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Justice Sello Nare buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery
The burial of Retired Justice Sello Nare was today buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo, a resting place reserved for distinguished senior citizens and individuals who made significant contribu...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:10hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accords Nare State-assisted funeral
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that a State-assisted funeral will be held for the late retired Justice Selo Masole Nare, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 81 while receiving specia...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:08hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Justice Selo Nare
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed his condolences to the Nare family following the death of retired Labour Court judge Justice Selo Nare, who passed away on Saturday.In a statement re...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:02hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Retired Justice Sello Nare dies
Retired Justice Sello Nare, Chairperson of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), has passed away at the age of 81.A family spokesperson, Lesley Ncube, confirmed the news to ...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 12:00hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should release the Dumbutshena, Chihambakwe reports
The government should release reports by two commissions that investigated the Gukurahundi genocide "as part of truth telling" ahead of new public hearings in Matabeleland which President Emmerson Mna...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 20:54hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
US spies busted, deported
FOUR United States nationals contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly sneaked into the country last month without notifying the authorities as per protoc...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
FULL LIST: President Mnangagwa honours best performing public official
In a prestigious ceremony held at the State House in Harare, President Mnangagwa honored the outstanding performance of several key public officials across various sectors. The event, which mark...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 11:16hrs | 20 | by George Tshuma
Zapu leader calls out Charumbira's Gukurahundi genocide denial
Sibangilizwe Nkomo, leader of the ZAPU party, has criticised Chief Fortune Charumbira, the deputy president of the National Chiefs Council, for publicly denying that the atrocities during Gukurahundi ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide workshop raises eyebrows over chief's role
An invitation to a sensitisation meeting in Bulawayo sent to media editors regarding the Gukurahundi outreach community programme has cast doubt on the National Chiefs Council's authority over the gen...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 14:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unity Day has lost its lustre
TODAY Zimbabwe celebrates Unity Day. It is a day that is meant to unite Zimbabweans as they reflect on the dark past of the 80s in which about 20 000 people were killed in what is now known as Gukurah...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide survivors struggle for closure
AS the 10-year term of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe, aimed at bringing peace and healing to survivors and families affected by past atrocities, approaches its en...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi, disputed polls' frustrations manifest in Barbourfields violence
Highlanders' supporters recently shared a poignant story, perhaps a release of pent-up emotions. Allan Bhasvi, tasked with overseeing a much-anticipated match between old rivals Dynamos and Highlander...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi mayoral election sparks fierce jostling among CCC councillors
THERE is fierce tussling within Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) Chinhoyi as four contestants position themselves ahead of elections to choose a new mayor and deputy premier.Last Wednesday...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties march for peace
REPRESENTATIVES from different political parties in Gwanda Town on Friday conducted a march around the mining town in a bid to send a message of peace across the community as the country draws towards...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 21:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC-T, CCC make pledge for peaceful election campaigns
Representatives of the country's three main political parties have pledged their parties' commitment to observing peace ahead and beyond the country's harmonised elections due August 23 this year....Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties urged to shun violence
HUMAN rights' watchdog, 4HZimbabwe, has encouraged political parties to desist from politically motivated violence ahead of the August 23 elections.4HZimbabwe director John Muchenje made the r...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Peace commission knows nothing about attacks on Chamisa's supporters
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has blasted National Peace and Reconciliation Commissioners (NPRC), whom it has accused of turning a blind eye to violence meted on its supporters by Zanu-PF....Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans forgetting Kasukuwere's injustice'
ZIMBABWEANS are choosing to turn a blind eye on presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's dirty past, United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) President Elisabeth Valerio has said.Valerio, whose candi...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 20:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa to pay $20,000 to ZEC
YESTERDAY marked the closing of voter registration for the upcoming harmonised elections, according to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).As part of the nomination process, individuals vy...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
History of organised violence, torture in Zimbabwe (1972-2020)
ON Wednesday May 24, 2023, I joined a panel of human rights defenders to reflect on the problem of organised violence and torture in Zimbabwe.This was during the launch of the report A Short H...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Dzikamai Bere
Suicide cases spike in Mashonaland central
SUICIDE cases in Zimbabwe continue to soar with Mashonaland Central recording the highest number, according to the latest National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) report.According t...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
NPRC launches nationwide peace campaign
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has launched a two-month nationwide peace campaign ahead of Zimbabwe's harmonized elections in August.The campaign, which is being funde...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:30hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe media urged to promote peace during elections
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has crafted an elections conflict prevention strategy that will guide it and its stakeholders in coming up with ways to prevent violence during the for...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans hope for peaceful, free and fair 2023 elections
AS 2023 general elections beckon, Zimbabweans from across the political divide are hoping for peaceful, free and fair polls that usher a leadership reflective of the people's will.In cross-cut...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says no unity without true dialogue
