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Mnangagwa must apologise for his role in gukurahundi genocide
VICTIMS of the 1980s Matabeleland and Midlands massacres, known as Gukurahundi, have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the killing of over 20 000 innocent civilians, sayi...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:58hrs | 3150 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister speaks on Gukurahundi, past conflicts
GOVERNMENT is committed to dealing with past conflicts including Gukurahundi by formally recognising them as part of the country's history to bring closure to the events and foster national healing an...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
ZEC unfazed by abuse
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) remains unfazed by incidents of abuse and insults directed at female commissioners, particularly its chairperson, Justice Priscilla Chigumba, by some elements a...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:08hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zec shuts door on Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's bid to overturn President Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory in last year's polls on grounds of legitimacy has been overtaken by events because the Zimbabwe Electoral ...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 16:17hrs | 6122 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Hwange bribery saga
THE $400 000 Hwange Colliery bribery saga took a new twist during parliamentary inquiries yesterday after it emerged that Shepherd Tundiya, the linkman between the four MPs implicated in the alleged s...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1206 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa named in Hwange scam
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Kembo Mohadi and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi were yesterday named in the ongoing Hwange Colliery saga inquiry being conducted by the Parliamentary Pri...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 13:48hrs | 2646 | by Staff reporter
Chitando sucked into $111m Hwange scam
Hwange Colliery in 2016 lost a $111 million loan from government to fund its revival due to mismanagement, reckless trading and money laundering which has sucked in Mines minister Winston Chitando, an...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:33hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Zec in a fix
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is battling to prevent a potentially explosive administrative disaster during the 2023 elections as it emerges that a provision in the electoral law may not all...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:09hrs | 2535 | by Staff reporter
Breakthrough in Zimbabwe, EU bloc ties
Relations between Zimbabwe and the 28-member European Union (EU) bloc will soon be upgraded from informal to formal engagements as parties actively seek to "enhance" their diplomatic rapport.T...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:29hrs | 1807 | by Staff reporter
Past Atrocities: Civil society calls for truth-seeking
Civil society organisations under the banner of the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) have called for genuine truth-seeking process to establish the truth about past atrocities and t...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:11hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa goes after Kembo Mohadi again
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has attacked Vice President Retired Kembo Dugish Campbell Mohadi after the later was accused of attempting to kill his wife Senator Tambudzani Mohadi.M...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 10:30hrs | 7287 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa push to deter coup, army meddling in politics
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration have moved to domesticate an African law that seeks to deter military meddling in civilian politics as well as block any coup against a sitting gove...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | 5927 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa mulls disbanding gukurahundi commissions
Government is mulling disbanding two Constitutional commissions - the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) - and subsume their core functions un...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:01hrs | 2192 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa to scrap running mate clause?
GOVERNMENT is considering amending the Constitution to remove a clause, which is set to come into effect in the next harmonised elections in 2023, that makes the post of Vice-President(s) elective....Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:45hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Senate adopts African charter on democracy, elections
THE African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) was ratified by Senate on Wednesday amid protest by MDC Alliance senators that wanted debate on the issue deferred to yesterday to al...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:38hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Zapu fights for seized properties
The Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has reacted angrily to claims that its properties which were seized by government during the early 1980s now officially belong to the ruling Zanu-PF. This comes as...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1796 | by Staff reporter
ZCLDN applauds Government decision to decriminalise HIV transmission
THE Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network (ZCLDN) welcomes the recent announcement made by the Government that it wants to repeal a legal provision that criminalises willful transmission of HIV/AI...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 192 | by ZCLDN Communications Department
Ncube, Shiri summoned over tobacco auction ruckus
PARLIAMENT has summoned Finance and Agriculture ministers to come and clear the air on why government has gone back on promises to pay tobacco farmers 50% of their earnings in United States dollars....Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:03hrs | 1484 | by newzimbabwe.com
MDC MP confronts 'poor quality' minister
MDC Chief Whip Prosper Mutseyami Thursday urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fully consider knowledgeable ministers who are well equipped to represent him in different cabinet ministries.Th...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1774 | by newzimbabwe.com
Zimbabwe marriage age of consent raised
GIRLS under the age of 18 will no longer legally enter into marriages, while marrying off minors will become a criminal offence under a new law that will be introduced in Parliament soon.Inter...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:27hrs | 5761 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa takes Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi head on again
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has called upon Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to clean himself from the allegations that he is behind the transfer of former Bikita MP Munyradzi Kereke.The matter sta...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 15:53hrs | 1133 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa won't return Zapu properties'
GOVERNMENT has declared it will not return Zapu properties confiscated before the advent of the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide in Matabeleland and the Midlands.Former guerrillas of Zipra, the arme...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Parly ratifies African Charter on democracy, elections
PARLIAMENT on Tuesday ratified the African Charter on Democracy and Elections and Governance, which, among other things, is meant to enhance the quality of elections in Africa, promote human rights, s...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:36hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Judge rules that NPRC will be operational until 2028
A Masvingo High Court judge has ruled that the lifespan of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) will be 10 years from January 5 last year when it became operational after the enactm...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:20hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Kereke caught up in Parliament storm
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled in the National Assembly by Norton MP Temba Mliswa over reports that incarcerated former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke was enjoying co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 08:16hrs | 3069 | by Staff reporter
Proposed govt law to bring clarity on forex repatriation fears
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is in the process of formulating a law that would spell out how foreign investors can repatriate their profits from Zimbabwe, a country facing foreign currenc...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:31hrs | 588 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe to decriminalise wilful HIV transmission
Government is set to repeal a legal provision that criminalises transmission of HIV/AIDS to a partner in order to keep abreast with international standards, Parliament heard yesterday. Justice...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa drags Ziyambi into Kereke jail sex storm
OUTSPOKEN Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has accused Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of unlawfully giving orders to Chikurubi Maximum Prison officials to allow jailed former Zanu-PF MP Munyaradzi Kereke hav...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1387 | by newzimbabwe
This is not it Mr Mnangagwa!
