Zimbabweans are forced again to grapple with sad news of industrial action by medical practitioners in the public health sector. The news comes at a time when memories of a story carried in The Herald of 5 September 2019  are still fresh. It was one of the most disturbing stories  where a pregnant woman was […]

These developments are threatening to plunge the nation into darker days ahead, with the potential for degeneration if the situation is not addressed intently and with care, and with fidelity to the Constitution.

The importation is despite the government of Zimbabwe having run sustained agricultural support programmes such as command agriculture and pfumvudza.

It is critical for an economy such as Zimbabwe to establish whether the tax-payer can afford this engagement.

The mobile process, which started on April 1 and runs until September 30, this year, was long overdue considering that since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, there has been limited operation of the Registrar General’s office, and there were restrictions of movements.

In the majority of these incidents, Zanu PF supporters were hounding people they suspected had supported the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in the run up to the March 26 by- election.

The fears of the Hlengwe-Xangani ethnic group commonly referred to as the Chilonga community are not unfounded.

What is even more shocking is that this has become so much like an acceptable situation, and when people go to public health institutions, they  seem used to the idea that all they get is consultation, and when it comes to getting necessary items like medication, and sometimes bed linen, they have to source that themselves.

The scale of brutality that has broken out in parts of South Africa, mainly low income, poor localities in Gauteng, has led to extreme terrorisation of foreign residents as locals target “illegal” immigrants whom they demand must be deported from South Africa.

CIASA urges the people of South Africa to remember the people-to-people solidarity and support which was extended to them by fellow Africans for their country to end apartheid. While the majority of ordinary South Africans are still suffering the dual yoke of poverty and inequality, targeting foreigners for these frustrations is un-African and would not resolve these deep and complex problems.

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clement Nyaletsossi Voule, following a visit to Zimbabwe in 2019, noted in a subsequent report that Zimbabwe was suffering from political polarisation and poor governance.

Zimbabweans are like that. They are not politically emancipated no matter their level of education.

This month, ZPP recorded a significant increase in the profile and scope of the human rights violations recorded.

The current wave of political violence has serious implications on women and children and can see the repeat of the events of 2008 that plunged the nation into a social and political crisis, and collapsed services delivery.

Although health is a critical sector whose operations need no interruption, it is concerning to note that the recently published Health Service Amendment Bill seeks to suppress health workers from speaking out or protesting against poor wages and service conditions (dilapidated equipment). This will impede upon health workers’ rights and the ramification of such amendments […]

In the run up to the last elections, Zanu PF promised to deliver quality health care for all, including free primary health care for citizens at all levels. However, since 2018, the country has seen the constant deterioration of the public health system coupled with dilapidation of the existing infrastructure with most hospitals understaffed and […]

Viset is outraged that the extortionate 2% tax is being maintained, along with a trebling of the withholding tax of 10% of the value of commercial goods imported by cross-border traders to 30%, with effect from August 1, 2022.

As a matter of fact we are a registered trade union that represents workers at Kunyu Mine and will concentrate on the issues that have been raised by the workers there.

The government of Zimbabwe has guaranteed the implementation of the joint venture waste-to-energy project between the City of Harare and Geogenix BV worth about US$344 million over 30 years.

According to information the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) gathered, the Zanu PF district chairperson Emmerson Raradza, Muzarabani South legislator Tapera Saizi and Zhemu, with the assistance of Kazembe organised a group of party youths and mobilised resources to converge and attack Biti, who is also Harare East legislator.

Zimbabweans are forced again to grapple with sad news of industrial action by medical practitioners in the public health sector. The news comes at a time when memories of a story carried in The Herald of 5 September 2019  are still fresh. It was one of the most disturbing stories  where a pregnant woman was […]

These developments are threatening to plunge the nation into darker days ahead, with the potential for degeneration if the situation is not addressed intently and with care, and with fidelity to the Constitution.

The importation is despite the government of Zimbabwe having run sustained agricultural support programmes such as command agriculture and pfumvudza.

It is critical for an economy such as Zimbabwe to establish whether the tax-payer can afford this engagement.

The mobile process, which started on April 1 and runs until September 30, this year, was long overdue considering that since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, there has been limited operation of the Registrar General’s office, and there were restrictions of movements.

In the majority of these incidents, Zanu PF supporters were hounding people they suspected had supported the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in the run up to the March 26 by- election.