Farai Shawn Matiashe

Farai Shawn Matiashe is a journalist based in Mutare, Zimbabwe, who writes for Aljazeera, Quartz Africa, The World, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Ubuntu Times.

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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...

How The Zimbabwean Government Is Muzzling Critics And Political Opponents

On a rainy day in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, prison officers armed with AK47s are monitoring prisoners disembarking from a prison van at Harare magistrates court.  A few prisoners...

Economic Sanctions: Zimbabweans Pin Hope On United States President-elect Joe Biden 

On the 20th of January, United States (U.S) President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of America. Biden’s win was recently confirmed by the US Congress...