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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 | 1315 | by Staff reporter
High passport fees may hinder Zimbabwe's remittance flows
The Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (Zibawu) has raised concerns that the country's high passport fees could significantly impede remittance flows by restricting citizens' migration opportunit...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 12:30hrs | 3931 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's SONA lacks solutions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent State of the Nation Address (Sona) has faced sharp criticism for failing to address Zimbabwe's pressing crises, leaving many feeling uninspired and disillusioned....Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:48hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt under fire over holiday lessons ban
GOVERNMENT has been criticised over its decision on Monday to ban vacation lessons saying that learners needed to rest after an undisturbed term.Moreover, authorities added that teaching and l...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Suffering Zimbabweans should free themselves
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) chairperson and former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa (PM) was awarded the International Trade Union Confederation Africa (ITUC-Afr...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'CCC is not perfect but doing its best fighting Zanu PF.' Hell bent on making silk purse out sow's ear
In the good old days of Short Wave Radio, you could always tell if someone knew how to tune the radio or not. Smart Alec would waste time and the battery fidgeting with the "Fine" tune knob when it is...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 21:12hrs | 15 | by Wilbert Mukori
Prices skyrocket in Zimbabwe
The ongoing depreciation of the local currency is plunging Zimbabweans further into economic hardship, causing prices of essential goods and services to soar beyond the means of most low-income famili...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition turn to Sadc over Zimbabwe polls
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), the largest coalition of civil society organizations in Zimbabwe, has reached out to the current Southern African Development Community (Sadc) chairperson, Pre...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
CiZC claims not regime change agents
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) says labelling the organisation regime change agents is a usual tactic used by dictatorships worldwide to muzzle all voices which attempt to hold them to account....Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
CiZC pokes its nose into ZCTU affairs
The row between Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) over Obert Masaraure's suspension continued weekend with the pro-democracy group claiming the sanct...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 17:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition chair decries signing of Patriotic Act into lawCrisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chair, Peter Mutasa has lamented the enactment of the Patriotic Act which he said ha...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:32hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Protests loom over Zimdollar implosion
Workers unions are agitating for a nationwide strike over the continued economic implosion that has been characterised by the spectacular collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar.The country is facing ...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Labour quota system key to reducing future conflict in Zimbabwe
The current president of NMWUZ - National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe, Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka during an interview on labour and the combined 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Governm...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:39hrs | 18 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Mnangagwa in panic mode
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pressed the panic button over galloping prices of basic commodity as he accused retailers of plotting his defeat ahead of the August elections. Retailers last ...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pachedu's Gold Mafia demo flops
DATA analysts Team Pachedu yesterday cancelled their planned mass protests against the Gold Mafia kingpins at the eleventh hour citing lack of stakeholder buy-in.However, some civil society or...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC urged to employ 'guerilla' tactics
Prominent civic leader and trade unionist Peter Mutasa has urged Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to adopt underground campaign methods in the wake of a state crackdown coupled with a systematic ba...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN warns Mnangagwa
United Nations (UN) experts have warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against signing the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Bill into law saying it will infringe the fundamentals of human rights....Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Banks use RBZ excuse to dismiss demands for US dollar salary payments
BANK Employers Association of Zimbabwe (BEAZ) has allegedly claimed that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) does not allow the payment of US$-denominated salaries as a way to counter mounting pressure...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Wadyajena's removal from remand
THE removal of Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) from remand after a Harare magistrate ruled that the legislator had no case to answer following money-laundering and fraud ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Biti warns Zimbabweans
CIVIL society organisations and opposition politicians have warned of a pending spike in attacks on human rights defenders after the controversial Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) bill sailed thro...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
USAid warns of Zimbabwe funding threat
THE Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill, which has been criticised by opposition parties and civic groups for muzzling government critics and narrowing democratic space, has gone a s...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 13 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Mnangagwa's re-engagement drive losing steam?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is serving the last few months of his five-year term, is facing the monumental failure of one of his major goals since he was brought to power by a military coup in 2...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 20:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition starts looking for money through fear mongering
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition believes the country will have one of its bloodiest elections since independence in 1980.The group of more than 80 organisations, among them human rights bodie...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe now a banana republic, mafia State'
NewsDay (ND) reporter Lorraine Muromo recently had an interview with Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) chairperson Peter Mutasa (PM) on the country's human rights situation and the controversial Pri...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lieutenants losing faith and not confident of 2023 win
