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‘HIV+ve prisoners released to army & CIO to target and rape MDC-T supporters’

Posted on June 17, 2015June 17, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zanu-PF used HIV-positive prisoners to rape female supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai during the 2008 presidential run-off period, insiders have claimed.Rape was used as part of the terror campaign against opposition supporters and was a closely guarded weapon involving the security sector. Prison sources told The Zimbabwean that an unknown number of prisoners was released after the March 2008 general elections and and unleashed on women who were…

MDC-T top official, ‘Silas Matamisa’, dies

Posted on June 17, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The MDC T party National Spokesperson, Obert Gutu has stated that the MDC-T national executive commitee member Silas Matamisa passed away at Chinhoyi provincial hospital on Wednesday morning. Obert Gutu stated that Silas Matamisa , a devoted party cadre and democrat who was deeply committed to the democratic struggle, was a diabetes and hypertension patient, a fine gentleman, well – respected and whose wise counsel and wisdom will be sorely missed. Mourners are gathered at B3318 Gunhill in Chinhoyi. Once,…

Zimbabwe’s Deputy Home Affairs Minister appeals for assistance in tracing Itai Dzamara’

Posted on June 17, 2015June 17, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe’s Government , the Robert Mugabe Zanu PF regime has put out a call for assistance , by appealing to the public for any information that could help in finding the whereabouts of the abducted and missing activist, ‘Itai Dzamara’. Itai Dzamara was reportedly abducted nearly 100 days ago and since then no clues relating to the kidnapping, of the activist have yet been found and the Zimbabwe government has come under pressure from Australia, France, US and the…

Highlanders Bosso No 9 says Nigeria should be embarassed over humiliating Mugabe

Posted on June 17, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe’s vice president who recently received the Highlanders Bosso football club No 9 t-shirt, Emmerson Mnangagwa told parliament that the Nigerian regime must be ashamed over the humiliation of Robert Mugabe by Sahara TV journalists in Nigeria recently. Mugabe’s humiliation arose from the fact that a team of Sahara TV journalists way laid him as he walked to his official limousine from the inauguration ceremony of the new Nigerian President, Mohammadu Buhari, and challenged him over his extended stay…

Sadc and the AU should help solve Zimbabwe crisis-Obert Gutu (MDC T)

Posted on June 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe is now at the crossroads. Everything that can go wrong has since gone wrong. It is apparent that the Zanu PF regime is totally clueless regarding how to extricate the country from this debilitating economic mayhem and liquidity crunch. We are at the deep end. No amount of propaganda and spin can camouflage the excruciating and grinding poverty that is being experienced by the majority of the people on a daily basis. Something has…

1400 S.African soldiers ‘held hostage’ in Sudan to secure Al-Bashir safe return

Posted on June 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The Sudanese government of president Omar al-Bashir literally held a gun to South Africa’s head to secure his safe return to Khartoum. Netwerk24 revealed that about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur were held “hostage” by Sudanese troops when the drama around Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in South Africa escalated. According to military experts, this effectively means Sudan blackmailed South Africa and the soldiers’ lives served as a guarantee for Al-Bashir’s safe return. Only after…

US$5 billion needed to rehabilitate Zimbabwe’s roads & US$400million for Harare

Posted on June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE country’s road infrastructure authority sees licence fees collections doubling to $55 million this year from $27 million collected last year, but remains too low to fund the country’s aging road network, an official told a Parliamentary committee on Monday. Zimbabwe requires $5 billion to rehabilitate its road network, but with recurrent expenditure accounting for nearly 80 percent of total revenue and worsened by a $10 billion foreign debt overhang, government is unable to close the…

Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF government, appeals for US$300m to mitigate mass starvation

Posted on June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe’s food situation is on the brink of an outbreak of mass starvation after the maize harvest generated from last year’s crop fell by at least 50%. This is partly attributed to poor rainfall pattern and mainly to the collapse of Zimbabwe’s once enviable agricultural sector which fed the African continent but now has collapsed after the disastrous Zanu PF war veteran led, white commercial farm invasion of the early 2000 years. Zimbabwe fell swiftly…

‘Why are Zimbabweans so poor?’-Welshman Ncube

Posted on June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

A FEW weeks ago, we woke up to a ‘research’ whose results showed a list of fifty wealthiest Zimbabweans. I do not know what benchmark the researchers used, but the message was simple: those men and women have more assets, more money and better quality of life than both you and I combined! Rather than agonising over the wealth of the woman or man next door, the question that resonated in my mind was why…

Paul Themba Nyathi steps down in MDC

Posted on June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE MDC has lost , many cadres in senior positions since the infamous Zanu PF ‘NIKUV’ victory of 31st July 2013, more prominently, such key figures as the MDC chairman Goodrich Chimbaira, MDC policy director Qhubani Moyo and MDC spokesman Nhlanhla Dube. Some key figure chose not to leave but instead to step down from their official posts, and these include MDC deputy chairperson Frank Chamunorwa and MDC Secretary-General Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga. The latest senior official that MDC has lost,…

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