No Cash, No Cure: Zimbabwe’s Hospitals Buckle Amid Economic Crisis
For the past week Arnold Gambe, 76, has been trying to withdraw his government pension from the People’s Own Savings Bank in Harare. Every morning he travels from his home, about 50km north of Zimbabwe’s capital, to try. He needs the money to buy painkillers for his back problems and medicine for his eight-year-old grandson, […]
#Zimshutdown2016 And The New Protest Politics Taking Root In Zimbabwe
After a mass strike in Zimbabwe this week, the country’s 92-year-old president was forced to convene an emergency meeting as the nation came to a standstill. The strike, dubbed #Zimshutdown2016 on Twitter, was not only unprecedented, but it was a rare moment of public defiance in a country that has been ruled by Robert Mugabe […]
Can the IMF Really Drag Zimbabwe Out of Its Crisis?
Zimbabwe’s coffers are empty. Salaries for the army and air force have been delayed for several weeks; and other civil servants will only receive their pay cheques by the middle of July. For the government and 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe, this latest cash crunch couldn’t have come at a worse time, as a fierce succession […]
Zimbabwe: Minister Ridicules Morgan Tsvangirai Over Illness
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is paying back with colon cancer for wishing death on President Robert Mugabe, Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandi Chimene has said. While most Zimbabweans have shown sympathy to the country’s main opposition leader, Tsvangirai, who revealed his health status last week, the controversial Chimene chose to bluntly wish ill of him. […]
Zimbabwe: Take Up Leadership Roles, Female Teachers Urged
Only one percent of female teachers under one of the country’s largest trade unions, Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA), occupy top leadership positions, an official has said. Statistics show that 55 percent of teachers in the country are female, while 53 percent of ZIMTA’s membership are female. ZIMTA has a membership of 43 000 teachers nationwide. […]
‘Ghost Workers’ Haunt Government
THE Auditor-General’s Office has confirmed 12 500 people are providing services to Government chewing about $85 million annually yet they are not on its payroll. In her audit report, Mrs Mildred Chiri (pictured right) also said that about 3 500 employees on the Government payroll were unaccounted for yet were drawing annual salaries worth about […]
I’m On My Way Out – Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe yesterday told thousands of children attending celebrations to mark the Day of the African Child in Harare that he is on his way out and wants his successors to do a better job. Mugabe the only leader Zimbabwe has known since independence 36 years ago — has used all manner of tactics […]
Zimbabwe: 14 More Kuwait Trafficking Victims Back
FOURTEEN more Zimbabwean women arrived in the country yesterday from Kuwait where they were subjected to slavery. The women were lured by a syndicate of dubious employment agents who promised them lucrative jobs in the tiny Arab country. Government funded the return of the women through the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare. […]
Old Rivals, New Threats: Zimbabwe’s Politicians Ready Themselves For Mugabe’s Death
To the casual observer, nothing much seems to have happened in Zimbabwe in recent years: Robert Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state, remains president and Zanu-PF is still the ruling party more than 35 years after it took power. But there has, in fact, been a tectonic shift. Like Zimbabwean society itself the opposition […]
Zimbabwean Women On Death Row in China
Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mr Joey Bimha yesterday said they had received reports of less than 10 Zimbabweans arrested in China over drug trafficking with about three women on death row in Beijing. Mr Bimha’s assertions put paid to claims by Goromonzi National Assembly member, Cde Beata Nyamupinga, who told the National Assembly on Tuesday […]
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