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Opposition offenders are no special citizens
Following the recent sentencing of MDC Alliance activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe to an effective 14 months in prison for inciting public violence, there were mixed reactions from across the political...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 11:46hrs | 1155 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Trump's 'Make America Great Again' movement has only just begun
Former US president Donald Trump has been found not guilty in his impeachment trial.In a statement after the trial, Mr Trump said it was "a sad commentary on our times" that the Democrats had ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 13:17hrs | 2734 | by Staff reporter
Is UK impeding Zimbabwe's democratisation?
WHERE persuasion does not work, the big powers continue turning to sanctions.The imposition of sanctions against perceived powerful individuals in "undemocratic regimes" like Zimbabwe has been...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 440 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
UK exposes MDC Alliance violent streak
MDC-Alliance's violence and terror tendencies that have now found space on social media platforms have yet again hogged the limelight after a party activist with close links to the party leader Mr Nel...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:38hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns Western embassies over January 2019 'insurrection'
GOVERNMENT has condemned a coterie of Western embassies, which have gone on a co-ordinated and biased social media attack on Zimbabwe over the January 2019 violent protests that rocked the country's m...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
UK, US, EU wants Mnangagwa to probe 2019 killings
THE United States (US) yesterday said Harare should investigate and bring to book the perpetrators of the January 2019 killings, where soldiers and the police allegedly shot and killed at least 23 peo...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:03hrs | 1751 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Defiant Trump says 'The movement we started is only just beginning' in farewell speech
US President Donald Trump struck an optimistic and defiant note in his farewell address, vowing that his movement is here to stay and praising his administration's achievements in restoring America wh...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1423 | by Staff reporter
Why movement to restore American democracy is needed
Wildlife-rich and climate change-vulnerable Sub-Saharan Africa has been following the political events unfolding in the United States with great interest. What happens in America still has worldwide c...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:07hrs | 394 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zanu-PF angry over US's local envoy failure to denounce America's demos
THE ruling party Zanu-PF has been angered by the failure of the United States of America's envoy to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols to denounce the recent violent protests at the Capitol Hill in Washington DC,...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
USA democracy under the spotlight
The year has started on a bad note with the COVID-19 pandemic taking lives, causing sickness, destroying livelihoods and depriving people of freedoms. It is like starting a new a day under a thick dar...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:58hrs | 295 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zanu-PF takes a jibe at Brian Nichols over Capitol Hill incident
Zanu-PF has taken a jibe at the US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian A Nichols and other "local and international" critics for what they called their "deafening" silence at the protest that occu...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 19:56hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pins hopes on Biden
THE ruling Zanu-PF has expressed hope that the inauguration of America's President-elect Joe Biden who assumes office on Wednesday will see relations between the two countries turn the corner and lead...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:25hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
SABC blind to progress, Peter
A few days ago, I wandered into a Twitter discussion between Peter Ndoro and a gentleman called Selwyn Nkomo and various other people.The discussion I stumbled upon was about the apparent bias...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:23hrs | 602 | by Stembile Mpofu
Zanu-PF slates US envoy
United States of America's envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols' failure to denounce the violent insurrection that happened at Capitol Hill in Washington DC on January 6 - killing five people an...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:20hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe calls for a 'sober reflection' by Washington
Zimbabwe is doubling down on taking apparent satisfaction in the U.S. Capitol insurrection Wednesday, with Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo criticizing the 'politically-motivated violence' and call...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 17:00hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Zuckerberg bans Trump from his Facebook
Facebook on Thursday said it will block President Trump on its platforms at least until the end of his term on Jan. 20, as the mainstream online world moved forcefully to limit the president after yea...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 19:32hrs | 1388 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to offer Trump a word of advice?
