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MDC sanctions treachery exposed
ALTHOUGH the MDC Alliance vainly attempts to create the impression of being a saviour of the people of Zimbabwe from its opponent, ZANU-PF, it is increasingly coming to the fore that it is against the...Published: 14 hrs ago | 394 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwean man in trouble for filming police brutality
A CHIVHU man was assaulted by police detectives after he was caught video recording them taking turns to beat up two suspected thieves.Lovemore Munyoro, a shopkeeper at one of the shops in Chi...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans can't breath under Zanu-PF
WHEN I look at what is happening in my beloved country, my heart bleeds. I feel like tearing myself apart with anger. I feel like I don't belong to this nation and yet Zimbabwe is my only country whic...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 712 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Brutality and Aggression against journalists by security forces must stop
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, has called on the Zimbabwean government to ensure the safety of journalists following the latest incident in which two journalists were tortured by soldiers and...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:44hrs | 444 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF paranoia a threat to us all
As Zimbabwe mourned and buried another gallant liberation struggle hero, stanley Gagisa Nleya at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Wednesday one could not help listening, with a very heavy and sor...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 246 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Students, unionist set free for protesting against detention of abductees and demanding US$ salaries
CHINHOYI Magistrate Felix Mawadze on Tuesday released eight Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) students, who had been arrested for allegedly protesting against the clampdown on human rights defen...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 14:08hrs | 1291 | by Stephen Jakes
Selective outrage retrogressive to the African plight
WHEN we speak of the year 2020 the name Gorge Floyd wields more weight than the COVID-19 pandemic for obvious socio-political reasons. George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, in the USA....Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:05hrs | 114 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Cowdray Park police brutality case postponed to July
The case in which six police officers are accused of brutally assaulting two Cowdray Park women for allegedly violating Covid-19 lockdown regulations is now to set to commence on July 13.This ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:58hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Genuine liberation heroes never fought for Zanu-PF's unpatriotic institutionalized oligarchical corruption
As Zimbabwe mourns and buries another gallant liberation struggle hero, Stanley Gagisa Nleya - at the National Heroes Acre in Harare today - one can not help listening, with a very heavy and sore hear...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:24hrs | 506 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans beaten raped and held as slaves in their own country
Zimbabwe is the only country we can call ours in the whole world. There is no other country we can call ours besides Zimbabwe. Having stayed outside Zimbabwe for a long time I became aware of the fact...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:35hrs | 2447 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Is the black American fight ours?
American race relations have once again been the focus of the world's attention after violent riots in the aftermath of yet another killing of a black man by a white policeman. The majority of...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 470 | by Miriam Tose Majome
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1648 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Mnangagwa faces sterner test
EMBATTLED President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing his sternest economic test since assuming power in 2017 as the crash of the Zimbabwean dollar pushes up prices, amid growing disenchantment with his le...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 9744 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality Why the Zimbabwe, US outrage is different
THE past few weeks have seen unprecedented global outrage at the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while Floy...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 725 | by Dzikamai Bere
We are our own enemy
THE issue of racism is far deeper than meets the eye. The United States of America scenario seems to suggest that mostly blacks from the marginalised communities are victims of police brutality....Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 148 | by Boniface Manjeya
Mnangagwa will remain a reject in the eyes of Zimbabweans
DEAR Mr President, Brace yourself Your Excellency, Sir. There aren't going to be any social niceties in this letter. This isn't going to be the sort of epistle that you would ordinarily expect...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1938 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zimbabweans have a duty to free themselves from crocodile jaws
EVERYTIME I travel to and from the US, I have noticed, the flight crew will always ask those who are serving or have served in the military to board first. As they present their boarding passes to the...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:41hrs | 475 | by Dr Shepherd Mpofu
A nation kept hostage by Zanu-PF
(Zanu, a group of 2000 people holdimg a nation of more than 14 million people at gunpoint) The troubled people of Rhodesia lipped for joy in 1980...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1220 | by Mnu. Ngazimbi
The US on the verge of momentous changes
In order to understand the present political turmoil in the American social fabric, one must keep as a background the fact that the US elites were shocked at the electoral victory of a street billiona...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:13hrs | 942 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Deepening crisis in Zimbabwe
Who bewitched our once beautiful country? The only day I do remember about inspiring words from my President was at his inauguration speech at the giant stadium when he said, " The voice of the people...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 13:24hrs | 2345 | by Leonard Koni
Deepening crisis in Zimbabwe
WHO bewitched our once beautiful country? The only inspiring words from President Emmerson Mnangagwa was at his inauguration speech at the giant National Sports Stadium, when he said: "The voice of th...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:32hrs | 255 | by Leonard Koni
Magwegwe murderer jailed for life
A MAN who waylaid two lovers in Bulawayo while they were out for an evening stroll before striking them with a brick resulting in one the victims succumbing to the injuries has been sentenced to life ...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:12hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Six people killed by soldiers but nothing has been done for their justice
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has expressed concerns that in August 2018 six people were shot by soldiers in broad daylight but up to now no justice has been done for them.In its latest report ZP...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 14:17hrs | 1000 | by Stephen Jakes
Ndiweni protests lawyer arrest
GOVERNMENT critic and dethroned Ntabazinduna traditional leader Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has protested the arrest of his lawyer Dumisani Dube over the weekend describing it as an attempt to silence hu...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 790 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe far from democracy
This country is founded on the principle of ubuntu respect of law freedom and democracy. The stone age politics being exhibited in Zimbabwe by the ruling party is a cause of concern.Th...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 10:14hrs | 1109 | by Leonard Koni
Impunity won't go unpunished
One of the alleged first causalities of the police brutality under the lockdown was Levison Ncube, a 25-yearold Bulawayo man, who was assaulted by police officers.Ncube was walking his girlfri...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:52hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Do Black lives really matter or we are just opportunists?
