Starvation stalks Matabeleland North schoolchildren
The Standard By Nqobani Ndlovu and Mthandazo Nyoni 24 January 2016 SIBUSISIWE Dube from Nyamandlovu in Matabeleland North becomes animated when she talks about the effects of the El Niño-induced drought ravaging the usually food sufficient area near Bulawayo. Dube, from Ward 6, believes she is not only a victim of the devastating weather phenomenon,
Rights Groups Hail ConCourt Ban On Child Brides
Radio VOP 21 January 2016 By Professor Matodzi Harare, January 21, 2016 – Human rights campaigners have described as revolutionary and bold, Wednesday’s ban on early child marriages imposed by the country’s Constitutional Court. The apex court outlawed the marriage of children below 18 and ruled that Section 22 (1) of the Marriage Act Chapter
“Zimbabwe police officers allegedly detained over Whatsapp chat”
The Zimbabwe Mail 12 January 2016 Harare – Twenty police officers were taken in for questioning last week in cash-starved Zimbabwe for complaining over WhatsApp that they hadn’t been paid, it was reported Monday. whatsapp The state-controlled Chronicle and Herald newspapers said three officers were still assisting police with investigations. The officers, from Bindura in
ZANU PF, War Vets savage Coltart over Mugabe apology
The Chronicle 11 January 2016 ZIMBABWE – ZANU-PF and war veterans yesterday blasted MDC senior member David Coltart for his “reckless†utterances that President Robert Mugabe must apologise for the Gukurahundi disturbances. Coltart told the Daily News yesterday that President Mugabe must apologise as Zimbabweans were a forgiving people. His sentiments torched a storm among
Ask for forgiveness, Mugabe advised
The Daily News on Sunday By Jeffrey Muvundusi 10 January 2016 BULAWAYO – President Robert Mugabe has been advised to apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres of the early 1980s that left an estimated 20 000 people dead mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News on Sunday at the
Declare a national emergency, pleads Coltart
The Standard Op-Ed By David Coltart 3 January 2016 While I cannot speak with authority regarding the rest of the country, Matabeleland is in the grips of one of the worst droughts we have suffered since 1991/1992. Aside from the poor rainfall, temperatures have soared. Whatever crops were planted after early rains have frazzled and
Despair as ‘worst’ drought stalks Masvingo, Matabeleland farmers
The Standard By Tatenda Chitagu 3 January 2016 On New Year’s Eve, Regai Mutunhu paced up and down her maize field aimlessly in the scorching heat, looking up to the skies, hoping for a miracle. Mutunhu has been praying that the rains may fall in the next few days to save her knee-level crop that
Zimbabwe still battling to pay civil service bill
E-NCA 31 December 2015 HARARE ‑ The Zimbabwean government is battling to pay the bulk of its civil service as the country’s economy continues to flounder. In the recent past, the civil service could always expect to be paid salaries on time – with even the prospect of a 13th cheque – but that has
Zimbabwe Dollar Not About To Return – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says
Financial Gazette 23 December 2015 HARARE-ZIMBABWE’S government is looking at ways of easing the country’s cash crunch, President Robert Mugabe has said, as the central bank chief denied rumours that the Zimbabwe dollar was about to be reintroduced. Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe chief John Mangudya were “looking at… strategies of
Stranded Zimbabweans sleep outside banks
IOL – Independent Foreign Service By Peta Thornycroft 17th December 2015 Bulawayo – Thousands of old people are sleeping outside banks in Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo, hoping they will be paid their November pension cheques this week. Many of them say they remember the hyperinflationery period in 2008 when banks had no money before the