In Zimbabwe's Life Lines, we meet a young man who survives by selling basic goods on the black market.

In defiance of repressive laws curtailing public gatherings, a women's empowerment movement stages non-violent street protests to agitate bread-and-butter issues.

In this episode of Focal Point, director Robyn Kriel takes us inside the black markets and protest movements of her native Zimbabwe.

FOCAL POINT is a new series of web-exclusive documentary shorts on international current affairs produced by Wide Angle, in collaboration with independent producers from around the globe.

Four opposition activists were found dead on Thursday, according to Zimbabwe's opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change.

Thirty-six deaths, 2,000 victims of abuse and torture and 3,000 displaced Zimbaweans have been documented in a 69-page report released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based monitoring group.