(Hon Nicola Watson receiving Displacements Framework Communique from Lubimbi Councilor in 2022 during the National Displacements Indaba) Bulawayo Central Member of Parliament, Honorable Nicola Watson have called on the government to ensure that the Lubimbi community being displaced by Lake Gwayi-Shangani is relocated within the framework of human rights and good development. Hon Watson made... Continue Reading →

Bulawayo community environmental rights activists have challenged the Environmental Impact Assessment Report produced by Khumatso consultancy firm on behalf of Toyota Zimbabwe for the establishment of a showroom on stand number 18276BT next to the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in ward 5. Speaking during a validation meeting convened by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) at... Continue Reading →

About 250 Waste Pickers and upcyclers representatives who convened in Bulawayo on the 24th of February 2023 for the inaugural waste pickers conference resolved that with effect from the 24th of February they are now organizing themselves under the banner of Zimbabwe WastePickers and Upcyclers Association. This will be a first in Zimbabwe to have... Continue Reading →

smart In an appreciated and greatly welcomed radical public policy shift, the Mayor of the City of Bulawayo His Worship Cllr Solomon Mguni has acknowledged the critical importance of waste pickers in refuse collection, sound service delivery, and development of the City. In a statement during the 3366th Ordinary Council meeting of 2023, the Mayor... Continue Reading →

(Public Statement 14 December 2022) As the Zimbabwe electricity shortage situation is worsening in urban areas, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) is concerned with the high-risk exposure that women and girls are subjected to as they fetch firewood in the bushes that are in the edges of the City and the organization calls on... Continue Reading →

The Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) supported St Peters village fodder farmers in peri-urban Bulawayo are expecting a bumper harvest from their fodder which is expected to be harvested before end of December 2022. MIHR with support from the New Zealand High Commission is implementing a climate resilience building programme which empowers poor peri-urban... Continue Reading →

On the 6th of December 2022, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) Coordinator Mr Khumbulani Maphosa gave oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Local Government. The oral evidence was on a petition that MIHR made to parliament calling for the amendment of the Traditional Leaders Act specifically to uphold the Constitutional principle of... Continue Reading →

Incidences of political violence that marred the recently held Zimbabwean local authority by-elections are causing fear and intimidation amongst the community water and environmental rights defenders as they are scared to openly challenge environmental polluters (especially those linked to the political elites) for fear of victimization and violence. Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) environmental... Continue Reading →

(Bulawayo female slum dweller drinks from an unprotected open well which is their only water source) Water poverty continues to haunt Bulawayo slum dwellers residing around the Ngozi Mine waste dumpsite. Due to their illegality, the local authority is not providing the slum dwellers with water services, and they resort to asking from nearby suburbs.... Continue Reading →

Today (29 Sept 2022) MIHR met with the top management of the Bulawayo City Council’s Department of Finance to discuss critical matters relating to billing and water shedding. The meeting was a result of the citizens’ petition that was signed by 1513 residents and delivered to BCC by MIHR on the 20th of September 2022.... Continue Reading →