- SA approves new special permits for Zimbabweans By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
08 August 2014
South Africa has approved new special permits for Zimbabweans, authorities there announced on Thursday.
“Cabinet approved the new Zimbabwean Dispensation process. The Minister of Home Affairs will conduct a separate media briefing to announce details ...
- Chingwizi villagers granted bail By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
08 August 2014
On Friday a Chiredzi magistrate granted bail to 25 Chingwizi villagers who were arrested and detained by the police for public violence, during protests in which two police vehicles were burnt down.
However four other ...
- Transform Zimbabwe leader charged for praying By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
08 August 2014
Police have been accused of harassment and intimidation after they detained opposition party leader Jacob Ngarivhume and forced him to admit to breaking security laws when he preached and prayed in a church in ...
- Zim newspapers struggle with financial challenges By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
08 August, 2014
Media houses in Zimbabwe are reported to be struggling to cope as the economy continues to deteriorate, with private as well as state run entities failing to pay wages and being forced to retrench ...
- Dabengwa vows to fight for his farm By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
7 August 2014
ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa has described the invasion of his Rudy farm in Nyamandlovu by ZANU PF supporters as ‘provocative’, warning that he’s prepared to defend his land.
Dabengwa, a former Zipra military commander who ...
- Figtree farmer goes to court over illegal occupation By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
07 August 2014
Figtree farmer David Conolly has filed contempt of court charges against Ray Ndhlukula who has seized Centenary Farm in defiance of an existing court order.
Conolly lodged his complaint Thursday morning at the same Bulawayo ...
- War vets rogue image lamented By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
07 August 2014
Moses Mzila-Ndlovu is the former minister of national healing and is also a war veteran. He says ZANU PF has ‘poisoned’ the concept of the annual Heroes Day and reduced the war veterans to ...
- ZANU PF facing its Waterloo? By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
07 August 2014
As Zimbabwe’s economy continues to falter, some observers have said this could be what finally unravels the ruling ZANU PF regime.
The country is experiencing record company closures, record unemployment levels, a serious shortage of ...
- NRZ wins court case against police By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
7 August 2014
Disgruntled workers of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) have won a legal battle against the police, who last week barred them from taking to the streets to protest against their employer.
NRZ employees have ...
- Families evicted in Centenary Farm land grab By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
06 August 2014
Generations of workers at Centenary Farm in Figtree are now homeless after top ZANU PF official Ray Ndhlukula evicted them and installed himself as the new owner on Tuesday.
The farm belongs to David Conolly ...
- Police torture of Chingwizi residents condemned By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
06 August, 2014
Several civil society organizations in Zimbabwe have condemned the reported torture of internally displaced residents from the Chingwizi Camp in Mwenezi, who were arrested over the weekend after protests to relocate a local clinic ...
- SADC leaders warned against Mugabe’s empowerment policies By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
06 August 2014
Diana Zimbudzana, programme coordinator at the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum, has warned SADC leaders against emulating President Mugabe’s controversial empowerment policies, particularly the land grab, which she said has been a disaster.
Zimbudzana said this after ...
- Zim economy in crisis By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
6 August 2014
The economic situation in the country continues to slide backwards, throwing more cold water on claims by President Robert Mugabe that it is improving.
Mugabe’s recent rosy prediction that the economy is on the bounce ...
- Poll places Mugabe among worst leaders By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
06 August, 2014
A respected American research group has published the results of a poll which ranked approval ratings of Presidents in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Gallup poll, based on face-to-face interviews with 1,000 adults older than 15 years ...
- Russians in $1.6 billion platinum mining deal By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
05 August 2014
A Russian consortium is set to invest $1.6 billion in a platinum mining project at Rushchrome Darwendale, following a deal with the Zim government last week.
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa ...
- South Africa-based Zim migrants in ‘crisis moment’ By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
05 August 2014
As South African-based Zimbabweans await Pretoria’s decision on their special residence permits, community leaders have said their situation has reached a ‘crisis moment’ with some of the documents having already expired leaving people desperate ...
- 50 African Presidents in Washington to meet Obama By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
5 August 2014
Fifty African Heads of State are in Washington attending a three day US-Africa summit being hosted by President Barack Obama.
Despite reports that some Presidents were contemplating boycotting the event in solidarity with President Robert ...
