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8 mistakes in Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution
ON May 22 2023, Zimbabwe's Constitution turned 10, having become effective on 22 May 2013. This year, we mark the 10-year anniversary. I choose to mark this day with a reflection, and my reflection is...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:15hrs | 816 | by Musa Kika
Mwonzora mounts fresh court challenge for postponement of elections
EMBATTLED Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has claimed that main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members are financially supporting his bid to challenge the ZEC delimitation report ...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter
CCC laughs off GNU, election postponement
Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has dismissed the possibility of a Government of National Unity (GNU) or the postponement of much anticipated 2023 general elections foll...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:17hrs | 1723 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt agrees to entertain Mwonzora's challenge
A FULL bench of the Constitutional Court(ConCourt) will now hear MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora's challenge against the recently gazetted delimitation report by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).Th...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 10:22hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
Counselling for SA returnees
GOVERNMENT has started equipping frontline workers, who will assist an estimated 170 000 holders of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP), with counselling and psychosocial skills which will assist in ...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 11:54hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Death penalty divides public opinion
BEITBRIDGE residents have expressed mixed feelings over whether or not the country should retain the death penalty on its statutesThe residents gave their views during one of the many public h...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 09:33hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Mini census as Zimbabwe prepares for South Africa returnees
GOVERNMENT is undertaking a mini census on the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders in South Africa to determine the total number of those that will be expatriated back home.South Africa ha...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:34hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora seeks ConCourt order to force ZEC redo delimitation exercise
The MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora has filed a Constitutional Court application seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to redo the delimitation exercise on the basis that it...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 19:15hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Fresh storm brews over Zimbabwe polls
A FRESH storm is brewing over this year's general elections after opposition MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora and his party yesterday dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the High Court to stop procla...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1174 | by Staff reporter
'More Zimbabwean men dying than women'
ZIMBABWEAN men are dying more than women, latest statistics from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) have revealed.The report, based on the 2022 population and housing census, sh...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:48hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens murambatswina II?
Unplanned and chaotic urban settlements without proper sewers, water supply roads and social amenities and with building on land totally unsuitable for human habitation are a serious risk to public he...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's monthly inflation goes negative
Monthly inflation went negative last month to -1,6 percent, meaning prices fell on average, according to ZimStat, the national statistics agency, using the new weighted consumer price index that takes...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:14hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland Central has most unregistered births
Mashonaland Central has the lowest number of registered births, a situation that exposes girls to early marriages, a Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat)'population and housing census report ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:22hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park population bigger than Gwanda, Hwange
WHILE it is a common joke in Bulawayo that Cowdray Park exists as a separate entity from the rest of Bulawayo, this may in the near future become a reality as police stations, malls, hospitals, clinic...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:19hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Unregistered children cause for concern
MANY children across the country have no birth registration certificates, which is posing a headache for policymakers, a Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) official has revealed.Zim...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:06hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans jam UK work visa applications
ZIMBABWE is among top five countries that registered the highest number of citizens granted work visas to the United Kingdom (UK) in the past two years, latest statistics by the UK's Office of Nationa...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 07:16hrs | 6124 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba resists political pressure over delimitation
IN the days leading to 17 February when the final delimitation report was supposed to be gazetted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Priscilla...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:38hrs | 2827 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa violates the Zimbabwe Constitution
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa almost certainly violated the delimitation process by not following constitutional requirements, while brazenly subverting the constitution at critical junctures, renderin...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:36hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's skills flight crisis: UK work visas up 1,500%
The number of Zimbabweans granted work visas to work in the UK has gone up by 1,576% since 2019, showing the extent of Zimbabwe's brain drain crisis. The number of Zimbabweans who were granted...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 17:06hrs | 3127 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Prophet Edd Branson takes India by storm
Ambassador Dr. Edd Branson and the Jesus Church have filled up a prayer mountain in India where thousands gathered for a service with Ambassador Edd Branson.Commenting on the India excursion P...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 06:39hrs | 185 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe heading for a major constitutional crisis?
