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Zimbabwe lawyers to march against Chitepo training for judges
Zimbabwean lawyers will take to the streets tomorrow in protest against what they describe as a blatant attempt by the government to undermine judicial independence and politicise the judiciary throug...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 09:57hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teachers take salary dispute to ILO
Zimbabwean teachers have escalated their long-standing labour dispute with the government to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), citing deteriorating working conditions, low pay, and continue...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 19:15hrs | 3580 | by Staff reporter
Guard fired for being HIV positive
A Bulawayo widow has been left humiliated and jobless after Seasec Security Company allegedly forced her to prove she was HIV positive before firing her for attending a routine medical review....Published: 10 May 2025 at 16:08hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks robber's freedom bid citing dishonest submissions
Suspected armed robber Thulani Munetsi's plea for bail after two years in pretrial detention has yet again been rejected by the High Court.Munetsi, accused of participating in four armed robbe...Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 08:37hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Whether one calls it a third term or a term extension, it's the same: an illegitimate attempt to prolong power
The riddles continue in an attempt to hoodwink the people of Zimbabwe. The ruling ZANU-PF National Political Commissar, Munyaradzi Machacha, yesterday sought to reframe the increasingly contro...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 13:46hrs | 259 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cape Town may pump as much sewage into the sea as it likes
In a controversial move, Environment Minister Dion George has allowed the City of Cape Town to pump an unlimited volume of untreated sewage into the sea, following a suspension of discharge limits und...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 12:43hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's foot soldiers denied bail
Several activists from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), including Jameson Zvidzai Timba, appeared in court in Harare facing charges related to attending an unlawful gathering, visibly bearing ...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Boardroom coup to topple Matabele leader backfires on Chamisa
When it comes to tribalism in Zimbabwe, CCC aka MDC and ZANU-PF lead. To put it in other words, ZANU-PF is the first anti- Matabele Shona project and first home for Shona supremacists in Zimbabwe and ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:12hrs | | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe wallows in debt distress
ZIMBABWE has reached a critical moment in terms of its debt obligations as serious violations of constitutional provisions of public finance management continue unsolved.Deliberation at this w...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa beware, people will come for you
Zimbabweans notice with deep sadness the blatant violent violation of their constitutional right to peacefully demonstrate against a government that has totally failed to manage their affairs. On the ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Zanda Shumba
'Zimbabwe courts politicised, militarised'
Recent mandatory jail sentences of rioters which range from one year to 5 years are stiffer compared to those imposed in Smith's regime, lawyers and analysts contend.The harsh sentences being ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:03hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Sibanda and Tarisai Machakaire
Ex-MDC MP hails Matabeleland South people for boycotting Chamisa
Former MDC Bulilima East Norman Mpofu has hailed people in Matebeleland for not endorsing violence by boycotting MDC- Alliance rally that was addressed by MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa on Sunday....Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
The issue of Ndebele king being UnConstitutional is nonsense
1. King Zwide Nyamande approached the court and Justice Makonese in the morning and had a provisional order (prohibitory interdict) granted in his favour in the morning. His qualms interalia are that ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 18:40hrs | | by Mazibisa Shepherd Sindiso
Mnangagwa breached the Constitution
In the wake of a constitutional challenge to the legitimacy of the military operation that directly or indirectly brought President Emmerson Mnangagwa to power, this piece is focussed on examining the...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Paul Kaseke
Tribal politics and male false sense of entitlement
The glaring fact being exposed and highlighted by the recent actions and behaviour of the MDC-T youths in Buhera is the entrenched divisions in our country and the factionalism within the MDCT. Suppos...Published: 24 Feb 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Susan Ndlovu, ZAPU Europe Chairperson
Charumbira's calls for Chiefs to back Mugabe a blatant violation of constitution
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said it is greatly concerned by the blatant disregard of the Constitution by the leader of traditional leaders Chief Fortune Charumbira.On 28 Octob...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 10:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mudede out of order
REGISTRAR-General Tobaiwa Mudede has been slammed for insinuating government would seek to amend the Constitution in a bid to circumvent the issue of dual citizenship as guaranteed in the country's go...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Employers' blatant violation of Constitution can't be left unchallenged
