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BREAKING: Abducted MDC ladies atteds court at Parktown Hospital
Three MDC activists who were arrested for staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park have appeared before a magistrate at a court session that was held at Parktown Hospital on Wednesday afternoon...Published: 1 hr ago | 745 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tortured abductees charged over lockdown hunger protest
ZIMBABWEAN authorities on Tuesday charged three opposition MDC-Alliance party youth leaders, who are victims of abduction and torture, with committing public violence after they allegedly participated...Published: 7 hrs ago | 2082 | by Stephen Jakes
Police formally charge abducted MDC activists from their hospital beds
POLICE have formally charged three female MDC Alliance activists who were abducted and tortured by suspected state security agents some two weeks ago for conducting a street demonstration during the c...Published: 9 hrs ago | 440 | by newzimbabwe
Khupe vows to take over Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House after coronavirus lockdown
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, pictured, has upped the ante in the war for the control of the country's main opposition - vowing yesterday that she will eject her rivals from the party's iconi...Published: 19 hrs ago | 3047 | by Staff reporter
Abducted MDC ladies face 5 years imprisonment
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has charged MDC cadres Joana Mamombe,Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri with section 37 of the Criminal Code which prohibits gathering with intent to promote public violen...Published: 22 hrs ago | 7414 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Africans have never enjoyed genuine freedom and prosperity, as yesteryear heroes now modern day demons
As the people of Africa, including those in the diaspora, commemorate the establishment of the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) on 25 May, one can not help feel a deep and heart-rending sense ...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 510 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa lashes African leaders
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday called on African leaders to stop silencing citizens and undermining human rights and democracy as the continent commemorated Africa Day....Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1649 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the pornography of violence
A female chief superintended Philips accompanied by Dr Nyamukure were assigned to take pictures of MDC parliamentarian Joana Mamombe, Chinembiri and Marova for investigation purposes. They were made t...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:22hrs | 2439 | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC official granted bail
HARARE Ward 23 councillor Stanley Manyenga, who is also the opposition MDC Alliance Harare provincial chairperson, was freed on $1 000 bail on Friday after he appeared in court on public violence char...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:01hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to send army to fight islamic terrorists in Mozambique
South African government is reportedly putting systems to send its army to wage a war against the extremist Islamist insurgents that have liberated some parts of northern Mozambique. South Afr...Published: 25 May 2020 at 11:08hrs | 5111 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man fined for beating up 'cheating' wife
A Hwange man who suspected that his wife was cheating on him beat her up after he saw a text message allegedly coming from a boyfriend. Mavuto Sithole (37) of Number S9 Makwika Village, Number...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Lovemore Moyo warns brawling MDC officials
THE former Speaker of Parliament and MDC national chairperson, Lovemore Moyo, has warned brawling MDC officials that they risked losing their relevance unless they urgently heal their rift.Spe...Published: 24 May 2020 at 16:49hrs | 8803 | by Staff reporter
Healthcare professionals discover their voice
There is a seismic shift in Zimbabwe's political discourse. A critical segment of its population is beginning to find its voice - healthcare staff.Doctors, nurses and psychotherapists have lar...Published: 23 May 2020 at 10:03hrs | 1705 | by Sandra Kudenga
Mwonzora pleads with Chamisa's MPs
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora yesterday pleaded with MDC Alliance MPs who have disengaged from Parliament in protest against the recall of four legislators by the Thokozani Khupeled faction...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:54hrs | 8227 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance official in court
MDC-Alliance Harare provincial chairperson and Ward 23 councillor, Stanley Manisa Manyenga (38) appeared in court yesterday on allegations of participating in illegal demonstrations held by members of...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:32hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
America wants Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks
WITH Zimbabwe's political and economic crises deepening, the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) have once again implored authorities to engage the MDC to end the country's myri...Published: 22 May 2020 at 20:14hrs | 3825 | by Staff reporter
Parliament must prioritise food security
Eye on Food Security Zimbabwe has followed the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture and its proceedings with keen interest. Hon. Joanna Mamombe is a member of this Committee. We du...Published: 22 May 2020 at 18:28hrs | 629 | by Busani Malinga
Tendai Biti takes Mnangagwa head on
Tendai Biti, the Vice President of the main MDC faction led by Nelson Chamisa, has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of failing to understand statecraft and the principle of the same. ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 18:02hrs | 9069 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZCP Central Committee condemns ZANU PF sponsored abuse against women
