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High Court gives greenlight to #BeatThePot protest march

Source: NewsDay Original article URL Women take to the streets of Bulawayo today in a #BeatThePots campaign to protest mass hunger in the country after the High Court yesterday reversed an earlier police ban on the demonstration citing security concerns. The women’s-only protest, to be led by MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe, is aimed at piling pressure […]

Police arrest 14 in clashes with vendors

Source: Daily News Original article URL HARARE – Riot police yesterday fired teargas to fend off marauding vendors following the arrest of 13 officials and their chairman during clashes in central Harare. Vendors had gathered at Harare Town House where they were demonstrating against what they alleged was gross corruption by municipal police. Police last […]

A week of protests – From Beitbridge to the shutdown: How was the conflict reported?

Source: Media Monitors Download full report (PDF) The events in the seven days beginning 1 July 2016, starting with the protests in the border town of Beitbridge have been momentous in the history of Zimbabwe. The reportage of these events show that there is no one story on Zimbabwe, but several stories, told from various perspectives, […]

Social media new threat to dictators

Source: Hazel Ndebele, Zimbabwe Independent Original article URL The success of last week’s mass stay-away and other protests countrywide against President Robert Mugabe’s misrule and the deteriorating economic conditions co-ordinated largely through social media, illustrates how new forms of media have become a nightmare for dictators. Typical of dictator regimes, which thrive on controlling information and limiting […]

A different kind of uprising in Zim

Source: Brian Raftopoulos, Zimbabwe Independent Original article URL Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF has failed to develop sustainable institutions that could drive a more democratic vision of sovereignty and liberation. It has also been found lacking in creating a more consensual, less hegemonic and much less coercive form of rule. This failure has been central to the […]

Govt tightens screws on civil servants

Source: Wongai Zhangazha, Zimbabwe Independent Original article URL As desperation to quell civil unrest intensifies, government has tightened screws on civil servants after it forced them to sign forms stating that they would not participate in future stay-aways and strikes. This follows last week’s successful nationwide shutdown co-ordinated by #ThisFlag and work stoppages over salary delays. It […]

Zimbabwe misses its own debt repayment deadline

Source: Business Day & Bloomberg Original article URL By Godfrey Marawanyika, Brian Latham and Andrew Mayeda HARARE/WASHINGTON — Zimbabwe failed to repay $1.8bn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and African Development Bank by its own June 30 deadline. “Right now, we’ve not paid anything,” John Mangudya, Zimbabwe’s central bank governor, said […]

Did protests in Zimbabwe really go from ‘tweets to streets’?

Source: Washington Post Original article URL Government critics staged a massive stay-away in Zimbabwe’s largest cities on July 6. Streets in the capital Harare were deserted, with central business district shops closed. The international media has described the protest as a “spontaneous social media movement”, featured twitter posts from participants and referred to organizers as […]