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The United States embassy in Harare on Wednesday voiced concern over the latest crackdown on pro-democracy activists by Zimbabwe’s security forces ahead of a series of planned opposition protests.Blessing Kanotunga, the Movement for Democratic Change’s youth chairman for Mufakose and Tatenda Mombeyarara, the coordinator of the Citizen’s Manifesto were dragged from their homes on Tuesday night by suspected state security agents and tortured before being dumped.Human rights lawyers said the two men were interrogated over…

Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo sparked internet fury on Wednesday after calling on Zimbabweans to boycott protests called by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change.The renewable energy proponent claimed the protests were going to be violent and would not yield the MDC’s desired outcome of forcing Zanu-PF out of power.“It’s definitely going to be violent. MDC leaders know very well that a peaceful protest won’t have an impact, they have already planned to unleash anarchy,”…

The ZANU PF legislator Kindness Paradza (Makonde MP) claims that the MDC snubbing of diplomatic passports offered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa militarised Zanu pf regime is a cheap publicity stunt as some of them hold the Diplomatic Passport travel document issued in 2018.Paradza, the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Portfolio Committee chairperson of the, announced in Parliament early this month that Mnangagwa had given a nod for all parliamentarians to be issued with diplomatic passports, but MDC…

Reports from Harare indicate that the Zimbabwe Football Association has disbanded the Warriors national team and banned slapped a life ban on the maverick businessman Philip Chiyangwa and his former deputy Omega Sibanda. The Warriors team was disbanded from the technical to the players. Soccer 24 has reported that the decision was made at an Executive Meeting on Wednesday after recommendations from the Technical and Development Committee. The association says the aim to dissolve the…

Mangwana ‘s claims follow the MDC Alliance and other groups plans to hold a Mother of all protests 16 August 2019 against the militarised Mnangagwa Zanu pf regime. “Mr Chamisa continues to ignore all calls for dialogue and prefers the path or protest and violence,” according to Nick Mangwana Mangwana. “President Mnangagwa welcomes criticism as well as peaceful and legal demonstrations. But no society tolerates violence. He continues to call for unity and dialogue, and…

BREAKING NEWS: Doctors inform Zimbabwe Health Services Board that they are incapacitated from offering any services with immediate effect. In a letter , Zim Hospital Doctors Association wrote toZimbabwe Health Services Board that they are incapacitated from offering any services with immediate effect as follows:• Our living conditions have become a health hazard and mental condition to both us and the patients• We request the employer to adjust our earnings to the inter-bank bank rate…

ZIMBABWE Human Rights NGO forum says the MDC Youth Chairperson for Mufakose Blessing Kanotunga. was abducted by five unidentified armed men from his house on Tuesday night. Kunonga was heavily assaulted with blunt objects all over the body and dumped near Chitungwiza after interrogation by the ruthless CIO over the 16 August MDC Protest. At the same time, Tatenda Mombeyarara, a human rights defender by six heavily armed unidentified men from his home early today,…

Matemadanda, who previously declared that the army would be deployed to crush the protests, claimed the MDC planned to “loot and destroy” in the street marches organised for Harare, Bulawayo and Gweru starting on August 16. “They’re saying they will demonstrate, but I’m telling you that they will not because I know they will not… it won’t happen,” Matemadanda told journalists at the Heroes Acre in Harare during Heroes Day commemorations. The MDC maintains the…