HARARE – “Zimbabwe came through the barrel of the gun”, then some 20 years after independence it started to grab farms, and now it is grabbing mines and companies — the grabbing continues with many now saying the landlocked nation is a country of smash and grab (jambanja). Viewed with the chaos unfolding in the…
HARRE – Disability, HIV and Aids Trust (DHAT) last this month held a stakeholders dialogue in Harare on service delivery for persons living with visual and hearing impairments under the banner: ‘Leaving no one behind: where is disability in health service delivery, let’s talk about it’. DHAT country co-ordinator Hamida Ismail Mauto told participants from…
HARARE – Motivational books come in different forms, styles and shapes. They also emerge from various inspirations. Nobody really wishes to be poor but usually fate deploys humanity there. There are so many brilliant young men and women who excelled in school but could not continue with their education due to financial constraints within their…
HARARE – Today we live in an environment where there is stiff business competition, high customer expectations, technological advancement and other social developments at play. It is imperative therefore to build teamwork based on trust, effective communication and leadership, common goals with a collective responsibility in order to achieve prosperity. Let’s not forget that companies,…
HARARE – Arrested persons in Zimbabwe face violence in grubby police cells on a disturbing scale, with rights groups pushing for reforms, moving to address shortfalls in laws and seeking to end impunity that continue sto foster a culture of brutal repression by law enforcement. The authorities have announced some token initiatives in the new…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe set to introduce a new education curriculum, artists and arts administrators are hopeful that government will also include arts education which had been neglected over the years. The Daily News sought comments from a number of people with most of them concerned that while this was a good idea, the teachers…
HARARE – The contagion from China’s ongoing financial meltdown will likely drive Zimbabwe into a worse recession this year, experts warned this week, after Harare ill-advisedly adopted the yuan as a reserve currency this month. This comes as the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, last Thursday devalued the yuan to 6.5646 per dollar,…
HARARE – As dawn breaks and the sun paints the horizon crimson and orange, a group of dishevelled men and women trudge up from disused mine shafts in Penhalonga carrying picks and crow-bars. Their muddy limbs and toothy grins are proof that their hard toiling in the dead of the night has been fruitful. “Working…
HARARE – Christmas cheer seems to have bypassed Zimbabwe this year with most families finding themselves with empty pockets and barely enough to survive another day let alone think of organising a festive party. In a year where an unprecedented number of companies collapsed and thousands of jobs were lost through the widely-debated July Supreme…
CHIVI – A few months ago, Mary Mangoma from Chivi District in Masvingo Province faced a serious water problem as she had little access to potable water as well as proper sanitation. Every morning, she was forced to travel at least three kilometres to the nearest water source, a small unprotected water pond that also provided…
