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FULL TEXT: Job Sikhala speech at the UN Geneva Summit
Iwant to greet you, honorable guests of this important summit for Human Rights and Democracy, from all the four corners of the world. I am Job Sikala, the surviving political prisoner from Zimbabwe. I...Published: 17 May 2024 at 16:38hrs | 41 | by Jo Sikhala
Nelson Chamisa's Face as a Logo - A Questionable Choice for CCC
Let me start off by saying that I am all for embracing creativity, innovation, and expressing oneself, especially when it comes to political parties. However, there are certain things that make you qu...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 16:19hrs | 8 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda
Sikhala family speaks on MP's agony
DESPITE being a vocal and fearless member of Parliament, Job Sikhala is a father of nine and the family is feeling the heat on his nearly 100-day incarceration.All his children, The NewsHawks,...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chained Sikhala questions why armed robbers are walking uncuffed
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Job Sikhala Monday took the state to task over its continued use of leg irons and cuffs on him and co-accused Godfrey Sithole, while armed robbers went unc...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
HIV+ Zimbabwe man (21) who died of HIV was neglected by healthcare staff
A 21-year-old man died due to neglect, after he was not given treatment for HIV while he was a prisoner at Her Majesty's Prison (HMP) Chelmsford, an inquest has determined. HIV is a "treatable" condit...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Years of teacher tears
Over the years, the Zanu PF regime's response to teachers' grievances has been lip service from a place of lack of concern and a mere want to get the impo...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
Chamisa's options in the context of despotic capture of MDC Alliance?
In 1998, in Russia's St Petersburg, Oleg Sergeyev ran for the Governor's position. When he officially launched his campaign, to his chagrin there were two other opponents. Opponent one was Oleg Sergey...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo in push to revive dead industry
A visit to the Belmont industrial area, once alive with the roar of machinery, reveals the story of decay.Bulawayo's vast industrial areas are now abandoned, resulting in crippling unemploymen...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Prison cell at Khami Prison should be a national heritage site
WHILE there is a clarion call to refurbish and transform liberation icon and founder of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Cde Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo's house in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb ...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi berates abuse of its imprisoned activists
SECESSIONIST group Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) has condemned the alleged inhuman treatment of its activists who were languishing in remand prison recently.MLF's remarks come after nine of...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
A call for the condemnation of the violation of the human rights of prisoners by the Zimbabwe regime
Greetings to all! A few days ago, members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were released on bail from incarceration at Zimbabwe's notorious Khami and Mlondolozi prisons. No sooner had the...Published: 18 May 2021 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza - MLF President
Mnangagwa's bad friends
In its short years as the Zimbabwean first family, the Mnangagwas have fared quite sorely in one area: Choosing good friends.You will naturally remember Draxgate, the scandal that rocked the r...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Bulawayo sign board goes viral on social media
A Bulawayo sign board has gone viral on social media. The 'City of Kings' as Bulawayo in known, was once revered as the industrial heart of Zimbabwe and of Southern Africa to a greater extent. B...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 18 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Prophet Magaya's world crumbling?
The world around Prophet Walter Magaya is crumbling as more allegations of sexual abuse and harassment continue to surface.A week after the Maenzanise family went on social media alleging that...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:00hrs | | by Garikai Mazara
Chombo was tortured, but must face trial, says Court
THE High Court has dismissed an application for a permanent stay of prosecution filed by former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo, who is facing several cases involving corruption, fraud and criminal n...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'True heroes, heroines never die'
We publish the final part of an interview by our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati with nationalist Jane Lungile Ngwenya. In this instalment, Ngwenya chronicles how she earned mistrust in both Zapu and...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeortet
$10 000 goes up in smoke
PROPERTY worth over $10 000 was reduced to ashes after a five-roomed house was gutted by fire in Bulawayo's Lobengula West suburb.An electric fault due to an overloaded circuit is suspected to...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man 'impregnates' wife's sister to punish abuser?
A Bulawayo-based cop allegedly engaged in a secret romance with his wife's younger sister and impregnated her apparently in a bid to spite his "abusive and disrespectful" wife.Tabani Nyurura h...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to die pastor set free
A prominent Zimbabwean cleric, who prophesied that President Robert Mugabe would die in 2017, has been set free by a magistrate in Zimbabwe.Pastor Patrick Mugadza, 46, of the Remnant Church wa...Published: 21 May 2018 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim court acquits pastor Mugadza over anti-govt protest
A prominent Zimbabwean cleric, who prophesied that President Robert Mugabe would die in 2017, has been set free by a magistrate in Zimbabwe.Pastor Patrick Mugadza, 46, of the Remnant Church wa...Published: 21 May 2018 at 10:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
We should have said, No to Robert Mugabe!
People in Zanu-PF have been called cowards and all such names. Maybe we were. For surely talking to some comrades it is clear very few genuinely loved Robert Mugabe in his last years as President....Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
How Oliver Mtukudzi sheltered a Zimbabwean refugee in downtown Harare
Music is soulful shelter. I became a refugee when I discovered potential life hidden in the works of Mbare-born guitarist Louis Mhlanga and the late Mozambican Afro-Jazz singer Gito Baloi and slowly r...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 17:07hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabweans jostling to see Mnangagwa's 'dhomocracy'?
