ZLHR engagement report
@ZLHRLawyers - 184K followers on X
Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 14, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 184K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 20% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 1.3K times each, and 1.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 12% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 312 interactions, about 22x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fifafrica26, #30rights30cases, #achpr89os.
Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 14, 2026. Recurring tags: #fifafrica26, #30rights30cases, #achpr89os.
Compared with accounts its own size
ZLHR's engagement rate beats 20% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 44% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.007%, ZLHR sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,881 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.68% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 92% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 12% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 92% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 12% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 261 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 4, 202622x their median
ZLHR BREAKING NEWS: On behalf of Hillcrest School in Mutare, we have filed an application at Mutare High Court, where we are seeking an order compelling Toronto Mines to immediately cease gold mining activities in Toronto in the once-scenic Christmas Pass area as this threatens the environment and the school and the learning setting for students and teachers also some residents living in the area. In the application, our lawyers Calexy Maunga (Jnr), Tatenda Sigaukeand Dorothy Mutungura argue that the heightened open-cast mining activities are causing significant disruption, disturbance and upheaval to Hillcrest School’s educational operations and the discharge of its mandate. Hillcrest School wants the High Court to order Toronto Mines together with other respondents who include Calvar House Investments (Private) Limited, Maxwell Chad, Rosa Villa Investments (Private) Limited and Golden Cube Investments (Private) Limited, to cease all excavation and construction activities presently being undertaken at Mt Sinai, Toronto and to demobilise and remove from the site all excavators, heavy machinery, processing equipment and other equipment being used in connection with the mining and related activities, pending the lawful authorisation of the operations. The school, which has been in existence for over 41 years, also wants Toronto Mines, Calvar House Investments (Private) Limited, Maxwell Chad, Rosa Villa Investments (Private) Limited and Golden Cube Investments (Private) Limited whether acting jointly or severally, and whether through their employees, agents, contractors or any other persons acting on their behalf, to be interdicted and restrained from carrying out, conducting or permitting any mining, excavation, crushing, processing, mineral recovery, heap-leaching or other mining-related activities at Mt Sinai, Toronto, including any further excavation of the land, stockpiling of excavated material or debris, or construction or use of mining-related infrastructure, without first obtaining all requisite statutory licences, permits, environmental approvals and other authorisations from the competent regulatory authorities.
- Sep 8, 20265.5x their median
Case Alert 8 September 2026 ZLHR ENDS CHURCHES’ AGONY OVER IMPOUNDED VEHICLE A BULAWAYO Magistrate has ordered Umguza Rural District Council (URDC) to release a vehicle, which the local authority had arbitrarily seized after alleging that the driver had committed an offence of transporting firewood without a permit. On 6 June 2026, some URDC officials, who identified themselves as rangers working for the local authority, seized a Mazda B2500 vehicle belonging to Churches in Bulawayo, an inter-denominational non-profit organisation based in Bulawayo, which was being driven by Fidel Dube, who is the treasurer of Churches in Bulawayo. The URDC officials stopped Dube along the Nkayi-Bulawayo Road as he was travelling together with his family in the vehicle from their farm in Bubi District and informed him that he had been stopped for transporting firewood without a licence. Dube explained to the URDC officials that the firewood he was carrying in the vehicle was felled at his family farm in Bubi and it was intended for domestic use at their family home in Trenance suburb in Bulawayo. Despite giving this explanation, the URDC officials ordered Dube to drive his vehicle to the local authority’s office in Reigate, where upon arrival he was instructed to lock the car and was issued with a penalty ticket and ordered to pay a US$500 fine for allegedly committing the offence of transporting firewood without a permit in violation of Section 8(e) of the URDC (Communal and Resettlement Land) (Land Use and Conservation) By-laws, Statutory Instrument 179 of 1996. Aggrieved by the seizure of the vehicle, Dube visited the URDC offices in Bulawayo on numerous occasions seeking the release of the car and he was told that he must put his complaint in writing and he wrote several letters to the Chief Executive Officer of URDC demanding the release of the vehicle on the basis that the seizure was unlawful. However, the local authority responded in a two-sentence letter stating that the impounding of the vehicle was lawful. This then compelled Dube, who got a resolution from Churches in Bulawayo, to seek the assistance of human rights lawyers Prisca Dube and Sipho Moyo of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, who on 15 July 2026, wrote a letter of demand to URDC demanding the release of the Churches in Bulawayo vehicle within 48 hours. In their letter of demand, Dube and Moyo indicated that the seizure of the vehicle was not justified in terms of the Forest (Control of Firewood, Timber and Forest Produce) Regulations, 2012 (SI 116/2012) and the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, which