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 [...]