As Zimbabwe's labour situation spirals out of control in a freefall characterised by serfdom - whereby employers blatantly violate the country's constitution on labour rights, increasingly abusing the...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
2015 BEAM allocation is evidence of Human Rights Marginalisation
The evidence released by the Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Services Honourable Engineer Matangaidze in Parliament on the 30th of November 2016 regarding the 2015 BEAM alloca...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 20:41hrs | 1 | by Mr Benedict Sibasa
MLF leaders under fire over Magagula dismissal
Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) leaders in South Africa and Botswana have come under fire over the expulsion of former party spokesperson David Magagula.The Zimbabwean based party leaders hav...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 21:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's insincerity on human rights evident
Hardly before the ink on the recommendations made by the recent United Nation's Human Rights Council's Periodic Review of November 2016 had dried, Zimbabwe reverted back to the poor and alarming h...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 07:46hrs | 7 | by Zimrights
Divisions rock Mthwakazi Liberation Front
SERIOUS infighting has broken up in the secessionist party, Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) after the expulsion of David Magagula, who was the party' spokesperson.Magagula was expelled fr...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North and South excluded from local government bill hearings
In a glaring act of deliberate exclusion, marginalization and violation of Constitutional Right to equality and non-discrimination as espoused in Chapter 4 section 56 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, ...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 21:22hrs | | by Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights
Customs rebate law sparks legal dispute
Statutory Instrument 148 of 2015 which only grants the $200 travellers' rebate on customs duty to people travelling in buses without luggage trailers and takes away the privilege from those in buses t...Published: 30 May 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
MDC-T march: attempt at covering up Bulawayo rot
THE planned MDC-T march in Bulawayo will not turn around the troubled party's fortunes in the city with the Bulawayo City Council, its model of governance, presently under pressure over allegations of...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:05hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
'Tomana has case to answer'
Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana should remain on remand because there is reasonable suspicion that he committed an offence, Harare provincial magistrate Mr Vakayi Chikwekwe said yesterday.T...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 05:08hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
'Tomana has case to answer'
Powers to prosecute are not vested in an individual, but in the National Prosecuting Authority, contrary to claims by arrested Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana, in a case in which he is challenging ...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:09hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Tomana fights against 'unconstitutional' arrest
The State yesterday requested more time to prepare its response to Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana's application in which he is challenging his placement on remand arguing his arrest was unconstitu...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Calls for Bashir to be arrested in South Africa
Johannesburg - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir must be arrested if he arrives in South Africa for the African Union summit in Johannesburg, two organisations said on Friday.According to ...Published: 12 Jun 2015 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Human Rights lawyers issue ultimatum to Chombo
Zimbabwe Lawyers for human Rights (ZLHR) has issued an ultimatum to Local Government Public works minister Ignatius Chombo over the ultimatum, which together with the Zimbabwe National Army they i...Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 06:18hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Go Mujuru, I Say Go For It!
Every regular reader of this post - friend and foe - knows that I hardly cough without deliberately spewing generous doses of spittle on ZANU.PF, Robert Mugabe's party.I harbour such hatre...Published: 08 Dec 2014 at 08:48hrs | | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Hollande warns African leaders who cling to power
Dakar - French President Francois Hollande is taking to task African leaders who seek ways around term limits to extend their reigns.At a summit of francophone countries in Senegal on Satu...Published: 30 Nov 2014 at 13:32hrs | | by AP
ZACRAS condemn Police ban on Harare Press Freedom Day Celebrations
MEDIA FREEDOM UNDER SEIGEMAZ AND ZACRAS STATEMENT ON THE BAN OF WORLD PRESSFREEDOM DAY EVENTTheme: Media Freedom, Professionalism, and Constitutionalism are k...Published: 03 May 2014 at 13:30hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Paying ZBC licence violation of my rights
A Harare man charged with failing to pay for a broadcasting listener's licence contends that compelling people who do not listen or watch ZBC programmes to subscribe was a violation of constitutional ...Published: 01 Aug 2012 at 11:27hrs | | by Court Reporter
Hararians gangs against Welshman Ncube
A Harare lawyer, Mr Aston Musunga, says Constitution Amendment number 19 has no provision for the recalling of a sitting principal member of the inclusive government, making it legally i...Published: 09 Feb 2011 at 15:28hrs | | by Byo24News
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