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Kwekweza on a Zimbabwe govt 'Stop List', denied ID
CITIZEN for Coalition Change activist Namatai Kwekweza has voiced frustration over being unable to replace a deteriorating identification document after being informed they were on a government "Stop ...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 15:59hrs | 10096 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: How big is Namatai Kwekweza's mouth?
A senior official in Zimbabwe's government has sparked outrage by ridiculing the abduction and torture of human rights activist Namatai Kwekweza during a session at the African Union's 81st Ordinary S...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 10:02hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Rights watchdogs condemn embarrassment of Zimbabwe lawyers
GLOBAL legal watchdogs, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L), have urged the government of Zimbabwe to urgently investigate the abuse of la...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 12:37hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's New Year Message
CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONNEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONDear Zimbabweans and my Worldwide friends.My dearest Zimbabweans and Worldwide friends, ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 20:19hrs | 12 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
Violence against women serious breach of human rights
Media Institute for Southern Africa has said violence against women is the most pervasive breach of human rights worldwide which is being worsened by targeting and attacking women including female jou...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 10:46hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe protests unverified human rights claims
Zimbabwe's delegation to the 77th session of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) has formally lodged a complaint regarding unverified allegations made by a panelist from the Pan-A...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil society approaches AU
A GROUPING of civil society organisations, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum), has taken the country's human rights fight to the African Union, predicting a bloody election due to the gov...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZLHR receives funding from US to fund subversive activities?
A senior official with the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Mr Macdonald Moyo, yesterday allegedly admitted that the organisation receives direct funding from the United States government to ...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rare voting rights victory for Zimbabwe
SIX political activists have been left with an egg on the face after the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) ruled that the Government had not violated the rights of activists who ...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
UN condemns anti-NGO Bill
FOUR United Nations (UN) special rapporteurs have condemned the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill as infringing on the civil and political rights of Zimbabweans and lamented shrinkin...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
State must stop abductions
HEAL Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. The special day is commemorated annually on August 30.The Internatio...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Heal Zimbabwe Trust
Mnangawa told to stop using abductions as a tool to deal with political opponents
President Emmerson Mnangagwa' s government has been asked to stop using abductions as a tool to deal with political opponents. In a statement issued by Heal Zimbabwe Trust to mark the Internatio...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 09:52hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Open Letter to Guduza Churchill, President of MLF
Dear Comrade, I hope I find you well dear comrade. How I wish you could remove the name Churchill from the birth certificate and remain with Mpiyesizwe Guduza. Proper revolution will take plac...Published: 18 May 2021 at 17:33hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
A call for the condemnation of the violation of the human rights of prisoners by the Zimbabwe regime
Greetings to all! A few days ago, members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were released on bail from incarceration at Zimbabwe's notorious Khami and Mlondolozi prisons. No sooner had the...Published: 18 May 2021 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza - MLF President
'COVID-19 lockdown increased human rights abuses'
HUMAN rights groups yesterday said Zimbabwe witnessed severe increased violations of people's rights this year due to the COVID-19-induced lockdown and pleaded with government to end the use of State ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jamesina King red flags Mnangagwa over Chin'ono
THE African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) special rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, Commissioner Jamesina King, has written to President Emmers...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Patience Zirima travelled to London
Patience Zirima of Media Monitors (Zimbabwe) travelled to London to attend the Global Conference for Media Freedom on July 10 and 11. Here she reflects on what she'll take home from the event, which w...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:40hrs | | by Patience Zirima
Mnangagwa invites UN special envoy
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will dispatch a high-level rapporteur to Zimbabwe before the end of this month on a fact-finding mission following the January viole...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa AU 'poll push' was a publicity stunt
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's bid to get the African Commission for Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) hear his bid to overturn President Emmerson Mnangagwa's slim election victory ha...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's hefty legal bill
Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa may have to fork out more than R42 million to meet the costs of his election outcome challenge he launched and lost at the country's Constituti...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 12:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll results dash young people's hopes
IT is just after 6pm in the city centre and human traffic is at its peak as pedestrians race to conclude a gruesome day of socio-economic activities.Zimbabwean youths, many of whom threw their...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fighting a losing battle
The decision by the MDC Alliance to ratchet up pressure to overturn President Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory confirmed by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) last week in reaching out to the African Com...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Chamisa must know AU is 'toothless'
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) returned its verdict on the contentious July 30 Zimbabwe presidential election.Under normal circumstances, the findings and ruling in favour of a President ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Kanji Masunda
Jobless Chamisa the biggest loser of 2018 elections
Zimbabwe's July 30, 2018 elections have come and gone and the Constitutional Court on August 24 buttressed the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s position that President Mnangagwa was the winner. ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is merely political grandstanding'
Legal experts yesterday described MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's decision to take his case to the African Commission on Human and People's Rights as mere political grandstanding, as the move ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa endorsement wake up call for Chamisa
For the past three weeks, the MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa derailed Zimbabwe's progress through a poorly-thought out court petition against President Mnangagwa's electoral victory on July 30, 20...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Con-Court ruling ends the silly season
The recent judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court put an end to a season of jest fronted by the MDC-Alliance's Nelson Chamisa and his supporting cast of pseudo-democrats and Twitter revoluti...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Do not kill a dead snake!