CIVIC society and opposition political parties yesterday decried Zimbabwe's highly-polarised society which they say have rendered Unity Day irrelevant.Zimbabwe yesterday celebrated the 35th an...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Underfunding cripples NPRC'
HEAL Zimbabwe has decried lack of political will and under-funding that has grounded the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) national healing and reconciliation programmes.In i...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC proposes national peace pledge
THE opposition Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) has proposed that the country must craft a national peace pledge targeting political parties before next year's polls to ensure they are peaceful....Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr President, how far with the hyped mega deals?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, there is still no evidence of the mega deals you hyped about during your inauguration. Corruption is still rampant. And, there is dead silenc...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
'Violence robbed CCC'
The main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has blamed its weekend by-elections defeat to violence and other coercive tactics employed by the ruling Zanu-PF party.The violence prio...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
List of people and organisations who participated in the sanctioning of Zimbabwe
FORMER Masvingo Urban legislator, Tongai Matutu, has published a long list of eminent opposition politicians he claims were at the forefront inviting "hurtful" sanctions on Zimbabwe.Last week,...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu under fire over sanctions remarks
NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) commissioner Obert Gutu has come under attack from Zimbabweans in the diaspora after suggesting that they will only be allowed a vote if sanctions i...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs, CSOs demand return of Zipra properties
A REPORT by chiefs on the Gukurahundi issue states that civic society and chiefs in Matabeleland North and South want Zipra properties that were taken by government soon after independence to be retur...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says he's got nothing to hide
In his weekly column in the state-run weekly, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that next year Zimbabwe would "hold elections in the full glare of world attention"."We have nothing to hide...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assigns Reconciliation Act to Justice Ministry
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has assigned the administration of the National Peace and Reconciliation Act to Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who needs to give the required su...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities must release opposition MPs
THE continued arbitrary detention of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-chairperson and Members of Parliament Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) is rev...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by SeeD
Zimbabwe yet to realise peace, says sponsored NGOs
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) and religious groups yesterday said the country was yet to realise peace as human rights abuses and violence persists ahead of the 2023 polls.In statements t...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi source of ethnic tension'
UNITED Nations experts on International Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination have said Gukurahundi remains a source of ethnic tension in the country.The UN said healing and cl...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Don't muzzle Gukurahundi genocide survivors'
THE United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to stop restricting Gukurahundi survivors from mourning and holdin...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parly called to enact stiffer penalties against electoral violence
HEAL Zimbabwe Trust (HZT), a community oriented human rights organisation, has called on Parliament to summon the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Comm...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe clemency order cannot cover genocide'
THE National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) has said the statement by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi that perpetrators of Gukurahundi could not be prosecuted because they were covered by...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Craft 2023 elections peace pledge'
THE National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) has urged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to ensure that a peace pledge is implemented before the watershed 2023 polls i...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lies have short legs, Cde Ziyambi
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi ZiyambiIN 1997, the first recognisable social media site, Six Degrees, came on stream, redefining the world of communication as ...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not a peaceful country, says dodgy report
ZIMBABWE has been ranked 127 out of 163 countries in terms of being a peaceful nation by the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2022.The peace index was carried out through a survey by the Institute for...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
'Mnangagwa's Justice minister lied to the world'
ZIMBABWE'S civil society organisations (CSOs) have accused Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of misrepresenting the country's human rights situation at the 107th session of the International Convention...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi's Gukurahundi genocide remarks revealing
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi finally let the cat out of the bag when he told a United Nations panel that the government did not consider the Gukurahundi massacres as something that needs urgent re...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN doubts Zimbabwe Peace Commission's capacity to resolve Gukurahundi
THE UNITED Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has poked holes into the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), questioning its ability to resolve the long-standing and highly emotive...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi shuts hopes on Gukurahundi arrests
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says there shall never be any arrests carried out on those who killed and maimed thousands during the Gukurahundi massacres as the culprits were long forgiven by then ...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns official who called for Nelson Chamisa to be killed
Zanu-PF has disowned a party official filmed telling a rally in Mberengwa that Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa, his supporters and their children should be murdered.Zanu-PF...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Chamisa bishop must be arrested, demands Mtetwa
Swaziland born human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtewa has ratcheted pressure on the State to take action against a Zanu-PF member who threatened Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa w...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa demands arrest of Zanu-PF leader
RIGHTS lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, has written to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), demanding the arrest of Zanu-PF member, Abton ‘Bhito' Mashayanyika, who recently called for the murder of Citizens ...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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