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It's Poverty Professor Mapfumo and Not a Plot

At the recently held University of Zimbabwe 44th graduation ceremony, Professor Paul Mapfumo stood before graduates, dignitaries, and the President. He insisted that his "transformation agenda" would not be derailed by those he claims are …

Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 07:17hrs | 412 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

Period poverty exposes vulnerable girls to HIV

A top government health official has warned that continued lack of access to menstrual hygiene products for women and girls poses serious health and socio-economic consequences, including exposure to HIV and increased school drop-out rates…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:55hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter

Call to end period poverty

Politician Linda Masarira has called on the Zimbabwean government to urgently end period poverty and formally recognise menstrual sick leave as a fundamental human right.Her call came as Zimbabwe joined the world yesterday in observing Men…

Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:31hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa slams 'working poverty'

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has strongly condemned the "slavery-like" conditions faced by Zimbabwean workers, vowing to prioritise worker welfare and restore dignity to the country's labour force if elected into government.Chamisa's r…

Published: 02 May 2025 at 08:06hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter

IWA rescues Zim's needy, fights period poverty

IN accordance with ethos and values of India's traditions, Indian Women Association (IWA) has this Tuesday in Harare extended an assortment of donations to six needy charitable homes including sanitary ware in their quest to fight period p…

Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 20:43hrs | 582 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Harare

I'm not prepared to continue suffering until 2030!

Zimbabwe, under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has sank deeper into poverty.Granted, when President Emmerson Mnangagwa took power in November 2017 through a military coup, Zimbabwe was already struggling.The economy was in distress, the cas…

Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 22:56hrs | 1193 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Black South Africans urged not to reconcile with poverty

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) has issued a scathing denunciation of South Africa's Day of Reconciliation, describing it as a deceptive attempt by the ruling elite to obscure the historical and ongoing suffering of the black majorit…

Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 05:00hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter

Man commits suicide over poverty

A Bindura man allegedly failed to accept hard times in his life and committed suicide by hanging yesterday.Takachekwa Sabora (41) of Mapunga farm, Bindura hung himself on a tree branch and died after telling his wife Emma Kamedza (30) &nbs…

Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 15:29hrs | 772 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Zimbabweans sink deeper into poverty

Zimbabweans are having to digging deeper into their pockets to buy basic commodities as the cost of living continues to rise with the food poverty line reaching  ZWL$155 360,39 for a single person, latest data shows.The Zimdollar has …

Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Woe to poverty-stricken Zimbabweans

IT never rains, but pours for the majority of Zimbabweans who are barely making ends meet as the cost of living continues to spiral out of reach.The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) tells us that this month, the food poverty l…

Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe joins poverty league

Zimbabwe, which was the most industrialised nation in sub-Saharan Africa outside South Africa in 1980 - is now among the top 20 poorest countries in the world - ranking 17, according to an unknown Global Finance magazine which provides eco…

Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

The creation of absolute poverty and suffering in post-colonial Zimbabwe

THERE is little doubt that the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has paradoxically generated a new debate on the notion of freedom and justice, particularly from philosophical perspectives.For instance, during the oppressive Rhodes…

Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:51hrs | | by Dr Admore Tshuma

Zimbabwe average salary very low as poverty bites

SEVEN out of 10 employed people in Zimbabwe earned a monthly salary of ZW$20 000 in January this year, an income which was below the obtaining bread basket as urban poverty hits the southern African nation, a new report has shown.Despite p…

Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:51hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter

Economic attitudes, poverty of mind

THE psychological cost of economic insecurity in Africa today is a damning indictment of poverty and how it warps the way we see our challenges and how to resolve them.It seems when poverty hits the mind, it sometimes liquidates reason and…

Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 12 | by Anotida Chikumbu

1978 war victims wallow in poverty

Tens of people injured during the infamous Kamungoma massacre on May 14 1978 in Dewende, Gutu including some who are living with bullets lodged in their bodies are wallowing in poverty because of lack of support from Government.The Mirror …

Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa says poverty tears opposition parties

MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has blamed defections from his party by MPs and councillors to poverty.Some MDC Alliance members have defected to either the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora to avoid recalls, while others have rushed for…

Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Penchant for luxury in midst of abject poverty

Back in 2000 the BMW people in Harare, along Samora Machel Avenue invited a selection of business executives and motoring journalists to test-drive the first-generation BMW X5 luxury Sport Utility Vehicle or SUV, which had just been launch…

Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:58hrs | 16 | by Geoffrey Nyarota

Eradicating extreme poverty critically essential

The World Bank Economic Update on Zimbabwe released in June 2021 contains some worrying trends on the increase in extreme poverty in the country. The report points that the number of extremely poor reached 7.9 million in 2020 (Half of the …

Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 13:27hrs | 12 | by Victor Bhoroma

Poverty is not a political commodity

Zimbabwe is an unfortunate country, it stays in an election mode the day after a new government gets into office. Political parties are in a  campaign mode always. They all sing from the same hym book ,eradicating poverty and closing …

Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria

The economic toll of Covid-19 on Zimbabwe has deepened energy poverty

Zimbabwe's management of the Covid 19 pandemic on the health front seems to have scored positively compared to other countries but the gains on statistics should not deflect attention from the perils of global health inequalities, energy p…

Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 21:43hrs | 10 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria

Starvation to hit Zimbabwe

Food security is a matter of strategic national importance. Issues of food security affect us all regardless of colour, Creed and political affiliation.  The issue of food security caused migration from the days of our forefathers and…

Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 09:42hrs | 5 | by Nicholas Ncube

NSSA pensioners are 'picking ants with their mouths' with poverty

Whilst the NSSA saga rages on what's on the table for the poor NSSA pensioners? Is this not the opportune time for damage control by way of increasing the monthly payouts? Events in the past few months have proved beyond reasonable doubt t…

Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 20:19hrs | 2 | by Tondorindo

Gukurahundi solution is to tackle poverty

GUKURAHUNDI has long been debated as a tribal issue and was presented to the younger generations and the world at large as a battle for tribal supremacy. This was until former Zapu cadre and former Minister of Home Affairs Dr Obert Moses M…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:57hrs | 3 | by Nicholas Ncube

Worsening period poverty in Zimbabwe calls for urgent action

For the first time since 2009, Zimbabwe's economy is projected to slide into a recession this year, with real GDP going down to -5.2%, the lowest economic growth rate in Africa this year. Inflation is already skyrocketing, with the March 2…

Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 10:58hrs | 24 | by Theresa Nyava

40 million Americans live in poverty

America is known for flash. But all that glisters is not gold, according to the latest United Nations report on President Trump's country. From the outside, America is heaven, "God's own country" they call it in fact. That is what American…

Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 08:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Civil servants plead poverty

TEACHERS yesterday said they were too poor to go back to work as schools open countrywide today, piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to solve the worsening economic crisis.This came as talks to resolve the impasse with teachers…

Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter

Poverty, Mugabe's evil*tionary trick of subjugating 'educated' Zimbabweans

I cannot recall. Napoleon, Machiavelli, Stalin or Mao - it must be one of these ancient eccentrics who coined a phrase - or more appropriately - whose philosophical predisposition was that if one wants to exert total control over someone, …

Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 09:56hrs | 22 | by Rejoice Ngwenya

Nkayi's 96% poverty rate

NKAYI is regarded as one of the highly impoverished districts in the country in urgent need of support to improve livelihoods.A recent independent baseline assessment survey report commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (…

Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Bulawayo households least poverty-hit'

BULAWAYO Province has the least number of households living in poverty in the country, statistics reveal.According to the Zimbabwe Poverty Atlas report for 2015 released recently by the Zimbabwe Statistical Agency (ZIMSTATS), poverty trend…

Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Auxilia Katongomara

Poverty made me steal, woman tells court

A 20-year-old Sakubva woman was last week fined $200 for shop lifting.Getrude Sagora appeared before Mrs Annie Ndiraya facing theft charges.The accused got into Mutare TM supermarket in the afternoon and stole food stuffs.Sagora pleaded gu…

Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 15:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The ANC's neocolonialist rhetoric will not eradicate poverty

Africans are now sick and tired of liberation political parties, who can only boast about the past.I read last week that a prominent female ANC leader in South Africa has accused the DA of being neocolonialists who want to take South Afric…

Published: 30 Jan 2013 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe

Poverty, unemployment and cultural norms fuels sexual abuse

POVERTY, unemployment, social and cultural norms have exacerbated gender-based violence and sexual abuse in Mbare, one of Harare's poorest suburbs, a recent study has shown. The study by Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium-Zimbabwe (MSF) miss…

Published: 26 Dec 2011 at 14:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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