LAST WEEK, at long last, seven long months after last year's August 1 killings that claimed at least six lives, President Emmerson Mnangagwa finally admitted he deployed the army on the fateful day....Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:03hrs | 4964 | by Editorial - Daily News
Ex-prosecutor boss seeks Ziyambi intervention
FORMER prosecutor-in-charge of Bulawayo regional courts, Patrobs Dube has written to Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi seeking his intervention in his seven-year-old labour dispute with the National Pr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | 1722 | by Staff reporter
Government values human rights
Human rights are defined as freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled, and these often include the rights to life, liberty, equality, freedom of expression and many others.The...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 17:01hrs | 578 | by Peacemaker Zano
'ShutDownZimbabwe protest organisers liable to compensate victims'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday told Parliament that the Public Order Security Act (Posa) compels organisers of demonstrations to compensate for the loss of property and lives.His c...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:30hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs hail Mugabe as 'humane', slams Mnangagwa
FORMER President Robert Mugabe was more "humane" than current Zanu-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa, an opposition MP has said.Contributing to debate on Mnangagwa's statement notifying P...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1194 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa gives reasons why he deployed the army against rioters
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has described citizens who demonstrated last August and January this year only to meet with live ammunition from the army as "criminals who had violated the rights of othe...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 21:36hrs | 2985 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe to demolish 'inhabitable' Harare prisons
Government is planning to demolish Harare Remand Prison as well as Harare Central Prison and construct new facilities because the current structures cannot be renovated and are unfit for human habitat...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:04hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
November 2017: Wharton is being dishonest
This month former American Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Bruce Wharton and former American Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield published an article on the Zimbabwe's 2017 transition from the old ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:53hrs | 1500 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF moves to change constitution
Zanu-PF wants Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to initiate another constitutional amendment, but this time, to ensure that the provision which saw 60 women getting into Parliament on free seats contin...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:15hrs | 2010 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rogue soldiers accounted for, claims Justice minister
In January President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised that members of the security forces behind human rights violations during the January 14 protests would be prosecuted.Mnangagwa made the pledge...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:07hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cranks up reform gears
A TEAM of senior Government officials has been tasked to work on an omnibus Constitutional Amendment Bill that will deepen civil liberties, individual rights, scrap the death penalty, extend the women...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:03hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Sweeping constitutional reforms begin
A team of senior Government officials has been tasked to work on an omnibus Constitutional Amendment Bill that will deepen civil liberties, individual rights, scrap the death penalty, extend the women...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:44hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets up inter-ministerial political reform committee
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday set up an inter-ministerial committee to lead political, electoral and legislative reforms in line with recommendations of the Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry in...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
Age of consent stirs debate in Zimbabwe
LEGISLATORS have dismissed reports that they are pushing for the downward review of the age of consent to 12 years, explaining that they were calling for minors who are sexually active to access treat...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisoners to enjoy more rights
Cabinet on Tuesday approved changes to the Prisons Act in a move that that will see prisoners being accorded constitutional rights they deserve in line with international norms and standards. ...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Government responds to Air Zimbabwe's collapse
The government has announced that it is pinning its hopes on the Administrators of Air Zimbabwe who are working on a reconstruction exercise for the struggling airline.This was revealed by the...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 12:05hrs | 3011 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF starts process to oust Mliswa's sister
ZANU-PF Mashonaland West provincial coordinating committee has commenced a process that will lead to the suspension of provincial minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka from her position in the party, the Daily...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:43hrs | 1562 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa spills the beans on stealing Minister
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Prisca Mupfumira of stealing NSSA funds and using them to control ZANU PF officials li...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 09:56hrs | 7395 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ethiopian Airlines team expected for Air Zimbabwe deal
An Ethiopian Airlines team is expected in the country next month to start negotiations for the proposed partnership deal between Air Zimbabwe and Africa's biggest and most profitable airline.E...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Let's embrace the fight against sanctions
The adverse consequence of economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe is detrimental to its economic growth as it negatively affects the living standards of its citizens.For almost two decades, Zi...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 14:00hrs | 902 | by Peacemaker Zano
'Grace Mugabe a dog' prison officer loses High Court appeal
A TOP prison officer who was fired in 2015 after allegedly calling then First Lady Grace Mugabe a dog, has lost an appeal against his dismissal at the High Court.Before the dismissal, Ruben Zi...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:30hrs | 2473 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa takes sanctions fight to UN
GOVERNMENT has taken its campaign against illegal sanctions imposed on the country to the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) underway in Geneva, Switzerland. Addre...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:13hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
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