ZESN Compendium of Election Observers a Critical Guide for Electoral Reforms
Owen Dhliwayo The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) released a compilation of recommendations that were reported by various election observer missions to the 30th July 2018 harmonized elections. The 2018 harmonized elections came on the backdrop of a November 2017…
Heal Zimbabwe condemns harassment of citizens after MOPO bill hearings
Heal Zimbabwe unreservedly condemns the harassment of citizens in Gutu Central by alleged members of the security services after they had participated in the Maintenance of Peace and Order (MOPO) bill consultative meeting that was conducted at Gutu Rural District…
Continued attack on CSO leaders must stop!
Heal Zimbabwe condemns the continued attack on Heal Zimbabwe Director, Rashid Mahiya by perceived state agents. On 4 June 2019 around 0500 hours, alleged state agents besieged the house of Mahiya, surrounded it for about an hour and continuously knocked on…
Resolving Political Crisis Panacea to arresting Economic Meltdown
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition statement on the country’s prevailing political & socio-economic environment The continued economic meltdown in Zimbabwe is as a result of the legitimacy crisis on the part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his failure to attract…
Gukurahundi: Can the man accused of opening the wounds heal them?
Elia Ntali In 1983, Nqobizitha Mhlaleri was ten years old when a bloody massacre in western Zimbabwe destroyed his community and left him an orphan. “I was made to step on dead bodies including my parents’,” he says, now aged 46. “The…
Law and Cultural Conflict Expose Community Vulnerability
Owen Dhliwayo At least 3000 villagers in Chipinge District have been served with eviction notices by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement. These villagers are found in Checheche, Masimbe, Kondo, Munyokowere, Mucha, Siyekaye and Ndiyadzo villages. The…