© JACOB Ngarivhume, leader of Transform Zimbabwe (TZ), does not see any difference between the old and new dispensations. If anything, he believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa is actually worse than his predecessor. [GoogleAd] In this interview with the Daily News on Sunday’s Blessings Mashaya, Ngarivhume speaks about rebuilding TZ, the need for electoral reforms and…
© A SIGNIFICANT section of the MDC family, including the opposition political party’s leadership, is convinced that the Zanu PF government played a role in the death of the party’s founding father Morgan Tsvangirai who succumbed to cancer of the colon in February last year. [GoogleAd] This is despite the fact that prior to his…
© IT IS now over a year since the founding president of the MDC, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, passed to heavenly glory. I want to share with fellow freedom and democracy proponents my last political tête-à-tête with him in November 2017. [GoogleAd] “Save (my totem) I want to see you, please come over,” said Tsvangirai on…
© CHINUA Achebe ranks among the topmost writers to emerge from the African continent mainly because he happens to have been a pioneer in telling the story of the continent, especially following its contact with European imperialism. [GoogleAd] The late famous Nigerian writer’s recreation of the period just after Africa’s contact with Europe has no…
© The Struggle Continues: 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe, By David Coltart; Auckland Park, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4314-2318-7 (Paperback) [GoogleAd] MANY people know David Coltart as a lawyer and one of the top officials from the opposition MDC who found their way into Parliament at the inception of the Thabo Mbeki-brokered government of national unity…
© IT IS almost a decade when water last ran through the now rusty tap of Mbuya Chikowo’s home in Chegutu town. Standing at the door of her dilapidated two-roomed house where she stays with her four grandchildren, Mbuya Chikowo said a cholera outbreak is a constant scare for herself and her grandchildren. [Adz] Just…
© PERENNIAL equipment breakdown problems at our main referral public hospitals have resulted in many cancer patients being turned away at a time they need help. [GoogleAd] A report of a breakdown of the only functioning radiotherapy machine at Parirenyatwa hospital is of major concern and attracted attention. Out of a total of five radiotherapy…
© WATCHING her father waking up in the early hours of every morning heading to Mbare Musika to fend for the family aroused a passion in a little girl’s heart. [Adz] The idea of getting a few coins from her father to buy sweets after his success in selling vegetables at the market mesmerised the…
© HARARE has become one huge dumpsite. Small mounds of garbage can be seen at every street corner in the city’s suburbs because council is failing to collect rubbish on schedule. [GoogleAd] Ideally, council should collect garbage in the suburbs twice every week. Because of the depleted fleet and the prevailing fuel shortages, it has…
© A CHIEFTAINSHIP wrangle in Makoni, where a member of the Muswere clan has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Local Government minister July Moyo to the High Court, has reignited debate over what could be causing these disputes. [GoogleAd] In the High Court application, which is also citing Chief Makoni Colgan Gwasira as a respondent,…
