Four Zimbabwean trade union officials were arrested for helping organise a strike to protest rocketing gasoline prices in the country, trade union leaders said on Tuesday.
Zimbabwe’s main labour body on Monday called for a three-day strike this week to protest a recent fuel price increase, and threatened to order an indefinite work stoppage unless the government reverses the price hikes.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday told the US government to ”go hang” and said the US-led coalition’s operations in Iraq were ”a grave criminal act”.
A member of Zimbabwe’s opposition has died as a result of police torture, according to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The MDC say Tonderai Machiridza (32) died after six days in Zimbabwean police custody.
As Zimbabwe prepares to celebrate 23 years of independence from Britain on Friday, deepening economic and social crises in the country are certain to cast a shadow over festivities.
Zimbabwe, rated as the worst off among six southern African countries affected by famine since last year, could produce nearly enough of the staple grain maize to feed all its 11,6-million people.
Kenny Kwaramba sells mobile phone accessories at a flea market in Zimbabwe, but Iraq — and the ouster of its dictator Saddam Hussein — is on his mind. Kwaramba says the images of jubilation among Iraqis at the fall ofHussein’s regime have not been lost on his impoverished, hungry and demoralised friends and neighbours.
The average annual inflation rate in Zimbabwe continued its dizzying upward trend, hitting 228% in March, the government’s statistics office said on Tuesday.
A Zimbabwean soldier in the British army, who died this week serving in Iraq, has been condemned as a ”mercenary” and a ”sell-out” by President Robert Mugabe’s state media.
Paul Themba Nyathi, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC) chief spokesperson, is to spend another night in police cells after authorities decided today to change the charges under which they were holding him, his lawyer said.
The chief spokesperson for Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was arrested in Bulawayo on Monday, the party announced.
The Zimbabwe government has rounded on white farmers, accusing some of being ”British-sponsored lawless elements” behind recent mass action in the country, a newspaper said on Sunday.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party celebrated crucial by-election victories in the capital on Monday, billing them as a springboard for mass action to topple President Robert Mugabe.
A regional grouping of southern African countries is to send a task force to Zimbabwe next week to look into claims of state-sponsored violence by the opposition, an official said on Thursday.
Zimbabwe’s foreign minister said Friday that the government had invited a special regional task force to the country to counter what it calls negative propaganda.
Police deployed large numbers of security forces around President Robert Mugabe’s official residence in the capital on Monday as an opposition ultimatum to government was set to expire.
Residents of two populous suburbs of the Zimbabwe capital Harare voted for a second day on Sunday in key by-elections, amid opposition claims that the polls were not free and fair.
The treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two senior party officials has been postponed until May 12, state and private newspapers said Friday.
Zimbabwe will soon be hit by power shortages as the government does not have enough foreign currency to pay electricity suppliers, state television reported Thursday.
Zimbabwean officials lashed out Wednesday against the United States for its criticism of the government’s violent response to an an opposition-led national strike, denying there had been a brutal crackdown against dissent.
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested around 400 opposition members since a widely followed controversial two-day opposition-led strike this week, a police representative said on Sunday.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe vowed Saturday ”greater action” would be taken against the main opposition party which he accused of wanting to overthrow his government.
The mayor of the opposition-controlled capital city municipal council said he had to flee a state funeral on Friday after being threatened with death.
A Zimbabwean farmworker was killed and scores of others were seriously injured by army troops who invaded a farm leased by an opposition MP, his party alleged yesterday.
Dozens of opposition supporters were arrested across Zimbabwe on Tuesday as the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) launched its most widely followed protest against President Robert Mugabe’s government for years, the opposition said.
Public interest in the treason trial of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, which held Zimbabweans spellbound when it began in February, has fizzled out, with only a handful of people now attending the daily court sessions at the high court in Harare
A state witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai claimed on Thursday that President Robert Mugabe’s death by natural causes was an ”appropriate demise” for the head of state discussed at a key meeting.
Zimbabwe will soon amend its controversial media laws in a bid to ‘rationalise’ them, Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said on Wednesday.
A state witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe’s opposition leader testified on Tuesday a tape recorder hidden in her purse malfunctioned during a key portion of a London meeting about what she said was a plot to kill President Robert Mugabe.
Defence lawyers in the treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai finished on Monday their cross-examination of the key state witness, who told the court the trial had wrecked his marriage.
Twenty-seven members of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe were arrested in Harare over the weekend, as political tensions run high in the capital ahead of two key by-elections, the state-run Herald newspaper said on Monday.