Disconnected residents charged for water consumption
On September 19, 2017, CHRA held a meeting with affected residents from Highfield who highlighted that their water meters were removed by Harare City Council employees yet they continue to receive...
View ArticleWhy isn’t the business community leading the anti-Mugabe movement?
Ally that with a proper attack on poverty – which the business and professional classes should be intimately involved in anyway for their own self-interest – and the result will be an explosion in...
View ArticleHeal Zimbabwe statement on the International Day of Peace
Established in 1981 by a unanimous United Nations resolution, Peace Day provides a globally shared date for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a...
View ArticleResidents must resist the sale of Harare gardens
Africa Sun (Pvt) (Ltd) has proposed to buy about 2,205 hectares of the Harare Gardens for the expansion of Crowne Plaza Hotel. The Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing,...
View ArticleWhen confronted about the rampant ‘illegal’ cash sales in Zimbabwe, this is...
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa I don’t know what it is about being lazy, but it seems that 100% of the time students would choose to press the ‘confused button’ to their lecturers more than the...
View ArticleHow roadblocks in Zimbabwe fund police, according to ISS
Picture: Oupa Mokoena / ANA This is according to a Wednesday article written by Derek Matyszak, a consultant for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria. “Numerous violations of the...
View ArticleWATCH: Mugabe struggles to walk after addressing UN General Assembly
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Gabriel Mugabe arrives to address the 72nd Session of the United Nations General assembly at the UN headquarters in New York. (AFP) This came only two days after he was...
View ArticleICOD Zim Petitions Parliament of Zimbabwe
ICOD Zim beseeched the Parliament of Zimbabwe to exercise its constitutional role and address the following issues of public concern: Protect the constitutionally guaranteed right of persons with...
View ArticleReport Reveals Zimbabwe’s Challenging Radio Scene
Patience Zirima, executive director of Media Monitors, during the launch of the state of radio report in Harare in April In April, Media Monitors published the study, “Radio Landscape in Zimbabwe: A...
View ArticleZen incapacity to administer voter registration worrisome
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson Rita Makarau We are worried that with the current state of the BVR process, Zimbabwe is unlikely to conduct a credible electoral process in 2018. In light of...
View ArticleZim clergyman goes on trial for plotting to overthrow Mugabe’s govt
The 40 year-old Mawarire, who is represented by Harrison Nkomo of Mhishi Nkomo Legal Practitioners, a member of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights will appear before High Court Judge Justice Priscilla...
View ArticleMawarire endures night in detention
Judge Justice Priscilla Chigumba HIS Generation Church leader Pastor Evan Mawarire on Sunday 24 September 2017 endured one night in police cells after he was arrested by some Zimbabwe Republic Police...
View ArticleLucky rhino mum ‘survives attack in Zimbabwe’
“Unity”, as this rhino has been named by her carers is “clearly in considerable pain and discomfort and has a long road to recovery ahead of her”, said the Save Valley Conservancy in a post to...
View Article‘Spreading alarm over Zim shortages a criminal offence’: Minister threatens...
Confirmed the joint burial … Ignatius Chombo In a chilling threat, Ignatius Chombo said that the government was monitoring the press and social media “to deal a telling blow to the perpetrators of the...
View ArticleCommand agriculture and the politics of subsidies
President Mugabe recently described command agriculture as ‘beautiful’. The programme, led by the Vice President, Emerson Mnangagwa, with the ministry of agriculture and support from the armed...
View ArticleZUNDE urges mass public demonstration
Jonathan Moyo In the not so distant past, we watched the protests and demonstrations of the Arab Spring in the countries of North Africa and there were rumblings that a similar uprising could free...
View ArticleMDC-T plans to tackle CIO, Zanu PF infiltration
Morgan Komichi In an exclusive interview with The Zimbabwean in the city over the weekend, Komichi said the party would produce strong candidates to defeat Zanu (PF) if structures go the consensus way...
View ArticleEx-colonial countries use the European Union to bleed Africa
EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Philip Van Damme Moves led by Western agri MNCS heavily supported by Bill Gates and by the UK and USA are setting out to dominate Africa’s seed market, forcing farmers to by...
View ArticlePastor Mawarire pleads “not guilty”
Pastor Evan Mawarire ZIMBABWEAN clergyman, Pastor Evan Mawarire on Monday 25 September 2017 pleaded not guilty to charges of subverting constitutional government as his trial commenced before High...
View Article‘Freedom, privacy and security key to internet development’– MISA Zimbabwe
The conference, held under the theme Promoting Freedom, Privacy and Security on the Internet, focused on current legislative processes to enact a cyber crimes and cyber-security law and internet...
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