How mishandling of land reform evicted many white farmers, ‘enriched elites’ and left Black Zimbabweans in poverty.

How mishandling of land reform evicted many white farmers, ‘enriched elites’ and left Black Zimbabweans in poverty.

Twenty years since antiretroviral therapy was rolled out in the country, HIV/AIDS patients are living full lives.
![About 1.3 million people are living with HIV in Zimbabwe today [Farai Matiashe/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ruth-Mlambo-looking-at-some-of-the-HIV-and-AIDS-pamphlets-inside-her-house-in-Matika-village-in-Mutare-Zimbabwe-Farai-MatiasheAljazeera-1724176194.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Small-scale miners are finding ways to navigate decreased demand and lower prices of the raw material they supply.

Despite dominating the voter population, women have been reduced to mostly cheerleaders in Zimbabwe’s politics.

Economic woes worsened by COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war have led to a deadlock between teachers and gov’t.

The martial art is a welcome refuge for teenage girls hoping to escape the widespread practice of child marriage.
![Natsiraishe Maritsa from Epworth has won several awards in taekwondo tournaments and for her work supporting girls [Farai Matiashe/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/A-17-year-old-Natsiraishe-Maritsa-from-Epworth-has-won-several-awards-in-Taekwondo-tournaments-and-her-work-of-supporting-the-girl-child.-AljzaeeraFarai-Matiashe.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Expensive permits and fishing industry regulations are impeding BaTonga tribe’s way of life.
![Takuchinchi Munsaka, from Muyobe village in Binga, makes final preparations before going fishing along the Zambezi River [Farai Matiashe/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Farai-Shawn-Matiashe-Zimbabwe-fishing6.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Amid COVID surge that has also left many officials dead, authorities come face to face with reality long faced by poor.
![Pallbearers in Harare carry a coffin at the burial of two cabinet ministers and a retired general who died after contracting COVID-19 [Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-29T100042Z_444210202_RC2MHL9A5W8Y_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-ZIMBABWE.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
In 1980, the Jamaican reggae superstar was invited to perform at the festivities for the birth of independent Zimbabwe.

A chronic shortage of Zimbabwean dollar notes and US dollars keeps money-changing services in high demand.
![Illegal money traders who used to flood the streets of Harare and Mutare are now working from home amid the 21-day lockdown to curb the spread of Coronavirus [Farai Matiashe/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/3a710c2120c24636afbf0af97f701397_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)