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Taking revealing storytelling to new levels: 🔵ZiG launch: Govt unleashes Gestapo tactics on market; 🔵Arrests erode confidence in new currency; 🔵World Bank distances itself from ZiG; 🔵Unpaid US$200m stall road projects; 🔵Namibia weighs Kamushinda extradition for looting…

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#BREAKING Zimbabwe's opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa accuses Zec of "primitive" rigging, saying it does not make sense that far-flung areas like Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe have adequate ballot paper yet Warren Park in Harare, located near the printers, has no ballot paper.

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A female Zimbabwean pilot who overcame great adversity to fly around the world, Precious Sibalo, has given back to her former school in Plumtree: She bought school shoes for 50 children, sanitary pads for all girls from Grade 6-7, books, satchels and food for 590 children.

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#BREAKING #HappeningNow CCC leader Nelson Chamisa tells a Press conference in Harare that the V11 forms are showing, without doubt, that the opposition party has won Zimbabwe's presidential election. He says the results announced by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission are bogus.

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His style maybe aggressive, abrasive and annoying to some, but his voice in parliament will be sorely missed by those who believe in a democratic, vibrant and rigorous legislature, as well as accountability and delivery. His many controversies aside, outgoing independent Norton…

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#BREAKING #HappeningNow Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC official Gift Siziba tells a Press conference that last week's general election was totally flawed and the country must now disband Zec and prepare for fresh elections supervised by Sadc and the international community.

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Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba, a rising political star, has started PhD studies at the University of Free State in SA after being selected as one of the 43 scholarship recipients out of 1000 applicants in a highly competitive process.

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She symbolises inevitable generational change, courage and determination. Her involvement in politics will inspire the young, especially young women to participate in how they are governed and how they can make Zimbabwe a much better country to live in future. Fadzayi Mahere…

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He maybe young and look rather inexperienced and naive, but he is a sharp and strategic operator on the ground, and will lead the Bulawayo12 into parliament after surviving a disqualification scare in the run-up to the controversial general elections. Zimbabwe's main opposition…

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#Exclusive Zimbabwe's prominent opposition political activist Job Sikhala was released from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison tonight after 595 days in jail. The NewsHawks was there to exclusively tell the story.

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#BREAKING #HappeningNow THE Sadc observer mission chairperson Dr Nevers Mumba presents a preliminary report on Zimbabwe's general election. He says while generally peaceful,the election fell short of the Sadc Principles and Guidelines on Elections. The Sadc observer mission says:

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#HighFlyer Marjorie Ngwenya (42), a British-born Zimbabwean-raised actuary, has been appointed a member of the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Committee, which supervises banks and investment firms. She is former president of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

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Is Africa ready for this generation of leaders?

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Zimbabwean photographer Tamary Kudita (left) has scooped the top prize in the creative category of the Sony World Photography Awards. She gets US$5 000 cash and Sony digital equipment. Kudita was born in Harare in 1994 and studied fine art at the University of Cape Town.

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Nambia is currently gripped by a heated debate on land reform, like Zimbabwe was in the late 1990s before the chaotic and violent land invasions from 2000 onwards. The country hopes to reach a negotiated solution on the unfair distribution of land between blacks and whites. The…

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Opposition CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere held her own in the thick of things even against seasoned campaigners like Zanu PF spokesman Chris Mutsvangwa. She firmly stood her ground.

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Qatar-based international TV news channel Al Jazeera will be broadcasting a revealing investigation on corruption and money laundering in Zimbabwe, involving government officials and their cronies. Corruption, leadership, policy and governance failures have ruined Zimbabwe.

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#HappeningNow Opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa says it is important to "de-Hararerise" Zimbabwe. We cannot have a situation where, to get an identity document you must go to Harare, to get a passport you must go to Harare. Harare is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not Harare!

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Australia's Queensland Police Service says it will refer Susan Mutami's sensational rape report against Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "international jurisdictions", meaning the case will now be dealt with by the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol).

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Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube in a candid admission that he was gullible, wrong and naive to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's coup ascendancy in November 2017. He says he has now quit as Mnangagwa's adviser because he realised that the coup project won't end well.

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#RareLeadership Bulawayo’s newly elected CCC mayor, David Coltart, says the city will not buy a new mayoral car for the next 5 years. When he was appointed Education minister, he turned down a Mercedes and used a Nissan 4x4 which was much better suited to visiting rural schools.

