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Zimbabwe businessman dies by suicide

A well-known Bulawayo businessman has died by suicide, sparking shock in the local community and raising concerns about mental health pressures faced by entrepreneurs.The man, whose name is being withheld at the request of his family, was …

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:57hrs | 2232 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers warn of food shortages

Farmers' unions have warned that Zimbabwe may face food shortages despite forecasts of an early and above-normal rainy season.The Meteorological Services Department recently predicted that rains will begin earlier than usual, raising hopes…

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:56hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe removed from global hunger hotspot list

Zimbabwe has been removed from the global list of hunger hotspots, a major development signalling early signs of recovery from the catastrophic El Nino-induced drought that gripped the region over the past year.According to a new joint rep…

Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:01hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter

UNMASKED: Philippe Van Damme's gross exaggerations on Zimbabwe's hunger situation

Phillipe Van Damme, a former European Delegation country representative to Zimbabwe, has once again demonstrated his propensity for spreading misinformation. His recent claim on social media that Zimbabweans are dying due to hunger caused …

Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 12:36hrs | 36 | by Tonderai Ndoro

'No one will die of hunger' is a heartless statement!

What exactly does the Zimbabwe government mean by saying that no one will die of hunger in the country?We have heard this being assured by President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa on numerous occasions.This is against the backdrop of a severe…

Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 22:58hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Mnangagwa says no one will die of hunger

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has assured the nation that no one will die from hunger and that his administration has put in place adequate measures to guarantee food for all communities.This comes as the nation is experiencing one of its driest yea…

Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 19:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Russian corporation assists Zimbabwe in fighting hunger

Over 23,000 metric tons of bulk potash and NPKS fertilizer intended for Zimbabwe have been fully loaded onto a vessel in the ports of Riga, Latvia, and Ghent, Belgium; the shipment is intended for humanitarian purposes, the press service o…

Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 07:22hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter

'Partisan politics breeding starvation'

GOVERNMENT has been accused of pushing millions into starvation and poverty through its populist and partisan politics, civic society organisations said yesterday as they joined the continent to celebrate Africa Day.In commemorations to ma…

Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Dry spells will not cause hunger, says Mohadi

ZIMBABWE's food security remains guaranteed, despite dry spells that have affected the 2021-2022 summer cropping season, ZANU-PF vice president Kembo Mohadi has said.Addressing thousands of people at a star rally at Tshefunye Business Cent…

Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Matabeleland South villagers face hunger

THE majority of families from drought-prone areas might be in need of urgent food aid as their available food stocks have dropped sharply, a food insecurity monitoring agency has warned.A Matabeleland South government taskforce has already…

Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Is it hunger, or pure greed and amorality, that leads Zimbabweans to betray and abandon the suffering majority?

One image has been haunting me this morning - which got me thinking long and hard on the apparent extremely troubling propensity for Zimbabweans to betray and abandon their fellow suffering countrymen, women, and children, to the caprices …

Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 13:46hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Over 4 million face starvation

OVER 4 million Zimbabweans are facing starvation while the number of food-insecure is set to rise to 8,6 million, about 60% of the population by year-end due to the combined effects of drought, economic recession and the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter

Hunger and disease kill school children in remote Zimbabwe

Having grown up in a crude environment in Zimbabwe witnessing child abuse and negligence there are tell tale signs that are still haunting me this time the number of children going hungry in Zimbabwean schools and other remote parts of the…

Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 18:52hrs | 7 | by Makho Precious Moyo

Sex, hunger and despair

It was a Wednesday night at the Tobacco Sales Floor (TSF) in Harare's Southerton area.A cold breeze swept through the cluttered makeshift shelters and vending sites constructed along the edges of the road that surrounds TSF, raising dust, …

Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

When hunger is the king, poverty is the prince - We are the Elnino generation!

Zimbabwe is a nation not short of tragedy if not irony. Since 2000 which 16 years from now going backwards and 20 years after independence the country has faced a number of acute challenges that have left the nation poor, ungovernable and …

Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 14:35hrs | 3 | by Mbizo Chirasha

Hunger on the rise in Zimbabwe - report

Harare - Hunger is on the rise in Zimbabwe with a quarter of the rural population expected to need food assistance in early 2014. WFP is working with the government on a response that will gradually scale up starting in October this year.H…

Published: 03 Sep 2013 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by WFP

Power hunger too strong for SADC quotas to work

The South African weekly newspaper, the Mail & Guardian, published an extraordinary story in its issue of March 15-21, 2013.Headed "Red carpet for dead Malawi President" it described in shocking detail to what astonishing lengths his r…

Published: 10 Jun 2013 at 21:32hrs | | by Nancy Forokah

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