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Mnangagwa unleashes FAZ on NGO?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly deployed shadowy Zanu-PF affiliate Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) to intimidate and spy on non-governmental organisations (NGOs), a latest report by a lo...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube set to retain post after election
Zimbabwean Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube secured the ruling party's endorsement to stand as a lawmaker in upcoming elections, a possible precursor to his reappointment in the next administration....Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Wealthy Russians go hunting in Zimbabwe
Increasing numbers of wealthy Russians are booking game viewing and hunting safaris in Zimbabwe as sanctions stemming from President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine limit their travel options. ...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
After allowing authoritarian Rwanda to join, Commonwealth faces tough dilemma over Zimbabwe
After allowing a wave of authoritarian regimes to become members in recent years, the Commonwealth and member states such as Canada are now pondering one of their toughest dilemmas: whether to approve...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 2 | by Geoffrey York
Nurses barred from leaving Zimbabwe
With a salary worth the equivalent of less than $100 a month, Agnes Masarira can't afford to buy lunch at the hospital in Zimbabwe where she works as a nurse. She dreams of a nursing job in Canada, bu...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt bans Chamisa documentary
THE Zimbabwe government has banned "President," Danish filmmaker Camilla Nielsson's Oscar-shortlisted documentary about the African nation's corrupt 2018 presidential election, Variety can exclusively...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 23:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
At least 10 killed as Mnangagwa dialed up rights abuses in 2020: Amnesty International
Zimbabwean security forces killed at least 10 people last year as President Emmerson Mnangagwa exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to step up human rights violations, deploying agents to abduct and tortur...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 3 | by Samantha Power
Bulawayo vendors appeal to govt over lockdown
BULAWAYO vendors have appealed to the government to consider their plight during the newly introduced lockdown measures which they say will subject them to further poverty.Vice-President Const...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets blast Britain
WESTERN nations such as Britain should snap out from daydreaming that Zimbabwe is still their colony that they can control, Zanu-PF national Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda has said. Th...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
British lingering nostalgia for an Empire forever lost
Mr Speaker, I rise to inform this House that, on 27 October, the British House of Lords, conducted yet another of their meandering debates on the situation in Zimbabwe. The fascination with Zi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:09hrs | | by Hon Kindness Paradza
Zimbabwe scoffs at Britain's attempts to link Rushwaya to Mnangagwa
The Zimbabwean government has reacted with consternation a recent debate in the British House of Lords describing the animated and long deliberation as a "shocking level of invasive interest" in the S...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt slams Britain's colonial hangover
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo has told the British that the New Dispensation's openness and re-engagement stance is not an open invitation for interference or intru...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
The binding African spirit in challenging the Zimbabwean crisis
The Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union Patriotic Front is indebted to the steeped bona fide pan-Africanist spirit which facilitated the convening of the interparty dialogue with our sister revolutiona...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu
'Hashtags cannot sustsain a revolution' Jonathan Moyo says
Online hashtags are not an answer to Zimbabweans who want to sustain a revolution former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. Writing on Twitter Moyo said, "As a student of polit...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:09hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa poses an 'unusual and extraordinary' threat to American foreign policy?
US President Donald Trump has extended sanctions against Zimbabwe by a year, saying that the new government's policies continue to pose an "unusual and extraordinary" threat to the American foreign po...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rejects conditional offer from Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has demanded a "credible, neutral, and recognisable" mediator to present a plan for negotiations with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to end the worsening political and economic...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 19:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maimane, a thorn in the flesh for Mnangagwa?
