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University of Zimbabwe lecturers strike continues
It has been months since lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe, the country's oldest and most prestigious institution of higher learning, walked out of their lecture halls, citing salaries that have...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:14hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
UZ students rally behind striking lecturers, reject replacement staff
Students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have thrown their weight behind striking lecturers, vowing to resist any attempts by university authorities to replace them with temporary staff as the sala...Published: 28 May 2025 at 12:13hrs | 4502 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's undying legacy
THE 1st of July 2023 marks 24 years since the passing away of Zimbabwe's former Vice-President of Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, after a long battle with cancer.Nko...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 09:09hrs | 52 | by Taona Blessing Denhere
Cyril Ramaphosa's real surmame revealed
South African opposition leader Julius Malema has claimed that the real surname of South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is Mennel. Malema was speaking during the #EFFNationalShutdo...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 20:22hrs | 80 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zambian activist tells Zimbabwean youths to 'guide your votes'
ZAMBIAN youth activist and former African Union (AU) youth simulation forum president, Joseph Kalimbwe has urged Zimbabwean youths not to vote and leave polling stations, but stay until results have b...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dreaming of Zimbabwe: Stories from the diaspora
NEARLY 24 years ago, Lance Guma came face to face with a gun. A man had followed him out of the main post office in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, before attempting to provoke him into an argument. L...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Civil society activists on Zimbabwe military watch list
THE Zimbabwe National Army's Military Intelligence (MI) unit has placed on its watchlist several civil society activists it claims are conniving with United States to unseat President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Plot to unleash violent protests unearthed
A group of shady organisations from Zimbabwe with links to the opposition MDC-Alliance has in recent months been hard at work laying the groundwork for civil unrest set to be unleashed next month, The...Published: 17 May 2019 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 11 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Austerity does not bring prosperity - ED, stop destroying our lives, please!
Ever since the current economic crisis bedeviling Zimbabwe started, sometime around October, the Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa regime has been at pains trying to reassure the nation that they were on to...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans in SA fear elections won't be free and fair
A handful of Zimbabweans living in South Africa picketed outside the Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town on Thursday afternoon.According to ...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:44hrs | | by GroundUp
Mnangagwa embraces surprising freedoms
Zimbabwe's new president is rolling out freedoms as never seen before in the country recovering from the 37-year grip of former leader Robert Mugabe.For some, however, President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 06 May 2018 at 20:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths see political hand in student protests
THE Zanu-PF National Youth League says it fears there might be a political hand in the continued demonstrations at universities ahead of the forthcoming harmonised elections.Their concerns com...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Equal representation and the myth of meritocracy
At the inaugural Women Electoral Convergence meeting in Bulawayo, participants under the shevote banner demanded equal representation for women in the 2018 elections. Showing their seriousness, female...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 13:15hrs | 3 | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Zimbabwe diaspora in UK demand voting rights
Birmingham: The emergence of Zimbabwe's civil society movements in politics since #thisflag movement has become both fascinating and challenging. Fascinating in that the demonstrations does not seem t...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 14:38hrs | 3 | by Kingstone Jambawo
Al Jazeera highlight: 'Julius vs The ANC'
On 26 April 2017, Julius vs the ANC will broadcast South Africa's political turmoil to more than 310 million households in over 100 countries. Starting with the police killing of 34 strik...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 10:11hrs | 2 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
SA extends study permits for foreign students
SOUTH Africa has extended by three months study permits for international students, among them Zimbabweans, whose visas were set to expire in December.In a statement, South African Home Af...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is the end nigh for Tendai Biti?
THOSE who live by the sword, die by the sword.In a classic case reflecting this adage, the embattled leader of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Tendai Biti has been left nursing wounds aft...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Ray Ndlovu and Tendai Makaripe
SA student protests - lessons for Zimbabwe
Monday 10 October 2016, was a memorable day in the history of South Africa. University of Witwatersrand students launched a fiery protest against the government to provide free education. In preceding...Published: 12 Oct 2016 at 15:13hrs | 1 | by Cde Miggy
Fort Hare students did not blast President Mugabe
It is quite misleading that a local tabloid can publish unsubstantiated information that the University of Fort Hare students had blasted Presidents Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Jacob Zuma of South A...Published: 24 May 2016 at 10:25hrs | 1 | by Stewart Murewa
We say no to regime change, says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe says his stay in power is influenced by the desire to prevent regime change in the country being fronted by the United States of America and her Western allies. Addressing del...Published: 21 May 2016 at 21:51hrs | 1 | by Cletus Mushanawani
Mugabe expected at Fort Hare centenary on Friday
CAPE Town - President Robert Mugabe is expected to be among the guests celebrating the centenary of the University of Fort Hare this Friday, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said.As a gr...Published: 19 May 2016 at 13:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African police fire rubber bullets at students
JOHANNESBURG - South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of students protesting against rape on campus at Rhodes University yesterday, forcing classes to be called off for the day...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Zimbabwe students in SA get temporary reprieve
SOUTH Africa has granted international students that include Zimbabweans a temporary reprieve to stay in that country until the end of December following the expiry of their permits.The South ...Published: 16 Nov 2015 at 05:23hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
WATCH: UZ student protests led by Jongwe
University of Zimbabwe students led by late Learnmore Jongwe staged an anti Mugabe demonstration in Harare on 30 May 1998.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gETwtKobqvQ ...Published: 28 Oct 2015 at 13:40hrs | 5 | by youtube
South Africa's born-free generation is not happy
A new black consciousness movement is emerging in South Africa 21 years after its first democratic elections - most recently seen in nationwide student protests. The BBC's Alastair Leithead considers ...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 09:34hrs | 2 | by Alastair Leithead
What makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly?
What is it that makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly? Even when he does nothing at all?We have been having a big debate on the local media, more accurately, on a portion of it...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 05:59hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabweans watch SA's #FeesMustFall with envy
In a country where riot police have routinely crushed demonstrations, some Zimbabweans are watching South Africa's #FeesMustFall student protests with admiration and something approaching envy, ...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 11:15hrs | 1 | by news24
Mugabe launches a wide-ranging attack on Western colonisation in Africa
President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday launched a wide-ranging attack on Western colonisation in Africa and recent intervention in the Arab world, as he made his first state visit to South Africa in 21 ...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 20:02hrs | 2 | by AFP
University protest are last warning for Mugabe to step down or be forced to Gaddafi style!
The University Staff and student protests today 17 March 2015 over none payment of staff salaries and the country's worsening economic situation should been seen as a warning to the nation and this Z...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 17:11hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori, Secretary General Zimbabwe Social Democrats
'Prostitution rife in Zimbabwe varsities'
The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) says large numbers of students continue engaging in prostitution and other activities due to Zimbabwe's current harsh economic environment. Z...Published: 20 Jan 2014 at 21:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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