Land invasions and illegal development threaten the source of water to Zimbabwe’s capital. Once referred to as the "Sunshine City" - not only because the sun shines on Harare most days of the year, but because of its...
Owen Gagare
Zimbabwe: Have the lessons been learned? The signs aren’t good
Public reaction to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s tweet announcing the death of Lands and Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri on July 29 summarised the polarised nature of the Zimbabwean society, while also serving as...
Zimbabwe: caught between the pandemic and an incapable state
The Zimbabwean government’s plans to pay ZW$ 300 a month to a million households were screamed in a headline in the state-controlled Sunday Mail edition of 26 July. The article also ran in the weekly Sunday News the...
Zimbabwe’s ill-equipped health infrastructure
Despite Zimbabwe’s crumbling public health infrastructure, former health minister Obadiah Moyo told journalists in Harare on 2 May, 18 days before the country recorded its first Covid-19 case, that the southern African...
Zimbabwe: A failed state and a citizenry desperate for change
Eleven days from now, if all goes as planned, mass demonstrations against Zimbabwe’s brutal military dictatorship will be held across the country. We have no reason to expect that the regime will respond to these...
C-19 in Zimbabwe: Work and Jobs
As captured by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s desperate plea for $200 million in a letter to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on April 2, the Covid-19 pandemic could not have struck Zimbabwe at a worse time....
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