What's wrong with Emmerson Mnangagwa's 'democracy', that it fails to elicit even the most suspended of curiosities from Diasporans, that it commands the most reprimanding rejection from the ever-suffe...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Why the CIO will determine the next Zimbabwean ruler
There are several historical issues that we have to look at in trying to see what the future holds for Zimbabwe and for that we need to look at some history before we get to a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe....Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:27hrs | | by wikileaks.org
Mugabe refused to die on 17 October 2017
Today is 19 October 2017, and President Robert Mugabe, whom false prophet, Patrick Phillip Mugadza, 'prophesied' would die on 17 October 2017, is as fit as a fiddle and attending a World Health Organi...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 15:55hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Mugabe must die' cleric eye Parliament seat
Anti-President Robert Mugabe cleric, Phillip Mugadza, has said he is going to run for the Gutu South parliamentary seat in next year's elections. Mugadza-famed for prophesying that Mugabe woul...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
The cross of Eddie Cross
The Former Rhodie's Cross of shameful groveling at the expense of Matebeleland stinks to the high heavens. Obliviously blind to the vote that gave him that so-called MDC-T seat in parliament, he is on...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Njabulo Sibanda
Of artists fostering & protecting tyrants
People living in that country currently called Zimbabwe are going through what can be at best be called troubling times and at worst tyranny. As things stand we look at artists to not only to sing the...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:12hrs | | by Tshaka Mgazo Ndlovu
Nathaniel Manheru - where is the 'revelation'?
UMthwakazi has known this character as a wide-nosed, strong-jawed anti-Mthwakazi Gukiurahundist and Shonaist, who like the rest of them who harbour these rabid anti-Mthwakazi, Gukurahundist feelings, ...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
'Mugabe death' pastor stages another one-man demo
Activist cleric Phillip Mugadza, who is being charged for predicting that President Robert Mugabe would die on October 17 this year, yesterday staged another one-man anti-government demo in Harare....Published: 01 Jun 2017 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump petitioned over Mugabe
Activist cleric Patrick Phillip Mugadza has launched a fresh assault on President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF government by petitioning the United States President Donald Trump to force the long-ser...Published: 07 May 2017 at 13:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe death pastor' refuses to settle $15 medical bill
Cleric Phillip Mugadza is refusing to settle a $15 medical bill incurred when he was treated at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (Parirenyatwa), demanding that President Robert Mugabe must foot the...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe death prophet' says it's his right to protest
Anti-President Robert Mugabe cleric Phillip Mugadza claimed the State was trivialising him for exercising his constitutional right to protest, as his trial on criminal nuisance charges kicked off ...Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 12:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cleric Mugadza calls for jail 'sex cubicles'
Activist clergyman Patrick Phillip Mugadza has challenged the government to build special "conjugal rights cottages" in jails to allow prisoners to enjoy intimacy with their partners.The u...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe must die' pastor's church ruptures
The Kariba church of incarcerated "Mugabe-must-go" cleric, Phillip Mugadza, has disintegrated - with his fearful congregants moving to other churches as the activist clergyman continues to languis...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe must go' pastor stays jailed
In a court development that left the defence team fuming on Friday, a Harare magistrate deferred the trial of incarcerated activist clergyman Patrick Phillip Mugadza - who earlier this year made a...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We should be enlightened enough to see past clans, tribes' - Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda
For some days now, I have observed from the side lines as events unfolded online that seemed to confirm my worst fears and worsen every time I logged on. I am currently on a fact-finding mission to as...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 12:52hrs | | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
No country with a McDonald's can remain a democracy
A wave of revulsion rolls around the world. Approval ratings for incumbent leaders are everywhere collapsing. Symbols, slogans and sensation trump facts and nuanced argument. One in six Americans now ...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by George Monbiot
Anti-Mugabe Pastor up for criminal nuisance
A Gutu pastor, who reportedly tied himself by the waist using a chain to steel rails that surround Africa Unity Square in Harare for unknown reasons, appeared in court yesterday charged with crimi...Published: 25 Nov 2016 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZLHR seeks treatment for clergyman assaulted over anti-govt protest
LAWYERS from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have petitioned the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to allow detained clergyman, Pastor Philip Mugadza, to seek medical treatment after he sustaine...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 13:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chain protests to rock Harare
Human Rights activist and Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) board chairperson Sten Zvorwadza is planning to roll out a string of street protests dubbed #MunhuWeseMuRoad.Zvorwadza has set Novem...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 11:08hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Family of man who died from CIA torture speaks out for the first time
US Senate's 'Torture Report' documented 119 victims of CIA torture Al Jazeera speaks to the former secret prisoners, including the family of a man who died from his torture in CIA cus...Published: 19 Sep 2016 at 15:37hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Dog owner fined after pet mauls woman
A MAN (47) from Nkulumane suburb, Bulawayo has been fined $50 after his dog mauled a woman (57) from Pumula South suburb.Martin Chiro appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Mr Stephen Nd...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 08:06hrs | | by Andile Tshuma
'Paedophile' security guard lures boys with 10 cents
A Chinhoyi security guard, who is facing allegations of indecently assaulting 10 boys aged between nine and 12 years, lured them with a bicycle, cellphone and money, details have emerged.Once ...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 07:39hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondi
Riot police brutality, Zimbabweans react
Zimbo_Unchained ...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 23:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
USAID and DAPP partner with communities to improve health and sanitation
With assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Community Water Supply, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Natural Resources Management (C-WASH) activity, communities in ...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 08:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
TB Joshua named in Ghana armed robbery arrest
A shocking new twist has emerged in the tale of the armed robber who was re-arrested in Ghana on Monday 16th May 2016 after controversially absconding under police guard.According to a Faceboo...Published: 17 May 2016 at 07:24hrs | 6 | by Tawia Acheampong
Teen shoots self in head taking selfie with gun
New Delhi - An Indian teenager accidentally shot himself in the head with his father's gun while trying to take a "selfie" photograph, police said yesterday, the latest in a series of such acciden...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:50hrs | | by AFP
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