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Lifeline for Kariba fishmongers battered by effects of drought
Elvis Dumba
THE Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has reduced the minimum allowable fishing depth in Lake Kariba from 20 to 17 metres to alleviate the plight of fishmongers who were struggling to survive…
Unmasking the rot at City of Harare
Edgar Gweshe
Harare—In May 2024, President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a commission of inquiry into financial and corporate mismanagement at Harare City Council.
Led by a retired High Court judge, Maphios Cheda, the commission was…
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
GNU before end of year, Tshabangu claims
Pamenus Tuso
Bulawayo—The self-imposed interim secretary general of a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction, Sengezo Tshabangu, has sensationally claimed that there will be a government of national unity (GNU) this year.…
Uproar Over Government Plan to Privatise Water Supply
Edgar Gweshe
Harare - 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.
Residents’ associations…
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…
Political violence victims in fresh pursuit of justice
Mirriam Mangwaya
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Mabvuku-Tafara legislator, James Chidhakwa, has decided to take his abduction case to the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, citing police inaction in investigating the matter.…
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…