Lost generation: Zimbabwe’s ghetto youth and the scourge of the Covid-19 economy

Since Covid-19 reached Zimbabwe in March 2020, I have been conducting interviews with young Zimbabweans. My interviews pay particular attention to the interweaving of economic action...

Fight or surrender: The plight of the young in Zimbabwe

As the Zimbabwean crisis deepens, many in the media and academic fraternity castigate their countrymen as...

How Zimbabwe’s cartels extract ‘rent’ from Zimbabwe’s poorest and make the elites richer

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Explosive cartel report uncovers the anatomy of a captured state

Today, Maverick Citizen publishes an exclusive report which provides a post mortem of the cancer that...

Health worker suspensions amplify effects of Zim’s Covid-19 second wave

An increasing number of nurses have tested positive for Covid-19 at Harare’s biggest hospital as Zimbabwe...

Zimbabwe survives by exiling people to South Africa

South Africa parrots Zanu-PF’s fiction that all Zimbabwe’s ills can be blamed on the West, while...

Book excerpt: Living with the ghosts of Gukurahundi

Yesterday, 22 December was National Unity Day in Zimbabwe. Officially the day commemorates the merger of...

Second Covid wave breaks over Zimbabwe: Tales of dread from the small town of Gwanda

The first wave did not hit the country as badly as we feared. But now the...

Water crisis ravages Zimbabwe’s City of Kings

Women carry the burden of collecting water for households in the shadow of deadly diseases....

Zimbabwe: Millions now denied a right to education

The education sector in Zimbabwe has been rapidly deteriorating, yet the government is unmoved. This year,...

Covid-19: We are going to be very strict, Motsoaledi warns Zimbabwean travellers

Zimbabweans going home for the holidays need a negative Covid-19 certificate to travel in both directions....

Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and lawyer bump heads with state yet again

Detained Zimbabwean journalist and documentary filmmaker Hopewell Chin’ono will spend more time behind bars after a...

Zimbabwe’s riches being pillaged, with the help of governing elites

South Africa is one of the major recipients of smuggled mineral resources from Zimbabwe, but not...

President Mnangagwa’s wife and son fingered in gold smuggling syndicate

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