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Mukuru distributes millions in aid to vulnerable Africans
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 19, 2024 - Next-generation financial services platform, Mukuru (www.Mukuru.com), has successfully distributed millions in aid to disadvantaged recipients in Africa throu...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:41hrs | 10 | by APO
Women MPs eye top govt posts
ZIMBABWE Women's Parliamentary Caucus deputy chair, Sibusisiwe Budha-Masara says Zimbabwe should copy how other countries have empowered women to take up leadership positions.Masara said this ...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK's deportations deal with Zimbabwe putting lives at risk
In the four years since she arrived in the UK, 56-year-old Josephine Sipiwe Jenje-Mudimbu's life has shifted from one of hope to one of daily, grinding fear.Josy, as she's better known, is an ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 12 | by Raoul Walawalker for Open Democracy
Zimbabwe govt must introduce social safety nets for unpaid care givers
VENDORS Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) is part of a steering committee working group on unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).The working group is convened by the Wom...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Viset
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 6 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
18 CSOs take on Biden over blanket travel bans
DOZENS of health and human rights organisations have called on United States President Joe Biden to unconditionally lift the travel ban imposed on southern African countries, Zimbabwe included....Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mangwe piped water project nears completion
THE construction of a piped water system in Mangwe district, which is seen as key to addressing perennial water shortages in the area, is now 95% complete.Matabeleland South District Developme...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean appointed Oxfam America new vice-president
Leading Zimbabwean lawyer and human rights advocate Tawanda Mutasah has been appointed Oxfam America new vice-president for global partnerships and impact with effective from next month.Mutasa...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
China rescues Zimbabwe on Covid-19 as world faces vaccine apartheid
AS the world faces a Covid-19 vaccine apartheid amid privatisation and monopolisation of its science and technology as well as the doses, and hoarding by rich countries, China has rescued Zimbabwe by ...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Sithembiso Nyoni not fit for the Vice Presidency
Matebeleland North is a hive of activity as ZANU PF prepares for its Annual National People's Conference. There are people on the ground and rumours on the ground , as well as social media articles an...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Terror Ngwenya
Standard Chartered joins against Covid 19 pandemic
Standard Chartered Bank Zimbabwe has contributed USD1 million to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Oxfam for programmes providing emergency relief to communities impacted by the COVID-19 pa...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 19:04hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
Landela buying spree raises stink
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa marked his triumphal entry into the citadel of power in 2017 by declaring that he would open the country up for business, thus promising a departure from the ruinous polic...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Cliff Chiduku
Discredited 'rights groups' seek audience with Mnangagwa
THREE leading international human rights watchdogs - Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Oxfam International (OI) - have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking to meet hi...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The death of Tongogara as told by Lookout Masuku and Dumiso Dabengwa.
Josiah Magama Tongogara : The interview that cost his life:This excerpt was taken from a Rhodesian Combat Pilot who played a pivotal role in the Cease Fire Agreement and the formation of the N...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:29hrs | 260 | by Social media
Prosecutor-General interviews set for next month
THE Judicial Service Commission will next month conduct interviews for the position of Prosecutor-General (PG), which fell vacant after Ray Goba resigned in August. Goba stepped down after a tribunal ...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi skeletons tumble out of the closet
AS Zimbabwe inches towards critical general elections on Monday, skeletons of Gukurahundi massacres - which remain an emotive political and electoral issue in the country - are tumbling out of the clo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Employment Opportunities at Oxfam in Zimbabwe
Oxfam is a global movement of people who won't live with the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on th...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 09:03hrs | 7 | by OxFam
Mlalazi novel shows illegal immigrants' struggles
Zimbabwean writer and playwright Christopher Mlalazi has to date given us a taste of his imaginative writings in various forms but if one is to get a deep feel of an illegal immigrant's hope and disil...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:28hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa, a community ravaged by floods, restored to sanity
Oxfarm in Zimbabwe has reported that above normal rainfall, worsened by the effects of tropical Cyclone Dineo in March 2017, resulted in severe flooding and loss of infrastructure, affecting 36 distri...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Wetland Protection turn drought prone community into climate smart village
The wetlands in Mberengwa have turned villages into climate smart area. According to Oxfam, the wetlands have benefited the villagers to some extent."We now have enough water flowing and food ...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 08:11hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Rural man challenged to take on care work in Zimbabwe
The latest Household Care Survey done by Oxfam in Bubi, Caledonia, Gutu Masvingo and Seke Districts show that though men do take part in some aspects of care work such as fetching water, cooking and t...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 06:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Oxfam hands over Water Quality Testing and Monitoring Kit
In an effort to contribute towards strengthening the current and future capacity of the City of Harare's Health Department in its efforts to respond to disease outbreaks such as Cholera and Typhoid, O...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Oxfam Zimbabwe launches flood response programme in Mberengwa
Oxfam in Zimbabwe an organisation funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operation (ECHO) has launched the Zimbabwe Flood Response in 10 Wards of Mberengwa District in the ...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Oxfam rolls out community mapping exercise in Zimbabwe
Oxfam in Zimbabwe has recently rolled out a community mapping exercise on women economic empowerment and care in Seke,Caledonia, Bubi, Masvingo and Gutu Districts.The organisation said the map...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 09:56hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Employment Opportunities at Oxfam in Zimbabwe
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) OfficerDeadline: 12 May 2017We are looking for suitable candidates to join our proj...Published: 03 May 2017 at 18:52hrs | 3 | by Oxfam
