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ZimRights commends Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)’s move to finally speak on the daily debated status of the voters roll. The Sundaymail newspaper dated 14 April 2013, reported that the commission’s chairperson Justice Rita Makarau has revealed...
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ZANU-PF will not go for naked violence as a strategy to win the high stakes poll to be held in 2013, but will prefer “the means of manipulation that yield the greatest benefits at the lowest cost”, an incisive report by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalitio...
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FOLLOWING the flurry of speculation about the extent and import of High Court Judge President Justice George Chiweshe’s recent three Matabeleland by-elections ruling on the forthcoming harmonized elections, the Crisis Report Team established from analys...
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YOUTHS have expressed fears that there could be plans to rig the forthcoming harmonized elections after the recent constitutional referendum saw a big turn that some analysts say could have been as a result of tampering on the actual figures which they sa...
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Tsholotsho – Voter registration is progressing at a snail’s pace due to limited access to voter registration centres, the youth in Tsholotsho have said.
The youth said that there are only two voter registration centers in Tsholotsho and the major...
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THE Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) launched an illuminating pre-election research report titled, ‘Pre-Election Detectors: Zanu-PF’s attempt to reclaim political legitimacy’ on Wednesday April 10 at an event attended by academics, the media and ...
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FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
Our Justice system may have gone to the dogs. This became a very distinct reality when in 2001, our Chief Justice then, Anthony Gubbay was forced into early retirement, to be replaced by what some argued, was a more politica...
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As the world celebrated the international World Health Day on Sunday April 7 2013 – despite the significant changes since the formation of the Inclusive Government (IG) more work needs to be done to improve provision of the public service, said the ...
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Harare Magistrate Donald Ndirowei on Monday, April 8, 2013 set the trial date for award-winning human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa who is facing charges of obstructing the course of justice to May 27. The trial is expected to run until May 31, 2013.
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High Court Judge President Justice George Chiweshe on Monday April 8 gave the full reasons for the order he granted on Friday April 5, giving President Robert Mugabe a waiver from holding three by-elections in Matabeleland.
Chiweshe, who presided ove...
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THE Inclusive Government of Zimbabwe has been called to honour electoral guidelines set by SADC and the AU. The call was made by the American-based Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Human Rights and Justice in a recent pre-election situation report release...
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MUGABE BY-ELECTION CHALLENGE POSTPONED
High Court Judge President, Justice George Chiweshe on Wednesday 3 April 2013 once again postponed the matter in which President Robert Mugabe is seeking to be excused from complying with a court order that com...
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Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition will next week release a report entitled “Pre-Election Detectors: ZANU PF’s attempt to re-claim political hegemony”. This week we publish the abstract and invite you to look out for the full report.
Abstract
The clas...
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Harare Magistrate Don Ndirowei on Wednesday 3 April 2013 postponed to 8 April 2013 the matter in which prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa is accused of contravening Section 184 (1) (g) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act for alleg...
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- By McDonald Lewanika (CiZC Director)
I used to say that ‘There was no doubt, that Dr. Phillan Zamchiya is one of the best Political minds and intellectuals under 40 years, to have emerged from Zimbabwe at the moment.’ Having worked closely with...
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Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have come out in strong support of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) arguing that the anti-corruption body is being unjustly attacked for attempting to carry out its lawful mandate.
ZACC came under fire...
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THE four staffers from the Prime Minister’s Office, arrested on 17 March 2013, were on Wednesday March 27, 2013, each granted US$ 500 bail by High Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu in Harare, after 10 days in custody.
The four had appealed to ...
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THE award-winning human rights lawyer, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) Board member and former Law Society of Zimbabwe President, Beatrice Mtetwa vowed in Harare to soldier on in defending the constitutional rights of her clients on Tuesday March...
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THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in Harare on Monday 25 March, 2013 barred a protest march organised by the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) that was scheduled to take place at 1330hrs on that same day.
The LSZ leadership said the protest march had be...
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DURBAN – THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) Secretary General, Zwelinzima Vavi has called on Zimbabwe’s southern neighbour and facilitating country in the Global Political Agreement (GPA), South Africa and her BRICS allies to stan...
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