Racism has been a hotly debated subject of late, particularly in the light of the profoundly unsettling brutalization and ensuing death of George Floyd, an African American, at the hands of a law serv...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 06:01hrs | 397 | by Gift Tawanda, M
Black lives should matter
Black lives have never mattered to African leaders since time in memorial except in cases when they sought to raise self profiles. We have seen in Africa itself, where ostensibly blacks originate, Afr...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 13:59hrs | 708 | by MLF
Khupe is being used by the system to foment turmoil
THE opposition MDC is in the middle of a political crisis, with rival groups fighting for the heart and soul of a party whose founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai made decisions that are now at the centr...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:16hrs | 4130 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's family absolved of corruption
ZANU-PF has warned journalists and other citizens against linking President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family to companies implicated in massive COVID-19 graft.Addressing journalists in Harare yeste...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:11hrs | 2032 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers demand prosecution of abusive cops
LAWYERS representing a Beitbridge man alleging police brutality have bemoaned the inordinate delays in taking the officers to court.Jabulani Mzinyathi of Garikayi and Company acting on behalf ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:02hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Slain man's family pushes for private investigator
HE family of a Bulawayo man fatally shot by the police in May, is pushing for the involvement of private investigators in the matter after expressing fears that there "is something the police want to ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:01hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Police block Zanu-PF demonstration
Police have blocked a Zanu-PF demonstration that had been scheduled for today to protest against the continued illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe and the brutal killing of an unarmed black man, Ge...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Americans' brave struggle for justice, in the face of state brutality, should inspire oppressed people of Zimbabwe
It is so easy for a perpetually oppressed, subjugated, and choked people to give up their struggle for justice, freedom, and equality - in the face of ever-growing brutality and brazen abuse of their ...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 13:59hrs | 955 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
America bullies Zimbabwe to avoid accountability
The world has been gripped with shock and anger over the cold blooded murder of a black American man by the police while the other officers looked on with not even an effort to stop such inhuman and d...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:21hrs | 1919 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa must order Trump to stop US rights violations, says Matemadanda
ZANU-PF National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda has on called opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to ring United States President Donald Trump and order him to stop human rights viol...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:00hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to march to the US embassy on June 4 over slain black man
ZANU-PF and war veterans have called upon the international community to demand justice for the slain black man who met an agonising death at the hands of a white police man in the United States. ...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 08:58hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Human Rights donates to victims of police brutality and torture
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement on 24 May gave a donation of groceries to two victims of brutality and torture by the Zimbabwean security agents in Cowdrypark, Bulawayo on t...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:46hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
George Floyd's killer already arrested, but Zimbabwe innocent civilians' killers not yet arrested since 1980!
As the furore surrounding the heinous and barbaric cold-hearted killing of unarmed African American George Floyd by a White United States (US) police officer Derek Chauvin, on 25 May 2020 in Minneapol...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:46hrs | 862 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Army beat Chinhoyi residents over Covid social distance
Several people were left nursing injuries on Thursday after troops of Zimbabwe National Army officers went on rampage beating up residents randomly in Chinhoyi high density areas. According to...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:43hrs | 684 | by Naume Muza
Fresh plot to remove Mnangagwa by China and Army General revealed
A certain faction led by an unnamed General is plotting to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa and establish a National Transitional Authority, former Zimabwe National Army Colonel Dr. Daniel Kuzozvir...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 12:54hrs | 18784 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe fingered in US's George Floyd protests?
The United States warned its "foreign adversaries", including Zimbabwe, that they would not get away "for free" with jabs aimed at America following the killing of a black man by a police officer who ...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:30hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo tycoon demands justice for City man killed by Bulawayo police
Bulawayo born venture capitalist and hedge fund manager Kelvin Mazhandu has issued a message of condolence to the family of the Bulawayo city man Paul Munakopa who was killed by details of the Zimbabw...Published: 31 May 2020 at 16:52hrs | 4936 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why is it okay for Blacks to kill Blacks, but an utter outrage when Whites kill Blacks?
As the whole world is thunderstruck by the unfolding scenes of massive anger-fuelled protests in the United States of America (US) over the barbaric and savage killing of an unarmed Black man - George...Published: 31 May 2020 at 10:00hrs | 1943 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
COVID-19 should not be used to clampdown on journalists - ZCTU
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has said it notes with concern that the government is using the outbreak of COVID-19 as a scapegoat to arrest journalists going about their business and thi...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:43hrs | 172 | by Stephen Jakes
Call for justice for MDC Alliance abductees
THE Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) together with WELEAD Trust, Economic Justice for Women Project, Female Prisoners Support Trust, Imba Mukadzi Umuzi Ngumama Trust, Ru...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:23hrs | 247 | by Walpe
Human Rights Commission to probe man shooting
A Bulawayo man who was shot dead by police on Saturday was buried yesterday and a local Member of Parliament has engaged the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to investigate the matter. ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Women's group call for justice for the abducted women MDC activists
The Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) together with WELEAD Trust, Economic Justice for Women Project (EJWP), Female Prisoners Support Trust (FEMPRIST), Imba Mukadzi Umuzi...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:22hrs | 341 | by Stephen Jakes
Exiled ex-minister rubbishes Govt third force claim on MDC abductors
Exiled former deputy higher education minister Godfrey Gandawa rubbished claims by the Government that there was a third force behind the abduction of three Movement for Democratic Change female membe...Published: 26 May 2020 at 20:31hrs | 3866 | by Naume Muza
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