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Matebeleland, Bulilima villagers assault tribalists, who harassed Shona speaking villagers

Posted on June 28, 2015June 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

TWO notorious villagers from Bulilima who were recently embarrassed by community members for harassing Shona-speaking villagers have been each sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. Obvious Ncube (34) and Shalen Dumani (23) of Zuzaphi area attacked villagers who were at a business centre in protest over Shona-speaking people in the area. They also damaged property at a local businessman’s shop after accusing him of employing a Shona person as his shopkeeper. Disgruntled community members then stripped…

Chief Zimunya says Chinese firm, ‘Anjin Investment’ took bones of Zimunya & Marange people, away.

Posted on June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

MUTARE: Chief Zimunya from Manicaland province attacked top politicians Friday whom he said were colluding with the Chinese to violate people’s rights in the Marange area. Chief Zimunya was addressing the Manicaland Provincial Alternative Indaba 2015 which was convened by Zimbabwe Environmental Lawyers Association (ZELA). He said politicians despise traditional leaders and hence they pass them on important issues such as diamond mining. The livid chief said an example of this was on the issue…

AIPPA law- ‘ Journalist sentenced to 1yr in prison for publishing a newspaper without gvt registration’

Posted on June 27, 2015June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

A ZIMBABWEAN journalist has been sentenced to a year in jail for publishing a newspaper without government registration, the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) said Friday. Foster Dongozi, ZUJ secretary-general, said Patrick Chitongo was convicted by a magistrate’s court on Thursday and received a one-year prison sentence. “It’s a sad day for press freedom when people are jailed for disseminating information,” Dongozi told AFP. “However, we advise that, much as we disagree with the law…

Harare Town Clerk, Tendai Mahachi, hides in toilet from angry women vendors

Posted on June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

CHAOTIC scenes characterised Harare City council officials’ bid on Friday to register thousands of vendors dotted around the capital ahead of a planned relocation to “designated vending sites”. Harare Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi was forced to seek refuge in a council toilet after angry women vendors confronted him over accusations of nepotism. Violence broke out with the women joined by other vendors to bring down a hastily erected marquee before Mahachi scurried for cover. “You…

60yrs on, Rio Tinto Plc sells diamond & coal mining assets to RZ Murowa Holdings, & withdraws

Posted on June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

GLOBAL giant Rio Tinto Plc on Friday announced the sale of its diamond and coal mining assets in Zimbabwe to RZ Murowa Holdings, marking the withdrawal of one the world’s iconic mining firms from the country after a 60 year presence. Before the announcement, Rio owned 78 percent of the Murowa diamond mine in central Zimbabwe and 50 percent of the undeveloped Sengwa coal project. Rio’s Zimbabwean spin-off, RioZim, owns 22 percent of Murowa and…

3 Zimbabwean cross border buses and 2trucks burnt in Johannesburg, South Africa

Posted on June 27, 2015June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Three Zimbabwean cross border buses and two trucks were yesterday burnt in the Newton area of Johannesburg, South Africa. Buses belonging to were reduced to shells by fire believed to have emanated from a cigarette butt. The incident occurred at around 4pm in Newton, along Main Street, where most Zimbabwean cross border buses park before leaving South Africa for Zimbabwe. The trucks were carrying luggage destined for various towns in Zimbabwe, including Gweru and Harare….

‘Powerful Angolan , interests and investments in Portugal , are, a form of reverse colonization’

Posted on June 27, 2015June 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has ruled Angola since independance, uninterrupted for 36 years since Independance in 1975. Angola is rich in Oil and diamonds yet at least 40% of the country’s population live below the poverty line, but unsurprisingly so, corrupt, powerful Angolan government and military figures live filthy rich lives whilst the rest suffer. Their investment interests and opportunities are not only limited to Angola but reach out far and wide with a key…

Joint operation command (Joc) to force gold panners out of goldfields

Posted on June 26, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

ZANU-PF supporters who were encouraged to invade a goldfield in Bindura (Kitsiyatota) during First Lady Grace Mugabe’s meet-the-people rallies ahead of the controversial Zanu-PF congress last December were given a three-day notice on Monday to leave the area, Zimbabwe Independent reported. Zanu-PF sources said this week the provincial joint operation command (Joc) chaired by Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha resolved to force the artisanal miners out of the goldfields by Thursday. “In its disaster management…

After farm invasions, now Mugabe’s Zanu PF war veterans threaten mines grab

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Ex-freedom fighters will soon launch a crack-down on “unproductive” mines across the country with a view to taking them over, War Veterans Minister Christopher Mutsvangwa has threatenedAnalysts say this exercise is likely to target opponents of Zanu-PF including former VP Joice Mujuru who owns diamond mining claims in Mutare and members of her cabal who are heavily involved in the sector. The country has wrapped up dealing “with political problems and now focus should be…

‘Gershem Pasi’ blasts vendor economy, announces plans to tax super rich churches

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

“We are creating a generation that might never know formal employment and that would be wasted investment given the resources we have spent in their education.” ZIMBABWE’S tax collector has hit out at the country’s vendor economy as he announced plans to tax churches and their fabulously rich ‘prophets’ in an increasingly desperate bid to raise money for the government. Zimra boss Commissioner-General, Gershem Pasi, criticised the government’s “laid back” attitude in addressing the country’s…

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