Just under 14 months after assuming power from former president Robert Mugabe’s rule, the new administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing from the past. When Mnangagwa came to power in November 2019, his government immediately set out to win the hearts and minds of the international community which had…
Top National Prosecuting Authority lawyer Chris Mutangadura has been transferred to Guruve in a move that has shocked the legal fraternity. In an internal memorandum dated February 7, recently-confirmed Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi told the highly competent youthful lawyer — who is the director of the Economic Crimes Unit — that all cases that he had been…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has developed a knack for blaming everything that has gone bad in Zimbabwe on social media a default mode that has seen it shutting down the Internet recently. When angry Zimbabweans poured onto the streets to demonstrate against a 150 percent increase in fuel prices last month, government blamed social media for…
Armed soldiers are now a familiar sight at public schools throughout the country in the wake of an on-going strike by teachers, resulting in parents, guardians and learners living in fear. Teachers’ unions told the Daily News on Sunday this week that there has been a heavy presence of military personnel especially in high density suburbs…
Women rights activists have petitioned government to compensate women who were allegedly raped during a brutal crackdown by the military to crush protests against fuel prices. Dozens of women may have been raped during the post-protest crackdown, according to rights groups which have collected evidence, and say that security forces used rape as a weapon…
National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm)’s human resources manager Walter Nhau yesterday testified in the ongoing trial of former Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa that the ex-minister was justified to remove Flora Nancy Sifeku as managing director because she had developed a propensity to harass employees. Parirenyatwa is facing charges of acting contrary…
Human rights groups have called on authorities to stop the ongoing military crackdown, amid a rising death toll from the brutal operation. At least 17 people are now said to have died after being shot at by security forces, with more than one hundred others seriously wounded since ugly fuel protests flared around the country last…
The Dutch Reformed Church has warned the opposition and rights groups against adopting a hostile stance towards President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, warning that doing so could inflame emotions and cause great damage to the country. In a paper on the current political tensions in the country, two of the church’s senior officials also urged…
CHIEF Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda has blocked NetOne from reinstating its suspended chief executive officer Lazarus Muchenje saying such a move is against the spirit of the “new dispensation”. This comes as the struggling mobile telecommunications parastatal on Thursday suspended two top managers — chief operating officer Brian Mutandiro, pictured, and…
A local election lobby group has urged government to set up an inclusive multi-stakeholder taskforce to spearhead electoral and political reforms. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) said while it notes the establishment of an inter-ministerial taskforce to address recommendations and issues raised by the various election observer missions and the Motlanthe Commission on the August…
