ZCTU Supports Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) Efforts to...
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) fully backs the efforts of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) to improve the welfare and conditions of service for teachers in...
View ArticleThe Marriages Bill – Bill Watch 36 / 2019
The Government’s long-awaited Marriages Bill, which is intended to consolidate our marriage law and bring it into line with the Constitution, was published in the Gazette on the 19th July. It can be...
View ArticlePhilanthropist, Farmer Challenge Govt Ban on Sale of Maize Grain
A PHILANTHROPIST and a farmer have hauled Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Hon. Perrance Shiri and the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to court challenging the...
View ArticleZimbabwean Authorities Urged to Develop Appropriate Policy Responses to...
The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has noted with great concern the epidemy nature of cases of conflict of interest and corruption in the health sector in Zimbabwe which have...
View ArticleGweru-Based SMEs Set Up an SME Anti-Corruption Forum to Fight Corruption...
On Friday, the 19th of July 2019, more than 35 micro, small to medium enterprises (MSMEs) attended an anti-corruption training workshop organised by the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa...
View ArticlePrisoner to a system
So my dearest mummy’s body dared to cave in on her this past week and she got a stroke – a minor one, “thankfully.” As if that wasn’t a nightmare enough, this happened in our beloved sunshine city of...
View ArticleOur “New Normal”, thoughts on Zimbabwe’s Dark Days
I am typing this in the dark; an article about ZESA blackouts, and the irony is not lost on me. The fuel in my generator dried up last night, and I woke up to hiked fuel prices (growing evidence that...
View ArticleHigh Court Ruling Vindicates calls for Transformation of ZBC and Zimpapers
The High Court’s recent ruling and findings on the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and Zimpapers’ biased coverage vindicates and buttresses the incessant calls for the long-overdue...
View ArticleParliamentary Legal Committee Adverse Report on MOPA – Bill Watch 39 / 2019
On the 24th July the Deputy Speaker of Parliament announced that the Parliamentary Legal Committee had issued an adverse report on the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill, meaning that the Committee...
View ArticleUpdate on Glenview and Mangwe By-elections Nomination Courts
Through Statutory Instruments 147 and 148, and in line with section 39(2) of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2: 13], President Emmerson Mnangagwa issued proclamations ordering by-elections to fill the...
View ArticleGovt Targets Artists in Fresh Censorship Blitz
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officers have charged four prominent artists with contravening the draconian Censorship and Entertainments Control Act after they allegedly exhibited an unsanctioned...
View ArticleThe Freedom of Information Bill – Bill Watch 40 / 2019
On Friday 5th July the Freedom of Information Bill was published in the Gazette; it is available on the Veritas website. It is the first of three Bills the Government intends to present in Parliament...
View ArticleACT-SA Welcomes the Arrest of High-Profile Individuals but Urges ZACC to...
Mr. David Jamali, the Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has welcomed the arrest of the Zimbabwean Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira and the former Principal Director...
View ArticleThe Right to Bail – Court Watch 10 / 2019
Introduction The Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Hon Prisca Mupfumira, has been arrested on serious charges involving corruption and abuse of office. When she appeared in...
View ArticleCity of Harare Pays for Negligence
THE City of Harare has paid ZWL$2 500 as compensation to a resident who was injured owing to the local authority’s negligence after some dilapidated metal sheets fell on him at Mbare Musika bus...
View ArticleStatement on the commemoration of the 2018 Harmonized elections
One year later. What has changed? One year since the 2018 harmonized elections, the Election Resource Centre recognizes the setting up of the Inter Ministerial Taskforce on Political and Electoral...
View ArticleSupplementary Budget Due on 1st August; plus Bills Latest – Bill Watch 41 / 2019
Both the Senate and the National Assembly will continue sitting this week, the third week of the current series of sittings. And, in a departure from the Sitting Calendar, both Houses will sit again...
View ArticleZESN to Observe Lupane East National Assembly, Bubi Ward 22 and Nkayi Ward 23...
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network will observe three by-elections penciled for Saturday, 3 August 2019. Of the three, one is a National Assembly by-election for the Lupane East Constituency seat...
View ArticleSecond term, a term that never was
The long winter which we predicted at the beginning of second term has assumed permanency in the education sector. Our second term never really kicked off, learning was erratic and there seem to be no...
View ArticleParliamentary Round Up Bulletin 17 / 2019
Finance and Economic Development Minister Prof Mthuli Ncube yesterday presented the 2019 Mid-Year Budget Review & Supplementary Budget statement in Parliament. Prof Mthuli presented the midterm...
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