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Journalist takes Judicial Services Commission to task over opaque system
Moses Ziyambi
Masvingo—Desmond Chingarande, a senior court reporter with Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), has written to the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) protesting the exclusion of journalists from the Integrated Electronic Case…
Journalists, grassroots communities benefit from investigative reporting collaborations
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SADC troika indirectly raps Mnangagwa, Zanu PF for “unwarranted attacks”
Own Correspondent
Harare--The SADC troika held a virtual extraordinary meeting of the ministerial committee last Tuesday, at which it condemned attacks on its chairman and Zambian president, Hakainde Hichilema, following a negative…
President Mnangagwa rejects PVO Bill, for now
Tawanda Majoni
Harare—President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill back to parliament, slightly more than a year after the Legal Committee of the legislative house gave it a non-adverse…
Jonathan Moyo says returning to Zimbabwe “very soon”
Staff Reporter
Harare--Self-exiled former cabinet minister under the late Robert Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo, has declared that he is returning to Zimbabwe, after almost six years in the wilderness.
He is considered to be closer to Vice…
Mystery raids drive high-density suburbs into self-imposed curfews
Tafadzwa Muranganwa
Harare--Systematic nigh-time raids and assaults on residents of some of Harare’s most populous suburbs by unidentified gangs have spawned fear that is forcing the citizens to confine themselves to their homes after…
Chinese supplier outed selling banned mercury to artisanal miners
Brenna Matendere
Harare--A Chinese-owned supplier, STC Chemicals, is feeding artisanal gold miners with mercury, which the government banned in December 2020, a new study has revealed.
The study by Information for Development Trust…
SADC poll mission did nothing wrong—Legal think tank
Staff Reporter
Harare—Contrary to accusations by the ruling Zanu PF, senior government officials and other critics from within Zimbabwe and abroad, the SADC Election Observation Mission (SEOM) did not overstep its mandate, says Veritas,…
Global democracy watchdog raps civil society arrests
Staff Reporter
The Washington-based World Movement for Democracy has released an alert in which it condemns the recent arrest of civil society activists who were conducting parallel voter tabulation during last week’s harmonised polls.…
Zimplats, chiefs in opaque ‘new’ share ownership deal
MOSES MATENGA
On 12 October, 2011, then president Robert Mugabe officially launched the Chegutu-Mhondoro-Ngezi-Zvimba Community Share Ownership Trust.
After the launch, platinum giants, Zimplats, were set to begin the process of…