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CCC MP hails abolition of death penalty
The Citizens Coalition for Change legislator for Dzivarasekwa Edwin Mushoriwa has applauded Cabinet for approving the abolition of the death penalty after he successfully raised a motion for the scrap...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC MP says ZBC license fees should be scrapped
Prince Dubeko Sibanda, the Binga North legislator representing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has called for the abolishment of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) license fees. Sibanda ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 20:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will never be genuinely revered by Zimbabweans!
It was so beautiful watching the final part of the coronation of the new British monarch, King Charles III, this afternoon.Although I m...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Killers must be amputated'
SOME citizens feel that the death penalty should be revoked, but are proposing a gory punishment of having murderers amputated.This came out during public consultations on the death penalty by...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Death penalty divides public opinion
BEITBRIDGE residents have expressed mixed feelings over whether or not the country should retain the death penalty on its statutesThe residents gave their views during one of the many public h...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 women among long list of applicants vying for hangman's job in Zimbabwe
Two women are reportedly among the applicants hoping to fill the vacant post of Zimbabwe's "public executioner", under the neighbouring country's Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service.The ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to abolish death penalty
GLOBAL human rights defender, Amnesty International has called on Zimbabwe to join 111 progressive nations which have abolished the death penalty as it constitutes the worst form of punishment against...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masina Mandlenkosi to death in 2002 and he was executed...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents protest 'wrongful billing'
UMZINGWANE residents in Matabeleland South are up in arms with the Umzingwane Rural District Council (URDC) for wrongfully billing them using outdated by-laws.Amhlohe Sibanda of stand number F...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe exemption permits: Motsoaledi hires private lawyers
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that they have hired private lawyers to address backlogs as the expiry of Zimbabwean exemption permit looms.The future of thousands of Zimbabweans h...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 18:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus Zifa told not to use CAF funds
CAF have ordered Zifa to stop accessing funds in their coffers that were deposited by the continental football body as well as Fifa, saying a defiance by present office bearers will lead to disciplina...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Amnesty International Zimbabwe calls for death sentence ban
AMNESTY International Zimbabwe is pushing for a ban of the death penalty which it says has caused a lot of stress on people that are on death row.Capital punishment is provided for in section ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime on UN radar over abuses
ZIMBABWE'S legacy of gross human rights violations topped discussions at the 30th meeting of the ongoing 50th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, which put the spotlight on Presid...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
"Liberation Movement brotherhood a headache to regime change agents" Peter Mutasa says
The Peter Mutasa led Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) laments the ever strengthening brotherhood relationship among Liberation Movements in SADC as its major stumbling block towards seeing through ...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 12:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
African NGOs: Conveyors of national subversion?
Did you know that over 75 percent of the world's poor today live in Africa compared to 10 percent in 1970?Did you know that despite receiving a total US$4,6 trillion in aid between 1960 and 20...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Khaya Moyo's journey over the years
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, who died yesterday at the age of 76, was born in Plumtree, Matabeleland South on October 1 1945 to Mr Robert Khaya Ngulani ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe abolishes '00' ID code
In a historic move expected to end racial profiling, Government yesterday abolished the "00" code used to identify persons of mixed race, Caucasians and Asians on national identity cards. Pres...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Has the Zimbabwe dollar really stabilised against the US unit?
