Politics
Police lock down MDC HQ
POLICE yesterday shut down the MDC headquarters in Harare following the alleged discovery of 210 riot police and 41 municipal police helmets in a basement of a nearby building, but the opposition party accused the...
Mnangagwa says mining sector will spur economic development
Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the mining sector is primed for continued growth due to favourable policy measures and reforms being implemented by the government. The mining sector is the country’s...
MDC says Mnangagwa must stop being arrogant and talk to Chamisa to stem prices
The Movement for Democratic Change today called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to disembark from his high horse and talk with the “people’s president” Nelson Chamisa to stem the ever escalating...
Talk to Chamisa, West tells Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT’S re-engagement bid with the West has stalled over the country’s deteriorating human rights situation and the political stalemate between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa. Mnangagwa, is...
High court nullifies Bulawayo deputy mayor’s election
THE High Court has nullified the election of embattled Bulawayo deputy mayor, Councillor Tinashe Kambarami. Justice Thomson Mabhikwa on Thursday morning passed the ruling in a case where 1893 Mthwakazi...
MDC deputy national organiser arrested
The deputy national organiser of the Movement for Democratic Change Sibusisiwe Masara was today arrested in connection with the 16 August demonstrations and will appear in court tomorrow. Her boss...
Protests warning for MDC-A . . . Law enforcement agents on high alert
THE Government has warned the opposition MDC Alliance against breaking the law after the party notified the police that they intend to hold demonstrations in Bulawayo and other areas countrywide...
Why are Biti and Chamisa so desperate to join Mnangagwa’s illegitimate government?
“Ten years ago, forming a unity government offered a political solution, albeit a temporary one, to the crisis of hyperinflation. A solution to today’s economic crisis must be similarly political,”...
Repression and dialogue in Zimbabwe: twin strategies that aren’t working
Since the November 2017 coup that toppled Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and the elections in 2018, the regime of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has forged two forms of rule. These have...
Govt tells West to go hang- show some respect
Zimbabwe yesterday told the West to go hang after heads of missions from Western countries criticised the government over the way it handled demonstrations organised by the opposition Movement for...
Zimbabwe still has a lot to fix
Zimbabwe’s rulers are finding that two decades of economic mismanagement and brutal repression have led them into a trap from which there’s little chance of escape. If they implement the...
MDC to meet tomorrow to review strategy in view of government ban on demos
Zimbabwe police today blocked a street protest for the third time in five days, as the main opposition party said hopes were vanishing that the government might become more tolerant...
Moyo defends brutal police clampdown on MDC demo
FOREIGN Affairs Minister, Sibusiso Moyo Tuesday defended the brutal crackdown on protesters who had defied police and went ahead with an MDC demonstration that had been banned for security reasons...