Source: NewsDay POLICE yesterday arrested seven people in Harare and Bulawayo following alleged isolated cases of violence triggered by businesses’ refusal to heed calls for a national shutdown organised by local political pressure groups. The shutdown had been organised by Tajamuka/Sesijikile to force President Robert Mugabe to urgently address the economic meltdown. Four members of […]
Zimbabwe police arrest protesters
Source: VOA Zimbabwe Original article URL Police have stopped a public protest in Bulawayo following calls for a stay away by Tajamuka-Sesijikile Campaign, which is pressing President Robert Mugabe to step down for allegedly failing to run Zimbabwe. According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights the arrested included freelance journalist Crispen Ndlovu, political activists […]
NERA takes anti-govt demo to Bulawayo
Source: Dumisani Nyoni, Radio VOP Original article URL OPPOSITION parties under the banner of National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) on Tuesday vowed they were going to hold a massive demonstration in Bulawayo on Friday to demand electoral reforms from the Zanu PF led government. Speaking at a press briefing under their umbrella association in Bulawayo on Tuesday, […]
Zimbabweans ignore shut-down call, cite survival concerns
Source: Radio VOP Original article URL THE national shut-down that had been called for Wednesday by anti-government activists turned a big flop after the larger majority of Zimbabweans reported for work at their different work places. Harare, which last week witnessed wild protests which resulted in the burning of two trucks belonging to ZBC and […]
Police brutality emboldened my resolve: Victim
Source: Xolisani Ncube, NewsDay Original article URL THE 62-year-old Chitungwiza woman, the victim of a brutal assault by the police as she sat outside the Harare Magistrates’ Court last Friday, told MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday that the attack had emboldened her resolve to participate in all future anti-government demonstrations. Lilian Chinyerere Shumba told Tsvangirai […]
Zimbabwe protesters ‘beaten very badly’
Source: Peta Thornycroft, African News Agency (ANA) Original article URL The ground floor of the filthy Harare Magistrate’s Court was on Tuesday crowded with anxious people wanting information about their relatives and friends, some of whom were viciously beaten up and wounded after they were arrested during last Friday’s anti-government demonstrations. Many of those crowded […]
Joc summons opposition parties
Source: Everson Mushava & Obey Manayiti, NewsDay Original article URL ORGANISERS of Friday’s planned anti-government protests yesterday claimed they were summoned by securocrats for a briefing, amid reports government feared the demonstration could turn into another orgy of looting and violence. The protests are being organised by 18 opposition parties under the banner of the […]
Is the World Bank excusing Mugabe’s human rights abuses? Read for yourself.
Source: Todd Moss, Center for Global Development Original article URL The World Bank is supposed to work with poor countries in distress. When it all goes well, the Bank supports reformers with advice and money. Sometimes, however, the Bank prolongs a country’s pain by throwing a lifeline to recalcitrant regimes. The difference between a helping […]
Dodging teargas in Zimbabwe’s riot-torn capital
Source: GroundUp Original article URL Tawanda*, who sells illegal sex boost drugs on the streets of Harare, says three options face him every day in Zimbabwe´s riot-torn capital: “police jail me for being a rioter; protesters loot my shop or I simply join the riots.” “I am proud that I can simply slot my medicine bottles […]
Tajamuka vows to go ahead with shutdown
Source: NewsDay Original article URL CO-ORDINATORS of the #Tajamuka/Sesijikile campaign yesterday vowed to forge ahead with their planned national shutdown scheduled for tomorrow, despite threats by Zanu PF youths and State security agents. Hardlife Mudzingwa, one of the pressure group’s leaders, told journalists in the capital that tomorrow’s shutdown was part of their sustained campaign […]
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