HARARE – Though many will be trekking to the rural areas for New Year’s Day, there is no shortage of fantastic restaurants to try if you have opted to spend your holiday break in the capital, Harare. If you are forgoing home cooking and are looking for somewhere incredible to share a meal on January…
HARARE – Romeo Zibani is not your conventional university student who rolls to school in a high-end vehicle and can afford to splash cash on frivolities. If anything, his friends say, he struggles to get by. Some suggest that were it not for a scholarship from a top Harare lawyer (name withheld), he would probably…
HARARE – While the country has made enormous strides in reducing the HIV prevalence, gains made thus far could be reduced by a spike in infections among adolescents, the Health and Child Care ministry warned recently. Last year alone nearly 14 000 girls and young women, between the ages of 15 to 24, in Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Pamela Phiri,47, and Dorika Banzi, 53, were lucky to be released from serving 20 and 17-year sentences respectively for murdering their husbands. Phiri, a teacher by profession had hacked her husband while Banzi slit the throat of her live-in lover with a fish paring knife. The two women share a similar story behind…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating International Human Rights Day, the Daily News on Sunday spoke to a number of political and social analysts who all agreed the year 2016 witnessed the worst in terms of human rights abuses. Political commentator Mcdonald Lewanika said Zimbabwe’s human rights situation…
HARARE – It is time for action to end gender-based violence and men should not be inevitable to speak out against the violence, Parliamentary Portfolio Committee chairperson on gender and Goromonzi MP Biata Nyamupinga has said. Gender based violence is rife-and it is getting worse-according to the Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey the prevalence of gender-based…
HARARE – Unlike the British-American Harry Potter books and film series that paint witchcraft with a rainbow brush, the practice is widely frowned upon in Zimbabwe. Disapproval for the practise is so widespread that “witch hunters” — believed to have been making a killing duping local villagers — last week attracted Cabinet wrath, with local…
HARARE – A masculine Jacob Harineki is easily recognisable as he strolls into the prison yard with his jail garb boldly emblazoned LIFE. Branded, Harineki knows that unless something extraordinary happens — an amnesty perhaps — then he is in prison to stay. The hands of time are slower and everyday is a pain. He…
HARARE – When she joined the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) at the age of 23, there were howls of disapproval from family and friends. But today, national police spokesperson Charity Charamba looks back with pride. Recently, she graduated with a masters’ degree in International Relations with Bindura University of Science Education and she is still…
HARARE – The image of a wailing mother flinging her arms in grief while her child tries in vain to console her has not been easily forgotten by onlookers who stood motionless as bulldozers razed down structures along Harare-Masvingo road. It’s been close to a month since that episode left more than 3 000 families…
