Villagers in Hwange’s Dinde village are up in arms with a Chinese coal mining company they allege intends to evict them from their 470 000ha of land, Indaba has learnt. The villagers reportedly want to petition Parliament over the matter as the coal mining company, Beifa Investments has already started …
Read More »MDC A Activist Haruzivishe Jailed
MDC A member and ZINASU secretary general, Makomborero Haruzivishe has been sentenced to 36 months in prison after being convicted for inciting public violence and resisting a peace officer last week. Harare Magistrate Judith Taruvinga sentenced Haruzivishe to serve 24 months in prison for inciting public violence and suspended 10 …
Read More »Fight Or Surrender: The Plight Of The Young In Zimbabwe
As the Zimbabwean crisis deepens, many in the media and academic fraternity castigate their countrymen as docile, unable to resolve their perennial economic woes due to a reluctance to speak out against corruption and State Capture. Young people have been on the receiving end of these aspersions. There is much …
Read More »President Mnangagwa Gets Covid-19 Dose, Urges Citizens Not To Hesitate
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some opposition politicians received China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in the tourist resort of Victoria Falls on Wednesday as part of efforts to encourage citizens to get inoculated. Zimbabwe has registered vaccines from China, India and Russia for emergency use but none so far from Western …
Read More »Teachers Remain Defiant
Teachers have promised to remain deep-rooted on their stance to abstain from doing any work when schools fully open next Monday until government addresses their demands of a salary pegged at US$540. Last week when government announced that schools will open on the 15th and 22nd of this month, teachers’ …
Read More »Biti, 5 Others Recalled From Parly
Harare East legislator and MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti together with five other party members have been recalled from being Members of Parliament (MPs), Nhau has learnt. Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda made the announcement through a notice he received from the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP) Secretary General …
Read More »Zimbabwe: Who Gains From The Public Shaming Of VP Kembo Mohadi?
Zimabwe’s second Vice President Kembo Mohadi was caught in a kompromat trap. Recordings of phone calls full of lurid sexual banter, thanks to intercepts that were almost certainly the work of a state intelligence agency, were faithfully reproduced on the Zimlive online news site in a series of salacious stories. …
Read More »Chiredzi Councilor Fulfilling Campaign Promises
Zanu PF Councilor for Chiredzi Rural District Ward 32, Aspect Mashingaidze is making great strides towards fulfilling his electoral campaign promises of infrastructural development. For years, three villages under ward 32, Chipimbi, Nyavasikana and Magumire had one secondary school, one clinic and lacked access to clean water among other challenges …
Read More »Mthwakazi Activists Storm Police Station, Cops Fire Shots, Arrest 10
Police Wednesday fired gunshots to disperse a crowd of Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) supporters who had stormed Bulawayo Central Police Station protesting over the alleged harassment of their leader Mqondisi Moyo by state security agents. At least 10 protesters are reported to have been arrested while others were injured. Police …
Read More »Sanctions Will Lead To A One-Party State For Zimbabwe: Zanu PF
Zanu-PF Director for Information, Tafadzwa Mugwadi has said that as long as Zimbabwe remains under sanctions it will become a one party State, as these have hardened the ruling party in retaining and consolidating power. Mugwadi’s statement comes barely a few days after senior MDC-Alliance officials Lillian Timveos and Blessing …
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