CHIWESHE – Working as a medical doctor is not something easy in a country like Zimbabwe. Despite the high regard with which the job is held in other parts of the world, here it is treated just like any other thankless profession characterised by low pay, long working hours and above all poor working conditions….
HARARE – Many considered Joseph Chiriseri a lucky man and it was for a good reason. At a time when the Civil Courts were swarmed with women seeking maintenance from men, Chiriseri won an order for maintenance. Very few men believed this was possible. This was way back in 2009 but the situation has hardly…
NGUNDU – Sex for dollar sounds weird, too farfetched even. Well, you have to visit Ngundu Growth Point any time of the day to believe it. For only $1, sex is guaranteed from girls as young as 13-years-old. The hookers span all age groups, even grannies in their 60s. Business is brisk all day, 24…
HARARE – While there are several bizarre cases that have happened in Zimbabwe, there are some high profile ones which have baffled the nation and left all and sundry confused. The most bizarre case in Zimbabwe’s recent memory has been of claims by a “diesel mystic” self-styled spirit medium, Rotina Mavhunga that she had discovered…
HARARE – Tsitsi Shungu has admirable skill as she passes the football to her team mates in fashionable style. The athletic 14-year-old girl who is currently signed up by a female football side dreams of one day representing her county as a member of the mighty warriors. The energy she exudes and her zeal…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC are in hand-to-hand combat, unfurling nationwide door-to-door (D2D) campaigns where district officials are dropping in and canvassing for support. Get-out-to-vote efforts have moved front and centre for both Mugabe and Tsvangirai’s campaigns, reflecting the tightening of the race in all the battlegrounds nationally. The…
HARARE – Zimbabweans will soon troop to the polls for the umpteenth time in less than a decade-and-a-half to “choose” a new government. The new vote comes in the wake in which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his band of democrats under the MDC banner have taken time in government and tasted real political power…
CHIKOMBA – It is game on in many parts of the country where United Nations-sponsored inter-party football for peace matches are helping ease grassroots political tensions. With cooperation from wobbly coalition government partners, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has pumped the top dollar into a concept which eased conflict and child abuse in countries…
HARARE – While for some inmates in the country’s overflowing prisons the clock ticks towards release day, for those condemned to life sentence there is no end in sight but death. Such anguish has prompted one such person, Khisimusi Ndlovu, who has been in prison since 1992, to approach the Supreme Court for recourse. For…
HARARE – Struggles for independence took different forms in various nations on the African continent. Following colonisation in the late 19th century, Africa’s quest for total freedom has been portrayed in many different ways. Some chose to write in prose while verse has also been widely used notably in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola and other like…