South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has emerged as a thorn in the flesh for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of a vicious military clampdown against opposition ...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa promised change; nothing has changed'
THE Zimbabwean military's move to end Robert Mugabe's almost four-decade reign in 2017 sent jubilant crowds pouring into the streets of the capital hoping for better times after years of economic stag...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | | by Bloomberg
Mnangagwa running out of options - and time
ZIMBABWE'S political chaos is a function of its economic crisis – and the economy is only getting worse. To all intents and purposes, Zimbabwe is broke.The government has so little income that i...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Simon Allison
Mnangagwa promised change; nothing has changed'
The Zimbabwean military's move to end Robert Mugabe's almost four-decade reign in 2017 sent jubilant crowds pouring into the streets of the capital hoping for better times after years of economic stag...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe colonial farmers to sue Jacob Zuma
Former South Africa president Jacob Zuma, facing 16 corruption charges and a demand to pay back as much as R32m in legal fees, may soon see his woes deepen from beyond the country's borders.Af...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 16:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
A human life over debt arrears
ON Saturday, Chalton Hwende, deputy treasurer-general of the MDC Alliance confirmed an attempted abduction of the party's president, Nelson Chamisa after a 'thank you' rally for their supporters at Ru...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Pearl Matibe
Zimbabwe general warns on foreign bases in Djibouti
Major General Trust Magoba - who now serves as a special advisor to the African Union office for Peace and Security - has raised concern at foreign interference on the continent."The establish...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophecy: Chamisa will win court case
Today is Monday the 13th of August. This is what I saw in the spirit. "I saw that Mr Nelson Chamisa will win the constitutional court case." He has already won it in the spirit. This also is in line w...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 13:18hrs | 4 | by Tendai Tagarira
Zimbabwe prophecy fulfilled
On 26 June 2018 at 07:27HRS Bulawayo24 published a prophecy that I received in the spirit on Friday June 8, 2018 in which i mentioned I saw "an atmosphere of sudden repression and intimidation" In the...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 06:00hrs | 5 | by Tendai Tagarira
In Attorney Jessie Majome and Hilma Shindondola-Mote, Meme Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela Mandela lives on!
It is barely three months when we celebrated the life of of our heroine Ma Winnie Mandela in style: we never cried our eyes out mourning Winnie Mandela; instead, we had the opportunity to reflect on h...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 13:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Britain increasingly willing to cosy up to nasty regimes
LONDON - What the crowd lacked in size, it made up for in noise. Fifty or so people waved Turkish flags and shouted their support for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as he gave a speech at a think-tank in Londo...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Economist
Elections critical for Zimbabwe economic growth, says Biti
Zimbabwe's elections scheduled to take place this year will be the most important in a generation and critical to restoring democracy and economic growth in the southern African nation that has been d...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Bloomberg
Tsvangirai appears increasingly frail, MDC-T mulls future without him
The MDC-T is in a quandary over whether its long-serving leader and founder Morgan Tsvangirai, who's undergoing treatment for colon cancer, should retire before this year's elections.While Tsv...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 11:38hrs | | by Bloomberg
Vanakkam Mthwakazi! Hello Mthwakazi! Vanakkam Tamils!
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) is pitching up its aggressive networking Agenda with other suppressed and oppressed Nations that have suffered Genocide that are...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 20:05hrs | 11 | by 1893 MHRRM
Mnangagwa emerges as Zimbabwe's improbable saviour
Zimbabwe is turning its weary eyes to Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man known as the crocodile who was Robert Mugabe's right-hand man for much of his 37-year rule.The former spy chief, who returned ...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's non-stop party
You must hand it to the Mugabes - they know how to party. No expense spared. No distance too far to travel. No diamond ring too big. No guilt. No conscience. In fact, no hypocrisy because they don't u...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 14:48hrs | | by ZimVigil
Zimbabwean ativist to cycling through England for 7 days to raise funds
Supporters of Restoration of Human Rights gathered at the Vigil to give a send-off to ROHR activist Sipho Ndlovu who will be cycling through England for seven days to raise funds for the Zimbabwe Peac...Published: 14 May 2017 at 17:28hrs | | by ZimVigil
'Shutdown Zimbabwe' fails to start
A planned two-day strike in Zimbabwe failed to start Wednesday when schools and businesses opened normally and police deployed throughout the capital, a day after a key protest organizer was arres...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Hidden cameras film injustice in Dangerous places
To see is to believe, says Oren Yakobovich - which is why he helps everyday people use hidden cameras to film dangerous situations of violence, political fraud and abuse. His organization, Videre,...Published: 18 Jun 2016 at 13:45hrs | | by Oren Yakobovich I TED Talks
Chinamasa upstages Mugabe nephew
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa is gaining the upper hand in a power struggle in the ruling party over his efforts to revive an ailing economy and tap financing from the International Monetary Fund...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's happy Christmas - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 26th December 2015
As we spent another Christmas in exile we were surprised to hear from the United Nations that 'Zimbabwe had done tremendously well' on the human rights front. We would never have known this if the Her...Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 15:38hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Gender based violence against women! All political parties are to take the flake and not only Dr Grace!
