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Majome exposed by SA Public Protector?

The Office of the Public Protector South Africa (PPSA) has firmly refuted media reports suggesting it received a formal complaint from the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) concerning the alleged denial of healthcare services to Zimb…

Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 20:32hrs | 1347 | by Staff reporter

Majome engages South Africa over denied healthcare for Zimbabweans

Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) chairperson Jessie Majome says she is hopeful that her recent engagement with South Africa's Public Protector, Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka, will pave the way for Zimbabwean nationals to access healthcar…

Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 14:01hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter

Rogue Zimbabwe police officers put on notice

Jessie Majome, chairperson of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), has emphasized that law enforcement agents involved in unlawful arrests, detention, and brutality against civilians must be held individually accountable and liable…

Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 13:29hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's human rights record spoiled by 'over politicisation' of issues

Jessie Majome, chairperson of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), has emphasized the need for greater public education on human rights to enhance their appreciation and impact on improving livelihoods. Majome, who began her role i…

Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 08:15hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter

No killing each other, please!

ON the morning of June 16, 1976 more than 20 000 students from Soweto township took to the streets protesting the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in all South African schools.The protest, known as the Soweto Uprising t…

Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Time to protect people from their churches

VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana in which 918 mostly American foll…

Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 4 | by Miriam Tose Majome

Zacc, Interpol join to sniff out criminals

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has joined forces with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and South Africa's Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) - The Hawks - to seize and forfeit 10 lu…

Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter

Individuals with questionable assets face probe

THE net is closing in on individuals with questionable assets worth at least US$100 000 after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) yesterday appealed for information to enable it to investigate, arrest fraudsters and forfeit all …

Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Adultery damages, cohabitation rights

A COMMON assertion is that the proposition to protect the rights of cohabiting couples in the imminent Marriage Bill automatically nullifies the concept of adultery.However, this is not true because in 2016, the High Court firmly reiterate…

Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 3 | by Miriam Tose Majome

Cohabiting now legally protected

SECTION 40 of the proposed Marriage Bill recognises and protects the rights of unmarried people in cohabiting relationships, known in Shona as kubika mapoto and colloquially as small houses.For the first time in Zimbabwean law, civil partn…

Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:30hrs | 4 | by Miriam Tose Majome

Deliberate transmission of HIV: The pros & cons

THE most topical issue this past week was the announcement by Justice minister of government's plans to revoke section 79(1) of the Criminal (Codification and Reform) Act, which makes the deliberate transmission of HIV a criminal offence.T…

Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:39hrs | 3 | 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 established and the intention here is not to a…

Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:20hrs | 7 | by Miriam Tose Majome

International live ammunition laws

We reflect on the legalities of soldiers using live fire on protesters. The highly-charged political violent demonstrations and the ensuing shooting of people on August 1 was one of the worst of its kind. President Emmerson Mnangagwa recen…

Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | 2 | by Miriam Tose Majome

Lessons from Kenya (Part 2)

WE carry on looking at the similarities between Kenyan and Zimbabwean electoral politics. As noted, there are striking similarities in the politics and election systems between the two countries.The recent developments in Zimbabwe after th…

Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Miriam Majome

Lessons from Kenya (Part 1)

RARE is a country that seamlessly blends modern and vibrant cities with unspoilt white sandy beaches against the backdrop of the planet's biggest natural wildlife park, the Masai Mara (Serengeti). Endowed with bright intelligent sophistica…

Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:13hrs | 2 | by Miriam T Majome

Zimbabwe is the only country we have, please stop being so negative about it!

Dear PatriotsBut why? Why being so negative about your own country? I been listening to VOA and surely speaking the news reporters and reportage lack patriotism and this negative perception of our lovely country seems to have sunk really d…

Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:43hrs | | by Munya Shumba

Electoral petitions

I join the nation in passing condolences to the families of the people who lost their lives needlessly in the violent demonstrations that disgraced Harare on Wednesday afternoon.The ensuing shooting of unarmed civilians is roundly condemne…

Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:28hrs | | by Miriam T Majome

Voting day basics

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has provided some publications with basic voter and polling station procedure for election day, but not all aspects can be covered. First time and repeat prospective voters are urged to take the time famil…

Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:34hrs | | by Miriam T Majome

Electoral offences

With the elections some days away, emotions are heating up and the rate of election-related crimes and offences is also rising.Some crimes are being committed intentionally and some unintentionally. All criminal acts are punishable by vari…

Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:31hrs | 1 | by Miriam Tose Majome

Electoral reforms - What are they

THERE has been a lot of talk since 2008 about electoral reforms. I have received many questions about what exactly this means and have been asked to break it down to into very simple, digestible terms.Interestingly of the persons who asked…

Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by Miriam Tose Majome

MDC Alliance and the consensus nonsense

When the Movement for Democratic Change was formed in 1999, it pivoted around the word democracy. There is no doubt the catchword "democracy" earned the party unlimited intimacy with Western Europe, a continental bloc that swallowed the id…

Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe

Jessie Majome: The â€˜dark art' of manufactured outrage

Election season is in full swing in Zimbabwe. The country's first election without its "political godfather", former President Robert Mugabe, is due in a few months' time.What makes this election different from previous polls, is the freed…

Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Enocent Nemuramba

MP Majome tells local govt officials to abide by the laws

Harare West legislator for MDC-T Jessie Majome has told the local government officials to abide by the laws which demands respect for residents by authorities.She made the remarks during a meeting with residents and officials held at Ward …

Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole

Tsvangirai ally ousted as Justice Parly committee chairperson

HARARE West MP, Jessie Majome (MDC-T), was yesterday deposed as the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice chairperson and was replaced with Zvimba West MP, Ziyambi Ziyambi (Zanu-PF).Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, m…

Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter

MDC-T MP targets Zinara

AS the government runs around to get funding to rebuild the country's dilapidated road infrastructure, an opposition lawmaker has given notice to move a motion that will stop a State parastatal from collecting licence fees.Harare West legi…

Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 12:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Bonuses and the doctrine of legitimate expectations

Much said concerning civil servants bonuses for 2015 that are still unpaid. Government has assured them that they will be paid. The two main talking points have been whether government can afford to pay and whether they should pay them at …

Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 17:31hrs | 8 | by A legal article by Ms. Miriam Tose Majome

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