Journalists Arrested Following Swoop On Harare Council Meeting
Three journalists arrested while covering a Harare City Council meeting following a swoop on the meeting by the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) on 29 October 2020 in Harare, have been released...
View ArticleVISET Statement On VP Mohadi Tour of Traders Markets
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) comfy the call by Vice President Kembo Mohadi for Small to Medium Enterprises to grow their businesses, during his tour of Jumbo...
View ArticleMinister Dodges Jail Time After Compensating Police Brutality Victim
Home Affairs Minister Hon. Kezembe Kazembe has evaded serving jail time after his ministry rushed make a timeous payment of RTGS$199 500 as compensation to Simon Mandoza, a Gweru-based student, who...
View ArticleStatement On The City Of Harare Court Challenge
The Combined Harare Residents Association is shocked by the City of Harare’s challenge of the High Court Order, which was meant to compel the local authority to open Council clinics and honor its...
View ArticleBulawayo’s E-Health Platform Causes Headaches for Patients
Technological innovations are generally applauded for making life easier and reducing the time spent on tasks, for e-Health technology recently introduced by the city of Bulawayo — the opposite is...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 215 – WCoZ Situation Report
215 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 29 October 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases had increased to 8 349 after 29 new cases were...
View ArticleGender and Corruption in Zimbabwe: Debates and Policy Options
Introduction The Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.20) Act, 2013, recognises gender equality. Section 56(2) specifically states that women and men have the right to equal treatment, including the...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 216 – WCoZ Situation Report
216 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 30 October 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 362 after 13 new cases were...
View ArticleJoint Statement By Teachers’ Unions In Zimbabwe (PTUZ, TUZ, ZRTU, ZDTU,...
– Cognisant that we held a press conference on 22 September 2020 whereby all the eight registered teacher unions were fully represented and collectively furnished the Public Service Commission (PSC)...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 217 – WCoZ Situation Report
217 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 1 November 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 374 after 7 new cases were...
View ArticleState of Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe – 2019
Executive Summary Welcome to the 2019 Edition of the State of Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe Report. This report carries out an audit of Zimbabwe’s state of compliance with its transitional justice...
View ArticleHighlights Of The Governance And Legislative Agenda Capacity Building Workshop
ZESN was invited to attend the Governance and Legislative Agenda Capacity Building workshop hosted by the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs for the Political Actors Dialogue...
View ArticleZimbabwe COVID-19 Lockdown: Weekly Monitoring Report
23-29 October 2020 – Days 206-213 Introduction This report covers the period between Friday 23 October to Thursday 29 October 2020 of the national lockdown declared by President Emmerson...
View ArticleHow Activists in Zimbabwe are Embracing Social Media to Influence Democracy
This year the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States of America turns seven years and the popularity of the movement escalated due to police-related death of Gorge Floyd. What is striking...
View ArticleTsholotsho Social Accountability Team Mitigates Adverse Effects Of Climate...
As part of mitigating the adverse effects of climate change, a Social Accountability Team (SAT) trained by Heal Zimbabwe in Tsholotsho North has stepped up its efforts in promoting the right to water....
View ArticleTechies set up Bulawayo Hub
A group of entrepreneurs have come together to create a collaborative space, Bulawayo Tech Hub, that brings together tech professionals, start-ups and creatives to share ideas and create technological...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 218 – WCoZ Situation Report
218 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 1 November 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 374 after 7 new cases were...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 219 – WCoZ Situation Report
219 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 2 November 2020, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 389 after 15 new cases...
View ArticleChin’ono Arrested Again
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members on Tuesday 3 November 2020 arrested freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono on charges of contempt of court related to a tweet which he allegedly posted on...
View ArticleJournalist Chin’ono Arrested On Contempt Of Court Charges
Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was this evening on 3 November 2020 arrested on allegations of contempt of court. According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, he was arrested at his home in Harare...
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