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Opinion By Anonymous It’s the usual new brooms, clean white dust coats, and black trash bags. A neatly dressed pack donning different regalia, from sun-hats to t-shirts also printed with emblems of a certain company or organization that wants to be identified as doing some good and supporting the ‘national event’. Various government departments ditch …
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By Tafadzwa Muranganwa People in Mutasa North Constituency have tasked their legislator Chido Madiwa to enquire from Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi why they are not being spared from the load shedding being implemented by Zesa when they are home to various mini hydro-power stations. Zesa which is failing to produce enough power …
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Government is destroying homes and maize fields in Murehwa to make way for the construction of a road, the construction company opted to destroy the houses as a cheaper option as compared to blasting the rocks which are on the proposed way of the road. Freezim Congress Joseph Makamba Busha says he is going to …
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By Tafadzwa Muranganwa Women who attended the Young Women’s Political Power, Representation and Participation workshop organised by Institute of Young Women in Development (IYWD) are considering petitioning Parliament for changes to the Proportional Representation Clause. Proportional Representation which avails 60 extra seats to women in the National Assembly from 2013 to 2023 came into effect …
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About 60 youths under the National Association of Youth Organisations (NAYO-Zimbabwe) yesterday took to the streets to demonstrate over shrinking civic space in Zimbabwe and also demanded the reviewing of age eligibility for the public office so that youths can also get the opportunity to contest for Parliament, Senate and President as well. The youth …
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By Daniel Chigundu Prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has called on the government to remove soldiers from the streets or to officially declare the State of Emergency. A State of Emergency is a situation of national danger or disaster in which the government suspends normal constitutional procedures in order to regain control. However, since …
By Watmore Makokoba Harare residents concerned with the continued invasion of wetlands by land barons petitioned Parliament this week to exercise its legislative powers and reign in to stop the depletion. The residents who took advantage of the World Wetlands Day Celebrations to march in Harare and hand a petition to Parliament say the legislature must review and strengthen frameworks that are used in issuing …
By Watmore Makokoba Harare residents concerned with the continued invasion of wetlands by land barons petitioned Parliament this week to exercise its legislative powers and reign in to stop the depletion. The residents who took advantage of the World Wetlands Day Celebrations to march in Harare and hand a petition to Parliament say the legislature must review and strengthen frameworks that are used in issuing …
By Daniel Chigundu. Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) leader Jacob Ngarivhume says it is a shame that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to explain the whereabouts of missing activist Itai Dzamara or to at least issue an apology. Dzamara, a father of two went missing on 9 March 2015 when he had reportedly gone to have a haircut and there has not been word or clue about …
People from across Zimbabwe have converged in Harare and Bulawayo to demand that President Robert Mugabe step down and pave way for a new leader. Zimbabweans took to the streets for the first time since independence in 1980 to collectively demonstrate against the veteran politician who is currently under house arrest from Tuesday. Mugabe who turns 94 in February next year is accused of running …