Aiding Poverty By Smuggling A Rare Black Stone For 30 Pieces Of Silver
For Claudious Murungweni (not his real name), a 35-year-old bus conductor plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa cross-border route, the corruption and smuggling of a low base mineral has turned around...
Gravel soil, sand poaching fuel water bodies’ siltation in Zimbabwe
HARARE — At the top of a hill, bulldozers and caterpillars maneuver their way, slicing off the hill of its remaining sections as they almost approach an enormous concrete...
Vaccine Diplomacy: Exposing Africa’s Untapped Human Resources
The receipt of Coronavirus vaccine donations by African countries from China increasingly expands the Asian giant’s Road and Belt Initiative (RBI) in the continent at a time the world...
Coronavirus Forces Funeral Culture Rethink In Zimbabwe
Rusape, June 20 — Shingirai Manyengavana (25) opens a white coffin for people to pay their last respect inside a kitchen hut in Denhere Village, in Rusape, 174 kilometers...
Can Zumbani, Zimbabwe’s Local Tea Leaves Treat COVID-19?
Nickson Mpofu (38) a resident of Cranborne, a medium-density suburb in Harare the capital of Zimbabwe, recalls how they used tea leaves to treat colds growing up in his...
Missing rights defender’s wife petitions Zimbabwe’s President
HARARE — Five years after the abduction of Zimbabwe’s human rights activist Itai Dzamara on 9 March 2015, his wife, Sheffra has petitioned the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa over...
Zimbabwe’s High Internet Data Costs Threaten Online Learning
Mutare, ZIMBABWE — On a gloomy day in a squatter camp located near Sakubva, a filthy densely populated suburb in Mutare—the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, 14-year old Mirriam...
Intimidation, Machete Violence Reported As Polls Open In Zambia
Voting starts today (Thursday) in Zambia in a tightly contested election between incumbent Patriotic Front (PF) candidate Edgar Lungu and main challenger Hakainde Hichilema.
Allegations of vote fraud and intimidation...
It Is Not Yet Dawn For Zimbabwe’s Informal Economies As Government Extends Lockdown ‘Indefinitely’
Mutare, May 23 — A medium build 35-year old Blaster Chemugaira is seated in a chair just outside the gate of a house he rents in Chikanga, a high-density...
Zimbabwean Schools Face Perpetual Dilapidation
Binga — With its classrooms thatched, its walls built using home-made bricks and located in Binga, a remote area in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North Province, Zumana Secondary school apparently stands weighed...
Freedom For Arrested Journalist Placed On Hold
A court in Zimbabwe has further delayed passing a ruling in a matter in which Ubuntu Times correspondent Jeffrey Moyo is seeking refusal of remand.
The ruling which was expected...
Zimbabwe extends lockdown by two weeks
HARARE — Moved by the rising positive cases of the dreaded coronavirus, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa today extended the national lockdown against coronavirus by 14 days.
The Southern African nation’s...
Lockdown hammers Zimbabwe’s cross border traders
HARARE, April 19 — Zimbabwe’s 21 days of lockdown to save the country from further infections from coronavirus have hammered the country’s cross-border traders who operate from this country...
Looming Conflict As Loggers Scramble For Waning Forest
Mzuzu — Around 1964, Malawi’s first Head of State introduced an ambitious project to turn one of the mountain ranges in the country into a forest. What followed was...
Three Years After Zimbabwe’s Military Coup, False Hope And A Return To The Old...
Harare, Zimbabwe — Fiona Nyaungwa (24) still recalls marching towards the State House in Harare on the 18th of November in 2017 to put pressure on the then Zimbabwean...
Zimbabwe’s timber riding to extinction
MUTARE — At first, it was a dense timber forestry. Then came the 2000 land reform program at the advent of 76-year old Obson Nyahanga into the picture, taking...
Zimbabwe’s Government Spokesman Seizes Farm From Resettled Farmers
Chegutu, Zimbabwe — Nick Mangwana, Government spokesman in Zimbabwe has moved in to evict resettled black farmers in order to take over the farm in Chegutu, a Zimbabwean farming town...
COVID-19 Imposed Lockdown Effects, Dwindling Incomes And Child Labor In Zimbabwe
Zimunya, Zimbabwe — The October sun is blazing hot in Zimunya, about 56 kilometers southwest of Mutare. Johnson Muranda (11) is resting on his pickaxe inside a mining pit.
Muranda has...
Rights violations trending in Zimbabwe
CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe — He now moves around with the aid of a wheelchair, himself a common feature now at a shopping center in Chitungwiza, a dormitory town in Zimbabwe,...
Zimbabwe’s Agriculture Minister Succumbs To COVID-19
Harare, July 29 — Zimbabwe’s Minister of Agriculture, Perrance Shiri has succumbed to the novel Coronavirus at the age of 65, becoming the first government minister to be claimed...
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