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Govt implored to ratify African laws on democracy
HUMAN rights lawyers have implored government to ratify and domesticate provisions of the African Charter that deals with democracy, elections and good governance in order to end the trauma of dispute...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:17hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR happy over Masvingo council efforts to deliver water to residents
Zimbabwe Lawyers for human Rights have expressed happiness that Masvingo City Council (MCC) begun supplying water to residents at some designated collection points.This was after a residents a...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | 152 | by Stephen Jakes
Mudede sued for blacklisting Violet Gonda
HUMAN rights lawyers have taken Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede to the High Court, seeking an order compelling him to remove travel restrictions imposed on freelance journalist Violet Gonda, who...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Violet Gonda denied Zimbabwe passport by Mnangagwa's govt
JOURNALIST Violet Gonda has been refused a Zimbabwean passport by registrar general Tobaiwa Mudede because she was apparently blacklisted by the government, NewZimbabwe.com reported.She is bel...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 12:28hrs | 5359 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court sets free opposition legislator charged with public violence
A ZIMBABWEAN court has set free an opposition legislator who had been arrested for allegedly inciting his MDC Alliance party supporters to commit public violence ahead of the harmonised elections held...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:48hrs | 5534 | by ZLHR
Third term opens as Nation transit from fear to acceptance
The hullabaloo of the inconsequential routine rituals of elections is now over. The political elites find themselves on different polar ends, the citizens are petrified and are slowly accepting the ne...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 769 | by ARTUZ
Mnangagwa critic arrested, charged over Facebook comments
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have arrested Munyaradzi Shoko, the leader of the Children of Zimbabwe War Veterans' Association (Cozwa), a known critic of President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa and charged him wi...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 07:21hrs | 22486 | by Stephen Jakes
Violence returns
It is a silent, sunny afternoon in Chihwayi village, located on an expansive swampy terrain that is surrounded by mountains, more than 20km from Mutoko business centre.Amid the scattered homestead...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 16:10hrs | 2723 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's poll agent arrested
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa's co-chief election agent, Morgen Komichi, has been arrested on charges of violating the country's electoral laws after he allegedly interrupted the 2018 harmonised...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC Alliance official charged over Zim 'fake' election results
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have charged Morgen Komichi, the National Chairperson of the MDC Alliance party with violating the country's electoral laws after he allegedly interrupted the 2018 harmonised el...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 13:53hrs | 5825 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim court hears opposition legislator's challenge of electoral fraud
HIGH Court Judge Justice Mary Zimba-Dube will on Friday 17 August 2018 preside over the hearing and determination of a petition filed in the Electoral Court by a losing MDC Alliance party's parliament...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 10:29hrs | 3112 | by Stephen Jakes
Police quiz Chamisa ally over August 1 violence
POLICE yesterday invited Budiriro MDC Alliance MP-elect Costa Machingauta for questioning in connection with the violence that rocked Harare on August 1.His lawyer Tarisai Mutangi of the Zimba...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurse suspended for criticising Mnangagwa party on social media
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have suspended a nurse from employment after she allegedly criticised the ruling ZANU PF party for authoring the country's agonising economic and political crisis.In a l...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 15:44hrs | 14040 | by Stephen Jakes
Biti detained at Harare Central Police Station
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have managed to track down Tendai Biti, one of the leaders of the MDC Alliance party and finally located him at CID Law and Order Section at Harare Central Pol...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 13:45hrs | 6470 | by Stephen Jakes
BREAKING: Biti arrested, to spend weekend in remand?
