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$1 000 fine for not wearing face mask
THE government has doubled the fine for not wearing a face mask or breaching Covid-19 restrictions to $1 000 from the previous $500.Maximum fines for criminal offences have been doubled to cop...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:53hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Fifa demand Mamutse reinstatement
WORLD football governing body Fifa have demanded the reinstatement of Zifa general-secretary Joseph Mamutse, who was suspended by the Sports Recreation Commission (SRC).Fifa observed that the ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:25hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Chief pleads for soldiers to enforce lockdown
A TRADITIONAL leader in Insiza, Matabeleland South, Chief Sibasa born Bekezela Sibanda yesterday implored the government to deploy soldiers to his area to enforce the lockdown and curfew.The c...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:35hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
UK, US, EU wants Mnangagwa to probe 2019 killings
THE United States (US) yesterday said Harare should investigate and bring to book the perpetrators of the January 2019 killings, where soldiers and the police allegedly shot and killed at least 23 peo...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:03hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told release Chin'ono, Mahere, Sikhala
AMNESTY International has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration immediately and unconditionally releases incarcerated opposition leaders, MDC Alliance vice-chairman, Job Sikhala ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:02hrs | 3659 | by Staff reporter
Govt explains low Covid-19 recovery rate
THE surge in new Covid-19 cases has put pressure on resources, resulting in delays in contact tracing and recording of newly recovered cases, leading to a sharp decline in the country's recovery rate....Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 08:12hrs | 541 | by Staff Reporter
Draft Constitution of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi
Greetings to all! Below I present to you the Draft Constitution (Part 1 and Part 2 consisting of 47 Articles) of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi. The Full Draft Constitutio...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:49hrs | 2155 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Zimbabwe regime brutal repression of dissent creating more liberation heroes than Smith's Rhodesia
As the nation mourns the sad passing away, yesterday 15 January 2020, of one of the pioneer founding nationalist leaders of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle against colonial rule and oppression, Morton ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:33hrs | 608 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
EMA urged to get tough on BCC
THE Environment Management Agency (EMA) in Bulawayo has been petitioned by a human rights organisation, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) to release its charges against the Bulawayo City ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:19hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime getting taste of own medicine, and shouldn't mourn about US 'hypocritical' bullying
If ever there were profound lessons life has taught me, these are that, 'we reap what we sow', 'what goes around, eventually comes around', and that 'poetic justice' is never far away from those who b...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 982 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Drop charges against Chin'ono, Mahere and Sikhala, demands Amnesty International
Amnesty International has called on the Zimbabwean government to drop "malicious" charges against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition MDC Alliance officials Fadzayi Mahere and Job Sikhala....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
The UK Parliament trampled on Rushwaya's human rights
Ms Henrietta Rushwaya is alleged to have attempted to smuggle gold out of Zimbabwe, late last year. She was arrested at Robert Mugabe airport. From what one has read so far, she has since been charged...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:31hrs | 1989 | by Njabulo
Why Zimbabwe needs judiciary reforms to be open for business
THE Zimbabwean Constitution enshrines the principle of separation of powers among three distinct arms of government, which are the executive, consisting of the President and Cabinet, the legislature, ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:52hrs | 631 | by Mirian Mangwaya
10 000 arrested for mask violations in one week
NEARLY 10 000 people have been arrested countrywide for not wearing face masks and more than 16 000 were arrested for flouting lockdown regulations within a week. Government has expressed conc...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa dares Zanu-PF
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has waded into a potentially explosive diplomatic tiff between Zanu-PF and the ANC over threats by Zanu-PF to "leak a bombshell" that would expose and embarrass...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:13hrs | 5159 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers under siege, claims Global Report
ZIMBABWE has been red-flagged as one of the world's 10 worst countries regarding workers' welfare.Violations of workers' rights, including abductions and other forms of violence and threats of...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:12hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala, Chin'ono charged under non-existent falsehoods law'
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala was arrested Saturday and charged with publishing falsehoods and promoting public violence the same charges laid against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono after th...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has no strategy beyond lockdown
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has no comprehensive Covid-19 plan beyond the strict 30-day lockdown triggered by a recent spike in cases, spelling trouble in the health sector for his broke...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:38hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group blasts Chiwenga's 'elitist' lockdown measures
BULAWAYO pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu says the current Covid-19 lockdown measures recently announced will not achieve desired results because of government's elitist approach to the situation....Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:41hrs | 1256 | by Staff reporter
Trump dents US democracy claims, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday called for order in the United States following the chaos unleashed on Washington by pro-Donald Trump supporters, who do not want to accept Joe Biden's electoral...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
US election 'fraud' protests - 4 shot dead
Four people died and 52 were arrested, Washington DC's police chief said, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday to stop Congress from certifying president-elec...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 10:36hrs | 2634 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF, police leading human rights violators'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have been ranked top in the violation of human rights which occurred in December last year, latest findings by the Zimbabwe Peace Projec...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:29hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Trump blocked by Twitter and Facebook
Donald Trump has been suspended from Twitter and Facebook after tweeting to supporters who attacked the US Capitol.In a social media message to protesters he said "I love you" before telling t...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:09hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora bringing a new brand of opposition politics
THE country's main opposition party, the MDC, recently held a chaotic extraordinary congress that elected Douglas Mwonzora as the new president. Mwonzora has pledged to work with President Emm...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:20hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
Thumbs up for the lockdown, but.....
