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Zimbabwe prisons remain overpopulated
Zimbabwe's prison population is too high and authorities are struggling to fulfil their mandate of rehabilitating inmates, an official said on Tuesday.Appearing before a joint sitting of parli...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 15:47hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Hunting benefits truths can collapse Anti-hunting Animal Rights Groups
The recent 'flooding' of the media and British House Lords with the truths about international hunting benefits not only caused a rethink on the UK trophy hunting imports ban Bill but can also eventua...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 10:13hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro
Overcrowding crisis hits Ingutsheni Hospital
BULAWAYO's Ingutsheni mental hospital has become overcrowded, triggering a serious shortage of blankets.A Bulawayo resident, who recently visited the health institution to see a relative, said...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbare violence signals worse to come ahead of 2023 elections
VIOLENT clashes between marauding Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and Zanu-PF youths at the weekend left a trail of destruction at vending sites near Mupedzanhamo Complex, one of the busiest area...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare Prisons overpopulated
HARARE Central and Remand Prisons have more than their holding capacities, H-Metro has established.More than 1 300 inmates are at Harare Remand Prison, which has a holding capacity of 900 inma...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections: The morning after
ZANU-PF's Wednesday St Mary's rally was a turning point in several ways. Of course, the most obvious marker were the numbers that attended, something even the blind could see and feel.I cannot...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Minister in fresh farm grab storm
MATABELELAND North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo has been sucked into a fresh farm invasion storm as it emerged he allegedly seized another black-owned farm and parcelled it out to members ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
International organizations urge Africa to oppose EU ivory trade ban bid
"The European Commission's proposed ban on international trade in ivory will be a disaster for those African communities who rely on wildlife for food and job security" according to a joint statement ...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 17:33hrs | 8 | by Emmanuel Koro
ZimParks raises concern over surge in human-wildlife conflicts
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has attributed the surge in human-wildlife conflicts to overpopulation and encroachment of human settlements into conservancies....Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 scare at Trojan Mine
Trojan Nickel Mine residents are living in apprehension as the number of positive COVID-19 cases continues to soar.This comes at a time when Zimbabwe, and the world at large, is also tussling ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 14:52hrs | | by Lloyd Rabaya
'Massive diarrhoea outbreak at Chikurubi'
AN INMATE at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison (Chikurubi) has launched an urgent High Court application in which he wants authorities to deal with diarrhoea, hepatitis B and tuberculosis outbreaks at...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women suffer brunt of Harare's water woes
Rita Tawona is a 34 year old mother who lives in Glenview, a Harare high density suburb, with her husband and four kids.Her day starts as early as 3AM as she wakes up to join a long winding qu...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade
SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
'Prisons harden criminals'
MDC activist and Mashonaland Central province youth treasurer Thulani Mcumillan Ndlovu has called on government to channel more resources towards prisons, saying the current living conditions are appa...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poor living conditions at Bindura prison: MDC activist
MDC activist and Mashonaland Central province youth treasurer Thulani Mcumillan Ndlovu has lamented the poor living conditions at Bindura prison following his arrest in the violent protests that...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Zimbabwe prisons overcrowded'
DESPITE the release of 3 000 prisoners through the Presidential Amnesty last year, Zimbabwe's prisons are still overpopulated, with the country's correctional facilities carrying 2 382 inmates above t...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Sytaff reporter
Mbare project raises stink
Harare City Council and the government have come under fire after revelations that the much-trumpeted renovation of Mbare's Matapi Flats only centred around the repainting of outside walls.The...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:57hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Rural development agenda should be on the priority list
MDC -T led by Thokozani Khupe has challenged the government to make the rural development agenda a priority.MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira said Rural development agenda should be on the pri...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 09:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Open for business starts with health funding, Mr Mnangagwa
ONE death is a death too many to justify. As the cholera outbreak ravaged populous Harare high-density suburbs Glen View and Budiriro for the second time within a decade, my heart grieves and prays th...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
