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Zimbabwe regime brutal repression of dissent creating more liberation heroes than Smith's Rhodesia
As the nation mourns the sad passing away, yesterday 15 January 2020, of one of the pioneer founding nationalist leaders of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle against colonial rule and oppression, Morton ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:33hrs | 619 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How did exercising one's democratic rights in Zimbabwe suddenly mean 'engaging in public violence'?
Ever since the so-called 'new dispensation' come into power in November 2017 - via the barrel of the gun, in a military coup d'etat, that ousted long-time brutal dictator, Robert Gabriel Mugabe - the ...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 09:19hrs | 390 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe regime crippled by fear more than us, we're more powerful together
Zimbabweans have borne the brunt of unflattering worldwide ridicule over our perceived cowardice and fear in boldly standing up, and speaking out, for our God-given rights to a dignified and respectab...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:48hrs | 1580 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Magistrate acquits ARTUZ leader, convicts another
A MASVINGO magistrate has acquitted Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure of violence charges but convicted the union's provincial gender and welfare secretary...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:50hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1996 | by crisisgroup
Zanu-PF, MDC formations refuse to meet in one room for dialogue
POLITICAL enmities among the ruling Zanu-PF and MDC formations - the MDC Alliance and MDC-T which are fighting a vicious battle for the control of the heart and soul of the main opposition movement - ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:34hrs | 2036 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa living in constant fear of coup - as long economic meltdown remains so too will coup threat
'Mnangagwa makes hast military appointment amid coup threats' - screamed the headlines in Bulawayo24. "President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made forced cross-cutting changes to his Presidential Gu...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 07:40hrs | 3338 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Time for African youths to silence the gun
Africa as a continent needs a fresh start with new crop of leadership who are not necessarily militant or use their muscles to solve the problems facing their nations but who will use their brains....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1266 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF warns members
ZANU-PF yesterday issued a stern warning to party members who are allegedly fomenting factionalism ahead of District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections. This comes as Zanu-PF started re-co...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:37hrs | 1804 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora taunts Chamisa
MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora Saturday took time to harangue MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa, describing the politician as a hypocrite who pretended he did not like Zanu-PF when in fact, ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:33hrs | 5810 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns brawling Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a stern warning to party members who are brawling ahead of the ruling party's District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections. This comes as Zanu-PF has...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:04hrs | 4444 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister petitions UN agency over Gukurahundi genocide
THE United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) must step in to stop a culture of State-sponsored human rights violations as the "price of silence is huge", former National Healing minister Moses Mzil...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
No to enforced disappearances, says ZimRights
Itai Dzamara was a Zimbabwean journalist who left the pen for activism. In October 2014, Dzamara hand-delivered a petition to the late former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe at his Munhumutapa Off...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:16hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
ED's human rights record as the president of Zimbabwe under scrutiny
Zimbabweans dotted throughout the world woke up on the morning of 14 th January 2019 not feeling particularly patriotic. Tired of long queues, runaway prices very grumpy not patriotic anymore. Very fe...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 00:12hrs | 4853 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza and Amanda Mavhaza
Zimbabwe authorities must respect human rights
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus (ICAC) Africa, South African chapter leader Chanda Chose has said there is a need for Zimbabwean autho...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:05hrs | 261 | by Stephen Jakes
South Africa is in no position to help Zimbabwe
This week President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete and former Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi as special envoys to Zimbabwe. Their reported br...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 1334 | by Tafi Mhaka
13 arrests as army, police quash demo
PEACEFUL protesters, among them prominent novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, were arrested yesterday as heavily armed soldiers and police crushed the planned pro...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Violence has no place in our civilised society
VIOLENCE, whether verbal, physical, emotional or psychological, should never any have place in a civilised society like Zimbabwe. Yet the use of State apparatus to perpetuate violence has been a defin...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:37hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Security forces on high alert
SECURITY forces are on high alert and will be out in full force with adequate manpower to thwart any illegal protests meant to destabilise the country. Police yesterday said people should go a...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Police uncover demo plot
POLICE yesterday unearthed a plot by some vigilante groups linked to the country's opposition parties to commit acts of banditry that include burning service stations and barricading roads to trigger ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
MDC activits in South Africa to besiege Zimbabwe Embassy
Notice is hereby given to our MDCA members, the general public and citizens, and members of the media fraternity to the effect that; The Movement for Democratic Change Alliance South Africa Province w...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 15:58hrs | 2880 | by MDC Alliance South Africa
'249 armed persons threaten to burn fuel stations on Friday'
Zimbabwe Republic Police Senior Staff Officer (Press, Public and International Relations) Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has revealed that a group of 249 persons are plotting to barricade al...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 14:28hrs | 7872 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Another MDC Alliance activist 'abducted'
THE MDC Alliance Bulawayo province yesterday claimed that suspected State security agents on Tuesday night abducted and tortured another party activist, Nyasha Musundire.The opposition has bee...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF working on liquidating MDC Alliance'
MDC Alliance has accused Zanu-PF of using State machinery in its attempts to liquidate the opposition, party co-vice president Tendai Biti has claimed.Addressing the media Wednesday, Biti also...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:54hrs | 1293 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF labels Chamisa's MDC a 'terrorist organisation'
Zanu-PF on Monday urged its supporters to use "any means at your disposal" to disrupt anti-government protests planned for July 31, as a spokesman labelled the main opposition MDC Alliance party a ter...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:32hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns US against interference?
