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Zimbabwe anti-corruption song ‘Dem Loot’ goes viral
A Zimbabwean journalist has taken his fight to expose corruption in a musical direction.
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‘It’s becoming increasingly dangerous to speak out about Zimbabwean government’ – writer Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga almost didn’t get published at all. But even though her debut novel – when it finally came out – attracted international acclaim, publishing the next two still wasn’t easy.
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Scores of opposition supporters arrested in Zimbabwe
Scores of opposition supporters in Zimbabwe have been arrested trying to protest about government corruption.
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In Zimbabwe, three female opposition MDC activists have been charged for taking part in a demonstration.
In Zimbabwe, three female opposition MDC activists have been charged for taking part in a demonstration.
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What coronavirus looks like in EVERY country on earth – From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
From lockdown in London Channel 4 News shows what a pandemic looks like from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwean man faces £93,000 NHS bill after two weeks in coma
The Government’s policy on charging people from overseas to use the NHS is putting vulnerable people’s lives at risk, campaigners have warned.
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Zimbabwean Journalist Violet Gonda: ‘Mugabe’s death has divided the society’
Zimbabwean journalist Violet Gonda who has been in exile from Zimbabwe for the last 20 years, after she escaped former President Mugabe’s rule.
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Zimbabwean journalist Violet Gonda: ‘I could not believe this was the man that had wreaked havoc on the masses’
We spoke to Violet Gonda, another Zimbabwean journalist who spent years in exile.
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Zimbabwean journalist Wilf Mbanga on Mugabe: ‘He’s destroyed agriculture, economy, education, hospitals… he might be gone but his legacy will live on’
We spoke to Wilf Mbanga, a journalist who once knew Mugabe as a friend, but who suffered the President’s wrath.
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From liberator and hero to dictator and tyrant: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe dies at 95
He held power for almost 40 years, decades beset by bloodshed, political persecution, corruption and tyranny.
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Tear gas and arrests in Zimbabwe during anti-government protests
Police in Zimbabwe have fired tear gas and waded in with batons to break up an anti-government protest in the capital, Harare – injuring several people and arresting scores more. The crowd gathered in defiance of a ban imposed by the authorities. The country’s main opposition leader accused the police of extreme brutality – and there’s growing concern…
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Zimbabwean citizen living in UK fears deportation
Zimbabwean citizen Marian Machekanyanga says she lives in fear of being sent back from her life in Sheffield to the country she left sixteen years ago in search of asylum, after she exposed government corruption under President Mugabe.
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Marian Machekanyanga fears for her life if she is returned to Zimbabwe
Human rights campaigners and immigration lawyers have raised concerns about the deportation of Zimbabwean citizens who fled to the UK during the regime of Robert Mugabe. Marian Machekanyanga worked for the government in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. After exposing government corruption, she says she feared for her life, fleeing to the UK 16 years ago in search of asylum…
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Hundreds gather to mark the death of Zimbabwean musician Oliver Mtukudzi
People gathered at the home of one of the country’s most famous musicians, Oliver Mtukudzi, who died yesterday aged 66 from complications of diabetes. President Mnangagwa called him a true patriot, while opposition leader Nelson Chamisa said he was a peace icon.
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Zimbabwean troops accused of ‘systematic torture’
Zimbabwe’s government-appointed Human Rights Commission has accused the military of using “systematic torture” to break up protests against the authorities, after a week of unrest sparked by rising fuel prices.
