HARARE – Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away With Murder will be looked at in two parts. The first part will concentrate on the general impression as well as Swango’s American excursions while the second part will look at his Zimbabwean operations. Look out for the Zimbabwean face of the…
HARARE – A Bulawayo magistrate has jailed a dancer with a local traditional group, Hloseni Arts Ensemble, for 20 years for raping the wife of a fellow dancer. Philani Mabasa, 28, had pleaded not guilty to three counts of raping 20-year-old Lorraine Ngwenya when he appeared before regional magistrate Owen Tagu. At the time of…
HARARE – I entered the small library which is used as a classroom. There were about four or five inmates gathered around a desk. One of the inmates was said to be their teacher. She said she was reading for a Master’s in Business Administration. After being introduced to the women, I asked for their…
HARARE – Upon reaching the imposing wall and gate which secure Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, one cannot help but feel edgy because of the presence of several stern-looking guards. The very old, half destroyed wooden bench where the soldiers sit tells a tale of what is happening on the inside of Harare’s biggest correctional facility….
HARARE – A woman sweats as labour pains set in and is in tears while the husband struggles with cattle pulling the scotch cart to the local clinic… The baby screams, and the mother gives in… With Zimbabwe’s neglected health care system, many expecting mothers’ high hopes for their unborn children start to dwindle as…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is serious. There will be no violence in this year’s elections. If there is, he will not be responsible. People might ask why? After all the country has never held any elections that were free of violence since its independence! The answer is simple. Mugabe is fighting for legitimacy…
HARARE – Once again, Zimbabwe and Africa have been robbed of one of its own, a genuine academic and intellectual par excellence, who was very honest to his opinion and very consistent with his beliefs. News that Professor John Makumbe had died after succumbing to heart attack, came to me as a shock. In fact…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitution-making process faced many hurdles along the way but trudged on. The Daily News on Sunday relives some of the major milestones and problems the parliamentary committee commonly referred to as Copac faced along the way. After the disruptions that marred the first All Stakeholders’ Conference in 2009, Copac began the process…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has often shouted on top of his voice, fist clenched how he is determined to go for an election with or without a constitution and with or without the consent of coalition partners. On Thursday he cast a different figure, agreeing to a raft of reforms under a draft constitution…
MUTARE – Zimbabwe’s stone sculptors, once the envy of many, are grinding in poverty. From Chinese wishing to buy their pieces for a pittance to locals with no appreciation for art, sculptors are paying the price of Zimbabwe’s slump as a favoured destination for Western tourists. Phineas Chidzeya, a veteran sculptor who once enjoyed the…
