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🔴What do you think of the ZIFA's decision to require 5 Ordinary Level passes for potential presidential candidates?
#ZIFA
#Football
#Zimbabwe
#Leadership
It's a fair requirement
455
It's discriminatory
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It's unnecessary
105
Other: Please specify
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🔴SOUTH Africa’s Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has lashed out at Zimbabwe, accusing it of presiding over a decaying health system that has seen patients clogging the neighbouring country’s hospitals.
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Three-month-old Klavan Munyisa escaped unscathed from the Rusape bus disaster, which killed 50 people on Wednesday evening along the Harare-Mutare Highway Picture by
@AUfumeli
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@TrevorNcube
@johnmokwetsi
@wisdomdzungairi
@tinosamk
@kangaizw
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🔴'I am hungry but that will not deter me. I will wait until I have voted' - Voter at Haig Park Primary in Mabelreign, Harare.
#ZimDecides2023
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#AboveTheLaw
🔴Tourism and Hospitality deputy minister Barbara Rwodzi threatens a policeman who arrested a
@ZANUPF_Official
supporter.
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#UPDATE
🔴'We are not leaving this place until we have voted' - Voters in Warren Park, Harare.
#ZimDecides2023
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ON page 10 of our Thursday (January 24, 2019) edition of NewsDay, we carried a picture of President Emmerson Mnangagwa which we erroneously captioned as President Robert Mnangagwa.
We sincerely apologise for the error.
-EDITOR
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🔴SOUTHERN Africa Development Community Election Observer Mission head Nevers Mumba has described the
#Zimbabwean
#elections
as the most fraudulent in the history of the region.
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🔴INCOMING Bulawayo mayor and ward 4 councillor David Coltart has appealed to
@CCCZimbabwe
party supporters and residents to remove all campaign posters around the city to keep the city clean.
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#BREAKING
🔴MDC Alliance suspends
@DMwonzora
as its president for 'multiple violation of the 2017 agreement'
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🔴'We are not going anywhere, we have come to vote. We waited 5 years for this' - Voters at Haig Park Primary in Mabelreign, Harare.
#ZimDecides2023
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BREAKING: Music super star Oliver Mtukudzi has died
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Yes, our
#WomanCruchWednesday
is the Auditor General, Mildred Chiri. She has consistently audited govt accounts. Her latest report for the year 2018, released last week, once again exposed the rot in govt. Without fear or favour, she holds govt to account. Give her some ❤
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An elderly woman joins
@MDCAllianceZW
demo alleges
@ZECzim
& Zanu PF of an electoral fraud in the just ended
#ElectionsZW
"
@tinosamk
@stozvirevaa
@johnmokwetsi
@kangaizw
@TrevorNcube
#NewsDayZim
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🔴'We are not using Rufaro stadium as a political card to campaign, we are making a stadium for the children... this is what we promised the residents' -
@JMafume
📹:
@stozvirevaa
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🔴'We are watching
@ZECZim
and we hope that it is going to do the right thing' - Promise Mkwananzi new
@CCCZimbabwe
spokesperson
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🔴There is a suspicious Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) desk outside Haig Park Primary School in Mabelreign, Harare. People manning it have admitted that they are FAZ but not accredited.
@ZECzim
officers confronted them after attempting to bring another desk outside the gate.
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🔴'The Political field was not level' - EU Election Observation mission head Fabio Massimo Castaldo
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🔴VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has said corruption is now a security threat undermining the rule of law and eroding public trust in private and public institutions.
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🔴The late opening of polls due to the late delivery of ballot papers in major urban areas of Harare and Bulawayo raised concerns - Commonwealth observers.
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🔴
@CCCZimbabwe
Ward council candidate and prospective mayor David Coltart greets party spokesperson
@Cde_Ostallos
on arrival for the Manifesto Launch at Matsheumhlope in Bulawayo this evening.
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🔴As
@CCCZimbabwe
we want to strongly condemn the arrest of
@ZESN1
and
@ercafrica
members. We want to ensure that they will be released soon and given an opportunity to continue executing their mandate - Shiriyedenga
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Alpha Media Holdings women speak out against sexual violation of women by State security agents in solidarity with
#BlackWednesday
#IspeakforSis
@NewsDayZimbabwe
@thestandardzim
@Zimindependent
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While
@ZANUPF_Official
director for information
@TafadzwaMugwadi
was posing for a photo outside the tent at the party's annual conference in Bindura, he was called by Oppah Muchinguri and this is how he responded in pictures👇
📷
@stozvirevaa
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🔴HARARE mayor
@JMafume
has come out guns blazing, accusing government of buying fire tender trucks at inflated prices after sidelining local authorities over their purchase.
