This month, Zimbabwe’s government will pay United States dollar allowances to its workers, exactly a year after declaring the end of a 10-year dollarisation experiment.
Wednesday’s announcement that the government will pay US$75 to each employee and US$30 to state...
On April 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa flew to Chimoio to meet Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi. Top of the agenda; the security crisis in Mozambique.
According to a communique released after the meeting: “The two...
The coronavirus is spreading economic chaos around the globe, with predictions that the world will sink into recession this year.
In Zimbabwe, from tourism to mining, from farmers to retailers, and from large...
By Nelson Banya and Ranga Mberi
Mining was expected to be the bedrock on which Zimbabwe built its recovery. The early months of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s leadership saw strong international interest in Zimbabwe’s largely...
The Army and Politics
in Zimbabwe: Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker is the first
full-length biography of General Solomon Mujuru, also known as Rex Nhongo.
Blessing-Miles Tendi spends years interviewing scores of sources, from...
Nearly two decades after Robert Mugabe began his ruinous purge of white Zimbabwean farmers, hundreds are returning to the land as tenants of the black beneficiaries of his land seizures.
It may not...
The stench of decaying rubbish fills the air around
Euphrasia Mangwe’s house in the Zimbabwean capital, attracting hordes of green
flies to the two plastic bins in the corner of her garden.
It is an irritation...
Boris Johnson, mocker of African “piccaninny” children and their “watermelon smiles”, became Prime Minister of Britain on Wednesday. On hearing the news, supporters of two political parties in an African land far, far away, fought each other...
By Ranga Mberi
Zimbabwe’s power utility says the rolling power cuts the country is facing have been caused by low water levels at Kariba. This is true, but it is only part of...
When Godfrey Huggins was prime
minister of Southern Rhodesia between 1933 and 1953, he made sure black workers
would not be allowed to organise as unions.
His reasons: “The European in this country can be likened
to...
