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A new ZAM Magazine transnational investigation into migration from five African countries shows that, in many cases, the urge to leave is so desperate that migrants consciously risk extortion by smugglers, abuse, exploitative labour, and even death. In the vast majority of cases, awareness campaigns about these risks, financed by …

Ofcom’s online safety supervision director has been suspended after anti-Israel comments were posted on her Instagram account. Fadzai Madzingira’s private account posted messages after the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October. The Guido Fawkes website posted screengrabs of what appear to be posts from her account. One described Israel …

The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has poked holes in a recent government attempt to plug rampant leakages of public examination papers under the management of the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC). Under the new measures introduced by the government examination body, question papers will now be transported …

Top banker and entrepreneur Nigel Chanakira has challenged Zanu PF to ensure the removal of barriers for enterprising Zimbabweans willing to join the ruling party-dominated league of billionaires. Speaking at the just-ended CEO Roundtable in Victoria Falls, Chanakira questioned whether those from Zanu PF had preserved that status for themselves …

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Election Observer Mission (SEOM) final report, presented to the Sadc executive secretary Elias Magosi of Botswana and President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week, bemoans the failure by the Zimbabwean government to implement recommendations made after the 2018 polls, including aligning electoral processes to the constitution. …

Government has warned the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) against taking any action which may likely cause an uprising in the name of democracy. The remarks were made by Foreign Affairs acting minister Amon Murwira when he addressed the African Union ambassadors affiliated to Zimbabwe in Harare yesterday. Apart …

The European Union (EU) says its chief election observer, Fabio Massimo Castaldo, failed to access the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) during the just-ended polls despite assurances made in an administrative arrangement made between Harare and Brussels. Ahead of the 23 and 24 August elections, Zimbabwe and the bloc entered into …

Government will be rolling out weighbridges along Zimbabwe’s major highways to ensure that heavy trucks do not damage the country’s roads, a Cabinet minister has said. Transport and Infrastructure Development minister Felix Mhona said this in the Senate on Thursday last week where he also revealed that government would soon …

As the Second Republic continues to create an enabling environment to accelerate modernisation and industrialisation, all scientific research should be contextualised to respond to the country’s needs, President Mnangagwa has said. Already, President Mnangagwa, who is the Chancellor of all State universities, has established industrial parks and innovation hubs at …

An investigation by South African unit Amabhungane has revealed massive money laundering through which late President Robert Mugabe’s son Bellarmine Chatunga could have gained R10 million, just before his father was ousted in a coup. R10 million is worth about US$526,114 at the prevailing rate. A string of hawala payments …