A group claiming to be the legitimate Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has refuted the recent statement made by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa where he indicated that there will be a new election for the leadership of the freedom fighters. “We would like to clarify the following points. It is important to note that…
Traditionally, the push for acknowledging historical climate obligations was put to the test, as some of the big emitters joined forces with global southern countries to push for a fossil fuel phase-out position.
The extremist Israeli government continues to implement extremist policies, ignoring the international consensus to stop the war, protect civilians, and provide for their basic needs.
Writes Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi An average African, just to ask him/her which team they support they are more likely to tell you they support a European football team than a local team. Football has had a significant impact on Africa, both culturally and socially. If African governments do not invest in football, there…
In recent times, the call for inclusive leadership within political parties has gained significant traction.
The Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance in Zimbabwe (SAAPA ZW) is deeply concerned about the video circulating on social media showing minors consuming alcohol in the streets of Harare on Christmas day. “This is a grave violation of the Liquor Act [Chapter 14:12], which regulates the trade in liquor in the country. We are appalled…
According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care, more than 200 people are suspected to have fallen victim to the cholera outbreak in several parts of the country, while more than 130 people have been hospitalised since February 2023.
Writes Prof Gift Mugano Parliament must reject the anti-people and anti-industry Budget that was presented by Finance and Economic Development Minister, Prof Mthuli Ncube on Thursday. The proposed tax hikes and the move to exclude informal traders from the mainstream economy will bring more pain to the already impoverished people. The decision to exclude traders…
Writes Lovemore Chazingwa The international media fraternity has once again been plunged into darkness following the murder of at least 20 journalists by Israeli forces in the massacres bombarding the Gaza Strip. Some have described the situation as “a total disregard for the right to profession.” According to Al Jazeera news outlets, the Gaza Government…
Writes Professor Laeed Zaghlami of the University of Algiers (Faculty of Media and Communication) What is currently happening in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly in the Gaza Strip, is a war of extermination waged by the army of the Zionist entity against a defenceless people who are defending their stolen legitimate rights implicitly with international…
Writes Takudzwa Changadeya Opposition leader Herbert Chamuka has made a call for the main opposition party to join forces with the ruling party Zanu-PF and establish a government of national unity (GNU). Chamuka argues that the current political environment in the country is not leading it anywhere. Speaking to reporters in Harare recently, Chamuka emphasized…
By Ryan Orgera, Global Director, Accountability.Fish Who controls the world’s oceans? Even though this is a massive question, the answer is problematic, to say the least. It’s problematic in that the only bodies with any meaningful say in what happens to the oceans are 17 obscure organizations that are heavily focused on the management of…
The Ambassador of the state of Palestine, Dr Tamer Almassri condemns the ‘barbaric serious statements by the fascist ultranationalist’ Israeli Minister of Heritage, Amichai Eliyahu who has dared to call for an atomic bomb to be dropped on Gaza and annihilate it. “The state of Palestine considers this as a declaration and clear acknowledgment of…
By Rudo Tivaone The physical, socioeconomic, and social background of a learner has an impact on the learner’s academic performance. Children from poor families tend to have more disadvantages which leads to poor academic results as compared to those who come from well-up families. However, to a lesser extent, some children from poor backgrounds perform…
Responding to the continued detention of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Job Sikhala, who has spent 500 days in pretrial detention, Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “Job Sikhala’s prolonged detention while he awaits trial is a gross miscarriage of justice and an indictment of Zimbabwe’s judicial system….
