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1.5 million people are homeless in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has renewed its call for the repeal of the colonial-era Vagrancy Act, arguing that the law unjustly criminalises homelessness and continues to infring...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 13:12hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
ED2030 agenda gains momentum
The ruling Zanu-PF party is pressing ahead with efforts to amend Zimbabwe's Constitution to allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in office beyond 2028, despite mounting opposition from politic...Published: 18 Jan 2025 at 06:33hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can reinstate death penalty during a state of emergency
Zimbabwe's recent decision to abolish the death penalty has been hailed as a significant milestone for human rights. However, a provision in the new Death Penalty Abolition Act allowing for the reinst...Published: 05 Jan 2025 at 14:39hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
'Party activists contributed 40% to human rights violations'
A recent report from the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has revealed that 40% of the human rights violations reported by community members between July and September 2024 can be attribu...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:02hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans fret over army hand in politics
A growing number of Zimbabweans are expressing alarm over the increasing involvement of the military in civilian life and politics, raising concerns about its impact on democracy and public trust. Thi...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:54hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt 'bans' gatherings
The government of Zimbabwe has intensified efforts to suppress alleged dissent by banning public gatherings, citing security threats. Recently, police arrested 79 opposition Citizens Coalition for Cha...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 11:32hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
ZimRights director urges poll reforms before 2028 elections
Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) director Dzikamai Bere says the country should begin dialogue around bringing the much-desired electoral reforms to try and minimise the possibility of ye...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 11:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt mass evictions raise dust
HUMAN rights lawyers have lobbied Members of Parliament (MPs) to push for the repeal of the Communal Lands Act amid the mass eviction of people accused of illegally occupying state land across Zimbabw...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zec will not entertain any complaints of rigging and electoral malpractices
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will not entertain any complaints of rigging and electoral malpractices raised by opposition party candidates in the Gutu West constituency by-election ...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:27hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's well-oiled campaign raises eyebrows
A day after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rally in Harare on August 9, thousands of empty boxes of fast foods were strewn across the venue spanning up to more than the size of four soccer fields....Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:57hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
History of organised violence, torture in Zimbabwe (1972-2020)
ON Wednesday May 24, 2023, I joined a panel of human rights defenders to reflect on the problem of organised violence and torture in Zimbabwe.This was during the launch of the report A Short H...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Dzikamai Bere
Zimbabwe soldiers' involvement in armed robberies worrisome
THE arrest of three soldiers in a foiled armed robbery recently following a movie-style shoot-out has again brought to the limelight the involvement of rogue elements of the uniformed forces in violen...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa abusing judicial system against political activists '
NATIONAL Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) deputy chairperson, Dzikamai Bere, has likened President Emmerson Mnangagwa's so-called new dispensation to the Rhodesian colonial government that a...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe clemency order cannot cover genocide'
THE National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) has said the statement by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi that perpetrators of Gukurahundi could not be prosecuted because they were covered by...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZimRights national director says Zimbabwe heading towards bloodbath
ZIMBABWE is faced with a multifaceted economic, political and social crisis. Observers say the challenges bedevilling the country will likely get worse ahead of the 2023 general elections as rival pol...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the brink: Living in fragile peace
YESTERDAY, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) launched the 2021 State of Peace Report. It is an annual product of the ZimRights' Right to Peace Campaign which seeks to empower communiti...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Dzikamai Bere
Prioritise peace reporting - journalists urged
Journalists have been urged to prioritise stories on transitional justice to ensure sustainable peace in the country.Making a presentation during a seminar on the role of the media in transiti...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 22:59hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Desmond Nleya
Magaisa declared national hero
CIVIL Society Organisations Wednesday declared the late Morgan Tsvangirai's advisor, Alex Tawanda Magaisa, a national hero.Addressing journalists in Harare, the Secretary for the Constitutiona...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC calls out police
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has dismissed the police version of events leading to the disappearance of party activist Moreblessing Ali on Tuesday last week.CCC claims that A...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Violence victims speak out
HUMAN rights defenders yesterday premiered a documentary where victims of State-sponsored violence, including Gukurahundi survivors, recounted their harrowing experiences at the hands of State securit...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga dragged to court
