But Vice President Mnangagwa said, "Since the period in 1980 government has been concerned about the plight of the worker and has cumulatively and gradually introduced landmark pieces of legislation for their welfare."
Some Zimbabweans said Togolese president Faure Gnassingbe was unfit to officially open the 57th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair.
Election violence has always gripped Zimbabwe during elections, leaving some people dead and others maimed or displaced.
Jason Taylor, chief of the Office of Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience at USAID Zimbabwe, says indications are that the food situation will worsen in the country as most crops have failed this season.
Simpkins declared Zimbabwe’s land reform exercise as mired in controversy since the country’s independence from British rule, and beneficial to mostly loyalists of President Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF party.
“… He (President Mugabe) was a hero of the independence movement and he kept that title for a long time. I don’t see why anybody could say that he is still a hero, that he is still an asset to Zimbabwe.”
One of the top Zanu PF officials, Joseph Tshuma, told VOA Studio 7 the MDC-T should just forget about staging such public protests.
“It (the march) had MDC colors and it was led by the leadership of the MDC-T. And even when they sought the permission (for staging the public event) they did not make any excuses about it."
Thousands of Zimbabweans gathered at the National Heroes’ Acre to bid farewell to two heroines, Victoria Chitepo and Vivian Mwashita Muchicho.
Blessing Chebundo, former chairperson of the health parliamentary portfolio committee, tells Studio 7 Bona Mugabe should have been asked to give birth at a local hospital.
Two groups – one allegedly led by First Lady Grace Mugabe and another by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa - are fighting for the control of the party.
"Everybody knows that these people have been complaining about the same issue they raised today and there is no measurement that they were happy because they were able to meet their patron and talk to him.”
“We don’t have a title for it as yet, we are still working on it. It’s all about the problems that the world in facing today (including Zimbabwe)."
'So, the president is simply alluding to a fact that is there going back to the elections of 2013 where he was resoundingly elected into that office … "
Mapfumo said it is unfortunate that Zimbabwe has to end up going this way as elections have over the years favored the ruling Zanu PF party.
“It (bill) can be sponsored by citizens and pushed through one MP (Member of Parliament). We need to make it clear that it’s time this got addressed and those responsible have to come out.”
In a statement, Beatrice Mwangi, the World Vision Southern Africa region resilience and livelihoods director, said thousands of children in Zimbabwe and across Southern Africa are slipping into malnutrition and death.
“Shonas and Ndebeles must come together and address this issue. It’s not a tribal issue, it’s a national issue. I am saying this because I am Shona. I need everybody to know that.”
The recent firing of War Veterans Minister Chris Mutsvangwa has unsettled war veterans, who were on the receiving end recently when police with baton sticks and water cannot descended on them.
Speaking in a political panel, Nick Mangwana of Zanu PF and George Mkhwanazi of the People’s Democratic Party led by Tendai Biti, agreed that plugging diamond mining loopholes is an insurmountable task.
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