Limited Improvement of Health and Education Service Provision: ZIMSTAT
Byron Mutingwende Zimbabwe is registering some incremental gain in providing health to women and children, it has emerged. This came to fore during the presentation of key findings of the 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) held at the United…
VP Mujuru Pledges Government Commitment Towards Mainstreaming Disability Rights
Byron Mutingwende Persons with disabilities have made calls for realization of their rights by advocating for an environment that promotes their full inclusion and active participation as equal members of the family, community and society. This came out during the…
Chitungwiza, Epworth and Manyame Demolitions by Predators of the Homeless
By Takura Zhangazha* The Ministry of Local Government has done what is sadly familiar. It has sanctioned the demolition of homes, not just houses, by local authorities in Chitungwiza, Manyame and Epworth. As though to spite the families of these…
Mliswa Gets Personal With Cabinet Ministers Moyo, Kasukuwere
By Samuel Takawira As the Zanu Pf party elective congress draws nearer, the name-calling and counter accusations of espionage between members of alleged factions has escalated. On Monday Themba Mliswa, the Zanu Pf Mashonaland West Provincial chairperson, held a press…
Prominent Economic Analyst Erich Bloch Mourned by Media, Civil Society and Business.
Prominent Zimbweans abroad and in the country have been mourning the death of one of economist and former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe advisor, Erich Bloch, who passed on this Saturday evening at his home in Bulawayo. Bloch died of cancer…
UNICEF Seeks Strategies to Curb Urban Poverty in Zimbabwe
Byron Mutingwende Economic hardships arising out of high levels of unemployment as a result of company closures and cyclical droughts leading to food shortages have entrenched poverty in urban areas. It is a development that requires stakeholders to come up…
United States Provides over $300,000 for Elephant and Rhino Conservation in Zimbabwe this Year
Harare, September 18th 2014: In 2014, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) provided over $300,000 for elephant and rhinoceros conservation in Zimbabwe, pushing the amount that the agency has donated in Zimbabwe since 2002 over the $1 million…
Agricultural Think Tank Engages Arts Students on Climate Change
Byron Mutingwende Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) in partnership with Universities of Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe have sponsored students’ participation in theatre for policy advocacy and research in agriculture. The students led by Stella Chimunda, an…
Lack of Inputs, Knowledge Infrastructure Negatively Affecting Resettled Farmers.
Byron Mutingwende They were moved several hundreds of kilometers from Gweru together with many other families to Nembudziya in Gokwe under Zimbabwe’s agricultural resettlement scheme more than two decades ago but Melody Ncube still has fond memories of her original…
Grace, Joice and the Ordinary Zimbabwean Woman Without and Caught In-between
Last Friday two of Zimbabwe’s arguably most powerful women, Vice President Joice Mujuru and First Lady Grace Mugabe, received doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. It was an occasion that was both as celebrated as it was controversial….