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Why did Ngarivhume spend 8 months in jail without prima facie evidence?
Finally, Zimbabwe opposition activist Jacob Ngarivhume has been released from jail. This was after languishing behind bars for the past eight months – as part of a three-year sentence in Apr...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 16:38hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa party spokesperson arrested over Bosso - Dembare violence?
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy spokesperson and legislator, Gift Ostallos Siziba, was arrested in Bulawayo on Wednesday on charges of inciting violence. Siziba has since been released and ...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Hwenje, Thomas Mapfumo clash over Mnangagwa
MUSICIAN and Zanu-PF praise singer Chief Hwenje has attacked exiled Chimurenga superstar Thomas Mapfumo over his remarks following the August 23 general elections.In an interview with the medi...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 09:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala lawyer grills State witness
LAWYERS representing opposition legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole yesterday grilled a State witness when they appeared before Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti on charges of inciting public vi...Published: 17 May 2023 at 21:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
It's more criminal 'bombing' a train than calling for peaceful protests!
As the Zimbabwe government incarcerates more and more opposition and human rights activists - a single question keeps cropping up.Is it more dangerous today for anti-government activists than ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 13:36hrs | | by Tenda Ruben Mbofana
'What leadership invest in violence?' asked Chamisa - a dictatorship and after 23 years you have done nothing to end it
"If you have support why are so violent, so heartless against citizens even the elderly? And why should bases and vigilante groups be allowed around the country? Are we now worse than animals? What le...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 18:25hrs | 13 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF distance itself from Murehwa violence?
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East Province has distanced itself from individuals in the alleged political violence video that has gone viral on social media saying that the people appearing in the video are ne...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is being led by the Devil himself - please, dear God, intervene!
I have seen evil in this country before. In fact, I believe that my childhood experiences of watching those in my neighborhood of Redcliff being gruesomely beaten up, and their homes burnt to ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:53hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mliswa comes face to face with Zanu-PF violence
INDEPENDENT Norton Member of Parliament, Temba Mliswa, was left fuming after suspected Zanu-PF hectored him at the funeral of provincial hero Shepherd Tsomondo where the legislator was scheduled ...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZimRights national director says Zimbabwe heading towards bloodbath
ZIMBABWE is faced with a multifaceted economic, political and social crisis. Observers say the challenges bedevilling the country will likely get worse ahead of the 2023 general elections as rival pol...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cde Mutsvangwa, do birds and trees sexually violate each other?
I never desire to wade into these sexual indiscretion scandals, or sexual abuse accusations, which have hounded well-known Zimbabwean leaders of late - both from the ruling and opposition formations -...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Biti survives stone attack
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti escaped death after he was attacked by suspected Zanu-PF activists in Mashonaland Central on Friday as political temperature...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zanu-PF trade accusations
TENSION is rising ahead of the Chitungwiza ward 7, Zengeza West by-election with Zanu-PF and the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) accusing each other of perpetrating political violence....Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
SA position on Zimbabwe exemption permit holders will trigger humanitarian crisis
THE South African government recently made a decision not to extend the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) regime that expired on December 31, 2021, opting instead to let the programme lapse.Th...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Rebone Tau
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 2 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Zanu PF blamed for 2 Kwekwe machete murders - how many more must die before CCC finally implement reforms
The images of the brutal violence at the CCC rally in Kwe Kwe over the weekend is a reminder of the wanton violence of the 2008 elections. The nation had the golden opportunity to deal with this probl...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC do not retaliate violence?
THE MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa has said it will not retaliate violence perpetrated against its supporters by Zanu-PF activists during the opposition party's rural voter mobilisation meetings....Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blacks being murdered by Indians in South Africa, SA media on mute - graphic videos
Reports from South Africa are that 15 black people murdered by Indians in Phoenix in the KwaZulu Natala province.Wednesday was the bloodiest in the days of violence and ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 10:01hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Why is West silent on South Africa violence?
In August 2018, just after Zimbabwe's general elections, the country witnessed some demonstrations that were staged by opposition activists who had lost patience in waiting for the presidential electi...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:19hrs | 2 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Dispelling the idiotic myths and stereotypes against Matabeleland
Although myths and legends have been useful tools of African philosophy for raising children since time immemorial, the way it has been used to enhance Shona supremacy and denigrate the people of Mata...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:49hrs | 20 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Memory Mbodiah accuses Mliswa of touching her breasts
The MDC-T and independent Norton lawmaker Temba Mliswa were trading acrimonious recriminations on Tuesday following a physical and violent confrontation in parliament during which the opposition party...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MDC youths slam swift jailing of Makomborero while Mnangagwa allies walk free
MDC Alliance youths have blasted the swift trial and jailing of party activist and pro-democracy campaigner Makomborero Haruzivishe by a Harare court while several corruption accused top Zanu-PF offic...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Timveos departure from MDC Alliance to ZANU PF fraught with hypocrisy and deceit, and needs introspection
In my life, I have come across my fare share of strange things - some, which could be characterized as stranger than fiction - but, the open letter allegedly penned by former MDC Alliance member and s...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:40hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mambo's Chicken ad 'glorifies' gender violence after Khupe assault
An ad by Mambo's Chicken that appeared to mock ousted MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe a day after she was allegedly slapped at the party's chaotic congress sparked outrage on Monday with many people call...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr. Masimba Mavaza: stick to Zanu PF/MDC-T politics please!
