HARARE – She is sick, and sits leaning on the wall of her hut. She shifts her small frame, peers into the distance and in a voice laden with anguish, she recounts: “I was raped.” It is hard to digest the words from the tall 46-year-old mother of seven. She is one of the few…
HARARE – Perhaps the starting point when examining this invaluable addition to African scholarship would be exploring the series editors’ comments on the book. “The author combines the African philosophy of Ubuntu or humanness, the cornerstone of African thought and life, with the concept of Integral Leadership, with particular reference to Lessem and Schieffer’s combining,…
HARARE – While Zimbabweans acknowledge the political liberation and the land bequeathed to us by our elders, the baton stick should not end with them but must of necessity be passed on. Today 37 years on, we celebrate their sterling efforts in giving us black majority rule. Our elders discharged their God given duties in…
MUZARABANI – About 300km from Harare into Mashonaland Central Province lies a dry and remote area called Muzarabani where people somehow manage to scratch a living despite both natural and man-made disasters including extreme whether temperatures. The area falls under the natural farming region five which is characterised by high temperatures and low rainfall throughout…
HARARE – Takura Chinguwo from Chingwizi holding camp in Mwenezi is fighting not only a war against a strain of drug-resistant TB, but also a battle to obtain a strictly regulated new medicine that could save his life. In February 2014 after the immense Tokwe-Mukorsi Dam basin flooded following heavy rains, Chinguwo was among 20…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is drifting towards an economic crisis as severe as the 2008 economic meltdown which eventually led government to abandon the worthless Zimdollar after it was severely dented by hyperinflation, analysts contend. Banks are so short of cash that queuing has become a full-time occupation for some of those lucky enough to have…
HARARE – “We will not go anywhere, this is where we belong.” This was the message by people who are living with disabilities at a Leonard Chishire home, as court officials threatened to kick them out of the only home they have known for over two decades. On March 10, the Sheriff of the High…
HARARE – A High Court order outlawing corporal punishment in homes and schools spotlights the struggle between Zimbabwe’s deeply-rooted attachment to spanking children and new laws that criminalise the infliction of bodily pain as a form of punishment. In most Zimbabwean homes, children have more respect for the belt, stick or the infamous slip-on sandal,…
HARARE – Most rural families in Midlands, Masvingo and Matabeleland provinces have had their livelihoods seriously affected as they lost their goats, chicken and cattle due to heavy incessant rains induced by the Tropical depression Dineo. The ground is now saturated and can no longer absorb more rains. Rivers are registering heavy flows with some…
HARARE – Since adoption of the multi-currency regime in 2009, following a multi-billion percent inflationary meltdown caused by rampant money-printing, spawning critical cash shortages — debate has been raging on whether to adopt the rand or not. Discussions on this will certainly gain renewed currency after President Robert Mugabe last week hinted that Zimbabwe should…
