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Zimbabwe teachers bemoan poor working conditions

Zimbabwean teachers have raised alarm over worsening working conditions, accusing the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education of piling extra duties on them despite poor pay and lack of resources.Educators say their workload has increa…

Published: 01 Sep 2025 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter

Rich Dad Poor Dad author set for Harare

Harare is set to host one of the world's most influential financial thinkers next month when Robert Kiyosaki, the celebrated American businessman, investor, and best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, arrives in Zimbabwe for his first-ev…

Published: 28 Aug 2025 at 22:35hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter

Corruption and poor planning blamed for Zimbabwe housing woes

Zimbabwe is grappling with a worsening urban housing crisis, as a combination of poor planning, corruption, and unaffordable housing compounds an estimated 1.5 million-unit backlog nationwide. Local authorities, housing experts, and reside…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 17:55hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's poor women bear more children than the rich

A landmark report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has shed light on disparities in fertility rates among Zimbabwean women, revealing that poorer women tend to have significantly more children compared to their wealth…

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:26hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter

Magnifying the gains from migration in Zimbabwe

THE recent World Development Report proposes a simple framework to analyse cross-border migration. It juxtaposes the motive for migration and the "match" between migrants' attributes and the destination country's needs.People may migrate v…

Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 19:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order yet the irony is private capital is taki…

Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu

MDC's poor appreciation of economy rears its ugly head

Last week an image of a Chicken Slice outlet, which was vandalised by someone who used some spray paint to create a graffiti message appealing for the release of some MDC Alliance activists remanded in custody, made rounds on the social me…

Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga

Struggling millionaires

HIS nickname, which I find a bit harsh, is Poor Millionaire. I prefer calling him just SP - for Struggling Peter.He shares a small cabin with his younger brother at an illegal settlement adjacent to Glen Norah. The brothers live without th…

Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Black Edward

Austerity should not be just for the poor

Elsewhere on these pages, we carry a story about the impending shortage of bread and the expected price increases, barring immediate government intervention to address the wheat supply crisis facing the country.The story paints a grim pict…

Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by Editorial - The Standard

The rationale behind Mnangagwa's pro-poor interventions

Since October last year prices of most basic commodities and services have been on an upward trajectory making life difficult for the majority of people. Manufacturers, retailers and other supply chain players have pinned blame on the high…

Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Khumbulani Vodlaza Sibanda

Gukurahundi made us poorer

My family in Tsholotsho at a homestead called Pumula, three kilometres west of Pumula Mission Hospital was originally of a humble background. My father Vosaka Josiya Moyo and his wife Tshonaphi Moyo(MaSibanda) one time owned 40-50 cattle a…

Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 16:52hrs | 4 | by Clemen Moyo (Mr)

Why has Africa not developed after attaining independence?

Dear AfricaI grew up thinking that Africa was once referred to as a dark continent because most of its inhabitants are dark in complexion. Honestly it didn't bother me because to me black is really beautiful and I surely wonder why most Af…

Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Munya Shumba

Mthuli Ncube needs to cushion the poor

Finance minister Mthuli Ncube stuck to his guns on Friday after his proposed tax on electronic transactions was received with indignation by already overtaxed Zimbabweans and insisted that taxpayers were already paying for a weak economy.T…

Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Editorial - the standard

RBZ's Monetary Policy for the haves, not the poor

IN Zimbabwean writer Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns novel, there is a description of the main character's father, Mr Tichafa, as probably having been the best minister of Finance that Rhodesia probably never had. This was because he …

Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

In defence of Psychology Maziwisa

Last week a discussion forum was held in Harare featuring prominent youth leaders under the theme, "Zimbabwe: The Task At Hand - A View from Young Professionals".Among the speakers were lawyer and political activist Fadzayi Mahere; busines…

Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Tichaona Zindoga

Mnangagwa's arrogance detriment to the poor

VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's arrogant defence of the discredited Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill Number 1 in Parliament last week epitomised Zanu-PF's penchant to major on power retention schemes to the detriment of issues t…

Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 14:51hrs | 2 | by The Standard Editor

Zimbabweans now taxed to death

President Robert Mugabe's cash-strapped government is going for broke - slapping long-suffering poor Zimbabweans with a raft of new taxes in its desperate efforts to raise revenue to meet its obligations, including paying its restive worke…

Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 18:29hrs | | by John Kachembere

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