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Dirk Frey

Zimbabwe’s history of violence: A lumbering yoke that needs to be broken

Sep 1, 2016 331

By Dirk Frey We must break away from our history of violence. The colonization of Zimbabwe by British ‘adventurers’ (to use a polite term) started a cycle of endemic violence which haunts us to this day. This present moment in…
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Opinion

Evan Mawarire is gone, but #ThisFlag movement must not go with him – Dirk Frey

Aug 14, 2016 449

By Dirk Frey So it looks like #ThisFlag honeymoon is over. Evan Mawarire is now reportedly camped in the USA, and the once united social media movement is disintegrating and imploding. I see a bunch of folks hurt and…
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News

Protesters seek High Court order against police harassment

Jun 28, 2016 316

By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | Five activists protesting against President Robert Mugabe’s rule have approached the High Court to stop police harassment, according to a Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) statement on Monday.…
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News

Three civil society leaders arrested

Jul 25, 2015 336

STATEMENT - On Saturday 25 July, 2015, Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services officers teamed up with some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers arrested three CSO leaders Mfundo Mlilo, CHRA director and Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition…
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News

Journalist who led protest denies being on the run

Oct 28, 2014 323

HARARE - Prominent journalist Itai Dzamara has rubbished a Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC TV) news report which claimed that he was on the run from police after leading a protest during the opening of parliament on Tuesday.
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