This piece was submitted on 15 December 2019 and was not published at the time due to a system error. Read it, leave a comment and share it with your tribe. The Living Zimbabwe Team. WR 29: THE DEVILS ADVOCATE: WHAT PRICE FOR MORALITY? Warmest greetings to you all despite the turbulent weather. In a […]
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Why the rich will get the job and the promotion
Growing up l was fortunate enough to attend one of the better schools in Zimbabwe at high school level and during my studies, l interacted with kids from very rich backgrounds and by rubbing shoulders with them l learnt and noticed a lot of things which made these kids to have soft skills to thrive […]
Dangerous drivers in Zimbabwe
With the cops off the road, it’s been a welcome relief from the fines, harassment and often the daylight robbery. But now that they are gone the roads have become lawless, the number of idiotic drivers has seemed to increase along with the number of cars which are not clearly road worthy. From my observation […]
The importance of house or stand price, suburb density and other factors in fulfilling your real estate dream in Zimbabwe
A miss is as good as a mile. A situation in which you manage to buy a house or stand for sale somewhere at the backyard of the property market when the initial dream was about one in Harare North’s affluent Borrowdale Brooke will never cover up for the fact that you failed to achieve […]
Critical know-how before buying immovable property in Zimbabwe
When you want to buy immovable property its important to know what to do and where to start. A lack of this know-how has led many people’s hard earned cash into the evil hands of fraudsters . Others have invested into motor vehicles using funds set aside for property investments because the know-how about buying […]
Financial consequences of purchasing property from a seriously ill seller in Zimbabwe & other purchases to avoid
Questionable contractual capacity of a seriously-ill seller In Zimbabwe purchasing property being sold by a seriously-ill seller can be dangerous so it must be approached with great caution. If the seller heals, armed with medical records he can rise from the death bed with a backlash and claim that when he sold, he did so […]
Zimbabwe’s 2017 house prices a rags to riches story
The state of the property market is a reflection of the economic path the ambitious Zimbabwean take from being a peasant to a wealthy person. An analysis shows that we all belong to four market segments namely the high, medium, transitional low and affluent low densities. The high density ( house prices $20 000.00 [core […]
Zimbabwe Dangerous Transport Networks
The recent horror accident that has been reported to have claimed 45 lives of our brothers and sisters happened about 30km before Makuti along Harare and Chirundu highway is another sad chapter in our history. Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said onThursday said that the bus crashed on Wednesday night about 96 miles north of the […]
Traffic cops clash with kombi drivers
The “Ngongonos” or Knockers have resurfaced again on the streets of Harare. These truncheon wielding traffic control officers who have earned the moniker “ Mangongongo” from touts and drivers manning the illegal undesignated bus stops strewn all over the city center commonly referred to as “Mshika,shika” are bearing down hard on errant kombi drivers and […]
Ina de system by Rassie Ai
Ina de system scrupulously examines the experiences of a Zimbabwean migrant worker in the diaspora, his/her experiences on a social and community level as well the hardships faced due to perceptions of the host communities. Ina de system – Lyrics “Check it well this is Rassie Ai, I’m speaking to all the foreign guy, all […]