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#UPDATE
🔴Voters express frustration over delays in voting in Warren Park Constituency, Harare. As at 1500hrs voting had not started.
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#ZimElection2023
In Glen Norah A, AFM church polling station ballots arrived at 11pm and people are complaining over the late delivery of the ballot papers.
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🔴FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has thrown his weight behind
@CCCZimbabwe
leader Nelson Chamisa’s candidature ahead of the August 23 general elections.
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🔴FORMER Deputy Prime Minister
@amutambara
has applauded
@nelsonchamisa
and his
@CCCZimbabwe
party for standing up against President
@edmnangagwa
despite facing several challenges instigated by the
@ZANUPF_Official
leader.
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"
@nelsonchamisa
has shaken not only Zimbabwe, but the rest of Africa" - Bobbie Wine
#MDCCongress2019
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🔴SERIOUS infighting has erupted in the Sengezo Tshabangu-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as some of his backers are now baying for his blood accusing him of being captured following the statement he released after Nelson Chamisa dumped the opposition party.
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🔴 'For some time I have been denied access to the polling station simply because they could not accredit me.That has been disturbing' - Pashor Sibanda
@CCCZimbabwe
MP Candidate for Cowdray Park.
#ZimDecides2023
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𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝟏𝟏 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐯𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐙𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐰𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐧?
Chamisa Nelson
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Kasukuwere Saviour
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Mnangagwa Emmerson
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Mwonzora Douglas
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WATCH
🔴”Retail is a sector reserved for Zimbabweans. We are here to implement the laws of
#Zimbabwe
” - Minister of Industry and Commerce, Sithembiso Nyoni warns foreign nationals illegally operating tuck shops in downtown
#Harare
CBD.
🎥
@DonNyandoro
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Mashakada MDC: To have domestic currency, there must be
1 Productivity and reindustrialisation
2. At least six months forex reserves
3. There must be confidence,
4. You must be a net exporter,
5. You must give notice to public
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MDC- Alliance Presser- Tendai Biti- "we have received from our agents, the results.
We can confirm Nelson Chamisa is the new Zimbabwean President.
#ZimVotes
#ZimElections2018
#zimdecides2018
#newsdayzim
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🔴OUTSPOKEN
@ZANUPF_Official
politburo member Tshinga Dube has said citizens must be wary of those advising President
@edmnangagwa
to hang on to power as they are people typically singing for their supper at the expense of the nation.
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#UPDATE
🔴'This is my first time voting. But we are confused. What is happening because its not making any sense. Voting started around 4PM and after a short while, we are told ballot papers are finished. However, this will not deter me from voting' - Young voter at Haig Park
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MDC-Alliance vice-president
@BitiTendai
speaks on the reasons why Zimbabwe cannot join the Rand Monetary Union.
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#UPDATE
⏩️Voters say they're not going anywhere
🔴As at 1500hrs voting had not started in Warren Park Constituency, Harare owing to missing local government ballot papers
#ZimDecides2023
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🔴ZIMBABWEANS in South Africa are mobilising for protests which could shut down the country’s busiest border post Beitbridge over Zimbabwe’s disputed August polls.
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#EyeWitnessAccount
:
🔴"We are saddened by the death of our colleague" - Eye witnesses.
#NoToPoliticalViolence
#ZimDecides2023
#BREAKING
🔴A
@CCCZimbabwe
member identified has died following an attack by a group of suspected
@ZANUPF_Official
activists in
#Harare
, NewsDay has learnt.
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We are receiving reports that soldiers are beating up people and forcibly shutting down shops and beerhalls and ordering people to 'go home' in several suburbs in Harare. Have you witnessed or experienced this?
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On
#NewsDay
#CHOOSEDAY
we choose Dr Thomas Mapfumo, the legend, he's 74 today. A champion of free expression, whose music has defied time, & shaped our culture & society. He has faced pesercution, but he remains unshaken. Lets show some ❤️ for
#Tafirenyika
on his BIRTHDAY
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President of MDC Alliance
@nelsonchamisa
in white leading the demonstration from the front.
#MDCdemo
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BREAKING
Marvelous Nakamba has completed his move to
@premierleague
side
@AVFCOfficial
,
@NewsDayZimbabwe
understands. The
#Warriors
midfielder signed a five year contract at around 10pm yesterday and an official announcement is coming soon.