Dear Mr/Ms Chimanzi I am replying to your today's article: Grace Mugabe the biggest violator in fight against gender based violence by Thamarie Chimanzi MDC Women Assembly Spokesper...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 20:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Act before Mugabe dies
IN ZIMBABWE they are waiting for rain. The region's worst drought in a decade has withered the maize (or corn) crop, which came in at only about half the size of last year's. The poor harvest has left...Published: 03 Oct 2015 at 17:36hrs | | by economist
Funding and learning opportunities
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, LEARNING AND TOOLKITSFUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Open ...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Nango
Nelson Chamisa's dreadful mistake, 6000 workers fired
CAN someone tell me, just who is threatened by the First Lady hitting 50 years of age? Or by her celebrating that age? Or by the fact of taking advantage of that occurrence to fund-raise for charity? ...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 10:25hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe's poison
President Mugabe has called on South Africans to direct their xenophobia at whites instead of blacks. 'I give poison not for you to swallow but to give to someone else' he told the applauding staff at...Published: 25 May 2015 at 10:24hrs | 14 | by Zimvigil Co-ordinator
Xenophobic attacks send shivers on foreigners in SA
Cape Town - Foreigners living and working in South Africa have been gripped with fear following a spat of xenophobic attacks in Durban on Monday. These attacks are alleged to have been sparked by ...Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 14:39hrs | | by Levie Tsongo, Cape Town
Mugabe's rudderless regime
It is becoming clear that there is no one in charge in Zimbabwe. There is a leadership vacuum. No sooner does one minister make a policy statement than another contradicts it.After Finance Min...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 17:26hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'Senile Mugabe not voice of Zimbabwe'
The Vigil has delivered a letter to the Ghanaian High Commission in London apologising for the insulting remarks about Ghana made by Mugabe at the Zanu-PF Congress. W...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 11:22hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Amnesty International Leicester: If deported to Zim, Evenia Mawongera 'is in danger'
Today (Friday, 9 August), Leicester grandmother, Evenia Mawongera will, again, be reporting at the Loughborough Immigration Reporting Centre. This will be the third time, in as many weeks, that sh...Published: 09 Aug 2013 at 05:52hrs | | by Ambrose Musiyiwa
Beatrice Mtetwa faces her date with Zimbabwean justice
On May 27, Zimbabwean lawyer and human-rights activist Beatrice Mtetwa will enter magistrate's court in Harare to be tried on charges of obstructing justice. In March, she was arrested and held for e...Published: 09 May 2013 at 14:26hrs | | by MICHAEL POSNER I The Globe and Mail
Bosco Ntagand wanted control of M23
Kampala - A spokesperson for a Congolese rebel group said on Thursday that rebel fighters in the M23 group were trying to kill warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who fled Congo and turned himself in to a US Emba...Published: 28 Mar 2013 at 11:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Referendum paves way for Mugabe-Tsvangirai dogfight
Zimbabweans vote in a referendum on a new constitution today that sets the stage for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to renew his bid to end President Robert Mugabe's 33-year rule in elections later ...Published: 16 Mar 2013 at 08:00hrs | | by bloomberg
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