FACTSHEET: New currency rules
On Monday, 24 June 2019, the Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube issued new currency regulations which effectively ended Zimbabwe’s use of multiple currencies as legal tender. Media reports suggested the…
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FACTSHEET: Corporal punishment, pregnancy and the new Education Bill
The Education Amendment Bill reached the committee stage this week, edging closer to becoming law. Some of the proposed law’s provisions, such as clauses seeking to outlaw corporal punishment as…
FACT SHEET: Fuel pricing structure
By ZimFact staff The price of fuel has become a topical issue in Zimbabwe, following two major increases in January and May. In January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa effected a 150%…
FACT SHEET: Cyclone Idai and Zimbabwe
Cyclone Idai, which devastated Zimbabwe’s eastern border districts of Chimanimani and Chipinge in mid March after drowning Mozambique’s second largest city of Beira, has been described by the United Nations’…
Does Parliamentary committee want to push age of sexual consent down to 12 years?
A claim that a parliamentary committee seeks to lower the age of consent to 12 years has triggered outrage. By ZimFact Staff CLAIM: On Wednesday, 6 March 2019, voter mobilisation…
