RSS 2.0 FeedZANU PF Wreck havoc in Mbare
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
The country’s oldest suburb, Mbare, has been taken over by criminal elements with links to Zanu (PF) and those who are regarded as foes are persecuted.
Human rights and abuse
Man 'threw woman to her death' from third-floor window
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
A man has appeared in court accused of murdering a woman by throwing her from a third-floor window.
Zimbabwe Human Rights Activist Released After Weekend in Custody
Tue, Jan 31, 2012
ZANU-PF Harare Province Youth Chairman Jim Kunaka denied involvement by his party , saying Zvorwadza had threatened to shoot some residents of the Mbare high-density suburb or township who besieged his business
MDC-T youth in limbo as leader languishes in jail
Sun, Jan 29, 2012
The youth structures of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) party remain in limbo, placed on the back foot by the continued detention of the party's youth leader, Solomon Madzore.
Zimbabwe’s media landscape
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” – United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Zanu PF, Police Worst Torturers: ZimRights
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
Victoria Falls, –Zimbabwe Human Rights (ZimRights) NGO Forum director, Abel Chikomo said Zanu-PF activists, police and army are the worst torturers in Zimbabwe.
Madzore Incarceration Now a SADC issue
Wed, Jan 25, 2012
MASVINGO - The MDC is set to ratchet pressure on the State to release its youth wing president, Solomon Madzore from incarceration following revelations the matter is now set to be tabled with the regional grouping, Sadc.
State Ordered to Investigate MDC-T 'Torture'
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
The State has been ordered to urgently investigate the ‘inhumane and degrading’ conditions that eight MDC-T activists are facing in prison, where they have been held since last year in connection with the death of a policeman in Glen View.
Kenyatta to face ICC trial
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
UHURU Kenyatta, Kenya’s finance minister and son of the country’s founding president, must stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for directing a militia to murder and rape after the country’s disputed 2007 election, judges have ruled.
Tsvangirai, Biti face arrest
Mon, Jan 23, 2012
HARARE - Police and Zanu PF have launched a fresh campaign to crush the MDC in a plan which involves arresting Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Finance minister Tendai Biti and other top officials.
Mugabe ties 'strictly social, not political' - Nalinee refuses to quit
Mon, Jan 23, 2012
Newly appointed cabinet member Thailand Nalinee Taveesin yesterday rejected calls for her to step down following alleged business connections with the Zimbabwe regime and subsequent financial sanctions by the US.
MDC-T Appeals to Jomic Over Arrests
Mon, Jan 23, 2012
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC has launched a complaint with the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) against police brutality and unlawful interference in its political activities.
GIRL MARRIED OFF AT 14: Her father was paid $70 as lobola
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
A 15-YEAR-OLD girl from Marange who was married off to a geriatric member of the largest polygamist Johanne Marange Apostolic Sect — but was lucky to escape, this week bared her soul and exposed the torturous abuse she encountered at the hands of the churchman and her own father according to a Manica Post report.
Police Detain and Torture WOZA Activists in Bulawayo
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
At least 17 members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) pressure group were briefly detained, assaulted and tortured by police in Bulawayo Thursday morning, for reasons that were not explained.
Zimbabwe bookseller arrested over PM's biography
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
A bookshop owner in the resort town of Victoria Falls has been arrested for selling Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's new autobiography, the Premier's party said on Saturday.
MDC activist located, hospitalised
Mon, Jan 16, 2012
Barnabas Mwanaka, the MDC Youth Assembly secretary for Mbare district has been located at a Harare hospital where he is recovering after he was severely beaten by police, breaking his right leg yesterday outside Harvest House.
Tsvangirai hunts 2008 murderers - Daily News
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC are pushing for the murderers of the 2008 political violence to be brought to justice without any further delays.
MDC Seeks SADC Support On Police Crackdown
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party has accused President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party of waging a war against its members by instructing the police to randomly arrest them in recent clashes between the police and vendors in central Harare.
MDC youths arrested in police crackdown
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
POLICE yesterday arrested about 30 MDC-T youths in Bulawayo before ransacking the party’s office, taking away several campaign materials including fliers, t-shirts and minutes of previous meetings reports the Standard.
Glady's lawyers block deportation again
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
A very last minute injunction has saved a Zimbabwean activist who had been all set to be put on a plane bound for Zimbabwe from the UK Thursday evening.
The Face of a terrorist exposed - SW Radio Africa
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
SW Radio Africa’sexposést the ZANU PF MP for Mudzi West, Aquilinah Katsande as a killer. Between April and June 2008 she orchestrated a reign of terror that left many people with terrible stories to tell about her brutality.
Zimbabwe Police Raid MDC Headquarters, Say Seeking Street Vendors
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
MDC officials accused President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF of using the police in a bid to destabilize the MDC ahead of the next elections, which President Mugabe has declared must be held by March of this year
Zimbabwe's Unity Gov't Moves to Address Food Problems in Prisons
Fri, Jan 06, 2012
Human rights groups have condemned Zimbabwe's prisons as hell-holes that subject prisoners to slow starvation and possible death due to poor conditions.
Racist Chinese bosses abuse African workers
Tue, Jan 03, 2012
HARARE - In the evening gloom the vast complex emerges into view. Beyond a high security wall, insects dance in the beam of a giant floodlight. Men are still hard at work in the skeletons of concrete tower blocks, and standing at the centre of it all is the arch of a Chinese pagoda.
Zimbabwe diamond miners short changed
Wed, Dec 28, 2011
Arda Transau - They used to live on one of the world's richest diamond fields, but now thousands of Zimbabweans await compensation after they had to make way for state-linked mining companies this year.
