Statement on International Day for Universal Access to Information
This year’s International Day for Universal Access to Information Day (IDUAI) commemorated annually on 28 September comes at a timely moment for Zimbabwe to enact a democratic access to information...
View ArticleFurther Government Measures To Outlaw Use of US Dollars & Other Foreign...
Background Three months ago, when the Minister of Finance and Economic Development gazetted SI 142/2019 declaring RTGS dollars to be the only legal tender in Zimbabwe, press headlines referred to the...
View ArticleDelimitation ahead of the 2023 Harmonised Elections
Introduction (Historical Perspective and Context Analysis) Boundary delimitation refers to the process of drawing electoral district boundaries. It is the process of demarcating electoral boundaries...
View ArticleChief Charumbira in contempt of court
On May 9, 2018 the High Court of Zimbabwe gave an order against the President of the National Chiefs’ Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira instructing him to retract statements he made on October 28 and...
View ArticleTsholotsho North Social Accountability team demand transparency and...
Heal Zimbabwe has stepped up its efforts in promoting social accountability in Tsholotsho North. From 26-27 September 2019, Heal Zimbabwe conducted a series of social accountability trainings for its...
View ArticlePolitical Party Regulation in Zimbabwe
Executive Summary The centrality of political parties to democracy in Zimbabwe is unanimously acknowledged. However, this paper highlights the contradiction where political parties that have glaring...
View ArticleCommuniqué on media developments in the past week
In the past week, there were two major pronouncements by the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services and the President that are media related. The two issues are on the ministry’s...
View ArticleDeclaration of Incapacitation of Senior Hospital Doctors
On the 9th and 23rd of September 2019, we wrote to you raising specific concerns relating to our declining capacity to provide timely, acceptable and affordable health care of appropriate quality to...
View ArticleSecond Session of this Parliament Opens – Bill Watch 51 / 2019
Ceremonial Opening of Parliament President Mnangagwa opened the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe at a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament in the National Assembly today. At 12...
View ArticleCommunique from the 2nd National Citizens’ Convention: “A Call to Put...
We the people, on the 24th-25th of September 2019, as progressive citizens, civil society organizations, residents’ associations, informal workers, students, unions, activists, academics, women’s...
View ArticleNational Payment Directives affecting Small Medium Enterprise Daily Transactions
The Government of Zimbabwe’s directive for all Mobile Money Service Providers to suspend Cash in, Cash out and Cash back facilities has negatively affected transactions of the Informal Traders and...
View ArticleAmid Water Crisis, Zim Court Faults City of Harare for Construction of Houses...
A ZIMBABWEAN court has faulted the City of Harare (CoH) for disobeying a lawful court order after the local authority continued with housing developments on a wetland in one of Harare’s suburbs. High...
View ArticlePYCD Rallies the Community to Denounce Gender Based Violence in Chipinge
Hordes of people converged at Takwirira High School, Chipinge on the 28th of September 2019 to raise their voice against the increased statistics of women who are losing life due to the occurrence of...
View ArticleHigh Court Hears Water Rights Campaigners Petition to Avert Water Crisis
HIGH Court Judge Justice Owen Tagu will on Thursday 3 October 2019 preside over the determination of an urgent chamber application filed by Community Water Alliance Trust (CWAT) seeking an order to...
View ArticleRole of Traditional Leaders in Elections and Electoral Processes in Zimbabwe
Executive Summary This paper on the role of traditional leaders in elections and electoral processes in Zimbabwe depicts a picture of a traditional authority whose existence is held in tension between...
View ArticleHigh Court Reserves Judgment on Water Rights Campaigners Petition to Avert...
HIGH Court Judge Justice Owen Tagu on Thursday 3 October 2019 reserved judgment on an urgent chamber application filed by Community Water Alliance Trust (CWAT) seeking an order to compel President...
View ArticleDuty Bearers in Makoni West Constituency Vow to Raise Awareness on Social...
Duty bearers from Makoni West have committed to raise awareness on social accountability in a move aimed at improving good governance and accountability. This came out during training for 50 duty...
View ArticleThe Water Crisis
Section 77 of Zimbabwe’s Constitution states that “every person has a right to safe, clean and potable water and the State must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within the limits of the...
View ArticleEconomic Independence key to Women’s Effective Participation in Leadership
Women in Mutasa and Nyanga districts of Manicaland province hailed the value addition and market linkages trainings conducted by Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) and its...
View ArticleConstitution Watch 6 / 2019: ID Checks at Roadblocks – Are they Legal?
For several days after the MDC-A attempted to hold a demonstration in Harare last month, the police mounted roadblocks along routes leading into the city centre [the CBD]. They stopped and searched...
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