HARARE – When single mother Pamela Chiromo was allocated a small plot to grow maize in the fertile Beatrice area last year, she thought she had finally found the solution to the nagging problem of fending for her young family. She would roam around the plot like a proud successful farmer, beholding the charm of…
HARARE – Clad in a dirty white T-Shirt emblazoned with the face of a glum Emmerson Mnangagwa, an illegal gold miner sifts through brownish wet sands and points out to a group of journalists, “this is gold”. It is a gold rush of some sort which cannot be stopped by once dreaded former president Robert…
HARARE – The old photographer, with an incredible little mop of fringe, grey-white hair around his balding, mottled scalp sits solo on a bench in the vast Harare Gardens Park. He has the resigned look of one who knows that at his age life has stopped giving and only takes away. But the rate at…
HARARE – When it comes to love, they say age is just but a number. What was once frowned upon as a bad social practice, is now widely accepted as okay especially among Zimbabwe’s powerful and influential men. Infact, it has now become some sort of a trend: Zimbabwean older men, usually rich ones, successfully…
HARARE – At a glimpse, Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands region seems lush and verdant. But a closer check depicts a land degraded by overgrazing, unsustainable cropping practices, deforestation and wild bush fires. Still, some plots teem with biodiversity; crops grow under the shades of banana; avocado and cassava trees while here and there, you find mango,…
HARARE – Many people might have been left outraged and appalled by the contemptuous behaviour of Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu in Parliament last week. But to any keen follower of local politics, the bulky minister was just striding in very familiar territory. While appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy on…
HARARE – In the laboratory at his Marlborough home in Harare Ben Vermulen was trying to milk a huge Cape cobra by manoeuvring its razor sharp fangs through a rubber sheath on a plastic vial — the way he had done it thousands of times before. This time the snake wriggled loose, sinking its fangs…
HARARE – Celia Rukato, 27, was born in Zimbabwe but raised in South Africa. Her first career path was in finance and economics but her passion for fashion saw her relocating back to her country of birth in 2016 to start her brand Chjaa Enterprises. From uniquely printed fabrics to custom clothes, Celia can make…
HARARE – Absenteeism and unruly behaviour often characterised most sessions in the National Assembly, reducing the respectable House to a circus. In most cases, the legislative assembly will be full during the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC)’s live coverage of the question and answer session on Wednesdays. But immediately after that, most Members of Parliament (MPS)…
HARARE – Citizens have raised concerns over the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)’s “selective” arrests of politicians, amid indications that they are leaving out the big fish that contributed to the downfall of the country’s economy. Since November last year when the army took over government under Operation Restore Legacy, several former ministers have been arrested…
