HARARE – “We were told that if the MDC wins we are going to teach you a lesson,” an elderly man who owns a bottle store deep in Uzumba said between sips of opaque beer. He furtively looks around, afraid his tormentors maybe nearby. After some time he continues with his story. A story of…
HARARE – Healthcare delivery is a top election agenda issue. This piece aims to evaluate the various party manifestos on their healthcare promises. There is a general lack of statistical and financial data to support these promises. In 1985, the World Health Organisation declared that our healthcare system was among the best in the developing…
HARARE – On April 21, 2008, Florence Machinga lost everything. A mob of hundreds of people showed up at her house, demanded to see her — and, when she didn’t materialise, burned it down. “They destroyed everything,” she says. “Cattle were slaughtered, the chickens were slaughtered.” She was hiding in the bush — she’d been…
HARARE – Being a sex worker is not a stroll in the park — it is very tough. For one to put food on the table and pay the bills, it’s not just about the coitus, various tricks are employed in order to get the elusive dollar. For Priscilla Jack (not real name), it means…
HARARE – Modern folk considers witchcraft to be a perception and satanism to be the “dark side of Christianity”, but for many Zimbabweans, both witchcraft and satanism are equally evil and satanic. For the majority of Zimbabweans of Christian descent, witchcraft and satanism both oppose God’s teachings and are demonically inspired and thus should not…
HARARE – It all started with responding to a message that Maukbul Ahmed Mukadam thought he had received from a local satellite television service provider. Just 15 minutes later, Mukadam realised he had lost money. His bank card had been cloned, allegedly by late businessman James Chiyangwa’s son, Mike Harris. The message seemed like the…
HARARE – Tendai Ndoro is contesting for the Hatfield Constituency seat as an independent candidate in the forthcoming elections. The Daily News on Sunday staff writer Tarisai Machakaire caught up with her to discuss her electoral road map and aspirations as a woman in Zimbabwean politics. Q: Who is Tendai Ndoro? A: I am an…
HARARE – During his reign, former president Robert Mugabe and his allies were untouchable to the point where not even the long arm of the law could catch up with them. But tables turned immediately after Mugabe’s ouster as they began to face the music for alleged corrupt activities that were swept under the carpet…
HARARE – She was a school teacher who loved teaching and the children she taught, but the desire to empower others financially saw Maglin Chiwuta dumping the noble profession for a tile manufacturing venture. Raised amidst grinding poverty in a family teeming with siblings, step brothers and sisters, Chiwuta eschewed deprivation. In 1995, without any…
HARARE – A mother contemplates how she does her food shopping amid high costs in Zimbabwe. Whatever is cheapest in the season, is what her children eat, substituting one thing for another, in much smaller portions than before. “What I have at home is enough to give them a simple plate of sadza and beans,…
