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
- OCTOBER 10, 2011ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review
Zimbabwe was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review
- JULY 20, 2011ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO THREW BODY ON HIGHWAY
Lython Mathe, 30, was sentenced to death by hanging by Bulawayo High Court judge Lawrence Kamocha, on circuit in Hwange, Zimbabwe.
- JULY 7, 2011ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: ZANU PF ACTIVIST TO HANG FOR KILLING MDC RIVAL
Bulawayo High Court judge Lawrence Kamocha, on circuit in Hwange
- JUNE 24, 2011ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO DEATH ROW INMATES DENIED APPEALS SINCE 2005
as many as 20 Bulawayo death row prisoners in Zimbabwe have been unable to benefit from their automatic right to appeal since 2005, because the courts have a shortage of transcribers.
FEBRUARY 15, 2011ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: RITUAL MURDERER TO HANG
Justice Tendai Uchena of High Court in Zimbabwe sentenced a Karoi man,
JANUARY 25, 2011ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: DEBATE ON THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH SENTENCE
Amnesty International in conjunction with Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum held a two day
- JANUARY 1, 2011ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Zimbabwe at Chapter 3, section 12...
The Constitution of Zimbabwe at Chapter 3, section 12...
- DECEMBER 6, 2010ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RITUAL MURDER
in Zimbabwe, former security guard Zakaria Simango, 35, from Chiredzi...
- OCTOBER 11, 2010ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY-AMNESTY INT.
Amnesty International Zimbabwe will this week petition the legal secretaries from the three political parties in the inclusive government to help abolish the death sentence in Zimbabwe.
- JULY 5, 2010ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE: MAN FACES HANGMAN'S NOOSE
in Harare, Zimbabwe, 38 year old Nyanzura man Fanuel Tengende was sentenced to death by High Court Justice Felistus Chatukuta for raping and stranging a nine-year-old girl in Kunyongana Village before dumping her corpse in a well on August 21, 2007.
MAY 10, 2010ZimbabweDEATH PENALTYZIMBABWE: COURT ACQUITS MUGABE OPPONENT ROY BENNETT
Roy Bennett, a leading opponent of Zimbabwe’s president, Robert
- APRIL 13, 2010ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE DESPERATE FOR A HANGMAN
Zimbabwe is searching for a hangman. Chikurubi prison, a maximum