Mary Mundeya Harare — For nine consecutive seasons, Serina Matenga, a smallholder tobacco farmer in Headlands, a farming bastion in Manicaland province, has watched the woodland around her homestead recede. Trees that once buffered her fields now vanish year after year, cut to feed tobacco curing barns that keep her livelihood afloat. And for nine…
MACHIPISA Bus Terminus in Highfield, Harare, has become an underground market where smuggled goods are sold. An undercover investigation revealed how cross-border buses are now arteries through which contraband — from premium whiskey to canned beans — flow unchecked into the capital. Every evening, especially after sunset, the rank comes alive — not with passengers,…
NATIONAL Social Security Authority (Nssa) chairman Emmanuel Fundira, who is former chairman of African Sun Limited, and an ex-Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) senior executive Paula January are accused of scheming a corporate raiding plot to knock down RTG’s market value ahead of a planned swoop on the company counter for shares at an undervalued price,…
Mary Mundeya In the midst of rock crushing and the deafening sound of grinding mills, Joshua Magweregwede (37) prepares for his daily gold-panning routine. Clad in a tattered t-shirt and a worn-out pair of trousers, he attaches his headlamp and throws a pickaxe and shovel down a dark tunnel where he and two other people…
Evidence Chenjerai, Global Press Journal Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. When Kundai graduated with a master’s degree from a local university, she did not imagine staying unemployed for five years. Even more unexpected was the fact that her path to forging a career as a health worker and getting financial…
Shorai Murwira Some villagers in the arid Hwange District are leaving their homes to scavenge for coke in Hwange Town, abandoning their chores including market gardening and farming in rainy seasons due to low rains and yields at a time studies have shown that temperatures have risen from a maximum of 25 degrees Celcius in…
Mary Mundeya / Regina Pasipanodya CRIMINAL elements operating between Zimbabwe and South Africa, with links to the police and Central Vehicle Registry, are smuggling top of the range vehicles into the country before selling them to unsuspecting customers or car breakers, an investigation by She Corresponds Africa has established. A large number of motorists have…
Linda Mujuru, Global Press Journal Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. MUTOKO, ZIMBABWE — “I have been dreaming about these precious stones for the past 11 years. They were revealed to me by my ancestors through dreams,” says Sagacious Dangaranga, a farmer who began mining lithium last winter on his communal…
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