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I write this in solidarity with the ISO-Zim comrades who are in detention in Zimbabwe. Their crime being that they met to discuss events in Tunisia and Egypt. This has prompted me to interrogate the feasibility of non-military and non-violent street engagement with the Mugabe regime.
We have had two years of relative tranquillity under the uneasy governance of a combined MDC and Zanu PF regime but that is starting to change very rapidly writes author Cathy Buckle.
Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; south of the unyielding sands of the great Sahara, there is a land situated between two rivers, the Zambezi to the north and the Limpopo to the south. She is an ancient, mystical and majestic land of many kingdoms of antiquity. She takes her name, from the stoic, ancient regal stone walls, of neither mortar nor water built, the Great Zimbabwe Ruins.
British fraud investigators followed a trail through social networking sites and immigration records to unmask the double life of a Zimbabwean benefits cheat. But justice caught up with Shingirai Zvokunzwa when a judge jailed him for 10 months for fiddling £28,000 from Reading Borough Council.
The cost of political risk insurance in sub-Saharan Africa has not risen with upheaval in North Africa, suggesting investors are not overly worried about copycat uprisings, an industry expert said last Tuesday.
Harare- Sungura music star Alick Macheso was humbled on Saturday at the National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) when he lost in all the three categories he had been nominated. He could only cheers others to the stage.
Mugabe is talking elections and all over the country there are reports of ZANU PF gearing for them. At the road blocks there are now often military police as well as the usual police officers writes Ben Freeth.
Former Highfield MDC MP Munyaradzi Gwisai and 45 other activists were arrested at an undisclosed place in central Harare on Saturday for allegedly plotting to destabilise the government the independent NewsDay newspaper is reporting.
Before this weekend’s action, he was two goals behind leading scorer and countryman, Chiefs’ Knowledge Musona. He stepped up to the plate when the club needed him most.
The newly licensed Zimbabwean daily newspaper National Daily said to be owned by the late businessman Roger Boka’s family, is being financed by the Chinese government and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa is the main man behind the project, The Zimbabwe Mail can reveal.