Author: Marshall Bwanya
Afro Pop songbird Ammara Brown on Monday released an emotionally charged song titled ‘Glow In The Dark’ that advocates against racial discrimination and injustice.
Amnesty International Southern Africa deputy director Muleya Mwananyanda has raised concern over the escalating clampdown of human rights activists and defenders by Emmerson Mnangawgwa’s administration.
Canadian based cleric Prophet Tom Tirivangani’ has declared that Zimbabwe is free from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s political tyranny and that no amount of state sanctioned violence or coercion could stop the wave of change already in motion.
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti said that Zimbabwe is in worse political and economic state under President Emmerson’s regime than it was in the era of former late leader Robert Mugabe.
Human rights lawyer Doug Coltart has appealed to the international community to intervene and mediate against the wanton crackdown on political activists and citizens protesting against government gross corruption and mismanagement of the economy.
South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) head of international relations Godrich Gardee has threatened that his party will mobilise 50 000 South Africans to shut down the Zimbabwean Embassy in Pretoria if Zimbabwe does not recall its ambassador David Hamadziripi.
Multiple award winning and Booker Prize nominee Tsitsi Dangarembga said she did not expect security forces’ politically motivated crackdown to extend to artistes and ordinary citizens that would result in her arrest.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to flash out political activists and human rights defenders voicing against gross corruption and mismanagement of the economy as political tensions continue to escalate in the country.
Residents in Mount Hampden narrate how 49 children were snatched from a local children’s home by the police without a warrant.
Shema gives her commentary after comedian Tyra Chikocho, affectionately known as Madam Boss, was trolled online for posting pictures suggesting she now has a new house.