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Tracking the genealogies of societal violence and its manifestations in Zimbabwe
Investigating the Liberation war and post war timelines 1960 – 1987Zimbabwe is a country marred by a myriad form of violence. The entry point in this article is to establish the genealogies ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 18:02hrs | 484 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's difficult path to healing
ASS graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe.The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.The trauma persists even in t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:23hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe tactics replicated by Trump'
JOURNALISTS in the United States yesterday accused their President Donald Trump of emulating Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe in refusing to concede electoral defeat.The US went to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 2535 | by Staff reporter
'SADC Standby Brigade is ready' Charamba warns Americans
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba says Zimbabwe might find it necessary to summon United States of America Brian A. Nichols to question him on the violent protests that are rocking America aft...Published: 31 May 2020 at 12:53hrs | 14451 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa fast-tracking genocide reburials is an insult to victims
Dear EditorIn the 1980's Mugabe, Mnangagwa and Perence Shiri butchered over 20 000 Ndebele speakers. Having an unrepentant architect of the Gukurahundi genocide (Mnangagwa) preside over the pr...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:15hrs | 122 | by Bigboy Sibanda
MLO applauds Sudanese government for handing over genocidist Omar al Bashir to ICC
MLO would like to commend the brave decision taken by the government of Sudan to handover genocidist former President, Omar al Bashir and others to the International Criminals Court to face the charge...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1239 | by Israel Dube
Jonathan Moyo calls for UN invasion of Zimbabwe
Former minister and Zanu-PF spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo has called on the United Nations to invade Zimbabwe and protect citizens against state brutality suffered by MDC Alliance supporter...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 12:04hrs | 11601 | by Staff Reporter
Rihanna prays for Sudan
Barbadian singer and businesswoman Robyn Rihanna Fenty on Sunday posted an urgent message praying for the people of Sudan who were conducting a peaceful protest demanding a civilian government. ...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 19:31hrs | 2611 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF has our Money!
We were pleased to host President John Magufuli of Tanzania these past two days and he was kind enough to Cde Crocodile to speak the Zanu-PF party line and call for an end to sanctions on Zimbabwe, sa...Published: 31 May 2019 at 09:01hrs | 3274 | by GoodNess Nwachukwu
The Zanu-PF has our Money!
We were pleased to host President John Magufuli of Tanzania these past two days and he was kind enough to Cde Crocodile to speak the Zanu-PF party line and call for an end to sanctions on Zimbabwe, sa...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:09hrs | 1726 | by GoodNess Nwachukwu
Sudan rubbishes reports Bashir has fled to Zimbabwe for asylum
On the way, their jet made a curious stop in Sudan late Tuesday evening - despite a no-fly zone imposed in Khartoum by the military - fuelling speculation as to whether Bashir or his family could have...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1113 | by ANA
Omar al-Bashir flees to Zimbabwe?
