AS pressure mounts for the regional grouping Sadc to end Zimbabwe’s long running crises, University of Zimbabwe’s politics expert, Eldred Masunungure, says South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his envoys are likely to come out stuck unless they involve other liberation movements. He speaks to Daily News on Sunday’s Consulting Editor, Constantine Chimakure, on this…
ZIMBABWE’S political and economic crises that have gone on for two decades are weakening Zanu PF’s hold on power and could soon have dire consequences on the ruling party, one of the country’s leading analysts has warned. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Eldred Masunungure — a political science lecturer at the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, has pledged to immediately roll out a process of issuing identity documents to victims of the Gukurahundi post-independence political disturbances. The president’s promise follows a convention held in March last year where civil society organisations under the Matabeleland Collective banner brought to his attention that people have been having challenges in…
A South African who was thought to be the oldest man in the world has died at the age of 116. Fredie Blom’s identity documents showed he was born in Eastern Cape province in May 1904, although that was never verified by Guinness World Records. When he was a teenager, his entire family was wiped…
THERE is a general perception that there is no film industry to talk about in Zimbabwe. This argument is mostly based on comparisons with other well-resourced film economies, such as Hollywood, or even South Africa’s. Based on my study of the Zimbabwean film industry I disagree with this view. Zimbabwe does have a film industry,…
HARARE City Council (HCC) has embarked on community outreach programmes as part of efforts to enable citizens with chronic illnesses access to medical supplies and healthcare. This comes as the HCC has scaled down functioning polyclinics from 42 to six as council nurses have withdrawn their services. It also comes as the country’s public health…
INTERESTING views continue to come from the local bodybuilding community on who the greatest open male bodybuilder of all time is? The first instalment has seen a tussle among six-time Mr Zimbabwe Innocent Choga, George Takundwa who won the nationals for four straight years and Bible Mhizha who was a light heavyweight mainstay winning the…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidance saying children over the age of 12 should wear masks, in line with recommended practice for adults in their country or area. It admits little is known about how children transmit the virus but cites evidence that teenagers can infect others in the same way as adults….
MDC ALLIANCE vice-chairperson Job Sikhala, who was arrested on Friday and accused of inciting people for the July 31 demonstration, will spend this weekend behind bars and will be back in court tomorrow. Sikhala was not asked to plead to the allegations when he appeared before Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube yesterday. Through his lawyer,…
Going against what many people regard as conventional wisdom, Tanya Muzinda of Harare has spent 10 years enjoying and making a name for herself in motocross, once considered a male domain. Aged only five, she took up motocross and has created a unique niche for herself in this popular two-wheel sport, sparking even greater interest…
