The Harare Residents Trust (HRT) is concerned with the unilateral increase in rates by the City of Harare backdated to January 2020. Under the hyperinflationary context, the huge rates will…
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On the 25th March 2020, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) suspended activities due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the significant health risk it posed. This was a…
Introduction Tuesday 9 June 2020 marked day 72 of the national lockdown declared by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and has been in place since 30 March 2020. The Ministry of Health…
Contextual Assessment During the lockdown period under scrutiny, the operating environment is characterized by political tensions and the debilitating economy continued to nose dive and this negatively affected the provision…
71 days into the lockdown, the Ministry of Health and Childcare reported that as at the 8th of June 2020, the number of COVID-19 positive cases had increased to 287…
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have stepped up their crackdown against legal practitioners by questioning and arresting several lawyers and charging them with defeating or obstructing the course of justice during the execution…
Executive Summary On 23 May 2020, Paul Munakopa of Bulawayo died in circumstances that could have well been avoided. The 34-year-old was a victim of the police’s heavy-handedness. He was…
The government ban of public transport vehicles to prevent the spread of the novel Coronavirus has given rise to pirate taxes in Filabusi Centre. ZUPCO buses and kombis remain the…
The recent press statement released by the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Kazembe Kazembe, on the alleged abduction of three MDC Alliance Activists Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and…
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) notes with concern the the continued suspension of electoral activities by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) without consulting key electoral stakeholders. Initially, on 25…