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Chinese miner pegs whole village
VILLAGERS in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, are up in arms against a Chinese company, Heijin Mining, whose black granite mining claim covers the entire village.This was revealed in a lette...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Anti-govt protest cases crumble
NINE Harare and Chegutu residents have been set free after being hauled before the courts on charges of committing public violence for allegedly participating in last year's anti-government demonstrat...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 13:19hrs | 1047 | by Stephen Jakes
'It's wrong for Chinese miner to evict villagers'
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has described the planned eviction of Kaseke villagers in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, by a Chinese mining company as illegal.Heijin Mining C...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:29hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Zupco monopoly challenge still to be heard
APPLICANTS who challenged the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) monopoly are riled that the matter is still to be set down six months after the High Court was ordered to readmit it.In...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR seeks release of refugees arbitrarily detained in prison
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has asked Chief Immigration Officer Respect Gono to cause the release of some refugees, who were rounded up from Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge by some Zim...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 15:13hrs | 368 | by Stephen Jakes
Exposing Zimbabwe axis of evil
AHEAD of President Mnangagwa's visit to the United Kingdom, the country's detractors disguised as Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have upped the anti-Government ante as they seek to besmirch the Se...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
G40, MDC Alliance exposed in war vets' arrests
THE chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Chris Mutsvangwa yesterday poured cold water on the latest attempts to divide war veterans by some G40 elements an...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:52hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
School in trouble over seized 'O', 'A' Level results
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has taken authorities at Fatima High School, Matabeleland North, to task for withholding Ordinary Level and Advanced Level examination results for two stud...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR rescues widow facing eviction for turning down sexual demands
MUTASA Magistrate Artwell Sanyatwe has ordered a man in Honde Valley in Manicaland province to stop evicting and assaulting a widow as punishment for turning down his sexual demands.Magistrate...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 20:56hrs | 895 | by Staff Reporter
Award winning poet drags Kazembe Kasembe, Matanga to court over police brutality
AWARD winning Victoria Falls based poet Obert Dube is suing Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, Police Commissioner General and five police officers who assaulted him for loitering in January...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt ropes in traditional chiefs to promote Chinese project
GOVERNMENT has roped in traditional leaders to convince reluctant villagers to agree to be evicted when a carbon steel project undertaken by a Chinese investor in the Chirumanzu area of the Midlands p...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:37hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
UBH petitioned to reinstate suspended trainee nurse
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have petitioned United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to reinstate a trainee nurse who was suspended after a pregnancy test returned a "positive" result....Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:43hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
'Villagers displaced by diamond mines should fight for their rights'
A legal expert with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has urged communities in resource rich areas where they are sometimes displaced from, to actively defend their basic rights. Speaking duri...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe ordered to pay $175 000 to assault victim
HOME Affairs minister Kezembe Kazembe and Police commissioner General Godwin Matanga have been ordered by Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba, to pay $175, 000 damages to Lilian Chinyerere who was unl...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:11hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance & Civic Society Organisations in caucus for Gays & Lesbians Law
As the nation is experiencing vast socio-economic reforms since the inception of the New Dispensation, the MDC Alliance have chosen to join the train by amending the Constitution to incorporate same s...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1185 | by Shelton Muchena
Police dither on dispersing Mapostori
MEMBERS of the Johane Marange apostolic sect remain gathered in their thousands for their annual festival in Bocha, Marange in Manicaland province, with the police maintaining they are unaware of the ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:39hrs | 1461 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Mapostori pilgrimage
LAW enforcement agents have come under fire for alleged selective application of the law after allowing thousands of Johane Marange followers to hold their annual pilgrimage at Mafararikwa village in ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:10hrs | 1168 | by Staff reporter
'Rights' groups Report Mnangagwa to UN
HUMAN rights organisations have reported President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) for overseeing worsening gross human rights violations in the country....Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:53hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Matanga ordered to pay US$10 000 for police brutality
A HARARE magistrate has ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to pay more than US$10 000 to a couple that was roughed up by law enforcement agent...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:29hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Matanga ordered to pay US$10K for police brutality
A HARARE magistrate has ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to pay more than US$10 000 to a couple that was roughed up by law enforcement agent...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 14:12hrs | 1119 | by Staff Reporter
Govt given 7-day ultimatum over IDs backlog
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers of Human Rights (ZLHR) has given the acting Registrar-General Henry Machiri a seven-day ultimatum to provide a plan on how his department will clear a backlog on national identity...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:19hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
USAID withdraws funding to four CSOs... and demand leadership renewal to replace looters of funds
The United States through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has reportedly blacklisted and withdrew funding to four Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) after investigations ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 19:14hrs | 3958 | by Political Reporter
Police shooting victim awarded US$7,000 in restitution by High Court
A taxi driver who was shot by a trigger-happy cop has been awarded US$7,000 in damages by the High Court after suing home affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police commissioner-general Godwin Matang...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:25hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo resident sues police, minister over lockdown brutality
A BULAWAYO woman who was brutally assaulted by a police officer last year is demanding $3 million from Zimbabwe Republic Po-lice (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs and Cultural...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:53hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
MDC's Madzokere abandoned by wife
FREED MDC activist Tungamirai Madzokere carried a broken figure as he narrated how he only got to know his wife had abandoned their matrimonial home eight months ago.Dejected and seemingly out...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | 4581 | by Staff reporter
Hwange radio takes Baz to court over licence
