Parliament Calls for Nominations to Fill Two ZEC Vacancies – Commissions...
Call for Public Nominations for Persons to Serve on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Two Vacancies to be Filled Parliament has called on members of the public to nominate suitable persons to be...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 459 – WCoZ Situation Report
459 days of the COVID-19 Lockdown, and as of 30th of June 2021, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases had increased to 49 864 after 1 249 new...
View ArticleMIHR Pursues National Environmental Policy Accountability
Following the 2019 Zimbabwe Auditor General’s report on Local Authorities which showed that most local authorities in Zimbabwe lack capacity to adequately manage the environment in their jurisdictions...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 460 – WCoZ Situation Report
460 days of the COVID-19 Lockdown, and as of 1st of July 2021, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases had increased to 51 221 after 1 357 new...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 461 – WCoZ Situation Report
461 days of the COVID-19 Lockdown, and as of 2nd of July 2021, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases had increased to 52 663 after 1 442 new...
View ArticleParliamentary Committees Series 25/2021 – Bill Watch
Open committee meetings this week [5th to Friday 9th July] ,but all meetings will be virtual On Wednesday 30th June the Speaker made the following announcement in the National Assembly: “Following the...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 462 – WCoZ Situation Report
462 days of the COVID-19 Lockdown, and as of 3rd of July 2021, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases had increased to 53 665 after 1 002 new...
View ArticleLegalising the New Lockdown – Bill Watch 46/2021
On the 29th June the President announced what he called “additional enhanced Level 4 lockdown measures” which were to take immediate effect and last for two weeks. These measures have now been...
View ArticleCovid-19 Vaccine Situation Analysis Report
Introduction Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) conducted a virtual situation analysis of the Covid19 vaccine availability in rural Matabeleland South Province targeting a random sample of...
View Article‘Govt plot to shrink civic space unfortunate’
The government has been accused of seeking to further close the civil society space after some government officials ordered CSOs operating within their jurisdiction to submit work plans for 2021...
View ArticleMonitoring Government Responses to Covid-19 Long Term Observers’– Report...
ZESN’s June 2021 report on monitoring the government’s response to the pandemic is out. The report is a part of ZESN’s efforts to inform policy makers and interventions of non-State actors who seek to...
View ArticleComing Up in the Senate this Week: Marriages Bill? – Bill Watch 47/2021
The Senate Will Resume Sitting on Tuesday 6th JulyThe National Assembly is Now in Recess Until Tuesday 20th July Last week, after a ten-day recess, the National Assembly met for three days from...
View ArticleConcerns on freedom of expression violations in Eswatini- Letter to King...
On 6 June 2021, the MISA Regional Governing Council chairperson, Golden Maunganidze wrote to His Royal Highness, King Mswati III to express MISA’s concerns regarding the state of press freedom in...
View ArticleCHRA Statement on the Intention by Government to Take Over Health Facilities
The intentions by the government of Zimbabwe to takeover local clinics under the guise of having standardized service delivery as envisaged by the National Development Strategy, is a direct attack of...
View ArticleSouth African Journalists Attacked While Covering Protests at Zuma’s Home
A journalist was allegedly physically attacked during the past weekend while there were also threats to burn a car belonging to a media company as tempers flared over the sentencing of former South...
View ArticleDouble Dilemma: How COVID-19 is Entrenching Child Labour in Artisanal Small...
“This work is too much, heavy and painful. After we dismiss from school, we come to work for gold, during weekends we are involved in artisanal mining,” an excerpt from a conversation with a sixteen...
View ArticleShrinking of Civic Space in Zimbabwe: A Cause for Concern
“A call for solidarity in strengthening CSOs Operating Environment in Zimbabwe” Since the threats to clamp down operations of CSOs by the President of Zimbabwe in his State of the Nation Address link...
View ArticleInformal Traders Receive Covid-19 Vaccine
Scores of informal traders on Tuesday received their first dosage of the Sinopharm vaccine at various designated centres in Bulawayo. The program, which targets 15 000 informal traders around the city...
View Article“Overnight political meetings, fuelling the spread of Covid 19 in Gutu”
Community members from Gutu have attributed the spike in Covid 19 cases to political meetings that are being conducted during the night in Gutu. At these meetings, no social distancing or wearing of...
View Article“Most Zimbabweans see government mismanagement, rather than sanctions, as...
By a 2-to-1 margin, Zimbabweans blame the country’s economic meltdown mainly on the government’s mismanagement of the economy rather than on sanctions imposed by the West, a new Afrobarometer survey...
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