Politics

THE United Nations (UN) report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of Zimbabwe says the country has failed to explain alleged human rights abuses and enforced disappearances. The UN reviewed Zimbabwe’s human rights situation on January 12, 2022, through a troika comprising Armenia, Luxembourg and Namibia that …

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda says the Constitution should be amended to allow people in the diaspora to vote, becoming the first senior official in the ruling Zanu PF party to push that agenda. “Amendments to the Electoral Act should clearly specify the procedures and mechanisms for registration …

CANDIDATES eyeing top Zanu PF women’s league posts are allegedly scared to challenge Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa due to her alleged close links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The ruling party’s women’s league will hold its elective conference from June 23 to 26. Women in the party angling for top posts …

Exiled Zimbabwe Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has reportedly has castigated political parties that are funded or capacitated by any foreign government to contest elections or grab political power. This comes a day after Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)’s leader Nelson Chamisa and his delegation, which comprised Ms Gladys Hlatywayo, Ms …

Zanu-PF has shut its doors on exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing him of being arrogant and disrespectful to party leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Kasukuwere fled the country into self-imposed exile alongside other G40 members, who include former ministers Jonathan Moyo, Walter Mzembi and Patrick Zhuwao following the November 2017 …

Anti-sanctions lobby group Broad Alliance Against Sanctions (BAAS) has handed over letters to the American Embassy in Zimbabwe inviting African-American congressional members to visit the country and witness the negative impact of US-imposed sanctions. “The first letter that we submitted was to the ambassador, whereby we were asking him to …

ZAPU president Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son to late liberation war hero and former Vice President Joshua Nkomo, is demanding the immediate exhumation of his late father’s remains from the National Heroes Acre in Harare. He wants the iconic late nationalist’s remains to be reburied at his rural home in Kezi, Matebeleland …

DIPLOMATS accredited to Zimbabwe have confronted the government over the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill that observers say has the potential to further alienate Harare from the international community. The proposed Bill, now in its second reading in Parliament, has been widely condemned by civil society organisations and the …

BULAWAYO – The Zimbabwe government plans to pay one-off gratuities and monthly pensions to a new batch of 160,000 war veterans, war collaborators and ex-political prisoners who missed out during the first round of compensation in 1997. The timing of the announcement, just months ahead of general elections next year, …

IT has emerged that the late former President Robert Mugabe decided to support the then MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s 2018 presidential bid after President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly shut the door on the nonagenarian. This is contained in a document titled Proposed Framework for the Reunification of Zanu PF, authored by …