Bulawayo
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Harare’s fiscal paradox: A devolved city starved of resources
By law, powers and functions are devolved to local government but the ruling Zanu-PF’s ideology is to control municipalities
Hamstrung by lack of connectivity
In Zimbabwe, cellphone penetration is over 97% but the government has conceded that connectivity is difficult in rural areas
The dark light: Zimbabwe’s energy nightmare
Power shortages across the country are fuelling deforestation through the illegal charcoal trade
Yvonne Vera: Collage of place and space
A new book explores a Zimbabwean author’s life and work through her love of gardens and nature
Happy feet, empty pockets
Examining the wave of musical migration in post-independence Zimbabwe
In poverty-stricken Zimbabwe, thieves target churches and priests
Congregation coffers attract desperate thieves as churches are known not to bank their donations
Get on your bike, Bulawayo residents urged
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
Zimbabwe hospital workers plot stillbirth burials
The policy is to cremate deceased infants but Bulawayo Hospital’s incinerators are not working
Zimbabwe a transit site for migrants
Syndicates in Zimbabwe traffic Africans fleeing the strife in their countries to South Africa
Honda Fit has become the vehicle of choice for criminals in Zimbabwe
The police have warned commuters about using these pirate taxis but people have no choice but to use them
Bulawayo, a city of adventures and misadventures, teens, knives and murders
The city’s youth turned scripts about gangster and the stories told by their uncles of life in Jozi into their own daily experiences
Zimbabwe’s loan sharks smile as runaway inflation looms again
Well before Zimbabwe’s economy took a hit in the late 1990s, spurring world-record inflation, usury was a part of the daily lives of working-class households in South Africa’s…
‘I was jailed for doing journalism – and the nightmare is not over’
Eight months ago, the Zimbabwean government arrested Jeffrey Moyo after he worked with colleagues from The New York Times reporting on Zimbabwe. His next court date is 14 February
‘Writing is about revelations and reversals’
In this essay novelist Yvonne Vera let us in on her writing process
What exile means to creatives
Clockwise from top left: Maurice T Nyagumbo, Ruth Nomonde Chinamano, Josiah Tongogara, Jason Ziyaphapha Manyika, Johanna Nkomo and Robson Manyika. The stamps appear in the book…