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Zimbabwe claims strides in civil, political reforms
Zimbabwe has made significant strides in enhancing civil and political rights, with key legislative reforms aligning national laws with the Constitution, according to the country’s Deputy Minister o...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 11:22hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not obligated to accede to international conventions'
The High Court has ruled that there is no legal requirement compelling President Emmerson Mnangagwa to accede to international conventions, following an application by lawyer and activist Obey Shava s...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:35hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
China opposes coercive measures against developing countries
China on Tuesday represented 28 Global South countries and delivered a joint statement at the United Nations opposing unilateral coercive measures and urging countries imposing them to "immediately an...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 15:52hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Asking Hichilema to honour campaign promises is now an offence in Zambia
This is Jason Mwanza (see image attached), a 28-year-old unemployed youth activist in Zambia. He has been in police detention without charge for almost two weeks now. His offence? Conducting a peacefu...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 17:02hrs | 1637 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Kazembe taunts jailed activists, defends clampdown on dissent
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe has subtly criticized Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa regarding the ongoing detention of pro-democracy activists and opposition supporters. Mutsvangw...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:49hrs | 296 | by Staff reporterq
Mnangagwa crackdown shows no signs of abetting
The Zimbabwe government's crackdown on critics ahead of Saturday's SADC summit showed no signs of abetting as more than a dozen activists were detained on Thursday and Friday, lawyers said.The...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 17:00hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tells UN 'experts' that respect for sovereignty is paramount
Zimbabwe has dismissed a call from United Nations experts to release several activists recently arrested and detained by authorities.On August 15, UN experts, including Special Rapporteur on t...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 16:03hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala not in exile
Opposition politician Job Sikhala has denied rumors of being in exile and announced his intention to return to Zimbabwe once cleared by his medical team, despite state threats of arrest. Sikhala left ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 11:21hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe CIO's business network
Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) likely has a secret stream of money, The Sentry has found. Publicly availa...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 17:53hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala delivers emotional testimony at UN summit
Opposition politician Job Sikhala addressed a United Nations Human Rights and Democracy Summit in Geneva, stating that his arrest exemplified the closure of democratic space in Zimbabwe.Sikhal...Published: 18 May 2024 at 11:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's Patriot Bill' threatens rights, freedoms, UK one is fine?
THE international community has criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa for signing the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Bill into law.The Bill, commonly known as the Patriot B...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mahere's Geneva presentation rattles Zanu-PF
MAIN opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere's presentation at the high-profile Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy in Switzerland, which laid bare the cou...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Civil, political rights of refugees in South Africa
IN January 2020, South Africa's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced the introduction of new regulations which could have significant implications for engagement in any political activity ...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:51hrs | 16 | by Mary-Anne Mutero
Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masina Mandlenkosi to death in 2002 and he was executed...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudenda rejects opposition legislators' PVOs Bill plea
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has rejected calls by opposition legislators to recommit the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill to the Committee Reading Stage after c...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt justifies clampdown on 'regime change' NGOs
GOVERNMENT has justified its decision to clamp down on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Council meeting, alleging that the organisations were plotting t...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
UN doubts Zimbabwe Peace Commission's capacity to resolve Gukurahundi
THE UNITED Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has poked holes into the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), questioning its ability to resolve the long-standing and highly emotive...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa guns for NGOs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared war on non-governmental organisations (NGOs), accusing them of being appendages of foreign powers and diplomats seeking to effect regime change.In his...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Russia hits back at US
RUSSIA has allayed fears its ongoing onslaught on Ukraine will plunge the world into acute commodity shortages due to delays in shipments as a result of the conflict, the Zimbabwe Independent has repo...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
US threatens Zimbabwe over Russian ties
AS Africa reels from the catastrophic effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine marked by acute food and commodity shortages, the United States (US) has issued a stark warning of the prolonged consequen...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's child marriage shocker
NEARLY 34 percent of girls under the age of 18 are married countrywide, a statistic that has shocked the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC).The commission said it was concerned about the surge i...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells diplomats to project true Zimbabwe story
Diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe should not undermine peace prevailing in the country through projecting false narratives, but must tell the true Zimbabwean story, President Mnangagwa has said....Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exiled CCC activist seeks virtual trial
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Netsai Marova, who is believed to have skipped the border, has requested Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to set up a virtual court trial after a Harare m...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, break these chains
ONE of Zanu-PF's defining traits is impunity - accentuated by the party leaders' utter disdain for the rule of law and constitutionalism.The primitive arrogance is on display everywhere. Someo...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:34hrs | 3 | by Brezh Malaba
Zimbabwe makes progress in human rights reforms
