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HARARE – The landmark Constitutional Court (Con-Court) ruling declaring unconstitutional the draconian Public Order and Security Act (Posa) is likely to open floodgates of protests, as agitated Zimbabweans are itching to get into the streets to express their discontent over the increasingly failing economy, analysts, unions and opposition groups have said. Under Posa, public gatherings…

HARARE – Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has warned service stations against hiking fuel prices or withholding its sale for speculative reasons and threatened to cancel licences of service stations engaged in the rent-seeking behaviour. This comes amid imbalanced supply of fuel which has seen the emergence of long queues while service stations located in…

HARARE – International labour unions have expressed outrage over the alleged erosion of worker rights in Zimbabwe under the “new dispensation.” In a flurry of angry letters to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, international labour unions strongly condemned the government’s heavy–handedness in responding to workers’ protests against new economic reforms. Leading unions the International Trade Union Confederation…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main labour union has appealed to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to probe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration for violating freedom of association and workers’ rights to organise. This comes after police arrested several members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) a fortnight ago to crush protests against an extortionate tax…

HARARE – Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) church president Aspher Madziyire, has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking permission to be allowed to file papers in response to an application in  which some church members are contesting his presidency. Madziyire and four others had been barred from filing their papers,…

HARARE – Prices have suddenly shot up in Zimbabwe following a slowdown in annual inflation during the first half of the year, a leading financial research firm has said. The latest data from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) shows that annual consumer price index (CPI) inflation continued to accelerate in September to +5,4 percent…

HARARE – Police were yesterday called to restore order at some of Harare’s leading retailers when desperate shoppers caused commotion after the outlets had received deliveries of cooking oil. One of the big supermarkets involved had to close shop after disorderly customers stampeded for the oil — which is among several basic consumer goods that…

HARARE – After a near-farcical start, temperatures rose a notch up yesterday at the government’s commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence — which ended up with the army killing at least six civilians — when the probe team was challenged to name the person who deployed soldiers onto the streets on that…

HARARE – After a near-farcical start, temperatures rose a notch up yesterday at the government’s commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence — which ended up with the army killing at least six civilians — when the probe team was challenged to name the person who deployed soldiers onto the streets on that…