MUTARE- The government sanctioned lockdown to manage the spread of Coronavirus had unintended consequences of stifling access to justice, an anti-corruption watchdog has said. Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ), programs director Tafadzwa Chikumbu said it was regrettable that government reneged from its core mandate at a critical
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested two suspects for conspiring to sale a residential stand in Harare’s Tynwald suburb using forged documents. The suspects, Shyleen Sirani (31) and Joseph Muketiwa (41) made a counterfeit deed of transfer and a fake plastic identity card leading to
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has reiterated its call for genuine security sector reforms following the recent upsurge of arrests and detention of dissenting voices. In its monthly monitoring report for the month of February, the human rights pressure group says the conduct of security services
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe (Econet) has reviewed its voice, SMS and data bundles in line with tariffs approved by the regulator in August last year. The latest adjustment comes after State-owned mobile network operator NetOne increased its bundle prices last week, with Telecel Zimbabwe expected to follow
The Harare Wetlands Trust (HWT) has appealed to President Emerson Mnangagwa to intervene on wetlands mapping, policy and reforms amid concerns of widespread developments on the remaining ecosystem. In a letter to the President, HWT raised concern over developments on 50 percent of wetlands areas which
The government has assured the nation that they have enough resources to vaccinate 60 percent of the population, with US$100 million set aside for the Covid-19 vaccination roll out programme. Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube said through the Afrexim Bank, government is going
Human rights pressure group, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has called on the Government to stop the use Statutory Instruments (SI) to bypass good governance protocols. The call comes at a time the Government gazetted SI 50 of 2021 which will displaces more than 12 000
Government’s agricultural programs are absorbing local banks’ liquidity at the expense of private players leading to limited participation of the private sector in primary production, said Graeme Murdoch, operations director at PHI Commodities- a subsidiary of National Foods Limited. Speaking at the ongoing 2021 Confederation of
With SAA out of the picture for more than a year, international media reports indicate that Qantas could be relooking at introducing a direct Johannesburg-Perth flight down the line. According to simpleflying.com, Qantas began flying the Joburg-Perth route in the 1950s. In 2000, the airline signed a
Green Governance Zimbabwe Trust, an environmental rights group says the government’s move to evict over 12 500 villagers from Chilonga to make way for a lucerne grass project for a dairy farmer is a human rights violation on the Shangani People. Recently the Government gazetted Statutory
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