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More calls for peaceful Zimbabwe elections
THE CHURCH through the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denomination (ZHCD) has called on all political parties and citizens to desist from engaging in violent acts during this year's electoral period....Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:30hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
CCC supporters besiege murder site
MURDERED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter Tinashe Chitsunge's 27-year-old wife Dzidzisai broke down in tears as reality struck, her husband was now just a memory, another statistic on Zim...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF violence victims speak out
Victims of political violence in Midlands yesterday shared harrowing tales of political violence at the hands of Zanu-PF activists.Zanu-PF activists went on the rampage in Kwekwe's Tigereef ar...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Attempt to dupe political victims backfires
A plan to dupe the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Gutu political violence victims who were brutalized by suspected Zanu-PF members last year by Masvingo town based activists backfired after one o...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 09:01hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter
Murewa CCC violence victims recount ordeal
Elderly Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members who were assaulted by suspected Zanu-PF activists for supporting the opposition were forced to spend the night in the mountains fearing for th...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Violence victims speak out
HUMAN rights defenders yesterday premiered a documentary where victims of State-sponsored violence, including Gukurahundi survivors, recounted their harrowing experiences at the hands of State securit...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2008 election violence victims walk away empty handed
Two MDC Alliance activists who lost livestock to Zanu-PF supporters in the violent run-up to the 2008 presidential election re-run were recently left disappointed after the court dismissed their case ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora men held at ransom by their wives
Man sitting on outdoor wooden stairwell, cupped hand wrapped around clenched hand, both hands held to mouth, a pained gaze" This is the everyday posture most men in the UK adopt under pressure from th...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 23:55hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavava
$20m for MDC violence victims
Government has disbursed $20 million to assist business operators whose properties were damaged during an opposition instigated violent protests in January this year which left a trail of destruction ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC official honours 2008 violence victims widows
MDC Mashonaland East provincial women assembly chairperson Brightness Mangora at the weekend brought smiles to three widows of the 2008 political violence victims through donation of various foodstuff...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches pray for Dabengwa
Churches have come together to pray for ailing Zimbabwe liberation war stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa, wishing him a speedy recovery.The Zapu leader, who has been unwell since November last year, wa...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims snub repatriation offer
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army Veterans Association on Sunday held a meeting to lobby government to facilitate the return of their exiled colleagues who fled the country in the 1980s at the ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
In Mnangagwa's universe, people are secondary to keeping grip on power
"THE welfare of the people is the highest law," goes a popular Latin maxim by Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero – who lived in the period 106BC to 43BC – that has been adopted by...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Editorial - NewsDay
Chamisa prays for violence victims
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Friday visited hospitals to see victims of the violence that took place during the recent three-day stay-away, which claimed the lives of at least 12 people, according to ...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF consoles violence victims' families, appeals for calm
ZANU-PF has sent condolences to the victims of the violence that was unleashed by rowdy MDC Alliance supporters in Harare on Wednesday.Six people died when the supporters clashed with security...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Can Zimbabwean exiles finally return home?
I know many Zimbabweans in the diaspora. I am one of them.Many such exiled Zimbabweans have written public break-up letters with the country of their birth and "filed for divorce" because the ...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 09:57hrs | | by Teldah Mawarire
Police had turned partisan, says Charamba
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday admitted that it had turned partisan and failed to professionally execute its duties during former President Robert Mugabe's reign, but had now turned a ne...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa's letter asking Russia for weapons
The Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation (DDF) which was formed by Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa to, among other things, push for restorative justice for the Gukurahundi and political violence victims in the coun...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Dumiso Dabengwa
Police refuse to open Mugabe Gukurahundi docket
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday reportedly declined to open a genocide docket against former President Robert Mugabe after members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) sought to have him charged for Guk...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: How to kill a peace commission at birth
Coordinator of the National Transitional Justice Working Group, Dzikamai Bere told 263Chat that the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) Act has four weaknesses which threaten the effec...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 10:54hrs | 43 | by Dzikamai Bere
'Should Grace Mugabe take over, Zimbabwe faces worse dictatorship'
ZAPU leader, Dumiso Dabengwa, yesterday said the country faces a "worse dictatorship" should First Lady, Grace Mugabe take over from her soon-to-be-94-year-old husband President Robert Mugabe....Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe ordered council security to attack vendors'
Harare City council last week at the reaction to President Robert Mugabe's announcement that vendors must be removed from the streets, reportedly attacked the traders and confiscated their wares at th...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 07:11hrs | 19 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim lawyers for electoral justice (ZLEJ) trust gets registered
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Electoral Justice Board has happily informed the nation and the generality of the international community that they have since registered The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Electoral Ju...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 09:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
NERA slapped with $1 million lawsuit
