HARARE – Very few people associate herbs with the Catholic church, let alone nuns. But Sister Yullita Chirawu, 55, of the Little Children of our Blessed Lady (LCBL) has managed to bring herbal medicicnes into the church — through the front door. Despite initial uneasiness on the use of herbal medicines, resistance quickly melted and…
BULAWAYO – The mushrooming of churches in Zimbabwe in the past five years has given rise to criticism of pastors and prophets by citizens from all walks of life with their followers standing up in defence of their church leaders at any given opportunity. In this article I aim to minister to priests, pastors and…
HARARE – Over the years, something too serious for silence has been happening in Buhera district. The state of infrastructure has been decaying year by year. One needs not emphasise the dire state of rural development in Buhera. Development planners categorise the district as a special problem region requiring special development solutions. Yet, the district…
HARARE – Tindo (not his real name) took an early bath with the meagre water that was in a two-litre container, one of the few belongings in his lodged shack in St Mary’s, Chitungwiza and disheveled as he was, sprinted towards Chigovanyika commuter omnibus rank. With the news of the demolition of illegal structures most…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s prospects of a good farming season might be in jeopardy following revelations that part of government’s $160 million inputs are yet to reach the intended farmers, while rains continue to be elusive in some parts of the country. Despite years of declining agriculture output due to persistent droughts and lack of inputs,…
MUTARE – Dogs, chickens, goats and cattle have better chances of survival than humans, a hard-pressed Johanne Marange Apostolic Church member vending locksets and glue at Sakubva Bus Terminus conceded. “We are not forbidden by the church to medicate our livestock but such an edict is clear and strictly enforced to humans,” he said further…
HARARE – South Sudan is Africa’s newest and youngest country but I hate what is happening there right now. Selfish politicians have allowed the country to degenerate into spates of violence bringing untold suffering on innocent civilians who have nothing to do with hostilities in their country. The United Nations estimates that over 180 000…
HARARE – It is the same old tasteless wine in new bottles. Like the rest of the world, Zimbabweans stood on the threshold of a brand new year, but unlike most, with a horrendous sense of forbiddance, too scared to peep into a sobering grim future. After hopping from one crisis to another, clinging on…
HARARE – Zimbabweans started withdrawing from the economy long before it collapsed. There was a lot of “wheeling and dealing” (madhiri) in offices and other places in the late 1980s and early 90s as foreign exchange shortages began to bite and those who could source it bought machinery spares for companies, making a killing. As…
HARARE – As Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was making the motions to lift the constitutional age limit of 75, allowing him to run for a full term in the election due in 2016, he had an epiphany. The 69-year-old Ugandan strongman, in power for 27 years, returned home from Nelson Mandela’s memorial service and summoned…
