The Tragedy Of Namibia’s Working Poor
At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a home, a car, and send...
Namibia Lithium Battle
On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo, did not...
Operation Dudula
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a ‘clean-up campaign’ to directly confront...
Zimbabwe’s Government Spokesman Seizes Farm From Resettled Farmers
Chegutu, Zimbabwe — Nick Mangwana, Government spokesman in Zimbabwe has moved in to evict resettled black farmers in order to take over the farm in Chegutu, a Zimbabwean farming town...
Potential Security Risks In Southern Africa As Zambia Hosts AFRICOM
The United States of America’s military footprint has been felt in Southern Africa after a security pact signed between Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema and the US embassy in Lusaka...
Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters at the party’s ten-year anniversary...
Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
The Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) launched the #WeAreEqual Campaign on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at a banquet ceremony held in Namibia’s capital, Windhoek.
The campaign is...
EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools
An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of debate on black aesthetics in...
Workers In Zimbabwe To Be Rewarded After Death
Harare — Faced with a restive civil service that has for long demanded to be paid in USD amid the country’s comatose economy, the Zimbabwean government has pledged to pay...
Aiding Poverty By Smuggling A Rare Black Stone For 30 Pieces Of Silver
For Claudious Murungweni (not his real name), a 35-year-old bus conductor plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa cross-border route, the corruption and smuggling of a low base mineral has turned around...
Aid To Africa: A Deceptive Neo-Colonial Tool Enforcing Mental Slavery Without Restraint
“The root of the disease was political. The treatment could only be political. Of course, we encourage aid that aids us in doing away with aid. But in general,...
Zimbabwe Court Tells Ubuntu Times Journalist He Has Case To Answer
A Zimbabwe magistrate in the southern city of Bulawayo, Mark Nzira, on March 15 dismissed an application for discharge at the close of the State case by Ubuntu Times...
How Greed Is Destroying Afrikan Environments And Ecosystems
A Lesotho environmental law expert says it is alarmingly troubling that the once pristine African land continues to be sacrificed at the altar of profits by multinational companies extracting...
Zimbabwe Farmers Embrace Conservation Agriculture To Beat Effects Of Climate Change
Marange, Zimbabwe — It is a windy day in Marange, Chanakira village. Small clouds scuddle the blue sky giving it a blurred look. About 110 kilometers southwest of Mutare, Norah...
Zimbabwe’s Vice President Resigns Over Sex Scandals
Harare, Zimbabwe — Embroiled in a litany of sex scandals accusations, Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi on Monday this week resigned from his job.
Mohadi, aged 71, handed his resignation...
Top Zimbabwean Official Nabbed For Gold Smuggling
Harare — Former Chief Executive Officer of the Zimbabwe Football Association, Henrietta Rushwaya was on Monday nabbed by cops as she attempted to smuggle six kilograms of gold to...
Can Zumbani, Zimbabwe’s Local Tea Leaves Treat COVID-19?
Nickson Mpofu (38) a resident of Cranborne, a medium-density suburb in Harare the capital of Zimbabwe, recalls how they used tea leaves to treat colds growing up in his...
Missing Journalist’s Activist Brother Dies In Zimbabwe
Harare, August 26 — Patson Dzamara, a human rights activist in Zimbabwe, who was also brother to the country’s missing journalist-cum political activist, Itai Dzamara, died this Wednesday morning...
Gravel soil, sand poaching fuel water bodies’ siltation in Zimbabwe
HARARE — At the top of a hill, bulldozers and caterpillars maneuver their way, slicing off the hill of its remaining sections as they almost approach an enormous concrete...
Zimbabwe struggles with rural, urban poverty
GOKWE, Zimbabwe — A one-room home structure made of poles plastered with mud, roofed with a single zinc sheet, with a gaping wooden door stands side by side with...