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'Violence deters youths from politics'
Violence has lowered the percentage of youth voters in the country, a study by a local non-government organisation has revealed.Project Vote 263, in a study titled Youth Participation in Elections, re...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:00hrs | 4 | 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 | 14 | by Staff reporter
Youth vote litmus test for Zanu-PF
THE Zanu-PF-led government faces a litmus test in the August general election, after it failed to deliver on key priority areas affecting the youth over the past years, amid indications of a considera...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 14:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Critics slam Patriot Bill
LEGAL experts and political analysts in the Matebeleland region have said the Patriot Bill violates people's rights as it is prone to various interpretations.The Patriot Bill also known as the...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | | 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
Violence spectre casts shadow over elections
A NEW report by the Research and Advocacy Unit (Rau) has predicted increased organised violence and torture, particularly in urban areas, highlighting the need for more surveillance as the country hea...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'2023 elections likely to be unfair'
A LOCAL think-tank, the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU), says the upcoming elections are unlikely to be different from previous ones held under the Robert Mugabe era, which were underlined by violenc...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Foreign-funded NGOs give conditional backing for Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRNGO Forum), a union of 22 rights organisations whose relationship with government have been shaky for over a decade, has expressed its support for re-admission ...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala's continued detention is Zanu-PF's ploy to thwart dissidents ahead of 2023 polls'
Political analyst and academic, Alexander Rusero, says the continued incarceration of firebrand Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Job Sikhala is a ploy by Zanu-PF to instil fear on disse...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa linked CSOs rule out credible 2023 polls in Zimbabwe
LOCAL civic society organisations (CSOs) have ruled out a free and fair election in 2023, saying there is no political will from authorities to guarantee credible polls.This came out during a ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
22 women raped per day in Zimbabwe
AT least 22 women are raped daily in Zimbabwe with an average of one rape taking place per 75 minutes translating to an average of 646 women being violated each month, according to the Zimbabwe Gender...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Ziyambi tricked us on PVOs Bill'
CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) claim that Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi tricked them into believing that their submissions to the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill would be ...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NPRC is useless: Human Rights activists
Human rights activists have said the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has nothing to offer interms of the issues of organised violence in the country.They made the remarks during t...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 10:29hrs | 21 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF would have to defy reality to win in 2023
When Zimbabwe enters the pre-election circus, usually two years before elections are due, and the Afrobarometer produces a survey, the only interest the survey generates is in the estimates of which p...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rising poverty hits Mnangagwa support
THE majority of Zimbabweans are unhappy with the decline in their well-being under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration and are unlikely to retain him for a second term in the 2023 elections,...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 12:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are biggest cowards in the region report
A RECENT study on SADC democratic processes has revealed that 77 percent of Zimbabweans live in fear and are very mindful of what they said in public about their rulers.The study by Research a...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Child marriage cases spike in Sanyati
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Maidei Changa (not her real name) struggled to breastfeed her two-month-old baby.Maidei missed Form One at a nearby secondary school in ward 10 under Chief Hozhele in Sanyati...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 12:40hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
'Imprisonment in COVID-19 era is death sentence'
LOCAL think-tank has described imprisonment in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 era as "a death sentence" due to the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at the country's correctional facilities....Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa targets 1 million virgin voters
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC Alliance party says it has launched a campaign to add more than one million new potential voters on its registers ahead of the 2023 elections.This was rev...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 09:07hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Mudenda blocks debate on Mamombe incarceration
OPPOSITION MDC legislators this week unsuccessfully tried to bring the case of incarcerated Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe up for discussion in bid to get the youngest MP in the National Assembl...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rape used as a political tool: Report
ZIMBABWE has over the past decade recorded a rise in politically-related rape cases with perpetrators using rape as a tool to silence dissent, a recent report on gender-based violence has revealed....Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Civil society activists on Zimbabwe military watch list
THE Zimbabwe National Army's Military Intelligence (MI) unit has placed on its watchlist several civil society activists it claims are conniving with United States to unseat President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Response to State coordinated attack on civil society
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) has noted with great regret the state's coordinated and systematic attack on civil society organisations in Zimbabwe through falsehoods in the media, ar...Published: 29 May 2019 at 15:46hrs | 2 | by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum
'Vapostori have influence on election results'
A STUDY recently released by think-tank the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) has revealed that members of the religious apostolic sect (Vapostori) are mostly affiliated to the ruling Zanu-PF party, re...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll results dash young people's hopes
IT is just after 6pm in the city centre and human traffic is at its peak as pedestrians race to conclude a gruesome day of socio-economic activities.Zimbabwean youths, many of whom threw their...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's weakness exposed
The poor turnout for a Zanu-PF march in Harare raises questions about how popular the party of ousted former president Robert Mugabe really is, and what this could mean for the elections slated for 30...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition urged to boycott polls
