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'Nelson Chamisa exposes Mnangagwa'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisahas exposed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a brutal dictator who closes space for democratic forces journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has said. Chin'ono was commenting on ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 7564 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti takes on Mnangagwa
The vice-president of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, Tendai Biti is now fed up with Zimbabwe's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa such that he wants him gone as soon as possible....Published: 23 hrs ago | 5520 | by Daniel Itai
Chief Ndiweni's dilemma: A balanced analysis
The obfuscation of issues seems to have reached unprecedented levels and it is therefore necessary for sober voices and sound arguments to be part of the national discourse to preclude the noise from ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 3917 | by L Dube
Mnangagwa's govt frightened to the core, says Coltart
Lawyer and MDC top politician David Coltart has taken a dig at President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying his use of brute force to crush dissent was a clear sign that his government is frightened by the new...Published: 24 hrs ago | 3212 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC in crisis meeting
THE opposition MDC's top leadership is convening in Harare today to review their foiled countrywide protests which were ruthlessly crushed by the police and soldiers.The leaders are expected t...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1929 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube sues The Mirror for $1,5m
Gweru businessperson Smelly Dube has taken a Masvingo-based publication, The Mirror, to the High Court demanding defamation damages in the sum of $1,5 million, accusing the paper of misrepresenting fa...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 932 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to change tact on demos
POLICE yesterday sealed off Gweru after banning a demonstration organised by the MDC with the opposition party making a climbdown on its earlier position to defy the prohibition order.The part...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | 947 | by Staff reporter
Caps Utd elevates Darling Dodo
Caps United have elevated Darlington Dodo to the post of head coach until the end of the season after the championship-chasing giants were dumped by Lloyd Chitembwe, who joined the free-spending Harar...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Soldiers in Gweru march on behalf of Chamisa's MDC
Happening now in Gweru where members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa were supposed to stage protests over the deteriorating economic situation in Zimbabwe....Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 17:00hrs | 18288 | by Staff reporter
Police ban anti-government protests in Gweru
Police banned planned anti-government demonstration in the Midlands city of Gweru on Tuesday, enforcing similar actions taken in Harare on August 16 and Bulawayo on August 19.The Movement for ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:16hrs | 542 | by ZimLive
Police ban MDC Gweru demonstrations
Officer Commanding Gweru urban District chief Superintendent Tsitsi Chikono has issued an order prohibiting the opposition MDC from holding a mass demonstration on Wednesday 20 August in the City of P...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:10hrs | 474 | by Mandla Ndlovu
State effects a de facto ban on civilian politics
In light of the continued proscription of the people’s sacred right to freedom of assembly and expression, Zimbabweans are disheartened that all democratic space in the country has virtually been cl...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 14:16hrs | 887 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Harare CID officers deployed to Bulawayo to thwart MDC demo
Police officers from Harare's CID Law and Order section were deployed to Bulawayo to quell violence in the second largest city, a Harare court heard.This was revealed by prosecutors at the Har...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 18:20hrs | 1766 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in show of force to thwart MDC Bulawayo demo
Anti-riot police were out in full force in Bulawayo on Monday to thwart any attempts by members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to stage its planned demonstration.Most parts of the...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 15:37hrs | 3277 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | 2396 | by Staff reporter
Army chef sidelined over nasty fallout with Mnangagwa's wife
THE commander of One Presidential Guard Infantry Battalion at State House, Lieutenant-Colonel Samson Murombo, was sidelined from commanding the parade at the Defence Forces Day commemorations on Tuesd...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:57hrs | 4653 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mnangagwa demo in his backyard of Gweru
A POLICE ban on an anti-government demonstration in Harare has not broken the spirits of party loyalists in Midlands who have vowed to stage their own protest in Gweru, the capital of Midlands, widely...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1757 | by Staff reporter
Coltart bemoans culture of violence
Former Education minister David Coltart says Zimbabwe has a disturbing culture of violence that needs to be dealt with.Coltart, who is the new treasurer-general for the main opposition MDC, sa...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1506 | by Staff reporter
Gumbo takes over as TelOne coach
STRUGGLING Castle Lager Premier soccer League side TelOne are set to appoint former Warriors gaffer Rahman Gumbo as their new head coach as the club rings technical changes in an attempt to save the t...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Another blow for Chamisa's MDC
POLICE in Bulawayo have banned an MDC demonstration which was planned for this Monday.The Nelson Chamisa led party had planned similar rallies for Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Mutare and Masvingo....Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 20:16hrs | 2709 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to intensify protests
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed that his party will intensify protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa after the police banned a demonstration that was scheduled for Harare last Friday...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:57hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows more protests despite Harare ban
MDC president Nelson Chamisa has vowed his party shall organise more protests despite a police ban - later endorsed by the courts - on a demonstration the main opposition had planned for Harare on Fri...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 13:14hrs | 1269 | by newzimbabwe
Councillors slam 'weak' Gweru internal audit
THE lack of independence in the Gweru City Council's internal audit department is contributing to loss of revenue, affecting good corporate governance at the local authority, a service delivery probe ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:33hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
MDC Bulawayo vows to hold protests on Monday
THE MDC Bulawayo province has vowed to forge ahead with its planned protests on Monday.The opposition party failed to overturn a police ban on its Harare protests at the High Court on Friday....Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1850 | by Staff reporter
Gweru suspends corrupt workers
TWO Gweru City Council (GCC) employees have been suspended for allegedly illegally subcontracting themselves to provide services to private land developers. Town clerk, Ms Elizabeth Gwat...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo warned about planned demos