A HUMAN rights activist has dragged Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to the High Court seeking an order directing him to table before Parliament a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: Govt told to rethink Zupco ban
HUMAN rights activists have described the move to bar unvaccinated people from using public transport as discriminatory and exposing victims to psychological harassment.Government last week wa...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
BaTonga communities sue for lack of development
HAVING been displaced during the construction of the Kariba Dam and now living at the peripheries of Zimbabwe's largest hydro-electric power project, Kariba, it is only logical that the Batonga people...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Gutu denies joining Zanu-PF
NEWLY APPOINTED commissioner of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), Obert Gutu has denied ever joining the ruling Zanu-PF party, adding that he only expressed the intention to do ...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi gaffe haunts Gutu
NatioNal Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) spokersperson obert Gutu has been taken to the High Court over his statements downplaying the gravity of Gukurahundi.Gutu, a former MDC-T vi...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Opposition intensifies use of lawfare to exert pressure on govt
In pursuit of their lawfare strategy designed to wield pressure on Government in an effort to paralyse the State, the MDC Alliance and its allied Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) intent to lodge a l...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Political Reporter
USAID withdraws funding to four CSOs... and demand leadership renewal to replace looters of funds
The United States through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has reportedly blacklisted and withdrew funding to four Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) after investigations ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 19:14hrs | | by Political Reporter
Mnangagwa move invites backlash
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to assent to a host of controversial constitutional amendments has seen him starting a war on many battle fronts amid a looming fierce legal tussle over the cha...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Constitution: Mnangagwa power play 'a great betrayal of people'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is repeating mistakes made by his predecessor Robert Mugabe by seeking to amend the constitution to entrench his rule, political analysts have warned.Mnangagwa and...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tricked MDCs on running mates, says Charamba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that Zanu-PF tricked the opposition MDC formations to consent to the passing of the Constitutional Amendment No 20 with a conte...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US rubbishes Mnangagwa's Polad?
THE United States has renewed its demands for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to implement wide-ranging reforms and initiate inclusive dialogue to resolve the country's debilitating socioeconomic and pol...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's democratic credentials under fresh scrutiny
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's democratic credentials have come under fresh scrutiny after the ruling Zanu-PF revived its push for a law to punish "unpatriotic" Zimbabweans.Zanu-PF chief whip ...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political terrain tough for disabled persons
DISABLED women, especially in rural set ups, aspiring to take up leadership positions are facing a double blow to their ambitions.Barbra Nyangairi, Deaf Zimbabwe Trust executive director, said...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers challenge deposit fines hike
A RETIRED lawyer, Sheila Frances Jarvis and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) have taken Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to court over publication of Statutory Instrument (SI) 25 of 2...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimRights demands COVID-19 vaccine roll-out plan
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking an order to compel government to provide a COVID-19 national vaccination roll-out pl...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe human rights defender wins US award
A ZIMBABWEAN human rights defender has won a United States award "for his outstanding role in promoting social, political and cultural progress" in the country.Dzikamai Bere, who is a programm...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reconciliation, healing elusive in Zimbabwe
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi's revelation that he is still suffering from the trauma of the grenade attack that killed two people at a June campaign rally in Bulawayo addressed by President Emmerson Mn...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: How to kill a peace commission at birth
Coordinator of the National Transitional Justice Working Group, Dzikamai Bere told 263Chat that the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) Act has four weaknesses which threaten the effec...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 10:54hrs | 43 | by Dzikamai Bere
Civil society meets over undiversified Gukurahundi commission
Civil society organisations recently met to assess the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission's (NPRC) work, the recently signed NPRC Act, prospects for transitional justice in the country and t...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 14:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's human rights report trashed
Civil society organisations from all over the world confronted President Mugabe's government last Thursday at the United Nations Human Rights Council and strongly objected to Zimbabwe's human righ...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a truth recovery process to move forward
Over the years, the human rights movement in Zimbabwe has called for a commission to bring to surface the truth of past human rights violations.One of the questions that keep resurfacing in su...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 09:52hrs | | by Dzikamai Bere
Opportunities for truth in Zanu-PF battles
Kufa kwemurume hubuda ura, so goes the Shona proverb. Loosely translated, it means a man is not dead until the intestines are out.It appears the knives are out in Zanu-PF and the battle will n...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:07hrs | 2 | by Dzikamai Bere
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