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US$5.4m food aid for urban dwellers
The United Kingdom has approved a US$5.4 million food relief fund for Zimbabwe, which will come in the form of monthly cash transfers or electronic vouchers worth US$12 per person redeemable in superm...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:31hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
UK advances US$5,4m food assistance
MORE than 100 000 food-insecure people in the urban areas will benefit from the United Kingdom's pledge of £4 million (US$5,4 million) to help vulnerable families.Recent data revealed that ne...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:55hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2399 | by Samantha Power
Food sovereignty in Zimbabwe is a human rights issue
With Covid 19 is ravaging and weighing heavily on the socio-economic well being of Zimbabwe, there is a far worse pandemic bedevilling the country in the form food insecurity and food injustice....Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:14hrs | 157 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Zimbabwe's economic outlook for 2021
Zimbabwe's economy ended the year 2020 on a fairly stable note due to the return of the multi-currency regime and decline in general inflation levels in the market. Headwinds caused by incessant power...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 21:02hrs | 1189 | by Victor Bhoroma
Indeed, the US never been paragon of democracy, but laughable that a worse tyranny would dare comment
As much as my health is not well today, and, would have preferred staying far away from the pen, the most recent outbursts and ranting by the perennially and inherently unrepentant brutal, barbaric an...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 13:19hrs | 582 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Rule of law must be observed during COVID-19 lockdown
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) calls upon the government to uphold human rights and observe the rule of law during the COVID-19 national lockdown.This follows the issuance of ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:34hrs | 86 | by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum
'Zanu-PF, police leading human rights violators'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have been ranked top in the violation of human rights which occurred in December last year, latest findings by the Zimbabwe Peace Projec...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:29hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora bringing a new brand of opposition politics
THE country's main opposition party, the MDC, recently held a chaotic extraordinary congress that elected Douglas Mwonzora as the new president. Mwonzora has pledged to work with President Emm...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:20hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's severe food insecurity levels up 27%
ZIMBABWE's severe food insecurity levels have risen to 27% against the backdrop of the Covid-19 induced economic hardships, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) has said.This is ...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 08:24hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Spectre of a donor-funded Christmas
AS MANY across the globe get into the swing of Christmas festivities, millions of people in Zimbabwe living on less than US$1 a day are turning to donor agencies and well-wishers for survival....Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 08:47hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records surge in household aid
ZIMBABWE has recorded an increase in the number of households receiving food aid among other forms of support from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as hunger and the harsh economic climate takes ...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:11hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
WFP seeks US$204m to feed hungry Zimbabweans
NEARLY half of Zimbabwe's population, including the urban poor face hunger by March this year, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday as it launched an appeal for an additional U...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks govt's pfumvudza programme
GOVERNMENT'S input scheme, pfumvudza has brought its own package of rights violations in the country's provinces with the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) claiming the process was being managed along part...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
15 minute storm leaves 200 homeless
MORE than 30 homesteads in Lusulu under Chief Sinamagonde in Binga District were destroyed after a heavy downpour preceded by a violent thunderstorm and strong winds hit the area on Sunday. In...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
Politicians must stop abusing traditional leaders
COMMUNITY members from Tsholotsho have singled out abuse of traditional leaders by politicians as a major concern that has the potential of plunging vulnerable groups into starvation. This came out du...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 340 | by Heal Zimbabwe Trust
Minister's nephew arrested for theft of food aid
Environment, Climate Change and tourism minister Mangaliso Ndlovu's nephew was recently arrested for theft of food aid earmarked for distribution to the needy.The suspect, identified as Brando...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 08:50hrs | 4843 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa symbolises a failed leadership. When a leadership fails to provide basic services such as clean water, shelter, food, jobs and power, that leadership deserves urgent repla...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 3263 | by Chief Muzivikanwi
Youths demand justice for rights defenders
A YOUTH pressure group in Matabeleland South province has demanded justice for human rights defenders, including slain MDC Alliance member Joseph Mazwi Ndlovu, who was reportedly killed in July for qu...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:54hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must lift by-elections ban'
THE government must lift the suspension on by-elections as the ban stifles democracy and violates the rights of Zimbabweans to express themselves politically, analysts contend.Statutory Instru...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 18:53hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Govt food aid diverted to Zanu-PF DCC election campaigns
SOME Zanu-PF MPs vying to be chairpersons in the party's district coordinating committees (DCCs) are reported to be diverting government food aid meant for vulnerable families and selectively donating...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1908 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Professor Stephen Chan's interview with Bernard
There are no imaginative skills on how to move the country forward internally and externally, be it economic and political in both the ruling party and the opposition of Nelson Chamisa. In 2018,...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 11:58hrs | 1771 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa, Zec sued over by-elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, his deputy Constatino Chiwenga and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) have been taken to court by disgruntled voters for unilaterally suspending by-elections in cont...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 2606 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health system in ICU
IN Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centres, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:38hrs | 139 | by Bloomberg
'Chiwenga has quarantined democracy'