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🔴Zimbabwe Republic Police have stopped Harare mayor Jacob Mafume from commissioning Rufaro this morning.
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🔴'We totally disagree with the bashing of election observers by whoever in this country' -
@DMwonzora
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🔴FORMER United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Charles Ray says more top
@ZANUPF_Official
and government officials need to be added on the sanctions list so that they reform and respect the tenets of democracy.
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🔴‘We will keep what we have gained from the illegitimate and rigged election process while pursuing what has been stolen’ - former
@cohsunshinecity
Mayor
@JMafume
says at swearing-in ceremony.
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🔴Mutasa Central legislator Trevor Saruwaka
@CCCZimbabwe
has said his stepping down from contesting the seat in this year’s polls is meant to prove to President
@edmnangagwa
that power can be transferred peacefully.
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#Retweet
Have you watched MuGarden by
@winkydonline
and
@gemmamusic_
yet? If you haven't please watch and tell us what you think about the video
@HStvZim
@thestandardzim
@SoutherneyeZim
@ZimTainment
@ZimDancehalls
@tapiwazivira
@tinosamk
@dreymutasa
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🔴As the Zimbabwean presidential election draws closer, the nation is witnessing incredible dedication and energy from the opposition presidential candidate
@nelsonchamisa
.
#ZimDecides2023
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Do you think Emmerson Mnangagwa is taking Zimbabwe in the right direction?
Yes
2159
No
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#UPDATE
🔴'Voting started at 4PM but after a short while we were told that ballot papers were finished. This has never happened before. However we are not leaving until we have voted' - Voters at Haig Park Primary in Mabelreign, Harare.
#ZimDecides2023
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🔴ZIMBABWE’S largest coalition of civil society organisations, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), has approached Angolan president João Lourenço, who is the current
@SADC_News
chairperson, seeking assistance in pushing for a fresh poll.
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🔴'The elections took place in a restrictive political environment' - The Carter Center election observer leader, Attahiru Muhammadu Jega
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🔴Mutasa Central legislator Trevor Saruwaka (
@CCCZimbabwe
) has said his stepping down from contesting the seat in this year’s polls is meant to prove to
@edmnangagwa
that power can be transferred peacefully.
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🔴A ZAMBIAN minister has revealed that his country will soon approach the
@SADC_News
,
@_AfricanUnion
and
@UN
over allegations that Zimbabwe’s ruling
@ZANUPF_Official
party is working with Zambia’s opposition to kill President
@HHichilema
.
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🔴A GROUP of disgruntled Zimbabweans in South Africa has reached out to opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and its leader Julius Malema asking for support for the protests slated for October 7.
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🔴FORMER Liberian President, Sirleaf Johnson, has urged
#Zimbabwe
to uphold the
#AfricanUnion
charter governing the holding of democratic elections.
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🔴STANBIC Bank has donated two haemodialysis machines worth US$50 000 to Marondera Hospital, in Mashonaland East Province, easing the burden faced by renal patients within the area.
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CCC recalls:
🔴The one who is creating all this is Mr Mnangagwa, he is at the centre of it because he would not have rushed to declare an election -
@nelsonchamisa
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🔴Transform Zimbabwe has pledged to rally behind
@CCCZimbabwe
in the general elections after its leader
@NgarivhumeJacob
was imprisoned early this year.
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🔴OPPOSITION
@CCCZimbabwe
youths have camped at Marondera Bus Terminus to safeguard their party leader
@nelsonchamisa
’s campaign billboards.
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🔴"I am a
#Zimbabwean
and I have the right to support a political party of my choice," - Eye witness at the Glen Norah crime scene.
#NoToPoliticalViolence
#ZimDecides2023
#BREAKING
🔴A
@CCCZimbabwe
member identified has died following an attack by a group of suspected
@ZANUPF_Official
activists in
#Harare
, NewsDay has learnt.
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🔴'
@ZECzim
has disappointed the citizens. People came in their large numbers and particularly in
#Harare
and
#Bulawayo
there has been delay in voting due to unavailability of ballot papers' -
@nelsonchamisa
#ZimDecides2023
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#UPDATE
🔴One of
@CCCZimbabwe
's agents Kumbirai Nyashanu says they were intimidated by
@ZANUPF_Official
agents.
