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By Tendai Ruben Mbofana The recent – and possibly, ongoing – shutdown and protests by the suffering people of Zimbabwe – who have, understandably, have had enough – should serve as a serious reminder to the ZANU PF government that the time to take the people for granted is over, and it is either they […]
By Ray Ndlovu More clerics in Zimbabwe have joined the ranks of those taking a stand against President Robert Mugabe’s administration over the deteriorating situation in the country. In a charged sermon delivered on Sunday morning which went viral, one of the country’s most popular religious figures Emmanuel Makandiwa, the founder and “prophet” of the […]
The authoritarian Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation epitomises the type of state entity that SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has wet dreams about, writes William Saunderson-Meyer. Bizarre as it may seem, Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF and President Robert Mugabe remain objects of veneration for South Africa’s black nationalists. The ANC regularly exchanges fraternal salutations with its counterpart […]
By Jason Burke and Caty Enders in Bulawayo | The Guardian | The leader of popular protests in Zimbabwe has called on the international community to put pressure on the government of the 92-year-old autocrat Robert Mugabe to “listen to its own citizens”, and threatened further demonstrations. Protests paralysed much of the southern African nation […]
This is the moment inmates in Texas broke out of a holding cell to help save the life of a guard suffering a suspected heart attack.
Theresa May is set to be appointed the new British prime minister on Wednesday, says David Cameron. The announcement comes after Mrs May’s only rival in the Conservative leadership race, Andrea Leadsom, withdrew from the campaign. Mr Cameron said the Home Secretary would take over from him after his last Prime Minister’s Questions in two […]
An 87-year-old British man who shot his wife at a care home has been cleared of murder after the trial judge directed the jury to accept a plea of manslaughter by diminished responsibility. Ronald King killed his wife Rita, 81, who had dementia, at De La Mer House in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in December. On Monday, […]
Zanu PF Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke has been sentenced to jail for 14 years for the 2010 rape of a minor.
Zanu-PF Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke has been found guilty of raping his wife’s 11-year-old niece in 2010. The businessman was however cleared of charges that he had also indecently assaulted her sister. Kereke was sentenced to jail for 14 years. Regional magistrate Noel Mupeiwa however, suspended four years on condition of good behaviour, which means he […]
Scores of protests who recently took to the streets are still jailed despite being granted bail and citizen activist leaders have sent out an SOS for financial support.