© A WOMAN in her 60s wields a hoe with all her might, tilling the stubborn dry land as she prepares for the imminent rains. [GoogleAd] She has to use her hands because she lost all her cattle to theileriosis, a tick borne disease commonly known as January Disease that has left most villagers throughout…
© ANNA, 28, is an ‘invisible’. There is no record of her existence anywhere on the planet. She is a ‘non-existent’. [GoogleAd] If arrested, her detention will be indefinite as she cannot be deported anywhere as no country recognises her as its own. She could commit serious crime and be untraceable. But as much as…
© IT’S 7am in Mguza, deep in Matabeleland North and Pretty Msipha’s baby Belinda has just woken up for her first meal. Msipha holds her six- month-old skinny baby and starts feeding her watery maize-meal porridge. [GoogleAd] The frail baby starts eating the seemingly unhealthy porridge with unimaginable gusto as if she has not eaten…
© THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has since the July 2018 harmonised elections lost almost all parliamentary and council by-elections to the ruling Zanu PF party. Our reporter Blessings Mashaya spoke to the party’s secretary for elections, Jacob Mafume, to ascertain the reasons behind the defeats and strategies for future polls. Below are excerpts of the…
© TWO years after military tanks rolled into Harare and brought to an end the 37-year reign of then president Robert Mugabe, hopes of a brighter future under President Emmerson Mnangagwa are fast dissipating. [GoogleAd] The euphoria that engulfed Zimbabwe after the soft coup has been replaced with despair and hopelessness because of Mnangagwa’s failure…
© AS they say; success is not a tree to be climbed with one’s hands in the pockets, and the adage rings true for one Mandipa Mashingaidze, who is better known as Mandi Mash in the showbiz industry. [GoogleAd] For the past 37 years of her life, she has done nothing, but sing, act, produce,…
© TWO years after the military coup that removed Robert Mugabe from power, Zimbabwe has entered a new spiral of decline that threatens to take the country back to the worst days of his era. [GoogleAd] President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who came to power in that coup, had promised a “new beginning” for Zimbabwe. That initially…
© THE government has dismissed some doctors who defied a Labour Court directive to end their strike which started on September 3 and is now on 66 days forcing it to deploy student doctors to help attend to patients as the crisis deepens. [GoogleAd] As long as key drivers of our healthcare delivery system remain…
© SENATOR Rejoice Timire, born Rejoice Ncube to a Mberengwa businessman Masalethulini, never imagined her life as a wheelchair-bound woman. [GoogleAd] Today, she is known to many as one of the elected officials representing People with Disabilities (PWD) in Parliament. Growing up as a normal, able-bodied child, Timire had dreams to one day become a…
© MARRIED couples are taking yet another blow on the chin following the announcement that the cost of getting divorced will be astronomically hiked, from $3 600 to $18 000, in a bid by lawyers to charge fees which are fair and reasonable, according to the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ). [GoogleAd] Divorce — with…
