Pages:
- 1
- 2
April 16
Zimbabwe: Rural Entrepreneurs Thriving Against All Odds in Zimbabwe
With heavy sweat drenching his face and his shirt soaked in the sweat, 39-year-old Proud Ndukulani wrestled with a homemade knife, which he dipped in some used oil, before turning… Read more »
March 21
Zimbabwe: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World in the Context of Zimbabwe?
This year's UNDP Global Human Development Report (HDR) marks a dramatic shift away from the cautious optimism espoused in the HDR just four years ago: despite reaching a new high,… Read more »
March 15
Zimbabwe: Beekeeping Offers Opportunity to Zimbabwean Farming Communities
Honeybees quickly react with a sharp and loud buzz sound as beekeeper Tanyaradzwa Kanangira opens one of the wooden horizontal Kenyan top bar hives near a stream in a thick forest… Read more »
January 24
Zimbabwe: Zimbabweans Gambling for a Living Amid Escalating Hardships
Twenty years after completing high school in Zimbabwe, 38-year-old Tinago Mukono still has not found employment, and in order to survive, he has switched to betting, turning it… Read more »
January 04
Zimbabwe: Homeless Families Now a Growing Issue in Zimbabwe
It is do or die on the streets of Zimbabwe as homeless families battle for survival solely depending on begging. Such is the life of 69-year-old Gladys Mugabe, who lives with her… Read more »
December 13, 2023
Zimbabwe: From Dancing 'For a Living' to Dancing for 'Women's Dignity'
At first, he danced for money, but later on, he realized the need to dance for sanitary pads in order to help poor girls and women. Now, 29-year-old Proud Mugunhu conducts dance… Read more »
November 28, 2023
Zimbabwe: Young Musician's Death Exposes Zimbabwe's Collapsing Health System
A rising Afropop musician, Garikai Mapanzure, popularly known by his stage name Garry, has become the latest high-profile victim of Zimbabwe's deteriorating health facilities. Read more »
November 06, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Election Widens Gender Gap in Politics
Zimbabwe's recent election has exposed weak gender policies both at the political party and governmental levels as women were sidelined despite the fact that they make up more than… Read more »
October 20, 2023
Zimbabwe: Seniors Thriving Through Plastic Waste in Zimbabwe
They do not have a pension nor financial support from families or relatives, but they have themselves. Now they have become collectors of plastic waste, which they turn into… Read more »
September 27, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Food Security Ambitions in El Niño's Crosshairs
Zimbabwe is riding a wave of food security assurances after what officials said was last year's bumper grain harvest, but recent El Niño forecasts could test the country's… Read more »
September 04, 2023
Zimbabwe: Invasive Species, a Fast-Riding Horsemen Galloping the Biodiversity Apocalypse
Mango farmer Eufria Nyadome used to earn USD 60 from selling a 20-litre bucket of fresh mangoes and now can barely make USD 20 even though her mango trees are giving a good yield.… Read more »
August 10, 2023
Zimbabwe: Disappearing Fish Spell Hard Times for Women in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country's natural resources, with the fisheries taking some of the most felt… Read more »
August 04, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families #AfricaClimateHope
When Nelson Mudzingwa arrived in the Shashe farming area in Mashava in Masvingo, about 294 kilometres from the capital Harare, in the early 2000s, the land was barren, with no hope… Read more »
July 13, 2023
Zimbabwe: Human Rights Concerns Ahead of Zimbabwe Polls
Zimbabwe holds general elections next month amid growing human rights and press freedom concerns in what analysts say could mar conditions for undisputed poll results. Read more »
July 12, 2023
Zimbabwe: Private and Public Spheres - Sweden and Mugabe
The war in Ukraine continues unabated; young men are sacrificed on battlefields, towns laid waste by aerial attacks, the threat of nuclear disasters is looming. People within an… Read more »
July 05, 2023
Zimbabwe: Greener Pastures Not So Green for Zimbabweans in the Diaspora
They have high-paying jobs, a high standard of living, and almost everything they need, but for Zimbabweans abroad, all that glitters is not gold. Read more »
June 28, 2023
Zimbabwe: Women's Savings Clubs Struggle Under Weight of Unstable Currency
For years, self-employed and unemployed women in Zimbabwe formed neighbourhood "clubs" where they pooled money together for everything from buying bulk groceries to be shared at… Read more »
May 10, 2023
Zimbabwe: Amid Power Cuts in Zimbabwe, Food Preservation Made Easy By Elderly Women
Amid silent refrigerators spawned by crippling electricity cuts, township grannies are relying on their smarts and traditional preservation: roasting and smoking meat over fires as… Read more »
April 11, 2023
Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Golf Is Giving Cyclone Idai Survivors Hope
Trust Makanidzani's golf practice session with his friends is disrupted by a howling wind and a heavy pelting of water that thundered against rooftops at Chimanimani Golf Course in… Read more »
March 28, 2023
Zimbabwe: Press Freedom On Trial in Zimbabwe Ahead of Elections
With only a few months to go before national elections in Zimbabwe, press freedom advocates are raising concerns about stringent reporting conditions set by the government. Read more »
March 15, 2023
Zimbabwe: 'Stone-Age' Donkey-Drawn Carts Ply Zimbabwe's Abandoned Remote Routes
From the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway in Zimbabwe at a spot popularly known as Turn-P, the road passing through Neshuro Township has been degraded, disused, and derelict for over… Read more »
February 28, 2023
Zimbabwe: Forests Disappearing in Energy Poor Zimbabwean Cities
In New Ashdon Park, a medium-density area in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at new homes that have replaced a once thriving forest, makeshift fireplaces have become common sights… Read more »
February 23, 2023
Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Economic Crisis Pushes Underaged Girls to Sex Work
After other adolescent girls her age have gone to bed at around 10 pm, Kudzai commutes to a shopping centre near her home in Penhalonga, a mining area 25 kilometres outside the… Read more »
February 09, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Political Violence Casts Spotlight On Free and Fair Polls
With political violence escalating in Zimbabwe, national elections slated for later this year face questions about whether the polls will meet free and fair international… Read more »
January 10, 2023
Zimbabwe: Greening the City Gets Community Treatment in Zimbabwe
It's a typical story in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. With the failure to provide services such as refuse collection by the local municipality, township residents dump… Read more »
Pages:
- 1
- 2