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Job Sikhala's open letter to President Ramaphosa
ON behalf of the people of Zimbabwe who have expressed themselves loudly on social media, and have expressed themselves on issues they want addressed legally, we are grateful that you have found it ne...Published: 18 mins ago | 33 | by Job Sikhala
13 arrested along Limpopo River
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Friday arrested 13 people along the Limpopo River for violating coronavirus (Covid-19) regulations.Among those arrested, one had 125 litres of fuel which ...Published: 18 mins ago | 31 | by Staff reporter
An MDC Government Around 2025
Whilst the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating. On the other hand, the centre-left MDC's democratic project has been bashed a...Published: 45 mins ago | 156 | by Robert Sigauke
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 1 hr ago | 172 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's MDC spoils for bare knuckle fight
A TOP MDC Alliance executive yesterday ruled out the possibility of entering into another South Africa-mediated government of national unity (GNU) and threatened to scale up mass protests to force out...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2728 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe activists decry ‘unprecedented clampdown' after arrests
INVESTIGATIVE journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has over the years leveraged his large social media following to share posts about human rights abuses and alleged government corruption.On June 20, ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 406 | by Staff reporter
Zacc busts illegal diamond syndicate
A FIVE-MEMBER illegal diamond buying syndicate was recently busted and brought before a Mutare magistrate on Saturday.The alleged syndicate involved two Zimbabweans Isaac Nhamo and Shadreck Pu...Published: 5 hrs ago | 801 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe govt does not tolerate abuse of citizens by uniformed forces'
GOVERNMENT does not tolerate abuse of citizens by uniformed forces enforcing Covid-19 lockdown measures and those who violate the law must be reported to authorities, Media, Information and Broadcasti...Published: 5 hrs ago | 390 | by Staff reporter
Futility of wanting to reverse liberation rule in Southern Africa
Realising the futility of aligning with ephemeral and rootless MDC Alliance, the former G40 fugitives domiciled outside the country attempted to refashion themselves as true representatives of Zanu-PF...Published: 5 hrs ago | 142 | by Ranga Mataire
Mangagwa's controversial baker panics
Controversial Midlands miller Douglas Kwande owned Brainman Investments, trading as DCK, has been reportedly thrown into panic mode after whistleblowers wrote a letter to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corru...Published: 5 hrs ago | 3893 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kudu meat lands Guruve men in trouble
THREE Guruve poachers were sentenced to 9 months in prison by Guruve magistrate Geraldine Mutsotso yesterday for possessing Kudu meat.The trio Decide Muswere (29), Eddington Tigere (25) and Ag...Published: 8 hrs ago | 798 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kudu meat lands Guruve men in trouble
THREE Guruve poachers were sentenced to 9 months in prison by Guruve magistrate Geraldine Mutsotso yesterday for possessing Kudu meat.The trio Decide Muswere (29), Eddington Tigere (25) and Ag...Published: 8 hrs ago | 532 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bloodbath looming in ZANU PF Mash Central as structures square off
Embattled ZANU PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman Kazembe Raymond Kazembe has embarked on a systematic rigging campaign ahead of the ZANU PF District Coordinating Committee DCC elections for M...Published: 23 hrs ago | 6816 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe heroes' shrine sends clear message to the world - the country and people are not yet free!
Most people - both locally and globally - have always associated the National Heroes Acre in the Zimbabwe capital Harare, with largely being merely an impressive cemetery for those deemed outstanding ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2009 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa claims to be under siege
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says the government is trying to provoke opposition and civic society leaders into engaging in violence by pushing them into a corner through a crackdown by law e...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:28hrs | 6960 | by Staff reporter
Activist hounded over Mnangagwa song
Godfrey Kurauone, an MdC Alliance councillor in Masvingo, is languishing at Masvingo remand Prison awaiting trial and his alleged crime is singing a derogatory song. Prosecutors say Kuraone must go to...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:25hrs | 2019 | by Staff reporter
Online #ZimbabweLivesMatter campaign jolts Mnangagwa govt
STUNG by the impact of an online campaign by Zimbabweans to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations in the country, top government officials are fighting back with claims that gory image...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:23hrs | 9036 | by Staff reporter
Why the blockages on people's rights?
