© ZIMBABWE women’s cricket team off-spinner Tasmeen Granger thought she would be sidelined for a while as she recovered from a shoulder operation last year. [GoogleAd] The doctors had given her a time-line of at least 12 to 18 months before she could go back on the pitch again. Granger suffered the injury while taking…
© OF late, there has been a lot of positive reportage on the Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) recapitalisation process. I, however, do not share the same positivity about the AirZim re-fleeting strategy because doing so would be celebrating mediocrity. [GoogleAd] Unfortunately, these are the lows that we have now become so accustomed to in Zimbabwe. According…
© ALTHOUGH Black Rhinos have won their last two matches, their late coach Ashton “Papa” Nyazika must be turning in his grave with the way the club has been going about their business lately. [GoogleAd] Chauya Chipembere started the 2019 Castle Lager Premiership season with two draws against Highlanders and Chapungu before losing to CAPS…
© SEVERAL factors have combined to dampen Zimbabwe’s economic growth prospects, according to a State of the Economy Report presented by Africa Economic Development Strategies (AEDS) in association with the Daily News last Tuesday. [GoogleAd] The economic think-tank argues that Zimbabwe’s growth rate, which significantly outpaced average Sub-Saharan region’s growth rate of 2.7 percent in…
© CHINUA Achebe ranks among the topmost writers to emerge from the African continent mainly because he happens to have been a pioneer in telling the story of the continent, especially following its contact with European imperialism. [GoogleAd] The late famous Nigerian writer’s recreation of the period just after Africa’s contact with Europe has no…
© THE High Court sitting at Harare dealt a body-blow to Nelson Chamisa’s leadership of the MDC on May 8, 2019. [GoogleAd] In the case of Elias Mashavira vs. MDC and five others HH 302/19, Justice Edith Mushore ruled that Chamisa’s ascension to the positions of deputy president, acting president and substantive president were contrary…
© GREETINGS, and welcome to my weekly theatre column. To get started, what is the theatre? And why is it important? Why should we care, when there is film, and the internet, and all other manners of ways of being entertained? Why should we support the theatre? [GoogleAd] First of all because theatre is a…
© ABOUT 60 kilometres northwest of Bulawayo in the semi-arid lands of Umguza, the Mkhwananzi family earns a living from providing manual labour within their village. [GoogleAd] If they are not working on the fields, they are herding cattle as part of their pursuit for that extra dollar needed to put bread on the table….
© From this week, we will bring you a series of articles on some of Zimbabwe’s past black listed songs from the 70s up until the 2000s as different government systems tried in vain to control artistic voices. [GoogleAd] AS the liberation war intensified in Zimbabwe in the 1970s, rural communities witnessed such brutality and…
© WHEN he came to power through a military coup in 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised Zimbabweans a clean break from the past. [GoogleAd] Nearly 18 months after sweeping to power, his anti-corruption drive is turning into hot air with many questioning some of his appointments to key institutions, including parastatals. Just last week, he…
