HARARE – Call it changing times. Unlike yester years, Zimbabweans have come to witness more and more women being arrested and prosecuted for committing third schedule offences which were previously common with their male counterparts. Pre-meditated murders, armed robberies, attempted murders and a number of other heinous crimes have now become easy bed fellows with…
HARARE – No love lost is an old adage too tiring to hear but which refuses to go in Zimbabwe’s polarised political theatre. There is MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, People’s Democratic Party front man Tendai Biti, newcomer Joice Mujuru and smaller MDC formation leader Welshman Ncube — their collective goal being to form a grand…
HARARE – Friendship Benches — located in the grounds of health clinics around Harare and in Gweru and Chitungwiza — are helping patients with depression or anxiety with problem-solving therapy. The practitioners, who operate from simple wooden seats, are lay health workers known as “Community Grandmothers,” or “Mbuya Utano”, trained to listen to and support…
HARARE – Maggots feast on faecal matter in Epworth as children play close by, apparently oblivious of the health implications. Elsewhere in this dirt-poor place, a toilet collapses with a resident inside, while a shallow well also caves in while people are fetching water. All these incidents are part of daily life in Epworth where…
HARARE – Pension Murema has been awaiting trial for the past 11 years, and the years he has lost in Harare Remand Prison engaging with a sluggish justice system has impacted him adversely. Murema’s murder trial had either not begun or had been delayed because of a mix of things — jail authorities had not…
HARARE – Tapiwa Kadzura travelled all the way from Karoi, he had his tobacco bales and hoped to make a kill at the auction floors — but reality is different. He sleeps in a toilet and scrounges for food as he and other farmers are told there is no money to pay them now. Last…
HARARE – A deathly silence engulfs Takeley Drive in Harare’s medium density suburb of Sentosa, Mabelreign as Dick “Chinx” Chingaira is helped out of an Isuzu Bighorn and onto a wheelchair. Frail and barely able to speak, the man whose liberation war songs turned farmers into soldiers struggles to fight back tears as he approaches…
HARARE – Media industry in Zimbabwe last week commemorated World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, with various organisations converging at the Harare Polytechnic where Information minister Chris Mushowe gave an address. The gathering saw deliberations and presentations on the media landscape by various media analysts and senior journalists. Students from the Harare Polytechnic and…
HARARE – Creative Economic Outlook Zim (CEOZ) holds the notion that without this critical national, regional and global asset – workers – it is impossible for our respective societies to reach their full potential in the various spheres that defines the human race. Accordingly, the 2017 commemorations are being held under the global focus of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe this week joined the rest of the world in commemorating Workers’ Day celebrated worldwide on May 1 as unemployment in the country hovers at a staggering 90 percent. When Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980, the new leadership inherited a vibrant industry that employed millions of workers but 37 years down the line…
