BY FRANCIS HARAWA SOUL Jah Love, born Saul Musaka, adored his mother. He told us so in a song he penned for her, bemoaning the fact that life could not be bought. If that were so, he sang, he would have bought his mother a longer life. Perhaps these poignant thoughts were brought about by…
I AM the Polish woman who has been called by her Spirit to Zimbabwe to fulfill my role as a Svikiro in…
THE Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) says it has issued a total of 1 083 new licences since its inception in 2020 suggesting rising investor interest in the country. The investment agency said it continues to put in place measures to improve investment attraction and facilitation in through investment promotion programs and improving its…
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….
