HARARE – Having attended several burials at the National Heroes acre were heels, sun glasses, lipstick, makeup, long nails, and swanky clothes are the affair, I never thought the trend would infiltrate into ordinary funerals. I was in for a surprise last week when I visited a friend as she was preparing to attend a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economic woes have not spared once thriving businessmen’s empires, leaving the owners saddled with a low profile. From glory to sorry, a lot of these empires have crumbled like the proverbial deck of cards. At the forefront of supporting the government backed indigenisation policy which was initially meant to promote the development…
MUTARE – Young male teachers are in the habit of choosing potential future wives among their students who they follow up after they complete school. Jennifer Mandoga, a Family Aids Caring Trust (Fact) district officer said young teachers had found a way not to breach their professional codes by marking out their potential life partners…
HARARE – Although not a favourite of many because of the harsh weather conditions, winter is most definitely the season of love. It is also the season when both men and women go out of their way to ensure that they keep their partners warm by all means possible. This last week, I stumbled onto…
HARARE – Before landing on the resort island of Mauritius, popularly referred to as the “African Paradise” the view from the sky is out of this world. Upon landing, you are greeted by a warm humid air and suddenly you realise that you have reached a different part of the world. The overall reception from…
HARARE – For 44 years, Glyn Jermyn has been donating blood saving life — is one of the leading donors. Notwithstanding the fact that men can donate on a quarterly basis while women can only do so thrice a year, Jermyn is competing at 206 donations to date. At 66, she is still absorbed with…
HARARE – An attribute quite obvious about the homosapiens political psyche is that most are too scared to take a risk and veer into unchartered waters. It is a trait difficult to wean the hapless homosapiens from — something that verges on being an addiction — regardless what level of development a country has attained….
Continued from last week HARARE – The spiritual and religious activities of Religious Organisations shall be carried out within the following clearly prescribed rights: To rally their faithful around them. To satisfy the religious-spiritual-moral needs and requirements of their faithful. To perform religious services, rites, and ceremonies in sanctuaries, buildings and places belonging to them…
HARARE – While it may be a well-known fact that most civic organisations in the country are out to milk the donor community of their money, we find it more disturbing that media organisations from the civic society are doing nothing but using journalists to source funds for themselves. In the past few years, we…
BULAWAYO – Celebrated Zora musician Leonard Zhakata has described the death of legendary footballer-turned-music producer Tymon Mabaleka (64) last week as “the passing on of my biological father.” Zhakata who drove from Harare to Bulawayo to witness the burial of the former Highlanders midfielder at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo last Thursday, told the Daily…