NATIONAL Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA), a coalition of opposition political parties, has been slapped with a $1 million lawsuit for damaging and looting property from business entities during violent...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heal Zimbabwe assist Zanu PF violence victims to report case to police
Heal Zimbabwe has said it strives to assist victims of violence so that they are able to access justice and requisite social services.The trust said it has therefore assisted Hlongani Ncube (f...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Coalition will create bloated govt
Daily News Bulawayo reporter, Jeffrey Muvundusi, talks to president of the newly-formed Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity (ZIPP) president Blessing Kasiyamhuru. Below are excerpts of the intervi...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T to raise funds to assist political violence victims
The MDC-T is planning to hold a dinner to raise funds to assist victims of political violence and its members subjected to alleged State harassment. Party leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be ...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF violence victims forced into sex orgies - report
Zanu PF members are viciously assaulting opposition members with firearms during episodes of targeted violence, a report by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum reveals.In its September Organis...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 12:52hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mujuru visits, prays for Zanu PF violence victims
Zimbabwe People First President Joice Mujuru reportedly visited victims of Zanu PF youth violence in Guruve and prayed for them.This was revealed by the party member Obert Mundevere Ncube on t...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 21:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
69% political violence reported in May
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported in its May report that the political affiliation for a majority of political violence victims for May was at 69% was unknown. The organisation said&n...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 04:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
22.6% violence victims were MDC-T members in April- ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said the political affiliation for a majority of political violence victims for April at 57.9 % was unknown.The orgisanisation said the MDC-T ha...Published: 27 May 2016 at 15:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF thrives on shedding blood-ZimFirst
ZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has claimed that Zanu PF has thrived through shedding blood of the people since independence in 1980.He said it is well known that Zanu PF is a monster which tak...Published: 09 May 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'I do not fear you,' Mujuru tells Mugabe
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has laughed off what she says are "desperate attempts" by President Robert Mugabe's deeply-divided Zanu-PF to silence her and other opposition parties through the co...Published: 01 May 2016 at 16:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T records 32,4% of violence victims
The main opposition party MDC-T is said to have recorded 32,4% violewnce victims in the past month.Zimbabwe Peace Project reported that the political affiliation for a majority of politi...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 05:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grace insults, Gukurahundi, Mphoko bootlicking, 2008 violence causes drought
A array of assumptions have been made that the current serious drought rocking Zimbabwe is due to first lady Grace Mugabe's tarried verbal attacks to the people, un appeased spirits of the Gukur...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
40% of violence victims in the country in October were MDC-T
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that 40% of the victims of violence that erupted in Harare and parts of the country during October were MDC-T."As the figure above shows...Published: 25 Nov 2015 at 05:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Spirit medium detects remains of the 2008 violence victims
A 19 year old girl from Epworth in Harare believed to be possessed by the spirit of a deceased relative has reportedly led her family to a mass grave in the Nyameni area of Marondera, where five skull...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF thugs compensate violence victims
Zanu-PF followers accused of burning down the homes of MDC supporters in Muzarabani in the violent run-up to the discredited June 2008 presidential run-off election that was supposed to pit President ...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru loyalists denied inputs
THE Zanu-PF factional fights have reportedly taken a nasty turn, with party members perceived to be sympathetic to ousted former Vice-President Joice Mujuru denied access to agricultural inputs so...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T, Renewal Team battle for violence victims
A NEW turf war has erupted between the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T and "fired" secretary-general Tendai Biti's Renewal Team, with both sides fighting to outwit each other in supporting victims of...Published: 30 Jun 2014 at 09:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mbedzi to represent Zim at the Miss Africa USA
Zimbabwean top model Vanessa Mbedzi (22) has been selected to represent the country at the Miss Africa USA finals scheduled for Silver Spring, Maryland, on June 29.The Miss Africa USA brings ...Published: 17 Jun 2013 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
12-member Domestic Violence Council appointed
Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Dr Olivia Muchena has appointed a 12-member Domestic Violence Council to facilitate the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act.T...Published: 28 May 2012 at 05:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims and other political violence victims
must go to Hell according to Patrick ChinamasaIt is one thing for people to talk about forgiveness and unity governments in future and it is another...Published: 29 Mar 2012 at 04:21hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
Would SADC and the AU endorse a military coup in Zimbabwe?
Media reports that Mugabe and his Zanu-pf party are again pushing for elections before the end of the year despite lack of key electoral reforms point towards what looks like a military coup. ...Published: 11 Jan 2012 at 21:06hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri | Political Analyst, London
War veterans slam Tsvangarai's move to compensate victims of political violence
The Zimbabwe War veterans have castigated MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai over utterances he made about compensating victims of political violence from his party describing the move as political gran...Published: 18 Oct 2011 at 01:13hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Tendai Biti is planning a stage managed escape from the country: ZBC
Political analysts have laughed off the alleged bombing incident at MDC-T Secretary General, Tendai Biti’s residence as headline seeking antics and cheap politicking ahead of the Ju...Published: 07 Jun 2011 at 06:58hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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