ZIMBABWE has made tremendous progress in the implementation of various reforms that seek to strengthen and protect citizens' rights.On Wednesday the United Nations Human Rights Council's Unive...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
UN red-flags Zimbabwe on human rights
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration was found wanting by United Nations (UN) member States on human rights violations, with enactment of draconian legislation to curtail freedoms coming unde...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's human rights record under spotlight
GOVERNMENT has failed to implement recommendations of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Report, amid deteriorating human rights as well as closure of civic space in the country, rights groups...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
20 years of ruinous sanctions
The unilateral sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West in the last 20 years have, among others, adversely affected the country's ability to boost its manufacturing sector, build health and education...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's mustn't greenwash his govt's crimes
SINCE becoming President in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly paid lip service to calls for democratic reform, did little to further human rights and democratic freedoms in the co...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:30hrs | 14 | by Tafi Mhaka
The Hypocrisy Of Mnangagwa
SINCE becoming the president of Zimbabwe in November 2017, despite repeatedly paying lip service to calls for democratic reform, Emmerson Mnangagwa did little to further human rights and democratic fr...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Breakthrough as Zimbabwe pastors meet Anglican leader over sanctions
A delegation of Zimbabwean clerics organized as the Zimbabwe churches' sanctions relief initiative (ZICSRI) on Monday held a meeting with Anglican's global leader met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jus...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 19:54hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe not obliged to please the West
Zimbabwe is not obliged to satisfy the requirements imposed by the United States and other countries as conditions set to remove sanctions because the sanctions were illegal from the beginning, visiti...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Youths urged to continue resisting illegal sanctions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has commended the country's citizens for resisting machinations by the country's detractors to effect regime change through the use of illegal economic sanctions imposed to alienat...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UN spotlights Zimbabwe sanctions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday met United Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Ms Alena Douhan, who is in the country to assess the impact of unilateral coercive measures imposed on the country by the Unit...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 4 | by Staff writer
UN Special Envoy arrives
The UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the US and her allies, Ms Elena Dohan, is expected in the country today on a 10-day visit.The v...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UN rapporteur visit to expose sanctions damage
THE visit next week by a United Nations special rapporteur to investigate the impact of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe will help lay bare the full extent of how the embargo is a violation of human righ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Is Zim's deafening silence on Palestinians' bombardment instructive of regime's long-standing relationship with Israel?
Ever since the relentless bombardment on the Palestinian territory of Gaza was ruthlessly unleashed by the Israeli regime on Monday 10 May 2021, I have been patiently awaiting a statement of condemnat...Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:47hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt told to 'Stop weaponising the law'
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has demanded an end to persecution of its members and blockade of its activities under the guise of enforcing COVID-19 safety regulations while Zanu-PF activities w...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN 'concerned' about Mnangagwa using COVID-19 as pretext to crack down on dissent
The United Nations Human Rights Office says it is "concerned" by a new Human Rights Watch report that says Zimbabwe's government is using the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to clamp down on freedom of...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 16:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 38 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | 5 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Mnangagwa's govt should stop abductions, torture or face music, says ex-UN boss
FORMER United Nations Human Rights Commissioner (UNHRC) on Wednesday said the Zimbabwe government should stop abductions and torture of activists or face international isolation.The former UNH...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister petitions UN agency over Gukurahundi genocide
THE United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) must step in to stop a culture of State-sponsored human rights violations as the "price of silence is huge", former National Healing minister Moses Mzil...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns Mnangagwa 'We will remain in the streets'
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that a protest called off by the police on Friday was only a "teaser", as he vowed: "We will remain in the streets....Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 19:31hrs | | by Reuters
Join Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Day on 29th June 2019
Join Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Day on 29th June 2019Location: St Martin's Church Centre, 33 Parkstone Road, Desford, LE9 9HY, Leicestershire, United KingdomTime: 12:00...Published: 27 May 2019 at 14:36hrs | | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide Memorial Commemorative Day 2019, UK
Each year the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), in partnership with stakeholders, will be organising and encouraging the organising of Matebeleland Gukurahu...Published: 04 May 2019 at 22:42hrs | 4 | by 1893 MHRRM
1893 MHRRM Launches Genocide Memorial Day Commemorative Events in the UK and South Africa
Each year the 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), in partnership with stakeholders will be organising and encouraging the organising of Matebelela...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
November 2017: Wharton is being dishonest
This month former American Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Bruce Wharton and former American Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield published an article on the Zimbabwe's 2017 transition from the old ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:53hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
UN to probe Zimbabwe rights abuses
THE United Nations Human Rights Council will dispatch special rapporteurs to Zimbabwe to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by State security agents, Parliament has heard.Appearing...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes sanctions fight to UN
GOVERNMENT has taken its campaign against illegal sanctions imposed on the country to the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) underway in Geneva, Switzerland. Addre...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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