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Security forces major perpetrators of violence
SECURITY agents were the major perpetrators of human rights violations in 2020, with 181 cases of violence recorded in December, as the human rights situation in Zimbabwe remains dire, a humanitarian ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:45hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
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 | 640 | by Mirian Mangwaya
Rule of law now a pipe dream, says ZPP
THE Zimbabwe Peace project (ZPP) has castigated government over the recent arrest of civil rights and political activists, saying the move shows lack of respect for democracy and the rule of law....Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:47hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt failed to consult over lockdown, says Veritas
LEGAL think-tank Veritas says the government did not give transport operators, vendors and representatives of commerce and industry time to prepare for new covid-19 measures amid worsening macroeconom...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Govt told to subsidise COVID-19 testing
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has called on government to subsidise COVID-19 testing so that it becomes affordable to every citizen to reduce cases of issuing of fake certificates.In its De...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 235 | 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 | 360 | 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 | 95 | by Sitabile Dewa
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 | 518 | by Staff reporter
Hope fades in Zimbabwe 3 years after Mugabe's ouster
ZIMBABWE'S former leader Robert Mugabe stepped down on November 21, 2017, bringing an end to nearly four decades of iron-fisted rule.His resignation came days after military tanks rolled throu...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:34hrs | 641 | by AFP
Matanga admits bus teargassing cops messed up
POLICE Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has admitted his subordinates messed up when they threw teargas cannisters into a bus full of passengers at a bus stop near the Harare showgrounds early this...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:27hrs | 2188 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe cops throw teargas into a bus
PASSENGERS, among them elderly women and children were Monday forced to scramble out of a fully loaded 75-seater bus at a Harare Showgrounds bus stop after a female police officer discharged a tearsmo...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:27hrs | 3586 | by Staff reporter
Rape used as a political tool: Report
ZIMBABWE has over the past decade recorded a rise in politically-related rape cases with perpetrators using rape as a tool to silence dissent, a recent report on gender-based violence has revealed....Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:26hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Dzamara was poisoned, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed that the late human rights activist and party executive member, Patson Dzamara, who succumbed to cancer of the colon on Wednesda...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:35hrs | 5939 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe poisoned Tsvangirai at Cabinet meetings,' hints Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has suggested his predecessor Morgan Tsvangirai was poisoned to his death by then President Robert Mugabe at cabinet meetings the two late top politicians sat in dur...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 6717 | by Staff reporter
US piles more misery on Mnangagwa
INTERNATIONAL pressure continues to pile on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to respect human rights, with the United States embassy in Harare also raising concern over the matter yesterday....Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:38hrs | 19177 | by Staff reporter
'State-sponsored violence peaked in July'
THE month of July marked a peak in State-sponsored human rights violations on defenceless citizens, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) noted in its latest report released this week.In the report...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Border jumping escalates at Beitbridge
THE number of desperate Zimbabweans using illegal entry points along the Limpopo River to access medical treatment and cheap basic commodities and drugs from South Africa has shot up, a Beitbridge leg...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 2027 | by Staff reporter
Don't shoot the critic
IN order to solve our problems we have to first identify them, but we human beings have an inherent flaw of not being able to give ourselves an accurate self-evaluation more often than not, so who els...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:21hrs | 339 | by Black Edward
Mohadi faces contempt of court over abduction damages
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi and several former government officials have been taken to the High Court by a Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) employee, Pascal Gonzo, who wants them charged for contempt of c...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:18hrs | 1744 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi faces imprisonment
A LOCAL human rights activist, Pascal Gonzo has approached the High Court seeking to have Vice President, Kembo Mohadi held in contempt after failing to pay him US$80 000 in damages.In 2009, G...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:11hrs | 1294 | by newzimbabwe
Killing of Munakopa by police worry ZPP
The alleged killing of a bulawayo resident Paul Munakopa by the police on 23 May 2020 has irked the Zimbabwe Peace Project which says justice must be done on the matter like it has been done on the Am...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1973 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe records over 100 cases of harassment, intimidation during lockdown
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that in the past month it recorded 110 cases of harassment and intimidation in the country.The organisation said the majority of the cases are attribute...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:24hrs | 120 | by Stephen Jakes
Six people killed by soldiers but nothing has been done for their justice
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has expressed concerns that in August 2018 six people were shot by soldiers in broad daylight but up to now no justice has been done for them.In its latest report ZP...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 14:17hrs | 1004 | by Stephen Jakes
COVID-19, food aid, increased vulnerability and human rights
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has expressed concerns that the Covid 19 outbreak has increased the food insecurity, vulnerability and human rights violations in the country.In its latest report ZP...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 11:29hrs | 307 | by Stephen Jakes
Barefaced breaches of the Constitution: ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said the founding values of the Zimbabwean Constitution clearly spell out the fundamental rights that citizens are supposed to enjoy amid concerns over escalating violat...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 10:19hrs | 888 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe army, police top list of rights violators
HUMAN rights lobby group, Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has accused the government of fostering tyranny masked as enforcement of lockdown to curb the spread of COV1D-19 as human rights violation cases ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 09:36hrs | 1617 | by Staff reporter
Food insecurity remains high in many districts and communities
Food insecurity remains high in many districts and communities, the Zimbabwe Peace Project has said in its latest report."Mealie-meal was reportedly available predominantly on the parallel mar...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 09:49hrs | 416 | by Stephen Jakes
