© ONCE dubbed the Sunshine City, Zimbabwe’s capital Harare stinks to high heavens — garbage is strewn all over, threatening all kinds of disease, while burning trash is polluting the environment. [GoogleAd] The garbage menace and its unattended damage to human life and the environment could have been a thing of the past in the…
© WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rise to power was premised on his pledge to fight corruption the same way China has done, the reality on the ground paints a different picture, analysts say. [GoogleAd] Since ascending to the Chinese Communist Party general secretary position in late 2012, Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has targeted widespread graft…
© ZIMBABWE’s economy is going through one of its leanest periods in a decade, with runaway inflation and ever-rising prices of goods and services, developments that have spawned untold suffering for the citizens, who have endured a lot since the days of the late former president Robert Mugabe. [GoogeAd] Our reporter Fungi Kwaramba sat down…
© EDGAR Moyo’s outstanding electricity bill is rising inexorably, a burgeoning debt owed to Zimbabwe’s struggling power utility. [GoogleAd] Moyo’s household owes $230 to State-controlled firm Zesa Holdings Limited, a minute part of the $1,2 billion in unpaid bills by household consumers, government departments, parastatals, local authorities and commercial farmers. Moyo has largely engaged in…
© “I want out!” Sheila Chimusoro screamed as she banged the door of her Chitungwiza matrimonial home. [GoogleAd] She left her husband, who is a carpenter at a local trading centre, in total shock. This was her final stand in their rocky five-year marriage. The previous evening, the couple had a serious fight over money…
© DUMILE Ncube was born 27 years ago.Affectionately known as Dumi, now a vendor selling fruits in Bulawayo’s central business district (CBD), he was a prelingual hearing-impaired individual — someone born with a hearing loss, and this occurred before he began to speak. [GoogleAd] Although he experienced some medical problems shortly after his birth, his…
© ZIMBABWE is witnessing a rise in scammers targeting “naive” government bigwigs, prominent businessmen and even celebrity preachers. [GoogleAd] Authorities have issued a warning about the rising number of scams, as this perfidy has become a way of life for the young con-artists. They pretend to be from the Judicial Services Commission, tax agency Zimra,…
© SOARING prices of farm inputs and operating costs, pose the greatest risk to Zimbabwe’s food security situation as the cost of production per hectare for the 2018/2019 agricultural season has escalated beyond what the bulk of the farmers can afford, farmers unions have warned. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe, once the bread-basket of southern Africa is currently…
© CASH-STRAPPED commuters in Harare have resorted to walking to their work stations as the economy continues taking its toll on ordinary citizens. [GoogleAd] This comes as the government recently increased fuel prices by 27 percent which subsequently led to a sharp increase in commuter fares. Commuter omnibuses plying most urban routes now charge between…
© IT’S the rush hour at Harare’s busiest bus terminus, Copacabana — named after one of the most famous and most beautiful beaches in the world in the south zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. [GoogleAd] Unlike the serene beaches of Copacabana in Rio, here plumes of black smoke are coughed…
