Author: borderjumpers

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. The bus ride from Lusaka, Zambia to Harare, Zimbabwe with a company called EasyGo Bus company lasted four hours longer than it should have (total trip...

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack.While in Harare, Zimbabwe, we met with the Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ), an initiative of the Zimbabwe Congress...

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Imagine being one of only five opposition voices in a country of thirteen million people, where all radio, print and television is strictly controlled by...

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack.It’s hard to believe that more than 90 percent of the workforce in Zimbabwe are part of the informal sector. These workers do everything from...

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In Harare, on the way to our meeting with Wellington Chibebe, the secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), even our driver was...