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) president, Nelson Chamisa's leadership skills, his approach to the opposition's protracted fight against Zanu-PF and prospects for an electoral win next year are b...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
List of people and organisations who participated in the sanctioning of Zimbabwe
FORMER Masvingo Urban legislator, Tongai Matutu, has published a long list of eminent opposition politicians he claims were at the forefront inviting "hurtful" sanctions on Zimbabwe.Last week,...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi under fire over 2018 army shootings
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has written to Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi demanding answers on the compensation of August 1, 2018 army shooting victims.Six people were fatally shot a...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banking sector risks crippling strike over US$ salary portions
PLANS for a crippling strike are hovering above the country's banking sector following the recent denial by the employers' side to honour partial payment of US$ salaries, Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Wor...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Green card holer Mawarire denounces Mnangagwa's record
ZIMBABWEAN pastor and international human rights activist Evan Mawarire had a meeting with United States secretary of State Anthony J Blinken on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US$2 for 2018 army shooting victims
GOVERNMENT reportedly gave $1 000 only as "compensation" to families of the August 1, 2018 army shooting victims, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.The amount, given to assist burial of those kille...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Crisis Coalition urges NGOs to contest PVO Bill
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has called on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to scale up the struggle for democracy as the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) bill nears enactment into law...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'No compensation yet for August 2018 shooting victims'
CRISIS in Coalition Zimbabwe (CiCZ) has urged government to account for the August 1, 2018 post-election shootings during which six civilians were shot dead by soldiers, and compensate survivors....Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shields killer soldiers from justice
ZIMBABWEAN human rights organisations under the Crisis in Zimbabwe banner have engaged former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, raising questions and seeking global support in dealing with th...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti calls for mass protests
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker, Tendai Biti has described the recently gazetted fees for contesting candidates ahead of the much awaited 2023 general elections as a plot to seal off demo...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe activists threaten to protest without notifying the police
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition Director, Peter Mutasa, has said in future activists will go in the streets for anti-government protests without notifying the police.This follows consecutive bann...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 17:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CiZC takes on police over anti-violence demo ban
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has filed an urgent High Court application challenging a recent police ban on an anti-violence prayer rally which the firebrand civic group had set for Harare's ico...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa-based Zimbabweans blast Shava
ZIMBABWEAN immigrants residing in South Africa have blasted Foreign Affairs minister Fredrick Shava for not consulting them before meeting his counterpart Naledi Pandor.Shava met the South Afr...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police block CiCZ prayer rally
POLICE have banned a planned Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) prayer rally over the deteriorating human rights situation scheduled for Friday at the Africa Unity Square in the capital.In a ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police defend CCC rallies ban
POLICE claim they have been fair in implementing provisions of the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (Mopa), and have instead blamed opposition parties and civic society organisations (CSOs) of faili...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC seeks Parly recourse over bans
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it will approach Parliament when it resumes sitting on August 16 over "systematic banning" of its rallies through unfair use of the Maintenance ...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt told not to interfere with civilian protests
GLOBAL human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) has urged governments not to interfere with civilian protests because it undermined civic rights.In a statement yesterday, the internati...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP pays heavily for abuse
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) continues to count its losses as it is constantly found on the wrong side of the law and made to pay in cases of human rights violations.In the latest case, ...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's police block NGO demo
HUMAN rights groups under the umbrella Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) yesterday approached the courts challenging a police order banning their planned march against an increase in human rights vi...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe NGOs trade accusations
A PRESS briefing held last week in the capital revealed deep-rooted divisions within the civil society after accusations were levelled against the Federation of Non-Governmental Organisations group fo...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean NGOs take Mnangagwa head-on
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), a grouping of over 75 civic society groups, has threatened to organise large-scale protests in response to the persecution of human rights defenders.Th...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 08:52hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean NGOs red flag weaponisation of law
CIVIL groups, churches and students yesterday voiced concern over the abuse of the rule of law.Addressing a joint Press conference in Harare, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) president Pete...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pensioners scoff at US$15 NSSA grocery vouchers
Pensioners have scoffed at the $10 000 (US$15) once-off grocery voucher offered by National Social Security Authority (NSSA), describing it as a mockery to a lifetime of service and dedicated co...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sliding into full-blown crisis
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chairperson Peter Mutasa was recently in South Africa for engagements with top officials from labour, political parties, civic society organisations and other solid...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Foreign funded NGOs sound alarm over Zimbabwe 2023 elections
THE Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has sounded alarm bells to regional bodies over possible violence as Zimbabwe heads for the 2023 general elections.Speaking to Newzroom Africa on Sunday...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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