A PRIVATE jet hired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa from Dubai made a curious stop in Khartoum on Tuesday, raising speculation that Sudan's former leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir or his family could have...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 16:39hrs | 51987 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Collective demands gukurahundi truth from Mnangagwa
PRESSURE groups coalescing under the banner of the Matabeleland Collective are ratcheting up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure that a truth-telling and associated prissuesprocess prec...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:24hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's fear over Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and top government officials, particularly Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and Agriculture minister Perrence Shiri, are scared stiff of personal criminal responsibilit...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:15hrs | 9187 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime mum on Sudanese coup
BARELY 17 months after the cathartic fall of former president Robert Mugabe, another dictator has been pushed out of power in Sudan following months of popular protests that jolted the military into s...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:21hrs | 1788 | by Staff reporter
Al Bashir steps down, under house arrest
Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir has stepped down and is under house arrest, multiple sources told CNN.His personal guard has been replaced and is under close watch.Bashir had ruled Suda...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 16:16hrs | 2436 | by CNN
Rhodesian chemical-biological war crimes
As Zimbabwe celebrates its 39th year of Independence, as Africans we have either chosen to ignore or have been brainwashed to forget the terrible things white Rhodesians did to our own freedom fighter...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 1527 | by Sifelani Tsiko
ICC, a waste of African resources
The Democratic Alliance, an opposition political outfit in South Africa appears to have run out of steam and is seeking extra fodder to power its waning relevance. This week, the party hit the headlin...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:29hrs | 534 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Masiyiwa Saga: A different perspective
In your response to Human Rights Watch's Ken Roth in the context of the unedifying Dewa-Masiyiwa episode that opened our new year, you say:"Consider, Mr Roth, that it is possible that we Z...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 12:15hrs | 4319 | by Tawandah Mutasa
Kimberley Process chair asked to suspend diamond exports from Israel
During a round-table meeting in the EU Parliament in Brussels the EU chair of the Kimberley Process, Hilda Hardeman and chair of the KP Civil Society Coalition (CSC), Shamiso Mtisi, were urged to susp...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:09hrs | 601 | by Sean Clinton
Supporting Mnangagwa without backing Zanu PF, backing MDC without supporting Chamisa
"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator," observed a sage.I am not into political prophecy, but this week last year - precisely November 6, 2017, the day then President Robert Mugabe s...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | 2749 | by Conway Tutani
Strive Masiyiwa never ceases to shame the devil
Strive Masiyiwa, the Econet Wireless founder, has always been his own man.With all his wealth, Masiyiwa does not get ahead of himself. His public persona is that of gentility — that social s...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 2760 | by Conway Tutani
If Mnangagwa gets away with it, then Kabila can too
WE knew, even before the first vote was cast, that Zimbabwe's election was marred by serious irregularities. These included, but were certainly not limited to: a partisan electoral commission; 250 000...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:10hrs | 522 | by Simon Allison
'Mnangagwa has always been at the centre of atrocities'
The recent re-emergence of violence by Zimbabwe's brutal regime, soon after the announcement of the 30 July 2018 harmonized elections, should never come as a surprise to anyone, as President Emmerson ...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 10:29hrs | 5614 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory
It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that one would think they take the world to be populated ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | 864 | by Reason Wafawarova
DRC will give Jean-Pierre Bemba diplomatic passport to return
Democratic Republic of Congo's government says it will give former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, recently acquitted on appeal at the International Criminal Court of war crimes, a diplomatic passpo...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 20:48hrs | 1434 | by AP
Gukurahundi: Walking in the deathly shadows of Kigali and Banjul
Should the architects of the Gukurahundi atrocities committed in Matabeleland and Midlands face legal action in an independent court of law convened in Zimbabwe, Africa or abroad? On May 30, 2016, His...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 15:19hrs | 1645 | by Tafi Mhaka
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 | 2050 | by Dzikamai Bere
Mnangagwa asked to ratify Human Rights Court
Visiting Pan-African Parliament (Pap) president Roger Nkodo Dang has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government to ratify a protocol that seeks to create a unified African Court of Justice an...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 10:01hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Zuma in court over Zimbabwe land grabs
South Africa President Jacob Zuma will tomorrow appear in the High Court in Pretoria for his role in the closure of Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal after it ruled in favour of 7...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 16:36hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
Don't whitewash Mugabe's henchmen
Last week at the World Economic Forum, Zimbabwe's new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, declared: "Zimbabwe is now open for business." Mnangagwa's appearance in Davos, Switzerland, was a first for his co...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 16:19hrs | 2575 | by Todd Moss