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Dr Dixon Chibanda, a world-renowned Zimbabwean psychiatrist, has won the US$150 000 McNulty Prize in recognition of his innovative Friendship Bench concept. By empowering grandmothers to become therapists, he is promoting holistic mental healthcare in simple but remarkable ways.

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#BREAKING The chairperson of the Parliamentary Health Committee, Dr Ruth Labode, says people should not be paying for Covid-19 tests. "The Global Fund gave Zimbabwe US$45m to buy Covid-19 test kits. Why are people still forced to pay US$60 for a Covid-19 test? It's corruption."

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This CCC supporter had a lot to say to riot police officers deployed to stop Nelson Chamisa's rally.

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2 years

Another high-flying Zimbabwean lady Samantha Nyikadzino got her dream job at Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team as a a new electronics design engineer following in the footsteps of fellow compatriot Stephanie Travers who joined as a trackside fuel engineer.

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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stripped presidential envoy and ambassador-at-large self-styled Prophet Uebert Angel of his diplomatic status in the aftermath of a major fallout from Al Jazeera's corruption-busting investigation on gold smuggling and money laundering.

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While the Zimbabwean government simplistically tries to paint Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema as a puppet of the West after he appointed a Southern African Development Community (Sadc) election observer mission head by Nevers Mumba which rejected results of the recent sham…

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SADC Electoral Observation Mission head Nevers Mumba, who is former Zambian Vice-President and leader of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, has hit back at Zanu PF spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa for his attack on the regional body's elections team over its damning report on…

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I am voting to secure the future of my children's children, says this Warren Park D woman. She says she will be patient, even if ZEC opens the polling station at night. Voting has not started at Warren Park 4 Primary School in Harare.

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#Excellence In this exciting discussion, Zimbabwean tech expert James Manyika, Google’s senior vice-president of research, technology and society, talks to Zimbabwean billionaire philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa. The dialogue provides insights into Africa’s mobile revolution, and…

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Another parliament newcomer for the main opposition CCC from Kadoma Central Gift Mambipiri, a communication expert who worked closely with media and journalists. He is committed to media reforms and development.

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Zimbabwean former deputy prime minister Professor Arthur Mutambara has joined the fray over main opposition CCC's crisis triggered by recalls of its 15 MPs. He says this is not surprising and it is a Zanu PF political manoeuvre to divert attention from the recent elections fiasco…

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Ordinary people and party activists have sacrificed a lot for main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa and his party. Last night, for instance, they held a vigil to ensure that Madamombe Grounds in rural Seke in Mashonaland East province is safe for Chamisa’s rally today. Youth…

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Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC says it has launched a 30-day fresh elections campaign after last week's disputed poll results. The CCC says the elections were badly flawed and thus the results are illegitimate. The party wants fresh elections held under the supervision of an…

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After she was demolished by Newzoom Afrika news anchor Cathy Mohlahlana in an explosive interview, Zimbabwean Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa was left disoriented for sometime to the extent that when she went for another different interview with SABC Foreign Editor Sophie…

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#YetAnotherDisputedElection Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC led by Nelson Chamisa has firmly rejected President Emmerson Mnangagwa's disputed wafer-thin victory in the hotly-contested presidential election whose results were announced moments ago. CCC spokesperson Promise…

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Gift Ostallos Siziba, one of the main opposition CCC leaders, says only free, fair and credible elections can restore political legitimacy in Zimbabwe. He says his party categorically and emphatically rejects the recently held elections as a fraud and sham.

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With very little resources and thin logistical support, the main opposition CCC put on a great show.

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#Excellence Zimbabwean electrical engineer James Manyika has been appointed US tech giant Google's head of technology and society. Manyika, who was senior partner at McKinsey & Company and director of the McKinsey Global Institute, will focus on how technology affects society.

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#Recognition Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Doug Coltart has been nominated for the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe’s (CCBE) 2023 Human Rights Award. He was nominated by the Law Society of Ireland and the Bar of Ireland.

