2018 general elections could mirror the 2008 presidential poll runoff ...Published: 18 May 2017 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Spears, machetes in Bubi war
EIGHT people have been hospitalised following bloody skirmishes in which villagers attacked each other using machetes and spears over grazing land in Bubi District.Bubi Rural District Coun...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's brute force on show
HARARE came to a standstill yesterday, as President Robert Mugabe's government, in an unprecedented show of force, brought out its anti-riot hardware to ruthlessly crush a planned protest by oppon...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 04:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gold 'baron' now living in fear
ESIGODINI gold baron, Mr Baron Dube has said he is now living in fear after one of his gang members received death threats from people who allegedly murdered his nephew in bloody clashes last week...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anti- Mugabe activist approaches High Court for bail
Political activist and spokesperson of the radical Tajamuka pressure group, Promise Mkwananzi has approached the High Court seeking bail following his arrest on inciting public violence. H...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbare tense after mega demonstration
MBARE was yesterday tense following Friday's bloody clashes between riot police and protestors following the disruption of a High Court sanctioned opposition political parties demonstration in Har...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gang of 4 stabs panner in fight for goldfields
A GOLD panner from Lower Gweru died early yesterday morning after he was stabbed allegedly by four fellow illegal miners in a suspected turf war. Villagers from Pihli, Ward 7, under Chief Bunina told ...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Zanu-PF, ZimPF youths in bloody clash, several injured
BLOODY clashes have erupted between ruling Zanu-PF and opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) youths at Shackleton Mine, just outside Chinhoyi, ahead of former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's rall...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
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