HARARE – You inquire about a friend’s well-being and you’re informed that the police are on the lookout for him in relation to a mobile-phone snatching incident. This could be normal in a country gripped with serious economic challenges and a high rate of unemployment. But when the “thief” is a former international cricketer still…
HARARE – Wondering up and down the streets of Harare with no place to call their home has become a lifestyle of homeless street kids. They survive with little or no food in their bellies with no hope of what the future holds for them. Being awakened by the morning breeze to go into the…
HARARE – A kombi trip from any of the suburbs surrounding Harare’s Central Business District, is surely a gut-wrenching experience. And it exposes how kombi crews have total disregard for human life — they certainly don’t care about loss of lives due to accidents. Not only do the kombis play music at a disturbingly loud…
HARARE – When Afro-jazz artiste Diana Samkange became the second wife of popular football agent Carl Nyazema four years ago, she was obviously determined to disprove the old proverb: A Leopard cannot change its spots. As Diana sought protection from her husband’s pregnant lover Wendy Tendai Sanyahukwe at the Civil Court, it must have dawned…
HARARE – Last week, I started a storm when I posed the question, are marriages fake institutions or are they simply outdated? This innocent question created so much debate that I feel compelled to continue with the subject until there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. This column is not…
HARARE – A istaken belief is gathering currency, particularly within government circles, that Zimbabwe’s worsening economic crisis — which has recently seen the economy plunge into deflation — is more a correction of prices than a sign of a shrinking economy. According to this school of thought, the country is not experiencing deflation — even…
LILONGWE – Malawi’s High Court has rejected a decision by President Joyce Banda to annul this week’s general election – in which she was a candidate. Ms Banda had earlier said Tuesday’s vote had been marred by rigging, multiple voting and computer-hacking. She said a new vote should be held within 90 days but she…
HARARE – Sekai Holland, the MDC chairperson of the guardian’s council says party president Morgan Tsvangirai will win any election in the 15-year-old party, further rubbing salt into the wounds of the faction led by ousted secretary-general Tendai Biti. In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily News yesterday,she said what was needed was for the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe returned home from a medical check-up in Singapore yesterday but within hours, he was on a plane to South Africa to attend today’s swearing-in of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa. Mugabe spent more than a week in the south-eastern Asian state, leading to renewed questions about the health of…
HARARE – Standard Chartered may be forced to abandon its operations in Zimbabwe if the government pushes ahead with a bill to limit foreign investors’ holdings in banks to 25 percent, the bank’s Africa chief executive Diana Layfield said. The financial institution wholly owns Standard Chartered Zimbabwe. A bill floated last week but not yet…
