Botswana Police Arrest Six Zimbabwean Member Crime Syndicate Terrorising Gaborone & Surrounding Areas

POLICE in Botswana have reportedly arrested a six-member gang of Zimbabweans believed to have been committing a series of robberies and break-ins in Gaborone and surrounding areas. Botswana’s Voice newspaper reported that various stolen items which include television sets, laptops, cellphones, cash and borehole equipment was recovered a week ago and was now being kept at Mogoditshane Police Station. The paper indicated that six Zimbabwean men were arrested and one of them is said to…

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Zimbabwe’s Media, Public Domain Has More About Sports Than , Poverty, Political Oppression & Rural Famine.

Zimbabwe’s Media, Public Domain Has More About Sports Than , Poverty, Political Oppression & Rural Famine.

IN my more than two decades in academia and as a politician I have heard again and again the often repeated assertion that  the bond of any professional and ethical media practitioner is the maxim, “Facts are sacrosanct and opinion is free”, and with equal measure I have heard it repeated by rogue states and politicians that, “You are free to express yourself, but you cannot be guaranteed your freedom after expression”. In Zimbabwe during…

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Are Zimbabwe’s Estimated Sixty To Eighty Opposition Parties Simply Driven By Chance And Greed?-Analyst

Are Zimbabwe’s  Estimated Sixty To Eighty  Opposition Parties Simply Driven By Chance And Greed?-Analyst

ZIMBABWE’s oppressive political system is often regarded as an affront to the painstaking search for elusive democracy under long serving President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party.   However, the continued surge in the number of political parties currently being formed has presented a false sense of a multi-party system which allows citizens vast choices.   Pre-July 2013 elections, there were 28 of them in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)’s data base.   Two…

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‘We Were Exaggerating Issues When I Was In MDC-T’- Says RDP Leader Elton Mangoma

‘We Were  Exaggerating Issues When I Was In MDC-T’- Says RDP Leader Elton Mangoma

RENEWAL Democrats Party (RDP) leader Elton Mangoma says “we were” exaggerating issues when “I” was in the MDC-T. Mangoma left the MDC-T in April 2014 together with Tendai Biti, the former party secretary general and formed the MDC Renewal. Then they were accusing MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai of selfishness, corruption and of lacking strategic thinking in the bid to dislodge Zanu PF from power. The former energy minister this year split from Tendai Biti over…

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Chiredzi Doctor In Court For Kidnapping And Detaining A female Traffic Cop For Two Hours

Chiredzi Doctor In Court For Kidnapping And Detaining A female Traffic Cop  For Two Hours

CHIREDZI: A medical doctor appeared in court for kidnapping a female traffic police officer whom he later detained for two hours. Dr. Tungamirirai Rukatya pleaded not guilty to kidnapping charges when he appeared before magistrate Geraldine Mutsoto last week. Prosecutor Chiedza Muhwandaka told the court that on October 22 this year Felistas Gwara, a female cop, was enforcing traffic duties along Nandi road in the company of two cops when they arrested Philemon Maphosa, Rukatya’s employee….

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Harare Residents Sue Council For Attaching Their Properties Over Unpaid Bills

Harare Residents Sue Council For Attaching Their Properties Over Unpaid Bills

COMMUNITY Water Alliance, an NGO which advocates the provision of safe and clean water for the residents of Harare, has engaged lawyers to stop the council from attaching properties of residents who are failing to settle their bills. Harare City Council says it is owed more than US$70 million by residents and companies from unpaid water bills. The amount accrued after government, in July 2013, ordered all local authorities to write off residents’ debts. As…

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Zanu PF Regime, Discovers that All marange Mining Licences Expired Long Back??

Zanu PF Regime, Discovers that All marange Mining Licences Expired Long Back??

Typical of a government focused on, monopolising wealth and power, looting and  self enrichment, Mugabe and his corrupt Zanu PF regime, failed to regulate mining operations in Marange. The Mines Minister added that infact the companies were not paying their licence fees all along over the years. This discrepancy came to light when the Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines, Walter Chidhakwa, announced that, the regime has suddenly realised that all licences for  mines in Marange area had…

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Basic statistics Show That Zimbabwe Needs Immediate Leadership Change!

Basic statistics Show That Zimbabwe Needs Immediate Leadership Change!

Here are some basic statics that will help everyone come to terms with the stark reality of how ridiculous a situation we live under, and with any luck, the stimulant needed to fight for change. Legal age of Majority 18 Minimum age for one to be a presidential candidate 40 Retirement age 65 Sir ‘Fall-a Lot-Mugabe’ age 91, which works out to 26 years past a reasonable expiry and sell by date, as evidenced by…

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‘You Can’t Run ZIFA With Your Own Money,’ Mliswa Warns ZIFA Presidential Aspirants

POLITICIAN and former sports administrator, Temba Mliswa, has warned ZIFA presidential candidates to disabuse themselves of the idea that they can run the affairs of the association using personal funds. Mliswa’s remarks come after flamboyant businessman and ZIFA presidential aspirant, Phillip Chiyangwa, donated $10,000 to the Warriors after their CHAN qualification. Chiyangwa is the only candidate to official announce his candidature for the ZIFA post left vacant after the departure of Cuthbert Dube. Chiyangwa has…

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‘Power Generation To Fall Further By January 2016 As Kariba Levels Drop’- Energy Minister Samuel Undenge

‘Power Generation To Fall  Further By January 2016 As Kariba Levels Drop’- Energy Minister Samuel Undenge

THE Minister of energy and  power development . Samuel Undenge has said by 2016 expectations were high that electricity generation in Zimbabwe will be reduced hence the government was preparing for such eventualities.   Speaking in parliament, Undenge said hours of load shedding have actually lessened when we compare with four weeks ago.   “We have undertaken a number of measures over the past three or four weeks ago, to ensure that hours which people are…

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