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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 | 415 | 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

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 | 45 | 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 | | 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 | 278 | by Staff reporter

Poverty drives early marriages in Mzingwane

The prevalence of early marriages in Empisini, Ward 14, has become a pressing issue, as many young girls are being forced into marriage at a young age due to harsh economic conditions. This troubling trend highlights the grim reality faced…

Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 21:02hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter

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 | 10 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 137 | by Dr Admore Tshuma

'6,4m Zimbabweans living in extreme poverty'

THE latest World Bank report indicates that 6,4 million Zimbabweans are living on less than US$1,90 a day.The report is based on the multilateral institution's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), an interactive computational tool that a…

Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:22hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe police chiefs tell junior officers to 'stop displaying your poverty'

Police chiefs have warned poorly-paid junior officers to avoid being photographed displaying their poverty.In a leaked internal memo dated May 7, police bosses said police officers snapped taking part in daily struggles experienced by othe…

Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa pleads poverty

REVELATIONS that Zimbabwe is pushing to be classified a Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) as Harare seeks debt relief in what is effectively a volte-face on the long-held official aversion to the initiative is a confirmation of failure …

Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 3 | 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 | 13 | by Anotida Chikumbu

Poverty is a tool to retain control

COLONIALISM is about the control by a powerful State over those perceived to be weaker societies. It takes place when one nation or group of foreign people subjugates indigenous people and their area - conquering and controlling their popu…

Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:15hrs | 19 | by Tapiwa Gomo

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 | 13 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 13 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria

'Average Zimbabwean lived on US$1.15 in September'

The average Zimbabwean needed at least $3 591 not to be considered poor in September. This translates to US$1.15 per day and this is a significant improvement from June 2020 levels of US$0.75 but still lower than 2013, when the total consu…

Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans arise and claim your destiny

The turn of events since the lockdown started in Zimbabwe has exposed the pain and suffering that the Zanu PF party and government has and continues to inflict on the Zimbabweans. The lies, greed, corruption and sudden u-turn on the land i…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Mzilikazi Zwane

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 | 3330 | 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 | 3 | 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

Time for concrete action to end period poverty

There seems to be an erroneous feeling of respite amongst some menstrual health activists and stakeholders regarding the removal of duty and VAT on selected imported sanitary wear products by government. While the move was a good gesture b…

Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Theresa Farai Nyava

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 | 25 | 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

Youth poverty and unemployment: Revisiting the January 14 violent protests

The violent disturbances that rocked Harare and other major cities in August 2018 and January 2019 saw an unprecedented numbers of youths participating. To ignore the reasons why these young people took heed to the calls for demonstrations…

Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:24hrs | | by Brightface Mutema

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 | 652 | 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 | 24 | by Rejoice Ngwenya

2018 elections: Zimbabweans need to choose between poverty and prosperity, not political parties

As Zimbabwe's watershed 2018 elections swiftly approach, this will be a grand opportunity for the long-suffering people to finally decide whether we want the poverty-stricken status quo to persist, or for a long overdue change to prosperit…

Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 09:38hrs | 958 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

The Robert Mugabe poverty formula rooted in the Zanu-PF of Zimbabwe

The country of Zimbabwe has to take stock of behaviours displayed by Zanu Pf leadership: Neither in Mao Tse Tung China nor the Czar of the Soviet Union did party members and/or leadership have uniforms with the image of one man enforced as…

Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:48hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere

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 determined to change that world by mobilizin…

Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 12:43hrs | 7 | by Oxfam

Drug abuse a cause of concern

The striking poverty in Zimbabwe has promoted high drug abuse rate mostly in high density suburbs.High unemployment rate which has accumulated to over 90% has left more youths finding solace in street, singing in the name of Zim Dancehall.…

Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 13:15hrs | 473 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Poverty: Grassroots cry

With the economic and political crisis becoming near permanent over the past decade and half, and everything that should never happen to a country happening to be independent Zimbabwe especially the economic downturn of the millennium deca…

Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 15:27hrs | 9 | by Diana Bamala

Gen Mujuru's 13 children wallow in poverty

CHILDREN of the late General Solomon Mujuru are wallowing in poverty amid revelations that Dr Joice Mujuru, the surviving spouse and leader of Zimbabwe People First, is allegedly frustrating the execution of the national hero's estate beli…

Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:22hrs | 1958 | by Takunda Maodza

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 | 4 | by Mbizo Chirasha

The day Poverty was born

On 18 April 1980 citizens celebrated the birth of a new life for themselves in a free country for they had lived under colonial rules for a long time. Everyone thought the life they had longed for, dreamed of was finally around the corner.…

Published: 08 May 2016 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Chrispen Dhliwayo

Our heroes did not shed their blood for this poverty

ZANU PF has been trying to fool us by their desperate measures to fight corruption to revive its image but we have reserved our comments until after the heroes' holidays, out of respect for our fallen heroes. It is disrespectful to commemo…

Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 02:18hrs | 7 | by Farai Mbira, ZUNDE President

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