- Freeth reignites debate over EU’s support of Mugabe By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
5 August 2014
Ben Freeth, a former commercial farmer and an activist, has reignited debate over the European Union’s support of President Robert Mugabe’s regime.
Freeth, who is now the spokesperson for the SADC Tribunal Rights Watch group, ...
- Top Mugabe aide defies court, occupies Figtree farm By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
04 August 2014
Deputy presidential secretary, Dr Ray Ndhlukula, has taken over Centenary Farm in Figtree, Matebeleland South despite a High Court order barring him from doing so.
Ndhlukula has been trying to grab the farm from David ...
- Police assault vendors cleaning Harare streets By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
04 August, 2014
Vendors organized under the banner of the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) have said they were left “dumbfounded” after heavily armed riot police violently disrupted their cleanup campaign in Harare Friday morning, despite ...
- Army, police on warpath after Chingwizi protests By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
04 August 2014
300 people were arrested at Chingwizi Transit camp while others had their tents destroyed at the weekend as the security forces launched a witch hunt over last week’s protests, during which two police vehicles ...
- ZANU PF minister reported for kidnapping party members By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
04 August 2014
The ZANU PF MP for Gokwe-Gumunyu, Melania Majovani, has reported the Minister of State in the president’s office, Flora Buka, for abducting and holding members of the Women’s League hostage, in a bid to ...
- NRZ workers begin first of many planned protests By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
4 August 2014
National Railways of Zimbabwe employees on Saturday began a wave of demonstrations around the country to draw attention to their unpaid wages in the last ten months.
On Saturday workers staged protests in Bulawayo, Gweru ...
- Robert Mugabe junior to enter politics By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
4 August 2014
President Robert Mugabe’s son Robert Junior is reportedly being earmarked for a political career, following weekend reports that some ZANU PF youth members are lobbying for his nomination for an influential position in the ...
- Golden grass, glittering rock pools and sacrifice by Cathy Buckle Monday 04 August 2014
Dear Family and Friends,
Travel East of my home town on a Monday and it’s beer day. Travel West on a Tuesday and it’s their beer day. Hard to believe that this one simple event, using such primitive ...
- Gutu residents in shock following attack by soldiers By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
1 August 2014
Pandemonium erupted on Tuesday at Mupandawana growth point in Gutu Masvingo province when soldiers went on the rampage, using logs to indiscriminately beat up people.
Crispa Musoni, a local businessman and former MDC MP for ...
- SA relents on Zim special permits By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
01 August 2014
The South African government is set to renew the permits it issued under a special dispensation project, which enabled Zimbabweans who had been in that country illegally a chance to regularise their stay.
The decision ...
- Nocturnal meetings as ZANU PF power tussle hots up By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
01 August 2014
Senior officials within the fractious ZANU PF are so desperate to keep their party positions that some are approaching Mugabe clandestinely to solicit for support.
The State-run Herald newspaper said Mugabe made the disclosure at ...
- Police looking for MDC-T youth leaders over protest By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
1 August 2014
Police in Harare have reportedly summoned two MDC-T youth leaders over an anti-government protest that was staged by party youths in Harare on Thursday.
Hundreds of youths had gathered in central Harare to protest against ...
- Confusion over ruling against criminal defamation
By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
01 August, 2014
A media monitoring group in Zimbabwe has warned the media community to be cautious about celebrating a recent ruling by the Constitutional Court, which freed two journalists accused of criminal defamation under the controversial ...
- MDC-T youths in anti-government protests in Harare By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
31 July 2014
Hundreds of youths from the MDC-T gathered in central Harare on Thursday to protest against the government of President Robert Mugabe, blaming him for failing to create jobs or improve the economy.
There was tension ...
- Freeth speaks on ZANU PF’s ‘racist’ rant By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
31 July 2014
Dispossessed Chegutu farmer Ben Freeth has described as “sad and baseless” attempts by the ZANU PF regime to cast him as a racist in one of its newspapers.
An article carried in the ZANU PF ...
- Electoral Amendment Bill takes away Diaspora voting rights By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
31 July 2014
The Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe has said the Electoral Amendment Bill, which sailed through the ZANU PF dominated Parliament without adjustments, is ‘patently unconstitutional’ and President Mugabe should not sign it into law.
The bill, ...
