Plan to get inhabitants of Zimbabwe’s second city to cycle to reduce pollution faces hurdles, including that two-wheelers are spurned by the upwardly mobile
The city’s youth turned scripts about gangster and the stories told by their uncles of life in Jozi into their own daily experiences
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Faced with the breakdown in essential services and poverty, people have turned to buying and selling illicit poisons.
Two people have died from injuries sustained in Saturday’s attack, according to a hospital official
Bulawayo turns 120 this year but the city has little to celebrate after its once-thriving economic sector has all but crumbled.
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The city has had to decommission its major supply dams as water levels fall to drastic levels.
"We Need New Names" author NoViolet Bulawayo is one of the six authors selected for the 2013 Man Booker prize.
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo is the only African on the Booker longlist that includes celebrated authors like Colm TóibÃn and Jim Crace.
Bulawayo’s water woes are set to mount, with its city council indicating that it will be extending water restrictions from three days a week to four.
Bulawayo has ordered its residents to flush toilets at the same time once a week to prevent blockages during frequent periods of water rationing.