UNTIL February 2020, Didymus Mhuru worked as a researcher at Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care, a job he held for…
GROWING up, earning a living from goats was the last thing on Desberia Mutara’s mind. In fact, the first born in a family of four was determined to use education to escape herding goats and the poverty that generally characterised Gowakowa village in Headlands, about 28 kilometres from Rusape. “I always knew that I needed…
I AM the Polish woman who has been called by her Spirit to Zimbabwe to fulfill my role as a Svikiro in…
ON January 25, exactly two years and three days after Zimbabwe’s main opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was launched, its leader Nelson Chamisa quit, leaving the party in turmoil. In a 13-page statement, the 46-year-old lawyer and clergyman listed a litany of reasons why he was taking the extraordinary step of abandoning…
BY RUTENDO NGARA MUNYARADZI Makore felt relieved when he heard the judge announce that his brother, Tapiwa Snr, and neighbour Tafadzwa Shamba, who brutally murdered his nine year-old son, Tapiwa Jr, and dismembered his body, would be sentenced to death. On July 12 last year, Shamba and Tapiwa Snr were sentenced to death following a…
By Munyaradzi Mapfumo POLITICS by its very nature does not follow morally acceptable ways of taking power. Every political player is plotting, planning, and seeking ways to amass the most power possible. The very set up of politics is, therefore, to realise that it is a negotiated space and at every moment one should be…
IN December 2021, Setfree Mafukidze, his wife and four children moved to Somerset in the United Kingdom, joining a long list of…
THE government has set new minimum guidelines for the licensing of nightclubs which include that buildings should be fully soundproofed so that operations do not affect residential homes. This comes amid an increase in the number of liquor outlets in Central Business Districts and suburbs as well as rampant drug and substance abuse countrywide. In…
A PROPHET is not without honour except in his own country, says the Bible. In most cases the African community tends to undermine the role of a preacher. A visit by the Daily News on Sunday to Chitungwiza Unit L Community Hall in Seke where the charismatic preacher Miracle Paul holds his Sunday services had…
WHEN Delight Ziwacha was 16, she didn’t know one could get pregnant after having unprotected sex only once. A friend told her…
