HARARE – Tobacco production in Zimbabwe is overshadowing the glitter of diamonds in the country by contributing more to the economy than most commodities. The golden leaf which has emerged in the past few years as one of Zimbabwe’s largest exports, accounting for a third of all foreign currency earnings, along with gold and other…
MPOSI – The minority Lemba (Varemba) people who have remained marginalised by the government are demanding back their Ngomalungundu which is believed to be the Ark of the Covenant and kept at a museum in Harare. Ngomalungundu is a scared and powerful ancestral drum which the Lemba people, also known as Black Jews, believe gives…
HARARE – Rural and small-scale farmers usually confined to mundane lives in their communities are painting parts of Harare red. They are financially strong thanks to the tobacco selling season. And they are not leaving Harare’s bright lights without having a taste of the capital’s fun and vice. For sex workers, information traders, petty thieves…
HARARE – They bask in the glory of fame and riches, but it is love which often becomes their Achilles’ heel. From hero to zero, most celebrities, rich business and powerful politicians successfully ride the tide but usually fall to the sword of love, often moving from glory to gory — all in the name…
HARARE – Many considered Joseph Chiriseri a lucky man and it was for a good reason. At a time when the Civil Courts were swarmed with women seeking maintenance from men, Chiriseri won an order for maintenance. Very few men believed this was possible. This was way back in 2009 but the situation has hardly…
NGUNDU – Sex for dollar sounds weird, too farfetched even. Well, you have to visit Ngundu Growth Point any time of the day to believe it. For only $1, sex is guaranteed from girls as young as 13-years-old. The hookers span all age groups, even grannies in their 60s. Business is brisk all day, 24…
HARARE – While there are several bizarre cases that have happened in Zimbabwe, there are some high profile ones which have baffled the nation and left all and sundry confused. The most bizarre case in Zimbabwe’s recent memory has been of claims by a “diesel mystic” self-styled spirit medium, Rotina Mavhunga that she had discovered…
HARARE – Tsitsi Shungu has admirable skill as she passes the football to her team mates in fashionable style. The athletic 14-year-old girl who is currently signed up by a female football side dreams of one day representing her county as a member of the mighty warriors. The energy she exudes and her zeal…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC are in hand-to-hand combat, unfurling nationwide door-to-door (D2D) campaigns where district officials are dropping in and canvassing for support. Get-out-to-vote efforts have moved front and centre for both Mugabe and Tsvangirai’s campaigns, reflecting the tightening of the race in all the battlegrounds nationally. The…
HARARE – Zimbabweans will soon troop to the polls for the umpteenth time in less than a decade-and-a-half to “choose” a new government. The new vote comes in the wake in which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his band of democrats under the MDC banner have taken time in government and tasted real political power…
