HARARE – It is the same old tasteless wine in new bottles. Like the rest of the world, Zimbabweans stood on the threshold of a brand new year, but unlike most, with a horrendous sense of forbiddance, too scared to peep into a sobering grim future. After hopping from one crisis to another, clinging on…
HARARE – Zimbabweans started withdrawing from the economy long before it collapsed. There was a lot of “wheeling and dealing” (madhiri) in offices and other places in the late 1980s and early 90s as foreign exchange shortages began to bite and those who could source it bought machinery spares for companies, making a killing. As…
HARARE – As Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was making the motions to lift the constitutional age limit of 75, allowing him to run for a full term in the election due in 2016, he had an epiphany. The 69-year-old Ugandan strongman, in power for 27 years, returned home from Nelson Mandela’s memorial service and summoned…
BULAWAYO – The age-old tradition when Christmas brought palpable excitement among Zimbabweans is gradually losing its twinkle. Tradition had it that this time of the year the second largest city of Bulawayo would go abuzz with the blue and white South African vehicle number plates. Not anymore. Even for the returning Zimbabwean working in South…
HARARE – Charles William Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. He was born in Vhengere Township, Rusape, to Isaac Marechera, a mortuary attendant, and Masvotwa Venenzia Marechera, a maid. Dambudzo died at the age of 35, and left behind a large number of unpublished literary works. Turning his back to the traditions of…
HARARE – Praise Emily, daughter of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono and Hellen, was married to Joseph Tshalahika Malaba on Saturday in Christ Church Borrowdale Church in Harare in one of the priciest wedding Zimbabwe has ever seen. The wedding was a classy affair, with glamour and excitement punctuating the show stopping…
HARARE – In golf, rub of the green means if the ball hits or accidentally deflects on an outside agent, you don’t get punished; you hit the ball from where it lies. But the rub of the green has had a different meaning particularly in football where commentators refer to either an unlucky team or…
HARARE – Italian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Stefano Moscatelli’s (SM) four-year term in the country ends this month. His service has been characterised by the active promotion of cooperation and understanding between Zimbabwe and Italy through initiatives in the business, cultural and health sectors. The Daily News (DN) met the outgoing ambassador for a wide ranging…
HARARE – That Zimbabwe no longer has the luxury to pay lip service to deforestation is now a reality. The indiscriminate destruction of trees, combined with other environmental tragedies, is now hitting where it most hurts — the stomach. While the farming season used to start around October, this is no longer the case. The…
HARARE – “Politics is addictive,” says 58-year-old Joice Mujuru, and laughs loudly. She would know, as she has been on the frontline of Zimbabwe’s rough politics since she was a teenager when she ran away from home to fight minority white rule. “I never dreamed of being where I am now, today, not for one…
