Its politics, period! September is the last month before Zanu PF holds its crucial annual conference. Each time the party holds the conference, the preparations take centre stage and the country...
August 2021 was a politically charged month in Zimbabwe. The social media buzz over the opposition victory in neighbouring Zambia translated into more campaigns and increased political activity by...
OVERVIEW June 2021 recorded the height of gross and heartless Human Rights violations instituted by the Government of Zimbabwe under the difficult global pandemic – COVID-19. Spate of demolitions of...
Executive Summary In post-coup Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has continued to record wave after wave of human rights violations as the democratic space continues to narrow. Criticising...
Summary Findings and Recommendations. FINDINGS • In the past two months April and May 2021, there were growing incidences of clear selective enforcement of the COVID-19 Statutory Instrument 77 of...
Executive Summary Guns represent war, conflict, destruction and death and in Zimbabwe, the gun had led politics instead of the reverse. This month, we witnessed and report that there has been an...
Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has had far reaching impact on the socio-economic livelihoods and well-being of a large section of the population in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Peace Project...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY "In April, ZPP recorded three incidents of disruption of political events, 88 cases of harassment and intimidation, 23 cases of discrimination during aid distribution, many of which...
Executive Summary Trocaire and its consortium partners namely Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR); Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP); Masakhaneni Project Trust (MPT), the Catholic Commission for...
Introduction The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum), and the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) commissioned a study on the political economy of food aid distribution and the right to food in...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 27 February 2021, two soldiers, who are part of the troops operating in Chipinge, near the Zimbabwean border with Mozambique, allegedly assaulted a civilian to death. The details...
This edition covers related developments in the months December 2020 and January 2021 with particular focus on recorded human rights violations and prejudices ensuing from the COVID-19 management...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The year 2020 was, by all accounts, a very difficult year for Zimbabwe. The global COVID-19 pandemic went beyond being just a health issue and the Zimbabwean government conveniently...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In his book, The Story of My Life, first published in 1984, the late nationalist and Vice President of Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, wrote, “What matters is that the...
1.0 Executive Summary On 25 October 2020, at Kandeya Primary School in Mt Darwin South, about 177 kilometres from the main capital, Harare, dozens of villagers gathered to receive agricultural inputs...
1.0 Executive Summary An anniversary of brutality For Zimbabwe, August 2020, has been the most complicated month. During this month, the ruling Zanu PF started off by celebrating two years after its...
1.0 Executive Summary The state of paranoia During the first week of July, Transform Zimbabwe leader, Jacob Ngarivhume announced he was galvanising support for a July 31 demonstration against...
Introduction A COLD JUNE In Zimbabwe, the winter season peaks in the month of June. But far from the usual cold weather the month brings, Zimbabweans across the country experienced a worsening...
INTRODUCTION The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) works with community structures and community-based partners in five districts of Zimbabwe namely Binga, Chiredzi, Matobo, Mutasa and Mutoko, . A brief...
‘Human Rights in the midst of the Covid-19 Global Pandemic: Zim in state of neglect’ Executive Summary In March 2020 citizens were preoccupied with the Corona Virus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) which...