HARARE – The Zimbabwe anti-corruption commission is embarking on a countrywide awareness campaign to help reduce rampant corruption that is threatening to derail economic growth. Zimbabwe is currently ranked among the worst corrupt nations in the world. According to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, the country is ranked 154 out of 183 countries and territories…
HARARE – Highlanders will be hoping to bounce back from their humbling defeat to Monomotapa last weekend when they host Black Mambas at Barbourfields Stadium this afternoon. The Bulawayo giants suffered their first defeat of the season after a 23-match unbeaten run going down 3-0 to Monomotapa at Rufaro Stadium. Bosso’s slip-up allowed Dynamos to…
HARARE – A rivulet of stinking slime flows through the back of one of the biggest food outlets at Harare’s upmarket Avondale Shopping Centre. The repulsive stink at the back of this supposedly trendy shopping centre is in sharp contrast to the aroma that breezes from the front where there is a fast food and…
HARARE – Harare’s water shortages are coming as a blessing for some enterprising residents, who have opened their own black market niche. Combined Harare Residents Association (Chra) executive director Mfundo Mlilo confirmed receiving reports of hordes of youths taking advantage of the situation to make a few more dollars. “We have received reports from Budiriro,…
HARARE – I don’t know about you, but I am fed up with the whole lot of them…from Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai to Welshman Ncube. Why can’t they just go away? In all political parties, we have the same old tired men and women who have failed us for decades but who somehow are recycled…
MUTASA – Bees are fast replacing dogs as man’s best friend here. Dogs, which are expensive to feed, are fast becoming costly to maintain for people in Domborutinhira, 60 km north-west of Mutare. Dogs were used to hunt for food and to maintain security at home. Bees are no longer just a swarm to flee…
HARARE – Staunch MDC supporter John Moyo last attended a political event nearly four years ago. But there, he was in line three hours early for a glimpse of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s new wife, Elizabeth. “I want to see her,” said Moyo, who went to the MDC anniversary celebrations just two days after he…
HARARE – Pro-Zanu PF empowerment group Upfumi Kuvadiki is accusing the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) of not supporting indigenous millers. Scott Sakupwanya, the group’s president wrote to Albert Mandizha, the GMB general manager demanding an explanation as to why the state-owned grain company has engaged a Pakistani miller instead of locals. In a letter to…
HARARE – Nobuhle Moyo never imagined showing concern for her husband’s behaviour would upturn her married life for worse. When the mother of four dared ask her husband why he had come home late and drunk, as one way of expressing her disapproval, she was oblivious she would rue her show of concern for the…
HARARE – The prospect of a general election is drawing nearer and there is concern about whether institutional safeguards will be in place to ensure that the election is free and fair. In this Constitution Watch and the following one we shall examine whether the new constitution itself will put in place any of the…
