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SADC in a mess
The brutal killing of opposition lawyer Elvino Dias and a party official, Paulo Guambe, on Saturday in Mozambique puts a gloomy picture on the region. Instead of engaging in such horrific activities, ...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 19:27hrs | 435 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa claims that 2023 elections 'did not happen'
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa remains focused on the disputed 2023 general elections in Zimbabwe, insisting that the issues surrounding those polls m...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 16:04hrs | 959 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should release the Dumbutshena, Chihambakwe reports
The government should release reports by two commissions that investigated the Gukurahundi genocide "as part of truth telling" ahead of new public hearings in Matabeleland which President Emmerson Mna...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 20:54hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa mobilises for new party
FORMER Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday launched a mobilisation drive for his new political movement that he says will be unveiled soon.Chamisa loyalists led...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Leaderless citizens urged to rally behind Sikhala
CITIZENS have been urged to unite in calling for the unconditional release of Job Sikhala who appeared in court on Wednesday.The former Zengeza West legislator, who was on Wednesday convicted for inci...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's internet costs surge
When a sharp hike in Zimbabwe's internet costs drove Joyce Kapvumfuti's small catering enterprise offline for a week, orders for her wedding cakes, business lunches and frosted cupcakes collapsed....Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:52hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Police block Sikhala rally
POLICE have blocked a solidarity rally for opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) politician, Job Sikhala, set for Saturday, sparking outrage from his supporters.The Job Sikhala Solida...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:06hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still squandering massive goodwill
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's promises to break with the past and chart a new path for Zimbabwe after the ouster of long-time leader Robert Mugabe are ringing hollow as the southern African nation fu...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Dudula hates foreigners
South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members o...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 21:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sophisticated election rigging currently underway in Zimbabwe'
The climate of intimidation and violence threatens to render the upcoming election unfree and unfair, a leading civic organisation has said.In its electoral updates, Kubatana has cited a numbe...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 20:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now 'worse than under Mugabe'?
UNDER the long and cruel reign of Robert Mugabe, a lot of very bad things happened.But it's not clear that anyone was stoned to death for opposing him or his cronies.On Thursday this w...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Rough campaign for opposition as election nears
AS Zimbabwe gears for the polls, opposition members have been arrested, dozens of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) events blocked and the party complains of being given little airtime on national t...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by AFP
Zimbabwe's new labour and patriotic laws are bad for business and rights to protest
Amendments to Zimbabwe's labour and criminal law codification to include what is popularly known as the Patriotic Act have been described as bad for business and workers' rights to protest under Presi...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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
Ghanaian MPs back tougher anti-gay legislation
The lead sponsor of an amended bill warns that the country will target US economic interests if Washington sanctions officialsGhana's parliament has unanimously passed a motion to further tigh...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
The stakes will be high in Zimbabwe's elections
After the general election in Nigeria in February, the next most significant election in Anglophone Africa will be in Zimbabwe in July or August.There is huge interest in the conduct and outco...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK MPs want Mnangagwa invite cancelled
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to the United Kingdom for King Charles III's coronation hangs in the balance after some parliamentarians in London demanded that he be barred over alleged human ri...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ratchets up political persecution, claims ZLHR
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Rights (ZLHR), an organisation that protects and defends human rights through sustainable litigation, has raised concern over the continued prosecution of perceived opponents ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC holds 'go home to vote' rally in SA
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) South Africa (SA) branch on Monday conducted a "go home to vote" campaign march and rally in the neighbouring country as part of its voter mobilisati...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cyber city: Urban utopia or surveillance menace?
In a fertile stretch of fields and farms dubbed New Harare, Zimbabwe is building a high-tech "cyber city" a world away from the traffic-clogged streets and overcrowded slums of the country's nearby ca...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF allowed freedom of association?
