MORE than 83 percent of residents here are poor, living on $500 per month, a recent study conducted by the local authority has revealed. Making a presentation during the Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s ...
Zimbabwe's poverty datum line has increased by a further 13 percent for the month of August to more than 1 800 dollars resulting in continued deteriorating purchasing power for the majority.The povert...
GOVERNMENT will use the poverty index to prioritise disbursement of funds to facilitate development at local level in line with the devolution drive, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Profess...
TEACHERS yesterday said they were too poor to go back to work as schools open countrywide today, piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to solve the worsening economic crisis.This came as tal...
THE recent media reports that the parallel market rates ranges between 60% and 65% for mobile money platforms like EcoCash and 75% for bank transfers on the parallel market as forex has become increas...
OVER five million people in Zimbabwe are living in extreme poverty, throwing into doubt the country's capacity to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to end extreme poverty by 2030, a...
THAT over 5 million people in Zimbabwe are living in extreme poverty, throwing out of balance the country's capacity to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is an indictment on the gov...
GROWING up as a young girl Suzie (not real name) never imagined that at 25 she could end up being HIV positive and a sex worker.Life obstacles and challenges forced her onto this path.Family members a...
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira has disclosed that more than 10 million Zimbabweans, which translates to 72,3% of the population, were living in abject poverty.In a...
Industry should use the Poverty Datum Line (PDL) of a single person when calculating the minimum wage across the respective sectors, a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe official has said.According to latest c...
THE cost of living for an average Zimbabwean has shot up with the shopping basket for an average family of five increasing from $505 in December to $511 in January this year, statistics released by th...