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has confirmed that Tendai Biti has been arrested and is now in police custody.Zimbabwe Republic Police national spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Cha...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 13:44hrs | 4217 | by Staff reporter
UZ student challenges exam re-write
A UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) social sciences student has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to interdict the institution from conducting a re-write of an examination which the institution all...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:36hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's protesters get $50 bail each
A group of opposition activists who were arrested and charged with inciting public violence last week have been released on bail by Harare Magistrates Court, say Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights....Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 12:24hrs | 2208 | by BBC
ZLHR denies contacted details circulating on social media
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) wishes to distance itself from a message circulated on social media platforms indicating +263 772 232 046 as the mobile phone number to contact the organisatio...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:42hrs | 331 | by ZLHR
MDC withdraws search warrant challenge
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has withdrawn an urgent chamber application which it had filed at the High Court challenging the warrant of search obtained by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) wi...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:29hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
UK, US express concern over Zimbabwe chaos
Britain's Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin yesterday said she was "deeply concerned" about the deadly violence in Harare which claimed six lives on Wednesday and called on political leaders to ens...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1193 | by Staff reporter
Masarira lashes at Biti, Ncube warns Chamisa
In a Twitter posted by, MDC spokesperson Linda Masarira, she lashed at MDC Alliance principal, Tendai Biti, for inciting violence.Said Masarira: "I am saddened by the violence that erupted tod...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | 6322 | by Mafu Sithabile
ZLHR calls for peace and respect of human rights
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is greatly concerned, by disturbing events that unfolded in Harare this afternoon during a protest by unarmed civilians in Harare following the announcement of...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:58hrs | 532 | by Stephen Jakes
High court orders Zec To Allow Teachers, Civil Servants To Vote
Harare High Court judge Justice Isaac Muzenda has reportedly ordered the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to ensure that all teachers and other civil servants who will be serving as election officers on ...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 13:52hrs | 2447 | by Nomusa Garikai
Electoral court hears urgent application as candidates protest over intimidation and ZEC conduct
THE Electoral Court will today preside over the hearing and determination of three urgent chamber applications filed by aspiring opposition legislators seeking to interdict some ZANU PF party supporte...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 12:02hrs | 2686 | by Staff Reporter
ZEC told to relocate polling station in 24hrs
A LOCAL human rights group has given the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) a 24-hour ultimatum to relocate its polling station at the Dzivarasekwa Presidential Guard Barracks in Harare to a reasonab...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 08:00hrs | 1776 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF taken to court
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) says it is in working on a High Court Chamber application challenging the sending of mobile phone text messages to individuals by political parties canvass...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:11hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Rights lawyers weigh in on ARTUZ ZEC petition
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, ZLHR on Friday wrote to the Zimbabwe Election Commission, ZEC as a follow up to the letter written by Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ seeking to...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 18:39hrs | 1069 | by ARTUZ
Chigumba scuppers Chamisa's chances
THE MDC Alliance yesterday raised a red flag over a litany of electoral irregularities which it claimed were part of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s choreographed scheme to scupper coalition...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | 3515 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR in solidarity with torture victims
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said it stands in solidarity with all victims and survivors of torture and calls on the government to take measures to ensure that all victims and survivor...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 09:37hrs | 326 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe cannot afford another charade
The African Union [AU] Observer Mission to Zimbabwe's 2013 harmonised elections in its final report recommended that "the integrity of the voters roll must be assured through greater transparency, acc...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 20:50hrs | 589 | by crisis in zimbabwe coalition
Madhuku sues Zec over voters' roll
THE Lovemore Madhuku-led opposition National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) on Wednesday petitioned the court seeking an order compelling the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to avail a copy of the ...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2762 | by Staff reporter
NCA demands voters' roll, wary of prejudice ahead of nomination court sitting
