Development practitioner, Educationist, Human rights defender, Organisational Development Consultant
Zimbabwe
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WEBINAR ALERT
PENHALONGA: WHO PAYS THE PRICE FOR GOLD?
Displacement. Destruction. The failure of accountability.
Zimbabwe’s gold boom is being celebrated as a driver of economic growth. But in Penhalonga, the story is increasingly one of communities under siege, homes threatened, livelihoods disrupted, infrastructure damaged and residents living with growing safety and environmental concerns.
When mining encroaches on residential areas, when families face displacement and when dangerous operations continue despite regulatory concerns, one question demands an answer: Who is protecting the people?
The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) invites you to a critical webinar examining the human cost of gold mining in Penhalonga.
Bringing together affected community voices, legal and mining governance experts, the discussion will interrogate displacement, constitutional and land rights, regulatory failures, institutional accountability and the Right to Say No.
This is not another conversation about how much gold Zimbabwe can produce. It is about the people whose land, safety, livelihoods and dignity are being sacrificed in the pursuit of mineral wealth.
Join the conversation. Demand accountability. Put communities before profit.
📍 Webinar: Penhalonga – The Human Cost of Gold: Displacement, Destruction and the Failure of Accountability.
📅 05 November
⏰ 6:00-7:30 pm
💻 Zoom us06web.zoom.us/s/8135335703…
Because mineral wealth must never come at the expense of human dignity.
@CrimeWatchZW @MinistryMines @EMAeep @BROT_furdiewelt @ZLHRLawyers @euinzim @ChineseZimbabwe @tsunga_arnold @MishMugadza @ManicaYouth @zicet1 @mukasiri @NyarotaDonald @zzidawu @MildretMuzanec4 @PenhalongaStrs @mutaretourism @CityofMutare @NewsDayZimbabwe @greengovzw1 @GreenLens_media @wlsazw
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In the absence of a credible democratic opposition to the status quo, the regime in Harare will continue to do as it pleases, leaving citizens trapped in limbo as history awaits to judge harshly those who became an albatross around the neck of a people yearning for freedom.
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I follow politics around Africa. It's only in 🇿🇼 that you find an opposition that says police officers, military, CIO and public servants are members of ZANU PF. This is despite the fact that in all elections, polling stations around police & military camps vote opposition.
Moyo wese here @zanupf_patriots
Lol
Happy Birthday, @advocatemahere‼️ 🎉
May God continue to bless you with good health, wisdom, strength and abundant grace to reach 2030 and beyond.
May you witness and contribute to the realisation of Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030:
“Towards a Prosperous and Empowered Upper Middle-Income Society by 2030.”
Wishing you many more years of purpose, impact and success. Have a wonderful celebration! 🎂🇿🇼
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🔸Good day @nickmangwana,
Why do the beds at Parirenyatwa Hospital @PGHZIM have no bedsheets or linen? Why are the blankets so dirty? Is this hygienic? Why are the walls dilapidated? Ko iyo tsvina? Ndiyo 2030 yacho? Hakuna chipatara chakadaro. How disgusting.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
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The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) met today and adopted the following critical resolutions:
1. Defending the Constitution: The Union resolved to join the People’s Coalition to actively push back against the recent Constitutional Amendment Act 3.
2. Solidarity with Cuba: ARTUZ resolved to offer practical solidarity to the people of Cuba, who remain under a cruel and criminal blockade imposed by the United States government. Cuba has consistently provided the world with exceptional doctors to treat the underserved, dedicated teachers for those without access to education, and revolutionaries to help free those under colonial rule. The international community must not remain silent while Cubans are punished with this unjust blockade.
3. Public Service Act Alignment: The Union resolved to plan a protest at Parliament demanding the urgent amendment of the Public Service Act to align it with the 2013 Constitution. We question why CAB3 was fast-tracked in a fortnight, while aligning the Public Service Act has been delayed for years. The Act must explicitly provide for the rights to strike and collective bargaining.
4. Living Wage Demand: Regarding remuneration, the Union resolved to routinely protest at government offices to demand a minimum salary of USD 1,260.
5. Bridge to Belonging Campaign: In response to returning residents who are victims of xenophobic violence in South Africa, the Union will run the "Bridge to Belonging" campaign. This initiative will compile a database of returning teachers and learners and facilitate their seamless reintegration into our education system.
