Africa’s rural poor are reliant on biomass for cooking and heating, exposing them to high levels of pollutants As COVID-19 wreaks havoc across continents, an unfashionable killer silently and stealthily chokes the life...
Barnabas Thondhlana
Zimbabwe: One vast informal business
The collapse of the economy has seen thousands of traders flooding into Harare Zimbabwe’s economy has seen a drastic collapse since 2000. Once a fairly highly industrialised country, Zimbabwe is now a vast informal...
Manipulating local government for political ends
Participatory democracy, transparency and decentralisation are important elements that determine the level of service provision from Zimbabwe’s local authorities Zimbabwe has 92 local authorities, 32 of them urban and...
A downward spiral of public services
Vested political interests have made it impossible for Harare’s mayor to implement a business strategy he believed would turn around service delivery in the city Zimbabwe’s local government system was once considered...
EDITORIAL: The lifeboat of informality
African governments and their formal business sectors often hold up the informal sector as the nemesis of formalised growth and organised development – yet for many citizens on the continent (and elsewhere),...
