BULAWAYO – Four Bulawayo men who assisted 12 illegal immigrants from Ethiopia with transport, food and accommodation have been granted bail. Gabriel Murindagomo, 31, Nkosilathi Dube, 39, Bhekani Dliwayo, 31 and Nqobile Ndebele, 38 this week appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushove facing charges of assisting any person to enter, remain or depart from Zimbabwe…
HARARE – My perennial visual image of Nelson Mandela is of his cell at Robben Island. I was among a group of Zimbabwean journalists visiting South Africa, shortly after the end of apartheid, one of the most savage attacks by human beings on other human beings in the history of humankind. Listening to accounts of…
HARARE – The last minute cancellation of the Miss Heritage World pageant due to be held last Saturday has understandably sparked national outrage. Organisers of the pageant, owe Zimbabwe explanations for shamelessly tainting the country’s name. Zimbabwe won the right to host the global pageant in March but surprisingly from then until the startling cancellation…
EDITOR — I saw a picture of the US President’s wife staring grudgingly at the Danish blonde Prime Minister who sat on the other side of Barack Obama. You know how they say a picture says a thousand words? I think in this case a picture made headlines, despite the fact that we did not…
EDITOR — The MDC calls on Parliament to urgently set up a commission of inquiry to probe all parastatals following the shocking disclosures of hefty allowances that Happison Muchechetere, the suspended ZBC chief executive is receiving while the State broadcasters’ employees have gone for over six months without salaries. Zimbabwe has over 75 State-controlled public…
KIEV – Undeterred by an overnight crackdown by authorities, protesters in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, rebuilt barricades Wednesday that had been torn down hour earlier by riot police. As the day continued, police pulled back from the city’s Independence Square, or Maidan, and the country’s leaders sought to play down fears of…
JOHANNESBURG – The owners of the firm which supplied a “fake” sign language interpreter to the Mandela memorial event have vanished, a South African minister has said. Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu apologised to the deaf community for the poor quality of interpretation given by Thamsanqa Dyantyi from SA Interpreters. “He is Xhosa speaking. The English was a…
HARARE – The invention and widespread use of mobile phones in Africa and Zimbabwe in particular has greatly revolutionised lives of many people. The young and the elderly all converse in unprecedented ways than their predecessors. If you are one of the hordes of people who use commuter omnibuses as a means of moving from…
EDITOR ? On reading Cathy Buckle’s, Indigenisation xenophobic,” one comes to grips with the alarming and rapidly sliding economy in Zimbabwe. I do not believe Zesa Holdings ever wrote off any debts. All they have done is add them to the new meter vouchers one buys when Zesa installs these contraptions. My family had one…
EDITOR — I have been reading with interest the comments from the public over the chief executive officer of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings, Happison Muchechetere. I can not help but deduce that this is just a tip of the iceberg. What boggles the mind is how a board in a country where civil servants and most…
