HARARE – Ahead of the 2018 elections, Zanu PF has created and designed an intricate “occultist” system that is meant to ensure that opposition politics or discourse is not given any breeding room among the rural folk, which constitute over 65 percent of the of the country’s 210 constituencies. The Daily News recently visited Magunje’s…
HARARE – If fame and fortune could buy freedom, then the likes of former Zanu PF Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke and Independent End Time Message church founder Robert Martin Gumbura would be walking scot-free today. Their incarceration, however, has changed the face of prison, which is dominated by the ordinary unknown members of society,…
HARARE – African sages say if a snake suddenly hurtles in front of you, it smacks of a bad omen. This was the case with a Daily News on Sunday crew that went on an ambitious exploratory sojourn in the mineral-rich Makwiro area of Mashonaland West Province recently; where indiscriminate chrome mining is completely defacing…
HARARE – It’s not known how many times prominent personalities, Zanu PF Members of Parliament and ministers in President Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet kneel before divinity to ask for forgiveness for their sins as they retire to bed at night. What is known though is that they do not have any qualms kneeling before their revered…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is home to some of the world’s most iconic wild animals, but rampant poaching might wipe them out forever. Authorities have often been caught napping as poachers take advantage of the dry period from September to December when watering holes dry up, forcing animals to congregate in small pockets that still hold…
HARARE – After three horror traffic accidents that claimed 24 lives in just three days last month, road traffic safety is once again taking centre stage, with public transport users and experts questioning authorities and transport operators’ sincerity in tackling road carnage. Tragedy struck in Murewa on August 24 when a commuter omnibus driver attempted…
HARARE – Responsibility is one thing that several people are afraid of in life, which has seen many men including popular figures being dragged before the courts for failing to pay maintenance towards the upkeep of their children. Politicians, business people, pastors, musicians and ordinary citizens have not been spared with maintenance cases becoming a…
HARARE – Kumafulatsi; By Wonder Guchu, Arts Initiates, 2015. 134 Pages Filth, debauchery, drunkenness, prostitution, child abuse, eroded moral fabric, false prophets, blackmail, homosexuality, poverty, petty thefts among others are all part and parcel of Wonder Guchu’s exciting play, Kumafulatsi. It may not be fair to get into a detailed critique of Kumafulatsi, a 2015…
HARARE – Chris Andersen, who practiced as an advocate for over half a century, died on July 12, 2017. He was 81. He gave his all in the cause of those he had been instructed to represent. He joined the Bar in the early 60s, when its members included many Queens Counsel of star-studded quality. …
ZVISHAVANE – With the 2016/2017 agricultural season having been characterised by above normal rainfall and flash floods across the country, surprisingly Zvishavane which is in the agricultural ecological regions four and five suffered a dry spell. A visit to the small mining area showed dry river beds which had filled with sand mostly due to…
