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.

2.8.2007 0:00

‘Operation Murambatsvina destroyed the informal sector, and now this is destroying the formal sector

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‘Operation Murambatsvina destroyed the informal sector, and now this is destroying the formal sector
Businesses reel in price-slash fiasco
Panic and desperation set in as retailers run out of goods
BY NONTHANDO BHEBHE
HARARE
"IT WAS an act of madness," said a...
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DA urges SA government to protect Zim refugees (02-08-07)

JOHANNESBURG:
SOUTH Africa's main opposition political party of the Democratic Alliance (DA) has urged its government to...
2.8.2007 0:00

Constitutional convention needed to create a free and fai election (02-08-07)

By Zakeus Chibaya

JOHANNESBURG:Zimbabwe needs a constitutional
convention to create a free and fair election
environment in the country...

2.8.2007 0:00

MANGONO JOINS TSVANGIRAI FACTION (02-08-07)

BY TRUST MATSILELE

HARARE : Silas Joseph Mangono who was one of leading opposition Movement for...
2.8.2007 0:00

Senior police officer dismissed for ‘supporting’ MDC (02-08-07)


By Tichaona Sibanda
A senior officer with the Zimbabwe Republic Police was last week
dismissed from...
2.8.2007 0:00

Zim lawyers, human rights groups reject Zanu PF proposed constitutional amendment (02-08-07)

HARARE:
PROGRESSIVE civil society organisations in Zimbabwe are calling for a total rejection of the proposed Constitutional...

2.8.2007 0:00

Army Commanders Wife Assaults Journalist (02-08-07)

BULAWAYO:
THE training of medical doctors National University of Science and Technology NUST) Medical School has come...
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‘The Concert’



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1.8.2007 0:00

SA big shops limit sales in Zimbabwe due to half price slashed (01-08-07)

JOHANNESBURG:
PEP Stores has limited the number of commodities that buyers can purchase in their Zimbabwean stores...

1.8.2007 0:00

Scores of Bulawayo commuter omnibus drivers languish in police cells(01-08-07)

BULAWAYO:
SCORES of commuter omnibus drivers in Bulawayo are languishing in police cells after they failed...

1.8.2007 0:00

KURUNERI sentenced (01-08-07)

ZIMBABWE’s former finance minister Christopher Kuruneri has been
to a wholly suspended six months jail...

1.8.2007 0:00

Tsvangirai tours empty shelves (1-08-07)

HARARE – MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai today toured
empty supermarket shelves in the capital Harare,
telling journalists at...

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