CiZC implores government to focus on realignment and not amending Constitution
Tobaiwa Mudede We are deeply concerned with efforts and intentions by the State to scrap dual citizenship by amending Chapter 3 of the Zimbabwean constitution. The development indicates an absence of...
View ArticleActivity on Bills Last Week
National Competitiveness Commission Bill This sailed through the Senate without amendment on 9th May. The Bill will go to the President for assent without any amendments having been made by either...
View ArticleUK downplayed killings in Zimbabwe to guard its interests, study claims
Members of the Fifth Brigade in Zimbabwe. The army unit is said to have massacred tens of thousands of people in 1983. Photograph: Zimbabwean National Archives/PA According to thousands of documents...
View ArticleOrganised Violence & Torture Report April 2017
The political environment continued to be defined by lack of political tolerance among political parties. Political intolerance manifested in the form of assaults, harassment and intimidation,...
View ArticleConstitutional Principles for Elections
Subsequent bulletins will analyse how far the Electoral Act complies with the Constitution. Fundamental Electoral Principles Section 155(1) of the Constitution lays down basic electoral principles....
View ArticleTraditional leaders call for peace and tolerance ahead of 2018 elections
From the 10th to the 14th of May 2017, Heal Zimbabwe conducted a total of 16 nhimbes in Mutasa South (6 peace clubs), Gokwe North (5 peace clubs), Mazowe (4 peace clubs) and Muzarabani (1 peace club)....
View ArticleAre Zimbabweans revolting?
Mahmood Mamdani’s (Mamdani. 1996) classic thesis about citizens and subjects in late colonialism seems to have no greater application than to Zimbabwe, a country in which the voice of the citizen has...
View ArticleAir Zimbabwe Added To EU Blacklist
The EU has also removed all airlines from Benin and Mozambique from its air safety blacklist after the companies addressed the bloc’s safety concerns. EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc said “Their...
View ArticleThe time for a workers’ revolution is now
Nevertheless, this is not at all surprising as the gross workers’ rights abuses in this country are so evil that even the cruelest 18th century slave driver would look like a saint. This is not only...
View ArticleArtists to tell stories through images & spoken word
Together, the 20 young artists will create photographic and poetic work that tells stories around social themes that are important to them as young women growing up in the 21st century, living in...
View ArticleUse of spikes wreaks havoc
It is also alleged that when vendors realised that the municipal police had arrived in a taxi they pounded the vehicle with stones and later torched it. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers that...
View ArticleHarare residents persecuted over bond notes protest
FIVE Harare residents who allegedly protested against the introduction of bond notes are currently undergoing trial after they were accused of destroying property during a demonstration held in the...
View ArticleMore pro-democracy campaigners set free over anti-govt protests
Mukono, Haruzivishe and Mehluli Dube were arrested by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers on 29 August 2016 and charged with incitement to commit public violence as defined in Section 187 as read...
View ArticlePolitical violence, deprivation of food and denial of rights to education &...
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View ArticleThe Zimbabwe Government remains in contempt of court and continues to flout...
Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG QC Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC has written the letter below and attached about the Zimbabwe Government’s continued contempt of court and its failure to even take preliminary steps in...
View ArticleNaij.com – Nigeria’s top online newspaper
Naij.com is the most visited news and entertainment website in Nigeria – and its worldwide audience has been growing too. Users from the USA, Malaysia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, India, Australia,...
View ArticleChanging political dynamics (VIDEO)
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View ArticleIMF Staff Completes 2017 Article IV Visit to Zimbabwe
The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF’s Executive Board. Based on the preliminary findings of this mission, staff will...
View ArticleTelecel announces $200m deal – moves to close coverage gap and introduce LTE
Minister Supa Mandiwanzira Speaking at a briefing cocktail held in Harare, Hon Mandiwanzira told guests that the government, 60% majority shareholder, was working closely with Telecel to put finishing...
View ArticleBut you know him
Following his father, John became a lawyer and, on his father’s death, he inherited a considerable income and liked to wear fashionable clothes about the city. But a new spirit was stirring in him and...
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