UZ-SRC call on students to return to campus
University of Zimbabwe Students Representative Committee has called all students to come back to the campus after the students were chased out of college by the authorities. The University of Zimbabwe was temporarily closed recently after the lecturers went on…
African Union, ICC and the Omar Al-Bashir Incident of the Flight in the Day Time
By Takura Zhangazha* Before the end of the 25th Ordinary summit of the African Union (AU) had officially occurred in Johannesburg, South Africa, a serving African president had fled from an African country. Omar Al Bashir, President of Sudan, wanted…
Zimbabwean academics experiment with online learning.
By Staff Reporter Online learning remains relatively unknown and untapped in Zimbabwe but a Zimbabwean academic based in the United States of America, Dr Claudius Mundoma has started an initiative offering an online mathematics course. The course takes 3 years…
Press Statement: CPC position on new constitution
Position Paper Number 2. Issue Date: 15 June 2015 The Elitist Character of Zimbabwe’s New Constitution and Understanding Our Undemocratic Contemporary Political Order 1.1 The legal reality that is Zimbabwe’s new constitution, in the two years that is has existed,…
Breaking: Police question community radio producer
Police question community radio producer Wilson Maposa a radio producer with Wezhira Community Radio Initiative was on 15 June 2015 summoned and questioned by police in Masvingo over suspicion that the initiative owned broadcasting equipment. Maposa was questioned by officers…
Mliswa to challenge election outcome in Hurungwe West
By Staff Reporter Losing Hurungwe West candidate, Temba Mliswa has described the by –election held on 10 June as not ‘free and fair’. Mliswa lost the seat to a ZANU PF candidate, Keith Guzah who polled 5961 votes against Mliswa’s…
Epworth nurses selling PEP drug to commecial sex workers
An Al Jazeera documentary last year exposed that Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), meant to be distributed to HIV/Aids patients for free were leaking from public health institutions and circulating on the black market. As established through an investigation recently carried out…
The MDCs’ Scramble for Joice Mujuru:Putting their Carts Before their Horses (Sadly So)
Zimbabwe’s mainstream opposition, now in the form of a number of MDC offshoots, has been having a bit of a spat over former Zanu Pf second secretary and national vice president Joice Mujuru. It began with the MDC Renewal’s Elton…
ZICOSU expel vice president and six others
Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union expelled six members of their union including the vice president on allegations that they were planning to oust their president. Last week ZICOSU vice president Stanley Moyo masqueraded and purported to be representing the union…
More people in Manicaland know the new constitution
Most people in Manicaland province have the knowledge of the new constitution and its provisions, a report by the International Republican Institute has revealed. According to the report on local governance and constitutionalism, 86 percent of people in Manicaland are…