Mary Mundeya The first sign of trouble in Prudence Hanyani’s Mabvuku home is one she has known for nearly three decades. The 47-year-old resident of Ward 21 last saw council water flow from her taps almost 30 years ago. “We’ve become water beggars,” she says, staring at the army of plastic buckets lining her wall….
Mary Mundeya When Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution introduced a gender quota to reserve 60 parliamentary seats for women through proportional representation, it was celebrated as a long-overdue victory. For a country where women’s voices were historically muffled in governance, the move felt revolutionary. But over a decade later, reality is much bleaker. As the 2023 elections…
Zimlive All Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates who were targeted for a controversial recall order early last month filed nomination papers for re-election Tuesday in open defiance of self-styled party interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu who initiated their ouster. The eventful day also saw Tshabangu field his own candidates under the CCC banner. The…
The NewsHawks THE 23 August general elections have come and gone, but the fallout from the sham elections condemned by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union-Comesa observer missions persists despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa being inaugurated at the National Sports Stadium last Monday. Only three heads of state — South African President…
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Regina Pasipanodya / Mary Mundeya Linda Masarira is one of the women in Zimbabwe, vocal on the country’s political landscape, leading the Labour, Economists and African Democrats (LEAD) party, but her desire to contest as a presidential candidate in the August 23 elections was shuttered just two months before the polls. Masarira could not file…
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