Harare resident, Owen Dhliwayo, fully supports the stay away Wednesday being planned by civil servants irked by low pay and poor working conditions. Dhliwayo says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has failed to tackle workers' grievances and other social and economic problems.
As Rwanda prepares to observe the 25th anniversary of the 1994 genocide where more than 800, 000 people were killed, Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Zimbabwe, James Musoni, said it is important for Zimbabweans to work together to bring peace and prosperity to the country.
Zimbabwe: Falling economy, rights issues rob Independence Day festivities
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HARARE, Zimbabwe
A cross-section of people in Zimbabwe say that rising levels of poverty, lack of freedom, and human rights issues have cast a shadow on the 41st Independence Day celebrations being observed on Saturday.
Zimbabwe gained its independence from British colonial rule on April 18, 1980, ending 90 years of settler rule.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Nkululeko Maseko, 73, a former police officer under the Rhodesian government now living in capital Harare’s Highfields low-income suburb, said his incomes have continued to fall over the years.
“I wish if I could turn back the hands of time,” he said.
Study shows that lockdown, COVID-19 infections hit disabled disproportionally in Zimbabwe, leaving them unattended Jeffrey Moyo | 05.03.2021
HARARE, Zimbabwe
Even as landlocked southern African country Zimbabwe has begun vaccinating people against the COVID-19, there seems no hope for the disabled population to be attended to anytime soon.
According to an assessment published by the UNESCO Regional Office, the persons with disabilities were disproportionately affected by COVID-19 which also resulted in anxiety and an increase in gender-based violence.
Last month, Zimbabwe received 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine donated from China.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Mevion Chawota, 29, whose both hands and legs are not working said his community will remain at the periphery, even during the vaccination drive. He complained that nobody came to their rescue during the lockdown.
Number of political elites dying of coronavirus growing with every passing day across Southern African region Jeffrey Moyo | 27.01.2021
HARARE, Zimbabwe
It never rains, but pours for Zimbabwe’s governing politicians who are falling prey to COVID-19 one after another. Leaders across parts of Southern Africa are struggling against the pandemic as the deadly virus keeps claiming the lives of political elites.
In July last year, Perence Shiri, Zimbabwe’s agriculture minister, died of COVID-19.
On Jan. 15, Ellen Gwaradzimba, Zimbabwe’s minister for provincial affairs for Manicaland Province, succumbed to coronavirus and was followed in the same week by Morton Malianga, the country’s deputy finance minister in the 1980s.