HARARE – When MDC deputy national chairperson Tendai Biti was arrested on August 10 as he fled into neighbouring Zambia for announcing false presidential results, he was brought to the Harare Magistrates’ Court where he was granted bail. The State did not oppose bail despite the fact Biti was arrested on the other side of…
HARARE – With a clenched fist punching the air in a marquee-filled to capacity with men and women dressed in colourful Zanu PF attire, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga declared that they would be no challengers to his principal, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. One would have been forgiven to think that the country’s ruling party is going…
HARARE – The year 2018 was eventful for the Election Resource Centre (ERC), a vibrant think tank and election advocacy organisation, as they started it by successfully lobbying for an extension of the voter registration process after the conclusion of the initially planned four phases done by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). The Daily News…
HARARE – Television personality and Zimdancehall musician Oscar Pambuka has described his recent jail experience as an eye-opener. Pambuka who was initially jailed for 30 months along with former Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Highfield, Psychology Maziwisa, for defrauding the Zimbabwe Power Company of $12 650 was released on bail after serving two weeks….
HARARE – This week we continue with interviews we carried with Zimbabweans in the Diaspora about what they miss from home. Journalist Henry Makiwa (UK) I left home over 15 years ago now. Unlike many Zimbabweans, for me the move was neither a daunting prospect nor complex at all. My childhood dream had always been…
HARARE – Social media in the form of new technologies has become a new agora world-wide providing a platform for communication among different people regardless of space and time. Several applications such as Handtalk, Prodeaf, Youtube, Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype are user friendly to the deaf and may bridge the gap between deaf persons and…
HARARE – ‘Bleed with pride’ is the adage by Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights activists directed at every woman of age in the world, but economic hardships have stripped off confidence from some women whose menstrual flows are a nightmare due to inaccessibility of sanitary wear. Every month, women and girls around the world resort…
BULAWAYO – Our Bulawayo reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi sat down for an interview with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (Galz) director Chesterfield Samba, to find more about the operations of this organisation which for years has somehow operated underground owing to the homophobic climate in the country. Q: Who is Chesterfield Samba? A: Chester was born…
HARARE – This year has not been so kind to the Zimbabwean sporting fraternity after three of the country’s arguably biggest luminaries took their last breaths. Former Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) president Paul Chingoka, three-time Commonwealth boxing champion across three divisions Langton “Schoolboy” Tinago and veteran administrator and hockey coach Mark Manolios all passed away within…
HARARE – Poverty in the dormitory town of Epworth boarders on the extreme. Many live without basic entitlements such as birth certificates and identification particulars. Threats of typhoid and cholera are common place while the exchange of sex for money is rampant practice. Still, the town that grew from a rural community into a formal…
