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Mnangagwa sued
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has filed a constitutional application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, alleging that he violated principles of public procurement accountability by enacting a law that makes ...Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:40hrs | 3547 | by Staff reporter
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 | 10106 | 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 | 1150 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe police and Zanu-PF lead in rights violations'
A recent report by the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) reveals a troubling surge in human rights violations across the country, with at least 213 documented incidents of harassment, intimidation, and unl...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 06:43hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime told to end State sponsored abductions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been urged to end State-sponsored abductions, arbitrary arrests, detentions, and torture of opposition activists and human rights defenders.This c...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 11:56hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
CCC to fight ED2030 push
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has announced plans to launch a campaign against proposed constitutional amendments by Zanu-PF that could potentially remove presidential term limits...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:21hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa regime puts liberation heroes' values under threat'
Civic society organizations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe have raised concerns that the freedoms secured by the country's liberation heroes are under threat due to a recent crackdown on dissent by President Emme...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 08:42hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should release the Dumbutshena, Chihambakwe reports
The government should release reports by two commissions that investigated the Gukurahundi genocide "as part of truth telling" ahead of new public hearings in Matabeleland which President Emmerson Mna...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 20:54hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Slain CCC activist tormented in death
On July 30, 2024, the family of slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Mboneni Ncube faced further trauma and distress as police attempted to disrupt his tombstone unveiling ceremony at hi...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:56hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe census figures 'questionable'
ZIMBABWE'S population figures may be distorted because thousands of births and deaths of primarily children under five years, go unrecorded mainly in rural areas due to a lack of information and civil...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe traditional leaders top rights abuse list
TRADITIONAL leaders are responsible for nearly half of Zimbabwe's human rights violations in rural areas, a leading human rights watchdog has claimed.Civil society organisations (CSOs) have be...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 04:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Sadc must stop flawed future Zimbabwe polls'
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe have called on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to stop future elections which do not comply with its recommendations on holding credibl...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:55hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC nos calls for dialogue with Zanu-PF
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has emphasized the importance of dialogue with the Zanu-PF-led government to address the perceived illegitimacy of the Zimbabwean presidency, which t...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zambia trained 'CCC insurgents'?
During a recent gathering aimed at promoting post-election peace, Linda Masarira, the leader of the opposition Labour, Economists, and African Democrats (LEAD) party, sparked controversy by accusing a...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'FAZ heavily involved in electoral manipulation'
A recent study by the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) found that the deployment of Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) into Zimbabwe's electoral processes was a key part of Zanu-PF's electoral manipu...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 18:56hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
CCC supporters besiege murder site
MURDERED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter Tinashe Chitsunge's 27-year-old wife Dzidzisai broke down in tears as reality struck, her husband was now just a memory, another statistic on Zim...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Justice' eludes 2018 shooting victims
FAMILIES of the six people who were fatally shot by soldiers in the August 1, 2018 post-election violence say they are still waiting for justice five years on, with another round of polls less than a ...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Peace commission knows nothing about attacks on Chamisa's supporters
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has blasted National Peace and Reconciliation Commissioners (NPRC), whom it has accused of turning a blind eye to violence meted on its supporters by Zanu-PF....Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans forgetting Kasukuwere's injustice'
ZIMBABWEANS are choosing to turn a blind eye on presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's dirty past, United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) President Elisabeth Valerio has said.Valerio, whose candi...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 20:26hrs | 20 | 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
CCC, Zanu-PF activists clash in Umguza
CITIZENS Coalition for Change activists in Umguza, Matebeleland North province, clashed with Zanu-PF activists while conducting a door-to-door campaign as violence escalates going into the election pe...Published: 18 May 2023 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chiefs make peace pledge ahead of elections
TRADITIONAL leaders who are part of the Kushinga Peace Club in Gutu, Masvingo province, are mobilising communities to exercise peace and tolerance during this year's elections.The Kushinga Pea...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-CiZC boss summoned 5 years after alleged crime