Oxfarm supporting Zim govt in water rehabilitation facilities
Oxfarm, a humaniutarian organisatrion has indicated that it continues to assist the government of Zimbabwe in the rehabilitation of water facilities.The organisation indicated that it is curre...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 12:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tension escalating in Zim ahead of 2018 elections- OxFarm
The Oxfarm an organisation dealing with humanitarian issues in Zimbabwe has alleged that tension seems to be escalating in the country as the political parties gear themselves for the 2018 elections....Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Contributing towards ending poverty in Zimbabwe: Monthly update
Oxfam, an international confederation of 20 organizations works together with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries.One person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is deter...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 12:43hrs | 2 | by Oxfam
Vacancy: Social Norms Advisor, Deadline 16 April 2017
Oxfam is a global movement of people who won't live with the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on th...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 17:47hrs | 2 | by Oxfam
Vacancies at Oxfam Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Country Programme is looking for qualified staff to fill the following positions:a) Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Officer .To be Bas...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 07:47hrs | | by Oxfam
Claims that transformation has been slow are dangerous, says SA billionaire
Cape Town - Retail tycoon Christo Wiese is fed up with the rich getting the blame for South Africa's problems, ...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
African leaders call for mass withdrawal from ICC
Addis Ababa - African leaders have adopted a strategy calling for a collective withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. The non-binding decision came behind closed doors Tuesday near the ...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crisis looms as water shortages worsen
Water experts say the drying up of water sources poses a major crisis to the region and Zimbabwe in particular as it will escalate water shortages, reduce power generation and increase food insecurity...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 18:04hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Chronic drought leads to increased migration in Southern Africa'
In response to the Address by His Excellency President Robert Mugabe on the occasion of the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on large movements of refugees and migrants, Oxfam...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 07:22hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Regime change Agent Code words
Because the US-EU imperialist media apparatus prematurely and arrogantly proclaimed themselves victors of what was labelled in political circles as the Cold War, this led our former colonisers and ens...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
Zimbabwe to provide free meals for school kids
Government will in coming weeks start providing meals to school pupils countrywide to shield them from drought-induced hunger and to promote high nutrition levels.It is also implementing multi...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the AU on xenophobic attacks in South Africa
MISA, along with more than 100 African human rights organisations today presented an open letter to the African Union (AU), to express their concern about the xenophobic attacks in the Republic of Sou...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 15:49hrs | | by MISA
Millions of girls remain out of school
The gender gap has narrowed, but progress is starting to stall Bright-eyed and clever, a young girl from a small village in Malawi shares her wish ...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 06:40hrs | | by Franck Kuwonu
Zimbabwe adds to the ranks of super-rich
FOR a country that has been bludgeoned by economic sanctions from North America and the European bloc for the past 15 years, it seems there is a disproportionate rise in the nouaveau riche (newly rich...Published: 24 May 2015 at 10:39hrs | | by Darlington Musarurwa
Myths, truths about Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Disembarking from the plane at Harare International Airport in Harare last week, a passenger standing next to me uttered what sounded like a Swahili word: "Tuonane." This article was first published i...Published: 18 May 2015 at 13:23hrs | | by Mohamed Guleid
20 year old voted into Britain Parliament
Paisley - At the age of just 20, Mhairi Black has become Britain's youngest member of parliament since 1667 in a victory which symbolises an expected nationalist landslide in Scotland.Black st...Published: 08 May 2015 at 11:10hrs | | by AFP
African leaders laud Climate Summit
New initiatives to address agriculture and renewable energy agreed uponAfrican leaders have welcomed the Climate Summit held at the United Nations...Published: 06 Mar 2015 at 21:08hrs | | by Dan Shepard
Child prostitution rampant in Zvishavane
The increase in numbers of child prostitutes in Zvishavane and Mberengwa has become a serious concern, particularly since the districts are leading in HIV and Aids prevalence rates in the province, he...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
IMF boss praises Africa's 'remarkable' growth
Maputo - IMF managing director Christine Lagarde on Wednesday hailed the leaps made by African economies in the last decade as "nothing short of remarkable”.On the eve of a major conference ...Published: 29 May 2014 at 19:36hrs | | by AFP
Africa's Income Inequalities: The reality of a 'A Few Big Men'
Economic inequality has dominated international economic debate recently, and with good reason. Developmental charity organisation Oxfam International made headlines not too long ago with its repo...Published: 08 Feb 2014 at 11:26hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri
Tsvangirai slammed for Oxford University lecture
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has been criticised for lining up a lecture at the African Studies Seminar at Oxford University, Britain today on the mining of diamonds in Marange, a subject he kno...Published: 24 Oct 2013 at 03:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
South2North's Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa
- Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo calls for World Bank 'moratorium' on African land deal funding - Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano says ...Published: 19 Sep 2013 at 13:24hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Russia and U.S. officials agree to prepare for Syria peace talks
U.S. and Russian officials agreed on Friday on the need to convene a long-delayed Syrian peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible, but they offered no concrete plan to bring the warring governme...Published: 10 Aug 2013 at 02:55hrs | 1 | by Reuters
China in the heart of Africa
"China's gift to Africa." The new headquarters of the African Union, a towering 20-storey building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is so called because China picked up the $200 million tab for the stat...Published: 21 Mar 2013 at 16:21hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor
To Rio and beyond: Africa seeks sustainable solutions
Paving the path to "the future we want" It is rare for a head of government to be greeted with applause at the very beginning of a speech before ...Published: 21 Jun 2012 at 19:45hrs | | by Masimba Tafirenyika
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