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Zimsec Amendment Bill faces criticism

The Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Amendment Bill has been heavily criticised by disability rights advocates, educators, and members of the public for failing to uphold principles of inclusivity and equitable access to educ…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:42hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter

2 people show up for Zimsec bill hearing

A parliamentary public hearing on the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Amendment Bill (H.B.4, 2025) collapsed in Marondera after only two people showed up, in what observers described as a major setback in efforts to shape a k…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 21:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

Civil servants' right to collective bargaining under threat

Proposed amendments to the Public Service Act could strip Zimbabwe's civil servants of key labour rights, including the right to fight for better wages and conditions, legal experts and labour activists have warned.The Public Service Amend…

Published: 29 Aug 2025 at 05:52hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's blueberries become 'blue gold'

Zimbabwe is cashing in as its blueberry exports surge, making the fruit a prized commodity in international markets from Singapore to Europe and the UK.Trade promotion body ZimTrade announced that Singapore is the latest country to stock Z…

Published: 25 Aug 2025 at 20:49hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter

Public hearings on ZIMSEC amendment bill begin

The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education has launched public hearings on the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations (ZIMSEC) Amendment Bill, starting in Lupane today, with proceedings scheduled to continue in Bulaway…

Published: 25 Aug 2025 at 20:46hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe cabinet approves Postal and Telecoms Bill

Cabinet has approved the Postal and Telecommunications Amendment Bill aimed at aligning Zimbabwe's telecommunications framework with current trends and emerging technological developments.Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mi…

Published: 31 Jul 2025 at 12:49hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter

Zimsec Amendment Bill falls short, says teacher union

The Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Unions (FOZEU) has criticised the newly gazetted Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) Amendment Bill, saying it fails to adequately address the structural and legislative shortcomings affecting…

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 08:43hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter

Zimsec amendment bill, 2025 falls short of expectations

THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council Amendment Bill, 2025, which seeks to amend the existing ZIMSEC Act [Chapter 25:18], fails to tackle the legislative gaps arising from changes and needs in the education sector. The bill focused main…

Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 20:57hrs | 106 | by Obert Masaraure

US$1m for strategic minerals licence in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has gazetted a sweeping new Mines and Minerals Bill that seeks to clamp down on speculative mining claim hoarding while ensuring only credible investors participate in the extraction of strategic minerals. The Bill, introduced las…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:12hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter

New Zimsec Bill proposes stiff penalties for exam cheats

Examination candidates caught cheating or engaging in other malpractices could face up to five years' imprisonment under the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Amendment Bill recently gazetted by Parliament. The Bill, which is a…

Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:34hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter

PVO Bill sails through Senate

The contentious Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill advanced through the Senate last week, raising alarms among critics who argue that the legislation could be weaponized against non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and c…

Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:48hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa orders Parliament to finalise PVO Bill

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed the 10th Parliament to expedite the finalization of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Bill, a move critics argue will significantly restrict the operations of non-governmental organizations…

Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:57hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter

'PVO Bill to define Zimbabwe's identity'

The recently passed Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill is set to transform the regulation of civic society in Zimbabwe, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. The Bill, which passed thr…

Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 07:29hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's 'Patriot Bill' threat to Zimbabwean journalists two months before elections

TWO months before presidential and parliamentary elections on 23 August, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges Zimbabwe to abandon a proposed "sovereignty and national interest" law that poses a major threat to journalism. Freedom of expre…

Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'Patriotic Bill' has made free and fair elections impossible

In the lead-up to Zimbabwe's election, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF  has passed a law that puts his opponents at considerable risk.Zimbabwe is just the latest of many unfree countries, such as China, Turkey and Iran, …

Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

Foreign funded NGOs angered by Zimbabwe's 'Patriot Bill'

THE controversial Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Bill, also known as the Patriot Bill, which was approved by the National Assembly last week has torched a storm, with legislators and legal experts questioning the constitu…

Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's Patriotic Bill imposes death on 'sell-outs'

Zanu-PF Wednesday invoked its parliamentary majority to muscle through, the controversial Criminal Law Amendment Bill - better known as the Patriotic Bill - which seeks to impose death, at the very extreme, on citizens "willfully damaging …

Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Patriotic Bill divides Zimbabweans

NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) on Tuesday accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of smuggling a clause into the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Amendment Bill (Criminal Code), which forces patriotism on Zimbabweans.Mliswa rais…

Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa should be tried under the Patriotic Bill

That Patriotic Bill looks interesting now.In light of Aljazeera revelations, The President & his ministers should be tried under that Bill for treacherous & unpatriotic conduct. The Bill was maliciously designed to persecute those …

Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 21:07hrs | 7 | by Max Lion

South African hospital detains10-month-old Zimbabwean boy over R7 000 bill

A South African hospital has refused to discharge a 10-month-old Zimbabwean boy over an unsettled bill of more than R7 000.The boy underwent a neck lump operation at the Louis Trichardt Memorial Hospital where he was admitted on  Febr…

Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 19:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Schoolboy knifed to death after confronting neighbouring school bully

A 16-year-old schoolboy from Founders High School in Bulawayo was knifed to death after confronting two other pupils from a neighbouring school for bullying his friend, police said.Wayne Ndlovu, a Form 4 student, was stabbed on the neck an…

Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 19:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Rogue Zimbabwe civil society sponsor accusations of shrinking democratic space and protests

JUSTICE Ministry Permanent Secretary, Virginia Mabhiza has told African Union (AU) that concerns raised over Zimbabwe's shrinking civic space and protests against the intended Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Bill were sponsored by ro…

Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zesa to bill in local, US dollars

WITH official and black market foreign currency exchange rates moving towards convergence, the Government is considering allowing customers to settle their electricity bills using either local currency or US dollars, Zimbabwe Energy Regula…

Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

What became of Zimbabwe's Patriotic Bill?

THE Zimbabwe government has made several attempts to close down the civic space in Zimbabwe through existing and new legislation. This includes some amendments to the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act that are in the Cyber and Data …

Published: 19 May 2022 at 18:59hrs | 18 | by Nompilo Simanje and Otto Saki

Madhuku says Zimbabwe's proposed Patriotic Bill is dangerous

Zimbabwe is planning to introduce a law to punish people who are deemed "unpatriotic" because they criticise the country when abroad - and it has left activists feeling nervous.Constitutional lawyer and opposition politician Lovemore Madhu…

Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's proposed Patriotic Bill: Whither Zimbabwe at 41?

ACCORDING to the permanent secretary in the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs ministry Virginia Mabhiza, as quoted in The Sunday Mail on October 4 2020, her ministry drafted principles of a "Patriot Bill" (which later became the "Pa…

Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:42hrs | 10 | by Jonathan N Moyo

Yes, you can legislate for patriotism

GROWING up in the village, one gets to appreciate the fact that not all dogs are the same.They are actually two distinct types: the abidingly loyal and disciplined type, and the hopelessly useless and truant ones.We once had a dog that eve…

Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus

Govt defaulting on hotel bill settlements

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is reportedly struggling to settle hotel bills incurred over a period by government officials in various ministries and other departments.Tourism Business Council of Zimbabwe (TBCZ) immediate past president, T…

Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

The Marriage Bill of 2017 - A personal reflection on why it will not fly!

I am sure most people have read the proposed Marriages Bill of 2017, which seeks to repeal and replace the existing Marriage Act (Chapter 5:11) & the Customary Marriages Act (Chapter 5:01).  My focus is on PART VI, OFFENCES AND MI…

Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 12:06hrs | 3 | by Pastor Tomson Dube

'Health Insurance Bill now at an advanced stage'

HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo says government is now at an advanced stage in the crafting of a National Health Insurance Bill, which will provide a national health safety net to all citizens.Moyo told the Morgan Femai-led Parliamentary Them…

Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Grave Consequences on Internet Freedoms in Zimbabwe! - report

Done in partial contribution to ZDI and Media Centre investigation into the state of internet governance/freedom in Zimbabwe, this paper presents findings of the study of the Cybercrime and Cyber-security Bill and its implications on onlin…

Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 11:04hrs | | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute

Mphoko tables Peace Bill

Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who is also responsible for national healing, yesterday tabled the new National Peace and Reconciliation Bill in the National Assembly after it was withdrawn from Parliament last year. The Bill was withdr…

Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter

Draft Zimbabwe cybercrime bill misplaced and violate rights

The Zimbabwe Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill is a totally misplaced intervention by the government and a total violation of the citizensâ€™ basic fundamental rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (N…

Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Benedict Sibasa

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