HARARE – There are no chemically-manufactured drugs in Godfrey Mwerenga’s pharmacy. However, the small shop in Harare, branded Modern Herbal Drugs and Cosmetics Clinic, looks ordinary — bottles of medicines in shelves and jars of powder all over believed to fight all ailments from headache to cancer. Mwerenga’s remedies are made exclusively from ground-up local…
HARARE – White Zimbabwean commercial farmers who were driven off their land during President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land seizures are coming back through joint venture arrangements and are also producing cash crops such as tobacco and soya beans mostly under contract farming. Zimbabwe hogged global headlines in 2000 when supporters of 93-year-old Mugabe invaded white-owned…
HARARE – Recently Zimbabwe hosted the 67th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa in majestic Victoria Falls. It was an uplifting experience to see all health leaders from governments in the continent and partners united. The leaders placed health of the people at the centre of development endeavours not just in words, but…
HARARE – Progressive and apolitical development player Zimbabwe Network for Economic and Social Transformation (ZINEST) has set its sights on scaling up individual, community and national development while stamping out other social challenges like women and child abuse. Speaking to Daily News, ZINEST Board Chairperson, journalist, social entrepreneur and development worker Takemore Mazuruse said Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Ahead of the 2018 elections, Zanu PF has created and designed an intricate “occultist” system that is meant to ensure that opposition politics or discourse is not given any breeding room among the rural folk, which constitute over 65 percent of the of the country’s 210 constituencies. The Daily News recently visited Magunje’s…
HARARE – If fame and fortune could buy freedom, then the likes of former Zanu PF Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke and Independent End Time Message church founder Robert Martin Gumbura would be walking scot-free today. Their incarceration, however, has changed the face of prison, which is dominated by the ordinary unknown members of society,…
HARARE – African sages say if a snake suddenly hurtles in front of you, it smacks of a bad omen. This was the case with a Daily News on Sunday crew that went on an ambitious exploratory sojourn in the mineral-rich Makwiro area of Mashonaland West Province recently; where indiscriminate chrome mining is completely defacing…
HARARE – It’s not known how many times prominent personalities, Zanu PF Members of Parliament and ministers in President Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet kneel before divinity to ask for forgiveness for their sins as they retire to bed at night. What is known though is that they do not have any qualms kneeling before their revered…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is home to some of the world’s most iconic wild animals, but rampant poaching might wipe them out forever. Authorities have often been caught napping as poachers take advantage of the dry period from September to December when watering holes dry up, forcing animals to congregate in small pockets that still hold…
HARARE – After three horror traffic accidents that claimed 24 lives in just three days last month, road traffic safety is once again taking centre stage, with public transport users and experts questioning authorities and transport operators’ sincerity in tackling road carnage. Tragedy struck in Murewa on August 24 when a commuter omnibus driver attempted…
