As Zimbabwe's political and economic collapse enters its second decade, this book summarizes the historical and structural factors that led to it. Western observers tend to blame Robert Mugabe's ...

April 18 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe marks 30 years of independance from Britain on Sunday. Here are some key dates in Zimbabwe's past: 1965 - Prime Minister Ian Smith cuts Rhodesia's ties with colonial ...

Among the most symbolic dates, the qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup stand out as a defining memory. Angola secured a 1-0 win in Luanda, Zimbabwe responded with a 2-0 victory in Harare, but it was ...

In 2008, Zimbabwe suffered the second most severe episode of hyperinflation in recorded history. Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate peaked in November 2008, reaching 89.7 sextillion (10^21) percent.

Danai Gurira from A to Z: well, mostly Z. As in Zimbabwe. That's where the increasingly visible, Iowa-born Gurira was raised, and it's the subject of her new historical drama currently at Woolly ...

It is believed that the first cricket match staged in what was then known as Rhodesia took place on August 16, 1890 near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo). By the mid 1890s the principal match of the ...