But those who back the proposed Patriotic Bill, as it has been called, say that it is about national cohesion. "The government has always tried to persuade its citizens to behave in a patriotic way to maintain unity," Chief Whip for the governing Zanu-PF party Pupurai Togarepi told the ...
Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front or ZANU-PF [Emmerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA]Zimbabwe African Peoples Union or ZAPU [Isaac MABUKA] International organization participation ACP, AfDB, AU, COMESA, FAO, G-15, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, ...
The opposition also alleged that the Zanu-PF-proposed Patriotic Bill and the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Act were all tailored to silence the opposition. The opposition said the arbitrary arrest of opposition supporters and senior officials, including Zengeza West member of Parliam...
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs chairperson Mr Misheck Mataranyika said the law will engender patriotism. “It is a delayed law, honestly, because it is an inherent thing that everyone should be patriotic to their country,” said Mr Mataranyika. “If...
Zambia’s ruling party has an uncanny resemblance to its counterpart to the south, the Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front); Zanu PF in short. The more famous Zimbabwean party predates its Zambian counterpart by about two decades and the current leader of the latter, Lungu, seems...
open and fair one in the world. What we lack at times are prudent, genuinely patriotic leaders, willing or able to work closely with progressives, so as to form sensible coalitions, alliances, and networks that might possibly help produce social, economic, and political policies that are benef...
He said the section of the criminal Act under which they were being charged was: "open to abuse and potentially prohibits all forms of public gatherings or processions, in the circumstances, it thus violates the right to freedom of assembly and association, right to freedom of expression and ...
As we brace ourselves to host the 44th Ordinary SADC Heads of State and Government Summit, one would have expected Zimbabweans to experience heightened patriotic fervour and national pride. Why wouldn't we be? How often does a country get the chance to welcome so many heads of state and ...
12) report notes “it was an act of retribution against areas known by the Government to have voted for the opposition during the last few presidential and parliamentary elections.” The affected people were told to go back to rural areas even though most of the people affected had lived ...
on a "willing seller, willing buyer" basis. In this regard the whites were supposed willingly sell land to the post colonial government. The Patriotic Front (ZANU-ZAPU) accepted it on the understanding that the UK, US and other donor nations would pay for the land needed for resettlement....