There is a strong debate among economic analysts pertaining to whether the Zimbabwean dollar (ZW$) has stabilised against the American dollar (US$) or not. There is a section which believes that the l...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:00hrs | | by Respect Gwenzi
Case against paying compensation to white farmers for land appropriation
OUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.We are living in a time when the vestiges of white hegemony and entitlement are, at long last, being challenged almost on a daily basis all over the worl...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Cedric Steele
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Richard Mahomva
Treasury orders refunds for exempted 2% tax transactions
Treasury has widened exemption on selected foreign currency denominated transactions from the two percent tax in response to submissions by stakeholders. Those considered would now be refunded...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe industry demands complete reforms
ZIMBABWE'S industry has proposed a raft of far-reaching reforms to be incorporated in Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2021 national budget, including the abolishment of subsidies.In its propos...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Nostro accounts balances won't be compensated'
Balances in nostro foreign currency accounts will not be compensated as they are currently not covered by the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC), in the event of bank failure, an official has said. ...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube needs to work his magic on inflation
ECONOMIC analysts expect Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube to announce new measures to contain and bring Zimbabwe's galloping inflation under control when he presents hi...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube was also surprised
It's almost a year since Finance minister Mthuli Ncube was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to help turn around an economy weighed down by decades of ruinous policies.In the 10 months...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's up to us to make Zimdollar work
The record needs to be set straight that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has done nothing outrageous and/or unprecedented by banning the use of foreign currencies in domestic transactions.Accord...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:25hrs | | by Conway Tutani
International remittances recipients to get forex
Recipients of international remittances will continue receiving money in hard currency following the abolishment of multi-currency system or can be paid in local currency at a prevailing official exch...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reserve Bank scraps US$10 000 daily trading limit for bureaux de change
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has scrapped the US$10 000 daily trading limit for bureaux de change and the 2,5 percent maximum profit margin for banks, in a bid to make the interbank forex market...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
New currency regime averts re-dollarisation
The abolishment of the multi-currency system by Government will avert the country from plunging into full re-dollarisation at a time the economy does not have enough United States dollars to support i...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
All hail Mthuli, Zimdollar will boost competitiveness
The rate at which the black market value of the RTGS dollar (now Zimbabwean Dollar) has been fast sliding against the US dollar was no longer sustainable and the move by Government to abolish the mult...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Prioritise students from Matebeleland region'
BULAWAYO residents yesterday strongly rejected proposals in the Education Amendment Bill to allow pregnant pupils to continue with their studies as well as the abolishment of corporal punishment. ...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
New UK border control measures will make life easier for traveling Zimbabweans
The UK government has announced new border control and visa measures to promote an open and competitive UK after Brexit takes place - whenever that may be.While the UK economy has enjoyed cont...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
145 school girls in daring protest
Even calls to be wary of the ravaging Cyclone Idai, whose effects have since been felt in Mashonaland East, could not deter the 145 girls at Zimbabwe's top school, Monte Cassino High, from executing t...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
The impossibility of abolishing lobola
THIS is the conclusion of a three-part series which discussed the feasibility of doing away with roora or making it optional in customary marriages.The position taken has been that it is impos...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:00hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Spiritual significance of lobola/ roora
Calls to abolish the payment of lobola/roora are associated with some feminist perspective, which decries it as the major cause of inequalities between the sexes. Arguments against it are well establi...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Miriam Tose Majome
PHOTO: Matabeleland chiefs visit Nelson Chamisa
Two prominent Matabeleland Chiefs namely Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna and Vezi Maduna Mafu of Filabusi visited MDC leader Nelson Chamisa this week at his Morgan Richard Tsvangirai Headquar...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Death penalty should be abolished in Zimbabwe
Laws and statutes play a pivotal role in the way disputes among people are settled. It is therefore incumbent upon every country to lay down its own justice delivery system to fulfil the mandate of up...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 16:07hrs | | by Joyce Chigiya
Zimbabwe keen to end death penalty
Zimbabwe is moving closer towards the abolishment of capital punishment and proposals to that effect will soon be tabled before Cabinet, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyam...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Rushed currency reform could harm Zimbabwe economy'
Rushing to implement currency reforms without sufficient stocks of foreign currency to back up the transition would have serious adverse effects on Zimbabwe's economy, which would cause suffering of c...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police disband Border Control Unit
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has disbanded its Minerals and Border Control Unit (MBCU) and redeployed its members as part of a restructuring exercise to restore sanity in the police force.The ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
1 632 police officers promoted
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has, with immediate effect, promoted 1 632 officers countrywide under the Police Act. Of the 1 632 officers, 1 147 were promoted to sergeants from the rank o...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
The top 5 party manifestos
LAST week's column looked at the Build Zimbabwe manifesto which I ranked third . This week we examine a fourth manifesto.Paul KasekeNumber 2: People's Rainbow CoalitionThe coal...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
300 cops in line for promotion
About 300 Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers countrywide are set to be promoted by the end of this month, as the force continues to intensify its restructuring exercise. Police sources in...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staffr eporter
ZRP to abolish senior positions
A restructuring exercise in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will result in the abolishment of some senior positions.This is contained in a document from the Chief Staff Officer planning and...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN calls on Zimbabwe to abolish death penalty
United Nations (UN) resident co-ordinator Bishow Parajuli has cited the death penalty as one of the critical issues which needs swift abolishment as the country under the new dispensation led by Presi...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP chief breathes fire
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga on Wednesday said it was disturbing to note that officers deployed on patrols and traffic operations were not performing their duties to expectations....Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
More heads to roll at ZRP
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has warned of another shake-up with some positions being abolished as part of the force's ongoing restructuring programme to improve service delivery....Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP to undergo overhaul
Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga says the police force will be streamlined through the abolishment of redundant sections and the deployment of more personnel to operational...Published: 09 May 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cross-border traders plot Diaspora protest
THE International Cross-Border Traders' Association (ICTA) has threatened to close all Zimbabwe's borders on April 16 and 17 this year to press government to allow locals based in the Diaspora to be a...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
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