Electoral watchdog, Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (Zesn), has accused Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who doubles as Health minister, of putting democracy on quarantine by suspending the hol...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Food aid centres used for condom distribution
THE Health Ministry and its development partners have turned food distribution points into sexual and reproductive health centres in order to bring the service closer to communities.Since the ...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi genocide fuelled regional illiteracy'
SURVIVORS of the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands have blamed high il-literacy levels in the provinces on a cocktail of setbacks, chief among them the mass killings led by the North ...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:08hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo cardiac ward in sorry state
THE cardiac ward at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo has virtually collapsed, posing a huge threat to the many patients living with heart complications referred to the southern region's biggest referral hos...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
What does it mean searching hymen inside an 18-yr-old daughter's vaginal opening? Hon Priscilla Mishihairabwi-Mushonga I need an
Much as we would like to believe that our societies and families are holier than thou: far from it. We are worse off today, yesterday and a century ago. Violence against women and girl-children is pre...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 14:17hrs | 3947 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe coming apart at the seams
In Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centers, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
'SA has no role to play, it is controlled by white men,' says Chinamasa - fighting dirty, as usual
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies know the pressure on them to end the Zimbabwe crisis is mounting and will not go away until there is change. They know their iron grip on power is under serious threa...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:27hrs | 2672 | by Wilbert Mukori
White farmers compensation gets murkier
Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between t...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2220 | by Ben Freeth
EU will not renew budget support to Zimbabwe
Ongoing mismanagement and corruption mean it is "out of the question" that the European Union will resume aid directly to the government of Zimbabwe anytime soon, according to the bloc's ambassador to...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:28hrs | 2130 | by Vince Chadwick I Devex
'MDC cannot lecture us on land reform' said two-face Chinamasa - neither can you, we are not all stupid
"The MDC and its allies who resisted the land reform process, and begged sanctions for our people to be punished for taking back the land cannot lecture or school us about land reform," said Patrick C...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:32hrs | 631 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Food crisis worsens in rural Matabeleland
THE food security situation in most parts of Matabeleland has reportedly worsened amid reports that some families are now only surviving on a single meal a day.According to the latest survey b...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:51hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 533 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
Masarira pens open letter to Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the opposition LEAD party, has penned an open letter to the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, over the country's status quo.Masarira who some believe is linked...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:00hrs | 9753 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Coronavirus may not go away soon
Shouting, even repeatedly, breaks no bones. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in numbers especially among returnees. People of my colour express affection through handshakes and hugs, can we please shel...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:36hrs | 657 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Hunger stalks Plumtree villagers
BULILIMA traditional leader Chief Masendu has called on the government and non-governmental organisations to strengthen social protection systems to complement traditional leaders' efforts in assistin...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Mr Mnangagwa: Are you not kicking the can down the road?
DEAR President ED Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, I hope I find you well. The political script playing out in Zimbabwe is quite familiar not only to me, but many other citizens now fed up with the ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 3745 | by Rashweat Mukundu
Mnangagwa has failed to justify imposition of curfew
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday announced a raft of measures to contain and mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) after a sharp increase in infections in the country....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:23hrs | 3308 | by Staff reporter
SA-based Zimbabweans set to receive more food aid
ZIMBABWEAN migrant workers in neighbouring South Africa are set to receive more food assistance from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to ease their COVID-19-induced hunger and other ...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:55hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Conventional economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy
CONVENTIONAL economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy. If we take as an example the period during the government of national unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013, the hard currency revenues to ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1507 | by Eddie Cross
SA firm steps in to ease hunger among destitute Zimbabweans
Some Zimbabweans living in South Africa have benefitted from aid distributed by a Johannesburg headquartered company, T2N, and the Gauteng Food Security Committee since lockdown began in March....Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:52hrs | 1561 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Donor comes to the aid of Zimbabweans struggling in SA
A donor who has chosen not to be identified has come to the aid of thousands of Zimbabweans struggling to survive in South Africa due to Covid-19 lockdown after the veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sib...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 14:59hrs | 2654 | by Stephen Jakes
Ex-diplomat dies in squalor
FORMER Zimbabwean deputy ambassador to Tanzania in the 1980s, Stanley Chabvepi, died last week and was buried over the weekend at his rural home in Mufuka village under Chief Marozva in Bikita. ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 3307 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 850 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF Clueless as Nation Crisis Looms in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is in humanitarian meltdown; cases of corrupt officials and torture of citizens have become the talk of the day. The once breadbasket of Southern Africa has been reduced to begging for food a...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2193 | by Prince Njagu
Let's bring back the bread status of Zimbabwe
Tradition is prison with majority opinion, just because your ancestors did it doesn't mean its not incredibly flawed. Some great mind made that great observation, what brutal truth. Traditiona...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 19:36hrs | 2546 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
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