Though Dangerous, Street Protests, Remain The Most Viable Tool Against Mugabe’s Oppressive Authority

Though Dangerous, Street Protests, Remain The Most Viable Tool Against Mugabe’s Oppressive Authority

OF LATE, opposition political parties have intensified their calls for mass action against President Robert Mugabe’s “failed” leadership. The MDC-T demonstrations are meant to force the Zanu PF led administration to deliver on its pre-2013 election promises top among them the creation of 2, 2 million new jobs. Inspired by the recent student protests in South Africa, coined around the FeesMustFall mantra, Tendai Biti’s PDP has also threatened to roll out its own MugabeMustFall demos….

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Zanu-PF Activist Who Axed Two Zanu PF Colleagues, Commits Suicide In Police Detention

Zanu-PF Activist Who Axed Two Zanu PF Colleagues, Commits Suicide In Police Detention

THE Zanu-PF activist arrested Saturday for axing his two colleagues to death has apparently killed himself. Mupambwa last week reportedly axed his two colleagues over political positions in the ruling party is no more. Mupambwa was set to appear in court tomorrow charged with murder but impeccable sources told NewsDay that he apparently “killed himself” while in police holding cells. The Chitungwiza based ruling party activist reportedly axed two colleagues in a violent fit of…

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Zanu PF Masvingo Province Moves To Block Grace Mugabe’s Rise To ‘Presidency’

ZANU PF Masvingo province has moved to block machinations within the party to have First Lady Grace Mugabe take over from her ageing husband, saying she must confine herself to being the party’s Women’s League boss.   Grace, who is said to be harbouring presidential ambitions, a claim she has since dismissed, did not get any support for her bid from the provincial inter-district meeting held over the weekend in Masvingo, as the province resolved…

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‘No Constitutional Or Leadership Changes At December 2015 Zanu-PF Annual Congress’-Simon Khaya-Moyo

THERE will not be any constitutional or leadership changes at the Zanu-PF annual people’s conference in Victoria Falls next month, party spokesperson Simon Khaya-Moyo said yesterday. Khaya-Moyo said this as a warning to ruling party officials and supporters whom he said were tussling for positions in the on-going party restructuring exercise. He said he was surprised by the interest generated by the conference. “The conference cannot amend the constitution. The point is simple; we as…

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Man Brutally Murdered With Iron Bar At Fourth Street Bus Terminus In Harare

Man  Brutally Murdered With Iron Bar At Fourth Street Bus Terminus In Harare

A man was brutally murdered this Sunday afternoon. The man, whose identity has not yet been released, was allegedly struck by an iron bar and collapsed before bleeding to death. The assailant fled the scene of the crime but witnesses, who refused to speak to reporters, said he is known. There are conflicting statements as to how the quarrel started with some saying the victim was being accused of stealing radio speakers from an commuter…

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‘Desperate Bid To Survive, Fuels Child Prostitution At Local Business Centres’

CHISUMBANJE: An increase in the cost of living, exacerbated by a gloomy 2015/16 farming season has forced desperate women and young girls to sell sex at local business centres in order to survive. A recent visit by NewZimbabwe.com to Birchenough Bridge, Checheche and Dzonzai business centres established that women and young girls, including 14 year-olds, are now resorting to prostitution. Men, who are usually the bread winners, are out of work, forcing wives and girl…

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‘We Won’t Be Pushed Into Unwarranted Arrests Of Zanu PF Supporters, Simply To Pacify MDC-T’-ZRP

POLICE have denied bias against opposition MDC-T supporters adding they will not be pushed into making unwarranted arrests of Zanu PF supporters simply to pacify those claiming the bias. A local rights group said Friday that the ZRP targeted the MDC-T supporters when violent clashes between rival activists broke out in Harare’s Hopley Farm and Mbare in the past two weeks. “The ZRP is not biased against anyone. “We apply the law equally according to…

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Ex-Zanu PF London Registrar, 30 Years In UK, Now Lives On Streets Of Harare, Eats Food From Trash Cans

“I HAVE travelled to 29 African countries by road; been to several European countries but I have nothing to offer,” Killen Zhakata tells NewZimbabwe.com with a British accent while in a drunken stupor. He adds: “I left the country in 1974 to join other freedom fighters but ran away from the war because I realised it was not for me; I heard of, and saw, people dying and being wounded. “I flew to United Kingdom…

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Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), Impounds Smuggled Vehicles

Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), Impounds Smuggled Vehicles

THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has impounded hundreds of vehicles in a blitz to flush out cars that have been smuggled into the country. The blitz followed an announcement by Zimra commissioner-general Gershem Pasi that many vehicles were being corruptly brought into the country, evading tax in the process. Zimra board secretary and director legal and corporate services, Florence Jambwa told Standardbusiness last week that many vehicles had been impounded and offenders penalised. “Several motor…

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Zanu PF Member Fataly Axes Two Zanu PF Members In St Marys Chitungwiza

GRUESOME: Two Zanu-PF members were reportedly fatally axed by fellow party member yesterday in St Mary’s, Chitungwiza . As long feared by political analysts and rational ruling party bigwigs, the deadly factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe’s post-congress Zanu-PF turned fatal yesterday, after two people were axed to death in bloody intra-party ructions in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza. When a crew from the Daily News on Sunday visited the sprawling township, the…

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