The Ambassador of the state of Palestine yesterday participated in the SADC anti-sanctions commemorations in Mutoko and Harare in solidarity with Zimbabwe against illegal sanctions. Dr Tamer Almassri reiterated that the state of Palestine condemns the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western colonial governments which amounts to collective punishment. Ambassador Almassri welcomed the support…
Writes Lovemore Chazingwa The conflict in the Gaza Strip has escalated to open public artificial intelligence (AI) warfare as there appears to be a newfound battle for control of leading global social media platforms. The clampdown on perceived dissenting voices on social media platforms is now a cause for grave concern. Those sections and individuals…
Writes Lovemore Chazingwa Division among world leaders is one of the reasons the world continues to suffer the scourge of genocides and humanitarian catastrophes, a diplomat has said. Palestine Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Dr. Tamer Almassri said this on the occasion he organized a press conference on the ongoing Palestine/Israeli conflict and voicing solidarity messages for…
Mafa Kwanisai Mafa, the National Chairman of the Zimbabwe Palestine Solidarity Council has said his organisation stands with the Palestinian people and defends their right to resist apartheid and oppression. In doing this, Mafa urged Israel to work for peace and respect the two-nation solution in ending the conflict. He said Israel has spent the…
Writes Lovemore Chazingwa It has been a decades-old war whose end looks like a mirage seemingly normalizing an abnormal state of affairs pitting Israel and Palestine in the new world international political order (NWIPO). Both Islamic states want autonomous authority over the Gaza Strip. The Strip has stayed on the political radar of consequent governments,…
Writes Itai Rusike (Executive Director of Community Working Group on Health) Now that the elections are over, the people of Zimbabwe expect the fulfilment of the election manifesto, in which you promised massive improvement in health infrastructure; more health personnel; accessible and affordable medicines; free medical care for cancer patients; at least one hospital per…
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Promise Mkwananzi has denounced the cabinet announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa as illegitimate. He said President Mnangagwa announced the cabinet “ignoring regional and international observer missions’ criticisms of the ZANU-PF regime’s conduct of the 23rd August 2023 elections, contempt by voters who have dismissed the election as a…
Writes Tafadzwa Muranganwa A local observer mission, Civil Society and Churches Joint Forum (CSCJF) national coordinator, Abigale Mupambi, has come guns blazing against some foreign observer missions for unsubstantiated reports. Speaking during the presentation of CSCJF’s 2023 elections preliminary report, Mupambi said there was a need for foreign observer missions to declare where they were…
Writes Marlvin Ngiza The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has appealed to all political players to be guided by the philosophy of peace, unity, and development of the nation on the eve of the 23 August polls. In a statement released to mark the Heroes Day and Defence Forces Day commemorations, the consortium undermined violence…
Writes Persistence Gwanyanya Sometimes, it is advisable to maintain a winning formula. The resolution by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to stay the course of a tight monetary policy stance, as expressed in the Mid-Term Monetary Policy Statement of 2023, is instructive. Clearly, this stance will allow current…
Writes Elvis Dumba Kariba – A worrying trend of the involvement of young children has been noticed in the current political landscape as politicians solicit votes in the forthcoming harmonized elections. The media has been urged to be ethical and sensitive to children in covering election stories. The sentiments came out during the Zimbabwe Media…
Writes Linda Masarira, LEAD President Some time ago, I registered my concerns about the flawed delimitation report and suggested that the process be redone. Ironically, myself included had settled to just go into the elections without the contentious issues being addressed. Beyond the delimitation report was also the issue of the unconstitutional amendment of the…
The “End violence vote for Her campaign” launched in Harare today seeks to foster and increase women’s political participation and uptake of leadership positions in various spheres of life. The campaign comprises a coalition of development and women’s rights organisations including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women),…
Writes Tafadzwa Muranganwa A Ward 31, Dzivarasekwa aspiring councillor, Lecy Mutsigwa revealed her strong admiration for United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) party president Elisabeth Valerio. Mutsigwa revealed this during a ‘campaign dialogue on opportunities and challenges facing women in politics organised by the Gender and Media Connect (GMC) on Friday, stating that the opposition female leader…
Responding to news of the death of Tinashe Chitsunge, an opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist in Harare on Thursday, allegedly at the hands of ruling ZANU-PF supporters, Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Southern Africa, said: “The fatal attack on Tinashe Chitsunge, a CCC activist, paints a grim picture of the human…
