On this day in 2008, ZANU-PF supporters beat 20 men for voting against their political party. A 45 year old man reported to Human Rights Watch that he was beaten with chains and iron bars and was left with a broken left leg.
Read More →On this day in 2021, the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commissioner (ZACC) Jessie Fungayi Majome filed a lawsuit against award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono taxing $US 350 000 for character assassination.
Read More →On this day in 2021, award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was declared innocent for the charges laid against him for spurring on committing public violence through posting tweets denouncing looting and allegedly exposing government corruption. The High Court judge, Justice Musithu argued that charges laid against him lacked clear evidence.
Read More →On this day in 2011, award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was granted bail after weeks in prison. He was arrested for communicating falsehood about the police officer arguing that the police officer had killed an infant whilst enforcing lockdown rules.
Read More →On this day in 2021, award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was awarded the Greenfield people journalist of the year 2020. He was awarded for giving an investigating reporting on the COVID-19 procurement corruption which was done by high profile public officials including the Health Minister in Zimbabwe.
Read More →On this day in 2020, Award winning Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was granted bail by the Harare High Court. Chin’ono was released from Chikurubi prison, where he had been detained since 7 August 2020. The reason for his arrest was for ‘incitinging in engaging to public violence’.
Read More →On this day in 2020, award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was arrested for exposing the Government for Covid-19 procurement fraud within the health ministry.
Read More →On this day in 1971, Zimbabwean award winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was born in Harare. In 1993, he left Zimbabwabwe going to advance in his studies in United State of America. Chin’ono later worked for broadcasters such as BBC and ITV. In 2007, he came back to settle in Zimbabwe were he continued advocating for […]
Read More →On this day in 1980, former award winning Investigator Dumisani Muleya was born. In 2002, he won an award for exposing the state’s role in the farm invasion of 2000. In 2005 he won the Speakers Abbort award and in the following year the Cables Network African Journalist of the year.
Read More →On this day in 2021, the government of Zimbabwe announced the death of Zimbabwe foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo who was succumbed to Covid-19. Moyo was the army general who gained his superiority in 2017 when he played great part by announcing the military take over when Robert Gabriel Mugabe (late) resigned from office. Hence, His […]
Read More →On this day in 2019, Tinashe Choto, the late Zimbabwean young footballer was buried. Eye witnesses confirmed that the young man was shot near Makoni Police station during a face-off between the protesters and law enforcement agents.
Read More →On this day in 2019, national President of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe Obert Masaraure was abducted. Armed man who were suspected to be police officers tortured him with rifle butts and sjamboks demanding to know the people who were funding his labor union. He was taken to Harare Central Police were he […]
Read More →On this day in 1994, former minister of industry and commerce Christopher Ushewokunze died in a car accident near Chegutu at the age of 49. In 1965, he was enrolled as a Law student at the then University of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now Zimbabwe) and he immediately became active in nationalist politics. Between 1966 and […]
Read More →On this day in 2013, former Zimbabwean Vice-President, John Landa Nkomo died at the age of 78 after succumbing to cancer in South Africa. Nkomo was one of the liberation struggle that played a very crucial figure for Zimbabwe in attaining its independence from colonial Britain. He advocated for equality, fratenity and civil justice, thus […]
Read More →On this day in 2005, former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe (late) signed into law the Zimbabwe Election Commission Bill and Electoral Bill # 5. SADC officials were pleased and it laurelled Zimbabwe for being ‘the first country to comply with the regional election’.
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