HARARE – #ThisFlag campaigner Evan Mawarire has been arrested and charged with inciting violence. Police have conducted searches at his house and office. More details to follow.
HARARE – Controversial businessman and Zanu PF Bikita West legislator, Munyaradzi Kereke, was yesterday sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of raping his wife’s then 11-year-old niece in 2010. Passing sentence, Harare regional magistrate Noel Mupeiwa sat aside four of those years for five years, on condition that Kereke, 44, does not…
HARARE – Despite suffering savage beatings, ongoing harassment by authorities and being locked up for fighting for change in the country over the past few weeks, protesting democracy activists say they are ready to die for the cause and will not rest until President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF either shapes up or ships out….
HARARE – As Zimbabwe enters unchartered and turbulent waters, popular preacher Emmanuel Makandiwa yesterday said the chaos unfolding in the country has been authored by senior people surrounding President Robert Mugabe who are eager and desperate to see his back. Without mentioning names, Makandiwa said some of Mugabe’s close henchmen had deliberately subjected people to…
HARARE – Respected Zanu PF elder Cephas Msipa says he hopes to live for as long as possible so that he can witness Zimbabweans, the majority of whom are trapped in the jaws of grinding poverty, live in the “promised land of milk and home” that he fought for. In his 85th birthday message on…
HARARE – Civil servants have declared that they will not accept anything short of a commitment by government to pay their July salaries in full when they meet their employers today. The civil servants, most of whom received their June salaries this month after government failed to pay them on time, said they will not…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, who is facing growing resistance from Zimbabweans to his 36 years in power, has once again been advised to quit high office and appoint a successor, to avoid plunging the country into total chaos. Human Rights Watch senior researcher for southern Africa, Dewa Mavhinga, warned in an interview with the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is failing to douse “succession flames” that are currently consuming his Zanu PF party, as his meetings to bring order around the country have thus far failed to heal the rifts. Last Friday, Mugabe was in Mashonaland Central, where he confirmed that the meeting he had with the provincial leadership…
HARARE – Juveniles involved in the peaceful protests on Wednesday have been released into their parents’ custody after being arrested in Bulawayo. Citizens on July 6, heeded a call to stay away from work and school in protest against the economic meltdown and social injustices in the country. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)…
MUTARE – Government is in the process of evaluating what would work better for the country between tariff increases and import restrictions, ministry of Industry and Commerce permanent secretary Abigail Shonhiwa told a Buy Zimbabwe traders summit here last week. Shonhiwa said they have noted with concern that there is an influx of cheap commodities in…