Three recent incidents involving the beating of 6 women by police and army unmask not only the patriarchal nature of the Zimbabwean society but also, the reluctance of government to take disciplinary ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 15:18hrs | 1472 | by ZCP
People living with HIV in dilema-ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has revealed that in a survey conducted in various districts respondents were at pains to explain that people living with HIV and AIDS are struggling to have the recommended...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:51hrs | 1739 | by Stephen Jakes
Father of MDC activist won't forgive brutal security agents
HENRY Chimbiri, the father of MDC-Alliance activist Cecilia Chimbiri (pictured), who was reportedly abducted and tortured by suspected state security agents, says he broke down when he first saw his 3...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1739 | by Staff reporter
Man kills neighbour in fight over missing heifer
A KEZI man is on the run after he allegedly fatally assaulted his neighbour in a misunderstanding over his missing heifer. Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson, Chief Inspector Ph...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:26hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean dilemma: Currently there is no alternative to Zanu-PF
The dilemma of the suffering Zimbabweans who have hope in the opposition is engraved in class struggle spiced up by intra-party fighting, tribalism, nepotism, domination for purposes of exploitation w...Published: 21 May 2020 at 19:42hrs | 4128 | by Chadya Tapiwa Diamond
Thousands flee homes as Islamic terrorists takeover parts of Mozambique
Thousands of Mozambican residents of Cabo Delgado have fled their home after the region was by Islamic terrorists who are engaged in a fierce war with contract killers led by former Zimbabwean army Co...Published: 21 May 2020 at 15:35hrs | 15819 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Latest on MDC Youth leader who was arrested by armed police
MDC Alliance Harare Provincial Chairperson Stanley Manyenga who was arrested by armed police on Wednesday was charged with contravening COVID-19 lockdown regulations including public violence followin...Published: 21 May 2020 at 11:46hrs | 3962 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's eased lockdown is a lockdown no-more?
52 Days into the lockdown, and the Ministry of Health and Child-Care reported that as at 20 May 2020, cumulatively a total of 18 244 rapid screening tests and 14 618 PCR diagnostic tests had been cond...Published: 21 May 2020 at 11:23hrs | 2727 | by Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe
EU, UK, US light fires under Mnangagwa
THE international community has unequivocally told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that it expected his government to carry out swift, thorough and credible investigations into last week's abduction and ...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:08hrs | 3441 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa you are now pissing us off
Sir you have become a Twitter President of which most of the people who are following you are in the diaspora the ones who did not vote for you.We now need you to call for a Massive Civil Diso...Published: 20 May 2020 at 21:45hrs | 4495 | by Knowledge Hakata
USA and EU embassies' statement on MDC and Cowdray Park ladies
The Heads of Mission of the Delegation of the European Union, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and the Heads of Mission of Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and t...Published: 20 May 2020 at 21:42hrs | 4863 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mtetwa, I'm done flattering tyrants: if ED 'committed no crime' then who is 'the monster of depravity'
My dear sister Beatrice Mtetwa, I am done with appeasing tyrants! We have allowed tyrants like Mugabe and Mnangagwa ride roughshod over us, denying us our freedoms and rights for the l...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3882 | by Wilbert Mukori
SADC says political situation in the region is relatively stable except for Mozambique
A communiqué released after the Sadc troika meeting concluded that the political situation in the region was relatively stable except for the situation obtaining in Mozambique."The Extraordin...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants Zimbabwe on Sadc agenda
THE opposition MDC Alliance has pleaded with the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to put Zimbabwe on its agenda for the next summit, arguing that the situation in the country was ripe for...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1682 | by Staff reporter
Sex vendors in the jaws of COVID-19
THE catastrophic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic wreaking havoc across the globe have left many people financially crippled and impoverished.While lockdown proclamations in many...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans escape from South Africa jail
FOUR prisoners, among them three Zimbabweans awaiting trial, are on the run after escaping from their remand holding cells at the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Services facility in Pretoria, South Afr...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:54hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Deported convicts wreak havoc in quarantine centres
Four returnees from South Africa, believed to have been recently released from prison, are now quarantined for an unspecified period in remand prison cells after their arrest for theft and violence wh...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:51hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers heavily assault a rural female teacher
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has issued a statement condemning the assault of its National Secretary for Gender and Welfare, Moreblessing Nyambara by a soldier on Saturday. ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 15:39hrs | 3720 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Abductions and torture: the fiery monster of fear in our midst!
