Catherine Heron

University students are facing an impending crisis. Many are left homeless at the beginning of the year, whether due to lack of space in university residences or because they cannot afford the exorbitant prices of accommodation off campus. Many further face expulsion from universities because they simply can no longer afford it. There is no work for graduates, let alone for students who need to finance their degrees. Rolling blackouts are leaving many studying by candlelight. What are we as a so

Malicious attacks against the Chief Justice comes as no suprise in an increasingly toxic, political climate.

As the Movement for Democratic Change challenges the recent election result in court after the ZANU PF victory and protestors take to Harare’s streets, tensions run high in Zimbabwe. With hope raised both locally and internationally about the prospects of a free and democratic Zimbabwe, investors have started to withdraw their praise for the emergent economy after Emmerson Mnangagwa won the election. Zimbabweans are suspicious that the ZANU PF won yet again despite Mugabe’s 37 year dictatorship

Consequently, while the government advocates for “healthy lifestyles” in rural and poor areas in multi-million rand campaigns, it is impossible to achieve as the poverty stricken people the government are trying to reach struggle to maintain a below-par health let alone think about the effects of gluten on the body and whether to make their next salad with kale or spinach. How can non-communicable diseases in townships be stabilised if, for such a serious virus like HIV Aids, only 40% of those affected have access to ARVs?

Flash forward to January 1, 2018. Hundreds of thousands are left without papers. The ZSP permits have expired and people are faced with the choice of going back to the tyrannical starving regime they fled to apply for work and study visas or remaining illegally in South Africa.

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