Ubuntu PhotoNews: Rural, Urban Poverty in Zimbabwe
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A slum consisting of adjoined pieces of sacks of
various colors is shown in the Zimbabwean capital Harare’s Caledonia slum settlement occupied by hundreds of people facing poverty in the city. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Slum dwelling in Zimbabwe.
An aging thatched kitchen hut side by side with
an equally aging house plastered with cement in a village called Sidakeni in rural Gokwe in Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Aging rural home.
Amid grinding poverty in Zimbabwe’s towns and cities, slums have become a common trend in Epworth, an urban informal settlement, 25 km east of the Zimbabwean capital Harare. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Slum settlement in Epworth.
A rural home made up of a single thatched hut
built using wood, is shown in Makoni, a remote district in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central Province. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Poor thatched single hut home.
A rather squashed village with a mixture of thatched huts fenced with grass and other home structures poorly roofed with zinc sheets, in Makoni, a district in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central Province. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Squashed village in Makoni Mashonaland Central Province.
A single thatched hut home built from stones and rocks plastered with mud, standing opposite bundles of spare grass to re-thatch the home, in Makoni district in Zimbabwe’s
Mashonaland Central Province. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
A single thatched hut home.
In the Zimbabwean capital Harare’s Mabvuku-Tafara high density suburb, makeshift homes have become common as urban dwellers battle to contain mounting poverty, with some even pitching tents as homes. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Emerging makeshift homes.
A derelict isolated house in the village with peeling off cement-plastered walls in Gokwe in Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
