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US, UK, EU, lie about Zimbabwe sanctions
The United States, European Union and United Kingdom vigorously pushed back on charges by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that sanctions are behind the economic collapse and the general poverty in the co...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 3307 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa speaks on Zimbabwe sanctions
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the government was using sanctions to divert Zimbabweans' attention from its failure to deliver on promises to improve citizens' lives.The gov...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2584 | by Staff reporter
A visit to Karanda with Jacob Ngarivhume
Perched right deep into Mashonaland Central is Karanda Mission Hospital. The hospital has become an oasis of hope for a nation whose health delivery system is on its knees.People from every co...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1210 | by Muridzo F
Chamisa's MDC debates official's involvement in abduction
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance is today expected to seal the fate of a senior party official, Tendai Masotsha, accused of conniving with State security agents in the abduction of a Bulawayo-based...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF wields the axe, blocks G40 members comeback
Zanu PF's politburo yesterday upheld the suspension of Mashonaland West deputy chairman Dexter Nduna and former Matabeleland North youth chairman Tamuka Nyoni while also blocking former Youth League s...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:47hrs | 3551 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga loses party grip, close allies sink
BELEAGUERED Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga made spirited but futile efforts to save his allies from the Zanu-PF political guillotine during Wednesday's tense politburo meeting in which a titanic ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:44hrs | 17034 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF blames everything on sanctions
The sanctions which were imposed by the British, the Americans and European countries on Zimbabwe were as a result of human rights abuses and the land which was taken from the white farmers.I ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 288 | by Leonard Koni
Time for African youths to silence the gun
Africa as a continent needs a fresh start with new crop of leadership who are not necessarily militant or use their muscles to solve the problems facing their nations but who will use their brains....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1239 | by Leonard Koni
Hostilities persist in Chamisa party
HOSTILITIES in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance are escalating with each passing day amid complaints that its elections directorate approved unqualified candidates to contest the Highfield West pri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:18hrs | 3672 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu freed on $10,000 bail
Former Zanu-PF Youth League political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu was granted Z$10,000 bail by the High Court on Wednesday after 10 days in prison.Justice Davison Moses Foroma said magistrate...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:42hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed over January 2019 protests acquitted after 22 months in prison
The High Court has quashed a three-year jail sentence imposed on a pro-democracy activist who was arrested during fuel price riots in January 2019.Tonderai Masanga, a resident of Southlea in H...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:15hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa tactics miserable'
AS TURMOIL consumes the country's opposition, renowned professor of World Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Stephen Chan, has once again warned Nelson...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:55hrs | 4261 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pushed to engage Chamisa
CHURCHES have encouraged Zimbabweans to remain hopeful about the country's future, as they continue to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to help resolve th...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:34hrs | 13104 | by Staff reporter
Nurses protests: 10 acquitted
TEN of the 11 nurses, who were arrested in June for allegedly contravening COVID-19 lockdown regulations after they gathered at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) in Hara...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:30hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
'Militarisation worse in post-Mugabe era'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has used the military to infringe on the rights of Zimbabwean citizens and the media, far more than his late predecessor, Robert Mugabe, a fresh report by the Zimbabwe Dem...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:20hrs | 2602 | by Staff reporter
'Tsenengamu is safer in custody'
THE threat on the life of former Zanu-PF youth league national political commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu, who was being trailed by unknown people, cannot be downplayed and he should be kept in custody f...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:34hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Students lock-up Impala Car Rental
Placard-waving students on Thursday staged a demonstration outside an Impala Car Rental motor spares shop in central Harare, before chain-locking it.The students accused the company of being b...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | 970 | by Staff reporter
Mahere, Dangarembga case deferred to October 22
THE court ruling on MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, prominent author Tsitsi Dangarembga and 13 other activists who had challenged their placement on remand was yesterday deferred to October 2...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Loga challenges Zifa
WARRIORS gaffer Zdravko "Loga" Logarusic has challenged Zifa to improve in their planning and organisation of national team matches after the chaotic build-up to the team's international friendly matc...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:35hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala bail judge Erica Ndewere suspended, accused of 'misconduct'
A judge who recently granted bail to MDC vice chairman Job Sikhala has been suspended by the Judicial Service Commission headed by Chief Justice Luke Malaba.Justice Erica Ndewere of the Harare...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 6505 | by Staff reporter
Protests stall MDC Alliance primaries
BULAWAYO MDC Alliance women's assembly members on Sunday staged a demonstration against the party's leadership, stalling the holding of primary elections to replace the late ward 8 councillor, Ronia M...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:58hrs | 2770 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits stalking opponents, critics
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made astonishing confessions his government was tracking the daily movements of opponents and critics through their electronic gadgets.The state leader was add...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:53hrs | 3848 | by Staff reporter
'#BlackLivesMatter movement to continue'
A UNITED States political expert has predicted that the #BlackLivesMatter movement will persist regardless of who wins the country's highly-charged presidential election set for next month as the prot...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:48hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trainee doctors in embarrassing apology to Chiwenga
ZIMBABWEAN doctors specialising in different medical disciplines across the country and in their Masters' programmes have apologised to Vice President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga over pro...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | 3816 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Cyril Ramaphosa defends white farmers
Just over a week ago, Brendin Horner, a young farm manager in the Free State, was murdered in an appalling act of cruelty. His killing should anger and upset every one of us. ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:01hrs | 1843 | by Cyril Ramaphosa
Tsenengamu denied bail