This is what former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma said in reference to Thabo Mbeki who was voted out of the party and government as party leader and president of South Africa in Polokwane. This...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:49hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa, the biggest loser of 2018 elections
Zimbabwe's 30 July 2018 elections have come and gone and the Constitutional Court on 24 August buttressed the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) position that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the win...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 12:00hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Khupe showed true leadership by attending Mnangagwa's inauguration - Mliswa
Norton MP-elect Temba Mliswa has congratulated MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe for attending President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration yesterday in the capital.Mliswa bemoaned sanctions sayi...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 09:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa takes Mnangagwa victory fight ACHPR
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has taken his fight to overturn President Emmerson Mnangawa's recent electoral victory to the African Commission for Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) following the ...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZLHR commemorates Africa human rights day
ON the occasion of Africa Human Rights Day on 21 October, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said it stands in solidarity with human rights defenders who are languishing in detention in Tanz...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Unacceptable persecution of human rights defenders
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has strongly condemns the violation of the rights of human rights defenders (HRDs), who were abducted and tortured by unidentified men on Friday 18 November 20...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 19:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZLHR joins the nation in celebrating Africa Day but...
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said it joins fellow Zimbabweans and the rest of the African continent in marking Africa Day but how ever expressed reservations over the citizens' freedom...Published: 25 May 2016 at 07:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Misa host African Commission on Human and People's Rights Commissioner
MISA- Zimbabwe on May 6 hosted a dinner for the Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Commissioner Pansy Tlakula in Harare during which she was briefed on ...Published: 19 May 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
RDZ position paper on the imperatives of a national democratic renewal in Zimbabwe
RENEWAL DEMOCRATS OF ZIMBABWE POSITION PAPER ON THE IMPERATIVES OF A NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC RENEWAL IN ZIMBABWEINTRODUCTIONRenewal Democrats of Zim...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 14:21hrs | 1 | by RDZ
Open letter to the AU on xenophobic attacks in South Africa
MISA, along with more than 100 African human rights organisations today presented an open letter to the African Union (AU), to express their concern about the xenophobic attacks in the Republic of Sou...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 15:49hrs | | by MISA
How to fight Zimbabwe-style land grabs
Speech by Ben Freeth to the Guide on Land Grabs in South Africa, AfriForum Conference, Pretoria, March 18 2015The Fight Using the Light for Property Ri...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:33hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Mugabe to pull African Union out of the ICC?
African Union (AU) chairman, President Mugabe, has said Africa must pull out of the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC).Speaking at the closing ceremony of the 24th AU summit that e...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 06:04hrs | | by Lovemore Mataire
Zimbabwe wants 'popular uprisings' criminalised
Zimbabwe has flatly refused to identify itself as an ally of the popular uprisings in North Africa, amid debate in the African Union (AU) that the putsch represented real democratic revolutions....Published: 02 Jun 2014 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reply to Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa #RestoreZimDiasporaVote
You don't have to be a robotics professor to know that something is seriously wrong in Zimbabwe especially as the regime resists Diaspora Vote and pledges ‘Mugabe for life' when he is alr...Published: 01 Jun 2014 at 07:56hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
'Zimbabweans in the diaspora should be allowed to vote'
THE African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) secretariat has ruled that Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora should be allowed to vote in this weekend's referendum and forthcoming election...Published: 12 Mar 2013 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eighteenth African Union Summit to hold on the theme: 'Boosting intra-African trade'
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The 18th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) is scheduled to take place from 23 to 30 January 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Holding under the th...Published: 11 Jan 2012 at 05:19hrs | | by APO
Enemy-sponsored organisations threaten nation
Pan African thinkers may wish to ask themselves this question: "If South Africa were at war with Canadaand in the process of bombing Canadian cities back to the Stone Age, would US President ...Published: 16 Jul 2011 at 18:15hrs | 11 | by Tafataona Mahoso
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