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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…
Failure is what happens when schools are without teachers
Lulu Brenda Harris
Binga--The poor national examination results achieved by students in Binga schools each year tell a story of an underfunded education system suffocating a hugely marginalised district.
What makes it more deplorable is the…
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,…
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…
Zimbabwe 2023 elections draw sharp criticism
Jeffrey Moyo
Harare—Early results of the 23-24 August elections showed Zanu PF leading in the parliamentary race, but marathon reports by observer missions highlighted serious gaps in the management of the polls.
Results emerging on…
Zanu PF “announces” landslide wins for party and Mnangagwa
Staff Reporter
Harare--Zanu PF has won the just-ended elections with a two-thirds majority for parliament and at least 60 percent for the presidential candidate, party treasurer, Patrick Chinamasa, has declared.
The Electoral Act…
Voters dampened by missing names
Kundai Marunya
Harare—A large number of voters in various constituencies failed to cast their votes as their names were missing on the voters’ roll.
This is despite the fact that most of them had confirmed their names during the…
CCC candidates severely assaulted, one missing
Moses Ziyambi
Masvingo—The Bikita West Citizens Coalition for Change parliamentary candidate, Pikirai Gutuza, and the opposition party's Ward 30 council aspirant, Trust Zinyama, were severely assaulted by Zanu PF supporters at Domboshava…