HARARE – A deathly silence engulfs Takeley Drive in Harare’s medium density suburb of Sentosa, Mabelreign as Dick “Chinx” Chingaira is helped out of an Isuzu Bighorn and onto a wheelchair. Frail and barely able to speak, the man whose liberation war songs turned farmers into soldiers struggles to fight back tears as he approaches…
HARARE – Media industry in Zimbabwe last week commemorated World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, with various organisations converging at the Harare Polytechnic where Information minister Chris Mushowe gave an address. The gathering saw deliberations and presentations on the media landscape by various media analysts and senior journalists. Students from the Harare Polytechnic and…
HARARE – Creative Economic Outlook Zim (CEOZ) holds the notion that without this critical national, regional and global asset – workers – it is impossible for our respective societies to reach their full potential in the various spheres that defines the human race. Accordingly, the 2017 commemorations are being held under the global focus of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe this week joined the rest of the world in commemorating Workers’ Day celebrated worldwide on May 1 as unemployment in the country hovers at a staggering 90 percent. When Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980, the new leadership inherited a vibrant industry that employed millions of workers but 37 years down the line…
HARARE – She is sick, and sits leaning on the wall of her hut. She shifts her small frame, peers into the distance and in a voice laden with anguish, she recounts: “I was raped.” It is hard to digest the words from the tall 46-year-old mother of seven. She is one of the few…
HARARE – Perhaps the starting point when examining this invaluable addition to African scholarship would be exploring the series editors’ comments on the book. “The author combines the African philosophy of Ubuntu or humanness, the cornerstone of African thought and life, with the concept of Integral Leadership, with particular reference to Lessem and Schieffer’s combining,…
HARARE – While Zimbabweans acknowledge the political liberation and the land bequeathed to us by our elders, the baton stick should not end with them but must of necessity be passed on. Today 37 years on, we celebrate their sterling efforts in giving us black majority rule. Our elders discharged their God given duties in…
MUZARABANI – About 300km from Harare into Mashonaland Central Province lies a dry and remote area called Muzarabani where people somehow manage to scratch a living despite both natural and man-made disasters including extreme whether temperatures. The area falls under the natural farming region five which is characterised by high temperatures and low rainfall throughout…
HARARE – Takura Chinguwo from Chingwizi holding camp in Mwenezi is fighting not only a war against a strain of drug-resistant TB, but also a battle to obtain a strictly regulated new medicine that could save his life. In February 2014 after the immense Tokwe-Mukorsi Dam basin flooded following heavy rains, Chinguwo was among 20…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is drifting towards an economic crisis as severe as the 2008 economic meltdown which eventually led government to abandon the worthless Zimdollar after it was severely dented by hyperinflation, analysts contend. Banks are so short of cash that queuing has become a full-time occupation for some of those lucky enough to have…
