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A Zimbabwean doctor desperate to leave the country for medical treatment after his recent abduction has been blocked after police approached the High Court asserting he is “unfit to travel.”. The head of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Dr. Peter Magombeyi, was freed last week after disappearing for several days. His alleged abduction after leading a pay strike led to days of protests by health workers.and expressions of concern by diplomats and rights groups, who said more than 50 government critics and activists in Zimbabwe have been abducted this year alone.. Police stopped Magombeyi from leaving for treatment in neighboring South Africa on Tuesday even after a judge ruled he could travel outside Zimbabwe as he is not under arrest..He has been recuperating in a local hospital, and lawyers have said preliminary medical assessments show possible physical harm and psychological trauma.. Magombeyi’s lawyers now say police are violating the court order, and they wor...

A group of retired US diplomats and civil society leaders has penned a letter of protest to Harvard University, after Auxillia Mnangagwa,.Zimbabwe’s first lady, picked up an award for contributions to healthcare in her country, where a huge doctors’ strike has brought medical services to a halt.. The letter was addressed to the heads of Harvard University and Harvard Global Health Catalyst. We collectively write to you today with profound concern over your decision to honor the First Lady of Zimbabwe,.Auxilia Mnangagwa, with an honorary ambassadorship as part of your otherwise noble institutional efforts to increase access to women’s health and to reduce healthcare disparities in the developing world.. To be blunt, your well-intentioned work in these areas are tainted by the affiliation with Ms.Mnangagwa and her direct personal connection to an increasingly corrupt and abusive administration in which tolerance for dissent is nonexistent and democratic rights are violently denie...

A Zimbabwean doctor desperate to leave the country for medical treatment after his recent abduction has been blocked after police approached the High Court asserting he is “unfit to travel.”. The head of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Dr. Peter Magombeyi, was freed last week after disappearing for several days. His alleged abduction after leading a pay strike led to days of protests by health workers.and expressions of concern by diplomats and rights groups, who said more than 50 government critics and activists in Zimbabwe have been abducted this year alone..Police stopped Magombeyi from leaving for treatment in neighboring South Africa on Tuesday even after a judge ruled he could travel outside Zimbabwe as he is not under arrest.. He has been recuperating in a local hospital, and lawyers have said preliminary medical assessments show possible physical harm and psychological trauma..Magombeyi’s lawyers now say police are violating the court order, and they worry hi...

The future of former First Lady, Grace Mugabe, who arguably created more enemies than friends during her husband's last days in office, now hangs in the balance. The demise of the former president.Robert Mugabe, the man from whom Grace drew power and protection, leaves his wife now exposed. Grace, who during the greater part of husband's presidency had been focused on charity work, before later venturing into politics..With the support of Mugabe, Grace was in December 2014 parachuted to the helm of ZANU-PF Women's League, automatically qualifying to sit in the ruling party's highest decision-making body, the Politburo..The ex-First Lady then used her position and marriage to Mugabe to vilify all those she perceived to be harbouring ambitions of succeeding Zimbabwe's long-time ruler..She became literally untouchable with ministers currying favours with her to avoid being sacked by the President. The former First Lady ganged up with the G40 faction of ZANU-PF....

Former President Robert Mugabe will be buried at his rural home in Zvimba this weekend during a private ceremony after the family delivered a final snub to the government, ZimLive can reveal.. Mugabe’s body is expected to leave his sprawling residence in Borrowdale suburb where it is being kept sometime on Thursday for burial this weekend, likely Saturday..The surprise development comes as the government has drawn up plans to construct a mausoleum for Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre, a hilltop monument in Harare for leading figures of Zimbabwe’s 1970s war of independence.. But ZimLive understands the family, which had grudgingly resigned itself to a burial at the shrine, has now reconsidered. Key considerations, a source said, were the cost of the mausoleum on the taxpayer.the time it would take to complete and shock new revelations that government engineers had been instructed to construct a single ‘Presidential Mausoleum’ which would contain graves of former presidents, no...

There was drama in Insiza when an independent candidate upstaged both Zanu PF and MDC to win the Insiza Rural District Council ward 15 by-election..Shepherd Juta took 287 votes to claim victory. Zanu PF’s Zenzo Moyo placed second with 163 votes, independent candidate Ndumiso Ndlovu was third with 89 votes and the MDC’s Ronald Mugadza came fourth with 86 votes.Bertha Jambwa of the NPF had 14 votes.. Juta’s victory is a massive swing from Zanu PF which had comfortably won the seat last year before the death of councillor Thembinkosi Ngwenya, a former chairman of the Insiza Rural District Council..Ngwenya had polled 1,298 votes with the MDC’s Bhekimpilo Sibanda second on 670 votes and Somandla Sibanda of NPF third with 224 votes..The council seat is in Filabusi town. Juta is a local businessman who operates grocery stores.. Jacob Mafume speaks out after MDC Alliance was heavily bashed by Zanu PF in by-elections.. THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has justified its perennial poor elec...

ZANU-PF yesterday slammed the MDC Alliance for unpatriotic behaviour in continuously trying to smear President Mnangagwa and the ruling party at a critical time when it is pushing for the country’s socio-economic development.. Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Cde Simon Khaya-Moyo said the MDC Alliance should be ashamed for seeking global attention at the expense of the country’s progression..The MDC Alliance’s Northern America province recently told the private media that it was going to petition the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly to act against President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF.. Cde Khaya-Moyo said the ruling party has no kind words for MDC-A following its frivolous claims that President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF are a ‘terrorist’ organisation..“The offensive pronouncement by the MDC party as reflected in the so-called independent media, that they intend to submit a petition to the United Nations (UN) during the 74th General Assembly sitting.that...

THE opposition MDC will submit a petition to the United Nations (UN) and international community asking them to designate President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF party as terrorists for the killings of civilians during public protests..Speaking to NewsDay during a protest of about 50 people against the Mnangagwa-led government that went well into the night on Saturday outside the UN headquarters in New York,. MDC Northern America provincial chairperson Tawanda Dzvokoro said the petition had garnered over 3 000 signatures of Zimbabweans based in that country..“We don’t only demonstrate, but we also write petitions. Right now, we have a petition that has been signed by over 3 000 Zimbabweans that we are going to send to the United Nations and to other organisations as well.Sometimes they respond, but what we know is that they take note,” Dzvokoro said.. Efforts to reach Zimbabwe’s UN permanent representative Frederick Shava for comment were futile as no one answered calls ma...