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Mudenda calls for pro-poor budgeting to promote equity
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has challenged legislators to ensure that public resources are equitably channelled towards programmes aimed at improving the livelihoods of citizens, emphasising t...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 15:57hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
No one is above criticism - not even the President
Democracy has always been too heavy a burden for weak, insecure leaders.The recent arrest of The Zimbabwe Independent editor, Faith Zaba, on allegations of "undermining the authority of the pr...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 22:44hrs | 617 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe opposition fears of 'ZANU-fication'
A motion to establish a legal framework for a National Ideology in Zimbabwe has sparked heated debate in Parliament, exposing deep divisions between the ruling ZANU-PF party and opposition legislators...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:18hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora in 2030 pushback
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) president Douglas Mwonzora has expressed grave concerns over efforts by supporters of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend his rule beyond the constitutionally m...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:30hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Zinef condemns Mhlanga harassment
Zimbabwe National Editors Forum (Zinef) chairperson, Dumisani Muleya, has condemned the police's pursuit of Alpha Media Holdings online radio and television HStv platform anchor Blessed Mhlanga. This ...Published: 22 Feb 2025 at 09:25hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
SA govt allowing undocumented aliens' children in schools
The South African government has been commended for resisting calls to remove undocumented migrant children from schools, despite recent pressures from locals and opposition politicians advocating for...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:37hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
ANC introduces its version of Chitepo School of Ideology
As the African National Congress (ANC) works to rebuild its relationship with the electorate following significant electoral setbacks, the party has declared political education a top priority. All AN...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 08:03hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
SA constitution serves the elite and the neoliberal agenda
The MK Party has called for the scrapping of South Africa's constitution, claiming it serves the elite and the neoliberal agenda. The party, led by former president Jacob Zuma who was in the A...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 19:59hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Ex-CCC senator arrested
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Bulawayo senator Gideon Shoko has been arrested by detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department's Law and Order division in Bulawayo on charges tha...Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 16:10hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
'Ideologically bankrupt' Ramaphosa's ANC in a governance tailspin
To suggest that the 2024 electoral outcome has fundamentally altered how parties relate to one another post-election would be an understatement.Never has the party with a majority of votes fou...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 13:56hrs | 5 | by Sipho Seepe
Zimbabwean woman to be paid R17 million by SA Health MEC
The MEC tried to argue for a reduced amount to be paid, because the mother was a Zimbabwean citizen.North West's Health MEC will have to fork out R17.2 million to a Zimbabwean woman for her 10...Published: 21 May 2024 at 20:45hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
Does ZANU PF lack leaders who can take over from Mnangagwa?
Speculation rages on as to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's intentions regarding his post-2028 future. Most of the issues raised understandably revolve around the legal implications of ...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:25hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nkomo fumes over PVO Bill
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has rapped the Zanu-PF government for pushing for the enactment of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Bill that he described as retrogressively against...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer takes Mnangagwa to court
HARARE lawyer and businessman Frederick Nyamande has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court following the promulgation of the controversial Mutapa Investment Fund which he argues allows the head ...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutare invests US$200k to meet ZIFA standards
MUTARE - City of Mutare, the industrial and administrative capital of the province of Manicaland in Zimbabwe has from its internal coffers invested 200 thousand United States Dollars into the massive ...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 08:30hrs | 51 | by Maxwell Teedzai for Table Salt News
'Kasukuwere's nomination was invalid'
ZIMBABWE's Supreme Court, which usually makes fair decisions except on major politically sensitive cases, faces a stern credibility test on 27 July when it decides the fate of independent presidential...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 16:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Supreme Court faces a stern litmus credibility test on 26 July
Zimbabwe's Supreme Court - which usually makes fair decisions except on major politically sensitive cases - faces a stern litmus credibility test on 26 July when it is expected to decide the fate of i...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's land ruse fools no one
Apropos Advocate Nelson Chamisa's land remarks at CCC's campaign-launch rally at Mkoba Stadium in Gweru yesterday.The issue is not about how it is being framed either by Advocate Chamisa's det...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:56hrs | 14 | by Jonathan Moyo
Busisiwe Mkhwebane merely annoyed agents of white monopoly capital
In my view, both Tina Joemat-Pettersson (may her soul repose peacefully) and Busisiwe Mkhwebane are victims of a system that lives off the subjugation of women, where women are treated very differentl...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:18hrs | 2 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Foreign organisations petition Mnangagwa over Sikhala
A RECORD 18 civil society organisations from different parts of the world have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and key figures in his government over the growing trend of judicial persecution ...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe history needs truth, justice and reconciliation
ZIMBABWE'S history is replete with human rights violations dating as far back as the colonial period. Sadly, such violations have continued even after the country gained independence in 1980. It is, t...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by NTJWG
8 mistakes in Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution
ON May 22 2023, Zimbabwe's Constitution turned 10, having become effective on 22 May 2013. This year, we mark the 10-year anniversary. I choose to mark this day with a reflection, and my reflection is...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Musa Kika
Malema says Zimbabweans have let down Ngarivhume
SOUTH Africa's main opposition leader Julius Malema, has urged Zimbabweans to stand up against the harassment of pro-democracy activists following the jailing of opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slips back to gukurahundi years