THE arrest of political activists Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume last week, was a pre-emptive move by authorities to quell a potentially violent foreign-funded insurrection meant to destabilis...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Zinef condemns arrest of Chin'ono
Zinef has issued a statement castigating arresting of investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono as targeting at silencing the voice of reason in exposing deep-rooted corruption. Below is the ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 381 | by Stephen Jakes
Chin'ono spends fourth night in remand prison
JOuRNAlIST Hopewell Chin'ono has spent a fourth night in remand prison after the magistrate hearing the case adjourned proceedings to today in line with curfew regulations decreed by President Emmerso...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after critics
POLICE yesterday arrested opposition Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume and journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, accusing them of inciting violence in what observers said was a crackdown on critics o...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 6103 | by Staff reporter
UN remind Zanu PF of the right to peaceful demo - UN favourite, bolting door after horse has bolted
The release of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule's report on Zimbabwe, just two weeks before the 31 July 2020 stree...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:37hrs | 2072 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Subversion plot will be thwarted'
A DEVIOUS agenda by the opposition to effect regime change on July 31 disguised as an anti-corruption march will be met with countervailing measures that will ensure that the will of the people as exp...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF blame west for 31 July protests - paranoia, why would west abandon reforms for violent protests
"And for Cde Matemadanda to then to say we are sponsored by the west…so the people of Zimbabwe are sponsored by the west because on their own they cannot think of the need to fight against corruptio...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 23:13hrs | 1554 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Riot police deployed to deal with nurses and doctors in Harare
The government has deployed members of the riot police to deal with doctors and nurses who were planning to engage in a peaceful demonstration at Sally Mugabe hospital. ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 10:03hrs | 6917 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZANU PF Clueless as Nation Crisis Looms in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is in humanitarian meltdown; cases of corrupt officials and torture of citizens have become the talk of the day. The once breadbasket of Southern Africa has been reduced to begging for food a...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2193 | by Prince Njagu
Ex-Chipangano commander leads protest against Chinese violence
ONCE feared Zanu-PF youth boss, Jim Kunaka will lead a public protest against continued violence allegedly visited upon Zimbabwean workers by Chinese employers.The demonstrations, organised un...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:12hrs | 1004 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's solders fear crippling mass protests
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) - over the country's deteriorating economic situation....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:55hrs | 2832 | by Staff reporter
Youth organisation call for immediate release of young activists
The Zimbabwe Youth Leadership Training (ZYLT) Alumni Association a platform for providing an efficient and democratic platform for debate, exchange of ideas and carriage of projects dedicated to the s...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:49hrs | 729 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's security forces on high alert
The security sector is on high alert amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the ZCTU. This comes after the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Association staged demonstrations in M...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:12hrs | 17812 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans ignore Mnangagwa's prayer day
ZAOGA leader Ezekiel Guti prays at the national day of prayer and fasting at State House in Harare yesterdayMOST Zimbabweans yesterday snubbed the national day of prayer and fasting pronounced...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:42hrs | 1322 | by Staff reporter
'Boxed Chamisa must think outside the box'
WITH MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa fighting on two fronts - an internal battle for the control of the party with Thokozani Khupe and the closure of democratic space by President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:02hrs | 2937 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's next move and strategy
THE main opposition MDC-Alliance is locked in countless battles, in and out of court, as the party resists an onslaught it says has been orchestrated by the Zanu-PF government. Nelson Chamisa'...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 7729 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti: The story of my arrest in Mnangagwa's tinpot Zimbabwe
"It was farcical and surreal like a poorly scripted Mr Bean film without the comedy", says MDC Alliance vice-president of his recent arrest.This article was first published by ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 19:23hrs | 6848 | by Tendai Biti
Chamisa urges Zimbabweans to free selves
NELSON Chamisa, the MDC-Alliance leader, has admitted his party alone may not be able to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of his job through protests, telling journalists Friday it was time for t...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2415 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gives up on anti-Mnangagwa push?
NELSON Chamisa, the MDC-Alliance leader, has admitted his party alone may not be able to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of his job through protests, telling journalists Friday it was time for t...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 10851 | by newzimbabwe
America bullies Zimbabwe to avoid accountability
The world has been gripped with shock and anger over the cold blooded murder of a black American man by the police while the other officers looked on with not even an effort to stop such inhuman and d...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:21hrs | 1949 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cops guarding hospitalised MDC activists accused of mental torture
POLICE details deployed to monitor three hospitalised female MDC Alliance youth leaders have been accused of mental torture on the activists through alleged harassment.Harare West MP Joanna Ma...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1573 | by newzimbabwe
Operation restore legacy a failure
Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dismally failed the litmus test.The progressive Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the knock out p...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:37hrs | 1345 | by Leonard Koni
Operation Restore Legacy a failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dis-mally failed the litmus test. Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the proverbial suck...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 449 | by Leonard Koni
ZANU PF turning Zimbabwe into a Mafia State
The ZANU PF regime should be held accountable for the disappearance and torture of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, legislator Joanna Mamombe, youth leaders Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai M...Published: 16 May 2020 at 13:23hrs | 1184 | by Prince Njagu
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