BULAWAYO residents have been urged to ignore demonstrations being planned by the MDC Alliance for the city on Monday. In January, the opposition party and its allies in the civic society organ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:19hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Failure of MDC Alliance protests good for nation
MDC Alliance's attempt to launch demonstrations in Harare failed spectacularly yesterday after the High Court upheld a prohibition order issued by police on Thursday night. The oppositio...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:19hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Traffic Safety Council embarks on highway fencing
The Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe is working round the clock to complete fencing of Bulawayo-Beitbridge Highways as a measure to reduce accidents caused by stray animals, managing director Mr Obi...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:01hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's desperate regime will NOT stop the people of Zimbabwe
The High Court has not granted the people's lawyers' application against the police prohibition order. The people's lawyers have expressed totalshock and respectfully think the judgment was riddle...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:41hrs | 569 | by Daniel Molokele
Bulawayo march to proceed, says Biti
Justice Joseph Musakwa on Friday threw out the MDC's urgent chamber application seeking to lift a police ban on demonstrations intended for Harare on the same day.Police used truncheons to bre...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 13:39hrs | 3636 | by ZimLive
MDC turns march into a stayaway
MDC-Alliance's High Court bid to quash a police order prohibiting their planned demonstrations, hit a brick wall after a judge threw out the urgent chamber application.Justice Joseph Musakwa d...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 13:31hrs | 2240 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: High Court bans MDC demonstration
High Court Judge Justice Justice Musakwa has dismissed an MDC Alliance an MDC urgent chamber application to seeking to overturn a prohibition order by the police blocking a planned anti-Presiden...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:33hrs | 3471 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa pleads with Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, yesterday made a last ditch call to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to call off today's demonstration that many fear could degenerate into total chaos instead calling for "peac...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must ignore Chamisa's calls for anarchy
TODAY is the day for peace-loving and patriotic Zimbabweans to shame merchants of violence by ignoring calls for violent demonstrations by the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance whose agenda is to try...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:00hrs | 281 | by Editorial - Chronicle
Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money
Today, the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for public se...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:59hrs | 330 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chunga, Gumbo battle for TelOne job
FORMER Warriors coaches Moses Chunga and Rahman Gumbo will battle for the TelOne coaching job after it emerged the club leadership will appoint one of them this afternoon. The Premiership déb...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:55hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa begs to Chamisa to call off protests
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday made an eleventh-hour pitch to his main opposition rival Nelson Chamisa to call off protests planned for Friday and meet him for what he described as "peaceful...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 19:38hrs | 1769 | by ZimLive
Gweru MP spearheads college construction project
Gweru Urban MP, Brian Dube has teamed up with the Church of Nazareth and Gweru City Council to construct a state-of-the-art private college in Ascot to ease shortage of high quality educational facili...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bans MDC regalia during Friday demo
MDC has moved to ban the wearing of any party regalia during its much-publicised Harare march against massive suffering under the Zanu PF led government Friday.At a media briefing Wednesday, p...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1569 | by newzimbabwe
It's all systems go for the Chamisa's march on Friday
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads.On the 31st of July 2018, Zimbabweans overwhelmingly voted for President Nelson Chamisa. That election was stolen in broad daylight and since then, the crisis of le...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 15:39hrs | 2450 | by MDC
Businessman shoots wife's car tyres
Prominent Gweru businessman, James Brain Zijena was arrested for shooting and deflating the tyres of his wife's vehicle after suspecting that she had left the car to see her lover.Police docum...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 15:07hrs | 3220 | by Staff reporter
Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money
This Friday the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for publ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:28hrs | 553 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC readies for provincial demos
MDC Midlands and Bulawayo provinces are readying their structures for the party's nationwide protests against President Emmerson Mnangawa's alleged mismanagement of the economy and unwillingness to re...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:50hrs | 3609 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa implored to talk
THE Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to urgently find common ground and dialogue to ensure the count...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:50hrs | 4605 | by Staff reporter
MDC protests 'will not happen', claims Matemadanda
A series of planned nationwide protests by the MDC "will not happen", the deputy defence minister Victor Matemadanda declared on Monday.Matemadanda, who previously declared that the army would...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 16:04hrs | 2698 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa beefs up security
DRONES, sniffer dogs, security cameras, heavily armed soldiers and police officers, hundreds more embedded in the crowds turned the National Heroes Acre into a virtual cantonment area as President Emm...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 5161 | by newzimbabwe
The situation in Zimbabwe has moved to another level
"FELLOW Zimbabweans … the situation in our country has moved to another level. Firstly, we wish to assure the nation that His Excellency, President Robert Mugabe and his family are safe and sound an...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1936 | by Cliff Chiduku
Zimbabwe police warn foreigners
Government has warned foreigners to either stay away from local politics or be ready to face the full wrath of the law. Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Ambassador Cain Mathema, who...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:08hrs | 4467 | by Staff reporter
'Man behind Milosevic ouster, Arab Spring in Zimbabwe'
A panicked Zimbabwe government claims foreign agents are in the country to help the opposition overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime during protests set to begin on Friday.Home Affai...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:41hrs | 5908 | by ZimLive
MDC to shutdown Bulawayo on 19 August
MDC Alliance has announced that the second phase of its series of nationwide rallies will be held in Bulawayo on the 9th of August. In a tweet posted on Saturday MDC Alliance encouraged all ci...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 10:27hrs | 5462 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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