In 1895 the BSAC adopted the name "Rhodesia" for the territory, in honour of Rhodes. In 1898 "Southern Rhodesia" became the official name for the region south of the Zambezi, which later adopted the name "Zimbabwe". Why is Zimbabwe so poor? Why Poverty is Rampant in Zimbabwe Since Zimbab...
This trial was nested within a community-randomised trial of an adolescent reproductive health intervention conducted in rural Zimbabwe. Participants were randomly allocated to one of four QDMs (three different self-administered modes and one interviewer-administered mode); a subset was randomly selected...
Real and imagined violence became the language with which even the international community, especially the media, articulated the Zimbabwean crisis at the expense of other equally problematic issues such as the land question, the constitutional debate, economic and personal sanctions, drought and hunger...
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe entered a period of hyperinflation in March 2007 that equaled a daily rate of inflation of 98% until early 2009.6The country's hyperinflationary period began in 1999 after it experienced several periods of drought and a following reduction in GDP. The country was forced to borr...
[source:Machipisa]. Even worse for Africans with albinism, dangerous myths are circulating in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and other countries that perpetuate the raping, killing and dismemberment of people with albinism. These include that body parts of people with albinism carry good luck and that ...
(Portuguese colonialists). Angola and Mozambique would follow suit. Sheba Tavarwisa — one of the first female commanders of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army — and other revolutionary comrades leveled Ian Smith’s white minority government. Angolan and Cuban troops smothered the last ...
“When it first became clear that this disease was appearing, Richard [Hatchett] and I sat down and said, we know what happened with the last swine flu pandemic, where wealthy countries bought up all the doses that were … available for the developing world, we have to try to do some...
especially the metals and minerals powering the green transition. Governments in Latin America are keen. So are the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe. But it is Indonesia that is leading the way, and doing so with striking heavy-handedness. Since 2020 the country has banned exports of...
For example, in 1983, the Zimbabwean dollar could be exchanged 1 to 1 with the US dollar. By 2008, it took 669 billion Zimbabwean dollars to exchange for that same US dollar. Because it was decimated by hyperinflation in the early 2000s, people who saved Zimbabwean dollars lost — big...
“In the recent past, Zimbabwe has been affected by a number of typhoid outbreaks, with cities like Harare, Bulawayo and Gweru often becoming the epicenters due to chronic poor hygiene practices in an environment with chronic shorta...