Building a Credit Record in South Africa as a Foreign Worker

A reader wrote to us in September with a question we hear in some form every month: does a work permit give you a credit record in South Africa, or does the whole system quietly close itself off? The short answer is no.

As Zimbabwe Expands Solar Power, Women No Longer Have to Give Birth by Candlelight

As Zimbabwe Expands Solar Power, Women No Longer Have to Give Birth by Candlelight

HARARE, Zimbabwe – As she opened and shut the doors of four giant refrigerators inside a dispensary at Budiriro Polyclinic in the capital of Harare, the nurse beamed.

How a 25-year partnership is protecting wildlife and communities in Zimbabwe

How a 25-year partnership is protecting wildlife and communities in Zimbabwe

For more than six years, IFAW and the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) have worked together to protect wildlife, strengthen conservation in Hwange National Park, and support the communities living alongside it. What began as a five-year partnership has grown into a 25-year commitment to conservation across Zimbabwe’s Hwange–Matetsi landscape. 

Zimbabwe begins legislative overhaul to bring effect to constitutional changes

Zimbabwe begins legislative overhaul to bring effect to constitutional changes

The amendment of three key pieces of legislation to give effect to the constitutional changes introduced under Constitutional Amendment Act No. 3 (CAA3) has commenced, with principles for the proposed amendments expected to be tabled before Cabinet within the next two weeks.

UK fugitive wanted for killing wife and daughters returns to court over firearm charges

UK fugitive wanted for killing wife and daughters returns to court over firearm charges

Zimbabwean-born British national Ndodana Tshuma, wanted in the UK for allegedly murdering his wife and two daughters, is expected back in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday over firearm and immigration charges.

MDC won’t go to court, but says it “has a plan”

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HARARE
The Movement for Democratic Change hinted this week it might stage street protests rather than launch new court challenges, if the...

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EDITOR - Imagine you are the Editor of the Herald and you wake...

ZEC up to no good

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Zimbabweans in South Africa have been reading every paper they can lay their hands on, watching...

Vigil diary – 29 March 2008

LONDON - About 500 people came to the Vigil for our mock election. We were outside...

Govt. reneges on civil service sweetener

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BULAWAYO
The Government failed to pay its workers the 'windfall it had...

Less violence and torture…

..but still enough to intimidate voters
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Cabinet’s Chigwedere relegated to headman

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Former cabinet minister, Annias Chigwedere who was defeated in the Zanu PF primary elections...

Militia and CIO spent two days marking extra ballots

Rigged papers ferried to "areas in need"
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Victims and perpetrators of torture rub shoulders in Jozi

JOHANNESBURG - Seven years after his ordeal, Remember Moyo, one of scores of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement...

Human dignity to be restored

If a new government is to "get Zimbabwe working again" it will not be enough to...

The one and the many

What difference will my vote make? Or, since you are reading this after the elections, what...

Into uncharted waters

Dear Family and Friends,
We finally arrived at the March 29th elections in typical Zimbabwean splendour....

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