ZLHR Contact Details Notice to Clients and Stakeholders
Please take note that with effect from Monday 23 March 2020, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has not been receiving any walk-in clients at all our offices across the country as part of...
View ArticleZimra employees withdraw services at RG Mugabe Airport over Covid-19 fears
Operations at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare have been crippled after Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) workers on Tuesday withdrew their labour citing possible exposure to...
View ArticleActivist petitions council on public health by-laws
Human rights activist, Khumbulani Maphosa, has urged the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to enforce hand sanitisers or handwashing equipment in fast food outlets in the city as a preventative measure to...
View ArticleCease Torture, Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment of Suspects
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) hereby expresses its grave concern and displeasure at the gross violation of rights of a suspect by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police. ZLHR strongly...
View ArticleFurther ZCBC Statement on COVID-19
Further to the pastoral guidelines we issued on 17 March 2020 to curb the spread of the corona virus and taking into account ongoing addresses to the nation on Covid-19 by President E.D. Mnangagwa and...
View ArticleMajority of residents ignorant on COVID-19
The Harare Residents Trust (HRT) has been closely following and monitoring the world pandemic of COVID-19. From our community observations and interviews with HRT members across the suburbs, there is...
View ArticleZINASU Leader Charged Over School Children’s Anti-Govt Protest
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have charged a student leader for allegedly inciting some school children to protest against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members on...
View ArticleCovid-19: ZCTU calls for national lockdown
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called for an urgent complete national lockdown to contain the Coronavirus (COVID-19) which claimed the life of media personality Zororo Makamba in...
View ArticleMpilo nurses down tools over protective clothing
Nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo Thursday heeded the call by the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) to withdraw their labour over failure by the cash-strapped government to provide them...
View ArticleCouncil suspends open air flea markets
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has announced new regulations that restrict large gatherings as the local authority scales up its efforts to prevent the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) in the city....
View ArticleTransparency and Accountability in the COVID-19 crisis management and aid...
Background and Context Analysis Zimbabwe has been experiencing a series of natural disasters over the past few years. These include the #CycloneIdai which affected Manicaland and some parts of...
View ArticleGovernment of Zimbabwe Should Speedily Disseminate Information on the...
Habakkuk Trust calls upon the Government of Zimbabwe to speedily institute measures to promptly disseminate information on the COVID19 pandemic. The information should be availed in local languages...
View ArticleWhat about my flu-like symptoms?
I live in Victoria Falls and I have plenty of access with tourists and I have been having flu like symptoms since end of February, like 28 / 29 February. So I was like OK, let me be a responsible...
View ArticleStatement on 21 Days of Lockdown in Zimbabwe
Community Water Alliance takes note of the national lock down for 21 days which was announced by President ED Mnangagwa. The same sentiments were shared by different political actors in Zimbabwe prior...
View ArticleCovid-19 Lockdown and the Informal Sector
The Coronavirus pandemic has had far reaching consequences beyond the spread, management and treatment of the disease. Governments world wide have taken steps to limit the spread of the virus by...
View ArticleCovid-19 and SADC inertia
As Covid-19 continues to unabatedly wreak havoc with over 500 000 confirmed cases and over 26 600 confirmed deaths reported globally, Africa stands on the precipice of a major humanitarian...
View ArticleJournalist arrested in Gweru CBD
Senior journalist Kudzanai Musengi was arrested in Gweru Central Business District this morning in the course of his official duties. Police accused him of practicing as a journalist without valid...
View ArticleThe Zimbabwe lockdown vis-à-vis Internet governance, information access
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had devastating effects worldwide with numerous infections and deaths having been recorded in places like Italy and China. From a statement released by the...
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What will you miss most during #LockdownZim?
After President Mnangagwa announced a 21 day lockdown for Zimbabwe, beginning Monday 30 March, we asked our members what they would miss most. Here are some of the responses we received via Twitter...
View ArticleZimbabwe Police arrest journalist in Mutare
Police this afternoon, 30 March, arrested student journalist, Tatenda Julius who is attached at Pungwe News (New Ziana). Tatenda was arrested in the city’s residential suburb of Dangamvura while...
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