Writes Masotsha Munyarari Zimbabwe is badly hurting, especially as it suffers from deep historical marginalisations along ethnic, racial, and sexual lines. With less than 40 days to go to the next election, this article seeks to ring some bell in the hearts and minds of policymakers and contesting politicians to strive to rise above these…
Writes Amnesty International Zimbabwe’s upcoming general election will take place in the context of five years of systematic, brutal crackdowns on human rights, including recent restrictions on political opposition gatherings, the violent suppression of protests, and the criminalization of state critics, Amnesty International said today, ahead of the vote on 23 August. Over the past…
Writes Professor Laeed Zaghlami (Algiers University, Algeria) It is correlated that since the victory of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in the December 2019 presidential elections, Algeria has gradually restored its security recovery, political stability, the beginning of an economic take-off, the embodiment of the values of social justice, and a diplomatic movement at more than one…
Responding to the news that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed into law the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Amendment Bill, 2022, commonly referred to as the “Patriotic Bill”, Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s Deputy Research Director for Southern Africa, said: “The signing of the ‘Patriotic Bill’ into an Act by the President is a grave attack…
HE Berna Kasnakli, the Turkish Ambassador to Zimbabwe today praised the host country for its stance of refusing to entertain the FETO terrorist organisation. She made the remarks on the occasion to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 15 July failed Coup attempt by FETO Terrorist Organization against the Government of the Republic of Türkiye….
J&J must end its patent monopoly on bedaquiline so generic versions of this lifesaving drug can be widely produced Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility announcement yesterday of a deal with US pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to provide access to affordable generic versions of lifesaving tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline will only offer a…
The Embassy of Palestine in Zimbabwe has said Israel’s ongoing aggression against Jenin is a dangerous escalation that will drag the region into more bloodshed. In that regard, the State of Palestine calls on the international community to immediately and urgently intervene to stop Israel’s massive military campaigns against the undefended Palestinian people under its…
The Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has noted with concern the position that was taken by Parliament to retain the nomination fees for all electoral candidates. This is a major systemic barrier to women’s participation in taking up leadership positions in the upcoming harmonised elections set for August 23, 2023. The fees published by the Zimbabwe…
Writes Persistence Gwanyanya Now that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has kick-started the transition to a market-based exchange rate mechanism by injecting foreign currency into the interbank market, through the wholesale foreign currency auction system, and removing the limits on forex trading margins, the next step to achieving stability is to boost the Zimbabwe…
Writes Tafadzwa Muranganwa An opposition party, the Democratic Union of Zimbabwe says it will brew a shocker by winning the impending plebiscite. The party led by Robert Chapman launched its manifesto on Saturday in Harare. Addressing a sizeable crowd, the party’s organising secretary, Maddock Mashonganyika, assured the party’s supporters that DUZ will surprise many and…
HE Chief Fortune Charumbira, the President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) who also doubles as the President of the Chiefs’ Council in Zimbabwe has distanced himself from a fake Twitter account purportedly sharing his political opinions. “We would like to address the recent circulation of a doctored screenshot of a tweet allegedly sent from…
Writes Shailet Mazula Culture has done an extreme job of making men believe that vulnerability is equal to weakness and failure. From the moment of birth, regardless of gender, people are exposed to stereotypes, such as a baby girl wrapped in a pink blanket instead of blue, or gifting a toy car instead of a…
Writes Kumbirai Mafunda Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is greatly saddened by the passing of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Bill H.B. 15, 2022 (introducing so-called patriotism provisions) in the House of Assembly on 31 May 2023. It now awaits to be presented and debated by the Senate. The Bill was gazetted…
By Julius Chadeba Tomorrow is Africa Day remembered as the annual commemoration of the organisation of African unity which was formed on 25 May 1963, which now is recognised as the African Union. It symbolised the determination of African countries to free themselves from foreign domination. Africa Day will not be completely celebrated without remembering…
The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Harare is against the continued Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people in a move described as a gross violation of human rights. In a statement released to the media, the embassy castigated the double standards towards the Palestinian people’s suffering which has encouraged Israel to increase crimes…
