OVER the past two decades, Zimbabwe’s urban areas — especially the capital Harare and interestingly, the bedroom town of Chitungwiza among others — have seen the proliferation of unplanned housing development. Wetlands, river banks and other pieces of land set aside for specific purposes have been invaded by land barons who have in turn…
AT LEAST 13 000 hectares of land has been put under irrigated tobacco ahead of the 2020/21 summer cropping season, the industry regulator has said. Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board chief executive officer Andrew Matibiri said at the weekend the irrigated tobacco hectarage planted so far was almost the same as last year. “Planting of…
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has hailed the participation of Zimbabwean women in peacekeeping missions and pledged to continue supporting their involvement in security and conflict management. Muchinguri-Kashiri was speaking during a high-level virtual session commemorating the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution (United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325) by African Women Leaders Network (Awln)…
IN agonising labour pain and turned away from a Harare health centre, Aurage Katume feared that, like many other Zimbabwean women, she could lose her unborn baby. She struggled to another clinic in the country’s capital. The midwives there were not ready to help her either. “What did you bring us?” one of them said,…
THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has allocated 30 billion cubic metres of water for power generation at Kariba Dam to be shared equally by the Zimbabwe-based 1 050MW Kariba South power station and Zambia-based 1 08GW Kariba North hydroelectric power station. This comes after the 24th Annual Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum indicated that…
By Black Edward THE “doctor”, in a white medical lab coat with a stethoscope, marched into the casualty unit menacingly. He had an appearance like some guy you’d not ask the time of day along Kaguvi Street — unfriendly and threatening. He stared at a patient’s card with a blank look on his face and…
FOR some Africans, President Donald Trump’s actions in the aftermath of the US election have been a cause for dark humour, while others reacted with dismay or disbelief. In countries whose own recent elections were marred by accusations of cheating and violence, some expressed concern about what signal Trump’s premature declaration of victory, allegations of…
EDITOR – Zimbabwean schools will be fully open tomorrow as the last group in the phased re-opening of learning institutions returns, but one wonders whether the basic things that ensure uninterrupted learning to take place have been sorted out. For a long time now, the government and its education sector employees have been squabbling over…
NOVAK Djokovic has sealed the year-end men’s world number one tennis ranking for the sixth time to go level with childhood hero Pete Sampras after closest rival Rafael Nadal opted against playing in the ATP Tour event in Sofia next week. Spain’s 20-time Grand Slam champion Nadal, ranked second, was the only player who had…
Tarisai Machakaire JAILED businessman Munyaradzi Kereke has sued the government after it gazetted a farm that he recently bought for his family while in prison. Kereke is serving a 10-year jail term at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison after being convicted of raping his wife’s 11-year-old niece at gunpoint. In the application filed at the High…
