JOHANNESBURG - Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe (28) collapsed twice at Bramley Police Station holding cells in Johannesburg and required urgent medical attention according to reports in South Africa.
In constitutional theory, the state speaks through its institutions. In political reality, power often whispers through its courtiers.
The reported undertaking by businessman Wicknell Chivayo...
In Zimbabwe, constitutions are revered in theory but are in practice rearranged at the whim of the ruling elite. I therefore pen the words below with a heavy heart, fully aware that they may very well induce learned helplessness in the reader thanks to the fatalistic tone.
HARARE - It never rains but pours for Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) leader Prophet Walter Magaya, who, already facing multiple rape charges, has now been ordered by the High Court of Zimbabwe to repay US$3 million to an Israeli business partner, as the court rejected his defence that Zimbabwe’s exchange control laws invalidated the debt.
LONDON - British police on Thursday arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles III, on suspicion of misconduct in public office, authorities said.
JOHANNESBURG - Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the youngest son of the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, was arrested on Thursday afternoon after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence in Johannesburg, an incident which left a gardener in critical condition.
CAPE TOWN - The South African Police Service (SAPS) has confirmed that Zimbabwean musician and social media figure Malloti is being sought in connection with a robbery involving a firearm with authorities reportedly initiating steps to secure her extradition from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
As the remains of Cde Blessed “Bombshell” Geza crossed the Limpopo, returning from a lonely hospital bed in South Africa to the soil he once bled for, the nation slipped into its most comfortable costume: that of the professional mourner.
It has been several years since Morgan Richard Tsvangirai succumbed to the cruel embrace of colon cancer in a South African hospital, yet the void he left behind has not merely remained unfilled; it has widened into a chasm.
Pakuru, as they were determined against you, so they are against me—and against all of us. But they have grown more rabid, more brazen, and entirely rogue. As you know, they beat us, falsely accused us, wrongfully imprisoned us, vilified and demonized us.