FORMER Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chairperson Rashid Stuart Mahiya has been summoned to appear in court for plotting to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government in 2018.Mahiya...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence
A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd sta...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Jamwanda
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
'Mnangagwa worse than Mugabe'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has a worse track record than the late former president Robert Mugabe in stifling civic space ahead of polls, a comparison by a human rights watchdog, the Zim...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 19:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF behaving like murderers says CCC
A DEFIANT Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has vowed to forge ahead with preparations for next year's general elections despite a rise in related violent attacks on its members and supporters by ru...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe yet to realise peace, says sponsored NGOs
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) and religious groups yesterday said the country was yet to realise peace as human rights abuses and violence persists ahead of the 2023 polls.In statements t...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | | 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
Zimbabwe chiefs pledge to act on political violence
TRADITIONAL leaders have pledged to deal with perpetrators of political violence, including supporters from the ruling Zanu-PF by summoning them to their courts ahead of the 2023 elections.The...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Regime change' agents against Chief Charumbira's PAP presidency
THE election of Chiefs Council president Fortune Charumbira as Pan African Parliament (PAP) president has been received with mixed feelings.While the ruling Zanu-PF party was celebrating the w...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's mythical 3,9m registered members
ZIMBABWE'S ruling party claims that its membership base is growing astronomically. A cursory glance at the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF)'s cell registers shows that its sco...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Phillan Zamchiya
'Drop in voter numbers disturbing'
THE number of registered voters as of April 30 has dropped by 10 448 compared to the 2018 figures, a trend analysts said was disturbing.According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Zi...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Suspected Zanu-PF activists brutalise CCC supporters
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF activists yesterday allegedly assaulted opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists during party vice-president Tendai Biti's campaign rally in Harare East constituency....Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF not bother by Chamisa's absence from Polad, says Mugwadi
Zanu-PF says it is not bothered by the refusal by main opposition MDC Alliance to join the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform.Speaking during a virtual meeting convened by the Heal Zim...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Political polarisation on the rise'
POLITICAL polarisation is on the increase, threatening to destroy social cohesion in the country, as well as disrupt efforts towards peace and reconciliation.This came out during a recent virt...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
NGOs unfazed by Mnangagwa's threats
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) yesterday said they were unfazed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's threats to deregister them over allegations that they are pursuing a regime change agenda. ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rights 'defenders' tell chiefs to 'stay in your lane'
HUMAN rights defenders yesterday urged traditional leaders to desist from pressurising their subjects to vote for a particular political party as the country gears for the 2023 elections.In th...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Local communities transformed into Zanu-PF battlegrounds'
A PEACE-BUILDING rights group has said local communities have been turned into battlegrounds by Zanu-PF foot soldiers canvassing for party votes ahead of the 2023 polls.A May report by Heal Zi...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:04hrs | | 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
Mwonzora could be digging his own grave
Douglas Mwonzora's support for controversial amendments to the constitution is a mistake that could destroy his political career because the changes to the supreme law are not popular among the electo...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Cops unleashed to bash Matobo villagers
ANTI-RIOT police bashed community members in Domboshava Village, Matobo as punishment for ganging up to evict miners, civil society group, Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported.The details were rev...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Sytaff reporter
Heal Zimbabwe offices besieged for being 'unpatriotic'
FOUR unidentified people Tuesday afternoon besieged the offices of Heal Zimbabwe Trust in Mt Pleasant, Harare where they threatened to attack the organisation for its "unpatriotic opposition to the go...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 13:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo evictions: Govt under fire
A MASVINGO-BASED pressure group has raised a red flag over government-backed evictions of desperate villagers in the province, saying the orders flout efforts to slow down the devastating effects of C...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
US role in MDC demonstrations unmasked
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala accuses Chamisa of cowardice
Details of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
USA role in MDC demonstrations exposed
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:47hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Civic society plots to smear Zimbabwe at Sadc
A plan by opposition-linked and foreign-sponsored civil society organisations from Zimbabwe to smear the country at the Sadc Summit in Tanzania tomorrow has been unearthed after the activists travelle...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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