Archive for July, 2009
Tsvangirai Interview with Time Magazine
Morgan Tsvangirai’s route to power has been long and tortuous. Shortly after he broke with Robert Mugabe’s regime as head of the country’s trade union movement in 1997, a group of men thought to be from Zimbabwe’s secret service burst into his 10th-floor offices in Harare and tried to hurl him through a window. Since [...]
VMCZ presses Parliament for self-regulation
The Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) has called on the Zimbabwe Parliament to recognise and support the journalists’ initiative to self-regulate and transform into a professional industry through its structures. The VMCZ Research and Information Officer, Hilton Zvidzayi, accompanied by Chris Mhike, VMCZ Councillor, gave a background to the principles and notion of self-regulation [...]
Another MDC MP arrested
The MP for Chinhoyi, Hon. Stewart Garadhi, was arrested this morning in Chinhoyi barely hours after the acquittal of another MDC Gutu East, MP Ransome Makamure, who was facing trumped-up corruption charges. Garadhi was travelling from Harare to Chinhoyi when he was arrested by police officers from the Law and Order section who accused him [...]
Minister Mahlangu remanded in custody
The MDC Youth Assembly chairperson and deputy Youth Minister, Thamsanqa Mahlangu has been remanded in custody to 13 August after the State invoked the draconian Section 121 sub section 3 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act. Mahlangu is facing charges of stealing a cell phone from self styled war veterans’ leader, Joseph Chinotimba. Mahlangu and [...]
Peter Ndlovu arrested over girlfriend attack
Serial womanizer Peter Ndlovu was arrested this week in South Africa after allegedly assaulting his pregnant girlfriend. Pinky Duda, 30, opened an assault case on Friday against the former Mamelodi Sundowns and Thanda Royal Zulu striker. Ndlovu who lives with Duda in a townhouse in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg, handed himself to the police on Monday. Duda [...]
Founder and owner of Zimbabwe Metro dies
The founder and owner of a well known Zimbabwean website Zimbabwe Metro, Asher Mutsengi has died. A message on the website “We miss You Asher Mustengi” is dispayed on the Home Page. Postings on the message gives a brief on the death of a guy well known for writing articles for most of the websites, [...]
MDC wants Attorney General probed
By Simplicious Chirinda HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party has asked Parliament to investigate the country’s Attorney General, Johannes Tomana, who it accuses of carrying out “politically motivated prosecutions” targeting its members and human rights activists. In a motion that Parliament began debating Tuesday and will conclude today, the MDC urged the [...]
Response to Mugabe: We have duty to truth
By Rosebell Kagumire We journalists write stories, the big, the small, the controversial and sometimes the inconsequential. But we rarely make news unless we have been abducted, arrested or killed in political battles. Today the New Vision published a story on a reversal exercise at the Smart Partnership Dialogue at Speke Resort Munyonyo, where the [...]
MDC statement on constitution process
Statement: The MDC remains committed to its founding values and principles and as a people-driven party, we fully believe in a truly people-driven Constitution-making process. In our election manifestos in 1999, we made the following commitment: “The MDC rejects the current president appointed commission on the constitution and will facilitate the development of a peoples’ [...]









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