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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: 4 hrs ago | 1099 | by newZWire
Chin'ono barred from using 'spying' goggles
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have stopped jailed journalist Hopewell Chin'ono from wearing his Covid-19 protective goggles on suspicions they were fitted with spying technology to pry into the goings on wit...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2326 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume sent to Chikurubi maximum prison
Imprisoned journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and Transform Zimbabwe Presidet Jacob Ngarivhume will be transferred to CDhikurubi Maximum prison, their lawyer Doug Coltart of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Right...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 3614 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hopewell Chin'ono unmasked, as America slaps Tagwirei with sanctions
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei was born on the 19th February 1969 in SHURUGWI, his father the late Phineas Tagwirei was a modest man ND A MEMBER OF THE Seventh Day Adventist church.Kudakwashe Re...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 4505 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Gumbura's rape jail sentence slashed
RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura on Wednesday had his jail sentence on four counts of rape reduced, but his legal team claims it was not enough and is now seeking to appro...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Inclusive dialogue can save Zimbabwe
THE Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) has called for multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the country's worsening socio-political and economic crises.In a pastoral letter, EFZ said fai...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:09hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zinara boss cleared of corruption
FORMER Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) finance director, Mr Simon Taranhike, who was on bail pending appeal on his conviction and sentence after being jailed for effective 15 months on...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:58hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa endorses #ZimbabweanLivesMatter protest
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa resurfaced Tuesday with an emphatic endorsement of #Zimbabwelivesmatter and a surprise prison visit to incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition leade...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:27hrs | 6227 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa is back
Opposition MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa, accompanied by his lawyer Thabani Mpofu, on Tuesday visited incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono at Harare Remand Prison."Clearly we must...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 21:46hrs | 13891 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono, Ngarivhume's bail ruling on Thursday
HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi yesterday postponed bail ruling for journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume to Thursday.The two have been languishing i...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Fresh fuel shortages hit Zimbabwe
FRESH fuel shortages have hit the country and in Bulawayo most service stations have been dry for the past week. A news crew took to the streets of Bulawayo and observed motorists queueing for refills...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants salary gap a security threat'
PROGRESSIVE Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou yesterday warned that the huge salary gap between the security sector and other arms of the public service was a serious securi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:03hrs | 6205 | by Staff reporter
Local transmissions constitute 95% of Bulawayo Covid-19 cases
LOCAL Covid-19 transmissions have risen alarmingly in the country, constituting more than 70 percent of all cases, while they make up 94,5 percent of Bulawayo's infections. This comes at a tim...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:50hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
'60 arrested, 16 injured in #31July protests'
AT least 60 people were arrested by police ahead and during foiled citizen protests of July 31 while 16 were injured and had to seek medical attention, a human rights lawyers group has reported....Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 329 | by newzimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 142 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Mum migrates leaving three fatherless children alone with no food
FIFTEEN-year-old Josphat Chibaya (15) dreams of being a soldier and aims at protecting his country in times of trouble, his younger sister Emma (13) wants to ensure we have a healthy nation as she wan...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2893 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9851 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's relative jailed for swindling soldier, cop
A CHINHOYI magistrate has convicted a close relative to late former president Robert Mugabe for defrauding a couple of US$4 300 in a botched land deal.Ruvengo Jenami (45), who was facing a fra...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'opposition parties are terrorists'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has described MDC Alliance and all opposition political parties backing the Friday demonstrations as terrorists seeking to subvert the Constitution and usurp power illegal...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:05hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to release more prisoners
THE International Coalition Against Coronavirus for Africa (ICAC) Zimbabwean chapter has urged authorities to release more prisoners from overcrowded correctional facilities, which the organisation sa...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Suspected state agents armed with AK47s storm Josphat Ngulube's house
Bulawayo activist Josphat Mzaca Ngulube has reported that suspected state agents broke into his house and looted money, alcohol and took some of his personal documents. Ngulube is one of the p...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 18:40hrs | 6256 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Job Sikhala ordered to stop illegal construction
THE Chitungwiza Town Council has ordered MDC vice-chairperson, Job Sikhala to stop constructing an illegal industrial structure he is carrying out without required authorisation.Sikhala who is...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 4255 | by newzimbabwe
Mr Mnangagwa: Are you not kicking the can down the road?
DEAR President ED Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, I hope I find you well. The political script playing out in Zimbabwe is quite familiar not only to me, but many other citizens now fed up with the ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 3709 | by Rashweat Mukundu
Give us our daily bread: Giving thanks
Today I woke up thinking of a certain event that touched my heart a few years ago. This is a true story, and I believe the person concerned would find no qualms in me sharing the story. This is a stor...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 11:30hrs | 459 | by Robert Sigauke, fellow servant in the Lord, Johannesburg
Sikhala in hiding after Mnangagwa unleashes CIOs on him
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has allegedly deployed several teams of intelligence officers to hunt down MDC Alliance deputy national chairman Job Sikhala, who has gone into hiding ahead o...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:36hrs | 4308 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa aligned activist 'abducted' over July 31
BULAWAYO MDC Alliance youth activist Takunda Madzana was on Sunday night allegedly abducted by suspected State security agents who went on to quiz him on the planned July 31 protests.Governmen...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
'My new partner is worse than the one I had before'
IN 2013, we had good neighbours, a couple who suddenly started having problems in their marriage and would seek our help to solve their issues. They were not really big problems as such, but misunders...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:32hrs | 4672 | by Joseph Maniragena
Churches take Mnangagwa to task
CHURCHES have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to create an enabling environment that allows citizens to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate without hindrance....Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 3509 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer speaks on activists' arrest
Those wishing Zimbabwe ill are twisting the recent arrest by police and subsequent remand of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume for their own ends, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC urges Zimbabweans to take to the streets
THE opposition MDC Alliance has urged Zimbabweans to unite against the Zanu-PF regime, saying there was need for a broad alliance to demonstrate against the erosion of basic freedoms and confront Stat...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 8815 | by Staff reporter
Tilda Moyo leaving Star FM?
