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Freeman questioned over links to robbers
Zimdancehall musician Freeman, real name Emegy Sylvester Chizanga, was yesterday questioned and released by police over allegations of associating with armed robbers accounted for last month after a g...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
South African robber no match to Zimbabwean police, shot dead
A South African national was one of two suspected criminals killed in a shootout with detectives from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in Arcadia, Harare.State media in Zimbabwe, The Herald ...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 15:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa boasts of being Zimbabwe's 'CIO Godfather'
BY his own admission this week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the architect of Zimbabwe's brutal security system which has left a trail of human rights violations, abductions, forced disappearances ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC corners government over abductions, murder of its members
Members of Parliament from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) criticized the government for the sluggish progress in investigating the escalating cases of alleged abductions and murders of opposi...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
1 173 Unregistered vehicles impounded
Since September 12, a total of 1,173 vehicles have been seized for operating on the roads without registration plates, according to police reports.This development was confirmed by the police ...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison boss shields partisan officer
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services has ignored a letter written to it by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights attorney Innocent Gonese over the misconduct of ZPCS officer Caroline Manjongo who ha...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison sparks political storm over activism in Zanu-PF
LETTERS from Zanu-PF and war veterans requesting the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) to release an officer to enable her to campaign for the ruling party ahead of the 23 August gener...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 09:27hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, CIO involvement in voting
In the run up to the June 2000 Parliamentary election, there was noticeable intervention of the army, and alleged war veterans. The election also came after the formation of the MDC, which fielded can...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Spotlight on slay queens, sex trafficking in Diaspora
Romanticised dreams of greener pastures have for a long-time drawn locals to the diaspora, at times, young married individuals leaving their spouses and children in hope for a better future.In...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | 9 | by Kundai Marunya
Madzibaba confesses to serial kidnappings
A white garment apostolic church member (Madzibaba), Willie Chindundundu (21) confessed to serial child kidnappings after he was caught by people trying to kidnap a one-year-old toddler in Glen Norah ...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 10:27hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
2 Zimbabweans, 5 SA police crime gang nabbed
IN a sting operation this week South African Police Services (Saps) arrested two Zimbabweans and five Saps serving members over a violent crime wave in Johannesburg's Fordsburg area.In a state...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti says state repression, corruption worse after Mugabe coup
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti says the November 2017 military coup that installed incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa in place of late former leader Robert ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga decries escalating acts of terrorism in Africa
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga has decried escalating acts of terrorism in Africa saying it has become a "thorn in the flesh" for many governments.Addressing delegates at the official ope...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK's deportations deal with Zimbabwe putting lives at risk
In the four years since she arrived in the UK, 56-year-old Josephine Sipiwe Jenje-Mudimbu's life has shifted from one of hope to one of daily, grinding fear.Josy, as she's better known, is an ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 11 | by Raoul Walawalker for Open Democracy
Zimbabwe, SA friction laid bare as tensions rise
SIMMERING tensions between Zimbabwe and South Africa this week exploded after an outburst by a top provincial health official in the neighbouring country who took swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dangers of Arab Spring in South Africa
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of pover...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:15hrs | | by Sandy Africa
A fool and his money are soon parted!
The cash taps have well and truly been turned on.It seems hardworking Zimbabweans in faraway lands have been doing their bit to support family and friends back home, including bankrolling pote...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Bishop
Blitz nets 45 000 unregistered cars
MORE than 45 100 motorists have so far been arrested for driving unregistered cars during the ongoing operation while over 1,6 million people were also nabbed countrywide for violating Covid-19 regula...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Number plates now available at border posts
Permanent number plates are now available at Zimra border posts, so anyone importing a vehicle now buys the permanent plates as they clear their car through customs with temporary plates no longer iss...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans abusing social media to bolster fake abuses
When many protests go unnoticed, creating drama can seem like a good strategy to draw attention. But if they become self-harming and harming others the public opinion can turn against the protestors....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Kazembe breathes fire to cops
Police commanders have been directed to immediately put to an end the rampant child kidnappings, ritual killings, traffic chaos caused by pirate taxis and general armed robberies targeting families an...Published: 21 May 2021 at 05:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa entrenches authoritarian rule
THE incarceration of opposition MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe this week has all but confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's unwillingness to reform as his regime continues to use lawf...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:36hrs | 3 | 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
Zimbabwe needs the Patriotic Act
A debate on the possibility of a Patriotic Act to be enacted in our country's laws has been raging on ever since the Bill got tabled in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. A lot of diverse views have co...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:04hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
A toast for 2021, but......