OPPOSITION parties in Zimbabwe need to create a crisis that will result in international intervention to come up with conditions for a free and fair election, a leading academic has said.Speak...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zim most politically violent country in Southern Africa'
ZIMBABWE has been adjudged the most politically violent country in Southern Africa, a study by think-tank Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) revealed this week.The RAU report looked at electoral...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's risky move
State media in Zimbabwe are reporting that former president Robert Mugabe is backing the National Patriotic Front (NPF), a breakaway party from the ruling Zanu-PF, in a bid to make a political comebac...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs to cure the coup, as his govt is illegitimate
Zimbabwe needs to cure the coup, and needs the African Union to help with this, publisher and academic Ibbo Mandaza has said."It is true that the AU initially condemned the coup, but it has sa...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
New York anti-Mugabe demo: lesson for opposition
They say you can never keep a good man down, that is exactly what New York witnessed yesterday when an anti-President Robert Mugabe demonstration dismally failed to kick off at the 72nd United Nations...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 15:00hrs | | by Jasper Hloka
Mugabe poised for victory
Local think-tank Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) has predicted victory for President Mugabe and Zanu-PF in next year's harmonised elections, ruling out any real challenge from the opposition....Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's centralisation of power suppresses democracy
A NEW report has claimed that the centralisation of power in MDC-T is one of the reasons the party has failed to win power.The Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) report questions the centralisat...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 19:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Centralisation of power MDC-T's albatross
CENTRALISATION of power in the MDC-T is cited as one of the reasons the opposition party has failed to take over power from Zanu-PF since its inception in 1999, a new independent report has revealed....Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF wants polls to legitimise its rule'
RESEARCH and Advocacy Unit (RAU), a local political think-tank, says Zanu-PF is interested in holding the 2018 general elections merely to legitimise its rule, since there were no meaningful electoral...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's age a factor in polls'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, who was endorsed by Zanu-PF as their presidential candidate, will contest the polls at the ripe age of 94 years, a factor that has become an interesting issue ahead of the cam...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai et al. sleep-walking into 2018 poll defeat
Opposition political parties in this country are missing the point. While they have a right to moan and groan about the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's biometric voter registration (BVR) and a litany ...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 13:45hrs | | by Brezhnev Malaba
14% of Zimbabwean youths on voters' roll
ZIMBABWE'S electoral democracy is in danger, as most youths are excluded from elections either through disenfranchisement or failure to contest for public office despite being the majority pop...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Did Nikuv hack Zimbabwe's elections? A credible article
In the past three years, a new slang word has come to be popular in the Zimbabwean capital. I've heard it in professional settings and at parties. It's a conjugation of the word nikuv, to say that you...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Yael Even Or
Political apathy a disease that needs curing
I was lucky to be among 23 student leaders who got scholarships to come and study in the Netherlands after having been expelled from Great Zimbabwe University and banned from attending any other state...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 21:47hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Pressure group assists youths to get identity documents
BULAWAYO-BASED youth pressure group, Education Forum for Youths in Zimbabwe (EDUFYZ), has launched a programme to assist its members acquire identity documents to enable them to register as voters...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF vote buying criticised
ZANU PF youths in Mvurwi Mashonaland Central are not happy with the current vote buying in form of inputs offered to the elderly.Speaking to Bulawayo24.com youth national youth service members...Published: 05 Jan 2017 at 08:06hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mugabe, war veterans divorce: End of an era
President Robert Mugabe will be the biggest loser in the raging war of attrition against war veterans after his storm-troopers pulled a shocker last month and told him to step down.Mugabe ...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
By election date set for Mazowe North
The Mazowe North Constituency by-election will be held on the 23rd of July 2016.This has been revealed by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) which indicated that the seat fell vacant...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 08:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai, Mujuru plot coalition
Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai are ready to coalesce, as the political temperature in the country soars ahead of the 2018 elections, NewsDay reported."We...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 07:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Sekeramayi Parly attendance record unquestionable'
Parliament yesterday said Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi has been consistently attending both Houses of Parliament, contrary to a recent report by the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) which cl...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sydney Sekeramayi worst minister in Parliament - survey
A report by a research organisation, Research and Advocacy Unit, showed that Sydney Sekeramayi has the worst attendance record among ministers in the current Parliament after missing all the sittings ...Published: 19 Aug 2015 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabes, Mnangagwa retains firm grip on power
The huge golden statue of three liberation soldiers - two men and a woman - form the centrepiece of Heroes' Acre, the monument to Zimbabwe's fallen.Alongside them in the shade of a small tent ...Published: 11 Aug 2015 at 15:51hrs | | by Alastair Leithead I BBC
'MDC-T committing political suicide'
Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which beat President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF in elections in 2008, is now committing political suicide according to many of the party's...Published: 06 Apr 2015 at 22:46hrs | | by Peta Thornycroft
Women use violence, dirty tactics in outdoing each other - Study
A RECENT study by local thinktank, Research and Advocacy Unit and the Women's Trust, has revealed that some female political candidates violently fought their female counterparts during the 2013 elec...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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