© FOR years, aggrieved spouses reeling under the pain of betrayal by their partners could approach the courts and claim adultery damages compensation from their spouse’s lover. [GoogleAd] Through their applications, they would claim thousands of dollars from their partner’s lovers for pain and suffering caused by the illegal affair, loss of consortium, contumelia, and…
© When we think poverty the context is usually financial and economic but the consequences are broader and deeper. [GoogleAd] Think of children who started living on the streets in the mid-90s that have become street men and women with street families and still on the street, a girl forced into early marriage to…
© BORN and raised in city of Queens and Kings, Patience Ndebele-Omijie felt subdued in a small city, probing her to migrate to the United Kingdom (UK) at the age of 23, in pursuit of a better life and to empower those she left behind. [GoogleAd] Working as a full time mental health nurse in…
© AS ZIMBABWE’S local authorities groan under the weight of a collapsing economy, government is facing hard choices. [GoogleAd] Should it approve supplementary budgets by the reeling local authorities and face a public backlash or reject them and paralyse operations at these municipalities? There is a price that needs to be paid, whichever way it…
© IN NORTON, a sprawling town 40 kilometres west of the capital city, Harare — residents counted themselves lucky when they saw the Chinese setting camp in the precincts of their homes. [GoogleAd] Twenty-seven-year-old Nomsa Moyo saw herself securing a decent job at the tile manufacturing plant, which has since been established by the Chinese….
© Last month, Zimbabwe banned the use of the rand, the US dollar, and other currencies as legal tender in the country. [GoogleAd] For the past decade, the government has allowed these currencies as legal payment after its own dollar became worthless. Its interim currency — the Real Time Gross Settlement dollar (RTGS) or “zollar”…
© IN Epworth — a poor settlement south-east of Harare — residents of the area have become used to the commonplace hunger all their lives. [GoogleAd] To get by, they borrow food from each other. But now, their resilience is being chipped away. “The hunger here is getting worse,” 47-year-old Mike Moyo said. “After…
© THERE has been a rapid influx of fortune seekers in the mineral-rich Umzingwane District in Matabeleland South after gold was discovered at a river bed in the area. [GoogleAd] According to estimates, more than 2 000 people descended on the rural territory during the latest gold rush. The thousands of illegal miners that have…
© THE past fortnight has seen two prominent women stealing the limelight and in the process shaking the corridors of power and establishment. [GoogleAd] Auditor-General Mildred Chiri was the first one to send tremors when she unleashed a damming audit report, which, among other things, claimed the books for central government, parastatals and municipalities were…
© TRADITIONALISTS have called on Zimbabweans to depart from their conservative culture of burying their loved ones in graves and embrace alternative burial methods. [GoogleAd] This comes as the country’s municipalities are running out of burial space owing to the growing populations in towns. Alternative burial methods include cremation, re-use of old graves and burying…
