HARARE – Zimbabwe’s visual and performing artists have in the past years received pro bono legal representation from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, ZLHR after their artistic productions were banned by police in conjunction with the Censorship Board. Kumbirai Mafunda, a ZLHR information officer said the firm was a non-profit human rights organisation whose core…
HARARE – The constitutional reforms under way in our nation provides a window of hope for most citizens. The constitution will give the parameters on which the state will be run. The constitution will herald a new governance dispensation; some will win and others will lose in the process. Devolution, we are told is one…
HARARE – Neo-natal deaths are fast becoming Zimbabwe’s new headache. Beating HIV/Aids as the number one killer, they are accounting for most of the deaths of children under the age of five. According to UN agency, Unicef’s health specialist Ranganai Mathema, about 80 percent of deaths among children under five are caused by four mostly…
HARARE – Gospel music star Olivia Charamba believes the girl-child should be equipped artistically as this can turn out to be a future sidestep career. Popularly known in the music circles as Amai Charamba, the gospel diva said she is already teaching her three girls basics in music. Amai Charamba is married to gospel sensation…
HARARE – A kombi negotiates a dangerous patch on this dusty road in the impoverished villages dotted on the edges of Dzimbahwe Mountain. Yet, on this treacherous road is the path to hope. A further two kilometres past a sleepy “business centre” is Chidamoyo Mission Hospital, run by the Church of Christ. With government hospitals…
HARARE – The Daily News on Sunday continues to serialise veteran Zimbabwean born journalist-cum-writer Michael Holman’s satire, Last Orders at Harrods. Today the paper carries the last part of Chapter 12 and the beginning of Chapter 13. While there was certainly a case for drastic measures, said Furniver, on the whole, all things considered, and…
BULAWAYO – The moment a 16-year-old housemaid Kholisa Moyo hears water dribble into the family home geyser, she rushes to the kitchen sink below it to confirm water has finally come on stream. Throttled gasps of air as pressure rushes through hitherto shut outlets and splattering sounds from the kitchen tap confirm her suspicion. “Water…
HARARE – As schools got down to business after opening yesterday, the future of dozens of farm children is in jeopardy — thanks to a land reform programme vaunted by its campaigners as Zimbabwe’s next best thing to the liberation struggle. A female senior prison officer, Angela Chisora has ganged up with the ministry of…
HARARE – When Jennifer Kadonzvo, 43, went to Harare Central Hospital with a complaint of heavy menstrual flow and coughing blood, she thought her suffering would cease since she was now in the care of medical professionals. But that was not to be as she died because she could not get the required treatment on…
HARARE – Fashion shows are necessary for the growth of the cotton industry and clothing manufacturers industry of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Fashion Week organiser Pricilla Chigariro said the objective of the just-ended Fashion Week was to bring attention to the industry in a bid to revive the clothing industry of Zimbabwe. “There is no reason…