FORMER Zanu-PF youth league national commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu was Saturday denied bail and remanded in custody to Monday by Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna.Tsenengamu is facing charges of in...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 20:54hrs | 1774 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu aware of 'imminent risks and dangers' to his life
Former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu walked into a police station on Friday and was arrested, police said for inciting Zimbabweans to commit public violence.Tsenengamu was named in a...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2460 | by Staff reporter
Magaya wants clerics to 'Be frank with Mnangagwa on talks'
OUTSPOKEN Zimbabwe Divine Destiny Church leader Ancelimo Magaya says clerics must be frank with President Emmerson Mnangagwa as they push for an all-inclusive dialogue to end the country's decades-lon...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 19:21hrs | 6751 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education in crisis
That Zimbabwe is in a deep crisis is open to everyone to see. What is disheartening is the choreographed denial by the ZANU PF government. The ZANU PF government has been driving Zimbabwe towa...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 08:16hrs | 5816 | by Staff Reporter
Sikhala in fresh bid to have charges quashed
MDC Alliance vice chairman Job Sikhala has asked the High Court for a review of a ruling by Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube placing him on remand.Sikhala maintains that his arrest was unlawful ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 21:02hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's weak opposition falls prey to vultures
CELEBRATING Zimbabwe's main opposition party's 21st anniversary on September 26, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa tweeted: "MDCA 21st anniversary celebrations ... Thank you beloved and fellow citize...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:09hrs | 883 | by Gumisai Nyoni
Sanctions were fashioned to kill Zimbabwe - Academic
THE sanctions imposed by the West on Zimbabwe, are no longer about inculcating good governance and freedoms but a tactless, miscalculated economic warfare, fashioned to ‘kill' Zimbabwe.Curio...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 239 | by David Matsanga in London United Kingdom
'They want to jail me,' says Sikhala
MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala claims that state security agents have been deployed to influence the outcome of his case where he is facing charges of inciting violence.Sikhala wa...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:18hrs | 2651 | by Staff reporter
The militarisation of Zimbabwean politics bad for democracy, freedoms
The military remains a decisive power-bloc in transition politics of Zimbabwe.Its decisive role has been highlighted in four interrelated ways.First, the military elite captured Zanu-P...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:11hrs | 396 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
Mnangagwa moving towards establishing a one-party State
After casting his vote two years ago for Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC), now Benard Mhere has grown bitter, accusing the ruling party of trying to destroy the MDC.Mhe...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 18:02hrs | 5918 | by Anadolu Agency
Soldier runs amok, kills 2 villagers
A SOLDIER based in Hwange on Wednesday reportedly went berserk after an argument with imbibers and indiscriminately fired into the crowd at Chisuma shopping centre, killing two men.The inciden...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:34hrs | 2075 | by Staff reporter
Demystifying false narrative of a 'crisis' in Zimbabwe
For the past few months, Zimbabwe's internal and external detractors have been in overdrive, pushing a concocted narrative that there was a "crisis" in Zimbabwe. This false narrative is premis...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 206 | by Pardon Muzavavi
Teachers demand meeting with government
TEACHERS' unions have demanded to meet government in order to resolve the current impasse between the two parties. This comes as most teachers across the country boycotted the reopening of pub...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 18:22hrs | 1950 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala exhibiting leadership Chamisa is lacking
FIREBRAND MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, says the struggle for a just and better Zimbabwe for all will never be derailed by the alleged persecution of individuals like h...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 17:54hrs | 5288 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa requests Zimbabweans to pray for Joana Mamombe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to pray for jailed MDC MP Joana Mamombe and other political prisoners who are languishing in prison. In a Twitter post on Saturda...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 11:06hrs | 4189 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa claims that 'I'm committed to democracy'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday told the world that his government had implemented political and legislative reforms and was entrenching constitutionalism, democracy and rule of law, includin...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:25hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
We are not a mafia company: Impala
IMPALA Car Rental, whose vehicle was used in the alleged abduction of Tawanda Muchehiwa, nephew of senior journalist and ZimLive editor Mdudusi Mathuthu, has said it played no role in the crime and ha...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa turns to Israelis as populace gets restive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's edgy administration, battling to contain a restive populace amid a worsening economic crisis, has engaged the Israeli government for possible deployment of security expe...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:58hrs | 5419 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted' Zimbabwe doctor free of poisoning: Tests
A RANGE of blood and urine specimens extracted from Peter Magombeyi, the former Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) president, who was allegedly abducted by state security last year showed no...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1222 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa forges ahead with Constitution amendments
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Thursday told the United Nations his administration was forging ahead with amendments to the national constitution, a process which has been dismissed by opponents as an a...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:49hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe a big prison'
ZIMBABWE is one huge Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, where people need to be freed from the yokes of dictatorship and gross human rights violations, opposition MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sik...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4920 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told not to label workers terrorists
THE International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to stop labelling workers demanding fair wages as terrorists in order to justify a clampd...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 4055 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa calls for broad-based confrontation against Mnangagwa
THE MDC Alliance has threatened to stage a fresh broad-based confrontation against the Zanu-PF-led government in the wake of deteriorating socio-economic conditions.In a communique signed by p...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 7288 | by newzimbabwe
Sikhala walks out of the tall walls of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-chair Job Sikhala yesterday walked out of the tall walls of Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison after he was granted $50 000 bail by High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere, ...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:07hrs | 3784 | by Staff reporter
'Mamombe must be detained at govt psychiatric hospital'
THE State yesterday filed for MDC Alliance legislator Joanah Mamombe to be detained at a government mental institution for an independent assessment by government doctors after her private doctor indi...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:06hrs | 2311 | by Staff reporter
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