A HWANGE community radio initiative has dragged the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) to the Administrative Court challenging its decision to deny it a licence in the wildlife and coal rich-dis...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | 261 | by Staff report
Coltart demands $12,5m for unlawful arrest
HUMAN rights lawyer Douglas Coltart has sued Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga for $12,5 million over his unlawful arrest.Coltart was arreste...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:52hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Malaba fallout: Ziyambi fingers EU, US
USTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday sensationally claimed that the European Union (EU) and the United States were pouring millions of dollars to destabilise the country by sponsoring non-governm...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:52hrs | 7151 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt to decide on Chegutu vote-swapping case
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) will today make a determination on an application by MDC Alliance candidate Gift Konjana, who is seeking leave to appeal against a Supreme Court judgment which rule...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2262 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Kazembe, Matanga evade jail
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube, Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, and the Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have evaded imprisonment after compensating Loveness Chiriseri, a victim of a p...Published: 08 May 2021 at 20:00hrs | 2264 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe bail appeal judgement reserved
HIGH Court judge, Justice Webster Chinamhora Monday reserved judgment on the appeal filed by MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe who was sentenced to 14 months for inciting public violence....Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:40hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Trial of Zanu-PF activist who 'incited' Chiwenga to topple Mnangagwa falters
The trial of a Zanu-PF activist accused of circulating messages instigating vice president Constantino Chiwenga to stage a coup against President Emmerson Mnangagwa suffered a false start on Monday af...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:40hrs | 2867 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono wins court battle, but not the war
Zimbabwe journalist and documentary filmmaker Hopewell Chin'ono was vindicated by a court ruling this week, but he has two further cases hanging over his head.After the court ruling by High Co...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:14hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
High Court hears fresh bail appeal by Mamombe, Chimbiri
A High Court judge will on Wednesday hear a fresh bail application by Harare West MP Joana Mamombe and fellow opposition MDC Alliance activist Cecilia Chimbiri.The two have been locked up at C...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | 1732 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance youth leader arrested
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance Youth Assembly chairperson, Obey Tererai Sithole was arrested this Monday at the Harare Magistrates Court on allegations of criminal nuisance.Sithole who had gone to co...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 20:30hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Police brutalise MDC Alliance activists
Two MDC Alliance activists were badly tortured by police in Harare following their arrest while attending a court appearance by the party's vice-chairperson Job Sikhala last week.Lengwani Mavh...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:01hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance councillor arrested for organizing football tourney
MDC Alliance Councillor for Ward 33, Bernard Chimwango was recently arrested for allegedly organizing a football tournament sometime in March, contravening the set Covid-19 regulations which prohibit ...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:17hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Petition launched against reintroduction of 'green bombers'
ZIMBABWEANS have started an online petition against government's planned reintroduction of the controversial National Youth Service Training Programme in the country.This comes after governmen...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Opposition offenders are no special citizens
Following the recent sentencing of MDC Alliance activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe to an effective 14 months in prison for inciting public violence, there were mixed reactions from across the political...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 11:46hrs | 1173 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Rights 'defenders' press for PWDs social inclusion
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) and the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have called on institutions to ensure that people with disabilities (PWDs) are included in different programmes in ord...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:45hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe faces up to 20 years in jail after double conviction
MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe faces a possible 20-year-jail sentence after he was convicted of inciting public violence and resisting police arrest on Wednesday, his lawyer said....Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 18:50hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Govt coaxes Hwange villagers to accept Chinese miners
GOVERNMENT has today sent a high-powered delegation to Hwange in a bid to coax Dinde villagers to allow a Chinese coal mining project to take off after they had resisted it citing eviction fears....Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:10hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over teacher deployments
OPPOSITION legislator Anele Ndebele has blamed poor teacher deployments for the low pass rate registered by Matabeleland schools as government fails to provide a convincing answer over last year's dis...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
MDC activists sue police over nude pictures
HARARE West MP Joanah Mamombe and youth leader, Cecilia Chimbiri have slapped the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) with a $15 million lawsuit for circulating their nude pictures last year.Mamomb...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2333 | by Staff reporter
Ngadziore denied bail, colleague freed
STUDENT activist Takudzwa Ngadziore was Thursday denied bail while his co-accused Tapiwanashe Chiriga was freed on $5 000 bail.The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) confirmed the develo...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Hwange MP wades into villagers' land dispute
HWANGE Central legislator Daniel Molokele (MDC Alliance) has waded into a land dispute between a Chinese coal-mining firm and Dinde villagers who face eviction to pave way for the former to kick-start...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
Govt stifling NGOs democratic space: Lawyers
HUMAN rights lawyers have criticised government for closing democratic space in the county to stifle the free operation of non-governmental organisations (NGOs).In a statement to mark the Inte...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:56hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga distances govt from vaccine controversy
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has backtracked on its intention to file a lawsuit against the government after Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga distanced himself from a recent stateme...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:02hrs | 3485 | by Staff reporter
Trials before vaccination, demands Rights lawyers
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) wants government to conduct clinical trials of the Sinopharm vaccine and other Covid-19 drugs before administering the jabs on the population.Howev...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Villagers resist Chinese mining project
HUNDREDS of villagers in the Dinde area, Hwange district in Matabeleland North are living in fear of eviction from their ancestral land to pave way for a Chinese coal-mining project.This has a...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | 947 | by Arthur GO Mutambara
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