Gukurahundi policy dialogue forum on cards
SOUTHERN African Political Economy Series (Sapes) Trust in conjunction with other civic organisations in Bulawayo, will on Friday host a policy dialogue forum where the Gukurahundi issue will top the ...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 05:49hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Joseph Kabila has violated SADC's founding objectives without consequence
Political instability rocked the Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2016, when Joseph Kabila chose not to stand down as president of the central African nation when his term in office ended. He ...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 10:09hrs | 2597 | by Tafi Mhaka
Campaign to extradite Ethiopia's dictator Mengistu from Zimbabwe
In a move that stunned the world, Zimbabwe's defense forces ousted President Robert Mugabe from power on November 21 2017, bringing his 37 years of strongman rule to an end. When his successor, ...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 07:31hrs | 3042 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe suffers Mubarak Ceausescu shame
THE army has taken President Robert Mugabe and his wife into custody, triggering speculation of a military coup, though the military's supporters called it as a "bloodless correction." It wasn't clear...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 10:47hrs | 3693 | by Associated Press
Bob and Grace Mugabe's Muppet Show is in full swing
Get ready to salsa to the sounds of party-political kongonya when Grace Mugabe takes centre stage at the Zanu-PF special congress scheduled for December. So I hope Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa ca...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 09:59hrs | 2784 | by Tafi Mhaka
Rhodes estate should compensate white framers, not Mugabe
Compensation to white farmers for Zimbabwean land should be based on proper historic analysis that gives due credit when necessary but also brings the United Kingdom to the table as a responsible part...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 16:04hrs | 1635 | by Ken Sibanda
Grace Mugabe: diplomatic immunity isn't an 'out of jail' ticket
Grace Mugabe, the wife of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, is accused of assaulting a young woman while on a visit to South Africa. A week after the incident in a hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg's ...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 08:13hrs | 2843 | by Gerhard Kemp
Judges block bid to prosecute Blair over war crimes
Tony Blair should not face prosecution for his role in the 2003 Iraq war, the high court has ruled.The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and another senior judge, Mr Justice Ouseley...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:48hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Deny asylum to fleeing African dictators
If democracy in Africa, South Africa, as an example, is to succeed, then leaders should be denied political asylum after ruining their countries as a matter of international criminal justice. African ...Published: 28 May 2017 at 20:19hrs | 874 | by Ken Sibanda
Zanu-PF and crimes against humanity - The way forward
Zimbabwe is burning and demonstrations have become the order of the day. Zanu-PF has failed Zimbabweans and they have no solution to the economic problems people are facing. They have resorted...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 18:25hrs | 246 | by Tendai Mazenge
South Africa chickens out of ICC withdrawal
South Africa has revoked its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the High Court said the move was unconstitutional.It had notified the UN of its intention to leave...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 13:26hrs | 772 | by BBC
Zuma losses ICC withdrawal bid in court
Pretoria - The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that government's decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was unconstitutional and invalid. Deputy Judge President Phin...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 09:29hrs | 815 | by News24
Russia joins African countries withdraws from ICC
Moscow - Russia said on Wednesday it is formally withdrawing its signature from the founding statute of the International Criminal Court, saying the tribunal has failed to live up to the hopes of ...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 14:20hrs | 1686 | by Agencies
'US forces may have committed war crimes,' says ICC
The Hague - US armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said in a report on Monday, raising...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 13:23hrs | 665 | by Agencies
Why has George Bush and Tony Blair not been dragged to ICC?
The Gambia has announced its withdrawal from the international criminal court, accusing the tribunal of the "persecution and humiliation of people of colour, especially Africans".The announcem...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 13:06hrs | 1714 | by BBC
South Africa: ICC Move Betrays Victims
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's announced withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty represents an enormous blow to its commitment to justice for atrocity crimes, Human Rights Watch s...Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 12:39hrs | 815 | by APO
South Africa begin process of withdrawing from ICC
South Africa has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), media reports say.They say diplomats have notified the UN of the move, accusing the ...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 06:47hrs | 760 | by BBC
How Mugabe double-crossed Joseph Kabila
"Way before Marange, Mugabe and his military men had already started rampant racketeering, illegal mafia-style smuggling, double-crossing, double dealing, as well as illegal arms peddling with Congole...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 16:10hrs | 5404 | by Ken Yamamoto
UN reforms: President Mugabe on a right track
"The UN is a body that encompasses the countries of the world. For him (President Mugabe) to say that he wants to form a splinter organisation, it shows that he is not normal," said Obert Gutu the MDC...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 13:19hrs | 969 | by Mukachana Hanyani
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