'Chamisa, diplomats stage-managed abductions for United States 10-month scholarship'
GOVERNMENT yesterday claimed opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, Western diplomats, human rights doctors and lawyers had connived to stage manage the recent alleged abduction and torture of...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:09hrs | 3782 | by Staff reporter
Police visibility in rural communities increased during lockdown
Police visibility has increased in the rural areas than before due to Covid 19 lock down operations.This is revealed in the latest Zimb...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 07:36hrs | 420 | by Stephen Jakes
People living with HIV in dilema-ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has revealed that in a survey conducted in various districts respondents were at pains to explain that people living with HIV and AIDS are struggling to have the recommended...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:51hrs | 1760 | by Stephen Jakes
Concern grows over missing MDC trio
THERE are rising fears that three MDCAlliance youth leaders who went missing this week were abducted, amid demands by the opposition party, civil society and the international community for their imme...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF activist advises Kuwadzana residents to register with party to get food
The Zimbabwe Peace project in its latest report has indicated that a Zanu PF activist in Kuwadzana went around telling residents to register with the party so as to get food."Zanu PF political...Published: 13 May 2020 at 11:57hrs | 399 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF activist advises Kuwadzana residents to register with party to get food
The Zimbabwe Peace project in its latest report has indicated that a Zanu PF activist in Kuwadzana went around telling residents to register with the party so as to get food."Zanu PF political...Published: 13 May 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1395 | by Stephen Jakes
Mutasa MP's arrest for distributing food during knockdown aid starvation
The arrest of Mutasa South legislator recently while distributing food to the community at a time when the nation is on lockdown has been viewed as an aid...Published: 12 May 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1270 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC Councillor assaulted by police during lockdown
The Zimbabwe Peace Project in its latest report reported that an MDC Councillor at Nyameni Ward 8, Marondera, Mashonaland East was recently assaulted by t...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:58hrs | 642 | by Stephen Jakes
Boy collapses and dies after being intimidated by soldiers
In a bizarre incident a boy in Mudzi North, Mashonaland East collapsed and died after soldiers allegedly intimidated him during lockdown.THis is revealed in the latest Zimbabwe Peace Project r...Published: 11 May 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1054 | by Stephen Jakes
Citizens highly un able to survive during lock down
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has revealed that citizns are highly unable to survive during lockdown due to food challenges.In its latest report the ZPP said in addition to being subjected to har...Published: 11 May 2020 at 14:22hrs | 371 | by Stephen Jakes
'Weak border controls fuelling COVID-19 importation'
THE human rights watchdog, Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has revealed that poor border controls at the points of entry allowed border-jumping, thereby, increasing the risk of importing the deadly coron...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Boy dies following threats by Mnangagwa's aides
AN eight-year-old boy from Mudzi district, Mashonaland East province, collapsed and died after being intimidated by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's security aides, a human rights lobby group Zimbabwe ...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:38hrs | 7013 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF councillors harass parents at Rujeko High School
ZAnu PF Councillors in Mazowe South are reportedly to have harassed parents at Rujeko High School during the annual general meeting where they were electing new members for the SDC.This is rev...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 13:00hrs | 2404 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt's failure to resolve impasse with doctors puts patients at risk - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said the Government 's failure to permanently resolve the impasse between the Ministry of Health and Zimbabwean doctors has continued to infringe on citizens' rights to ...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 12:57hrs | 847 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zanu PF to supply members with mealie meal during lockdown'
Zanu PF activist in Glenview Harare reportedly recorded the names of the party members only to get get subsidised mealie meal while sidelining members of the MDC Alliance.This is contained in ...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 10:15hrs | 1020 | by Stephen Jakes
Lockdown prompted hikes in prices: ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the announcement of the lockdown by the government has prompted the shops to hike prices of basic s goods much to the chagrin of citizens."The anno...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 10:18hrs | 597 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF activists demand money for independence celebrations despite cancellation
Zanu PF is reported to have continued to demand money for independence celebrations despite the ban of the events following the outbreak of Covid 19 world wide.This is contained in the latest ...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 10:18hrs | 1366 | by Stephen Jakes
Collapsed health sector facilities a sign that govt did not invest in health
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said the collapse of health sector facilities in the country is a sign of the government's failure to invest in the health sector for a long time since independence....Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 10:15hrs | 288 | by Stephen Jakes
Farm management orders workers to evict families from residence due to Covid-19
Kefalos Farm management in Seke is reported to have forced its employees to send away their family members from the farm residence in order to reduce the population around the compounds and prevent Co...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1174 | by Stephen Jakes
145 human rights violation cases recorded in March
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has recorded a total of 145 human rights violations during the month of March.In its latest report ZPP said these included COVID-19 related violations, intimidation ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:29hrs | 311 | by Stephen Jakes
Covid-19 got heads rolling in Zimbabwe starting in March - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the outbreak of Covid 19 across the world has set heads rolling in Zimbabwe with government and various stakeholders scrambling to find solutions and preve...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 938 | by Stephen Jakes
Chinhoyi Hospital nurses desert hospital due to suspected Covid-19 case
Nurses at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital recently deserted the health instituition after a report was made of a Covid-19 patient as they feared to be infected due to lack of protective clothing....Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 13:19hrs | 1215 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zimbabwe situation now dire'
ZimRights says the situation in the country has become dire and there was compelling need for all stakeholders to come together outside the political actors to address the crisis which it claims has r...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
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