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Mzembi's party slams govt for policy inconsistencies
THE party led by Zimbabwe former Foreign Affairs and Tourism Minister Dr. Walter Mzembi the People's Party (ZPP) has slamed Zimbabwe govermnent for policy inconsistencies after it allowed Zuva Petrole...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 2178 | by Staff reporter
Drought leaves citizens desperate to feed their families
The drought that the country is currently grappling with has made it very difficult for citizens to provide food for their families.This is contained in the Zimbabwe Peace Project latest repor...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 13:33hrs | 466 | by Stephen Jakes
Constitution amendment a reversal of the gains achieved through constitution - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.2) Bill is largely a reversal of the gains that were achieved thro...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 06:43hrs | 304 | by Stephen Jakes
Police use on opposition a clear sign of an urgent need of security sector reform
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has indicated that the trend in which the ruling government continue to use the police against the opposition political parties and dissent is a sign that there is urgent ne...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:09hrs | 313 | by Stephen Jakes
Kraal head assaulted over welfare food
A village head in Chivi was recently seriously assaulted by a fellow villager after the latter wife's names were removed from the social welfare beneficiaries list.This is revealed in the Zimb...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:07hrs | 325 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim education access stiffened - ZPP
Zimbabwe's education has been stiffened to a point where the majority population who are poor are not able to send their children to school yet government is doing nothing about it.This is rev...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:05hrs | 421 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF aligned headman assaulted by villagers over social welfare food
A Zanu PF aligned headman was recently assaulted by his subjects in Hurungwe following a dispute over social welfare food.This is revealed in the latest Zimbabwe Peace Project Report."...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 09:44hrs | 1498 | by Stephen Jakes
96 cases of harassment recorded in January 2020
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has indicated that 96 cases of harassment and intimidation were recorded in the country in January.In its latest report ZPP said harassment and intimidation recorded...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 16:03hrs | 629 | by Stephen Jakes
ZPP remembers January 2019 stay away violence
The Zimbabwe Peace Project in its latest Januiary 2020 report has remembers the January 2019 stay away which resulted to state sponsored violence that claimed 17 lives as the citizens took to the stre...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 12:17hrs | 440 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zimbabwe economy in dire straits with 521% inflation'
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the economic situation in the country remains dire at 521%.In its latest report ZPP said everything remains the same since January 2019 where the e...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 11:42hrs | 853 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa says no to food politicisation
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has given assurances there shall be no politicisation of food distribution in a country facing massive starvation due to drought.Addressing members of the diplomat...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:08hrs | 428 | by newzimbabwe
Kasukuwere speaks out
The self-exiled former Zanu-PF political commissar Savior Kasukuwere has for the first time opened up to the media since the November 2017 military takeover when he, together with other Generation 40 ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:44hrs | 11012 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF MP apologises to villagers after attempts to politicise food aid
The Zimbabwe Peace Project reported that in a unique case, an unidentified Zanu PF member apologized to villagers in Bikita East Constituency after he had attempted to politicize aid, only to be infor...Published: 13 Jan 2020 at 11:50hrs | 4474 | by Stephen Jakes
Cops demand bribes over MDC activists' party
Police officers reportedly demanded bribes from Rushinga shop owners for allowing MDC activists to hold their party at the centre.Zimbabwe Peace Projcet reported in its latest report that in a...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 09:09hrs | 2376 | by Stephen Jakes
Human rights violation decline in the country
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that human rights violation incidents have declined in the country especially for the month of December."ZPP recorded a total of 119 human rights violations...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 09:00hrs | 908 | by Stephen Jakes
Violent artisanal miners irks ZPP
Violent artisanal miners have irked the Zimbabwe Peace Project which is worried why the government is unable to stop their menace.ZPP in is latest report said the Machete wielding artisanal mi...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 11:52hrs | 1779 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF shadow councillor says MDC members are not eligible to food aid
Zanu PF shadow councillor for Umzingwane Larvet Dube is alleged to have said that the MDC members are not elligable to get food aid from government.This is revealed in the Zimbabwe Peace Proje...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 10:49hrs | 1554 | by Stephen Jakes
Police brutality riles ZPP
Police brutality has riled the human rights watchdog, Zimbabwe Peace Project which said citizens have fallen victims to the security agents who are supposed to protect them."Police brutality a...Published: 09 Jan 2020 at 07:06hrs | 1327 | by Stephen Jakes
MPs implicated in politicisation of aid
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported in its latest report that legislators have been implicated in cases of politicisation of food aid in parts of the country."In some cases, legislators were i...Published: 09 Jan 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1173 | by Stephen Jakes
ZPP blasts Patriot Newspapers over 'falsehoods'
Zimbabwe Peace project has attacked the Patriot Newspaper for what it termed publishing of falsehoods concerining the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC).In its latest report ZPP said the state...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 14:40hrs | 999 | by Stephen Jakes
Pregnant women most hard hit by health care crisis in public hospitals
Pregnant women have been cited as the most hard hit by the health care crisis in public hospitals as the doctors strikes have continued to cripple the health institutions amid revelations most expecti...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 09:10hrs | 619 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF activists force villages to attend meeting in Uzumba
The ruling Zanu PF activists in Uzumba are alleged to have forced villagers to gather at the Mutawatawa business centre recently for a party meeting without their will.Zimbabwe Peace Project r...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1030 | by Stephen Jakes
Rise in food deprivation of citizens by Zanu PF irks human rights watchdog
The increase in case of citizens being reprieved of food aid by the ruling Zanu PF has irked a local human rights watchdog, the Zimbabwe Peace Project amid serious starvation in most parts of the coun...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 09:06hrs | 276 | by Stephen Jakes
Five cops attacked by civilians in Harare
Five police officers were recently attacked and injured by civilian gang in Harare.This is contained in the Zimbabwe Peace Project latest report."On 22 November 2019, five Zimbabwe Rep...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:14hrs | 1189 | by Stephen Jakes
ZPP raps Minister Mthuli Ncube over his space satellite budget
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has rapped Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube for budgeting for space satilite at a time when majority citizens are wallowing in perpetual poverty due...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 13:55hrs | 2776 | by Stephen Jakes
