BY BLACK EDWARD STEPPING into my barber’s shop on Friday, I was greeted with a warm smile. There’s something magical about having a well-groomed beard or a brand-new haircut — it brings a renewed sense of vitality. For most people the act of sitting in the barber’s chair transcends a mere haircut— it’s a therapeutic…
IT IS almost two years after the government said it would take responsibility to fix malfunctioning traffic lights in the capital. Sadly that has not happened and instead, more and more traffic lights are no longer working in Harare, a despicable situation and a danger to trafficking motorists and pedestrians. With the current power crisis,…
ON January 25, exactly two years and three days after Zimbabwe’s main opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was launched, its leader Nelson Chamisa quit, leaving the party in turmoil. In a 13-page statement, the 46-year-old lawyer and clergyman listed a litany of reasons why he was taking the extraordinary step of abandoning…
AGRICULTURE minister Anxious Masuka says the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) only has capacity to supply a paltry 23 000 tonnes of grain out of a national monthly consumption of 150 000 tonnes. This comes despite Masuka recently reporting that the country was food secure with 247 000 tonnes of grain to last for 11 months….
OPTATE Africa, an energy company, plans to build a 200 megawatts (MW) wind power plant near the town of Plumtree. It has…
BY RUTENDO NGARA MUNYARADZI Makore felt relieved when he heard the judge announce that his brother, Tapiwa Snr, and neighbour Tafadzwa Shamba, who brutally murdered his nine year-old son, Tapiwa Jr, and dismembered his body, would be sentenced to death. On July 12 last year, Shamba and Tapiwa Snr were sentenced to death following a…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has ordered vendors operating in the illegal fifth avenue market to vacate the site immediately without fail to make way for renovations. In a Friday circular Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube said the move was aimed at cleaning the area and pave way for the construction of decent vending bays….
THE Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has appointed Welshman Ncube as its acting president with immediate effect following the recent resignation of party leader Nelson Chamisa. Chamisa quit the party formed last year citing alleged infiltration by Zanu PF and the State. In the aftermath of his resignation, CCC convened a meeting of the…
BY BRENDON JOSPHAT LAW enforcement agents are continuing to make major gains in the tough war against armed robberies in the country. This comes as police have just arrested more armed robbery suspects in Harare — including a woman — who stand accused of terrorising many residents of the capital over the past few months….
BY RUTENDO NGARA THERE was discord in Parliament on Thursday with Zanu PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators failing to agree on contents of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) report on last year’s general elections. In the report, Zec hailed itself for conducting credible, free and fair elections, noting, however, that there were…
