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Mugabe must be forced to go!!!
President Robert Mugabe The octogenarian has pushed us against the wall now seems the only option for all Zimbabwean people is to fight our way out. This situation has now brought our country to its...
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Waiting for the river to subside
Remember the days when the car slowly, cautiously approached the flooded bridge and then came to a stop? The days when the adults would get out and long discussions followed: was it going to be safe to...
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Zimbabwe’s promotion of ‘Plastic Money’ a daunting task
Josephat Mutepfa, a deputy director at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe at Cheziya High School in Gokwe, about 300 kilometers southwest of Harare, is urging people in this mainly cotton-growing rural area...
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Reuters says journalists should be prepared to treat US under Trump ‘like...
Donald Trump answers questions from reporters accompanied by wife Melania for a New Year’s Eve party December 31, 2016 AFP/Getty Images In a message to thousands of Reuters reporters and photographers,...
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Clipboard: what’s on in Harare
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Short reflection: The ‘netizens’ will not deliver Zimbabwe, only the CITIZENS...
Our problems as a people are defined BUT we are not personally prepared to go the extra mile to free ourselves. We believe more in the ‘messiah’ factor than in us as agents of change. Zimbabwe Yadzoka/...
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Coward or patriot? Some Zimbabweans wary of Pastor Mawarire for ‘running away’
Pastor Evan Mawarire That’s the question some Zimbabweans are asking as they’re faced once again with the detention of the protest pastor who not so long ago symbolised the nation’s hopes for change....
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Zim police heap more charges against Pastor Mawarire
ZIMBABWEAN police have added new charges of insulting the national flag and inciting public violence against Pastor Evan Mawarire, who was arrested on Wednesday 01 February 2017 upon his return to the...
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Pastor Evan Mawarire’s difficult second act
Pastor Evan Mawarire In July last year, I spent another Thursday doing much the same thing. But that day was very different. For one thing, Mawarire actually arrived, and was eventually acquitted, on a...
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Public Hearings on Judicial Laws Amendment Bill
[3rd February 2016] Public Hearings on (1) Judicial Laws Amendment Bill (2) Deeds Registries Amendment Bill and (3) Estate Administrators Amendment Bill Monday 13th February to Monday 20th February The...
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A silver lining
I refer to the new Secretary General of the United Nations, Antόnio Guterres, who, in the opinion of Angelique Chrisafis and Julian Borger in The Guardian, is “perhaps better qualified than any of his...
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Pastor Mawarire to spend weekend in prison
HARARE Magistrate Elisha Singano on Friday 03 February 2017 remanded Pastor Evan Mawarire in custody after he dismissed an application filed by his lawyer challenging his placement on remand. Pastor...
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Mphoko makes a fool of himself on national television
Here was a whole Vice President, with neither shame nor compunction, grossly maligning and besmirching an innocent citizen and making a sick joke out of a national tragedy on national television....
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BIZARRE: Pastor arrested – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
BIZARRE seems to be the headline of choice for some websites to grab your attention. The scoop may be ‘goblins having sex with teachers in school’ or ‘Zimbabwean musician videos himself committing...
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Medium-scale farming for Africans: The ‘Native Purchase Areas’ in Zimbabwe
These were areas that had mostly been farmed by early settlers before the colony’s land was carved up into racial designations. Africans were given the option of buying newly demarcated properties, but...
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Tsvangirai meets students, opinion leaders
MDC-T president, Morgan Tsvangirai In Gokwe, President Tsvangirai held two highly successful meetings with chiefs, village heads, war veterans and church leaders with all of them saying they want the...
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Open Parliamentary Committee Meetings: 6th to 9th February
BILL WATCH The committee meetings listed below, all to be held at Parliament, will be open to the public. Members of the public may attend the meetings, but as observers only, not as participants,...
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Aussie coal row has lesson for Harare
And it switched the debate from solar to clean coal at a time when Zimbabwe and much of Africa is critically short of kilowatt. If Donald Trump scares you, look away now. The row over fossil fuels and...
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CSOs challenge Rights Commission to act on Harare rot
The meeting was a culmination of CHRA’s engagement with various civic society organizations and State actors following the typhoid outbreak in Harare which has so far claimed two lives since December...
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U.S. Embassy Concerned by deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe
Evan Mawarire The U.S. Government unequivocally believes in the basic right to freedom of speech and calls on the Government of Zimbabwe to respect the human rights of all Zimbabwean citizens which are...
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