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March 09, 2021
Chamisa Says Mnangagwa Trying to Create One-Party State, Worse Than Mugabe

"We have identified the strategy of the oppressors is to create a controlled opposition, a government controlled opposition ... This will effectively establish a one-party state ... We are back to the late 1980s when ZANU PF tried to push the one-party state agenda."
March 03, 2021
United States President Renews Targeted Sanctions Imposed on Zanu PF Officials

“President Emmerson Mnangagwa has not made the necessary political and economic reforms that would warrant terminating the existing targeted sanctions program. Throughout the last year, government security services routinely intimidated and violently repressed citizens ..."
March 03, 2021
Observers: No Clear Choice to Replace Former Zimbabwe VP Kembo Mohadi Linked to Sex Scandal

"... Mutinhiri, unlike Msika who was Shona, does not have big enough clout in Zapu circles to pacify the people and Tshinga Dube is too much of an independent for the comfort of the appointing authority. Mnangagwa is very unpredictable. He just might shock us and appoint Tshinga Dube.”
March 01, 2021
Zimbabwe VP Kembo Mohadi Resigns

The Ministry of Information posted Mohadi’s resignation letter on Twitter in which he apologized to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his Cabinet and all Zimbabweans.
February 26, 2021
Mnangagwa, Cabinet Ministers Set to Get Sinopharm Vaccine Jab

"... The vice president of the country had the first jab and he is still here. My Cabinet and myself in two weeks when the next consignment comes, we will be vaccinated.”
February 25, 2021
Zimbabwe Vice President Kembo Mohadi Distances Himself from Sex Scandal Linked to Several Women

“I remain a committed leader, father, cadre and servant of this great nation. So, nothing is going to change because all this is concocted to tarnish my image. If anything is going to happen it is going to be His Excellency who will determine my future.”
February 23, 2021
Khupe Says Mwonzora Not Legitimate Leader of MDC-T

“My absence in today’s press conference held at MRT was informed by the need to address the aforementioned important issues to enhance the smooth running of our great movement.”
February 23, 2021
VP Chiwenga, Army Commander and Grace Mugabe Only Zimbabweans on EU Suspended Sanctions List

“The specific restrictive measures in question are travel restrictions and freezing of funds and economic resources.”
February 15, 2021
Zimbabwe Extends COVID-19 Lockdown As Nation Receives 200,000 Doses of China's Sinopharm Vaccine

“Every life lost, is a big loss to us. I therefore extend the national lockdown by two weeks. This will see the reduction of active cases and monitoring of cases in incubation."
February 11, 2021
Zimbabwe Police Arrest Parliamentarian Temba Mliswa Fuming Over Media Coverage of Nasty Love Affair

In a statement posted on Twitter, police said Mliswa violated some COVID-19 regulations by holding an unlawful meeting “knowing that such gathering was unlawful.”
February 09, 2021
Expelled Former MDC-T Top Official Attacks Mwonzora Group Over Claims He Wants to Rejoin Opposition Party

"As far as I am concerned the EOC elections were not conducted and hence the amendment of the constitution is illegal. My position is that the party must sit down and elect an interim leader pending a proper EOC, where every willing member is given a chance to vote or contest for the presidency.”
February 09, 2021
Zimbabwe Ambassador to Mozambique Douglas Nyikayaramba Succumbs to COVID-19

According to the state-controlled Herald newspaper, Nyikayaramba succumbed to the disease today at St. Anne’s Hospital in Harare and his death was confirmed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a Cabinet meeting.
February 09, 2021
Zimbabwe President Appoints Ambassador Shava New Minister of Foreign Affairs

In a tweet, Mnangagwa is quoted by the Ministry of Information as saying, “His (Shava) wealth of experience in diplomacy is expected to drive the ministry to new heights.”
February 06, 2021
Zimbabwe Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono Anti-Corruption Song DemLoot Sets Social Media on Fire

“It was never put out as a piece of journalism. This was just Hopewell the citizen ..."
February 05, 2021
Mnangagwa Says Zimbabweans Won't Pay for COVID-19 Vaccinations

In a State of the Nation Address broadcast on state television and monitored from Washington, Mnangagwa said the country is expected to introduce vaccines which have been scientifically ascertained to be safe.
February 04, 2021
Greyhound Shuts Down Bus Operations in Southern Africa

In a notice posted on its website, Greyhound management said, “Passengers with tickets booked after 14 February 2021 will be refunded.”
February 02, 2021
Cyril Ramaphosa: COVID-19 Vaccine Available to All Adults in South Africa Regardless of Citizenship, Residence Status.

“We will be putting in place measures to deal with the challenge of undocumented migrants so that, as with all other people, we can properly record and track their vaccination history. It is in the best interests of all that as many of us receive the vaccine as possible ..."
February 02, 2021
High Court Judge Orders Zimbabwe Govt to Disseminate Accurate, Adequate Information on COVID-19

The respondents were ordered to publish and disseminate on all available platforms, in all official languages, information on the occurrence and prevalence of the COVID-19 virus strain 501Y.V2 in Zimbabwe on a regular basis.
February 01, 2021
Britain Imposes Sanctions on Zimbabwe Minister, Police Chief, CIO Boss Over Human Rights Abuses

Police Commissoner General Godwin Matanga, CIO Director General Issac Moyo, Minister of State for National Security Owen Ncube and Zimbabwe Ambassador to Tanzania, formerly Commander of the Presidential Guard Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe, allegedly committed various serious human rights violations.
February 01, 2021
Zimbabwe High Court Judge Dies

“An astute but unassuming Judge, he will be fondly remembered for his immense contribution to the development of the Zimbabwean jurisprudence in the thirty-four years he was part of the justice delivery system. The Zimbabwean Judiciary is poorer without him.”

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