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Year: 2015

Civil society News

Zim Govt should get ready for a strong student movement: ZINASU charges

Sineke Sibanda The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) has challenged government to look into issues of students’ affairs or  brace for a year of students protests in the coming year. Speaking at a press conference to announce the new national…

News Politics

Opposition parties scoff at Zanu PF conference ….blast military involvement in Zanu PF

Mlondolozi Ndlovu Opposition political parties in Zimbabwe have scoffed at the recently ended Zanu PF conference and blasted the involvement of the military in the politics of the country particularly their involvement at the Zanu PF functions. President Robert Mugabe…

From swatting in thorny bushes to clean latrines

Problem Masau GWANDA: While many people take toilets for granted, it is not the case for Enesia Moyo who for the past 40 years has been using a thorny bush near her homestead as her ablution facility. According to the…

CHINGWIZI WOMEN DENIED ANTENATAL CARE

By Lynette Manzini Zimbabwe’s health delivery system is ailing, exactly thirty five years after the Mugabe led Zanu pf took the reins of power from former colonial masters Britain and women are bearing the pains and scars of a sector…

ZANU PF IN LAND DOGFIGHT: PART 3

By Everson Mushava A VISIT to Kadoma district shows that land reform in the ore rich mineral area has become a blood-letting affair as people fight for farms that are rich in gold deposits. Several murders in connection with the…

STREET CHILDREN DUMPED OUT OF CITY

By Garikai Chaunza Police Officers from Harare Central Police Station in August this year rounded up 74 street children at various spots in the capital before driving them as far as Muzarabani where they dumped them one by one, an…

FOOD USED AS POLITICAL TOOL

Tawanda Marwizi BUHERA — The temperatures are high and people are sitting under a tree at Mutiusinazita business centre in Ward 14, Buhera South, waiting to get their monthly allocation of a bucket of maize under a food relief programme…

ZANU PF BIGWIGS IN LAND DOGFIGHT

By Everson Mushava None of his contemporaries took the import of a statement by the late Edison Zvobgo seriously when he warned, “Unless care is taken, revolutions may eat their children. But when they begin to eat their fathers, then…

News Social Welfare

‘Fugitive’ Nguni not appropriate person to fight corruption

Mlondolozi Ndlovu Zimbabwe  joined the rest of the World in the fight against corruption, with the theme for this year being ‘Breaking the corruption Chain”. This year’s commemorations were organized by ZERO-Tolerance Consultancy with opposition political parties, government officials and…

Economy News

Nothing ‘mega’ about the Mega Deals.

Sineke Sibanda Chinese dubbed mega deals have been debunked by Elton Mangoma’s Republic Democrats of Zimbabwe, citing that these are mere double transactions, where Zimbabwe will plummet into serious debts. Speaking at a press conference in the capital, the former…