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Respected and prominent Zimbabwean academic and economist Professor Gift Mugano has endorsed main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa in Wednesday's cutthroat presidential election race his against perennial and bitter rival President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa scraped…

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Zimbabwe's main opposition Citizens Coaliton for Change leader Nelson Chamisa today visited prominent journalist Hopewell Chin'ono at his home in Harare. Chamisa is a strong advocate for media freedom, while Chin'ono has been arrested several times for exposing corruption.

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The British House of Lords, which is the Upper House of Parliament, has demanded that Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's embattled presidential envoy, Uebert Angel, and his business partner Rikki Doolan, who is married to his niece Nicola, be investigated since they are…

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In a notable achievement for Zimbabwean mental health expert Prof Dixon Chibanda (pic), his Friendship Bench will be showcased at the 2022 Fifa World Cup. The bench is an evidence-based intervention which he first developed in Zimbabwe to bridge the mental health treatment gap.

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#MissingPerson A Zimbabwean businessman based in South Africa Ranga Gova, 35, is still missing exactly a week after he was hijacked and kidnapped in Centurion between Pretoria and Midrand, just a few minutes away from his home in an upmarket residential estate.

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Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has told a high-profile Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy in Switzerland that the country is reeling from authoritarian rule amid fierce political repression worse than that under the late despotic president…

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#MpofuTearsTshabanguRecallsApart Advocate Thabani Mpofu, one of Zimbabwe's most prominent lawyers, has ruthlessly torn asunder opposition political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's case of recalling main opposition CCC MPs, senators and councillors, saying he has admitted that the…

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Voters in Warren Park believe they are being frustrated so that they dont vote. They however say they are prepared to wait the whole day to exercise their right to vote.

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Zimbabwe's former deputy prime minister Professor Arthur Mutambara says the country should close ranks and find a pathway to the future based on free, fair and credible elections. He also says Zimbabwe need to "cure the cancer" of disputed elections to move forward. Says…

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#SadcZimElectionsReport The SADC election observer mission head Nevers Mumba has dismissed accusations by Zambian fellow opposition leader Fred M'membe, leader of the Socialist Party of Zambia, suggesting he is a running dog of Western imperialism after his team boldly refused…

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South African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi tells the High Court in Pretoria that there is no reason to continue favouring Zimbabwean nationals with a special work permit. He argues the permit was only meant to be a temporary solution to assist Zimbabweans fleeing…

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Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) presenter for 15 years Hugo Ribatika has joined Newzroom Afrika as an anchor. Ribatika, who also worked for Kwese Sports, joined the South African 24-hour digital satellite television news channel broadcast on Dstv five days ago.

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Zimbabwe is sending a black swimmer to the Olympics for the first time since Independence 41 years ago. Seventeen-year-old Donata Katai won African youth titles and broke youth records once held by Olympic legend Kirsty Coventry.

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Main opposition CCC secretary for elections Ian Makone has made an urgent High Court application for a mandatory interdict that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must provide an up-to-date copy of the voters' roll and final list of polling stations for the 23 August 2023…

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Newzoom Afrika news anchor Cathy Mohlahlana inflicted a demolition job on Zimbabwe's Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa.

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Famous Zimbabwean author, playwright and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has won the Africa Freedom Prize presented by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. The award is in recognition of her "unwavering resilience and commitment" to the cause of freedom and reform in…

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#VirginTycoon British billionaire magnate and commercial astronaut Richard Branson jets into Zimbabwe aboard a fastjet plane.

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#ZimElection2023 #CarterCentreReport The United States-based Carter Centre has issued its preliminary statement on Zimbabwe's general elections, saying the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission was not independent, the playing field was uneven and the polls lacked credibility.

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Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC and leader Nelson Chamisa is being blocked at every turn from holding important rallies around the country, including its official campaign launch, by partisan police brazenly acting like Zanu PF political commissars when they are public servants…

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Zimbabwean authorities are panicking over international TV broadcaster Al Jazeera's four investigative films exposing gold smuggling syndicates, corruption and money laundering by those in positions of power and influence, around President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cronies.

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The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has been caught pants down lying that it doesn't have a computer server for elections data storage when it has one bought by the United Nations Development Programme for US$480 000 from the United States through a US$19.6m European Union funding.

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As Zimbabwe's by-elections results start to come out after polls closed earlier this evening, main opposition Citizens Coaliton for Change led by Nelson Chamisa has won its first ever elected post - Beitbridge Ward 5 municipal candidate Granger Nyoni, who was recalled, has won.

