This edition, titled “Under a Darkening Sky” features evidence of Zimbabwe’s slide into repression and recession.
Diplomatic staff given Range Rovers while ordinary people struggle amid inflation of 785%
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d’etat – which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right hand man and protégé, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa – has been nothing short of traumatic, troubling, and downright angering, as the so-called ‘new dispensation'(whose ‘newness’ is in name only, considering that those presiding over it, are as worn out, and overplayed, as a 1980 vinyl music record) has unforgivably seemingly gone out of its way to make the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans a living hell.
Nurse educators (tutors) have announced that they will withdraw their services if the government fails to address nurses’ incapacitation as a matter of urgency.
Former MDC legislator Ian Kay has urged MDC-T interim leader and MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa not to be self-centred but to find common ground and forge a strong alliance.
