In an era where polarised views can trump news, the legendary editor’s death is a reminder that facts and evidence matter, writes Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian, in tribute to the legendary journalist and writer Sir Harold Evans who died this week. He could do it all. Write […]
A new video has emerged showing Michael Jackson meeting President Robert Mugabe on a secret trip to Zimbabwe. The footage – which has never been seen before – shows the King of Pop with the fawning Zimbabwean leader and his wife Grace. The video was shot in the State House […]
Three police officers who were actively involved in the arrest of Delish Nguwaya, the Zimbabwean representative of Drax International, a company implicated in the US$60 million COVID-19 equipment procurement scam, have been arrested. Nguwaya is a business partner of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s twin sons Collins and Shaun. He was arrested […]
A Harare magistrate has sent Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe (MDC Alliance) to prison for two weeks to enable two government doctors to assess her mental condition after she failed to attend trial due to alleged mental disorder. Mamombe, who is accused of faking abduction three months ago, was arrested […]
Prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, who was recently released on bail after six weeks in prison, has alleged that his arrest and those of other high profile activists were orchestrated by President Emmerson’s nephew, who leads the Special Anti Corruption Unit (SACU) in the President’s Office. Chin’ono alleged that Tabani Vusa […]
Dispute between former liberation movements makes clear frustration with situation in Harare By Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg A dispute between the ruling parties of South Africa and Zimbabwe is threatening the longstanding alliance between two former liberation movements that for decades helped shore up the regime of Robert Mugabe and […]
The Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga almost didn’t get published at all. But even though her debut novel – when it finally came out – attracted international acclaim, publishing the next two still wasn’t easy. Now, while the third part of her trilogy has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Ms […]
By Alex Magaisa Yesterday, I wrote a short BSR showcasing the double standards being employed by leaders of the judicially-reconstructed MDC-T political party. I was going to do a social media post as a follow-up but it morphed into another short article. Following my BSR, quite a few said, but WaMagaisa, does it […]
By S. Jonathon O’Donnell Are demons active forces in American life and politics? That is what a large number of evangelicals in the US believe and are increasingly vocal about. Since the 1980s, growing numbers of evangelicals have given the fight against demons a key role in their spirituality and their politics. Known as […]
The ruling Zanu-PF party has repudiated its own indigenisation law, calling it ill-conceived and done for political expediency during the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era. Addressing journalists at the party headquarters in Harare on Monday, Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa said the law had to be revoked under […]