provided the legal basis for confiscation of a vehicle transporting firewood. The human rights lawyers also indicated that the fine charged by URDC was excessive and not in line with the provisions of the law. Dube and Moyo later escalated their interventions by filing an application at Bulawayo Magistrates Court on 24 July 2026, where they demanded the release of the vehicle arguing that the impounding of the car was illegal as it did not comply with the requirements of the law. The human rights lawyers argued that the continued confiscation of the vehicle in unlawful circumstances was a violation of the Churches in Bulawayo’s constitutional right to property as there was no authority for its continued seizure. The lawyers contended that the firewood had been felled at a farm in Bubi, which belongs to Dube’s mother and had been transported by him for his family’s domestic use in light of both the cost and unreliability of electricity supply. The legal practitioners also argued that the by-law cited in the Penalty Ticket, being section 8 (e) of the URDC (Communal and Resettlement Land) (Land Use and Conservation) By-laws, Statutory Instrument 179 of 1996, regulates the collection or removal of firewood in communal and resettlement land within URDC’s jurisdiction and the firewood, which Dube was transporting was collected and removed outside URDC’s jurisdiction. The lawyers said this meant that URDC’s by-laws do not apply in Dube’s matter and hence it makes the seizure of the firewood and the vehicle illegal, as the URDC’s officials lacked lawful authority to seize it. Dube and Moyo charged that in terms of the Forest (Control of Firewood, Timber and Forest Produce) Regulations, 2012 (Statutory Instrument 116 of 2012), firewood felled for domestic use does not fall within the scope of the regulations and transporting it does not constitute an offence. The said regulations, the lawyers reasoned, create an offence for transporting more than 0.5 cubic metres of firewood in a single consignment without a permit and hence only in such a scenario can the firewood and the vehicle be seized by designated officials. The firewood, which Dube was transporting, the lawyers said, did not exceed 0.5 cubic metres and the URDC’s officials did not prove this to the contrary despite his demands. Churches in Bulawayo, Dube and Moyo said, had suffered harm as it is being deprived of its property, which is used for its activities. On 12 August 2026, Bulawayo Provincial Magistrate Beverley Madzikatire ordered URDC to release the vehicle, which it had impounded in June 2026. #ZLHR30YearsofImpactALifetimeofCommitment
- Aug 24, 20264.6x their median
Human rights lawyer @obeyshava1 says the filing of a contempt of court application by @ZMutimutema against Defence Minister Hon. Oppah Muchinguri, is meant to ensure that court orders are obeyed by everyone without exception. https://t.co/uxPVDuVa0p
- Oct 6, 20263.5x their median
Migratory birds depend on a network of healthy wetlands across countries and continents, using them to rest, feed and breed along their flyways. Safeguarding these wetlands requires people too, from scientists and local communities to holders of traditional knowledge and young people.
- Sep 11, 20263.4x their median
Case Alert 11 September 2026 ZRP TO FORK OUT US$15 000 COMPENSATION TO RESIDENT FOR UNLAWFUL ARREST AND DETENTION HIGH Court Judge Justice Samuel Deme has ordered Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Hon. Kazembe Kazembe to pay US$15 000 to a Harare resident, who sued them over delinquent actions committed by some law enforcement agents, who severely assaulted and held him in filthy detention conditions before he was acquitted. Emmanuel Majoni, a 52 year-old Harare resident, sued Hon. Kazembe and ZRP Commissioner-General Stephen Mutamba, for unlawful arrest and detention and also for pain and suffering, after accusing some ZRP officers, who apprehended and charged him with public violence on 24 August 2016 in Harare together with 73 other Harare residents, of violating his fundamental rights. In summons filed at Harare High Court, Majoni, who was represented by Emmanuel Lawrence Chibwe of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, stated that he sustained injuries after he was severely assaulted by some ZRP officers, who apprehended him and who used truncheons and booted feet. The Harare resident complained that he was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment after he was detained in filthy and overcrowded cells at Harare Central Police Station and was not given blankets to cover himself during the night together with other dwellers, who were accused of participating in an anti-government protest. At Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, Majoni was subjected to harsh and severe conditions for a period of one month, where he was categorised as a dangerous prisoner commonly referred to as the “D” class. Majoni protested that the food at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison was non-nutritious and he was traumatised by the unsanitary conditions of the detention cells, which leaked sewage. After enduring all this horrible treatment, the Harare resident was discharged at the close of the State case on 22 March 2017 after standing trial at Harare Magistrates Court and after facing prosecution for about seven months, when he should not have been arrested at all. He stated that he suffered the ignominy of detention and standing trial when he should never have been an accused person and lost his source of income since he could not go to work while incarcerated. Majoni complained that the shock and trauma of the incident left him emotionally damaged and the incident impaired his dignity and self-esteem while his reputation was soiled as he was associated with criminals due to the malicious charges preferred against him and the unlawful deprivation of liberty. In suing Mutamba and Hon. Kazembe, Majoni charged that his arrest and detention was carried out by ZRP officers during the course and scope of their employment hence the duo is vicariously liable for the wrongs done