The Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has urged government and civil society groups to take advantage of existing opportunities to incrementally increase women’s representation across their diversity including at the highest levels. In a statement, ZGC challenged government to outlaw any laws, practice, custom or conduct that
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti says the people of Chilonga in Chiredzi were not consulted contrary to Government claims that consultations were made. Addressing journalists in Harare following a fact finding mission to the affected communities where more than 12 000 villagers face eviction to
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
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