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14/07/2025

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11/07/2025

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10/07/2025

Did you know Zimbabwe has a bank made specifically for women?

Established in 2018, the Women’s Bank was set up to empower women financially, giving them access to loans, savings, and support to grow their businesses and change their lives.

📹 The bank CEO, Dr. Mandas Marikanda, sheds more light on how one can acquire a loan...

08/07/2025

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About 42 kilometres east of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, stands Melfort Old People’s Home, a retirement facility for elderly men and women with nowhere else to go. Most residents are men, many of them lifelong bachelors. The home also houses women, largely widows. Many of the residents have no surviving children or close relatives. A significant number came to Zimbabwe as migrant labourers, having spent their working years on farms, in mines, or in domestic service.

https://shecorrespondsafrica.com/i-just-wish-to-meet-them-zimbabwes-forgotten-migrant-workers-face-old-age-without-family-or-country/

Tafadzwa Mwanengureni About 42 kilometres east of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, stands Melfort Old People’s Home, a retirement facility for elderly men and women with nowhere else to go. Most residents are men, many of them lifelong bachelors. The home also houses women, largely widows. Many of th...

07/07/2025

The cholera outbreak that swept through Zimbabwe in 2008-2009 killed more than 4,000 people and sickened nearly 100,000. Parts of Harare and its surrounding suburbs were especially hard hit, and in the aftermath, attention fell on the unreliability of the capital city’s aging infrastructure. The government ultimately secured a US$144 million loan from China Exim Bank to overhaul the city’s water treatment network.
https://shecorrespondsafrica.com/no-water-from-the-tap-theyre-asked-to-pay-a-tax-anyway/

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Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal HARARE, ZIMBABWE — The cholera outbreak that swept through Zimbabwe in 2008-2009 killed more than 4,000 people and sickened nearly 100,000. Parts of Harare and its surrounding suburbs were especially hard hit, a...

01/07/2025

In a continent where borders often define limitations, a new generation of African content creators is challenging these constraints, weaving narratives that transcend lines on a map.
https://shecorrespondsafrica.com/how-african-creatives-are-redefining-travel-cuisine-and-mobility-across-the-continent/

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Mary Mundeya In a continent where borders often define limitations, a new generation of African content creators is challenging these constraints, weaving narratives that transcend lines on a map.  One of them is Nigerian travel storyteller Esther Okorougo, whose bold lens and heartfelt narratives ...

26/06/2025

📹Watch, Zimbabwe Health minister justifies delay in procuring cancer machines amid sugar tax debate...

23/06/2025

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Eliza Mandove was a child when her brother was killed during Zimbabwe’s war for independence. She was beaten during the same attack and sustained injuries to her hands and legs. Now 46, Mandove has no motor function in her left hand and struggles to walk and carry heavy loads. She suffers from chronic headaches. She can’t work in the fields. Her husband once farmed, but years of drought and erratic rainfall have led to diminishing yields.

https://shecorrespondsafrica.com/a-fragile-state-zimbabwe-reckons-with-the-catastrophic-loss-of-us-aid/

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Linda Mujuru and Gamuchirai Masiyiwa, GPJ Zimbabwe HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Eliza Mandove was a child when her brother was killed during Zimbabwe’s war for independence. She was beaten during the same attack and sustained injuries to her hands and legs. Now 46, Mandove has no motor function in her lef...

20/06/2025

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — The vendors rarely see it coming. The municipal police, some in plainclothes and others in uniform, move through the crowd silent and unnoticed. When they finally strike, panic erupts. Vendors scatter, trampling their goods and grabbing what they can. A few are arrested. Their wares are seized and tossed into the back of a police truck.
“They have no mercy at all. Once they take your stock, you’ll never get it back,” says Saul Nhema, an informal vendor who has been selling vegetables for three months after losing his job as a construction worker.

https://shecorrespondsafrica.com/why-are-zimbabwe-police-chasing-off-some-of-the-economys-biggest-players/

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Linda Mujuru and Gamuchirai Masiyiwa, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. HARARE, ZIMBABWE — The vendors rarely see it coming. The municipal police, some in plainclothes and others in uniform, move through the crowd silent and unnoticed. When they finally stri...

19/06/2025

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Not long ago, grass and flowers grew on the wetland in Borrowdale. Flocks of birds — including red and yellow bishops — were common here, and butterflies too.
“Everything from anthills, fig trees and flowers. People took walks there to enjoy the tranquility of the place,” says Brian Foster Mawer, a resident of Dandaro Retirement Village, which abuts the wetland.
https://shecorrespondsafrica.com/unchecked-development-eats-up-wetlands-in-harare/
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Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Not long ago, grass and flowers grew on the wetland in Borrowdale. Flocks of birds — including red and yellow bishops — were common here, and butterflies too. “Everything from anthills, ...

23/05/2025

Lake Chivero, once a jewel of Zimbabwe’s natural heritage and a lifeline for Harare’s water supply, is now the epicenter of a worsening public health emergency.
According to startling new research, water from the lake now poses cancer risks 15 times deadlier than HIV, a revelation that has shocked health professionals and environmentalists alike.
https://shecorrespondsafrica.com/lake-chivero-water-crisis-deepens-cancer-risk-soars/

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Lake Chivero, once a jewel of Zimbabwe’s natural heritage and a lifeline for Harare’s water supply, is now the epicenter of a worsening public health emergency. According to startling new research, water from the lake now poses cancer risks 15 times deadlier than HIV, a revelation that has shoc...