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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
Zimbabwe sees decrease in Media Freedom violations, says MISA
Zimbabwe is on the brink of an improved standing in the World Press Freedom Index rankings, provided the recent positive trend of reduced media freedom violations observed during the 2023 elections pe...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 05:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
What if Kasukuwere has been sneaking in and out of the country fearing for illegal arrest?
Dear Comrade Ziyambi Ziyambi, When he was confronted by a situation which he felt posed a security threat to his life, fired Vice-President Comrade Emmerson Mnangagwa jumped the border to flee...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 19:53hrs | 31 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Sharpe plots to bloc witness from testifying against him
Pokugara Properties, owned by controversial businessman Ken Sharpe, which caused the arrest of a State witness testifying against it for malicious damage to property has applied to have the same witne...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabweans sold a dummy by the coup
In 2017 some months after the coup, people were still gripped with some frenzy of excitement that Robert Mugabe the once powerful leader who ruled by iron fist has been dethroned.Many people v...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:30hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa to turn Around Zimbabwean fortunes
MDC-A President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is being seen as the beckon of hope by many Zimbabweans. The current and previous ZANU PF administrations have dragged the once prosperous country into the mud....Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 10:46hrs | | by Prince Njagu
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to stop violence
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop violence in the country, arbitrary arrests, abductions and torture of civilians under his watch as suc...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Remove sanctions you imposed on your people first - Open letter to Mnangagwa
Editor Sir, Sanctions are political and economic decisions that are part of diplomatic efforts by countries, multilateral or regional organizations against states, organizations or...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Garikai Mananje
MDC Youths rally behind Job Sikhala
The MDC Youth Assembly is riled by the state and ZANU PF's overtures to flagrantly and wantonly disregard the right to freedom of expression through the ill thought move to charge MDC National Vice Ch...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
CANVAS speaks on alleged plot to unseat Mnangagwa
The Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) firmly condemns the illegal arrest of seven (7) Zimbabwean civil society activists on their way home from attending a training worksho...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 10:23hrs | 2 | by CANVAS
'Nonviolence is a basic human right,' says anti-Mnangagwa plotters
The Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) has released a statement denouncing the recent arrests of participants that attended their workshop in Maldives recently.Georg...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 12:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Teachers' Union to #Shutdown Mthuli Ncube office
19 December #Shutdown Mthuli Ncube office 18 December 2018 The Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ caravan march continue...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 13:11hrs | | by ARTUZ
'Mnangagwa thinks I am an idiot,' fumes R G Mugabe - prove you are not - reveal how ED rigged 2018 elections
It is not that Robert Mugabe ever forgot the basic reasons of freedom, justice, fairness, which the nation risked life, limb and so much treasure for in the liberation war when he got into power in 19...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe, Mnangagwa rift escalates
Former president Robert Mugabe has told his associates that he will not negotiate with his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, because he is unhappy about the way he was toppled, it was revealed ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutinhiri fires warning shots
Former Cabinet minister and diplomat Ambrose Mutinhiri was arguably the biggest newsmaker last week after his abrupt resignation from Zanu-PF and Parliament to lead a breakaway party now challenging P...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Endorsement of coups tarnishes AU and Sadc
As Zimbabwe heads towards crucial general elections expected in July, one wonders if our regional bodies are competent enough to monitor the polls as they have, of late, tarnished their images by endo...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 12:27hrs | 2 | by Tendai Mbofana.
AU/SADC endorse coups, can they be trusted to monitor elections?
As Zimbabwe heads towards crucial harmonised elections in a few months time, one wonders if our regional bodies are competent enough to be monitors and observers, as they have, of late, tarnished thei...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 08:05hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
It's a lie to say the 'coup' was bloodless, Jonathan Moyo shares photos
Former Higher, Tertiary, Science and Technology minister Jonathan Moyo has said it is a lie to say the Zimbabwe 'military coup' was bloodless.The self exiled professor said via Twitter that "t...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 08:35hrs | 15 | by Ndou Paul
Jonathan Moyo says Junta will pay for humiliating Mugabe
Self-exiled former Zanu-PF spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo has said the Junta will pay at the polls for humiliating former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.Moyo went on Twitter to state ...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 18:27hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's executive decisions prove the continuation of Mugabe regime
If further proof of our long held view that newly-appointed Zimbabwean President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was merely a continuation of his predecessor Robert Gabriel Mugabe, then his latest executi...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 10:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
International community has failed Mthwakazi on Gukurahundi
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said the international community has failed Mthwakazi people by remaining silent on the issue of Gukurahundi which has remained unsolved for 36 years.The party sai...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Why Jonathan Moyo won't support Mnangagwa,
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo's public spats with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa have intensified since the minister's arrest last year on charges that he abused money from t...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 15:17hrs | | by Everson Mushava
Confusion over missing Zim activists in SA
Johannesburg - More than 10 Zimbabwean opposition activists are missing in South Africa after they were promised military training in Mozambique by a mysterious man they met on social networking site,...Published: 09 Nov 2016 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Thabo Kunene
Tajamuka spokesperson to appear again in court tomorrow
Pro-democracy activist and Tajamuka Spokesperson Comrade Promise Mkwananzi is set to appear again in court tomorrow Monday 11 July 2016.He is facing trumped up charges of inciting public vi...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 22:20hrs | | by Tererai Obey Sithole
Anti-Mugabe protests gather momentum
Youths from 14 opposition political parties and 45 civil society organisations have joined hands in their quest to force President Robert Mugabe to fulfil his 2013 poll pledge - through nationwide...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 22:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
NCA concerned over police on Tomana's arrest
The National Constitutional Assembly party has expressed concerns over police conduct against Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana recently.Party spokesperson Madock Chivasa said the NCA party...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 06:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
SA Hawks boss fired over Zimbabwe renditions
The inquiry into the illegal arrest and deportation of a group of Zimbabweans ruled on Friday that suspended Gauteng Hawks head Major General Shadrack Sibiya be dismissed for his role in the rendition...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 15:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nigerian journalists freed, but equipment still held
NEW YORK - The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) to return laptops and cell phones confiscated from two journalists who were illegally detained fo...Published: 03 Jan 2013 at 04:46hrs | 2 | by CPJ/APO
Journalists detained, barred from traveling in Somaliland
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) expresses deep concern over perpetual attacks against journalists by Somaliland police who continue to arrest and detain reporters...Published: 10 Jan 2012 at 17:38hrs | | by APO
ROHR Zimbabwe strongly condemns the arrests of its activists
Just days ago hooligans got away with stone age like beatings, muggings, theft as well as defilement of the August house while peaceful human rights activists are wantonly arrested ,beaten and detain...Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 06:23hrs | | by ROHR
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