10 Feb 2020
NTABAZINDUNA, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the people who advise him on how to protect his crops from dry spells and pest invasions would not be able to reach him.
10 Feb 2020
NTABAZINDUNA, Zimbabwe, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
- Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are
nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying
that the people who advise him on how to protect his crops from
dry spells and pest invasions would not be able to reach him.
11 Sep 2019
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Sept 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -
W hen Zimbabwe's government started running a bus system earlier
this year with fares on average one-third lower than those of
private bus companies, Thandekile Gama was excited.
03 Jun 2019
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, June 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -
A fter Thomas Gumede's father died in April, the Zimbabwean bus
driver could not afford an expensive funeral. So, he applied for
a burial plot through the local municipality.
31 May 2019
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Since timber was added to a list of commodities running short in Zimbabwe's crisis-hit economy late last year, carpenter Josh Mbuyazwe has struggled.
31 May 2019
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, May 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -
Since timber was added to a list of commodities running short in
Zimbabwe's crisis-hit economy late last year, carpenter Josh
Mbuyazwe has struggled.
23 Jan 2019
HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bensen Muzamba knows the cost of water only too well. He runs a maize farm outside Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, but because of poor rains at the start of the season, he was forced to purchase water to irrigate his crop - something he can ill afford.
23 Jan 2019
HARARE, Jan 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bensen
Muzamba knows the cost of water only too well. He runs a maize
farm outside Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, but because of poor
rains at the start of the season, he was forced to purchase
water to irrigate his crop - something he can ill afford.
30 Oct 2018
HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An extended dry season, runaway wildfires and a lack of foreign currency for maize seed, fertilizer and fuel suggest Zimbabwe's small-scale farmers may face a tough growing season ahead, officials and farmers say.
30 Oct 2018
HARARE, Oct 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An extended
dry season, runaway wildfires and a lack of foreign currency for
maize seed, fertiliser and fuel suggest Zimbabwe's small-scale
farmers may face a tough growing season ahead, officials and
farmers say.