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Ian Khama compares Zimbabwe to colonial Rhodesia
Former Botswana president Ian Khama launched a scathing critique of Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu PF and government leadership during the launch of opposition politician Job Sikhala's book, Footprints in the...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:26hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Botswana's Boko is right: any president who wants to remain in power for more than 10 years has failed
The truth, although unpalatable at times, shall set us free.When Botswana's President Duma Boko recently declared that any president who desires to hold on to power beyond ten years is "instan...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 14:19hrs | 550 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Will Zimbabweans finally stand up against oppression or continue trapped by fear?
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads! From various segments of Zimbabwean society - including social justice advocates like myself, opposition groups, and pro-democracy activists - there has been relen...Published: 22 Jan 2025 at 10:20hrs | 958 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC activist sues Kazembe over unlawful arrest
Human rights activist Robson Chere has taken legal action against Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe and Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) Director General Elijah Chingosho, serving them ...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 07:07hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume granted bail
Jacob Ngarivhume, the leader of the opposition party Transform Zimbabwe, was granted bail by the Harare High Court on Wednesday.He spent 82 days in pre-trial incarceration.Justice Emil...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 18:52hrs | 1156 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to emulate Kenya's GenZ digital activism
Zimbabwean youths are being encouraged to take inspiration from their Kenyan counterparts, who effectively leveraged digital media to mobilize for socio-economic change in their country. The call for ...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 07:51hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Republic Party petitions ICC, UN over rights abuses in Zimbabwe
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to intervene in what it describes as a crackdow...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 16:08hrs | 1131 | by Nkosi Moyo
Kazembe taunts jailed activists, defends clampdown on dissent
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe has subtly criticized Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa regarding the ongoing detention of pro-democracy activists and opposition supporters. Mutsvangw...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:49hrs | 296 | by Staff reporterq
Zanu-PF calls for release of jailed activists
Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has suggested that the detained pro-democracy activists should be released now that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit has concluded. ...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 11:09hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Stop & search police patrols in and around Harare
Police in and around Harare have intensified their crackdown on dissent ahead of today's Sadc Heads of State and Government Summit, preventing public transport from entering the city center and c...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:41hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to ignore courts and immediately release activists?
Zimbabwe should immediately release over 100 pro-democracy activists arrested in the run-up to Saturday's SADC summit in Harare, the United Nations rights office said on Wednesday.The call cam...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 12:37hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
SADC meetings underway in Harare
Ahead of the 44th ordinary summit of heads of state scheduled for 17 and 18 August in Harare, Zimbabwe, Southern African Development Community (SADC) engagements proceeded without incident, despite gr...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 08:02hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
South Africa says Zimbabwe's problems best solved through dialogue
South Africa has reaffirmed its stance that dialogue is the best approach to resolve Zimbabwe's political and economic challenges, offering to mediate if needed. Clayson Monyela, spokesperson ...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 08:54hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa regime puts liberation heroes' values under threat'
Civic society organizations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe have raised concerns that the freedoms secured by the country's liberation heroes are under threat due to a recent crackdown on dissent by President Emme...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 08:42hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
CCC plots August 17 mass protests
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists across Zimbabwe have informed the police of their plans to stage protests on August 17, 2024, coinciding with the SADC summit being hosted in H...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:41hrs | 1949 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams Mnangagwa's govt
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has condemned the ongoing repression of pro-democracy activists in Zimbabwe, attributing the crackdown to the fallout from the disputed 2023 general elections. Chamisa...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 12:44hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to SADC
Beloved SADC, It is with a heavy heart as I write this letter to you.Firstly, in what capacity are you bestowing the Chairmanship of Sadc to President Emmerson Mnangagwa when there is ...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 18:03hrs | 1443 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe under attack from foreign powers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed that Zimbabwe is under attack from foreign countries seeking to destabilize the nation through sponsored instability. His comments come amid a crackdown on pro...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 09:04hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feels the heat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused foreign entities of orchestrating a campaign to discredit Zimbabwe in response to international condemnation of his administration's crackdown on pro-democracy...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 09:04hrs | 2880 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scores an own goal
Zimbabwe is undertaking a major beautification effort in preparation for hosting the 44th Southern African Development Community (Sadc) summit. This includes refurbishing roads, sprucing up old buildi...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:23hrs | 1972 | by Staff reporter
ANC's white coalition partner demands change of SADC Summit venue
The Democratic Alliance (DA), a South African opposition party, has urged the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to relocate its upcoming summit from Zimbabwe due to ongoing human rights ab...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 13:12hrs | 1446 | by Staff reporter
Take a minute to pray for the incarcerated 78: Veteran Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ)
Revolutionary Greetings fellow Countrymen. May we all take a moment to pray for the CCC Administrator Senator Jameson Timba, VAAZ National Organising Secretary Champion Gonhi and 76 others who...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 20:57hrs | 28 | by Mandava Blessing VAAZ Spokesperson
Vaaz not a Replica of MDC VAA nor a Mwonzora Baby: Veteran Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ)
