Constitutional amendments, lies, and the power grab

Winning by deceit is never the end of the story.

CONSTITUTION WATCH 8/2026

CONSTITUTION WATCH 8/2026

CAB3 Published as Act

Can a president who goes back on his word ever be trusted?

Can a president who goes back on his word ever be trusted?

Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone.

Four in ten Zimbabweans have no trust in ZEC

Four in ten Zimbabweans have no trust in ZEC

Zimbabwe’s electoral institutions are facing a crisis of public confidence, with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission emerging as the least trusted institution in the country and nearly half of citizens expressing no faith in election results, a national survey on the Constitution of Zimbabwe (Amendment No. 3) Bill has found.

Alleged Russia recruitment suspect to represent himself as bail hearing delayed

Alleged Russia recruitment suspect to represent himself as bail hearing delayed

The bail hearing of a Hwange man accused of trafficking five Zimbabweans to Russia under the guise of offering them lucrative firefighting jobs has been postponed after he told a Harare court that he would represent himself.

12.10.2007 12:49

News in Ndebele

News in Ndebele

Caption: These huts were built by Operation Murambatsvina victims and MDC supporters on a plot in Headlands. They were all burnt a week ago by suspected...

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12.10.2007 12:47

News Briefs

Gono gets chiefs on-side
HARARE
The Zanu (PF) regime effectively confirmed its plans to use...

12.10.2007 12:45

War vets bribed to campaign for Mugabe

BY ITAI DZAMARA
HARARE
The Mugabe faction within Zanu (PF) has allegedly bribed war veterans leaders...

12.10.2007 12:43

Fuel shortage grounds priests

MUTARE
The Roman Catholic Church in Manicaland says the shortage of fuel in the country is...

12.10.2007 12:40

Petina Gappah wins Nyaya Prize

HARARE
The inaugural Nyaya Prize, awarded for short stories written in English between 1000 and...

12.10.2007 12:37

fertilizer at all time low

HARARE
With the start of the raining season drawing closer, another agricultural disastrous season is looming...

12.10.2007 12:36

Shortages – people are angry

HARARE
Food shortages in Zimbabwe are intensifying due to price controls imposed three months ago in...

12.10.2007 12:33

Tobacco crop drops by 50%

HARARE
Zimbabwe's tobacco production has dropped 131,3 million kilos since 2001, to 71 million kilos, highlighting...

12.10.2007 12:30

“Zimbabwe a beautiful country, hot sun, good people but&”

BY Tinashe Mushakavanhu 
Welsh poet, lloyd robson, as 'he insists on calling himself in the...

12.10.2007 12:27

Linda Gabriel: An emerging poetic sensation

By Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Linda Gabriel, is one of the few young female poets emerging in Zimbabwe...

12.10.2007 12:19

Indigenisation Bill – blatant racism

BY PHIL MATIBE
'This insane bill is un-African, illogical and has no relevance in modern society'

12.10.2007 11:00

US officials warn against “anyone but Mugabe” approach

BY TREVOR GRUNDY
LONDON'His rule cannot persist indefinitely'
An American academic representing the influential New York-based...

12.10.2007 10:59

Fierce debate looms at Zanu congress

'Mugabe will retire and I believe Mnangagwa will be chosen to replace him'
'Mugabe will not...

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