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The UN Committee on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination has called on Zimbabwean authorities to lift restrictions they continue to impose on Gukurahundi commemorative events and also pave way for a truth-telling platform for survivors of the government sponsored atrocities. In findings and …

The Zimbabwe-European Union Article 8 political dialogue, whose third session was held in Harare last year, should continue as the two parties seek to broaden the discussions, outgoing EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen said yesterday. Mr Olkkonen was speaking after paying a farewell courtesy call on President Mnangagwa at …

Mines and Mining Development Minister, Winston Chitando faced the wrath of parliamentarians for maintaining laws, which continue exposing communities to losing land. The legislative framework, it is argued, risks reversing the gains of the land reform exercise. There are concerns by a section of stakeholders who believe that the bulk …

The Zimbabwean consulate in South Africa has finally broken its silence on the immigration debacle and xenophobic attacks by Limpopo Health Member of Executive Committee (MEC), Phophi Ramathuba, against a Zimbabwean national. Ramathuba sparked controversy last week after a video emerged of her chiding a Zimbabwean patient at a Limpopo …

The Pan-African Parliament along with the SA Medical Council, have echoed the growing list of organisations in slamming Limpopo Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, for her conduct. The MEC had embarrassed a bedridden patient from Zimbabwe at a hospital in Bela Bela, Limpopo, last …

Some Harare suburbs have gone for almost a month with no running water, raising fears of a health crisis in a city once battered by a cholera disaster that killed thousands. Mayor Jacob Mafume, in past comments over the city’s perennial water woes, revealed the local authority was battling acute …

THE Zimbabwean government heaped praise on itself recently at the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in Geneva in a report tabled to explain the country’s human rights situation despite a plethora of abuses recorded by opposition parties and civil society leaders. The report …

State-owned power utility Zesa is banking on the judiciary to hand down severe penalties against copper cable thieves who cost the company US$4.5 million last year alone as the criminals continue wreaking havoc on suburbs and farms. Zesa officials said they have recorded more than 1 300 cases of vandalism …

A video of Limpopo health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba lashing out at a Zimbabwean patient at a provincial government hospital has sparked an outcry. The MEC is heard telling the patient that migrants are to blame for her department’s stretched budget. Dr Angelique Coetzee, a Solidarity Doctors Network board member, …

A young woman living in Australia, Susan Mutami, took to a four-hour Twitter Space in July to reveal how she was allegedly raped by Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a young age in Kwekwe, 215km from the capital of Harare, back in the 2000s. Oppositionists and activists say his government …