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How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1997 | by crisisgroup
The West's hypocrisy exposed as pregnant journalist gets arrested for incitement in Australia
The world was shocked as an Australian woman was arrested in her pyjamas and very pregnant on camera in front of her two minor children and her partner. Australian police in Ballarat Victoria arrested...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 19:52hrs | 1260 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Journalist arrested over expired Press card
Freelance journalist and Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) vice-president Godfrey Mtimba was arrested yesterday for allegedly taking pictures of stranded commuters who were demonstrating at a Zupco ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:21hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Journalist arrested for 'insulting' Mnangagwa
MASVINGO-based journalist and Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) vice president, Godfrey Mtimba was arrested Monday on charges of insulting and undermining the authority of President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 2326 | by newzimbabwe
Journalist arrested over lockdown
BEITBRIDGE journalist Rex Mphisa has become the latest victim of police heavy-handedness after he was arrested while covering the enforcement of the lockdown regulations.Mphisa, who writes for...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:27hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Journalist arrested after writing hard-hitting article on Mnangagwa?
Matthew Takaona, who is a former president of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) and a consultant with The Mirror was arrested and detained without charge by Police in Masvingo today as he was as...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 09:01hrs | 11041 | by Staff reporter
Top journalist arrested...accused of 'kumbeyambeya'
Reports coming from Masvingo indicate that Former Zimbabwe Union of Journalists President Matthew Takaona is currently being detained by the police after being arrested at a roadblock in Mucheke subur...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 13:09hrs | 2106 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Journalist arrested
Journalist Sydney Kawadza was yesterday arrested on allegations of extortion. Kawadza, who is Zimpapers Mashonaland West Bureau Chief, was arrested by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission officers and ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Journalist arrested for taking pictures at a police roadblock
Police in Kadoma have arrested (today May 7) NewsDay correspondent Nunurai Jena for allegedly shooting pictures at a police roadblock.According to the scribe, the law enforcement details confi...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:55hrs | 2259 | by Staff reporter
Disgraced Australian journalist arrested in Zimbabwe
Television news producer Stephen Rice has been arrested while working in Zimbabwe - three years after he was jailed on assignment in Lebanon.The Australian journalist, Rice, flew into Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:43hrs | 3589 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: ShutdownZimbabwe Live - Journalist arrested for taking pictures
# ShotdownZimbabwe...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 11:29hrs | 1149 | by Staff Reporter
Congolese radio journalist arrested at protest is beaten in custody
New York - Congolese authorities should immediately drop all charges against Jean Pierre Tshibitshabu, a reporter for the independent broadcaster Radio Television KADEKAS, and investigate claims that ...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:44hrs | 288 | by CPJ
10 suspected #Tajamuka protestors get bail, tout jailed
Ten of the 68 protesters, including journalist James Jemwa, arrested last week for public violence, have been granted bail after the magistrate ruled that they were subject to a dragnet arrest....Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 06:39hrs | 362 | by Tendai Rupapa
Several Bulawayo residents, journalist arrested
THREE suspected People's Democratic Party (PDP) members in Bulawayo have been arrested in yet unclear circumstances.PDP Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs Vince Musewe tweeted a pi...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 15:38hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Another journalist arrested as police crush church demo
Police in Harare have arrested a NewsDay reporter, Obey Manayiti as he was covering a demonstration by church leaders in Harare."Our reporter, Obey Manayiti who was covering a churches-led dem...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 11:52hrs | 2350 | by Thobekile Zhou
Journalist arrested and detained for failing to produce press card
A freelance journalist based in Beitbridge Wellington Mukanhaire has reportedly been arrested and briefly detained in the border town for failing to produce a press card.The Zimbabwe Union of ...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 05:32hrs | 1227 | by Stephen Jakes
Fingaz journalist arrested by Harare municipal police
THE Financial Gazette Staff Reporter, Andrew Kunambura, was on Friday arrested by overzealous Harare municipal police officers for taking pictures of the officers while arresting some vendors in H...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 16:21hrs | 1759 | by Staff Reporter
Journalist arrested for 'posing as a court prosecutor'
A Gweru-based journalist, Maxwell Katakamba, allegedly posed as a court prosecutor and conned a fellow accused person of $50 at the Gweru magistrate courts after promising to throw away the victim's ...Published: 31 Aug 2013 at 04:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zambia: Another journalist arrested in crackdown on news website
Police in Zambia have arrested freelance journalist, Wilson Pondamali, on suspicion that he is linked to online news service provider, Zambian Watchdog. Pondamali becomes the third journalist in j...Published: 17 Jul 2013 at 08:39hrs | | by MISA-Zambia
Journalist arrested while taking photographs
Police in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, 9 July 2013 arrested Leopold Munhende, a journalist with The Mirror, in Masvingo. Munhende was arrested while taking photographs of the voter registration proce...Published: 10 Jul 2013 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Journalist arrested while reporting death threat
A journalist working for privately-owned publication NewsDay, Obey Manayiti, on Monday, 18 February 2013 reportedly received a death threat from suspended Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial youth chairpers...Published: 19 Feb 2013 at 10:33hrs | | by MISA
Photojournalist arrested while covering a demonstration
Photojournalist Aaron Ufumeli was on Tuesday arrested while covering a demonstration organised to protest arbitrary arrests of women after 9pm in some parts of the capital.The peaceful protest...Published: 18 Jul 2012 at 05:34hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
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