The deployment of the army to clamp down on protests threatens to create a subject political culture where timid citizens watch the state conversion into a complete authoritarian regime.Since ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:18hrs | 144 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
NetOne crisis deepens
TROUBLED state-owned mobile phone operator NetOne has been beset by a myriad of problems that include network failure and a shortage of airtime recharge cards, which are attributed to a board wrangle....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:02hrs | 2412 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa foundation director hounded over Zanu-PF masks
THE Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation's director Mthulisi Hanana has skipped the country, fearing for his life and that of his family after his home was broken into and children harassed by unknown people....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Lone protestor freed
A DARING National University of Science and Technology engineering student who was arrested for staging a solo protest against the arrest of journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono, has been granted $200 bail b...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Beyonce won't vote in Zimbabwe
The Bishop laughed his lungs out last week when he saw the desperate efforts of some activists who were trying to foist their latest hashtag movement on US singer Beyonce.There was a lot of eu...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:43hrs | 375 | by Bishop Lazarus
'Mnangagwa still keen on western hugs despite rights abuse storm'
WAR Veterans secretary general Victor Matemadanda says Zimbabwe's renewed row with the US and the West will not scupper President Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts with the country's former a...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 171 | by newzimbabwe
Police hunt for a baby dumper
Police in Mashonaland Central province are hunting for a baby dumper who dumped her 3 weeks old baby in a pit toilet.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 23:25hrs | 1412 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mvurwi traditional healers convicted
LUCKY ran out for three traditional healers based in Mvurwi who defied the country's lockdown regulations by gathering more than 50 people at their shrine.The trio Phenias Gweshe (42), Evance ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 23:24hrs | 1549 | by Simbarashe Sithole
How Mnangagwa squandered his goodwill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses ZANU-PF supporters on his return from brief exile in South Africa last NovemberIN the euphoria of Robert Mugabe's fall, Zimbabweans would have done anyth...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:27hrs | 3482 | by newZWire
Zimbabwe did not condemn Ramaphosa when Marikana massacres happened, says Chinamasa
Zanu-PF has, however, reacted angrily to African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Ace Magashule's comments during a televised interview that the South African ruling party was concerned with ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:47hrs | 4883 | by Staff reporter
Another long weekend for Chin'ono, Ngarivhume
Zimbabwe 'crisis': UN steps inTHE United Nations says it is following the Zimbabwean crisis with concern, urging Harare to respect human rights amid pressure for the matter to be tabled at the glo...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1686 | by Staff reporter
Leadership crisis puts Zimbabwe on international radar, again
ZIMBABWE finds herself the subject of international focus again, and not because of how the novel coronavirus is devastating its fragile economy, overwhelming its creaking health system and demoralise...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:34hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
Essential service workers get subsidised mealie-meal
LOCAL milling company, Brainman Investments, yesterday took subsidised roller meal to essential service workers at three Bulawayo public hospitals and a police station after realising they have not be...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:33hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Sex for sanitiser proposal backfires
FOR a Zvishavane man, Again Madzivire, it was supposedly not a bad move to secretly admire his female neighbour's "voluptuous" behind but there seems to be just one big flaw which he made and it all e...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:53hrs | 2433 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's curfew times challenged in court
A RUWA man Ronald Magweta and Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) have approached the High Court seeking an extension of the starting time of the curfew to 8pm.This...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:21hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 regulations continue to be flouted
COVID-19 curfew regulations, which prohibit members of the public from remaining outside their homes after 1800 hours as part of measures by the government to curb the spread of the pandemic in the co...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:20hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mukupe exposes South Africa journalist for not doing his homework
"There is no unrest, there is no war in Zimbabwe...There are no claims of abductions and police brutality"- Zimbabwe's former Deputy Finance Minister, Terence Mukupe. Meanwhile, South African ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:11hrs | 1859 | by Staff reporter
