© JACOB Ngarivhume, leader of Transform Zimbabwe (TZ), does not see any difference between the old and new dispensations. If anything, he believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa is actually worse than his predecessor. [GoogleAd] In this interview with the Daily News on Sunday’s Blessings Mashaya, Ngarivhume speaks about rebuilding TZ, the need for electoral reforms and…
© A SIGNIFICANT section of the MDC family, including the opposition political party’s leadership, is convinced that the Zanu PF government played a role in the death of the party’s founding father Morgan Tsvangirai who succumbed to cancer of the colon in February last year. [GoogleAd] This is despite the fact that prior to his…
© IT IS now over a year since the founding president of the MDC, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, passed to heavenly glory. I want to share with fellow freedom and democracy proponents my last political tête-à-tête with him in November 2017. [GoogleAd] “Save (my totem) I want to see you, please come over,” said Tsvangirai on…
© HARARE has become one huge dumpsite. Small mounds of garbage can be seen at every street corner in the city’s suburbs because council is failing to collect rubbish on schedule. [GoogleAd] Ideally, council should collect garbage in the suburbs twice every week. Because of the depleted fleet and the prevailing fuel shortages, it has…
© A CHIEFTAINSHIP wrangle in Makoni, where a member of the Muswere clan has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Local Government minister July Moyo to the High Court, has reignited debate over what could be causing these disputes. [GoogleAd] In the High Court application, which is also citing Chief Makoni Colgan Gwasira as a respondent,…
© IN the scorching heat amid gusty winds in a hot afternoon in Gokwe North, busty leaves swirl around Mercy Shanya from Mandiya Village as she sits under an acacia tree by a bone-dry river, queuing with her animals for water. [GoogleAd] Shanya, a herder who keeps cattle, sheep and goats for a living, had…
© IT’S around 4pm in the sprawling town of Chitungwiza at Chigovanyika Shopping Centre, flies spin and tumble on the spreading beds of raw meat; women and men shout themselves hoarse at the same time, furiously warding off the excited flies. It is a war of sorts — a war that is waged daily as…
© Mutemarare, 61, walks through his corn field, desperately looking for remnants of maize.He’s not expecting to find any, as most of his crop wilted before reaching maturity, the result of the devastating drought that has hit Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] Before Cyclone Idai wreaked havoc on eastern Zimbabwe last month, the country was already in the…
© The Struggle Continues: 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe, By David Coltart; Auckland Park, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4314-2318-7 (Paperback) [GoogleAd] MANY people know David Coltart as a lawyer and one of the top officials from the opposition MDC who found their way into Parliament at the inception of the Thabo Mbeki-brokered government of national unity…
© IT IS almost a decade when water last ran through the now rusty tap of Mbuya Chikowo’s home in Chegutu town. Standing at the door of her dilapidated two-roomed house where she stays with her four grandchildren, Mbuya Chikowo said a cholera outbreak is a constant scare for herself and her grandchildren. [Adz] Just…
