COMMUNITY members of Masoka village are sitting on a time bomb where a water crisis looms owing to massive river siltation. This is despite a fairly impressive rainy season. Masoka is situated in the Zambezi Valley, approximately 20 km south of the Dande Safari Area and 5 km east of the Chewore Safari Area (Hurungwe…
ZIMBABWE is facing a shortage of motor vehicle number plates, with motorists expressing outrage over the development, which has seen some being arrested for driving unregistered cars. This comes as Transport minister Felix Mhona recently told the National Assembly that the shortage was due to the fact that the number plates are imported into the…
PEOPLE’S love for money has dragged them into the murky world of ritual murders, juju and superstition, cementing the old adage that money is indeed the root of all evil. While Zimbabwe is largely a Christian community, a recent surge in murders of young children has left many shell-shocked. Every year, a number of children…
THE POSTAL and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has begun a programme under which 400 schools nationwide will be provided free Internet until December. Potraz director-general Gift Machengete announced the programme during the launch of the Nyadire containerised village information centre at the weekend. He said the initiative was part of efforts to ensure…
AFRICAN National Congress secretary-general Ace Magashule, pictured, met former South Africa president Thabo Mbeki and ex-deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe on Friday. This is part of the step aside resolution consultations that he has been undertaking throughout 30 days as prescribed by the national executive committee (NEC) resolution. “Great engagements I had today with President Mbeki…
ZIMBABWE’S never-ending political and economic crises are blamed on the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the opposition, civil society and the church to have an all-inclusive dialogue to hammer out solutions. Forthright former Zanu PF spokesperson and the only surviving member of then Zanu’s Dare reChimurenga (the party’s 1970s war council), Rugare Gumbo, believes mistrust…
WHILE it is common cause that Zimbabwe is still battling to emerge from the ruinous rule of the late former president Robert Mugabe, there is absolutely no excuse for the second republic to fail, of all the things, to produce national identity cards for its citizens. The revelation by Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe before…
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi is increasingly being viewed as his own man. He has succeeded in shaking off his predecessor and perceived puppeteer Joseph Kabila and even gone ahead to be elected chair of the African Union. The world in general, and Africa in particular, has garnered confidence in the “new” DRC…
WHEN South Africa-based Kalawa Jazmee Records producer DJ Jabs phoned rookie Zimbabwean musician Petronella ‘Lalla’ Matipa, 25, late last year and offered her the chance to collaborate with award-winning Ugandan musician Eddy Kenzo and Bongo Maffin’s Speedy, the Bulawayo-born artiste thought someone was pulling a prank on her. DJ Jabs had been impressed by Lalla’s performance…
ZIMBABWEAN photographer Tamary Kudita’s image titled “African Victorian” won the overall open competition honour at the Sony World Photography Awards recently. The…
