HARARE – Growing up in the affluent Glen Lorne suburb in Harare, Samuelle Dimairho always dreamt of revolutionising the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). At 15, Dimairho had already decided to create a niche service Central Securities Depository (CSD), that was going to transform Zimbabwe’s capital markets. Now 23, his dream has come true, and now…
MWENEZI – After several years of hustling in the fields with little returns due to rolling droughts ravaging the arid Mwenezi district, news that a massive ethanol project was to be set up in the area had brought joy for Tsakilani Chauke, an unemployed youth. He is one of the few villagers who have not…
HARARE – With faces twisted in pain and hands thrown on their distended bellies, heavily pregnant women slowly trickle into a maternity clinic in the bustling suburb of Mbare for their last journey to bringing new life to earth. The emotion is high from the expecting mothers — some of them giving birth and feeling…
HARARE – As much we might want to act macho and pretend that we can go it alone, inside of every individual there is a burning desire to love and have the love reciprocated. All my life I have assumed that men were just egotistical beings who never get their feelings hurt when a relationship…
HARARE – Most people believe one has to be lucky to win a competition, but Losca Gwanzura, 51 has since established that there is also need for hard work. The Eye Shot crew visited Gwanzura at her home in Glen View 3, Harare, and found her busy filling in forms for four competitions that are…
HARARE – It is easy and cheap to gain weight but difficult and tough to lose it. Every morning in different residential areas, women, men, girls, boys and couples in sneakers tights and sport-shirts are a common site on side-roads. For some it is a lifestyle but hundreds are sweating to shed excess fat. Many…
HARARE – Dancing to pumped up music, with skimpily dressed girls completing the colour, revellers at a night club recently seemed to be having a treat of a lifetime. Men who had come in their droves, spotting the latest designer labels and driving posh cars “invaded” the up-market bar, turning it into a mini Las…
HARARE – High pitched voices from a quarrel could be heard from as far as 100 metres from the hair salon as mothers argued over the use of tampons by teenage girls. The bone of contention between the two camps was that some believed using tampons would take away their daughter’s virginity, while others disagreed….
HARARE – National Statistical Office has indicated that at least 15 women are raped every day in Zimbabwe as gender violence flares up. The Zimbabwe Republic Police, ZRP, on the other hand, revealed disturbing reports that 1 494 juveniles had been raped during the first quarter of the year, with the majority of them being…
HARARE – Construction of a massive ethanol project in Nuanetsi ranch should have started by now, but it hasn’t. Its progress came to a screeching halt thanks to the logrolling and political grandstanding kicked off by Masvingo provincial minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, who used his power to block the project rather than allow villagers to benefit…
