Zimbabwe
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- semi-presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 21, 1979
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- mix of Roman-Dutch law and English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Parliament composed of the Senate and House
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, Constitutional Court
RELIGIONS
50% syncretism (mix of Christianity and indigenous beliefs), 25% Christians, 24% indigenous beliefs, 1% Muslims
From the country
- JANUARY 29, 2025ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE BEGINS RESENTENCING OF DEATH ROW INMATES AFTER ABOLISHING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Zimbabwe has started the process of resentencing prisoners who were on death row after officially abolishing the death penalty, the Global South World reported on January 22, 2025.
DECEMBER 31, 2024ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: PRESIDENT EMMERSON MNANGAGWA SIGNS BILL ABOLISHING THE DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty on December 31, 2024, after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will commute to jail time the sentences of prisoners on death row.
- DECEMBER 15, 2024ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: SENATE APPROVES BILL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe’s Senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty, a key step in scrapping a law last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago.
- APRIL 21, 2024ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE FREES PRISONERS, INCLUDING THOSE SENTENCED TO DEATH, IN AN INDEPENDENCE DAY AMNESTY
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on April 18, 2024.
- FEBRUARY 7, 2024ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwean Cabinet on February 6, 2024 approved the abolition of the death penalty and, in its place, endorsed the imposition of lengthy to life jail sentences.
JULY 19, 2023ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF CHILD
A Zimbabwean High Court Judge on July 12, 2023 sentenced two convicted murderers to death for the killing of a 7-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, three years ago in the country’s Mashonaland East Province in rural Murewa area.
- MAY 22, 2023ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE RELEASES PRISONERS IN AMNESTY, REDUCING OVERCROWDING
Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty that authorities say will help ease congestion in some overcrowded jails.
MAY 15, 2023ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: MNANGAGWA GRANTS AMNESTY TO THOUSANDS OF NON-VIOLENT INMATES
An amnesty has been granted to thousands of prisoners serving time for non-violent offences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa exercising executive clemency to release inmates who had served at least one third of their jail term
- MARCH 30, 2023ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWEANS START DEBATE ON ENDING DEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe’s government has started two weeks of nationwide consultations on whether to abolish capital punishment for people convicted of premeditated murder.
OCTOBER 20, 2021ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS EMPLOYEE
A High Court judge on 18 October 2021 sentenced a Hwedza man to death for the murder of his employer in 2015 and throwing the body into Rhodesville Dam.
- MAY 28, 2021ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE UNVEILS SCULPTURE OF WOMAN HANGED FOR OPPOSING COLONIAL RULE
Zimbabwe’s president on 25 May 2021 unveiled a towering bronze statue in the centre of Harare, the capital, honouring a 19th-century black anti-colonialist heroine who was hanged for leading a rebellion against white occupation.
JUNE 23, 2020ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: TWO TAXI DRIVER KILLERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A High Court judge has condemned two robbers to death for killing a taxi driver in Harare two years ago, The Herald reported on 22 June 2020.