We've seen unscrupulous career politicians attempting to mislead the nation into believing the Veteran Activists for Democracy kowtow to Mwonzora. NADA, we all hate him and his entourage with a passio...Published: 23 May 2024 at 23:11hrs | 38 | by Mandava Blessing VAAZ Spokesperson
'Dzamara family cry for closure'
AMNESTY International (AI) has called on the government to come clean on the whereabouts of pro-democracy activist and journalist, Itai Dzamara, who was abducted by alleged State security agents and d...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala solidarity rally on the cards
A SOLIDARITY rally demanding the release of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) politician Job Sikhala is scheduled for Chitungwiza on Saturday.Sikhala has been in remand prison for more than ...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CiZC claims not regime change agents
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) says labelling the organisation regime change agents is a usual tactic used by dictatorships worldwide to muzzle all voices which attempt to hold them to account....Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
ACT-SA Urges political parties to refrain from vote buying ahead of August 23 elections
After the launch of the "National Citizen Action against Vote Buying Campaign", the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) received overwhelming responses from members of the public forward...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 20:10hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Charges against CCC activists thrown out
TWO Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters have been acquitted on charges of tearing political campaign posters belonging to a Zanu-PF candidate in Manicaland.Zephenia Nyangani and Lea...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Britain's Catherine Hoey, Jonathan Oates, Chief Ndiweni, Haruzivishe in UK protest
BRITISH Parliamentarians Catherine Hoey and Jonathan Oates Wednesday joined over 70 Zimbabweans at Parliament Square, London to protest the year-long incarceration of local lawmaker Job Sikhala in Har...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Foreign organisations petition Mnangagwa over Sikhala
A RECORD 18 civil society organisations from different parts of the world have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and key figures in his government over the growing trend of judicial persecution ...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's CSOs flag 'judicial capture'
EIGHTEEN local and regional civil society organisations (CSOs) have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over what they termed "judicial capture" and pervasion of justice in the country.The...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'sellouts' shocked as Parly passes 'Patriot Bill'?
THE Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Bill, popularly known as the Criminal Code, sailed through the National Assembly on Tuesday night and immediately sent chills down spines of many p...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt chastises 'meddlesome' Western diplomats
GOVERNMENT yesterday chastised foreign diplomats for red-flagging the weaponisation of the law against pro-democracy activists.Several foreign diplomats criticised government following the rec...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malema says Zimbabweans have let down Ngarivhume
SOUTH Africa's main opposition leader Julius Malema, has urged Zimbabweans to stand up against the harassment of pro-democracy activists following the jailing of opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Eight years on, authorities yet to give update on the disappeared journalist and pro-democracy activist
Eight years after journalist and pro-democracy activist, Itai Dzamara went missing authorities are yet to give progress report on their investigation efforts to ensure his family receives justice, tru...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:15hrs | | by APO/Amnesty International
Chamisa mourns assassinated human rights lawyer
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has described Africa as a breeding ground for murders and violence following the killing of Swaziland human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko....Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'Ugly Scenes of 2022'
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa has listed his "Ugly Scenes" of 2022 which all rounded up to a total of 22.Chamisa started off his list with the arrest and denial ...Published: 01 Jan 2023 at 12:15hrs | 1 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Mnangagwa invited to the US as the West lose hope on Zimbabwe's hopeless opposition
ZIMBABWE has been invited to the upcoming United States-Africa leaders' summit in Washington despite concern over a "dire" authoritarian pivot by the Harare government which has seen a crackdown again...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor bludgeons CCC activist for demanding presidential farming inputs
A CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist was Friday seriously injured following a machete attack by a local Zanu-PF ward councillor for demanding free Presidential farming inputs.The vi...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Who Owns Blinart Investments?
Zimbabwean people never stop to amaze me-how can a whole parliament waste time debating about a USD$9,000 laptop? Is our parliament genuine in discussing this issue or it is just one of the sideshows ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 17:49hrs | 5 | by Sam Wezhira
Spies stalk US Senate aides to Harare cafe, stage high speed chase
In a dramatic incident, suspected Zimbabwe state agents tailed and secretly filmed two visiting US Senate aides who were having a meeting with a civil society activist at a Harare cafe.The inc...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 19:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe poll fees too costly'
THE cost of contesting elections in Zimbabwe is now the highest in Africa, a data analysis of the new candidate nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has shown.Zec's n...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Biti calls for mass protests
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker, Tendai Biti has described the recently gazetted fees for contesting candidates ahead of the much awaited 2023 general elections as a plot to seal off demo...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa battles party factionalism
HUMAN rights defenders in Zimbabwe are fretting over a political crisis as the 2023 general election looms, saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa will use every trick in the book, including violence, to...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mr Mnangagwa
I AM a politician, but I am not writing this letter to you in that capacity.I am writing to you as a young woman, as a citizen and as part of a generation to whom a debt is due. When we were y...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Zimbabwe freezes registration of new NGOs
THE government has frozen the registration of private voluntary organisations (PVOs) and trusts, stoking fears that the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has begun a clampdown on non-gover...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:29hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
As Zimbabwe eyes election, fears grow of a return to dirty tricks
Zimbabwe's general election is still a year away, but pro-democracy activists say they are worried last weekend's by-elections offered a preview of the violence and repression to come.Despite ...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 12:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is pursuing regime change a crime?
COUNTLESS times we read and hear President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF fundamentalists accusing pro-democracy activists and opposition parties of being used by Western countries to champion regime ...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Muzokomba villager
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
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