Standard cartoon June 5 2016
What happened in Gokwe on Thursday heralds the beginning of political violence that will blight the 2023 elections whose results will predictably be disputed.
Appearing before the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on August 18 in Geneva that discussed a periodic review of Zimbabwe, Ziyambi claimed the post-independence atrocities, that have become to be known as Gukurahundi, were not confined to Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.
South Africa last year announced that the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) dispensation will come to an end in December this year.
A majority of Zimbabwean workers, including civil servants, are mostly paid in local currency and they have limited access to foreign currency, which makes the government’s position on school fees unreasonable.