SA-based patriots have lofty economic ambitions for Zimbabwe
IN December last year, a month after taking over the reins from longtime leader Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited South Africa to woo investors.After meeting Zimba...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 16:43hrs | | by CAJ News
SA hunters to shoot 2000 Zambian hippos
South African hunters will take part in the slaughter of 2 000 hippos in the pristine Luangwa Valley in Zambia. This follows a shock move by the Zambian government, which overturned a 2016 decision to...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Janine Avery
Prosperity is a spiritual blessing
Poverty is not a sin but accepting poverty it's a sin.Our prisons are overpopulated today because of poverty pushing a good person "over the Brink" to do bad things to escape poverty or a certain econ...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 14:19hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere
Ministry seeks amnesty for over 2 000 prisoners
THE Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs wants more than 2 000 prisoners to be pardoned to ease congestion in the country's prisons in its 100-day plan and is engaging President Emmers...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe should be investing 6% of GDP in capital formation
A political analyst Vince Musewe has challenged the Zimbabwean authorities to at least invest 6% of gross domestic product in capital formation to bring the nation out of its current economic quagmire...Published: 24 May 2017 at 08:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The crisis of educated Zimbabweans
Our beloved continent, is currently dominated by a generation of noise makers: a people who can talk almost all the time, but don't act. It is very annoying to hear some "experts" giving speeches over...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 00:30hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
The opportunistic useless soldiers
It is known that the soldiers of Saul were cowards who could not challenge the boastful Goliath (1 Samuel 17:11). But there is something interesting as we observe their reaction after the slaying ...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 07:11hrs | | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
Prisoners won’t starve, says Zimondi
Food security across the country's prisons and correctional facilities is stable and no inmate will starve, the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has said. Speaking during a to...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:26hrs | | by Samantha Chigogo
Oppah Muchinguri 'stalls' development projects in Tsholotsho
THE Minister of Water, Climate and Environment Oppah Muchinguri has been accused of stalling development projects in Tsholotsho by frustrating an elephant hunt which had been okayed by her predecessor...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 08:08hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Jonathan Moyo set to reclaim Tsholotsho North
Government will drill 20 boreholes spread evenly across the 10 wards of Tsholotsho North to alleviate acute water shortages that have seen villagers travelling long distances in search of potable wat...Published: 14 May 2015 at 06:22hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Drape Rhodes' grave with human dung and dance 'borrowdale' on it
While Rhodes sleeps, sleeps well at the Matopos, he sits on one in Cape Town, the place he lived most and from where he dreamt colonising Africa, north of the Limpopo. Among his many beneficiary i...Published: 28 Mar 2015 at 05:57hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe set to serve elephant meat at his birthday party
Wild animals are reportedly set to be slaughtered and served at President Robert Mugabe's 91st birthday party, a development that has enraged conservationists.A report by the Chronicle said a ...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 11:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe coup mastermind' launches new political party
Alleged coup mastermind and former army captain Alfred Matapo has launched a new political party - United Crusade for Achieving Democracy (Ucad) - and insists that Zanu PF's days in government are nu...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
A toast to South Africa's black middle class
In the summer of 2005, South Africa–based entrepreneur Marilyn Cooper decided to give her neighbors in a suburb of the capital, Pretoria, a barbecue treat. Alluding to the inscr...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 12:13hrs | | by Benjamin Dürr
Zimbabwe inmates cheer for rotten bread
Every couple of weeks, inmates at Harare Central and Chikurubi prisons in Zimbabwe greet the arrival of bakery trucks with roars of approval, whistles and dancing.The trucks arrival signals a...Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 07:07hrs | | by IRIN
Waterborne diseases outbreak looms in Bulawayo suburbs
AN outbreak of waterborne diseases is looming in Bulawayo with some suburbs going for weeks without water, forcing residents to resort to using the bush to relieve themselves.Suburbs such as M...Published: 25 Oct 2012 at 05:13hrs | | by Health reporter
In Zimbabwe, a hungry man is a docile man, not an angry man
As their country's economic decline continues to gather speed, Zimbabweans of all walks of life increasingly adopted creative coping mechanisms, captured succinctly in the phrase "make a plan" that is...Published: 19 Sep 2011 at 12:26hrs | | by Dell
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