ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconstitutionally approved by the upper House on 1 August 2017 without the required two-thirds majority (54 votes out of […]
THE European Union (EU) says it is currently engaging opposition parties and other stakeholders as it gears up for formal dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration. Zimbabwe and the bloc last formally engaged in 2019 at ministerial level as the two parties sought to normalise relations after more than a […]
Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga in September last year ordered that junior doctors be conscripted into the army for residency or housemanship. This was viewed by observers as tantamount to militarisation of the health sector and aimed at stopping health practitioners from engaging in industrial action and leaving the […]
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has suffered another blow after High Court judge Justice Philda Muzofa dismissed an application to stop Treasury from disbursing money under the Political Parties (Finance) Act to a rival faction led by Douglas Mwonzora. Chamisa has been battling to stop Mwonzora’s MDC-T from accessing funds […]
MDC-T senators have voted with Zanu-PF to endorse Zimbabwe’s first Constitutional Amendment Bill under the new Constitution, which sailed through Senate when it was submitted for a second time. During voting, at least 70 Senators voted for its passage while only one voted against it. If signed into law by […]
THE ruling Zanu PF party is targeting chiefs, council bosses and their employees for indoctrination at the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology to help drum up support ahead of the 2023 general elections. An internal memorandum dated February 25, 2021 shows that the party has been directed to recruit traditional […]
ZANU PF is resisting calls to amend its constitution to re-introduce a woman as one of the party’s vice presidents — as the race to replace former State vice president Kembo Mohadi heats up. This comes amid intense pressure from women for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint a woman as […]
Prominent government critic Makomborero Haruzivishe was jailed for an effective 14 months on Tuesday, a week after he was convicted of inciting public violence and resisting arrest. A journalist was injured outside court as police indiscriminately lashed out at people and disrupted a news conference by a spokesperson for the […]
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende has said his party would boycott the by-elections in protest if it were blocked from using its name, which the rival MDC-T party led by Douglas Mwonzora has claimed as its own. The MDC Alliance says it will fight to keep its name ahead of […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s dream to end Zimbabwe’s over two-decade-long international isolation suffered yet another blow after the United States gave a damning assessment of his government’s human rights record, political analysts say. Mnangagwa, who took over from the late Robert Mugabe following a military coup in 2007 amid promises of […]