HARARE – After being separated for eight months from his mother, three-year-old David fears she will disappear again. For nearly eight months, jail separated mother and son as Cynthia Manjoro languished in remand prison. Together with 28 other political and human rights activists, the 27-year-old mother of one is charged with the murder of a…
HARARE – Looking savvy, Tawanda sports an attractive woman in high heels strutting across the street. Patiently he follows her and then scoops on her. The woman blushes and softens to Moyo’s charms. But alas, a few hours later she is inside a police station, crying. What started as attraction has ended up as destruction…
HARARE – Broadcaster and poet, Soneni aka Thandeka Gwizi says she is proudly Zimbabwean and proudly disabled. Soneni’s wish is to become an ambassador of women with disability. And there is every reason why she should be so excited about who she is and what she has achieved. Soneni is the 2012 JCI Zimbabwe —10…
CHIPINGE – After another dry farming season, serious food shortages loom in the Save valley area of Chipinge. While for most these are trying times, food traders see it as manna from heaven. Since April they have been buying maize and mealie-meal from areas that had good harvests and reselling to the hungry villagers at…
MUTARE – The real-life story of juveniles who hopped into a forest plantation in search of food and ended causing a massive veld fire has, once again, highlighted how poverty is encroaching into conservationists’ efforts. Hunger biting hard, 13-year-old Tineyi Samanga, sibling Tatonga and two friends Patrick Saruchera and Tazivei Chaitezvi both aged 12,…
HARARE – The prospect of a general election is drawing nearer and there is concern about whether institutional safeguards will be in place to ensure that the election is free and fair. In this Constitution Watch and the following one we shall examine whether the new constitution itself will put in place any of the…
HARARE – Nobuhle Moyo never imagined showing concern for her husband’s behaviour would upturn her married life for worse. When the mother of four dared ask her husband why he had come home late and drunk, as one way of expressing her disapproval, she was oblivious she would rue her show of concern for the…
MUTASA – Bees are fast replacing dogs as man’s best friend here. Dogs, which are expensive to feed, are fast becoming costly to maintain for people in Domborutinhira, 60 km north-west of Mutare. Dogs were used to hunt for food and to maintain security at home. Bees are no longer just a swarm to flee…
HARARE – It is the world’s wonder story, moving from a slow-paced economy 30 years ago to a global giant that has leaped German and Japan to become the world’s second-biggest economy. From Europe to Africa, most governments cannot do without the Chinese and with such economic giants as the United States struggling, some analysts…
CHINHOYI – Karoi, a town whose name is derived from a local river and which uses a symbol of a witch clutching onto a sweeping broom, is in shambles. The council is failing to clean up the mess clogging the town. The town, situated about 204 kilometres along Harare-Chirundu Road, is now a pale shadow…
