CLAIM: Zimbabwe is receiving uninterrupted electricity supplies from South Africa’s Eskom, despite shortages and power-cuts in that country. Sources: www.sabcnew.com and www.thesouthafrican.com VERDICT: Incorrect. Zimbabwe’s power import agreement with Eskom…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the official opening of Parliament CLAIM: Senior ZANU-PF official, Obert Mpofu, has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa can legally extend his presidency by changing the constitutional…
Zimbabwe Gender Commission chairperson Margaret Sangarwe CLAIM: Twenty-two women are raped daily in Zimbabwe, according to the Zimbabwe Gender Commission. VERDICT: True. Official crime statistics show that, on average, at…
Claim: The Ministry of Defence got the biggest allocation of Zimbabwe’s 2020 budget. Verdict: Not true. The biggest budget vote went to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and…
Former Arts minister Kazembe Kazembe CLAIM: The Zimbabwe government has introduced new rules governing the music industry, among them licences for performers, permits for music videos and rules on how…
