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Flip-flopping: Tsvangirai’s political tact or weakness?
AFTER rolling out a nationwide “No Reform, No Elections” Campaign last year, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai brewed a shocker last week when he announced that his party would participate in the 2018...
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A day in the life of a job-seeker
YEUDZIRAI’S rotund face sparkles with anxiety, as her hesitant thumb scrolls down a variety of jobs posted on CV People Africa website. Her beaming face resigned into gloom on realising that the...
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Govt, UN recognise role of Parliamentarians
AFTER failing to attain some Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, mainly due to lack of information dissemination to the grassroots, government and the United Nations (UN) have now recognised...
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Reckoning nears for Mugabe’s heirs
TIMES are changing in Zimbabwe as Mugabe’s end nears, but would-be successors are facing uncomfortable questions and equally uneasy choices. The way they react to these dilemmas will shape the...
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Donors feed country as govt bickers over power
FOOD-insecure families have to skip meals to budget food rations they receive, as the effects of the El Niño-induced drought, that has left many hungry and unemployed in Manicaland province, deepen....
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Chinese mining company’s recklessness costs villagers
THE coming in of the Chinese mining firm, San He Zimbabwe, for the Tengenenge community in Guruve in 2004 was considered a blessing by residents, who were looking forward to benefiting from the mine’s...
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The simple genius of Zim’s #ThisFlag protest, and the man who started it
Pastor Evan Mawarire started the most subversive protest movement in Zimbabwe’s recent history by accident. He was fed up with the state of his nation, and decided to share his frustrations online. It...
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Cassava: A boost for food security, rural development
NYANGA — For many years, Robert Sachiwaya (59), a small-holder farmer in ward 30, Nyanga district, has been cultivating cassava on the sidelines of crops such as maize, groundnuts and potatoes, or as...
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Nurses flock to greener Namibia
THE country’s limping health industry is set for another gruelling battle to retain staff with reports that nurses are leaving en masse for Namibia, which is on a massive recruitment drive to beef up...
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Harare residents vow to fight for Manyenyeni
HARARE residents have vowed to fight any attempts to fire Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni, who was suspended by Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere. BY VENERANDA LANGA This comes as Sunday...
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Teenagers increasingly experimenting with sex
HARDLY a week passes by without the Chitungwiza Magistrates Court dealing with a case of a man who would have engaged in sexual intercourse with a minor. BY SOFIA MAPURANGA Magistrate Rekina Dzikiti...
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Society shuns Mugabe amnesty beneficiaries
A FEW weeks after the emptying of female prisons, an organisation supporting female prisoners, the Female Prisoners Support Trust (Femprist), has dealt with 25 cases of former inmates who were shunned...
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Mwenezi’s road to alleviate hunger
JULY Sithole (51) became a hero overnight in Chidaba Village in Mwenezi and is now a target of beggars this season as he boasts of plentiful sorghum and pearl millet flourishing on the small piece of...
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Zimbabweans find voice against Mugabe
FROM church leaders, political activists to individuals, Zimbabweans seem to have found courage to confront their government, after almost four decades of sheepish moaning under President Robert...
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Loopholes in diamond field benefit the elite
THE government’s crackdown on diamond mining firms following years of vanishing revenues has brought much of the free-for-all seen before the previous set of attempts to regulate the sector, with...
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Freedom of expression still a long way off
IN a bid to get attention and make President Robert Mugabe act on the whereabouts of his journalist-cum-human rights activist brother — Itai — Patson Dzamara staged a one-man protest on Independence...
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How govt is preying on its own companies
Broke and unable to fund its operations, the government is allowing ministries to raid parastatals under their care for money. The Source Information, Communication Technology, Postal and Courier...
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Traders hit hard by new import restrictions
THABANI Mpofu, a cross-border transport operator popularly known as umalayitsha was not happy when the government imposed import restrictions, ostensibly to curb currency leakages from the country,...
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One more sign of Zim’s decline
HARARE — The advertisement in the jobs section of a Zimbabwean newspaper read: “Vacancies in the Middle East. For those interested please contact …” IRIN Hundreds of young Zimbabwean women have been...
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Will Ngwena outfox his opponents again?
IN the political realm, he is nicknamed “Ngwena” (a crocodile) for his astute political tact and unruffled “shrewdness and political mastery” that many have credited with Zanu PF success story, but...
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