- Zimbabwe, a year after elections By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
31 July 2014
A year into Robert Mugabe’s 5th term as President, the high expectations and hope from his supporters, that led to his ‘crushing victory’, have given way to impatience and mounting criticism from all opposition ...
- Police ban workers protest By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
31 July 2014
Police in Harare this week banned the Zimbabwe Railways and Artisans Union’s peaceful marches, which were scheduled for next week in the country’s four major cities.
The union had notified the police that its members ...
- MDC-T in danger of oblivion
By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
30 July 2014
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition chairman Dewa Mavhinga has said the MDC-T has been diminished by petty personality and ego clashes.
Speaking to SW Radio Africa’s Cutting Edge programme Mavhinga said it was high time the ...
- ZANU PF infighting to get worse By Tichaona Sibanda
SW Radio Africa
30 July 2014
A Harare based journalist has said that President Robert Mugabe has no interest in appointing anyone to succeed him in ZANU PF and the party’s elective congress in December ‘will come and pass as ...
- Illegal ZPF settlers ordered to vacate farms in Chimanimani By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
29 July, 2014
Supporters of ZANU PF who were encouraged to invade timber estates in Chimanimani by local party candidates ahead of last year’s elections, are being ordered to pack up and vacate their farms as government ...
- I don’t know it all, says Biti as he calls for dialogue By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
30 July 2014
Ex-Finance Minister Tendai Biti has agreed with President Robert Mugabe’s wife that no one person has all the answers to the Zim crisis, saying that is why dialogue is crucial.
Speaking last week, Grace said ...
- Mpofu testimony reveals problems in diamond mining By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
30 July, 2014
Zimbabwe’s former minister of mines Obert Mpofu has admitted under oath that he ran the country’s diamonds sector alone for a period of four months, after firing the entire board when he took office ...
- Two-month-old baby killed by municipal police By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
29 July 2014
A baby was run over and crushed to death by a Masvingo municipal driver who was pursuing fleeing vendors on Monday.
The driver was part of a municipal police team who wanted to arrest vendors ...
- Suspicious fire destroys home of MDC-Team Renewal official By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
29 July, 2014
The home of a district official in the MDC-Team Renewal party is reported to have been completely destroyed in a fiery blaze on Sunday, as the breakaway political group held a leadership meeting in ...
- Government delays realignment of laws By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
29 July 2014
A senior government official has admitted that various state ministries are to blame for the delay in the realignment of the laws with the provisions of the new constitution.
Justice affairs permanent secretary, Virginia Mabhiza, ...
- Ministers in Russia amid ‘discord’ over minerals By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
29 July 2014
A Zim ministerial delegation is in Russia to explore joint venture opportunities in mineral exploration, according to the State media reports.
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa left the country Sunday to ...
- Media Commission rejects invitation by Moyo’s media panel By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
29 July, 2014
The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has reportedly rejected an invitation to appear before the controversial media panel created by Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, insisting that the panel is duplicating the responsibilities of the constitutionally ...
- The devil always has more off-spring than angels Tanonoka Joseph Whande
Monday 28 July 2014
By far, the most nauseating rumour is that of Grace Mugabe having political ambitions of her own.
In her corner, of course Opah Muchinguri who has, since independence, eroded any respect the women of Zimbabwe should ...
- Zimbabweans jittery as Grace enters politics By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
28 July 2014
President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace was this weekend nominated to the top of the ruling ZANU PF’s powerful Women’s League as its Secretary, as SW Radio Africa reported Friday.
The position will also secure Grace ...
- Chinamasa borrows $1.4 million for cars By Nomalanga Moyo
SW Radio Africa
28 July 2014
The Finance Ministry has reportedly secured a $1.4 million loan from a local bank for luxury vehicles for its personnel.
The loan came from the African Banking Corporation of Zimbabwe, which expects the ministry to ...
- 100 underage pregnancies at Chingwizi By Mthulisi Mathuthu
SW Radio Africa
28 July 2014
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has estimated that more than 100 school girls at the Chingwizi Camp between the ages of 10 and 12 may have fallen pregnant recently.
The teachers union said of ...
- Chinotimba praised by Daily News newspaper By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
28 July, 2014
The independent Daily News newspaper has named the notorious leader of farm invasions, Joseph Chinotimba, as legislator of the month, in an inaugural monthly column that will praise members of parliament for their contribution ...