HARARE – Tendai Ndoro is contesting for the Hatfield Constituency seat as an independent candidate in the forthcoming elections. The Daily News on Sunday staff writer Tarisai Machakaire caught up with her to discuss her electoral road map and aspirations as a woman in Zimbabwean politics. Q: Who is Tendai Ndoro? A: I am an…
HARARE – During his reign, former president Robert Mugabe and his allies were untouchable to the point where not even the long arm of the law could catch up with them. But tables turned immediately after Mugabe’s ouster as they began to face the music for alleged corrupt activities that were swept under the carpet…
HARARE – She was a school teacher who loved teaching and the children she taught, but the desire to empower others financially saw Maglin Chiwuta dumping the noble profession for a tile manufacturing venture. Raised amidst grinding poverty in a family teeming with siblings, step brothers and sisters, Chiwuta eschewed deprivation. In 1995, without any…
HARARE – A mother contemplates how she does her food shopping amid high costs in Zimbabwe. Whatever is cheapest in the season, is what her children eat, substituting one thing for another, in much smaller portions than before. “What I have at home is enough to give them a simple plate of sadza and beans,…
HARARE – When single mother Pamela Chiromo was allocated a small plot to grow maize in the fertile Beatrice area last year, she thought she had finally found the solution to the nagging problem of fending for her young family. She would roam around the plot like a proud successful farmer, beholding the charm of…
HARARE – Clad in a dirty white T-Shirt emblazoned with the face of a glum Emmerson Mnangagwa, an illegal gold miner sifts through brownish wet sands and points out to a group of journalists, “this is gold”. It is a gold rush of some sort which cannot be stopped by once dreaded former president Robert…
HARARE – The old photographer, with an incredible little mop of fringe, grey-white hair around his balding, mottled scalp sits solo on a bench in the vast Harare Gardens Park. He has the resigned look of one who knows that at his age life has stopped giving and only takes away. But the rate at…
HARARE – When it comes to love, they say age is just but a number. What was once frowned upon as a bad social practice, is now widely accepted as okay especially among Zimbabwe’s powerful and influential men. Infact, it has now become some sort of a trend: Zimbabwean older men, usually rich ones, successfully…
HARARE – At a glimpse, Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands region seems lush and verdant. But a closer check depicts a land degraded by overgrazing, unsustainable cropping practices, deforestation and wild bush fires. Still, some plots teem with biodiversity; crops grow under the shades of banana; avocado and cassava trees while here and there, you find mango,…
HARARE – Many people might have been left outraged and appalled by the contemptuous behaviour of Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu in Parliament last week. But to any keen follower of local politics, the bulky minister was just striding in very familiar territory. While appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy on…
