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Climate change induced droughts fuel exodus of young people in Matabeleland South
Lulu Brenda Harris
Lwazi Ndebele says she decided to join the great trek to South Africa after her village located along Zimbabwe’s border with Botswana experienced two years of successive droughts and putting food on the…
Gukurahundi ghost haunts Matabeleland schools
Despite a slight national improvement in the Grade 7 pass rate from 45.57% in 2023 to 49.01% in 2024, Matabeleland continues to struggle with alarmingly poor results
Uproar Over Government Plan to Privatise Water Supply
A major confrontation is brewing between the government and residents’ associations across the country over a plan to privatise water provision in Harare, Bulawayo, and Victoria Falls.
Baobab tree, local livelihoods under threat in Chimanimani
Pamenus Tuso
Chimanimani—For generations, the baobab tree has been a vital lifeline for local communities in some parts of arid Chimanimani district in Manicaland province.
Villagers in Nyanyadzi and Gudyanga areas off the…
Arda Transau residents still high and dry
Marshall Bwanya
Harare—Relocated residents of Arda Transau in Manicaland have complained bitterly over the government’s failure to meet their social and economic needs, amid a litany of broken promises.
Arda Transau is a 12000 hectare…
Exposed: Inside Manyame shady land deals . . . Zanu PF MP implicated . . . villagers resist land…
Pauline Chateuka
A PROMINENT ruling Zanu PF party lawmaker has been implicated in disputed plot allocations which have exposed the involvement of the Manyame Rural District Council (MRDC) in questionable land deals.
MRDC jurisdiction…
Double allocations scam rocks Hopley
Thando Khumalo
Dreams of home ownership have turned into a nightmare for nearly 50 Hopley residents, who now face the unsettling reality of potential eviction due to alleged double allocation of the stands they purchased in the area.
The…
Troubled Nyaminyami: Violent competition, corruption threaten fishing on Lake Kariba
Elvis Dumba
Kariba— Piracy, internecine wars over fishing space and widespread corruption involving parks officials have become a daily occurrence on Lake Kariba whose water levels have been fast receding over the years due to climate…
US ploughs over US$30m into landmine clearance in Zimbabwe
Kelvin Wilson Kasiwulaya
Gweru —The noise has somewhat died down, but the problem is still there, though far smaller than three decades or so ago.
In the 1980s and 1990s in particular, hardly a day would pass without news of people or…
Harare council given ultimatum to decontaminate Lake Chivero
Harare council given ultimatum to decontaminate Lake Chivero
Brenna Matendere
Harare—The Harare Wetlands Trust (HWT), through the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), has separately written to the Harare City Council,…