The Zimbabwean government has denied blocking widely used communication application WhatsApp, claiming that they do not have the means to do so.Government has been quoted off late giving stern warning to social media users, notable those using Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp accusing them of in-sighting unrest.Information, Communication Technology Minister Supa Mandiwanzira said such a move by gove

 Government has continued barking orders to civil servants ordering them to go back to work with 'immediate effect', claiming that their salaries will be paid in due time.Health workers have been ordered to go back to work with immediate effect following a shift in their pay dates from July 14 to tomorrow (July 8), Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare acting Minister Supa Mandiwanzira h

Nurses and doctors have said they will not be going to work as per government directive until they have received their salaries.The Zimbabwe Nurses Association secretary general Enock Dongo said while the latest development was welcome, the fact that their members did not have money to go to work remained.He said only after health workers have accessed their salaries would they be able to return

Citizen protestors who have been arrested for staging a riot against government Statutory Instrument No 64 of 2016 which bans basic commodities have been denied bail. 20 suspects of the initial 74 who were arrested after protesting in Beitbridge last Friday and charged with public violence were yesterday denied bail.Among those who appeared in court were two men from Bulawayo: Nqobizitha Mazibeli

Zimbabweans in the diaspora joined their counterparts in solidarity with the mass stay away throughout the country in protest against government misrule.Some Zimbabweans in South Africa staged a peaceful protest at the Zimbabwean consulate in Johannesburg. Isabel Mwonzora, a Zimbabwean based in Johannesburg, said their protest was in solidarity with people back home."We wanted to do our part in s

Pastor Evan Mawarire of #ThisFlag movement and youth pressure group called Tajamuka-Sesijikile say the national protest was a huge success.Pastor Mawarire warned that the protest would be intensified if the government does not address several issues, including the payment of civil servants’ June salaries, arrest of corrupt ministers and the abandonment of a law banning the importation of some b

There was chaos at the courts as some court officials heeded the call for a national stay-away and did not turn up for work.Some courts in Harare could not hear several cases as some court officials heeded the call to join the ongoing national job stay-away.The stay-away resulted in some matters being postponed while some people failed to attend court sessions, resulting in local magistrates to is

MUTARE city was deserted with only a few shops open and operational commuter buses, amid a mass stay away that had hit the whole country.School children and workers stayed at home and there was a high police presence in most suburbs in this eastern border town.Mutare resident, Patrick Manungo, said the protests Wednesday, which are a follow-up to similar action by commuter omnibus operators and un

The Zimbabwean Republic Police have arrested more than 100 people following a nationwide mass protest yesterday that turned violent in some places of the country.Police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba revealed to an online publication that they arrested 75 people in Bulawayo, 19 in Harare and 15 in Victoria Falls, mostly whites, including a Belgian.Kumbirai Mafunda of t

Police in Bulawayo have called for reinforcements after being pushed further further into the CBD by protesting youths. Youths have lashed out and threw stones at police water cannon and anti riot cops.Reinforcements being debriefed before deploymentChaos has reigned in the Bulawayo CBD with China shops being stoned and looted.Police reinforcements have been sent in to try and curb the protesters

Youths in Bulawayo have joined the storm of mass protests with police desperately trying to contain the situation.Bulawayo is ablaze with main road leading leading to the CBD, Luveve road blocked with burning tires.Reports are trickling in that police are making mass arrests in the CBD. A number of youths have been arrested and taken to Bulawayo Central Police station.One of the Arrested youths is

 THE Zimbabwe government has deployed army doctors and nurses and some health experts to the country's major hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo to cover up for the crippling strike by civil servants. The ongoing protests by civil servants and protesters have stalled activity in some parts of the country with law riot police further sparking the uprising by trying to disband angry protesters. &n

President Robert Mugabe has been described as the 'man with the plan' for Zimbabwe, by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa in a bid to vindicate his claim to western aid.Chinamasa admitted in an interview on the BBC Hard Talk programme on Monday that the country’s health delivery system was in dire straits.“Yes, the President is 92, but you must also know the long path he has travelled since 19

Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Saviour Kasukuwere has refused to grant calls from public for the devolution of power on the guise that local authority bodies were not competent enough to run on their own.Kasukuwere told Senators last Thursday just before the passage of the Local Government Laws Amendment Bill which now awaits Presidential assent to become law, tha

Zimbabweans based in the Britain continued their protest against Minister of Finance and Economic development, Patrick Chinamasa's mission to the West, of begging for financial aid to save the countries ailing economy. According to Zimbabwe Vigil coordinator and Restoration of Human Rights chairperson for Central London, Fungayi Mabhunu, the demonstrators blocked a taxi that tried to whisk Ch