MY heart bleeds to see a Zimbabwean fighting a fellow Zimbabwean because of political differences.We need unity, peace and progress.But how can we progress in Zimbabwe when one beats u...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:53hrs | 8 | by Ruramai Kwangu
Chamisa's 'fake abduction' activist says still living in terror
A Zimbabwean human rights activist who alleges she was subjected to harrowing torture after she was abducted by suspected state security services said she still lives in terror des...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Untrustworthy Biden aims to narrow trust gap with US-Africa leaders summit
United States President Joe Biden is set to play host to dozens of African leaders in Washington this week as the White House looks to narrow a gaping trust gap with Africa - one that has grown wider ...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:40hrs | | by Associated Press
Bloodshed of Zimbabwe's past elections has citizens bracing for what's to come next year
"Just thinking of voting causes me to become more afraid," Maxwell Tauro told The Globe and Mail. I might be met with bullets. I'm just fearful that I might get shot like my son."With a new el...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:40hrs | 16 | by Jeffrey Moyo for The Globe & Mail
'Zimbabwe youths denied right to speak'
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) national deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba has been chosen to attend Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum in the United States.The Obama Leaders programme was l...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt pampering looters with tax breaks'
ZIMBABWE'S civic society organisations have raised fresh concerns over elevated plunder of the country's resources by multinationals, and are pushing to close loopholes.During a crucial confer...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa-Masisi alliance bad for democracy'
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Botswana counterpart Mokgweetsi Masisi clearly have many things in common — the hounding of political foes out of the country and the silencing of cri...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Tony Blair in historic handshake
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa was yesterday complimented during the plenary session at the Africa Green Revolution Forum 2022 in Rwanda for stressing on the need for agricultural trade, and then in a historic m...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malunga and Esidakeni partners face arrest
Police are preparing criminal charges against prominent rights advocate Siphosami Malunga and his two business partners in an escalation of a fight over a coveted Matabeleland North farm.Polic...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 20:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
150 Zimbabweans to be deported from the UK
Human rights groups have expressed grave concerns over Home Office plans to deport 150 people to Zimbabwe next week, warning that their lives would be in danger.The flight, scheduled for July ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 10:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena sucked in Cottco looting scandal
CHAIRPERSON of the parliamentary portfolio committee on land and agriculture Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been implicated in the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (COTTCO) looting scandal after allegations po...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK sends asylum seekers to Rwanda
The British government was to send a first plane carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda yesterday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy.A chartered plane was to...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scandal-ridden company monitors Zimbabwe calls
THE company which installed a Telecommunications Traffic Monitoring System (TTMS) at the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe headquarters in Harare this week — Global Voic...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 20:42hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deports DRC refugees who allegedly looted food at refugee camp
The Zimbabwean government deported about 70 refugees back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in violation of international humanitarian law, the United States Embassy in Harare said....Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 10:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
World Bank and the IMF have remained largely colonial in character to this day
Most people assume that inequality between the global South and the global North (the United States, Western Europe, Japan, Canada and Australia) has been declining over the past few decades. After al...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 07:43hrs | 9 | by Professor Jason Hickel
Cyril Ramaphosa supporters concede to likely defeat
The clean sweep in most ANC regional conferences by candidates aligned to the radical economic transformation (RET) group has sent shockwaves in President Cyril Ramaphosa's CR22 camp, with some lobbyi...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's major hospitals without substantive CEOs for 2 years
Zimbabwe's major hospitals are operating with acting CEOs nearly two years after the health services board conducted interviews, ZimLive can reveal.Five CEOs at Zimbabwe's major public hospita...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's backyard hit by fresh divisions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard, the Midlands province, has been hard hit by fresh turmoil after losing three crucial seats in last week's by-elections with rival factions blaming and threaten...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Bosso 90 squad on right track'
BOSSO 90 coach Melusi ‘Mabaleka' Sibanda believes his teenage charges are on the right track and will soon surprise seasoned campaigners in the Zifa Southern Region Division One League.Siban...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:47hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP, councilor clash over donations
Zaka Central Member of Parliament Davison Svuure left villagers shocked after he blocked food aid donations sourced by ward 13 councilor Manfred Mada meant to benefit villagers, claiming that he was t...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nationals deported from UK to Harare
HUMAN rights groups have said they fear for the lives of Zimbabwean nationals deported on a Home Office charter flight on Wednesday night.One campaigner, who was on the phone to a deportee on ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Hwange to feast on Quality Foods?
ZIFA Southern Region Division One pacesetters Hwange will make the long trip to Bulawayo to take on seventh-placed Quality Foods in a potentially exciting fixture that will be played at White City Sta...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nothing new from tired Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF's annual conference is underway in Bindura and, predictably, the former liberation party is not proffering any fresh ideas to extricate Zimbabwe from the quicksand of corruption-induced povert...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Eswatini closes schools indefinitely as pro-democracy protests flare up
Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, said Saturday it had shut its schools "indefinitely with immediate effect" as the country faces a wave of pro-democracy protests.Protests have flared...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 21:36hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
African sex workers face digital abuse as pandemic pushes them online
Kenyan sex worker Elizabeth Otieno shudders each time her cellphone buzzes with a new notification.The device may have become a lifeline in helping her move her work online during the COVID-19...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
China stopping coal funding could power down Zimbabwe's energy plans
IF THERE is a country likely to be hurt the most by President Xi Jinping's decision for Beijing to stop building new power plants overseas, it is Zimbabwe.Among several African countries with ...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 10:18hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Kwekweza, Zimudzi set free over protest against tinkering with constitution
HARARE Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro has set free two pro-democracy campaigners who had been on trial on charges of promoting public violence after they were arrested for allegedly protesting ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 15:55hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare, London entering another diplomatic level?
CORDIAL engagement and re-engagement between the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe testify that the Second Republic is quietly working and making good progress in terms of re-engaging the world. Thi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa prepares for UK trip
President Mnangagwa yesterday met British Ambassador Melanie Robinson and discussed his forthcoming trip to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to be hosted by Britain ...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anti-govt protest cases crumble
NINE Harare and Chegutu residents have been set free after being hauled before the courts on charges of committing public violence for allegedly participating in last year's anti-government demonstrat...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 13:19hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
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