HARARE – Cash-strapped Zimbabwean motorists risk abandoning their cars for public transport due to excessive user fees being charged by various institutions. A snap survey conducted by the Daily News on Sunday revealed that vehicle owners are paying an average of $20 more per month compared to last year as a result of increased road…
HARARE – Factional and power fights in the ruling Zanu PF have reached unprecedented levels and it appears President Robert Mugabe’s party has abandoned the people while individuals in the liberation movement scramble for power. At the top of the damaging fights in Zanu PF is the succession of their 90-year-old president and with the…
HARARE – Reports that debates in the Parliament and Senate which by their nature are supposed to be lively, intellectual and informative are a bore as legislators fail to raise quality questions towards cabinet ministers, make a sad reading. Sad because news items coming out in newspapers on debates in the Thematic or Portfolio committees,…
KARIBA – The resort town of Kariba reverberated with life on Friday following the resumption of the Harare-Kariba-Victoria Falls route by national airline Air Zimbabwe, 10 years after the last flight. Tourism stakeholders in the country hailed the resumption of the domestic route by Air Zimbabwe, which will be flying three times per week to…
HARARE – Denmark will inject $1 million into Zimbabwe’s culture sector over the next two years as part off its development cooperation with Zimbabwe. The grant that will be managed by the Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust will provide support aimed at enhancing the role of culture as a medium for free expression and at…
HARARE – Over the years Zimbabwean musicians have composed songs which instantly became “national anthem hits”, most of which address the day-to -day societal issues. The Daily News on Sunday’s entertainment writer Vasco Chaya recently interviewed arts practitioners and artists to find out which musicians they thought were above the rest in terms of song…
HARARE – There is a quaint foible associated with homopoliticus which they never let go that has a canine reference usually taken as insulting. Quisling is not amazed at all most homopoliticus take the ulterior trait as an operation manual even when no homosapiens want to be associated with a comparison that remotely equates them…
HARARE – By their fruits ye shall know them. Matthew 7:15, 16 ‘Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves…Ye shall know them by their fruits’. We have to look at the fruits of the ministries of these Prophets. A wolf hides in sheep’s clothing to…
HARARE – Former prisoner Innocence Bagunda, 29 does not regret the three years he spent in prison — that is where he discovered his singing abilities. “I do not regret going to prison as I learnt a lot there. “I do not think I would have learnt to search deeper for my talents if I…
HARARE – The school looks like any other institution of learning in rural Zimbabwe. Consisting of two dilapidated buildings with unpainted walls, and a small office which the headmaster uses, the school has nothing to show for its 53 years of existence. The two blocks used to have four classrooms each, until termites invaded the…