#SaveOurEducationZw
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Kana vakatadza kupedza hurombo ~vanopedza Varombo vacho kuti vasanyaudzwe ! 🙌🏽🙌🏽💔
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The President signing #CAB3 is NOT the end of the road! Here's why the President can't just take away our rights. The Constitution says it MUST go to a referendum. Please share this video and together let's demand that they #LetThePeopleDecide!
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On 7 July 2026, the President assented to Constitutional Amendment Act No. 6 of 2026, completing a process that SUNGANO YEVANHU –UBUMBANO LOMPHAKATHI says violates both the letter and spirit of Zimbabwe’s Constitution. Despite months of petitions, public hearings, court approaches, and appeals to Parliament and the President to hold a referendum or seek the Constitutional Court’s opinion, those calls were ignored. As a result, Sungano announced it is transitioning into the Constitutional Restoration Movement* and launching the Restore the Constitution Campaign.
The campaign will run on two pillars.
Pillar One:
Restore Through Justice – Sungano’s legal team will immediately file proceedings in the Constitutional Court to challenge the validity of Amendment Act No. 6 and seek appropriate relief, urging the Judiciary to uphold constitutional supremacy.
Pillar Two:
Restore Through the People – a nationwide program of peaceful, lawful civic action based on Sections 58, 59, 61 and 67 of the Constitution. This will include civic education, dialogues, petitions, prayer gatherings and peaceful demonstrations, with consultations underway with churches, labour, students, women, youth, veterans and other stakeholders.
Sungano also announced plans for coordinated nationwide peaceful mass action, with dates to be communicated after consultations. The movement stressed it rejects violence and aims to become the broadest constitutional mobilisation in Zimbabwe’s democratic history.
In the Harare Declaration on Constitutional Restoration, Sungano called on all Zimbabweans and institutions, and on SADC, the AU and the international community, to support peaceful restoration of constitutional democracy. With the motto _“Restore the Constitution: Justice in the Courts. Sovereignty with the People. Peacefully. Lawfully. Together.”
signed by Rev. Dr. Kupukwashe Mtata,
the movement framed this as a struggle not against the country, but to restore the constitutional covenant.
#DefendTheConstitution
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Fuza and Wakurawarehwa v Parliament of Zimbabwe in Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe
The central feature of the judgment, however, lies in its articulation of the evidentiary burden required to establish non-compliance with section 141(a) of the Constitution.
The court held that applicants must demonstrate either a complete failure to facilitate public participation or that participation was so inadequate as to be merely tokenistic.
Crucially, the court insisted on a holistic assessment of the legislative process.
Isolated disruptions such as those alleged in Harare and Masvingo were deemed insufficient in the absence of evidence that the consultation process as a whole was defective.
While this approach is doctrinally defensible, it has significant implications.
By framing the central issue as one of evidentiary sufficiency, the court shifted the constitutional inquiry away from the qualitative content of participation and toward the procedural obligations of litigants.
This shift may be understood as a form of judicial restraint. It allows the court to avoid invalidating legislation on the basis of isolated irregularities and preserves institutional comity between the judiciary and Parliament.
However, it also raises concerns that the substantive meaning of participation may be underdeveloped in the Court’s jurisprudence.
This under development of an important jurisprudential issue operates to undermine the people’s right to democratic participation.
Read on below 👇🏽
@tsungabamulaw @bamujm @TitoMagoti @AfricanJurists @civicspaceaf @AfricanPOC @Advocate_Jebra @SadcLawyers @L4L_INT
Enjoy reading this article co-authored by our former Executive Director @tsunga_arnold & Bongani Ngwenya.
thestandard.co.zw/standard-p…
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@ChrisExcel102 Please show these people this stats. When we say Abahambe we don't lie. Where is @JacintaNgobese ? From 1996 I was an enumerator in Jhb working statsSA. In 2000 I was in PE being a student at Vista. I was an enumerator again. This thing is serious. 😢
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#SAmigration || Since 1996 Mozambique and Zimbabwe have been the top sending countries, The majority of migrants are from the SADC region.
The estimated unemployment rate among immigrants was 18.2% in 2022.
The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) Q3:2022 shows that, the largest share of employed immigrants worked in private households
Read more here: census.statssa.gov.za/#/
#StatsSA #Migration #KnowYourStatsZA #GovZAUpdates #30YearsOfCensus #30YearsOfCountingSA
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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula:
Ramaphosa asked me to go to Zimbabwe & use the aircraft.
Then Ramaphosa issued a statement giving me 48 hours to explain why I went to Zimbabwe & used the aircraft.
But I was sent by him.
I felt betrayed