It is existentially draining and disempowering that the leader of Transform Zimbabwe Jacob Ngarivhume, has been shockingly convicted and sentenced for an effective three years in jail – for some twe...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 20:12hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
'Motsoaledi's decision to terminate ZEP unfair and irrational'
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi's decision to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) was procedurally unfair and irrational. This was one of the arguments made by the Helen Suz...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume ditches Chamisa
Jacob Ngarivhume, Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) President, has decided to withdraw his backing for Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa.In 2018 Ngarivhume joined a union of oppo...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
VillageHeads4ED to bar Chamisa's CCC in rural villages
Newly-formed and Zanu-PF aligned grouping VillageHeads4ED in Mashonaland East province says the opposition CCC will not be allowed to campaign in villages.In a video that has gone viral on soc...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:57hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
School headmaster sparks debate over haircuts
SOCIAL media went into meltdown yesterday, reacting to a video posted by The Herald of a school head who used a pair of scissors to plough through the hair of all learners who did not have proper hair...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Marange villagers demand relocation
VILLAGERS in Marange are demanding relocation in protest against being put in a restriction camp under the Protected Places and Areas Act (PPAA).The villagers, who said PPAA had subjected the ...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pressures Parly on PVOs Bill
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has piled pressure on Parliament to fast-track the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill but opposition leaders have urged a rethink....Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | | 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
Zimbabwe Parly called to enact stiffer penalties against electoral violence
HEAL Zimbabwe Trust (HZT), a community oriented human rights organisation, has called on Parliament to summon the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Comm...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi's shameful outburst
Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi has published a shameful attack on the Helen Suzman Foundation and civil society.The Foundation is taking Home Affairs to court because of its decisio...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 19:44hrs | 10 | by GroundUp Editors
SA minister blast NGOs
SOUTH Africa Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has blasted South African civil society organisations for opposing his decision not to extend the exemption permits which were granted to Zimbabwean...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Motsoaledi tells Zimbabwean Exemption Permit holders to ignore 'false hope created by HSF'
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has slammed the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) for lodging legal action to challenge his department's decision to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP)....Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 08:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Motsoaledi statement on the decision not to extend exemptions granted to Zimbabwean Nationals
1. In an open and transparent democracy, organs of civil society have an important role to play.2. Most of the times, they do so in the national interest. However, at times, some of them can b...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 08:06hrs | | by Aaron Motsoaledi
SA ministry accuses NGOs challenging Zimbabwe permits cancellation of wanting to 'dislodge' ANC government
The Department of Home Affairs has accused the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and NGOs of trying to "dislodge" the government in response to the notice that the foundation intended to take the departme...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Abortion: Pro-Choice; Pro-Nothing; Pro-Life - Study the law with Blessed Mupatsi
THE DEONTOLOGY Assisted by: Nompilo P. Nkomo. In Zimbabwe in the late 19th century, through the promulgation of the Termination of Pregnancy Act...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:12hrs | 15 | by Blessed Mupatsi
Inhlokomoyesizwe SikaMthwakazi condemns arrest of innocent, prayerful citizens
As Inhlokomoyesizwe SikaMthwakazi pressure group we have learnt that ZRP has arrested 36 Citizens of Zimbabwe for organising a Christian response to the c...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 21 | by IYS Info-Desk
8 dump Mwonzora for Zanu-PF
JOHANNES Chiwaya, brother to the late MDC Alliance chairperson for Hurungwe Central district, Lavender Chiwaya has joined Zanu-PF, declaring that he had not "sold out".The late Lavender passed...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bullying antics have no space in a multi-party democracy
TOP Zanu-PF officials' threats to punish critics with local sanctions for holding the ruling party and government to account, is shocking and only strengthens the belief that the ruling party is avers...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes progress in human rights reforms
ZIMBABWE has made tremendous progress in the implementation of various reforms that seek to strengthen and protect citizens' rights.On Wednesday the United Nations Human Rights Council's Unive...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo was troubled and conflicted by sad events of November 2017
Moro Sahwira wangu, you know I've lots of time and respect for you and your views. Clearly, we have profound differences of opinion on this issue, sparked by the personal tributes that some of us, so-...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 12 | by Jonathan Moyo
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged urged to respect people's rights
DISPLACEMENT of villagers from their ancestral land to pave way for corporate activities is increasingly becoming one of the major human rights violations in the country, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Ass...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
IDs are a basic right
REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General's office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns....Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Captured' SA ConCourt trying to unscramble the illegal jailing of Jacob Zuma
The Constitutional Court has asked the legal teams of former president Jacob Zuma and other parties to submit documents addressing the international law and constitutional implications of his detentio...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calls for state of emergency in South Africa are misguided
CASAC has noted with great concern several calls for the President to declare a state of emergency in response to the incidents of public violence and looting in the provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-N...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:48hrs | 12 | by CASAC
When the judiciary abuses the liberators; Revolution under attack (The Zuma debacle)
When I was a prosecutor in the 1990's in Zimbabwe we had some prosecutors and lawyers who would come into court and make submissions which will be aimed at the people sitting in the gallery. They were...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 08:42hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa joins the constitutional onslaught quietly
Zimbabwe has been in the limelight again when a constitutional matter was hijacked by the opposition politicians and made an apolitical matter. The most puzzling and missing card is the very loud sile...Published: 31 May 2021 at 08:42hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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