The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Global Liveability Index 2026 has ranked Harare among the bottom ten. Harare ranks 165 out of 173 countries close Tehran and Kyiv. The EIU says the bottom ten have largely been affected by war or poverty or both. Zimbabwe has plenty work to do to improve this image. Rankings look at stability, health, culture, education and infrastructure , sectors in which Zimbabwe has largely seen significant deterioration.
On 7 May 2008, at Juru Growth Point in Mashonaland East, twelve ZANU-PF militia ambushed four MDC members travelling by car, seizing Better Chokururama, Godfrey Kauzani and Ken Nyevhe while a fourth man escaped.
The three men were abducted and taken to an unknown location.
Four days later, Chokururama's body was found in a river near Chikwaka bearing gunshot and knife wounds.
Six days after that, villagers in the farming district of Goromonzi discovered the bodies of Kauzani and Nyevhe. Like Chokururama, they had been beaten, tortured and killed.
Their only "crime" was supporting Zimbabwe's democratic opposition.
Their families, and all Zimbabweans, still await justice.
ZANU-PF murdered Better Chokururama, Godfrey Kauzani and Ken Nyevhe.
The murders of Better Chokururama, Godfrey Kauzani and Ken Nyevhe formed part of a wider campaign of organised political violence after the 29 March 2008 elections. Human Rights Watch documented abductions, killings, torture camps, forced “re-education” meetings and coordinated attacks on MDC supporters across Mashonaland before the 27 June presidential run-off. Eighteen years later, no one has been convicted of their murders.
On the night of 6 June 2008, a truck carrying armed ZANU-PF militia pulled into a homestead on the eastern outskirts of Harare, searching for MDC councillor Brian Chimova, but when they failed to find him, they turned their violence against his family.
Inside the house was his pregnant wife, Pamela Pasvani, his six-year-old son, Nyasha Mashoko, his younger brother and his sixty-one-year-old mother, Juliet Mashoko, none of whom had committed any crime beyond belonging to the family of an opposition politician.
The militia beat Juliet so savagely with sticks and heavy logs that they fractured one of her legs before dragging Pamela, Nyasha and Brian's younger brother into a room, locking the door and hurling a petrol bomb inside, transforming the family home into an inferno from which there was almost no escape.
Juliet, lying helpless with her broken leg, could do nothing except listen as her daughter-in-law and grandson screamed from inside the burning house.
Six-year-old Nyasha died in the flames.
Pamela was pulled from the burning house with burns covering almost her entire body and rushed to Harare Hospital, where doctors fought to save her life, but the injuries were too severe and she died soon afterwards, taking her unborn child with her.
ZANU-PF militia unleashed a nationwide campaign of murder, torture and arson after the March 2008 elections, turning homes into killing grounds and entire families into targets in a determined effort to crush the opposition MDC.
ZANU-PF murdered Pamela Pasvani, her six-year-old son Nyasha Mashoko and her unborn child to stay in power.
Zimbabwe must bring Pamela Pasvani's killers to justice.
WE HAVEN’T ARRIVED: For as long as we talk about PLATINUM MATTE and NICKEL MATTE, both of which go to South Africa for beneficiation, we haven’t arrived. We are exporting VALUE; we are exporting JOBS; we are exporting GROWTH; we are exporting DEVELOPMENT. Above all, we are exporting OUR NATIONAL HONOUR by enabling the marginals of the SOUTHERN AFRICAN ECONOMY to strut about as our SUPERIORS!!!!! Musandituke!!!!!!