I have just finished reading your today's article: "How Zimbabweans in the Diaspora wreck their marriages" is the title. Your article has the hallmarks of a misogynist who is hell-bent to defend his g...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 20:24hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
God doesn't carry a red political party card
God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, which simply means He is all-powerful, all-knowing and everywhere in that order.His sheer preponderance as a Supreme Being means He cannot be app...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Give Mthuli a chance!
The story is told that Moses undertook the dangerous assignment to relocate the children of Israel to the Promised Land. The Red Sea, that vast water body, presented an intractable obstacle. T...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ready to confront Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF
BOUYED by his victory at the just-ended MDC congress, the party's leader Nelson Chamisa says he is ready to confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF.The 41-year-old former student leade...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wonders never cease
AFTER watching the-PFeesident's sidekick Victor Matemadanda's soporific homily on one online television, one gets an abiding feeling that indeed Zimbabwe is a God-forsaken country. Things are ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:10hrs | 3 | by Hon Criss
'Lack of consensus fomented govt ructions, discord'
OF late, there have been contradictory statements coming out of the Information ministry and other government departments regarding various programmes and policy issues. NewsDay (ND) chief reporter Ev...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gloves off for merchants of violence and jecha peddlers
President Mnangagwa has warned MDC-Alliance merchants of violence who are planning to stage a second round of illegal and violent demonstrations, meant to destabilise the country, that Government will...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe violent protests 'false flag' operations by ZANU PF to suppress opposition?
One of the most efficient and effective strategies of dictatorships - that has been used since time immemorial - to suppress any form of opposition, has been the employment of 'false flag' operations,...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Taurai J. Pachena
'Gukurahundi commission can't probe military crimes against civilians'
AMID high political temperatures, violent protests and a military crackdown on civilians, the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is seized with the mammoth task of healing a wounded n...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Does this new dispensation need time?
It looks like Zanu PF has failed and it's all written on the walls for everybody to see.Our government continue _"kuzvidirira jecha_" literally meaning putting sand or throwing spanners ...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe troops accused of 'systematic torture' of protesters
A government-appointed human rights group in Zimbabwe has accused soldiers of using "systematic torture" in a crackdown on protests.The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission strongly criticised aut...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When selfish goals stand in the way of national interests
The violent protests that took place in Zimbabwe between 14 and 15 January 2019 reminded me of a story about two people who were tied to opposite ends of a room with a bowl of food in the center and g...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 10:56hrs | | by Mapozho Saruchera
MDC Chamisa has nothing to do with last week's massive protests
The MDC says it has nothing to do with last week's massive protests which brought the country to a standstill for at least three days. Thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets across the country i...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa and his allies will be held accountable'
The opposition should stop claiming that the orgy of violence it unleashed last week is related to the fuel price review, and should instead expect to be held fully accountable for injuries and loss o...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'1 August demo was planned by ZANU PF' says Mawarire
National Patriotic Front Spokesman Jealous Mawarire has alleged that the 1 August bloody demonstrations were a creation of ZANU PF and the protestors were ZANU PF members. Said Mawarire,...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Defence ministry does not deal with Gukurahundi, says Matemadanda
THE Deputy Minister of Defence and war Veterans Victor Matemadanda has said his ministry does not deal with the issue of Gukurahundi and he is not aware which ministry is responsible for the issue....Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Energy Mutodi is a 'Violence Strategist'
I trust Trevor Ncube, a media investor and a strategist. I am confident that Trevor Ncube's allegations against the deputy minister of information, publicity & broadcasting services Energy Mutodi ...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:13hrs | 3 | by Don Chigumba
African leaders are a weak cowardly treacherous bunch!
I have been following closely events in South Africa, as they mark Women's Week - with special focus on gender-based violence - and this led me to make comparisons between abusers and leaders we have ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 15:57hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
From whose hands will their blood be required?
Part One Wednesday, 1st August 2018 will forever be a day to forget for many Zimbabweans who found themselves in the Harare City Centre that fateful aft...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 23:19hrs | 1 | by Patrick Tendayi Huni
Anyone with a half a brain can see these elections are different
We are in the height of campaign season in Zimbabwe. Hello! I said we are in the height of campaign season in Zimbabwe! Yet, where is the violence? Where is the chaos?We are living in times of...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 17:28hrs | | by Joice Tsitsi
Chamisa must learn to Be a Good Loser and Say No to Violence
Zimbabwe has enjoyed perhaps the most peaceful campaign in our short history. The recent assassination attempt on the president was out of character and was could be termed an 'anomaly'. In fact, the ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 14:08hrs | | by Anthony Mkondo
Is Chamisa's rhetoric fanning the flames of violence?
There is no suggestion that anyone in the MDC was behind the attack on President Mnangagwa, members of his government and supporters on Saturday in Bulawayo. That much is clear. Yet nonetheless, some ...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 10:56hrs | 2 | by Jealousy Dutiro
Mnangagwa stop lying there is no democracy in Zimbabwe
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The elections are around the corner, yet the atmospere is as quiet as if the elections are not anywhere close. Does this mean that the electorate now cares less about...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 16:31hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
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