HARARE – Green trees and drying grass decorate a terrain which undulates with great modesty, exuding a glowing natural look of Muzarabani South in Mashonaland Central Province. It is also in the same province that Alpha Resettlement has its dominant indigenous trees like Musasa donned with President Robert Mugabe’s campaign posters while only small torn…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s history is complex. As the vast majority of African nations, this country (formerly known as Rhodesia) declared independence from the United Kingdom on November 11, 1965, then renamed and finally self-governed as Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980. Currently, it is placed as number 172 in the Human Development Index and has been…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s election may have been a triumph for President Robert Mugabe, but the economic impact looks uncertain, with the country now facing “huge challenges”, say analysts. Harare’s stock market fell heavily last week, with some companies’ share prices falling up to 20 percent on Monday, following the news that Morgan Tsvangirai’s opposition MDC…
HARARE – Many Zimbabwean men are struggling to keep it up. And one in every 10 men is willing to seek treatment for humiliating and perturbing erectile dysfunction. The ban on male sexual performance (libido) enhancers by the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe, may lead to a flourishing black market for the performance-enhancing drugs. Men…
HARARE – While Zanu PF is poised for a majority two thirds in Parliament and their presidential candidate Robert Mugabe set to win resoundly, social and political commentators have urged the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai not to lose heart and regroup. Rashweat Mukundu said while there were signs of rigging, “it was also a…
HARARE – More than 1 200 delegates, among them ministers of tourism from 186 countries, captains of the tourism industry, tourist wholesalers and stakeholders are expected to attend the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, UNWTO general assembly set for Victoria Falls from 24 to 29 August. Zimbabwe and Zambia would co-host the 20th session of…
HARARE – Songbird Chiwoniso Maraire has passed on. Yes, just like that! The mbira music star, 37, died on Wednesday evening at the CitiMed Hospital in Chitungwiza after being admitted with a suspected pneumonia infection. Chiwoniso had been admitted at the hospital for the last 10 days and was awaiting a lung biopsy to examine…
HARARE – In one of the biggest campaign compromise, Ignatius Chombo, the Zimbabwean Local Government minister, has written off all outstanding water bills nationwide in a move widely viewed as a vote-buying gimmick by Zanu PF. The Daily News sought comments from social and political commentators on the latest directive by Chombo. Okay Machisa, ZimRights…
HARARE – They deal ruthlessly with people whose ideologies differs from theirs and have over the past two decades not taken any prisoners. Even a renowned terrorist like Adolf Hitler could borrow a trick or two from the shadowy militant group which calls itself Chipangano. Chipangano, loosely translated meaning an agreement or oath, is believed…
HARARE – Compensation Farm, once a thriving safari and animal conservancy in Nyamandlovu is now a pale shadow of itself, 13 years after the brutal murder of then farm owner Martin Olds by invaders. New settlers have hunted down all the wild animals and vandalised aluminium pipes which used to supply water to the farm….