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Firebrand South African politician Julius Malema says the African Union and Sadc are turning a blind eye while the Zimbabwean government oppresses citizens. "We have a problem here in Zimbabwe. These members of Sadc don't call the government of Zimbabwe to order, because it's a…

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As the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation continues refusing to cover political parties equitably while gaslighting critics, the South African Broadcasting Corporation has stepped in. The SABC is promising to provide "rolling coverage" of the Zimbabwe election.

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#LivingTheLife Not for the first time, Zimbabwe's Minister of Information Monica Mutsvangwa and her husband Chris Mutsvangwa, Zanu PF spokesman and former advisor to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, are gallivanting in the United States despite government's saturation propaganda -…

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Zimbabwean local businessman Chemist Siziba who was one of the pioneers in the mobile telecommunications industry has died. He was 77. Siziba died of kidney failure at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare this afternoon. Siziba, who was the founder of the liquidated Cosmos Cellular…

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Reports that Zimbabwean tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, a billionaire, was denied an opportunity to invest US$250 million in a major power project to generate 500MW due to corrupt Zesa officials in 2007 show government should be held responsible for the current electricity shortages.

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The United States has openly rejected Zimbabwe's shambolic elections, saying they did not meet regional and international standards. Through its Harare embassy, it said: "While the election days were predominantly peaceful, the electoral process thus far did not meet many…

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Reliable media sources have told @NewsHawksLive that Dubai, UAE, is pressuring Al Jazeera to remove the narrative that it is the threatre of gold smuggling and illicit trade from Zimbabwe. More than US$1.5 billion of gold is smuggled out of Zimbabwe yearly, much of it to Dubai.

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#Exclusive #Breaking Zimbabwean gold smuggler Tashinga Nyasha Masinire arrested at OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, yesterday with 23 prices of gold worth R11m (US$783 000) is Zimbabwe Miners Federation President Henrietta Rushwaya's aide and driver.

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Police's disruption of popular musician Winky D's show in Chitungwiza last night provides further evidence - if any is still needed - that Zimbabwe is fast becoming an Orwellian society, with a political system in which government tries to control every aspect of people's lives.

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More than anyone else in the region and elsewhere, South African opposition EFF leader Julius Malema has highlighted the Zimbabwean conundrum, saying the country is facing a "big problem", while focusing on the upcoming elections which he fears pare already stolen by the army.…

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#DisinformationGaslightingCampaign The Zimbabwean government has now resorted to blatant disinformation, deception and lies to counter main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa's tidal wave of support sweeping across the country ahead of the 23 August general elections.…

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On August 17,technology company @GtelZimbabwe offered to present a brand new cellphone to whoever would muster the highest number of retweets.They kept their word. @BrezhMalaba tweeted he would give the phone to the imprisoned journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. Brezh did so today.

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Opposition CCC spokesperson Promise Mkhwananzi - who has been arrested many times for his political activism - has dismissed police claims that he has a 2020 warrant of arrest for defaulting on court proceedings. Said Mkhwananzi: "Please be informed that I don't have a warrant of…

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President Hakainde Hichilema says Zambia will maintain its founding father Kenneth Kaunda's pacifist foreign policy as it does not want conflict with anyone as he reminds the region that some neighbouring countries' leaders now insulting Zambians were once refugees in Zambia.

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Mnangagwa treading on explosive political minefield PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is sitting on a simmering political volcano as it further emerges that soldiers voted against him at different barracks and on postal ballots on a wider scale than initially imagined.

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#ZecElectionsillegalities The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), which runs elections in the country, has set up an illegal polling station in Kwekwe, Midlands province, at a mine owned by a Zanu PF political activist who is part of a local cadre of partisans behind the ruling…

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#Solidarity Mlungisi Makhanya, president of Eswatini's opposition People's United Democratic Movement (Pudemo), addresses mourners at slain CCC activist Tinashe Chitsunge's funeral in Harare. Makhanya said Africa is standing in solidarity with the oppressed masses of Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe’s national high school moot court team today made history after being crowned world champions at the International Moot Court competitions held in Netherlands. The team, which is sponsored by CBZ among other sponsors, beat 15 other countries.

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Zimbabwe's disqualified presidential election candidate Saviour Kasukuwere, who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, singing a political song about leadership and ruling in the interests of the people.

