HARARE – Industries in the country might have grounded to a halt, thousands might be out of work but for hundreds of Zanu PF supporters who attended the burial of major general Eliah Bandama on Friday everything seemed perfectly normal. “Zim Asset, Zimbabwe at work”, read one of the banners, waved by a group of…
HARARE – News that a Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was barbarically shot down over Ukraine by suspected terrorists resulting in the murder of 298 innocent people has been met with anger across the globe. We would like to join the civilised world in mourning the callous murder of these people including at least 100 children…
HARARE – Ruling Zanu PF government should capitalise on the positive pronouncements coming from the European Union, EU, top diplomats based in Harare who have promised to remove the infamous sanctions on Zimbabwe by November this year. The diplomats said the 28-nation EU bloc has decided to answer Zimbabwe government’s call for re-engagement. Laurent Delahousse,…
HARARE – Picture this; houses built among graves, sharing the night with the dead and the chilling spectre of residents meeting a ghost whenever darkness descends. Well, as revolting as this might seem, it is a chilling reality for many residents of Chitungwiza’s Unit L and Harare’s Hopley and Southly park suburbs. To them, the…
HARARE – “It’s probably not just by chance that I am alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he is terribly strong. And if he is stronger than I, I am the one who cannot live with him. … I am neither smart nor stupid, but I do…
HARARE – When Shamiso Nsingo, 20’s mother left home for Gwanda Business Centre on a beer drinking spree and prostitution, she left five other children in the care of the youngster. As for Shamiso, it was not only her five siblings she had to take care of, as she has two children of her own,…
HARARE – The death of Rosemary Margaret Khumalo, 59, while on death row at Chikurubi Maximum prison, last week has raised questions around capital punishment in Zimbabwe. Khumalo died after 15 years on death row. She was convicted of the 1998 gruesome murder of her businessman suitor Maxwell Sibanda. She was also convicted separately of…
HARARE – The only parent Rhoda Munatsi, 14, has ever known from birth is her father Clement who has lived as a divorcee for nearly two decades. She has two brothers, both older. Although the three men in her life are caring, Rhoda has never had the guts to tell them she is experiencing her…
HARARE – While business is bustling deep in the heart of Harare’s central business centre as upmarket stores sell top side lingerie, the majority of shoppers flock to various second-hand markets to buy their various clothing items. At flea markets, they jostle and shove each other as touts in “high voltage” voices shout to attract…
MUTARE – Mutare’s side-walk herb vendors are cashing in on crystallised baboon urine as married women seek remedy to contain their restive husbands. With baboons only urinating on a single spot for years women hope that inserting the crystallised urine in their organs would help achieve the same discretion in their sexual partners who then…
