ARTUZ Congress Adopts Gender Policy
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) adopted the gender policy. The policy highlights the following: Policy Statement There is a need for conscious strategies to eliminate gender...
View ArticleHuman Security Early Warning and Early Response Report: 1 October – 31...
Introduction Heal Zimbabwe’s Early Warning and Early Response (EWER) Situation Room recorded a total of 41 cases of human rights violations that directly threaten the security of Zimbabwean citizens....
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Kubatana Membership Feedback – December 2019
Kubatana is . . . In December, we asked our membership to help us learn and improve by answering a few survey questions. Thank you to the 242 of our subscribers who responded to our feedback survey....
View ArticleARTUZ abort schools opening and dismisses paltry salary increment offer
The over 5 000 members of Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ have unanimously resolved to desist from reporting for duty until the salary dispute is fixed. The teachers are severely...
View ArticleARTUZ President Appears in Court on Treason Charge
ARTUZ President Obert Masaraure appeared in Harare Magistrates Court 6 today at 0830hrs on treason charges. State applied for postponement to 31 March 2020, claiming they will be ready to indict the...
View ArticleTeachers reject cushion bribe
Teachers rejects a RTGS$780 salary cushion bribe from the government. Teachers stated that the government’s position of offering them a cushioning allowance is pure bribery to force them into...
View ArticleRemove Heal Zimbabwe Director, Rashid Mahiya from routine remand
Heal Zimbabwe is dismayed by the denial to remove Heal Zimbabwe Executive Director, Rashid Mahiya from routine remand. Mahiya was in February 2019 charged with plotting to overthrow President Emerson...
View ArticleComments on Zimbabwe Independent article on toxins in Harare Water
On 10 January, there was an article on the front page of the Zimbabwe Independent referencing a report prepared by a South African company, Nanotech. The article stated that there are deadly toxins in...
View ArticleZim Court Acquits “Good Samaritan” Journalist Over Anti-Govt Protest
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Friday 17 January 2020 acquitted Doubt Asima, a freelance journalist, who had been on trial on charges of committing public violence after he was arrested when he tried to rescue...
View ArticleGovernment’s provocation and recklessness calls for consistent revolutionary...
On Friday 17 January 2020, teachers received a mockery of a salary. The government had the audacity to pay us the old 2019 salary in this hyperinflationary environment. They paid civil servants an...
View ArticleAmending the Constitution – Part 1
The Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2) Bill was published in the Gazette on the 31st December 2019 and again on the 17th January 2020. If the Bill is passed by Parliament it will make a large...
View ArticlePosition on the Proposed Removal of the Presidential Running Mate in the...
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network notes with concern the proposed changes in the Constitutional Amendment Bill to remove the Presidential Running Mate Clause. The move is retrogressive and an...
View ArticleMISA condemns harassment of journalist
Robert Tapfumaneyi, a Zimbabwean journalist with Sly Media Productions, was on 21 January 2020 harassed by MDC Alliance (MDC A) security details while covering the opposition party’s meeting in...
View ArticleGovernment must quickly Capacitate Teachers
We are happy to announce that our members have managed to maintain our stance of not reporting for duty until the government heed our call for a living wage. The incapacitation of our members and the...
View ArticleCommand Agriculture: Post Mugabe Authoritarian Consolidation – Zimbabwe’s...
This report presents research findings and discussions on the involvement of the military in agriculture through the Command Agriculture Programme (CAP). The study investigated the underlying...
View ArticleParliament Invites Public Comment on Constitution Amendment Bill – Bill Watch...
Parliament yesterday published the following self-explanatory notice: This communication serves to inform you that on Friday, 17 January 2020, the Speaker of the National Assembly gazetted the...
View ArticleResidents Choke Over Zanu PF “Clean Up Exercise”
THREE Harare residents are in police custody after they were arrested on Wednesday 22 January 2020 for allegedly assaulting some ZANU PF party supporters who were reportedly conducting a clean-up...
View ArticleZimbabwean Government Urged to Release the Land Audit Report to Members of...
The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) is urging the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe to release to the members of the public the Land Audit Report presented to President Emmerson...
View ArticleUnpacking the Proposed Constitutional Amendments: Running Mates Clause
According to Zimbabwe’s Constitution, starting from the 2023 election, Presidential candidates will be required to identify running mates, who then serve as their Vice President for their term. Should...
View ArticleConstitutional Amendments Information
In January 2020, government announced a number of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Zimbabwe. You can read the Bill of the proposed amendments here, and view a simplified list of them here....
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