Mukoko's abduction horror scare that never fades away
IT is a harrowing experience that still haunts her 11 years on. Like a horror movie, it plays back each time Jestina Mukoko hears of another abduction case.The wounds never heal, she says....Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:51hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Police need riot control training: ZPP
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has called on government to implement recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1, 2018 politically-motivated violence by ensuring police officers a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 20:44hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa government dashes citizens' hope'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has decimated the trust and hope the people had in his administration through the economic meltdown and the brutal crackdown on dissent, the Zimbabwe Peace Project has sai...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 20:51hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Details of the Tanzanian plot bared
A senior official working for the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has bared details of how the civic society organisations had planned to stage a demonstration on the sidelines of...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 16:26hrs | 4338 | by John Sigauke
13-year-old girl married off for $80 in Zimbabwe
A FAMILY from Mpopoma village under Headman Chilonga, south of Chiredzi town, which is predominantly Shangani, has set tongues wagging after marrying off their 13-year-old daughter for $80 as the area...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Politicisation of food on the increase: ZPP
POLITICISATION of food aid is on the increase countrywide, with Zanu-PF activists and war veterans being mentioned as the chief culprits, the Zimbabwe Peace Project has said in its latest report....Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe on precipice of conflict'
HUMAN rights watchdog, Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) says Zimbabwe is on the brink of conflict brought on by escalating economic problems that came after the ban of the multi-currency system.In...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Abductions, intimidation spike in Zimbabwe: ZPP
Zimbabwe has of late recorded an upsurge in incidents of abductions and intimidation of citizens by State security agents as government becomes increasingly intolerant of discontent, human rights watc...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt adopts Mugabe terror tactics, says ZPP
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has taken after former President Robert Mugabe's regime through use of abductions and torture as a means of silencing government critics, a Zimbabwe Peace...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:43hrs | 2720 | by newzimbabwe.com
Zanu-PF sidelines villagers in food distribution
Zanu-PF leadership and traditional leaders are marginalising rural dwellers in dire need of food aid by distributing handouts along partisan lines, the latest Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) report has r...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:29hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe treason trials raise fears of relapse to Mugabe years
Twenty people have been charged with treason since the beginning of the year, prompting critics to draw parallels between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule with that of his predecessor Robert Mugabe...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | 540 | 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 | 217 | by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum
MDC intra-party violence regrettable
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) condemns the intra-party violence that has characterised the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) elective congress preparations. The congress is set for May 24 to 26....Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:53hrs | 433 | by ZPP
Police probe several bigwigs over Cylone Idai aid looting
POLICE have arrested dozens of people and are probing a number of senior government officials, following the sickening looting and diversion of goods donated to victims of the deadly Cyclone Idai stor...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 14:40hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's National Dialogue monopolised by a few'
Zimbabwe's national dialogue processes must deal with the problem that many Zimbabweans feel, and indeed are, alienated from the system economically, socially and politically, a leading academic has s...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 14:17hrs | 1471 | by Staff Reporter
Open letter to Nelson Chamisa
Dear Nelson, Hopefully this letter finds you well so that you can read, understand and appreciate my worries following the violence that took place in most parts of the country as a result of ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 13:50hrs | 10535 | by Peacemaker Zano
The untold horror stories of the July 30 Zimbabwe elections
Forty-three-year-old Givemore Madziva Kanyurira looked dejected when he recalled his "worst experiences" ahead of the July 30, 2018 harmonised elections that exposed Zanu-PF's coercion and intimidatio...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 12:58hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
Budirio 5 residents evicted at Glen Eagles farm in Harare
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has on 25th of October received reports of evictions and demolitions of three hundred and thirteen (313) houses affecting approximately one thousand two hundred and...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 16:30hrs | 2039 | by NGO Forum
Human rights violations down in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that human rights violations have declined from the previous record number of 266 to 226 in the last month.ZPP made the declarations in its latest month...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 09:12hrs | 786 | by Stephen Jakes
Parties internal strife not restricted to MDC Alliance
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the party internal strife which rocked the MDC Alliance from the time during the run up to the July 30 elections was not limited to the main opposition party a...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Access to state funds restricted to those affiliated to Zanu PF
Access to state funds has also been restricted to only those who can demonstrate affiliation to the ruling party at the Women's Bank. This was revealed by the Zimbabwe Peace Project in its lat...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 10:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Partisan food distribution exposed after Zanu PF defeat in Chakohwa
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that paartisan food aid distribution was exposed when defeated Zanu PF councillor in Chakohwa continued to access grain from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) and dis...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 09:32hrs | 1195 | by Stephen Jakes
Cholera, typhoid epidemics in Zimbabwe perfect litmus test
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has described the recent outbreak of cholera and typhoid epidemics as a perfect litmus test of whether citizens in Zimbabwe were enjoying the right to peace.The orga...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 09:32hrs | 45 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC Alliance election agents continue to report victimisation
MDC Alliance activists, particularly those who acted as polling agents continued to report cases of victimisation that include intimidation, assault and arson against their properties.This eme...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 09:30hrs | 548 | by Stephen Jakes
Jestina Mukoko wins $150,000 compensation for torture
DEMOCRACY activist Jestina Mukoko scored a major victory against the State after she was awarded $100 000 as damages and a further $50 000 in legal costs following her litigation against the Zimbabwe ...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:05hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
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