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Zimbabwe: EU sanctions suspended as ZANU PF steps up pre-election harassment
Elections / News / Politics

CIO sponsored NGO suing Mugabe

An NGO suing President Robert Mugabe in an attempt to force early elections in Zimbabwe is actually a bogus outfit being funded by the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) using money from the secretive ‘Operation Spiderweb.’

Zimbabwe: South Africa’s continued shame
News / Politics / Statements

Zimbabwe: South Africa’s continued shame

The recent statement by Keith Khoza, spokesperson for the African National Congress, that the party continues to support Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF is shameful and perplexing. It comes against the background of ZANU-PF’S active support of Julius Malema.

Roy Bennett (c.) leaves the High Court in Harare, after he was acquitted of terrorism charges in Zimbabwe. To his right is the MDC-T National Organising Secretary Nelson Chamisa
Elections / News / Politics

Zanu PF cheating ahead of Zimbabwe election

CHIMANIMANI – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party is being accused of cheating in advance of elections this year with officials from the Registra General’s office allegedly making it hard for known MDC-T supporters to register to vote.

Daily News senior assistant editor Guthrie Munyuki (right) talks to self-exiled MDC treasurer-general Roy Bennett (left)
Diaspora / Interviews / News / Politics

I never joined MDC for a position: Bennett

HARARE – Daily News senior assistant editor Guthrie Munyuki (GM) talks to self-exiled MDC treasurer-general Roy Bennett (RB) about his struggle for social justice, democracy and his frustrations.

Roy Bennett (right) attacks US hypocrisy on John Nkomo (left)
Diaspora / News / Politics

Bennett attacks US hypocrisy on Nkomo

Exiled MDC-T Treasurer General Roy Bennett has criticised the US Embassy in Harare for issuing a statement that said the late Vice President John Nkomo “was a patriot who dedicated his life to Zimbabwe’s sovereignty and prosperity.”

Racial Discrimination in Zimbabwe: A systematic program of abuse (Part 2)
Farming / Lest We Forget / Opinion / Politics

Racial Discrimination in Zimbabwe: A systematic program of abuse (Part 2)

About 20 000 people from Matabeleland and the Midlands died in horrific ways or disappeared in the conflict. Some of the bodies were thrown down disused mine shafts and have never been found. The violence ended after ZANU and ZAPU reached a unity agreement.

Zimbabwe could degenerate into a Somalia: Bennett
Opinion / Politics / Speeches

Zimbabwe could degenerate into a Somalia: Bennett

I am going to keep my comments very brief. Over the last decade, just about everything that can be said about Zimbabwe has been said. I am not here to scrape around and present you one or two pieces of trivia that you may not have heard before.

White Zimbabweans ‘focus on sport not politics’
News / Opinion

White Zimbabweans ‘focus on sport not politics’

Whilst some have achieved so much in the political and sporting arenas, some have seen their farms grabbed, properties destroyed and businesses seized. Do these people enjoy the same benefits given to all Zimbabweans?

Roy Bennett and Lance Guma
Interviews / News

Transcript of Roy Bennett on Question Time

Exiled MDC-T Treasurer General Roy Bennett answers questions sent in by SW Radio Africa listeners about whether he is likely to go back to Zimbabwe, the downgrading of MDC-T structures in the Diaspora, his reaction to former ZANU PF MP Tracy Mutinhiri joining the MDC-T and the way forward for the GNU.

Roy Bennett (c.) leaves the High Court in Harare, after he was acquitted of terrorism charges in Zimbabwe. To his right is the MDC-T National Organising Secretary Nelson Chamisa
News

Bennett going back to Zimbabwe for elections

Exiled MDC-T Treasurer General Roy Bennett says he will go back to Zimbabwe and campaign for his party, but only if conditions for free and fair elections have been created. Bennett was a guest on SW Radio Africa’s Question Time programme.

Time to work the crowd with song and dance Roy Bennett, Nelson Chamisa and Theresa Makone at a recent UK rally
Diaspora / News / Opinion

MDC-T surrenders Diaspora to wilderness

The MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai has just silenced their external voices by relegating provincial outside structures to coordinating committees. The once powerful provincial structures were pruned down to zero.

Time to work the crowd with song and dance Roy Bennett, Nelson Chamisa and Theresa Makone at a recent UK rally
Diaspora / News

MDC has no appreciation of diaspora- Bennett

Self-exiled MDC-T treasurer-general Roy Bennett has hit out at some of the party’s senior officials, describing them as “Zanufied” and accusing them of abandoning “the people” for the comfort of Zanu PF’s “gravy train”.

Wikileaks: Bennett criticised MDC-T leadership
News

Wikileaks: Bennett criticised MDC-T leadership

HARARE- Roy Bennett, the exiled treasurer –general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai believes his party is good at campaigning but it lacks the people who know how to run a government.

Chamisa weaves his magic in the UK
Diaspora / News

Chamisa weaves his magic in the UK

BIRMINGHAM- Zimbabwe’s young ICT Minister Nelson Chamisa who is also National Organising Secretary for the MDC-T weaved his political magic in the UK, holding an audience of party activists spell bound with his political parables and humorous analogies that explained the political situation back home.

Former Dynamos FC captain Memory Mucherahowa pictured with Zimbabwe Vigil coordinator Rose Benton
News / Opinion

Zimbabwe Vigil should consider their position

In asking Tsvangirai to ‘consider his position’ the ZimVigil are throwing stones, when they are yet to fully explain accusations they take advantage of desperate asylum seekers in the UK and their sister organisation Restoration of Human Rights in Zimbabwe (ROHR) were doing the same.