Malema Secret Training: South Africa fingers Zimbabwe CIO

Malema Secret Training: South Africa fingers Zimbabwe CIO

‘We know you’re training and funding Malema’ – ANC warns Zanu (PF) South Africa’s African National Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe who is visiting Zimbabwe has accused Zanu-PF of sponsoring and influencing the violent actions of its under fire national youth league president Julius Malema. Sources said Mantashe told Zanu-PF that the South African government security [...]

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Youths savagely assaulted for campaigning at state house

Youths savagely assaulted for campaigning at state house

TEN MDC youths were made to toyi-toyi for SEVEN HOURS after they allegedly threw party leaflets into the grounds of the Bulawayo State House, their lawyers said on Tuesday. The ten deny the charges and their lawyers argue that even if they had thrown the fliers, no crime was committed. The youths, who include a [...]

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Zimbabwean govt moves to open up airwaves, two radio licenses offered

Zimbabwean govt moves to open up airwaves, two radio licenses offered

Zimbabwe has offered two commercial radio licences, according to a newspaper advertisement published on Thursday, a move that will end decades of state domination of the airwaves. The advert in the state-controlled Herald newspaper taken out by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe said the licence would run for 10 years and stations would be required [...]

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Another white farmer loses farm to Zanu PF

Another white farmer loses farm to Zanu PF

Suspected war veterans Monday stormed Fox Farm at Pomona in Harare and forced the owner, Desmond Fox, to leave immediately to make way for a new owner, a beneficiary of the land reform programme. When NewsDay visited the farm in the afternoon , Fox, who said he has been farming there for the past 47 [...]

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Cornered Mugabe targets Zuma

Cornered Mugabe targets Zuma

President Robert Mugabe has intensified his fight against an emerging consensus among Sadc leaders for him to go, by among other tactics, trying to sideline and remove no-nonsense facilitator President Jacob Zuma. Well-placed Sadc sources told the Daily News yesterday that Mugabe had now identified Zuma as his biggest problem. This was because the South [...]

Notorious CIO help Namibian police interrogate Zimbabwean activists

Notorious CIO help Namibian police interrogate Zimbabwean activists

A group of civil society activists, including top lawyers and a journalist, were on Friday arrested and ‘violently ejected’ from the Summit of Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders underway in Namibia. Among those picked up by police in Namibia were Irene Petras from Zimbabwe Layers for Human Rights, Joy Mabenge of the Institute for [...]

Ndebele governor rubbishes marginalisation claims, irks Bulawayo residents

Ndebele governor rubbishes marginalisation claims, irks Bulawayo residents

The Aristocrat says: “When a Shona dismisses Ndebele claims of marginalisation he is immediately labelled a tribalist. What of when a Ndebele man does the exact same thing? Well he can’t be a tribalist can he? No, it’s just a matter of his discretion being ‘fettered’ by Zanu PF’s patronage. Duplicity is an interesting thing [...]

Desperate armed robber feigns madness, sings Winky D

Desperate armed robber feigns madness, sings Winky D

There was drama at the Harare Magistrate’s Courts when an alleged armed robber, Michael Vioma, feigned madness and went into a hysterical frenzy chanting musician Winky D’s popular song, Big Man in an apparent bid to avoid trial. The incident, which left the gallery in stitches, occurred before regional magistrate Simon Rogers Kachambwa. The magistrate [...]

Tsvangirai shows true colours, joins forces with Mugabe

Tsvangirai shows true colours, joins forces with Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have rejected the Global Political Agreement (GPA) negotiators and the Sadc Troika’s recognition of Welshman Ncube as a GPA principal and have already communicated their position to the Sadc-appointed facilitator, South African President Jacob Zuma, it has emerged. In fact, President Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara met on [...]

Zanu PF tells Zuma to back off

Zanu PF tells Zuma to back off

President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF Party on Wednesday declared South African President Jacob Zuma’s facilitation team had nothing to do with Zimbabwe’s security sector and said it would not accept any attempts by the regional body to engage them. Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo rubbished reports that Sadc facilitators wanted to meet Zimbabwe’s security chiefs [...]

Man tears off roof, rapes granny(85)

Man tears off roof, rapes granny(85)

A ZIMUTO communal lands man last week allegedly tore through the thatched roof of an 85-year-old woman’s hut before raping her once. The assailant reportedly clambered over the roof after failing to break into the hut through the door. The granny was sleeping alone in the hut in Zivera Village. She reported the matter to [...]

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