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Gukurahundi genocide survivor cannot forgive Mugabe's foot soldiers
An astounding number of mass graves surround Thabani Dhlamini's home in south-western Zimbabwe.One pointed out to the BBC lies near the ablution block at a primary school in the village of Sal...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 07:26hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF now needs a leader chosen on merit!
For as long as Zimbabwe has existed as an independent country, we have only known ZANU PF as the ruling party. In spite of several attempts at removing the party from power through democratic ...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 21:12hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zim teachers frog-marched to administer iron and folate supplements, Govt evasive
School teachers in Highglen District have raised red flag over alleged compulsory administration of iron and folate supplements amongst learners in schools without the presents of health officials or ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 08:18hrs | 9 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
ZCC leader's brother shot in US$4 000 robbery
Herbert Mutendi (63), brother to Zion Christian Church (ZCC) leader Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi was shot twice by armed robbers who got away with cash and goods amounting to US$4,000 from his Beatrice far...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 15:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
If Ramaphosa was firm with Mnangagwa, he wouldn't need a border authority!
So, President Cyril Ramaphosa has decided to establish a BMA (Border Management Authority) specifically to curb illegal crossing into South Africa, mainly from Zimbabwe!I am sure that is all w...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's the sense in removing term limits for an 81-year-old president?
No one can deny that having a long life on earth is truly a blessing.It is especially so in a country as Zimbabwe - where the life expectancy is only 64.7 years, based on the 2022 Population a...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When our parents celebrated independence in 1980, this isn't what they were celebrating!
Whenever I look at this picture, my heart is filled with indescribable grief and anguish. I see my father, with his dear friends - as they openly expressed ecstatic transports of joy - at the ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:20hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SADC risks extinction in allowing itself to be bullied by ZANU PF!
So, the Zimbabwe ruling party is up to its usual dirty tricks again!Bullying!In 2011, the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) were bullied by ZANU PF in...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 07:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ED will always know SADC knows ZANU PF cheated!
So, the much-anticipated results of the recently-held Zimbabwe presidential elections are officially out!ZANU PF's Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was announced winner over his main rival, CCC's N...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 22:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF 'supporters' walk out on Mnangagwa
BY 8AM on Wednesday last week, Harare's usually bustling Mupendanhamo flea market was quiet and deserted.Hundreds of its mostly youthful informal entrepreneurs had been directed to shut down a...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 18:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates frog-marched to Mnangagwa's events
Zanu-PF's Parliamentary candidates have been ordered to attend all of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's events, with a register set to be signed according to Harare Province Chairperson Godwills Masimire...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election date triggers hope, despair
MUNYARADZI Mushawatu, an electrician in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, was both ecstatic and jittery after President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently announced that national elections would be held on August 2...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Bill: The guilty are always afraid
If you are a law-abiding citizen of Zimbabwe or a bona fide organisation, why should you panic over a law that seeks to ring-fence the foreign policy of your country? Your own country?After al...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
2 cops nabbed in foiled robbery
TWO serving members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and their two unemployed accomplices appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on Saturday facing armed robbery charges.The suspects, W...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nurses 'frog-marched' to Mnangagwa conference
GOVERNMENT has allegedly directed the country's general hospitals to release nurses to attend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's labour conference on Wednesday in the capital, a leaked memo written by Hea...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers 'frog-marched' to Mnangagwa indaba
THOUSANDS of teachers have been commandeered to attend the launch today in Harare of the Teachers for Economic Development (ED), a shadowy union reported to be championing President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's Gukurahundi denialism very unsettling
UTTERANCES by Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu (pictured) dismissing Gukurahundi as a "thing of the past" and telling victims to forget is tantamount to attempting to whitewash the gen...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Junta is amending constitution coup proof itself' says Mutambara - bombastic nonsense, as Mugabe's case so testify
Ever since his University of Zimbabwe student days, Arthur Mutambara has earned a reputation of being very loud, bombastic and loves baffle and blast his opponents out of the water with bullshit. The ...Published: 17 May 2021 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Independent Matabeleland presages the worst to come: South Sudan war will be nowhere near
We have been saying time and again that these numerous Mthwakazi parties are a group of young boys who do not have the slightest idea about the past liberation war. Reading the daily news in social me...Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Supreme Court throws out Chombo's appeal
Court Reporter THE trial of former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo on charges of criminal abuse of office will go ahead after the Supreme Court threw out his appeal for permanent stay of prosecution....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Threats won't work, teachers warn politicians
TEACHERS yesterday scoffed at government threats to withhold their salaries for refusing to report for duty, saying they will not be cowed into submission after declaring incapacitation due to poor re...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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
Zanu-PF backers justify army use of deadly force
A public hearing on the August 1 violence entered a third day at a hotel in the capital yesterday, with Zanu-PF supporters claiming that the army cannot be blamed for the election unrest that turned d...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM steps up its Gukurahundi Genocide Demo Campaigns
The 1893 MHRRM-UK Chapter is stepping up its Demos in the United Kingdom against the Zimbabwean government and its on-going genocidal pogrom against Matebeleland. It has once more scheduled a Demo out...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 20:46hrs | 1 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM's Secretary for Information and Publicity
Zanuism, 'barrack democracy' threat to Zim's progress
Zanu-PF provides the most shocking example of the culture of exceptionalism which has characterised many a liberation party in power. These include:-the belief that it is entitled to rule fore...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Gus Manatsa
Matebele Diaspora Genocide Conference: Dabengwa and Mzila expected to attend
This press release is issued to the public as a way of an update about the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement's programme of activities including an update on the up...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 17:19hrs | | by Thembani Dube
'Give Mnangagwa long rope to hang himself,' says Masarira - Yeah Mugabe used it to hang povo
Zimbabwe is not in this political and economic mess by accident. We are where we are because we, as a people, have not stopped to think through what is it we want and hence for the last 37 years we ha...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 07:45hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe's nephew fears for life
The nephew of deposed Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe says that he fled the country because he feared for his life during the military coup. He added that his employees were beaten and robbed and h...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 16:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's nephew quits politics
FORMER Public Services, Labour and Social Welfare minister Patrick Zhuwao is quitting politics and does not intend to return home soon after former president Robert Mugabe was toppled last month....Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Zimbabwean diaspora in SA loses interest in Zim affairs
Zimbabweans who have fled economic hardship and political problems to fend for their families in South Africa have lost interest in the affairs of their country.They did not care who was sacke...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's opponents raises red flags
OPPOSITION parties yesterday admitted that they were worried following Zanu-PF youth leader, Kudzanayi Chipanga's recent claims that the ruling party has already won the polls and was just awaiting st...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF frog marching people to its rallies'
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to reign in the ruling Zanu-PF party amid claims that it is frog-marching people to its rallies ahead of the 2018 cr...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reverend Bakare urges youths to take Mugabe's govt head on
Mutare based retired cleric Sebastian Bakare has urged unemployed and impoverished youth can only improve their fortunes by taking head-on the Zanu-PF government through demonstrations and other democ...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths, war vets square off
WAR veterans have scoffed at President Robert Mugabe's upcoming provincial campaign rallies organised by Zanu-PF youths, NewsDay reported.The ex-freedom fighters described the sojourns startin...Published: 29 May 2017 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition party leaders' pursuing useless agenda.