to him. Majoni said he suffered damages amounting to US$15 000 as a result of the conduct of ZRP officers, who violated his rights through unlawful arrest, detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Out of the US$15 000 that Majoni demanded, he stated that US$5 000 will be damages for unlawful arrest and detention while US$5 000 will be for pain and suffering with US$5 000 covering damages for contumelia. On 2 September 2026, High Court Judge Justice Deme ordered Hon. Kazembe and Mutamba to pay Majoni US$15 000 as damages for unlawful arrest and detention, pain and suffering and for contumelia. Majoni is the latest victim of ZRP’s delinquent conduct to be compensated for violation of his rights after receiving legal assistance from ZLHR. By bringing anti-impunity civil proceedings against perpetrators of human rights violations, ZLHR aims to deter and discourage acts of human rights violations in Zimbabwe. #ZLHR30YearsofImpactALifetimeofCommitment
- Jun 22, 20262.8x their median
#ZLHR: 30 Years of Impact. A Lifetime of Commitment! https://t.co/wKjFk5h1nK
- Oct 8, 20262.4x their median
Through the #30Rights30Cases series, we are profiling some landmark cases taken up by @ZLHRLawyers, which ended with us securing a pleasing outcome. Today, we revisit the case in which we intervened to ensure that traditional leaders act in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. #ZLHR30YearsofImpactALifetimeofCommitment
- Sep 28, 20262.4x their median
Ruthy Chibwe from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights(@ZLHRLawyers ) reflects on the pre-event on TFGBV hosted by @APC_News . Watch: #FIFAfrica26 https://t.co/8GYAmSI3My
- Sep 4, 20262.3x their median
The Wait is Over: We have just launched our latest publication titled "Litigating For Conservation; A ZLHR Case Analysis Of Wetland And Vital Water Sources Protection In Zimbabwe." We are grateful to our communities, our partners, our researchers and authors, who are passionate about protecting and preserving wetlands and the environment.
- Aug 6, 20262.2x their median
MUCHINGURI FACES JAIL FOR RENEGING ON COMPENSATING BRUTAL ARMY SHOOTING VICTIM DEFENCE Minister Hon. Oppah Muchinguri is facing the possibility of spending six months in jail after she wilfully defied a High Court order, where she was ordered to pay US$25 000 to a victim of brutal army shootings, as compensation for injuries sustained when soldiers fired bullets to suppress anti-government protests in August 2018. In July 2025, Hon. Muchinguri agreed to pay US$25 000 as compensation to Zakeyo Mutimutema, who in 2018 worked for Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and who sued her together with Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Hon. Kazembe Kazembe and Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General Stephen Mutamba for damages for current and future medical expenses, pain and suffering and general damages, after some glass particles got into his eyes, when armed soldiers shot at a building housing his offices on 1 August 2018, while dispersing some people who were protesting against alleged electoral malpractices during the harmonised elections. Mutimutema sustained some injuries and partially lost his eyesight after a stray bullet fired by members of the Zimbabwe National Army, who were dispersing some people protesting against the delay in the release of the presidential election results, shattered glasses of windows to his office at Gorlon House in Harare. The labour law specialist had to undergo three unsuccessful eye surgeries to remove fine glass particles that pierced his eyes after a bullet fired by soldiers shattered glass windows at his ZCTU offices. Now, Mutimutema, who is represented by Obey Shava of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, wants the High Court to declare Hon. Muchinguri to be in contempt of court for the wilful failure to comply with its order granted in July 2025 and for her to be committed to serve a period of six months in prison, which will be wholly suspended on condition that she complies with the High Court order within seven days. In his application for committal for contempt, Mutimutema protested and argued that Hon. Muchinguri wilfully disobeyed or neglected to comply with the High Court order and ignored several demands for the satisfaction of payment of his debt. The former ZCTU employee argued that Hon. Muchinguri’s failure to comply with a High Court order is not justified as it constitutes a wilful disobedience of a lawful order and her conduct is contemptuous and undermines the authority of the court. A Commission of Inquiry chaired by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe and appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to probe the post-July 2018 election violence that left at least six people dead after they were shot by soldiers, recommended that government should compensate all the victims of the shootings and prosecute all perpetrators. However, no known victims or families have been compensated and there has been no prosecution of perpetrators. #ZLHR30YearsofImpactALifetimeofCommitment
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 184K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 20% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 1.3K times each, and 1.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 12% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 312 interactions, about 22x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fifafrica26, #30rights30cases, #achpr89os.
- What is ZLHR's engagement rate on X?
- ZLHR (@ZLHRLawyers) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 26 original posts from the last 30 days against 184,201 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, ZLHR sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,881 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @ZLHRLawyers have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 20% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @ZLHRLawyers post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.67 posts per day across the measured window.