Opinion

As debt arrears reach US$6.7 billion peak, Zimbabwe seeks global assistance

By Ava Thompson Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube confirmed the country’s escalating debt arrears reaching a peak of US$6.7 billion.
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Will South Africa’s unemployed rise up?

By Geoff Hill Beginning in the year 2000, Robert Mugabe began snatching white-owned farms for ‘redistribution’ and giving them to
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Jacob Zuma remains a problem for South Africa

By Geoff Hill More than 30 years after the Berlin Wall came down, leaders of the African National Congress (ANC),
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How Zimbabwean political parties campaigned on TikTok in 2023

Political parties in Zimbabwe are using TikTok to present politics as entertaining in a bid to reach the country’s young
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Mining industry has a big role to play in the future of human rights in

By Julia Croce How employees in the mining industry understand human rights and peace can help to reframe regulation on human
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The new Zimbabwean ZiG: Sixth time a charm?

By Peter C. Earle  Zimbabwe’s historical relationship with money has been inundated with mistakes, recklessness, and hardship. During the peak
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ANALYSIS: ZiG doomed by overall lack of transparency

Economic mismanagement has stripped citizens’ trust in the government and threatens the new currency’s viability. By ISS Pretoria The struggle
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El Niño drought leaves Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba only 13% full

By Joshua Matanzima, The Conversation Water levels at Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe have dropped dramatically because of the latest El
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Why Zimbabwe’s ZiG currency is more glitter than gold

By Lionel Laurent Zimbabwe has a painful relationship with money. At the height of hyperinflation in 2008, the African economy’s
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ZiG enters gangster economy amid roaring inflation – what could go wrong?

By Ed Stoddard I Daily Maverick Take a failed mafia state, a gangster economy and roaring inflation, and attempt to
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