© World Mental Health Day is observed on October 10 every year and it is timely that we reserve this week’s column to this often forgotten health issue. [GoogleAd] Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions, disorders that affect one’s mood, thinking and behaviour and this includes depression, anxiety disorders, suicidal…
© WHAT started off as a strategy to avoid afternoon general work at school during Barbara Nyangairi’s teenage years, grew into a passion that later saw her founding the Deaf Zimbabwe Trust — a voluntary organisation that promotes the rights and interest of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) people in Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] The…
© AT ITS inception in May last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Special Anti-Corruption Unit in his office, pledged to root out corruption in the country. [GoogleAd] The unit came under scrutiny after arrests and prosecutions seemed to target sacked ministers and businesspeople. There was a sense that the unit was being used as a tool…
© MINING towns around Zimbabwe have been turned into battlegrounds in recent months by machete-wielding groups seeking control of mining fields and precious minerals such as gold. [GoogleAd] In Kwekwe, Shurugwi and Gokwe they are infamously known as the Al Shabaab — named after Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, more commonly known as al-Shabaab, an East Africa-based…
© THE impeding rainy season casts a shadow of dread over the mountainous Chimanimani area in the Manicaland Province of eastern Zimbabwe — an area distinguished by large peaks, the highest reaching to 2 440m and stretching for some 50km, to form the border with Mozambique. [GoogleAd] Villagers here fret over the next “big one”,…
© GRACE Mugabe, the second wife of the late strongman Robert Mugabe, was the most influential woman in Zimbabwe until her sudden downfall in November 2017 after her husband was toppled in a soft coup by the military. [GoogleAd] Born in Benoni, South Africa, on July 23, 1965 to migrant parents as the fourth of…
© FUNERALS in our culture are an opportunity to vent one’s deep-seated opinions and emotions on topical issues, be they personal, family or national, while enjoying the same privileges and protection akin to academic freedom. [GoogleAd] I seek to do exactly that, “kurova bembera” in Shona before this special window closes following the sad but…
© CORRUPTION has over the past two decades decimated the country’s economy. [GoogleAd] Ordinary folks have bore the brunt of corruption with those in positions of power diverting resources to benefit a few individuals and perpetuating inequalities and vulnerability, subjecting the weak to poverty and stripping them of their dignity. While corruption will never disappear…
© The health sector has been dogged by a myriad challenges, including shortages of drugs, equipment and foreign currency which have translated into exorbitant fees, with footprints of bad economy written all over. . . [GoogleAd] TAURAI Ncube (not his real name), a thin, wiry, middle-aged man gazed into the horizon after the doctors handed…
© TRAGEDY befell the Nyandoro family when the breadwinner — who was head of the household and a teacher by profession — suffered a stroke which left him paralysed. [GoogleAd] After three years living with paralysis, the man passed on, leaving behind five children (three girls and two boys) and a wife. For Getrude Nee Nyandoro-Chimange, who…
