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Heavily Militarised government is the reason for economic meltdown
I am compelled by love of my country to delve deep into the core issues that hinder progress and meaningful development including but not limited to the abuse of power and intimidation of citizens by ...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 22:25hrs | | by Sithembiso Hadebe
Selection of gukurahundi journalists opaque and dodgy
A group of local Zimbabwean journalists, whose selection has been clearly opaque and dodgy, are grappling with how media should cover the upcoming Gukurahundi outreach programme hearings into the 1980...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:44hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
CCC MP hails abolition of death penalty
The Citizens Coalition for Change legislator for Dzivarasekwa Edwin Mushoriwa has applauded Cabinet for approving the abolition of the death penalty after he successfully raised a motion for the scrap...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe abolishes the hanging of men
Zimbabwean government records show that there are more than 60 prisoners on death row.Sixty-two death row inmates in Zimbabwe could have their sentences commuted to life in prison when the gov...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 20:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's Patriot Act smuggles in death penalty'
There is growing concern that an amendment to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, also referred to as the Patriot Act, is attempting to reintroduce the death penalty through indirect means...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How hope dies with every election in Zimbabwe
"People died. The fear of being asked whether you wanted a short or long sleeve cut (cutting your hand or your arm) by soldiers made people vote in fear, not with their heads. We were voting with our ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 13:10hrs | 1 | by Beauty Dhlamini
'Commute death sentence to prison terms'
A RECENT High Court ruling condemning Tapiwa Makore Senior and accomplice Tafadzwa Shamba to death for the brutal murder of then seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore Junior has once again revived debate on th...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Killers must be amputated'
SOME citizens feel that the death penalty should be revoked, but are proposing a gory punishment of having murderers amputated.This came out during public consultations on the death penalty by...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:19hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to be consulted on death penalty
Zimbabwe is set to conduct wide consultations aimed at gauging citizen views that would feed into proposed policy reforms around the death penalty.The country maintains the death penalty in it...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 women among long list of applicants vying for hangman's job in Zimbabwe
Two women are reportedly among the applicants hoping to fill the vacant post of Zimbabwe's "public executioner", under the neighbouring country's Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service.The ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs resist renaming of Gukurahundi
A GOVERNMENT official allegedly tried, though without success, to convince Chiefs into dropping the nomenclature 'Gukurahundi' in reference to the genocide of the 1980s, and replacing it with a 'less ...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masina Mandlenkosi to death in 2002 and he was executed...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amnesty International Zimbabwe calls for death sentence ban
AMNESTY International Zimbabwe is pushing for a ban of the death penalty which it says has caused a lot of stress on people that are on death row.Capital punishment is provided for in section ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Precedent that undermines credibility of Human Rights Council
On April 7, the UN General Assembly decided to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council. This establishes a destructive precedent not only for the future of the Human Rights Cou...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Alfred de Zayas
Mounting concerns over breach of ethical journalism
The names of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who gained international eminence as premier investigative journalists, following their investigation and exposure of th...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 17 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 10 | by Dr Mike Chipere
'Death penalty a remnant of colonial legacy'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged Zimbabwe to take steps towards abolishing the death penalty in line with international standards.In a statement to commemorate the ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reminiscing the thrills, pains of village life
The only shop in the village was perched precariously on a rock promontory, competing with itself in stature, grandeur, glamour, ambience and trinkets.It was a tapestry.Pricing was not...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 8 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Dr. Ralph Mguni: my Mentor, my Teacher
His proud self is still intact. He has never been different at any time and space. We should accept that the Nguni people are known for their high self-esteem are a proud people. In the interview he m...Published: 02 May 2021 at 17:13hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Reform and sanctions will go
Barely a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ambassador Dr Frederick Shava, Joseph Biden the United State of American President sla...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:34hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Marriages ban lifted
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has lifted the ban on marriages and announced the resumption of normal court operations, including the offices of the Master and the Sheriff of the High Court following the r...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe among 7 African governments using Israeli cyber-espionage tools
As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important in organising opposition movements. In response, several governments have at tim...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fred Shava's criminal past clouds future
NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava, who has an unsavoury dark and criminal past, has his work cut out for him.Shava replaced retired Lieute...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court business suspended
