© BORN and raised in city of Queens and Kings, Patience Ndebele-Omijie felt subdued in a small city, probing her to migrate to the United Kingdom (UK) at the age of 23, in pursuit of a better life and to empower those she left behind. [GoogleAd] Working as a full time mental health nurse in…
© GOVERNMENT has been blasted for ignoring recommendations from parliamentary portfolio committees, a trend that has rendered Parliament toothless. [GoogleAd] Portfolio committees, which have powers to consider and deal with all Bills and statutory instruments or other matters also have an oversight function as granted by the Constitution to monitor and oversee government actions. And…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has so far recorded more misses than hits during the year that he has been in office following his disputed election victory on July 30 last year, analysts have said. [GoogleAd] Tuesday marks exactly a year after Mnangagwa began his five-year term in office. Mnangagwa rose to power in 2017 following…
© CALLS for legislation to regulate churches and religious sects are mounting as women and girls have increasingly become vulnerable to sexual abuse by self-proclaimed men of God. [GoogleAd] Desperate to save her marriage after years of barrenness, a Bulawayo woman in her early 40s opted to enlist the services of a self-styled prophet who…
© AS ZIMBABWE’S local authorities groan under the weight of a collapsing economy, government is facing hard choices. [GoogleAd] Should it approve supplementary budgets by the reeling local authorities and face a public backlash or reject them and paralyse operations at these municipalities? There is a price that needs to be paid, whichever way it…
© IN NORTON, a sprawling town 40 kilometres west of the capital city, Harare — residents counted themselves lucky when they saw the Chinese setting camp in the precincts of their homes. [GoogleAd] Twenty-seven-year-old Nomsa Moyo saw herself securing a decent job at the tile manufacturing plant, which has since been established by the Chinese….
© Last month, Zimbabwe banned the use of the rand, the US dollar, and other currencies as legal tender in the country. [GoogleAd] For the past decade, the government has allowed these currencies as legal payment after its own dollar became worthless. Its interim currency — the Real Time Gross Settlement dollar (RTGS) or “zollar”…
© IN Epworth — a poor settlement south-east of Harare — residents of the area have become used to the commonplace hunger all their lives. [GoogleAd] To get by, they borrow food from each other. But now, their resilience is being chipped away. “The hunger here is getting worse,” 47-year-old Mike Moyo said. “After…
© THERE has been a rapid influx of fortune seekers in the mineral-rich Umzingwane District in Matabeleland South after gold was discovered at a river bed in the area. [GoogleAd] According to estimates, more than 2 000 people descended on the rural territory during the latest gold rush. The thousands of illegal miners that have…
© THE past fortnight has seen two prominent women stealing the limelight and in the process shaking the corridors of power and establishment. [GoogleAd] Auditor-General Mildred Chiri was the first one to send tremors when she unleashed a damming audit report, which, among other things, claimed the books for central government, parastatals and municipalities were…
