Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw FOLLOWING her husband’s death in 2010 Charity Bandason, 45, an internationally acclaimed sculptor struggled to fend for her four children who were still minors at the time. The sculpting business had been nothing more than a hobby for her but because she was talented some of her pieces found their…
CIVIL society organisations have advised government to ditch public hearings of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill (2) despite a High Court ruling allowing them to go ahead. In a just-released report, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum argued that the public hearings would expose people to Covid-19 (coronavirus) because national lockdown regulations are not…
PEOPLE with disability have accused the government of ignoring them in the proposed Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2) Bill, which was gazetted on January 17 this year. Freedom to the Disabled Persons of Zimbabwe coordinator Wallace Mupfumwa told a public hearing on the proposed Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2) Bill that people with…
THE contractor hired to rejuvenate and expand one of Bulawayo’s water supply sources, Nyamandlovu Epping Forest, dumped the project due to the government’s failure to pay in foreign currency. Zimbabwe’s second largest city has lined up the Epping Forest project, which is expected to add 10 megalitres of water per day, as part of measures…
IN 1982, the Legal Age of Majority Act was passed into law, giving women majority status, meaning that once a woman reached 18 years old, she would be considered an adult with the independence to exercise her rights, including rights to marriage and acquiring property, among others. Previously, Zimbabwean women were considered minors both legally…
DANAI DAISY CHIRAWU THE recent announcement of a new law on bride price has shifted the flow of conversation in many Zimbabwean homes. This has opened up dialogue amongst members of the society on different perspectives about the customs and culture surrounding payment of a bride price during traditional marriages. An unfortunate consequence of this…
LAST week, Parliament embarked on Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill public hearings across the country. The Bill, among other things, intends to amend the Constitution Zimbabweans overwhelmingly endorsed in 2013. Among the amendments include the removal of presidential election running mates to elect vice presidents, the empowering of the president to appoint prosecutor-general, increasing the…
BLACK EDWARD IS THE MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa staggering against the ropes? Chamisa has proved himself time and time again to be on top of the situation yet this time he’s on the back foot. Despite his dire predicament he’s still the face of the opposition and very much popular, if ordinary people’s comments…
SITHULISIWE Mthimkhulu does not earn a fat salary for a living, neither does she own any famous business. In reality, she prides herself as a civil servant, an assistant police commissioner, who has a modest life. And like many before her, police officers by their nature are generally feared and hardly trusted by common citizens….
Godknows Matarutse SPORTS WRITER matarutseg@dailynewsonsunday.co.zw ©️ ZIMBABWE international forward Tino Kadewere could not have asked for a better mentor in a star-studded dressing room at his new French club Olympique Lyon than Dutch international Memphis Depay, who he describes as a “machine”. The ex-PSV Eindhoven and Manchester United forward, who has been at Lyon since…
