© 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…
© DRAMA is one genre of literature that has not really featured significantly in any of these installments, not because of the level of its relevance in the general basket of the arts. In fact, drama — the written as well as performance has remained an important branch of the arts. [GoogleAd] Like any other…
© Dig Your Own Well, with Foreword by Ben William, By Knowledge Blessing Shamuyarira, Knowledge B Shamuyarira, Harare, 2018. 103 Pages ISBN: 978-0-7974-8370-5 (Paperback) [GoogleAd] THE symbol of the well is something one would expect top encounter in a fictional narrative but appears in this business motivational publication. In any other narrative, the symbol would…
© A NATION’s youth is its driving force and Zimbabwe has been lacking in that space, with a very few young guns joining politics. However, Zimbabwe has in the past years witnessed more dynamic youngsters becoming the voice of the nation by addressing sensitive issues. [GoogleAd] One such dynamic young politician who holds great potential…