WHAT a low-spirited start to the New Year it has been. All the dark episodes of 2020, with all the grief and death seem to have spilled to 2021 with COVID-19 arguably the worst nightmare.This ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:27hrs | 790 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi New Year message
New Year Greetings to all!As we leave the year 2020 behind and begin a new year journey in our struggle for freedom in Mthwakazi, it is important to reflect and highlight the obstacles that we...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:39hrs | 949 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 201 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Fighting HIV and AIDS in times of COVID-19
The World AIDS Day is marked every on 1st December every year to raise awareness about the disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the UN entity tasked with fighting HIV in...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:37hrs | 769 | by Zipporah Musau
Chamisa's recalled MPs relish over Khupe's political woes
FORMER MDC Alliance female MPs who were recalled from Parliament by embattled ex-MDC-T interim president, Thokozani Khupe are celebrating over the former deputy prime minister's current political woes...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | 6805 | by Staff reporter
2020: A not so rosy year for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents say that the year 2020 must be quickly forgotten as they experienced several misfortunes that include incessant water shortages, and other threats the city such as being declared a ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:04hrs | 103 | by Nqobani Ndlovu
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to stop violence
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop violence in the country, arbitrary arrests, abductions and torture of civilians under his watch as suc...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:25hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
'Greatest curse in Matabeleland is voting for Zanu-PF'
The greatest curse in Matabeleland is victims of the Gukurahundi atrocities who continue to vote for Zanu-PF despite its history of violence, said Bulawayo based political commentator and activist, Ef...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 18:34hrs | 947 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must fulfil promises for sanctions to go,' says sanctions denialist UK
THE BRITISH government has reiterated its readiness to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration if they fulfil their promises of reform that were made when the late former president...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 18:31hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's deepening human rights crisis under the cover of lockdown
The outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa has exerted social, economic, political, health and environmental challenges on a continent that was already on its knees.These challenges thus pose a...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 92 | by Sitabile Dewa
Zapu criticises government over Gukurahundi
THE opposition Zapu has criticised government and the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) for failure to consider the1980s Gukurahundi victims emotions inconducting research on the...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Justice Hungwe entangled in messy Lesotho 'sham trial'
SEVERAL high-profile trials of Lesotho politicians, serving and former members of the country's security agencies are in limbo as lawyers representing murder and treason-accused former army commander ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1740 | by Staff reporter
Ritual and superstition - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
The sight of an opposition MP grovelling on the floor of parliament before the Finance Minister to thank him for women's sanitary pads is about as stupefying as South Africa's Chief Justice Mogeong Mo...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 22:54hrs | 757 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
ZAPU statement on NPRC's purported research program on conflict in Zimbabwe
Following their recently rolled out program on the so called research on pre colonial, colonial and post colonial conflict periods, and also following ZAPU and NPRC meeting in Bulawayo on 11 December ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:34hrs | 470 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'COVID-19 lockdown increased human rights abuses'
HUMAN rights groups yesterday said Zimbabwe witnessed severe increased violations of people's rights this year due to the COVID-19-induced lockdown and pleaded with government to end the use of State ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Flash floods wreak havoc in Bulawayo
A HUMAN rights group has urged authorities in Bulawayo to immediately activate disaster response mechanisms as flash floods continue to pound parts of the city, destroying infrastructure and property....Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF orders DCC poll re-runs in some districts
ZANU-PF will descend heavily on party members found to have had a hand in the chaotic scenes which marred its weekend district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections.The former liberation mov...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 19:24hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tracks chaos mongers
ZANU-PF will descend heavily on party members found to have had a hand in the chaotic scenes which marred its weekend district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections.The former liberation mov...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:58hrs | 909 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks govt's pfumvudza programme
GOVERNMENT'S input scheme, pfumvudza has brought its own package of rights violations in the country's provinces with the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) claiming the process was being managed along part...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
US Embassy under fire over Biti defence remarks
THE United States has come under renewed criticism for its interference in Zimbabwe's domestic affairs following the arrest of a senior opposition politician on allegations of assaulting a woman. ...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1324 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's difficult path to healing
ASS graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe.The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.The trauma persists even in t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:23hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
State media must desist from fuelling persecution of CSOs
On December 1, 2020, The Herald carried a story headlined "NGOs in MDC-A funding scandal", which insinuated, without solid facts, that civic society organisations from Masvingo had funded an MDC-Allia...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:06hrs | 53 | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Gatherings limit revised to 100 after Mutsvangwa party
The maximum limit at any gathering, regardless of what it is for, has now been set at 100, and restaurants can now stay open until 8pm, as Government continues to open society and the economy while ma...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | 4836 | by Staff reporter
Bill targeting security agents gazetted
The Government yesterday gazetted the Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission Bill that paves way for a mechanism allowing the public to lodge complains against members of the security services. ...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3826 | by Staff reporter
Masarira pays tribute to International day against GBV
Linda Masarira, leader of what is soon to become the fourth renowned political party, Labour Economists and Afrikan Democrats (LEAD) has today joined the world in commemorating the International day a...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 15:54hrs | 869 | by Daniel Itai
New US envoy to UN good news for HRDs, claims Coltart
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance treasurer-general David Coltart yesterday welcomed the appointment of United States human rights defender and career diplomat Linda ThomasGreenfield as US ambassador to the Uni...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:43hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
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