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#DiasporaZimShutDown – Subscribers speak out

Kubatana asked our subscribers what they think of #DiasporaZimShutDown BREAKING: The hashtag movement, encompassing #ThisFlag , is now taking the fight to the diaspora.But will this work? pic.twitter.com/IBO6YCXhmC — Brezh Malaba (@BrezhMalaba) August 1, 2016 Here is what they had to say: We are now training doctors and nurses for unemployment – 200 per medical […]

Breaking: Matemadanda gets bail

Source: NewsDay Original article URL Harare magistrate Vakai Chikwekwe has granted bail to the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general, Victor Matemadanda and two other war veterans’ leaders who are facing charges of undermining President Robert Mugabe. Matemadanda and ZNLWVA vice-chairman, Headman Moyo and the association’s Harare executive member, Wayne Bhila were granted […]

Zimbabwe braces for more protests

Source: Obey Manayiti, Xolisani Ncube & Khanyile Mhlotshwam NewsDay Original article URL ZIMBABWE is bracing for yet another round of street protests today against President Robert Mugabe and his government’s policy failures that have resulted in worsening socio-economic problems in the country. This comes as youth pressure group, Tajamuka/Sesijikile, has threatened to scale up anti-government […]

War vets Moyo, Bhila arrested

Source: Obey Manayiti, NewsDay Original article URL TWO more members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) were arrested yesterday, as the State intensified its clampdown on suspected authors of a communiqué by former fighters, which denounced President Robert Mugabe as a dictator and called on him to step down. ZNLWVA vice-chairman, Headman […]

#ShutDownZim2016; ZLHR secures acquittal of first batch of persecuted Bulawayo residents charged over “Mugabe must go” rant as Magistrate overturns ban of community meeting

Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights BULAWAYO Magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa on Tuesday 02 August 2016 set free four Bulawayo residents, who were arrested last month for allegedly participating in an anti-government protest over the country’s worsening economic and political crisis. The four residents, Mthokozisi Ncube aged 25, Alfred Dzirutwe, aged 35, Robson Tera, aged 39 […]

Mugabe / war vets fall out; authorities step up clampdown on dissent

Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights ZIMBABWEAN police on Tuesday 02 August 2016 charged two more leaders of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) with undermining authority of or insulting President Robert Mugabe as authorities intensify an unprecedented clampdown on dissent among former allies of the ZANU PF leader. Police charged Headman Moyo, the ZNLWVA […]

ZRP barred from interrupting a march against introduction of bond notes

Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights HIGH Court Judge Lavender Makoni on 2 August 2016 interdicted the ZRP from interrupting a Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) march scheduled for 3 August 2016 after ZLHR lawyers successfully filed an urgent application. On 19 July 2016, TZ wrote to the police stating their intention to hold a peaceful march demonstrating […]

Tajamuka in massive bond notes demo

Hardlife Mudzingwa of Tajamuka Finance Committee calls on Zimbabweans to join #no2bondnotes demo 3 August “We are calling on all Zimbabweans who had the horrors of cholera in 2008 as a result of the failing of social services delivery caused by the bearer cheques of that time. We are also calling on Zimbabweans who are […]

Zimbabwe police arrest 2 more war veterans

Source: Thomas Chiripasi & Jonga Kandemiiri, VOA Zimbabwe Original article URL HARARE — War veterans leaders Headman Moyo and Hoyini Samuel Bhila were arrested after handing themselves to the police on Tuesday. Senior Assistant Police Commissioner Charity Charamba told Studio 7 by phone that the police were still questioning the two over a communique released by […]