A political commentator Livingstone Masamba has accused opposition political parties of pursuing useless agendas while Zanu PF and President Robert Mugabe employed a cocktail of tactics to cling onto ...Published: 29 Dec 2016 at 04:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's bond notes stir memory of 500 million percent inflation
Zimbabwe's tentative return to its own currency is getting a hostile reception from citizens, who fear a recurrence of the 500 billion percent inflation that plagued the southern African nation be...Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 11:35hrs | | by Bloomberg
Tsvangirai wants more pressure applied on the system
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai believes the only way to bring about the much-needed electoral reforms in the country is to apply pressure on the government. On Friday, 18 opposition parties will take ...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prof Welshman Ncube This Week - RBZ Governor transfers monetary headache to skeptical citizens
Dr John Mangudya is an eminently reasonable and sincere fellow. Passionate and intense about his country. I know this because I worked with him closely during my days as Minister of Industry and Com...Published: 13 May 2016 at 18:09hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
'Mnangagwa is unelectable'
The boycott by workers of the government-organised Workers' Day rally in Harare on Monday, at which embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the guest of honour, has opened the Midlands godfath...Published: 04 May 2016 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ZAPU still has mandate to deliver'
AFTER being defeated in the elections by Zanu-PF, Dumiso Dabengwa (DD) appears to have slipped out of the limelight. The Financial Gazette's Mandla Tshuma (MT) caught up with Dabengwa who spoke of his...Published: 28 Nov 2013 at 03:21hrs | | by Mandla Tshuma
Unpacking Zanu-PF's disputed election victory
No one who is anybody in Zimbabwe politics can have been totally surprised by the outcome of the elections of July 31 2013. For about two years prior to the general elections, reputable pollsters like...Published: 11 Nov 2013 at 15:28hrs | | by Ambassador Simbi Mubako
Bused Zanu-PF supporters dumped
Hundreds of Zanu-PF supporters who were bused to President Robert Mugabe's star rally in Mucheke on Thursday had to spend the cold night in the open and on empty tummies after the lorries that had bro...Published: 27 Jul 2013 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube on full election mode
In a tweet just after President Robert Mugabe proclaimed 31 July as the election date, Nhlanhla Dube '@Mdcspokesperson' the MDC Spokesman tweeted "Election date has been proclaimed. We are in f...Published: 13 Jun 2013 at 18:01hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Tsvangirai's statement on Mugabe's proclamation of election date
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai today said he will not accept a situation where Zimbabweans will yet again be railroaded and frog-marched into another illegitimate an...Published: 13 Jun 2013 at 18:53hrs | | by Morgan Tsvangirai
MDC-T will not accept illegitimate election, says Tsvangirai
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai today said he will not accept a situation where Zimbabweans will yet again be railroaded and frog-marched into another illegitimate and violent election.Tsvangir...Published: 13 Jun 2013 at 11:30hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Man beats up, sodomises juveniles for stealing guavas
A Chitungwiza man, 20, who beat up a juvenile and sodomised another as punishment for stealing guavas at his place was on Monday jailed for an effective seven years.Liberty Matswai caught th...Published: 17 Apr 2013 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Fallacy of Zanu-PF's unity accord
Zanu-PF has been fooling the public for a long time, especially citizens of Matabeleland and Midlands about the Unity Accord. We believe it is time to come out strongly in defence of the truth once an...Published: 05 Feb 2013 at 09:36hrs | | by Luke Sayi Director of Information and Publicity, ZAPU Diaspora Region
Mugabe has been very bold against former colonial powers
Robert Mugabe is a controversial figure and seemingly not a few people have been praying for his demise. Mugabe has been very bold against former colonial powers, and some would say recklessly bold. ...Published: 03 Nov 2011 at 07:53hrs | | by Joel
Gukurahundi journalism need to be exposed: Moyo
SAD as it was, the death of heroine and Zapu Council of Elders chairperson, Thenjiwe Lesabe, made a positive impact on Zimbabwe's politics.First and foremost, Lesabe's case proved beyond any r...Published: 17 Aug 2011 at 09:02hrs | | by Methuseli Moyo
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