We bid 2020 goodbye, the year many would want to quickly forget contrary to views, at least if one wears Zimbabwe's political lenses. The past nine months have been notorious given the COVID-1...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Father murders epileptic son
AS cases of child killings and kidnappings continue to rise, police have arrested a 38-year-old man from Rusape for allegedly killing his epileptic son.National Police Spokesperson Assistant C...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's rogue state agents warned
PERPETRATORS of state-sponsored violence, abductions and torture are not immune to prosecution and can face their day in court in whatever capacity to answer to charges, a top human rights defender ha...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa redeploys Ferret forces, says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo, has claimed that there President Emmerson Mnangagwa is redeploying Ferret Forces amid concerns over the exposure of the force's secret activities....Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 9 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
From the 404 to the Honda Fit
"KIDNAP, robbery and near rape", the newspaper headline screamed on 22 August. "Honda Fit Crew robs osiphatheleni," our sister paper The Chronicle's headline read on 27 August. In the ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:48hrs | 2 | by Bruce Ndlovu
Nhlanhla Ndiweni reveals poisoning fears
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday visited jailed Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni at Khami Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Bulawayo, where the traditional leader revealed he feared for his...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under siege once again
IT'S like deja vu - we have been here before! Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight with the West, its local quislings in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change fronted by Mr Nelson Cha...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | | by Editorial - chronicle
'Mnangagwa not committed to reform' America says
The United States has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not committed to reforms following a spate of kidnappings and torture of government critics in what observers have described as state repress...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 16:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe democratic space has shrunk
IT is indisputable that the little democratic space that existed during ex-President Robert Mugabe's tyrannical era has now even shrunk further.I write this article with a bleeding heart, as s...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
Kidnappings raise tension in Zimbabwe
Suspected security agents abducted and tortured an MDC youth leader and a pre-democracy activist in pre-dawn raids yesterday- further raising tensions ahead of tomorrow's mass protests against Preside...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC prepares for mass demos
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's MDC will launch big rallies across the country this weekend - in preparation for massive protests against the country's worsening economic rot, which has resulted in...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to launch mass protests
The Movement for Demcratic Change leader, Nelson Chamisa has vowed to "lead from the front" in what he described as a "peaceful and radical" face-off with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's advisor condemns abduction of Obert Masaraure
Presidential Advisory Council member Shingi Munyeza has condemned the abduction of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union leader Obert Masaraure. Munyeza said such actions have no space in a democra...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 11:33hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Top 15 Robert Mugabe's killing methods
The top 15 favourite killing methods used by Mugabe's North Korean trained Army brigade. The brigade was commanded by the current minister of Agriculture Perence Shiri(notoriously known as the Black J...Published: 31 May 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Mbonisi Gumbo
'Khupe taking over MDC is a bad joke'
MDC is at crossroads following a High Court ruling that declared its leader Nelson Chamisa illegitimate and ordered the party to hold an extraordinary congress instead of its planned congress....Published: 13 May 2019 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF returns to terror tactics
Lawyer and former education minister Dave Coltart has appealed to the world to take action to halt the Mnangagwa regime's terror tactics against the opposition MDC.Senator Coltart was commenti...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:41hrs | | by ZimVigil
MDC officials abducted
MDC Alliance senior official Robert Saunyama, popularly known as Jack Roberts, and his younger brother and Chikanga-Dangamvura's ward 6 councillor Danmore Saunyama were on Tuesday night abducted by ei...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two MDC officials released from military custody after heavy torture
MDC has announced that its two officials Robert and Danmore Saunyama who were abducted by armed military personnel on Tuesday have been released from military custody after being heavily t...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Two MDC officials abducted by armed soldiers
MDC has reported that armed members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces on Tuesday abducted two of its officials in Manicaland after assaulting their family members. The two members Jack Roberts an...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chief Ndiweni calls for transitional govt
NTABAZINDUNA Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has called for the formation of a transitional authority to resolve Zimbabwe's escalating economic and political crises, but said the ruling Zanu-PF p...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's arrest expected to push the struggle to its boiling point
Past historical events in Zimbabwe have taught us that, the democratic struggle's objectives cannot be achieved by becoming lenient and submissive to the existing laws. These laws were created to sile...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 14:10hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Mugabe is gone - but the machinery of repression is alive and well
Tendai Biti, a member of the opposition MDC Alliance, is a constitutional lawyer who served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2013.The June 23 explosion at a campaign rally that k...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 18:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Mnangagwa is a different person, he has learned
IN his well-cut suit, with outstretched hand and beaming smile, Sibusiso Moyo is the very picture of a modern politician.He speaks softly, smoothly and pauses to listen as if he had spent year...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | | by BBC
Privacy and the voter's roll
AS the election period unfolds some interesting legal issues and questions are creeping into public conversations. One of the most topical issues this past week concerned the propriety and legality of...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
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