On Wednesday Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) filed an urgent chamber application in the High Court seeking an order compelling the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to furnish the National ...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 13:14hrs | 756 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa 'employs' underfire prison officer
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa (pictured) has promised to employ in his security department a Chiredzi prison officer who was charged and is set to appear before an internal tribun...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:58hrs | 3071 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire sues police for unlawful arrest, detention
#THISFLAG campaign leader, Evan Mawarire has filed a $65 000 lawsuit against the Zimbabwe Republic Police for unlawful arrest and detention at the height of his anti-government protests last year....Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T and the American connection
IN my last submission, I touched on a crucial player in the regime change agenda - the Zimbabwe Democracy Trust (ZDT) - and hinted they were a story for another day. The Trust was set up...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 15:55hrs | 1708 | by Tafadzwa Masango
CSOs play critical role in UPR process
National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (NANGO), Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) on 31 May and 1 June 2018 capacitated 80 representatives fr...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 08:17hrs | 245 | by Staff Reporter
Chief contests in Zanu-PF primaries
A CHIEF in Mashonaland Central is in the eye of a storm after he allegedly contested the recent Zanu-PF primary elections at a time traditional leaders are increasingly under pressure to stop being pa...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:49hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zimbabweans in diaspora cannot vote from abroad
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) today ruled that the Zimbabwean diaspora cannot vote from abroad.The Court had reserved judgment in a matter in which three Zimbabweans living in the Diaspo...Published: 30 May 2018 at 10:17hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer in soup for 'praising' Chamisa
A PRISON officer based in Chiredzi has been summoned to appear before the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services internal disciplinary hearing after he allegedly heaped praises on main opposition ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2292 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer arrested for allegedly undermining the authority of Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have charged a 36 year-old man for allegedly undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa through posting some political comments on social media.The Zimbabwe Prisons and Co...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:01hrs | 3937 | by Byo24News Reporter
ZLHR challenges govt to implement the new constitution
ON the occasion of the 5th Anniversary of coming into force of the Zimbabwe Constitution, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) calls on the government to implement all provisions of the Constituti...Published: 23 May 2018 at 09:28hrs | 420 | by Stephen Jakes
Visually impaired potential voters drag Zec to court demanding printing of ballot papers in braille
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to print ballot papers in a manner accessible to some visually...Published: 17 May 2018 at 09:39hrs | 771 | by Stephen Jakes
Cops cost council
Chitungwiza Municipality has accepted culpability for the death of a newborn baby at council premises after its parents were detained by overzealous municipal police over a traffic offence.The...Published: 10 May 2018 at 06:54hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
'I was taught by Joshua Nkomo to be humble'
PRESS STATEMENT BY FELIX MAGAGELA MAFA SIBANDA ON THE RECENT POSTS ON MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, PETITIONS AND POSTERS ADVOCATING THAT HE BE MADE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE MDC-T...Published: 04 May 2018 at 09:18hrs | 2541 | by Felix Magagela Mafa Sibanda
Human rights lawyers call for reform of media laws ahead of elections
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) joins the rest of the world in marking World Press Freedom Day and reiterates the obligation of government to align media laws to the Constitution ahead of gen...Published: 04 May 2018 at 09:15hrs | 433 | by ZLHR
ZLHR join workers in celebrating their day
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has joined the workers of Zimbabwe in marking International Workers Day on 1 May 2018.ZLHR said it salutes all courageous working women and men who hav...Published: 01 May 2018 at 09:31hrs | 348 | by Stephen Jakes
ZLHR laments over military take over in Zimbabwe
The Honourable Chairperson, Honourable Commissioners, state delegates, ladies and gentleman, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) presents this statement on the occasion of the 62nd Ordinary sessi...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 16:42hrs | 1784 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe nurses withdraw court challenge of purported dismissal
ZIMBABWE Nurses Association has withdrawn its application challenging the termination of employment contracts for some striking nurses employed at state-run hospitals.In a notice of withdrawal...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 13:11hrs | 4299 | by Stephen Jakes
Chiwenga fails to issue termination letters to nurses
The Health Services Board (HSB), which is the appointing authority of practitioners in the public health system, has so far failed to issue termination letters to thousands of nurses relieved of their...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 14:33hrs | 4883 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe prisons used as slaughter houses for Ndebele people'
MLO President, Cde Paul Siwela saw brutality and agony caused by fractured bones, broken limbs and untreated festering gun shot wounds when he was detained at Khami Maximum Security Prison from 2011 t...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 13:53hrs | 3993 | by Israel Dube
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