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The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition has noted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) failed to handle a great deal of economic problems facing the people of Zimbabwe.
Opposition MDC Alliance has mocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration for celebrating ‘fake budgets surpluses’ when the majority of Zimbabweans are wallowing in extreme poverty.
Since South Africa went into lockdown four weeks ago to slow the spread of the coronavirus, hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either.
It’s a meagre sum — just $9 per month — but for many families in poverty-stricken Zimbabwe, it is their last shred of hope.
A 25-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo allegedly tricked a 13-year-old girl into having sex with him after buying her a pair of tennis shoes and promising to end poverty in her family.
It’s no joke being a comedian in Zimbabwe. In a country where open criticism of power can spell trouble for journalists, politicians and activists, comedians say they, too, risk consequences – arrest even – for taking aim at the authorities or satirising the hardships of daily life.
President Museveni has said that Ugandans have failed to overcome poverty because they have failed to adopt modern agricultural methods to get better yields.
From illegal settlements in Crowborough, Churu and Eyestone farms to poky informal shelters built on undesignated sites, there are now a huge number of squatter camps mushrooming across Zimbabwe’s capital city.
By Bridget Mananavire As Zimbabwe’s economy crumbles, it is leaving a trail of destruction, destroying young people’s dreams and old people’s investments. Children are going to bed hungry because their parents cannot afford to feed them or their money is trapped in the bank. Zimbabwe records a school dropout of over 13 000 annually according […]
By Christopher Mahove More than 70 percent of Zimbabweans are living in poverty and the government requires about $2.7 billion to implement its Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy in the next two years, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Monday. Speaking at the launch of the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in Harare, Chinamasa said this was […]