THE recent departure of Phathisani "Mashuga" Sibanda from Star FM to seek greener pastures may have left his cohost Kudzai Violet Gwara, aka KVG, "widowed" and their legions of radio followers the mor...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 2681 | by Staff reporter
Zim govt exposed, again, for its frivolous and unsubstantiated accusations of activists being Western-sponsored illegal regime c
What I love so much about the Zimbabwe regime's live televised press conferences, and parliamentary debates, is the way top government officials shamelessly stutter, struggle, and outrightly fail to a...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 260 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo's Covid-19 hotspot suburbs revealed
FOUR high-density suburbs have been singled out the hotspots of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bulawayo, with authorities hinting that considerations were being put in place to introduce stiffer lockdown me...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Full list of Army and CIO bosses who benefitted from the Farm Mechanization scandal
Political Analyst Alex Magaisa has published a list of Army, police and dreaded Central intelligence officers who benefited from the controversial RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme.Magaisa said hi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 8517 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Long winter for Gomba, Chin'ono
HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba and journalist Hopewell Chin'ono are set for a long cold winter season in remand prison after being denied bail yesterday and remanded in custody to August 7.Gomba, ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1531 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs father-in-law
A GWANDA man has been sentenced to perform 315 hours of community service for assaulting his father-in-law during a misunderstanding. Siqokoqela Nyathi (40) of Sinkugwe Village was convicted o...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe protests leaders flee their homes
MANY leading players in the planned month-end anti-government mass protests have fled their homes as raids on their residences by suspected State agents continue.This comes as authorities and ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 19:04hrs | 7344 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Hopewell Chin'ono denied bail...to remain in prison till 7 August
Award winning journalist band Covidgate whistleblower Hopewell Chin'ono has been remanded in custody till 7 August. He was arrested on Monday on charges of inciting public violence.The...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 14:34hrs | 3763 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chin'ono spends fourth night in remand prison
JOuRNAlIST Hopewell Chin'ono has spent a fourth night in remand prison after the magistrate hearing the case adjourned proceedings to today in line with curfew regulations decreed by President Emmerso...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Western Commonage suspends proceedings: 12 prosecutors in isolation
Magistrates' courts at Western Commonage Court in Bulawayo have suspended all trials after 12 public prosecutors, among them seven police officers attached to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA),...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's gvt is shooting itself in the foot'
THE government is scoring an own goal by being seen to be cracking down unjustly on the organisers of the planned July 31 mass protests and other critics, political analysts and rights groups told the...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:31hrs | 3276 | by Staff reporter
State wants Ngarivhume jailed
THE State wants the arrested convenor of the planned July 31 protests, Jacob Ngarivhume, to be denied bail, arguing if released he will lead demonstrations that will degenerate into violence. ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:19hrs | 2649 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mathupula denounces death penalty
SENATOR Chief Mandhlakazulu Mathupula Khumalo of Matabeleland North has denounced the death penalty saying it was not in keeping with the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) philosophy o...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:26hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Man fined for beating up 'cheating' lover
A VICTORIA Falls man who used a piece of hosepipe and stick to assault his girlfriend after he discovered that she was cheating on him has been fined $1 000 for domestic violence.Praymore Tshu...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:17hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Hopewell Chin'ono to spend 4th night in prison
Award-winning investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono will be spending another night in cells after his bail hearing was adjourned on Thursday with the magistrate citing a Covid-19 curfew for endin...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 16:01hrs | 2883 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Jacob Ngarivhume denied bail...remanded in custody till 14 August
A Harare magistrate has denied bail to Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume and remanded him in custody to 14 August.Ngarivhume was arrested Monday for alleged incitement to participate ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 11:47hrs | 6619 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Latest on Hopewell Chin'ono court case
The bail hearing for Hopewell Chin'ono kicked off in Harare on Thursday morning with Detective assistant inspector Edward Petse testifying against the granting of bail to Chin'ono.Chin'ono is ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 7264 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The state of Zimbabwe's political System and why they will not entertain Hopewell Chin'ono's exposure
The truth about Zimbabwe's ruling structures and why Hopewell Chin'ono is in deep trouble, Zimbabwe's parties appears to be a typical political organization. But the truth is, there is a deep connecti...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:21hrs | 2752 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Top cop appeals conviction, sentence
FORMER officer-in-charge Criminal Investigations Department in Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu, who was last week sentenced to an effective two-year jail term on charges of releasing a stole...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Police warn instigators of disobedience
The police have warned people who have been using social media to incite members of the security forces to disregard lawful orders and commands given by their superiors, saying they will be prosecuted...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:44hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
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