Geography: Zimbabwe
Stories situated in Zimbabwe or substantially involving life, family, property or events in Zimbabwe.
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Your Child Is in Zimbabwe. You Can Arrange Passport Consent From Abroad.
A question about a 14-year-old’s passport draws conflicting answers about consent, fees and relatives’ roles, revealing the coordination behind family life across borders.
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From Gym Complaint to Xenophobic Punchline: How a Hygiene Video Became a National Insult
A video about gym hygiene triggered honest conversations about bathing, clean clothes, deodorant, affordability and men’s self-care. Then social-media amplification stripped away the original…
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Are Children a Retirement Plan? Tinashe Mutarisi Challenges “Chirere Chigokurerawo”
He called “chirere chigokurerawo” a scam. Critics said he had confused financial entitlement with the love and physical care ageing parents need. Beneath the…
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Is Black Tax Really the Problem—or Are Some Diaspora Dreams Too Expensive?
One view says repeated family requests consume the little diaspora workers could save. Another says black tax has become a convenient explanation for poor…
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Do These Tests on My Father”: Who Should Control a Parent’s Medical Care from Abroad?
Diaspora children send money for their parents’ treatment—and sometimes instructions about which tests doctors must perform. Is that responsible advocacy, disrespect for clinical expertise…
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Can a Zimbabwean Marriage Be Complete Without Children?
She adores children but questions whether she wants to give birth or become a parent. Are there Zimbabwean men who would choose marriage without…
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“That Sadza Is Fighting for Its Life”: Can Zimbabwe’s National Dish Really Work at 40,000 Feet?
A photo of an Air Zimbabwe in-flight meal sent Zimbabwean X into stitches. But beneath the jokes about “brick moulding” was a bigger question:…
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You’re the One Abroad”: When One Sibling Pays for the Family Home but Everyone Wants an Equal Share
The family house belonged to all the siblings, but the bills somehow belonged to one. Now that it’s being sold, everyone wants an equal…