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By Patson Dzamara Today was yet another eventful day. For the entire day, I was either at the lawyers or at the police. I was called by Assistant Commissioner Makadenge this morning and he asked me to meet him and his team at…
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PRESS STATEMENT: Recent revelations by President Robert Mugabe to the effect that at least US$15 billion worth of diamonds from Marange/Chiadzwa has not been accounted for are very astounding and startling, to say the least. Mugabe…
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Encouraged by widespread coverage in the British press, more than 60 exiled Zimbabweans and supporters last Friday took part in a protest outside a clinic in Nottingham run by a Zimbabwean immigrant doctor who has seized one of the last…
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Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Statement on the arrest of Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is disturbed by the arrest and detention of the Prosecutor General, Johannes Tomana, on 1 February…
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The United Nations is understood to be considering a Zimbabwean request to provide emergency aid for Mugabe’s 92nd birthday celebrations in Masvingo next month. UN East and Southern Africa spokesman, Idi Ott, said UNFED had been…
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As far as producing hot air is concerned the Vigil is confident that Zimbabwe is a world  beater. With swarms of political parties quacking away like ducks on steroids, it is one industry in which we can more than compete. So it…
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A representative of the Vigil and our sister organisation the Restoration of Human Rights in Zimbabwe (ROHR) has been on an undercover visit to Zimbabwe during which he travelled extensively. He rejoined us today and reported finding a…
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When a wife or a husband for that matter is in an abusive relationship, most of the time they do not realize that they are. They generally believe that it is their duty to withstand the abuse in the interest of either maintaining the…
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Zanu PF says it has raised well over the $3 million it wanted for its conference at Victoria Falls. Apart from $5 contributions extorted from civil servants and rather larger ones from companies, most of this money will come, in reality,…
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Sacked information minister Jonathan Moyo simply can’t get out of propaganda mode. From his lowly perch as just one of the education ministers, Moyo is reduced to tweeting that the Zanu PF government can’t concentrate on turning around the…
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