Opinion

Joint, separate or somewhere in between? How couples can organise bank accounts without confusing unity with financial dependence

Some couples combine every salary, savings account and household expense. Others keep their finances almost entirely separate. Many use a joint account for common costs while retaining individual accounts...

Maybe People Facing Infertility Are Not the Problem — We Are

Abby Mango is a UK-based Fertility Lead Nurse Specialist. She founded TacklingInfertility/Hurukurodzembereko to provide education, coaching, and advocacy for African and minority ethnic communities facing fertility challenges. Contact at tacklinginfertility@gmail.com

CAB3 done, is Zimbabwe now gearing for CAB4?

By Correspondent BARELY months after President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa signed Constitutional Amendment No. 3 (CAB3) into law, Zimbabwe's constitutional...

When money becomes a secret: The difference between financial privacy and financial deception in marriage

A couple can share a home and plans while living with two versions of their financial reality. One...

Legal Discussions with Vengai Madzima: Landlord’s Rights When Rent is Unpaid in Zimbabwe

NewZimbabwe.com has invited Mr. Vengai Madzima, the Senior Partner at Madzima Chidyausiku Museta Legal Practitioners (MCM Legal), to...

Who Owns Zimbabwe’s Opposition? Politicians, Journalists or ZANU-PF?

There is something peculiar about Zimbabwean politics that deserves far more serious examination. We spend considerable time asking: Who represents the real alternative? Perhaps the more...

When One Career Carries the Other

The hidden economics of sacrifice, relocation and unpaid support in marriage When one spouse receives a promotion, whose achievement is it? Formally, the answer is clear....

Zimbabwe’s Opposition Problem: Do We Build Parties, or Do We Build Personalities?

Zimbabwe’s political history raises an uncomfortable question that perhaps deserves more serious examination than the familiar debate about whether elections are free and fair. Does...

His Money, Her Money, Our Money: What financial independence really means inside marriage

“She is financially independent.” The phrase is now used so confidently that it often escapes examination. Usually, it means something valuable: a woman earns an...

Legal Discussions with Vengai Madzima: Rights of Buyers in Uncompleted Property Developments for Residential Stands

NewZimbabwe.com has invited Mr. Vengai Madzima, the Senior Partner at Madzima Chidyausiku Museta Legal Practitioners (MCM Legal) to discuss with us legal issues that...

When Disaster Comes to the Water: Zimbabwe Mourns the Lake Kariba Ferry Tragedy

Today, Zimbabwe mourns.  We mourn the lives lost on Lake Kariba after the passenger ferry Mbuya Nehanda capsized near Long Island. At the time of...