Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe For years, this country’s capital city has discharged sewage into its main water supply. Then, the city started charging to purify the water — a cost that locals say eats as much as a fifthLinda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe of their income. The water they receive isn’t even clean. Now, the City…
Gamuchirai Masiyiwa, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. First-time mother Connie Jowa stands with her 3-month-old baby nestled against her back, chatting with other mothers in line. Like many women at this crowded clinic in Harare’s Mabvuku suburb, Jowa is trying to get a Child Health Card, which was unavailable…
Gamuchirai Masiyiwa, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. Caroline Mawoyo watches her 16-year-old daughter wash dishes outside their wooden cabin. The teenager should be donning a fresh uniform for her first year in secondary school. Instead, she faces an uncertain future. Mawoyo, 37, got word on Jan. 22 that community…
Zimbabwe’s daily 18-hour electricity outages may get even worse this month, as the nation’s main thermal-fired power plant in Hwange undergoes a scheduled revamp of two key units. Maintenance work at the Hwange power station’s unit 7 began on Sunday and will last until March 29, according to state utility Zesa Holdings. In addition, unit…
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha) has asked the Zimbabwean government for help in expediting an urgent programme of voluntary return in light of the increasingly intolerable conditions for many of its members living in SA. “Zimbabweans are now forced to litigate when they go to the hospital, schools, universities, travel on the roads,…
A low-lying, impassable bridge in Zimbabwe’s south-eastern district of Chiredzi in Masvingo province has cut off the minority Tshangaan tribe from the rest of the world. Chilonga Bridge in the Lowveld- which links Chiredzi town across Runde River with its vast rural Tshangaan speaking communities of Chilonga, Chikombedzi, Boli, Mahlanguleni, Mabalauta and Malipati through to…
Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. At Mbare marketplace, a major trading hub in Zimbabwe, plastic bags are everywhere. Vendors stack them at the ready for customers, who tote their purchases home and often discard the bags after a single use. Many of these plastic bags are either…
Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. Batsirai Mutara started selling cheese and dairy products from a makeshift roadside stand when he was 27. It was a far cry from his former office job, where inflation devoured his paycheck, which came in Zimbabwean dollars, faster than he could spend…
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