© DURING his first year in charge, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has presided over a systematic and brutal crackdown on human rights, including the violent suppression of protests and a witch-hunt against anyone who dares challenge his government, Amnesty International has said. [GoogleAd] This comes after a heavy crackdown on human rights and opposition party members…
© OUTSPOKEN Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) cleric Ancelimo Magaya has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration for the alleged abduction and torture of dissenting voices saying no amount of intimidation will calm frustrated Zimbabweans. [GoogleAd] The abductions and torture against opposition supporters and pro democracy groups which have brought government’s commitment to respecting and upholding human…
© ZIMBABWE’s teachers and doctors, who make up the bulk of the public service, yesterday rejected the government’s wage offer, with medical personnel threatening a strike if their demand to have their wages benchmarked in the United States dollar is not met. [GoogleAd] The government on Friday proposed a 60 percent pay increase for doctors,…
© ZANU PF has chided MDC politicians who are lawyers for taking up cases of ruling party officials accused of corruption. In the expanding anti-corruption crackdown on the country’s political elite, several erstwhile senior ruling party members have been arraigned in the purge being pursued by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. [GoogleAd] They face allegations of money…
© MDC youth activists here have remained in hiding fearing for their lives as the crackdown on opposition activists continues unabated. [GoogleAd] Several youth activists fled the second largest city after it emerged suspected State security agents had launched a door-to-door manhunt for them for allegedly planning the MDC demonstrations that were recently banned by…
© THERE has been divided opinion over the 18-month jail term meted out to Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni with some saying the sentencing was political while others are of the view that this was a powerful lesson for fellow chiefs who behave the same adding that criminal conduct is punishable by law without consideration of…
© ZIMBABWE needs to build an Emergency Operations Centre (IEOC) and train Disaster Risk Management (DRM) volunteers in a bid to strengthen its preparedness for natural disasters, an official has said. [GoogleAd] This comes as the country was earlier this year hit by Africa’s second deadliest tropical Cyclone, Idai, which claimed over 300 lives and…
© GOVERNMENT says it will be revising the 99-year lease contract on farmland in order to enable farmers to get financing. [GoogleAd] According to farmers and other players in the agriculture industry, this farming season already looks bleak after they have failed to access financing from banks which have been rejecting advances by farmers citing…
© NATIONAL Assembly is set to debate the issue of whipping system after Norton independent Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa raised a motion arguing that the system is silencing legislators from airing their own views. [GoogleAd] Mliswa argued that Section 61 of the Constitution affords every citizen, including parliamentarians, the right to freedom of expression…
© Zesa Holdings has added 160 megawatts of electricity to the national grid, Energy minister Fortune Chasi has said. Chasi said the 160 megawatts were added into the national grid on Saturday after the return of service at Hwange Power Station Unit 5 which had been undergoing refurbishment. [GoogleAd] “Following the return to service of…