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has suspended all regular court operations and scaled back other courthouse activities, with the Sheriff and Messenger of Court ordered to stop evictions and executions, foll...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 23:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Truth-telling can put closure to Gukurahundi'
CHIEF Nyangazonke of Kezi, Matabeleland South province, yesterday urged Gukurahundi victims to speak out and air their views on the issue before their traditional leaders.The traditional leade...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 10 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Zimbabwe Diaspora in Anti-Mnangagwa Demonstrations
Zimbabwe diaspora in UK will be joining the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the anti-Mnangagwa mass demonstrations set for - Friday 16 August 2019 - in solidarity with those on the ground back...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 14:48hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by King Mzilikazi II
MDC fundraises for political and activist 'prisoners'
The MDC Reading Protest and Fundraiser for political and activist prisoners, who are currently held at ZANU-PF and its proxies behest, led to all attending having plenty to say about among other thing...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Thabo Makuyana
Zanu-PF blasted for monopoly over national hero status
ACTING Zapu president Isaac Mabuka yesterday said the Zanu-PF politburo should not have the monopoly to declare who national heroes are and called for an independent body to be set up to select people...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death stalks Mnangagwa family
President Emerson Mnangagwa, former president Robert Mugabe, and all the architects of Gukurahundi - the 1980s massacre of unarmed civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands - carry a deadly curse tha...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 17:35hrs | 1 | by Methusi Ncube
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Debate on running mate plausible
With its 2013 constitution Zimbabwe made a much better job of putting together a coherent, consistent and democratic constitution to replace the much amended and somewhat tatty 1980 constitution....Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Freedom that never was'
We continue chronicling the political life of Agrippa Samuriwo. The former Whawha detainee who tells our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati – from his farm in Chitomborwizi, Mashonaland West Province ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailed Kereke to lose hospital, house over $3,2m debt
INCARCERATED former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe adviser Munyaradzi Kereke, who is serving a 10-year jail sentence for rape, is set to lose his hospital and his Mount Pleasant property after CBZ Bank peti...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kereke to lose hospital over $3m debt
JAILED former Zanu-PF Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke is set to lose his Mount Pleasant hospital to settle a $3 million debt owed to a local bank (name withheld), after the financial institution file...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fifa to pay $8 million Zifa debts
THE Zimbabwe Football Association could be on the road to financial recovery after world football governing body, Fifa agreed to assist extinguish their debt that reportedly stands at $8 million....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moving towards abolishing death penalty
The issue of 'capital punishment' might once again come under the spotlight with the Ministry of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs hinting that if the country is to amend the Constitution, then the ab...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU decries 2018 bad human rights record
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has berated President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration over the surge in human rights violations experienced in the country this year, singling out th...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament has final say on death penalty
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said it is up to Parliament to scrap the death penalty altogether from the country's statutes by amending the 2013 Constitution.Ziyambi said this while app...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Motlante
Date: 15th December 2018 Mr Kgalema Motlanthe Chairman of The Zimbabwe...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by The 1893 MHRRM-UK Leadership
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Zimnat launches innovative billboard campaign
Zimnat has launched an innovative advertising campaign to let people know some of the ways in which it can make their life better, through the customer friendly insurance and finance services it offer...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 13:09hrs | | by Agencies
Zimbabwe doomed as May, Merkel back Mnangagwa
On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for a one-day working visit. This visit was part of a three-nation tour of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria designed...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
1893 MHRRM steps up its preparations for Matebeleland Genocide Conference
The 1893 MHRRM is stepping up and kick-starting its preparations for its UK International Matebeleland "Gukurahundi" Genocide Conference that is now rescheduled for early October 2018. The actual date...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 16:31hrs | | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM's Secretary for Information and Publicity
1893 MHRRM condemns state sanctioned public executions
The 1893 MHRRM condemns unreservedly any form of violence, more so, state sanctioned violence, public executions and on-going human rights violations committed by the genocidal state of Zimbabwe on in...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Information and Publicity Dept
Zimbabwe: Human rights defenders at risk as elections approach
Preliminary findings of a field missionPARIS, France - Ahead of Zimbabwe's much anticipated general elections scheduled on July 30, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:20hrs | 1 | by FIDH
Restoration of a bloody legacy
WHEN it comes to such watershed elections and contestations for power as the first post-Mugabe vote that Zimbabwe is about to experience, politicians and political systems are known to resort to their...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbiko Macaphulana
Gukurahundi skeletons tumble out of the closet
AS Zimbabwe inches towards critical general elections on Monday, skeletons of Gukurahundi massacres - which remain an emotive political and electoral issue in the country - are tumbling out of the clo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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