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CCC spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba says the opposition party is focused on substantial issues and not individuals. He says the party speaks for the downtrodden masses; it speaks for the poverty-stricken citizens; it speaks for the grossly underpaid public sector workers.

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#SadcRejectsShamZimElections Zimbabwe's sham elections have been boldly rejected by the South African Development Community (Sadc) in a major dramatic and unprecedented political move never seen begore in the region. Even the bloody and chaotic 2008 presidential election run-off…

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#Excellence Dr James Manyika, the Zimbabwean tech expert who is a senior vice-president of Google, has been appointed to the board of directors of Airbnb, a global rental giant valued at US$93 billion. Manyika is a leader in artificial intelligence.

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Zimbabwe's opposition CCC former Marondera Central MP Caston Matewu has been re-elected by an overwhelming majority as the Nelson Chamisa-led new party sends a serious message of intent in the critical by-elections ahead of 2023 general elections.

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As the fallout over the brazenly stolen Zimbabwe elections deepens, the United States says it is engaging regional leaders over the volatile issue. The US highlighted ominous consequences of the electoral fraud for Harare's international re-engagement and isolation. The US also…

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Main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa's legal adviser Advocate Thabani Mpofu says, although the Supreme Court yesterday restored the party’s parliamentary election candidates in Bulawayo and their basic political and civil liberties, ongoing brazen attempts by authorities to…

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The hypocrisy of South Africa's ruling ANC is laid bare in this video. Police minister Bheki Cele accompanies a police patrol in hunting down undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants. While the ANC openly supports dictatorship in Zimbabwe, it cannot stomach the influx of Zimbabweans.

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Award-winning Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says he will stop reporting on the Al Jazeera investigation into gold smuggling, money laundering and corruption for his own safety after threats against journalists by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba.

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Making scurrilous and malicious attacks against journalists over the Al Jazeera investigation into gold looting, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba says it was a "HUGE MISTAKE" for Zimbabwean authorities to allow The NewsHawks to operate in the country.

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The sentencing of opposition Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume to an effective three years, with 12 months conditionally suspended, has further shown that the country is now clearly an autocratic nation similar to the Rhodesian settler colonial state where people were…

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#FadzayiMahereQuitsCCC Out of principle, Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC Mount Pleasant MP Fadzayi Mahere says she is quitting parliament, a day after Nelson Chamisa dramatically abandoned the party as leader, saying it has now been evidently "infiltrated, contaminated and…

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Jailed opposition activist Job Sikhala says he is imprisoned in dingy and inhuman conditions at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in "dark solitary dungeon where you can hold the thick of darkness, I wake up during the middle of the night, the room is fully flooded with my sweat,…

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9 months

The new enemy of Zanu PF, as Blade Nzimande would have said, is the Southern African Development Community!

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1 year

After the explosive hour-long 2019 Al Jazeera investigative film on fisheries corruption in Namibia that implicated figures close to President Hage Geingob, ministers were forced to resign as arrests followed. Geingob was later implicated. In Zimbabwe, journalists are the target.

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Michelle Amuli, popularly known as Mimi Moana, a socialite and model who died today in the car accident with Ginimbi, appears to have had some premonition of her death. With Alicia Adams and Limumba Karim, they were trapped and burnt to death in Ginimbi's fancy Rolls Royce.

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2 years

The question of who is biggest opposition leader in Zimbabwe between Nelson Chamisa and Douglas Mwonzora has been easily settled by the crowds, the people, of late, if ever it was an issue. While Mwonzora reels from poor rally attendances, Chamisa is riding high with multitudes.

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The situation between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and vocal Australian-based local woman Susan Mutami - who is accusing him of raping her as a minor - has reached another level as she now seeks to further internationalise the case - this time using the United Nations platform.

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1 year

#Breaking Bona Nyapudzai Ouma Mugabe, the late former president Robert Mugabe’s daughter, is divorcing her husband Simbarashe Mutsahuni Chikore after nine years of marriage as their marital union has irretrievably broken down with no prospect of reconciliation and restoration.

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9 months

Zimbabwean journalist and filmmaker Hopewell Chin'ono tells American international broadcaster CNN yesterday's elections were the worst since the country's independence in 1980 - shambolic - due to brazen attempts to rig the polls.

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