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Mangwana blames doctor’s abduction on ED attempted assassins
NewZimbabwe.com 16th September 2019 By Leopold Munhende INFORMATION Secretary Nick Mangwana has blamed Saturday’s abduction on doctors union leader Peter Magombeyi on what he termed third forces which he linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s shock escape from a Bulawayo bomb blast last year. Mugombeyi was seized by suspected State agents from his Harare home in […]
The other side of Mugabe
The Standard 15th September 2019 BY NQABA MATSHAZI In the late 1990s, a big birthday bash was planned for the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo at Ascot racecourse, with the late former president Robert Mugabe being the guest of honour. When Mugabe arrived, with a huge convoy as usual, other guests were told to clear the […]
Andy Flower hopeful for Zimbabwe’s future after Mugabe’s death
Bulawayo News 24 8th September 2019 Andy Flower, the former Zimbabwe cricket captain and England coach, hopes his country can emerge from “a quagmire of corruption” following the death of ex-president Robert Mugabe. Mugabe died on Friday at the age of 95, two years after being ousted from power. In 2003 Flower joined team-mate Henry […]
Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played
The Standard By Siphosami Malunga 8th September 2019 The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played. The closest I have to feeling anything is quiet, seething rage. Rage that this man who killed thousands and destroyed so many livelihoods has died without facing justice for the […]
A history of abductions, assassinations
The Standard 1st September 2019 October 15, 1975: Edson Sithole and his secretary Miriam Mhlanga were grabbed by unknown assailants, bundled into a car and were never seen again. A few weeks earlier, Sithole had fallen out with other nationalists leading to a split of the UANC and the reshuffling in the ranks of both […]
Chief Ndiweni’s bail application hits brick wall
Bulawayo 24 News By Mandla Ndlovu 27th August 2019 The application by jailed Nhlambabaloyi Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni to get his bail pending appeal granted on Tuesday was frustrated by the State prosecutor who asked for time to respond to Chief Ndiweni’s bail application. Reports from High court say the prosecutor said the Magistrate has […]
Gukurahundi documentalist Joel Silonda dies
Newsday 27th August 2019 BY NIZBERT MOYO Former director of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), Matabeleland chapter who played a pivotal role in the documentation of the Gukurahundi massacres by CCJP in the 1980s, Joel Buhlalo Silonda has died. He was 95. The veteran human rights activist and educationist died on Saturday […]
No quick solutions to electricity, fuel shortages: Coltart
The Standard 25th August 2019 In our previous edition we carried a Q&A with former Education minister David Coltart where he spoke about the culture of political violence in Zimbabwe and how it has also influenced the MDC. Today we carry the second part of the discussion where Coltart (DC) was speaking in an exclusive […]
Mnangagwa’s govt frightened to the core, says Coltart
Bulawayo 24 News 21st August 2019 Lawyer and MDC top politician David Coltart has taken a dig at President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying his use of brute force to crush dissent was a clear sign that his government is frightened by the new wave ever since the massive January protests, Mnangagwa has resorted to using massive […]
Chief Ndiweni faces jail time after he is remanded in custody over ‘property destruction’
ZimLive.com 16th August 2019 “This is profoundly shocking but not surprising. So much for the ‘new dispensation’” Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, the outspoken Ntabazinduna traditional chief, faces jail time after he was convicted of malicious damage to property on Thursday. Ndiweni, an outspoken critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime, was spending the night in a jail […]