The 2026 National Budget shows important attempts to integrate gender equality into fiscal planning, but it still falls short of delivering a fully gender-responsive and gender-transformative budget for Zimbabwean women, especially those in rural, informal and low-income communities. Professor Mthuli Ncube 1. YES — There are notable efforts towards gender…
By Linda Tsungirirai Masarira 29 November 2025 The 2026 national budget arrives at a time when Zimbabweans are suffocating under the weight of rising living costs, collapsing social services, structural unemployment, and a chronic erosion of real incomes. What the country needed was a people-centred, rights-based, redistributive budget anchored in…
