What happened in Gokwe on Thursday heralds the beginning of political violence that will blight the 2023 elections whose results will predictably be disputed.

Appearing before the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on August 18 in Geneva that discussed a periodic review of Zimbabwe, Ziyambi  claimed the post-independence atrocities, that have become to be known as Gukurahundi, were not confined to Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.

South Africa last year announced that the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) dispensation will come to an end in December this year.

A majority of Zimbabwean workers, including civil servants, are mostly paid in local currency and they have limited access to foreign currency, which makes the government’s position on school fees unreasonable.

Zesa chairman Sydney Gata revealed last week that the country risked losing power import contracts with utilities in Zambia and Mozambique to South Africa because it was failing to pay for the electricity supplies on time.

The government is interfering more in the operations of local authorities through the imposition of bad economic deals such as the one between Harare City Council and Geogenix BV of the Netherlands early this year to set up a waste-to-energy plant at the Pomona dumpsite.

They are striking over poor salaries and conditions of service. The decision to down tools came after talks with government over the issue had fallen through and were abandoned.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is becoming even more heavy handed in dealing with dissent than the autocratic Mugabe, who ruled with an iron fist for about four decades.

PSMAS was set up by civil servants to provide medical cover to members at a reasonable cost.

Patients at public hospitals endured a tough week after health workers, who included junior doctors, nurses, radiographers and pharmacists went on strike on June 20 demanding a review of their salaries.

Ali’s abduction and murder was part of a cycle driven by impunity of perpetrators and this is why all eyes have been on the police to demonstrate that they are now a professional organisation by handling the investigations professionally.

Overzealous police officers stormed the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe offices in the city centre and arrested the 34, who included the church leader Bishop Ancelimo Magaya.

Councils throughout the country are struggling to deliver basic services such as refuse collection and provide clean running water because their budgets are stretched.

The latest batch, which was recently vetted, is said to have missed out during the first round of compensation in 1997.

Mnangagwa’s administration paid millions of dollars in foreign currency to western public relations firms in a desperate move to clean its image and gain acceptance from countries that have ostracised Zimbabwe because of the Mugabe regime’s human rights record.

Mnangagwa said the shock measures were meant to cripple speculators whom he said were behind the rapid collapse of the local currency, which was reintroduced in 2019.

Two years ago the government used the Covid-19 pandemic as a cover to ban private transport operators in urban areas and imposed Zupco as the only public transport operator.

The government took the side of the Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T, which sent the bloated delegation to Bulawayo despite the outcry that the city can ill afford spending US$136 000 when it is struggling to deliver basic services to ratepayers.

The value of the Zimbabwe dollar has been plummeting on the parallel market in the last few weeks, pushing prices of basic commodities beyond the reach of the poor who form the majority of the population.

Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe statistics show an increase in road traffic crash fatalities of 35 percent between 2010 (2 291 deaths) and 2019 (2 000).

Civil servants form the majority of PSMAS subscribers at over 750 000 or 90% of the medical insurer’s membership base.

There is no doubt that victors of this by-election, the newly-born Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, are determined to plough forward to bigger victory while the vanquished Zanu PF gird their loins for the battle ahead.

There is no doubt that victors of this by-election, the newly-born Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, are determined to plough forward to bigger victory while the vanquished Zanu PF gird their loins for the battle ahead.

Zimbabwe finally held the long-awaited by-elections yesterday after divisive campaigns punctuated by violence against the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and inflammatory language by the country’s leadership. The March 26 by-elections came after a two-year ban on elections by the government under the pretext that it was trying to contain the spread of Covid-19. […]

Zanu PF is clearly rattled by the momentum being shown by the newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Nelson Chamisa, hence the senseless violence being meted against the opposition party’s supporters by the ruling party’s goons and security forces.

The Harare High Court rightfully reversed the police order and said the rally could go ahead provided the opposition party attended to concerns raised by the law enforcement agents.

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The announcement came at a time when Parliament is conducting hearings into the contentious PVO Ammmendment where the ruling Zanu PF party is showing determination to railroad the contentious proposed law.

Fifa says it will only lift the suspension of the country if the Zifa officials are reinstated, but the Src insists that will not happen.

Tongues were sent wagging last week when police set tough conditions for CCC to hold its by-elections official launch in Harare today, which seemed not to apply to the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T and the ruling Zanu PF.

The writing of examinations spilled into this year and it was now a race against time for many students because of the lost time.

Teachers from public schools say they can’t afford to return to class because their salaries have been eroded by inflation.

Police said they arrested, charged and fined the five supporters of the new political party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for public nuisance. They said the five were blocking a pavement and obstructing human traffic on a street in Harare.

Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi will attend the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review working group meeting where he will do his best to paint a rosy picture of the country’s human rights situation.

Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi will attend the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review working group meeting where he will do his best to paint a rosy picture of the country’s human rights situation.

Superintending over a restive civil service and abandoning provision of social services has been one of the biggest mistakes that the Zanu PF government has made.

Needless to say, the exercise is violently merciless, targets some of the poorest citizens of the country and affects mostly women and children. This happens virtually every year and the timing is almost always during the rainy season, or in winter.

The ultimatum, from the international football authorities, is no threat at all as history and events in other countries prove that Fifa do not backtrack on their warnings.

Chiwenga’s rant followed a forthright assessment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s leadership by Chief Murinye from Masvingo.

This follows the suspension of the entire Zifa board by the country’s sport regulator, the Sports and Recreation (SRC), in the aftermath of a dismal World Cup qualification campaign by the Warriors about a month ago. 

President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the new measures last week, which made it mandatory for everyone arriving in the country to go into quarantine for 10 days at their own expense even if they test negative to Covid-19.

There are also indications that the variant can reduce the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines. 

Since the reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar in 2019, the government has been introducing measures that seem to undermine the local currency such as pegging fees for some of its services in foreign currency.

In yet another sign that the situation is getting out of hand, the country’s second largest city Bulawayo announced on Friday that it would be without water supply for 48 hours due to intermittent power outages.

From Dinde in Matabeleland North to Uzumba in Mashonaland East, communities have been fighting hard to block Chinese companies from setting up mines in their ancestral lands before any consultations with local people.

Charumbira, who has in the past been censured by the courts for his illegal political activities, gave a solidarity message at the conference that was held in Bindura where he vowed that traditional leaders “will never leave Zanu PF”. 

According to Health and Child Care ministry statistics, only 7 209 people got their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday and 10 298 received the second dose.

The barbaric attacks on the cars carrying Chamisa’s security aides during his tour of Masvingo last week were captured on camera and in some instances police officers watched as the Zanu PF supporters ran amok.

In countries where corruption and money laundering are frowned upon, the Pandora Papers, the anonymous leak of more than 11,9 million documents from databases of 14 corporate service providers, have forced those implicated to explain themselves.