Jeffrey Moyo

Zimbabwe

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Stringer at: Inter Press Service, Anadolu Agency, The New York Times, Bistandsaktuelt of Norway, IDN, The Continent, The Globe & Mail, VOA

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Articles

Zimbabwe's Leader Faces Call for Removal From Within His Own Party

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Zimasa Matiwane |Jeffrey Moyo

After getting his car searched, Gilbert Tapfumaneyi said he would return to town on Monday without his vehicle to join the protests. Mr. Tapfumaneyi, a car salesman, said he did not make enough money to buy gas. "We have suffered enough," he said. While some workers in central Harare said they would stay away on Monday out of fear of violence breaking out, others said that they had little choice but to try to go to work.
Will Mnangagwa actually step down? Some in his own party are sceptical

2 months ago | mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |Jeffrey Moyo

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term of office lasts for three more years. Already, however, Zimbabwean politics is consumed with the question: Will he stay or will he go? His predecessor, Robert Mugabe, was famously reluctant to leave office. His wife Grace told a crowd that Mugabe would govern from the grave. She was wrong: Mugabe was forced out by a military coup in 2017, orchestrated by none other than his deputy – Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Zimbabwe: Life-Changing Quarry Mining Shatters Lives in Zimbabwe

2 months ago | allafrica.com | Jeffrey Moyo

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe — On Christmas Day in 2022, 27-year-old Thabani Dlodlo's eight-year-old son drowned in a flooded pit dug up by quarry miners in the vicinity of Pumula North, a high-density suburb in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city. As if that was not enough, just a week after New Year's Day the following year, Dlodlo's neighbor, 36-year-old Sethule Hlengiwe, also lost her six-year-old daughter after she drowned in another pit flooded with rainwater near her home in Bulawayo.
La minería de cantera destroza vidas en Zimbabue

2 months ago | ipsnoticias.net | Jeffrey Moyo

BULAWAYO, Zimbabue – El día de Navidad de 2022, el hijo de ocho años de Thabani Dlodlo, de 27 años, se ahogó en una mina inundada excavada por mineros en las cercanías de Pumula North, un suburbio de alta densidad en Bulawayo, la segunda mayor ciudad de Zimbabue.
Life-Changing Quarry Mining Shatters Lives in Zimbabwe

2 months ago | ipsnews.net | Jeffrey Moyo

Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Disaster Management, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Natural Resources, TerraViva United Nations Environment Reprint | | Print | BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 26 2025 (IPS) - On Christmas Day in 2022, 27-year-old Thabani Dlodlo’s eight-year-old son drowned in a flooded pit dug up by quarry miners in the vicinity of Pumula North, a high-density suburb in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city. As if that was not enough, just a week after New...
Water Shortages Hit in Zimbabwe as it Struggles To Overcome El Nino

Dec 10, 2024 | ipsnews.net | Jeffrey Moyo

Africa, Climate Change, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Water & Sanitation Water & Sanitation Reprint | | Print | BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 11 2024 (IPS) - At a borehole not far from Mpopoma High School in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, 48-year-old Sakhile Mulawuzi balances a white 25-liter bucket of water on her head as she holds another 10-liter blue bucket filled with water. She trudges...
As forests felled wood shortage hits villagers in Zimbabwe

Nov 11, 2024 | ippmedia.com | Jeffrey Moyo

LINET Makwera (28) has a baby strapped on her back as she totters barefoot, picking tiny pieces of wood on both sides of a dusty and narrow road, peering fearfully at people passing by along the road in Chimanimani’s Mutambara area in Gonzoma village located in Zimbabwe’s Manicaland Province, east of the country. Her fears, Makwera says, are the patrolling plain clothes police officers, who often target people, cutting down the few available trees in search of firewood.
Tala de bosques golpea a pobladores rurales de Zimbabue con falta de madera

Nov 6, 2024 | ipsnoticias.net | Jeffrey Moyo

CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabue – Linet Makwera, de 28 años, porta un bebé atado a la espalda mientras se tambalea descalza, recogiendo pequeños trozos de leña a ambos lados de una polvorienta y estrecha carretera, mirando con temor a la gente que pasa por la zona de Mutambara en Chimanimani, en la aldea de Gonzoma, ubicada en la provincia zimbabuense de Manicaland, al este del país.
As Forests Felled Wood Shortage Hits Villagers in Zimbabwe

Nov 5, 2024 | ipsnews.net | Jeffrey Moyo

Africa, Conservation, Environment, Headlines, Least Developed Countries, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations | Analysis Environment Reprint | | Print | CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe, Nov 6 2024 (IPS) - Linet Makwera (28) has a baby strapped on her back as she totters barefoot, picking tiny pieces of wood on both sides of a dusty and narrow road, peering fearfully at people passing by along the road in Chimanimani’s Mutambara area in Gonzoma village located in...
Zimbabwe High Court rules plaintiff could attach Al Jazeera property in $2M lawsuit

Oct 21, 2024 | aa.com.tr | Jeffrey Moyo

HARARE, ZimbabweZimbabwe’s High Court ordered the sheriff to attach Al Jazeera Media Network’s property as security for costs in a lawsuit against the media outlet because of the contents of a documentary. The suit was filed by Mehluli Dube, a focus of the Gold Mafia documentary Dube, a former employee of Fidelity Printers and Refiners in Zimbabwe is seeking $2 million in damages after he claimed his image was tarnished by the documentary.