#ZimDecides2023
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#AntiSanctionsDay
🔴‘We were duped; we thought we were going to
@edmnangagwa
's grandson funeral in
#Masvingo
, only to find ourselves in
#Harare
and being told to join a march against
#sanctions
’
📹📸
@stozvirevaa
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#WATCH
🔴
@CCCZimbabwe
supporter Innocent Virimai narrates how the late Bishop Tapfumaneyi Masaya, a party activist, was abducted by unidentified men in three Toyota Fortuner vehicles during a door-to-door by-election campaign on Saturday.
#NoToPoliticalViolence
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#WATCH
#TimeUpForED
🔴'The callous murder of Bishop Tapfumaneyi Masaya marks the end of the incumbent government'- says
@CCCZimbabwe
leader
@nelsonchamisa
in visit to Masaya’s funeral
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🔴Disgruntled voters demand for ballot papers at Haig Park, Mabelreign, in Harare.
#ZimDecides2023
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🔴THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans have petitioned the Southern African Development Community demanding an extraordinary summit to resolve the country’s political logjam following last month’s disputed elections.
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#UPDATE
🔴
@CCCZimbabwe
supporters celebrating outside
#Chitungwiza
head office after the swearing in of their councillors.
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🔴FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti tore into the Mutapa Investment Fund, describing it as an unconstitutional capture of the country’s funds.
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🔴 'We experienced a lot of problems at Kwekwe central polling station. We received 124 reports of people who could not find their names as well as complaints about FAZ that was intimidating voters' - Kwekwe central candidate Judith Tobaiwa
#ZimDecides2023
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Corruption and looting of Covid19 funds has resulted in mass
#Covid19
deaths -
@daddyhope
📹
@EvansMathanda19
&
@stozvirevaa
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U.S. Ambassador to
#Zimbabwe
Brian A. Nichols speaks at Rotten Row Magistrate Court where PDP
@BitiTendai
was appearing before the courts for allegedly inciting violence and illegally announcing Presidential results before they were officiated by ZEC. "
@tinosamk
#NewsDayZim
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#InPictures
🔴“Buy a suit”-President Emmerson Mnangagwa tells agriculture minister Anxious Masuka as he hands him US$500 from a stack of US$100 bills at the weekend.
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🔴
@CCCZimbabwe
activist Godfrey Karemberera popularly known as Madzibaba VeShanduko who was accused of trying to remove Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare CBD has been removed from remand by a Harare magistrate.
🎥:
@DChingarande1
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#New
#TalkingPaper
🔴'If
@edmnangagwa
was clever, if he had 10% of Robert Mugabe intelligence he would have used that moment of the coup to do a team Zimbabwe approach ...he missed the moment' -
@amutambara
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#JUSTIN
:
🔴The State has postponed the matter of
@CCCZimbabwe
activist
#MadzibabaveShanduko
after highlighting that CID Law and Order has not sent a report for the trial to commence.
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🔴OPPOSITION
@CCCZimbabwe
leader
@nelsonchamisa
exuded confidence as he promised to win tomorrow’s harmonised
#elections
telling thousands of his supporters yesterday that he has already begun selecting his Cabinet.
#ZimDecides2023
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🔴Ward 8 councillor Sophia Gwasira
@CCCZimbabwe
became Zimbabwe’s second woman to be elected mayor after landing the post uncontested in
@MutareCity
.
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MDC-Alliance vice-president
@BitiTendai
says students must appeal to courts and demand free wifi and reduction in data prices.
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🔴The Mozambican Ministry of Justice has banned, in the Central Province of
#Manica
, a religious sect called “Johane Marange” for allegedly promoting child marriage and disrespecting health issues.
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#BREAKING
🔴EXILED former Cabinet minister and presidential aspirant
@Hon_Kasukuwere
has filed an urgent High Court application seeking nullification of Statutory Instrument 140A of 2023 which amended the Electoral Act on postal voting.
🔗
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#Breaking
🔴
@CCCZimbabwe
vice president
@BitiTendai
has been arrested for addressing a rally at Kamfinsa. He is currently at the Harare Central Police Station.
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#BREAKING
🔴Suspected
@ZANUPF_Official
activists allegedly attacked opposition
@CCCZimbabwe
leader
@nelsonchamisa
's convoy with stones after he addressed a well-attended rally in Mutasa District, Manicaland Province.
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Had a bad day? Tired of an overload of serious, depressing news? Can't get your head around the bread price hikes? Well, here's something light enough to leave you in stitches.
@tapiwazivira
@stozvirevaa
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