IN the wake of the confusing reports about the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s revised delimitation report, Zimbabwe could be heading for a major constitutional crisis.While constitution...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:32hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of 'constitutional delinquency'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was criticised as a "constitutional delinquent" on Friday after failing to officially publish the final report of the delimitation of ward and constituency boundaries, as ...Published: 18 Feb 2023 at 19:54hrs | 1126 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana relents on dirty political chicanery over delimitation report
GOVERNMENT spokesman Nick Mangwana has apparently relented on his sinister plot to campaign - with the assistance of Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman Georg...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:15hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula takes to streets over Zimbabwe permit extension
Members of Operation Dudula demonstrated outside the high court in Pretoria on Monday in opposition to the Zimbabwe exemption permit (ZEP) extension.The lobby group wants to join a court appli...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 2720 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies turn heat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies that are members of a platform ostensibly set up to improve the country's electoral environment after the disputed 2018 polls have turned their swords on the Zimb...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:17hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies turn swords on Zec
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies that are members of a platform ostensibly set up to improve the country's electoral environment after the disputed 2018 polls have turned their swords on the Zimb...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 08:04hrs | 3777 | by Staff Reporter
Education ministry bemoans lack of funding as shortage of schools soars
PRIMARY and Secondary Education permanent secretary, Tumisang Thabela has admitted that the ministry is buckling under pressure due to under-funding consequentially hindering deliv...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:41hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Challenge against Zec presses on
WHILE Senate has approved the delimitation report, which is now before President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Harare voter Tonderai Chidawa, represented by Lovemore Madhuku, is pressing ahead with his challeng...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Republic Party threatens mass action
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has threatened mass action if the preliminary delimitation report produced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is adopted in its current form.The part...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 13:59hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Parliamentarians shreds Zec delimitation report
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday "tore up" the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s preliminary delimitation report tabled in Parliament last week Friday, describing it as flawed.Independent electi...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:39hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara wants Zimbabwe to dump, rework delimitation
FORMER Deputy Prime minister in the 2009-2013 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must redo the delimitation exercise as he dismissed the ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:54hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
10,000 pastors set to undergo 'patriotic' training at Zanu-PF's School of Ideology
OVER 10,000 Zimbabwean pastors are set to undergo training at Chitepo School of Ideology.Pastors for ED National Chairperson, Idiraishe Dongo, said the initiative is aimed at grooming pas...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 07:08hrs | 1758 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parly demands voters roll
IN a rare show of solidarity, legislators from across the political divide yesterday closed ranks to unanimously demand an electronic copy of the voters roll from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Ze...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 07:06hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Preliminary Delimitation Report tabled before Parliament
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) preliminary delimitation report has been tabled in the National Assembly following its presentation to President Emmerson Mnangagwa electoral body's c...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:09hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | 1143 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Pro-Mnangagwa group slams ZEC
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s recently published delimitation preliminary report continues to scare Zanu-PF, as a shadowy affiliate has castigated the report demanding a redo of the exercise....Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:17hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF piles pressure on Zec
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Daniel Garwe has castigated the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for a skewed delimitation exercise.Addressing party supporters at a mobilisa...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:15hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
70% registered to vote, claims ZEC
More than 70 percent of Zimbabweans eligible to vote have registered and are already on the voters roll, the chief elections officer of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Mr Utoile Silaigwana, has tol...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP sues Zec over voters roll
HARARE North legislator Allan Markham (CCC) has filed a High Court challenge against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seeking to compel it to provide the national voters roll in electronic form...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gets $74 billion for elections
The Government has set aside $76 billion for the 2023 harmonised elections to cover various activities, with $53 billion earmarked for the actual polling.Presenting the 2023 National Budget ye...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records surge in sex workers
ZIMBABWE has recorded an increase in commercial sex workers, with Harare adjudged to be the biggest red-light district, a new survey by the National Aids Council (Nac), Health and Child Care ministry ...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:53hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's job creation mega deals facade exposed
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's much-vaunted job creation thrust and mega deals have proven to be mere political rhetoric after the country's statistical agency noted continuing joblessness, particular...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 19:14hrs | 2815 | by Staff reporter
'4 700 holders of doctrates in Zimbabwe'
THE country has more than 650 000 people who are holders of higher and tertiary education qualification with diploma holders constituting a majority of the number, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Age...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Pastors4ED call for sanctions removal
As Zimbabwe and the region commemorate the SADC Anti-Sanctions Day today, Pastors for Economic Development (Pastors4ED) have added their voices in calling for the immediate and unconditional lifting o...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe literacy rate drops to 93,7%
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) preliminary education survey results have revealed that nearly a million Zimbabweans aged four years and above are illiterate.The education su...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF regime deliberately cutting off rural areas from modern technology in order to keep them ignorant!
It is quite easy for a president to tell rural folk that he met with his US counterpart, who promised to steadily address the thorny issues of sanctions t...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 11:01hrs | 554 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zec evasive on delimitation'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of being too secretive on the delimitation roadmap as opposition parties raised fears yesterday that the process could be rigged in favour of t...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
80% infants unregistered, says ZimStat
ONLY 19% of infants were registered at birth in the last 12 months prior to the 2022 census, Zimbabwe National Statistic Agency (ZimStat) preliminary results on fertility show.This means that ...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:35hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Zec fails to pay voter educators
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has failed to pay civil servants it hired as voter educators and inspectors for a 10-day voter education blitz conducted in July, The NewsHawks reported....Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:09hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
NGO calls for transparency in delimitation exercise
ELECTORAL watchdog, Election Resource Centre (ERC) has called for transparency and inclusivity in the ongoing constituency delimitation exercise to avoid boundary manipulation for next year's polls....Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
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