Council Must Account For Resources Meant For Road Construction
Communities in Makoni have expressed concern over the lack of accountability by Makoni Rural District Council (RDC) over resource allocation on road construction. This came out during a Social...
View ArticleParliament Must Investigate Aviation Industry In Zimbabwe For Facilitating...
The executive arm of the state behind smuggling of precious minerals in Zimbabwe. Between 2009 and 2015 government elites facilitated mostly criminal foreign entities to plunder alluvial diamonds in...
View ArticlePress Statement: Calling for an end to persecution of CSOs
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) notes with concern the remarks made by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his speech on the official opening of the 3rd Session of the 9th Parliament on...
View ArticleZimbabwe CSOs Joint Statement on Organized Crime in Zimbabwe’s Natural...
We the civil society organisations in Zimbabwe, united in our diversity by our common desire for economic justice and improvement of human security for the Zimbabwean people, note with grave concern...
View ArticleCase Alert: Court Orders Chitungwiza Municipality To Fence Off ‘Killer’ Dumpsite
The Forum successfully obtained a court order in favor of three Chitungwiza families who lost two children due to severe burns at Chitungwiza Dumpsite. Harare High Court Judge Dube on the 4th of...
View ArticleTanzanian Authorities Must Uphold Citizens’ Fundamental Rights
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), an umbrella body of civic society organisations in Zimbabwe implores the Tanzanian government to respect, protect, promote and fulfil citizens’ fundamental rights...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 220 – WCoZ Situation Report
220 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 3 November 2020, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 410 after 21 new cases...
View ArticleSome Animals are More Equal: Monthly Monitoring Report – October 2020
Executive Summary On 25 October 2020, at Kandeya Primary School in Mt Darwin South, about 177 kilometres from the main capital, Harare, dozens of villagers gathered to receive agricultural inputs...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 221 – WCoZ Situation Report
221 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 5 November 2020, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 444 after 17 new cases...
View ArticlePolitical and Human Rights Violations Report, April to September 2020
Introduction Zimbabwe has an unenviable history of gross human rights violations and Organised Violence and Torture (OVT), and the history of the country, both pre and post-Independence in 1980, is...
View ArticleState In Abortive Bid To Resurrect Mugabe 2010 Insult Case
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) recently attempted to resuscitate a case in which a senior MDC-Alliance party official was accused of undermining authority of or insulting Zimbabwe’s late...
View ArticleJournalist Chin’ono Placed On Remand
Harare Magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa on 10 November 2020 granted the State’s application to place journalist Hopewell Chin’ono on remand on charges of defeating or obstructing the course of justice....
View ArticleCWGH Calls For Increased Domestic Financing Of Health Sector
As Zimbabweans await the presentation of the 2021 national budget by Finance and Economic Development Minister, Mthuli Ncube this month, Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has called for an...
View ArticleAbuse of Traditional Leaders in Tsholotsho During Food Aid Registration a...
Community members from Tsholotsho District have singled out abuse of Traditional leaders by politicians as a major concern that has potential of plunging vulnerable groups into starvation. This came...
View ArticleTrial Dates Set For Chin’ono On Incitement Of Violence Charges
The magistrates’ court has set 7, 8 and 9 December 2020 as the trial date for journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, where is set to face charges for incitement to participate in a gathering with intent to...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 226 – WCoZ Situation Report
226 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 10 November 2020, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 610 after 49 new cases...
View ArticleCouncillor Recalls: Residents Complain Of Service Delivery Decline
Bulawayo residents in wards where councillors were recalled say they are are struggling to access critical services due to lack of representation. The wards fell vacant after MDC-T interim leader,...
View ArticleGrass Harvesting Empowers Bubi Women
Women in Kenilworth, Bubi District Ward 19, have come together to form clubs for the purposes of harvesting thatch grass. The move by these groups of women is set to increase household income and...
View ArticleNgumija Community Gets Water After 20 Years
Residents in Hwange’s Ngumija suburb who had gone for 20 years without running water recently received a shot in the arm after a well-wisher drilled a borehole for the community. The area which is...
View ArticleRelentless State Haunts Mamombe Again
Zimbabwean authorities have summoned Harare West constituency legislator Hon. Joanah Mamombe to stand trial on 24 November 2020 on charges of unnecessary movement in April at a time when government...
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