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Failure is what happens when schools are without teachers
Lulu Brenda Harris
Binga--The poor national examination results achieved by students in Binga schools each year tell a story of an underfunded education system suffocating a hugely marginalised district.
What makes it more deplorable is the…
Cabo Delgado: Artisanal Miners, Local Communities Left High and Dry
Estacio Valoi
*This is the third and final part of an investigative series on small-scale mining in southern Africa that exposes the dishonesty of the governing Frelimo party in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado.
Cabo Delgado,…
Zimplats, chiefs in opaque ‘new’ share ownership deal
MOSES MATENGA
On 12 October, 2011, then president Robert Mugabe officially launched the Chegutu-Mhondoro-Ngezi-Zvimba Community Share Ownership Trust.
After the launch, platinum giants, Zimplats, were set to begin the process of…
“Shoddy” voters roll might leave thousands stranded in Cowdray Park
Cowdray Park, a sprawling high density suburb on the outskirts of Bulawayo, will be one of the closely watched constituencies when Zimbabweans head to elections on August 23 as it mirrors the most contentious dispute over the polls –…
July Moyo uses fear mongering, cash in bid to win elusive constituency on August 23
Fear pervades the peri-urban farming community of Matava in the Midlands Province’s Redcliff Constituency on the eve of Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections following a campaign allegedly anchored on coercion by one of the region’s ruling…
STUDY: Purses and Curses- Impact of Chinese Mining on Local Communities in Zimbabwe
Below is a study report published by Information for Development Trust (IDT) in June 2024. The report exposes the socio- economic and environmental and legal violations associated with Chinese mining activities in Zimbabwe.
Gukurahundi: The election dilemma for undocumented victims
The birth date irregularities were the result of a chaotic civil registration effort conducted shortly after the Gukurahundi horrors
BY MARSHALL BWANYA
LUPANE – Elections come and go, but there is a fraction of Gukurahundi…
CDF fault lines exposed as MPs seek fresh mandates
AGGRESSIVE surges in annual inflation are battering Zimbabwe’s currency, frustrating legislators’ undertaking to utilise the constituency development fund (CDF) allocations on community projects that can help alleviate a myriad of crises…
Mayhem as Zanu PF linked barons use polls as cover to grab land, vending stalls in Harare
Winstone Antonio
Harare—Land barons in Harare are taking advantage of the ruling Zanu PF party’s desperation to claw its way back into urban areas by parcelling out illegal housing stands to prospective home seekers ahead of the August…
Belarusian firm Goldfields wreaks havoc in Manicaland
ZIMBABWE Goldfields (Private) Limited, a joint venture between the state-owned Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) and Midlands Goldfields Limited is violating mining laws while its operations have resulted in massive…