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Life in Harare is difficult, as we have many economic and political issues to deal with. However, it is worth the trouble, as Harare is a beautiful, peaceful country, filled with some of the most friendly people you could ever hope to meet.
Life in Harare is difficult, as we have many economic and political issues to deal with. However, it is worth the trouble, as Harare is a beautiful, peaceful country, filled with some of the most friendly people you could ever hope to meet.
Sep 22, 2021 · (Johannesburg) – Residents of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, face a potable water crisis three years after a deadly cholera outbreak, Human Rights Watch said today. Zimbabwe’s central government...
Nov 2, 2022 · There’s No Place Like Home, and Harare Has Too Few. As Harare’s housing shortage deepens, many Zimbabweans make do in squalid conditions or informal settlements. And fake agents prey on those desperate to find places to rent.
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- Business Unusual
- An Empty Manifesto
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- The Ultimate Equaliser
- ‘Steam Or Die’
- ‘We Are Just Asking For Basic Healthcare, Not Expensive Holidays Abroad’
Before his death, former president Robert Mugabe regularly travelled abroad for medical care. When he died from cancer in 2019, it was at the Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore. The 258-bed Singaporean hospital boasts a range of medical and surgical specialities and has been accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI), which measures best ...
The influx of patients to public hospitals caused by the pandemic in the second wave which began in December had not been anticipated. Death figures have risen during this wave; the highest number of deaths in a day was 70, recorded on January 25. As of mid-April, cumulative COVID case figuresfor the pandemic were 37,859, with 1,553 deaths, within ...
At a church-run mission hospital, funded by the church and the government, in Chiredzi Town, in southeast Zimbabwe, one nurse, who asked not to give her name, shared her experience. “I started caring for coronavirus patients from January 2021 with 25 positive patients in the isolation ward. At first, I was scared and lacked in confidence. Though I ...
The ZANU-PF 2018 election campaign manifesto under now-President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged to “ensure that treasury allocates at least 15 percent of the national budget to healthcare sector”. It further proposed to review medical professionals’ remuneration, and to rehabilitate and invest in new healthcare facilities. Most of these promises remain...
Wealthy members of Zimbabwean society are starting to feel the full force of the travel ban, which has been in place at times over the past year because of the global pandemic. Four ministershave died after succumbing to COVID-19-related complications and being forced to seek treatment in Zimbabwe’s hospitals. Many state officials have retreated to...
Well-off Zimbabweans used to be able to travel across the border to South Africa to access better equipped public hospitals. Tendai Muchenje, 55, a car dealer who lives in an exclusive suburb of Harare, says: “I was scheduled to travel to South Africa for my regular, general medical check-up before the lockdown was announced in December. “For now, ...
In order to avoid attending crowded, understaffed and poorly equipped hospitals, many poorer citizens are turning to home remedies for their ailments, instead. Home remedies have long been used by ordinary Zimbabweans, even before the pandemic, but more are doing so now. Indeed, an estimated 80 percent of the nation’s population uses traditional he...
Meanwhile, ordinary Zimbabweans must continue in their struggle to obtain critical medical care when they need it. Giving birth to a fourth son was a blessing for Anna Bangure, 28, from Nyatsime, just outside Chitungwiza town. She delivered her 3.5kg baby at the public Beatrice Hospital with her husband, a self-employed technician, at her side. But...
Life in Harare is complemented by fine dining, museums, craft markets and hip bars. The National Gallery of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences offer cultural indoor options within the city, but much more impressive are the short trips out of town.
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Jul 1, 2021 · The latest Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) report, The Global Livability (Liveability) Index 2021, rates Harare among the “Ten least livable cities in the world” together with Tripoli and...