Chamisa sits in his office feeling highly encouraged by the events in America. Should he offer Trump a message of solidarity? Amidst all the hypocrisy and pretence of democracy and being a democratic ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 09:44hrs | 2970 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF pleads for national unity, silent on gukurahundi genocide
AS THE country commemorated Unity Day yesterday, the ruling Zanu-PF implored Zimbabweans to shun violence and unite to foster enduring peace and national development.At the same time, the form...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 18:09hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Rtd Col. Dyck holds fort in Mozambique
SOUTHERN African Development Community leaders gathered for an emergency meeting this week in Maputo, Mozambique, following a recent get-together in Gaborone, Botswana, to discuss the volatile politic...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:37hrs | 7000 | 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 | 195 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu argues that Gukurahundi genocide was dealt with by 1987 Unity Accord
IN VIEWS that are set to be a major talking point in the coming days and weeks, former Cabinet minister Obert Mpofu, says it is time to forgive and move on from the Gukurahundi killings of the 1...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:31hrs | 1958 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF calls for slavery reparations
Zanu-PF has joined the rest of the continent in calling for reparations from Western countries that enslaved and looted resources from Africa years ago.The clarion call comes as the Namibian G...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | 1655 | 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 | 6555 | 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 | 2482 | by Staff reporter
Car rental company hired out abduction vehicle
One of the vehicles used by state security agents in the abduction of Tawanda Muchehiwa, the nephew of ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, was hired from a Harare car rental company, ZimLive revealed....Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 19:43hrs | 3599 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accuses some clerics of pursuing 'nefarious agendas'
POLITICAL tensions continue to escalate in the country, with a bristling President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing some local churches yesterday of advancing a dangerous agenda against the government, the...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says his detractors in disarray and desperate after July 31 failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has commended Zimbabweans for shunning the 31 July demonstrations which had been planned by the opposition and other anti-government forces.Speaking at the Zanu-PF...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 16:09hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells 'evil' churches to go to hell
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged churches, which have openly criticised his govern ment's human rights record, to join politics instead of using "the pulpit to advance a nefarious agenda"....Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 4709 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala sets aside August 31 for 'more protests'
THE July 31 Movement has set aside August 31 for "more protests" to pile pressure on the government to end corruption, arbitrary arrests and other gross human rights violations against civilians and a...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 4467 | by Staff reporter
Why I Don't Support #FreeHopewell
What the world still needs to understand is that borders are powerful creations. They affect so many things and variations in geographical vicinities. By merely crossing a bridge, fence or walkway acr...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 4464 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
Mugabe coup announcer attacks 'captured' AU
ZIMBABWE has sensationally claimed that the African Union Commission was influenced by the United Kingdom to issue a statement denouncing Harare for the deteriorating human rights situation in the cou...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:35hrs | 15767 | by Staff reporter
An MDC Government Around 2025
Whilst the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating. On the other hand, the centre-left MDC's democratic project has been bashed a...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:46hrs | 1490 | by Robert Sigauke
Zimbabwe activists decry ‘unprecedented clampdown' after arrests
INVESTIGATIVE journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has over the years leveraged his large social media following to share posts about human rights abuses and alleged government corruption.On June 20, ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:00hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:52hrs | 3936 | by Staff reporter
Could a hashtag help achieve in Zimbabwe what protests have failed to do?
Could a social media hashtag - tapping into the energy and anger of the global #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon - help achieve in Zimbabwe what years of street protests, strikes and political campaigns ha...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 657 | by Andrew Harding Africa correspondent, BBC News
Warriors stars join #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
NATIONAL football team stars have joined other local and international celebrities in condemning human rights abuses in the country under the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter social media movement.The m...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 4681 | by Staff reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga freed
Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier, an AFP journalist in court said....Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 19:31hrs | 2196 | by AFP
Zimbabwe businesses closed, streets deserted on day of protests
Businesses were shut and streets deserted around Zimbabwe on Friday as security forces increased patrols to stop anti-government protests called by activists over corruption and economic hardship....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 2495 | by Staff reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga 'arrested'
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist, filmmaker, Gender and cultural activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has tweeted that she has been arrested in the capital, Harare....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:29hrs | 3884 | by BBC/AFP
Mnangagwa vows to put down protests
AHEAD of tomorrow's planned mass demonstrations, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned that security forces will deal robustly with all unsanctioned protests, the Daily News reports.This com...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Police uncover demo plot
POLICE yesterday unearthed a plot by some vigilante groups linked to the country's opposition parties to commit acts of banditry that include burning service stations and barricading roads to trigger ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 693 | 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 | 885 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns against demos
President Mnangagwa yesterday warned that the security forces "will be vigilant and on high alert" to deal with any attempts to destabilise the constitutionally-elected Government or create a public h...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 1083 | by Staff reporter
'Security forces ready to deal with demos'
President Mnangagwa yesterday warned that security forces "will be vigilant and on high alert" to deal with any attempts to destabilise the constitutionally-elected Government or create a public healt...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 239 | 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 | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns US against interference?
THE arrest of political activists Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume last week, was a pre-emptive move by authorities to quell a potentially violent foreign-funded insurrection meant to destabilis...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
America wants Biti, Sikhala to remove Chamisa?
Ever wondered why Nelson Chamisa chose to hand over reigns to the insipid WELSHMAN NCUBE as he grieved over loss of his dear mother? Or why the WELSH man got mired in TRUST FUNDS controversy soon afte...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 10:30hrs | 14636 | by George Charamba
July 31 & the Political Economy Failures of Sorts
It was during the French Revolution of the 1780s when a scholar noted that, ‘things must be bad in society for men to throw everything in violence. Men cannot risk everything for nothing.' The prote...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 11:49hrs | 1563 | by Robert Sigauke
Chamisa should take some life and death lessons from Sudan ...Zimbabweans should brace for sleepless and massive demostrations
A year ago, protests triggered by a deepening economic crisis broke out in the Sudanese town of Atbara and quickly swept across the country. Four months later, the persistent demonstrations would lead...Published: 13 May 2020 at 11:55hrs | 2593 | by Knowledge Hakata
Zimbabwe @40: Transcending the pitfalls of national consciousness
When Ghana attained her freedom from colonial bondage, Dr Kwame Nkrumah noted that: "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."True t...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 143 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
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