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A parliamentary inquiry has found that only 20 of Zimbabwe’s 63 sewage treatment plants still work, with roughly 570 megalitres of raw or partly treated waste pouring into rivers and dams daily — and Harare’s Mukuvisi River taking the worst of it.
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The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has asked the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission to visit and inspect correctional facilities, arguing that deaf, mute and hard-of-hearing prisoners are being held in conditions that may breach their constitutional rights.
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A Tsholotsho man allegedly locked his wife and her relatives inside a room and set the house alight, killing his spouse, before attempting to take his own life in a dispute reportedly sparked by WhatsApp messages.
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Amnesty International has called on Zimbabwe and other governments to safeguard their nationals from deceptive recruitment into Russia’s military, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky highlights the global scale of the issue at the UN General Assembly.
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With Washington winding down health assistance, Zimbabwean legislators say the national budget must carry more of the load — and patients are being told to get their answers at the clinic, not online.
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Treasury and central bank officials have moved to reassure depositors that foreign currency account balances will not be compulsorily converted, as Harare prepares the ground for a mono-currency system and businesses weigh the risks to savings, pricing and long-term finance.
Incidents
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As dementia cases rise in Zimbabwe, families struggle without support. A poignant story of a grandson’s heartbreak highlights the urgent need for awareness and care.
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A fatal elephant attack at Spurwing Island, a stalled Constituency Development Fund trial and a Masvingo football club in crisis headline Zimbabwe’s news on September 19, 2026.
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Bulawayo mayor David Coltart says the 252km Gwayi-Shangani pipeline would need 217 years to finish at last year’s funding pace, even as construction of the dam itself races ahead.
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A note said to have been left by nurse Lyliosa Chirara, who allegedly killed her husband, ZHRC Commissioner Martin Muduva, before taking her own life, surfaced while her clothes were being packed for burial in Njanja — igniting a fresh dispute between the two families.
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ZTN Prime disappears from DStv Channel 294 at 23:59 CAT on 30 September 2026, closing a four-year run and marking a decisive shift by Zimpapers towards internet-delivered broadcasting.
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New rules cap street trading in central business districts and extend a nationwide cleanup campaign, but opposition parties say the crackdown punishes workers pushed into the informal economy.
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Government says the clean-up drive is a permanent programme rather than a one-off operation, as new trading hours and abatement orders take effect across all 92 local authorities.
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Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart warns the 252km Gwayi-Shangani pipeline could take 217 years to finish at current funding rates, spotlighting a national pattern of stalled public projects that now number at least 226.
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Zimbabwe’s public health sector is on the brink of a drug supply collapse as hospitals in Matabeleland alone owe the state pharmaceutical distributor nearly US$2.7 million, leaving basic medicines like paracetamol and insulin critically scarce.
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Zimbabwe’s new Munhumutapa Day holiday has triggered a heated argument over how the country remembers its pre-colonial past, with critics disputing the claim that the Mutapa Empire built Great Zimbabwe and questioning why the date falls on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s birthday.