Alliance for People's Agenda has lamented that abductions and torture are the fiery monsters of fear in the country."A week into lockdown, some Harare policemen were filmed enthusiastically be...Published: 19 May 2020 at 10:15hrs | 1065 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's advisers condemn MDC leaders' abduction
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisers under the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) have condemned the abduction of opposition MDC Alliance officials, saying the actions of his regime were taking th...Published: 19 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1925 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Bill awaits Parly debate
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill was gazetted last week and now proceeds to Parliament for debate and possible amendment before being passed into law. The Bill seeks to set out the ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Schools prepare to reopen exam classes
As part of planning for the imminent return of exam classes in schools, stakeholders are now working out the practical logistics for the needed safe and secure conditions for children to return, Infor...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira: please keep quiet
I was pained to see your video that was commenting about the abductions of Honourable Mamombe, Chimbiri and Marova. What is intriguing is that you are saying the young women stage-managed their abduct...Published: 18 May 2020 at 18:36hrs | 3176 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mwonzora, Komichi seek VIP protection
MDC senior leaders Douglas Mwonzora and Morgan Komichi have also asked for police protection amid rising threats from rivals in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling which ordered for an extraordinary ...Published: 17 May 2020 at 12:16hrs | 5254 | by Staff reporter
Fighting for nothing, living for anything
Blessed are those who will intently read Bishop Lazi's sermon today and take it to heart for they will be able to see the future.You see, politics is not a beauty pageant: You cannot just catw...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:17hrs | 139 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mudzuri pleads for church, chiefs mediation into MDC fall-out
MDC top politician and senator, Elias Mudzuri has called on church leaders, traditional chiefs, business executives, among some prominent figures within society, to help bring together the party's feu...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:16hrs | 644 | by newzimbabwe
Sex predators roaming online
Now more than ever, online child sexual predators are preying on unwary kids the internet. With school calendars, world over, suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, children are depending on o...Published: 16 May 2020 at 12:55hrs | 1199 | by Busisani Ncube
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda questions UK, USA stance on political violence in Zimbabwe
Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has questioned the stance by Embassies of the United Kingdom and the United States of America to condemn the recent alleged abduction of 3 female MDC activists ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 20:26hrs | 9432 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Please help, our daughter has been brutally assaulted by Zimbabwe Secret Service: Joanne Mamombe our girl-child!
Is this the rogue government that begged funding for coronavirus from international donors just last month of April, asking for forgiveness from the western donors for their past actions and insulting...Published: 15 May 2020 at 20:24hrs | 5025 | by Nomazulu Thata
Jonathan Moyo fingers Owen Ncube in MDC abductions
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the abduction of MDC Lawmaker Joana Mamombe and other two activists was the work of Minister of State Security Owen Mudha Ncube. Said Moyo, "This is the dirty ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 18:18hrs | 8012 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Time to hold MDC leaders to account
IT was in 2000 when I had just begun my "A" level studies at Rupare High school in Bikita, Masvingo.We were going towards the 2000 parliamentary election. Zanu-PF had just lost a constitutiona...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2652 | by Moses Tofa
Squabbles to weaken opposition movement
WIDENING fractures within the ranks of the opposition, which have culminated in four of its representatives being recalled from Parliament, will weaken the MDC in its various formations and retard the...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:23hrs | 907 | by Tinashe Kairiza
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