LONDON – Last week, Members of Parliament were moaning about non-payment of allowances. “We are so poor, it is embarrassing”, was the headline to the story. The MPs want the government to put money into the Community Development Fund (CDF); they are being forced to live on corrupt activities, they say. Like every “worker” —…
HARARE – While Zimbabwe was this year awarded with the honour of being Europe’s best touristic destination by the European Council on Tourism and Trade (ECTT), the immediate focus for ministry of Tourism and Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) should be to promote domestic and regional tourism. While the Tourism ministry and ZTA officials have done…
HARARE – Has Zimbabwe really sunk to these desperate levels which are punctuated by disorder and vending in major cities? Yes, the economy is regressing but still there must be a semblance of order particularly in the capital Harare whose once respected Commercial Business District (CBD) has plunged into muddied waters. Buildings have lost lustre…
HARARE – Are you having problems sleeping, exercising and managing your diary or daily agenda? Well, for as long as you are one of the 1,2 billion mobile phone application users – according to publicly available statistics or data for 2012 – you will surely hear this one day that there is an app to…
HARARE – While it may be a well-known fact that most civic organisations in the country are out to milk the donor community of their money, we find it more disturbing that media organisations from the civic society are doing nothing but using journalists to source funds for themselves. In the past few years, we…
Continued from last week HARARE – The spiritual and religious activities of Religious Organisations shall be carried out within the following clearly prescribed rights: To rally their faithful around them. To satisfy the religious-spiritual-moral needs and requirements of their faithful. To perform religious services, rites, and ceremonies in sanctuaries, buildings and places belonging to them…
HARARE – An attribute quite obvious about the homosapiens political psyche is that most are too scared to take a risk and veer into unchartered waters. It is a trait difficult to wean the hapless homosapiens from — something that verges on being an addiction — regardless what level of development a country has attained….
HARARE – Although not a favourite of many because of the harsh weather conditions, winter is most definitely the season of love. It is also the season when both men and women go out of their way to ensure that they keep their partners warm by all means possible. This last week, I stumbled onto…
HARARE – Martin Meredith’s The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence exposes how western interests have exploited factional faults in most African nationalist movements to their advantage leaving a disastrous trail for the indigenous people in the process. He gives detailed insights into the effects of factionalism in Angola to sustain…
HARARE – Award-winning artist Forbes Mushipe’s well-documented struggles to raise the necessary funds to jointly exhibit at the National Art Gallery, is a clear indication of how the country’s economic problems continue to undermine contemporary art. Mushipe’s woes reflect wider problems afflicting Zimbabwe’s visual arts industry that reached crisis proportions a few years ago when…