SA police clash with protesters at Zimbabwe embassy in Pretoria
South African police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse dozens of protesters outside the Zimbabwean embassy in Pretoria on Friday, an AFP photographer said.Close to 100 mainly ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:49hrs | 1476 | by AFP
George Charamba exposed by Trevor Ncube's newspaper
The Standard Newspaper has exposed Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba over his tweet accusing the Zimbabwean activists of doctoring images of a woman being beaten by a soldier. Charamba...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:06hrs | 5806 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH:South Africa police fire rubber bullets at Zimbabwean protestors
South African police have fired rubber bullets at protestors who thronged to the Zimbabwe Embassy of Friday to demand that the government of Zimbabwe respect human rights. The demonstration wh...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 11:14hrs | 7898 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Residents stampede for subsidised roller meal
GwERu and Bulawayo residents yesterday risked contracting the deadly coronavirus as they jostled to buy subsidised roller meal at DCK supermarkets.Police in riot gear and soldiers had a torrid...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Wife kills hubby, torches corpse
POLICE in Centenary, Mashonaland Central province, have arrested a woman who on Tuesday allegedly bashed her husband to death before conniving with her boyfriend to burn the corpse to conceal the murd...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:51hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Wife bashes hubby to death, boyfriend implicated
Police in Centenary, Mashonaland Central arrested a woman who allegedly bashed her husband to death before conniving with her boyfriend to burn the ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 20:26hrs | 5611 | by Simbarashe Sithole
BREAKING: Hopewell Chin'ono denied bail by High Court
High court Judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has denied bail to journalist Hopewell Chin'ono who is facing serious charges of i8nciting public violence, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has revealed."...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 14:48hrs | 5739 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kazembe Kazembe and police Boss Godwin Matanga sucked in human rights abuses
The #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign has put Zimbabwe's internal security enforcers under scrutiny. The government is accused of abusing and stifling citizens human rights and liberties. The wo...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:35hrs | 3719 | by Alex Muzuva
Charge against Mphoko vague and embarrassing, says Magistrate
A HARARE magistrate has ruled that charges levelled against former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko are vague and embarrassing.Mphoko is facing criminal abuse of office charges, where he alle...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:27hrs | 6046 | by Staff reporter
Beer brawl turns fatal
POLICE in Mutawatawa, Mashonaland East province, have arrested two men who fatally assaulted a friend following a brawl over beer.Wiriranai Chipika (40) of Manyika village under Chief Nyajina ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:27hrs | 1804 | by Staff reporter
New Health minister Chiwenga faces tall order
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally replaced the dismissed and corruption-tainted Health minister Obadiah Moyo with his deputy, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to the portfolio.Zimbab...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:21hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
2 die in anthill collapse
TWO Rusape brothers died on Monday after an anthill they were digging collapsed and trapped them.Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confirmed the incident ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
Could a hashtag help achieve in Zimbabwe what protests have failed to do?
Could a social media hashtag - tapping into the energy and anger of the global #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon - help achieve in Zimbabwe what years of street protests, strikes and political campaigns ha...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 645 | by Andrew Harding Africa correspondent, BBC News
Sangomas in soup for defying lockdown regulations
THREE traditional healers based in Mvurwi are in soup for defying lockdown regulations.The matter came to light at Guruve Magistrates' Court yesterday when Phenias Gweshe (42), Evance Tauni (2...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:10hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
'Poverty could bring back machete gangs'
DISRUPTION of employment and increasing levels of poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic have forced artisanal small-scale miners to resume their activities, raising fear of the resurfacing of the dread...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Juvenile on the run after killing mate
MATABELELAND North police have launched a manhunt for a juvenile who fatally assaulted a colleague with a knobkerrie after misunderstanding arose between them over a soccer match.Matabeleland ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:33hrs | 901 | by Stephen Jakes
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