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‘Writing is about revelations and reversals’

Article Yvonne Vera - 24 Jan 2020

In this essay novelist Yvonne Vera let us in on her writing process

What exile means to creatives

Article Tinashe Mushakavanhu - 24 Jan 2020

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 as a way of writing Zimbabwe’s lesser known political figures into the canon

Zimbabwe’s civic services on the edge

Africa Kudzai Mashininga - 15 Nov 2019

Doctors warn of ‘silent genocide’ as strike enters tenth week

The day the dollar died, the music also crashed

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Feb 2019

Bulawayo’s cool jazz scene has been destroyed by the disastrous economy

Zimbabwe fire brigade on frontline after protests

Africa Staff Reporter - 28 Jan 2019

Bulawayo's fire brigade should have 320 employees but is 70 people short because of budget cuts

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Five dead, dozens injured as protests prompt brutal crackdown in Zimbabwe

Africa Kudzai Mashininga - 16 Jan 2019

The protests began on Monday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa had announced a hike in fuel prices by up to 150%

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Zimbabwe union leaders arrested before planned march — lawyers

Africa Agency - 12 Oct 2018

Peter Mutasa, president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) — the country's largest trade union — was among those detained

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Meet Zimbabwe’s superhero who may have been inspired by #ThisFlag’s Evan Mawarire

Africa Lungelo Shezi Htxt - 27 Jul 2016

The #ThisFlag movement and its founder have enjoyed support online and on the street but a different kind of hero is inspiring Zimbabweans on YouTube

[From our archives] Industrial empire Bulawayo reduced to a ghost town

Africa Staff Reporter - 30 Jul 2014

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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Top Zim official caught up in land dispute

Africa Staff Reporter - 7 Feb 2014

A functionary's murky claim to a neighbour's farm has jeopardised a gold mine on the property.

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Hundreds hoodwinked by pyramid scheme in Zimbabwe

Africa Staff Reporter - 26 Apr 2013

Businesspeople and civil servants in Bulawayo are in a bind after their investments, worth millions, disappeared in a possible pyramid scheme.

Bulawayo’s taps tightened as water shortage bites

Africa Staff Reporter - 12 Oct 2012

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 orders ‘big flush’ amid water rationing

Africa Staff Reporter - 23 Sep 2012

Bulawayo has ordered its residents to flush toilets at the same time once a week to prevent blockages during frequent periods of water rationing.

Youths target empty buildings in Bulawayo

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Oct 2011

Zanu-PF youths in collaboration with senior party bigwigs are spearheading the illegal invasion of buildings and properties in Bulawayo.

Bulawayo business in peril

Article Staff Reporter - 30 May 2011

At Bulawayo's posh Rainbow Hotel, Saviour Kasukuwere, shares a guffaw with the business executives sitting next to him.

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