MUTARE – With companies closing shop on a weekly basis and workers ever fearful of being dismissed, many black-feathered chickens are proving to be a hit as they are believed to be powerful medium in job-protection incantations. Not surprisingly, the prices of “black chickens” have gone up as some superstitious workers, who continue to face an…
HARARE – Sex work in conservative Zimbabwe is often associated with females, skimpy dresses and the night, but the country got a rude awakening last week in broad daylight when male sex workers demanded recognition at the recently-held International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (Icasa). The male sex workers who had come from across…
HARARE – After speaking her voice hoarse throughout the week-long International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (Icasa) Bidia Deperthes can hardly go through another interview. The diminutive UNFPA senior technical adviser on HIV has just concluded a two-week whirlwind tour of Harare where she addressed thousands of youths and led the initiative…
HARARE – Feeling isolated over the seizure of their allies’ land and keen to protect their commercial farm properties, some of the few remaining white Zimbabweans are ending years of political apathy and actively supporting President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. The whites, mainly in Mashonaland provinces, are increasingly making a surprise appearance at Zanu PF…
CHIVI – Each morning just before 3am, Mai Moyo and her 13-year-old son hold hands, close their eyes and bow their heads. “Please, protect my son, dear Lord, as he heads to school and back,” she prays over the lanky Form Two pupil. [GoogleAd] Then it’s off to school: a four-hour walk through Ngundu forests,…
HARARE – Rising poverty is forcing many people in high density suburbs into the food repackaging business. Food repackaging is the process of getting foodstuffs in large quantities and bagging them in your own way, in smaller bags or quantities and before resale. Such products are popularly known as “tsaona”, and usually retail for anything…
HARARE – Jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s 11 wives (pictured) have said that there is nothing wrong with polygamy, denying claims that they were brainwashed by the famous pastor. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday this week at their Marlborough home, the women claimed that their husband, who is currently…
HARARE – In every 15 minutes an accident occurs on the country’s roads, that have now become death traps, and the situation is not helped by the fact that Zimbabwe has a serious shortage of ambulances. Officials revealed the grim statistics last week as they graphically described how people are dying on the roads almost on…
HARARE – Zifa presidential aspirant and flamboyant businessman Philip Chiyangwa has made a passionate appeal to councillors and all other stakeholders to give him a chance in the race to succeed Cuthbert Dube at the helm of Zimbabwe’s national football association. Here he speaks to Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki and below are the excerpts…
HARARE – Since I once stayed and lived in Germany and Austria – two of the EU countries – I happened to make friends there and this week I interviewed several of them online so that they could share with us their experiences over the influx of refugees in their home countries. In recent months…
