HARARE – With her bare hands, Rita Makotore has changed the landscape of Chitungwiza crushing monstrous boulders into heaps of quarry, in her endless battle to coax out a living. Once a preserve of men stone crushing is now universal exempting none, as the pangs of hunger care less for gender, age or race. In…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is under utilising the frequency spectrum under the analogue broadcasting system, a move that has seen the country failing to license new independent TV and radio stations, a local non-governmental organisation has said. Taurai Mabhachi Kufa, Media and Technology Trust (MTT) coordinator said the unavailability of a three-tier broadcasting system in Zimbabwe…
HARARE – The MDC ought to be commended for holding their primary elections and confirmation exercise peacefully. What amused me the most was the long list of non-performers who failed to get outright endorsements to contest in the primaries. It was a good start at making our elected leaders accountable to their constituencies. I am…
HARARE – Cartoon characters may rise and fall in popularity, but Baba Jukwa seems to have the sort of staying power marketers can only dream of. In just three months, the faceless, Facebook character, has grown in popularity on social networks, beating influential personalities such as popular preacher Emmanuel Makandiwa. Makandiwa who at one point…
HARARE – Six months after detective Luckmore Lapkin was acquitted on charges of shooting two Glen-view residents in a pub, he might soon have another day in court. Kudakwashe Murwira and his colleague, Blessing Maisiri of Glen View 1, have refused to accept that Lapkin a man who they say almost killed them after firing…
HARARE – Journalists were this week denied entry into the Parliamentary Portfolio committee on industry and commerce public meeting that was hearing evidence from Ziscosteel management. Scribes had been allowed to cover the presentation by Ziscosteel workers who narrated ordeals they are enduring because of the continued closure of the formerly giant steel mining company….
HARARE – Standing on a 7 438m2 plot, Golden Peacock Hotel dwarfs the local environs. Owned by Chinese firm, Anjin Investments, which is mining diamond in Marange, the hotel is like a giant monster located just off the Mutare-Masvingo highway, which also leads to the diamond fields. Many local residents seem to have no idea…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s perennially toxic political climate seemingly took a turn for the worse on Friday when the Constitutional Court ordered President Robert Mugabe to hold the country’s much anticipated harmonised elections before the end of next month. The ruling by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku and his colleagues at the apex court, on an application…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe recently caught many unaware when he travelled to Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia for the African Golden Jubilee celebrations accompanied by his daughter, Bona. Mugabe’s wife, Grace did not travel with the president. Bona, 24 who resembles her mother, looked at ease as she walked the red carpet and greeted Zanu PF…
HARARE – A ruling by the Constitutional Court to hold harmonised polls by July 31 is likely to result in Zimbabwe holding a “sham poll” and infringe on other people’s rights, constitutional law experts warned yesterday. The Constitutional Court led by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku on Friday ruled that elections should be held before July…
