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Zimbabwe’s biometric voter registration system hangs in balance
Amid allegations of fraudulent voter registration and ballot stuffing, the local opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) has expressed concern over the security of the infrastructure...
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From ‘rare experiences’ with wild elephants in Hwange, Zimbabwe, to living...
Sharon Pincott had a rare remarkable relationship with elephants in Hwange Strange, you might think, for me to be posting about this, although many of you are likely to know someone with an...
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Only the National Assembly is Sitting This Week
Last week the National Assembly sat on Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd February, but not on Thursday. It will continue sitting this week. There are several Bills on its agenda [see below]. The Senate...
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Tsvangirai winds up Mashonaland East tour
The people’s President leaves the province informed and enriched after his two-day engagement with opinion leaders from Mudzi, Mutoko, Murehwa, Wedza, Goromonzi, Chivhu and Marondera. Traditional...
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Judge ends motorist’s agony over seized drivers licence
HIGH Court Judge Justice Esther Muremba on Wednesday 22 February 2017 issued an ultimatum ordering a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer to return a driver’s licence which he had confiscated from a...
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Police recover stolen wheat
Speaking to reporters in Manica town on Monday, the spokesperson for the provincial police command, Elsidia Filipe, said the train had been carrying a cargo of wheat from the port of Beira to Zimbabwe....
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Missing Zim activist Itai Dzamara’s life story to be told in documentary film
Itai Dzamara Itai went missing on March 9, 2015, after bravely staging lone protests calling on President Robert Mugabe to step down in central Harare’s Africa Unity Square. In an interview with...
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Tsvangirai listens to gory stories in Mukumbura
President Tsvangirai In a frank exchange attended by 23 village heads, three headmen, pastors and civic leaders, the President heard heart-rending stories of the acute suffering of the people due to...
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CiZC Statement on Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa
We are deeply concerned with the continued resurgence of xenophobia in South Africa and note that acts of xenophobia defeat the spirit and letter of Article 3 (a) and (f) of the Constitutive Act of the...
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ZLHR bids for jailed clergyman’s freedom
Pastor Philip Mugadza Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights members Obey Shava and Gift Mtisi filed a bail application in the High Court on Friday 24 February 2017 appealing against the decision of Harare...
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Tsvangirai engages Guruve
Morgan Tsvangirai Among the people he met were 27 village heads, pastors, vendors, business people, touts, commuter bus drivers and war veterans. The trend of the issues emerging from the provinces...
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EXCLUSIVE: Grace, Zanu-PF ‘very very cruel’ to ‘ancient’ Mugabe (video)
Harare – Zimbabwean opposition leader and former finance minister, Tendai Biti, says President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace and the ruling Zanu-PF party are cruel for pushing the nonagenarian to...
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State of the media report 2016
In our 2015 State of the Media report we made reference to President Robert Mugabe’s closing remarks at the end of Zanu PF’s December 2015 conference as poignant to government’s commitment or lack...
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Newsday journalists charged over Mugabe health story
Robert Mugabe Mdzungairi and Chidza were reportedly still being held by police in Harare at the time of writing this alert. The story titled: Mugabe in fresh health scare … sneaks out to Singapore, was...
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Chief Justice Succession : The Continuing Saga
Former Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku The Background In mid-October 2016 the Judicial Service Commission [JSC] advertised the forthcoming vacancy in the office of Chief Justice and invited the...
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Tsvangirai rounds up Mash Central tour
Leader of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), Morgan Tsvangirai His first meeting with opinion leaders was a robust three-hour engagement with war veterans, church leaders,...
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Five million need food aid while the President eats cake
“ They’re coming! Hide yourself! Run!” Those words will forever remain burned into my memory; words screamed at me exactly seventeen years ago today. Words of warning from the storekeeper on our...
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Dhlakama orders ceasefire extension
Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama Speaking from a Renamo base somewhere in the central district of Gorongosa, Dhlakama declared “as from zero hours tomorrow, 4 March, a new truce takes effect, lasting...
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Two journalists arrested over story about Mugabe’s health
The arrests of editor Wisdom Mudzungairi, reporter Richard Chidzaand legal officer Sifikile Thabete came one day after th e newspaper ran a story about the reasons for President Mugabe’s trip to...
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Mugabe stole my Valentine – why I hate February
Sad 28 days – farewell to the month of Valentine “I will return the moment I have that MSc acronym after my name”. She blinked away a tear and added, “I promise.” We exchanged long emails – this was...
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