WITH the world celebrating Women’s Month, the Daily News on Sunday Staff Writer Nyasha Dube caught up with a female heroine who has made it her life’s mission to help victims of sexual and gender-based violence through her Adult Rape Clinic (ARC). ARC co-director Memory Kadau shared her life’s mission, the challenges and obstacles she…
Godknows Matarutse MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa last Tuesday called for an urgent all-inclusive dialogue to resolve the country’s decades-long political and economic crises. He said the talks will not seek power-sharing with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling Zanu PF government, but reforms to future-proof elections from being disputed. Nelson Chamisa Two days later,…
Tariro Sajeni WHEN her parents died 25 years ago, Marble Muchenje found herself in the thick of things. As a first born, she had to step up and take care of her four siblings after relatives they had hoped would assist failed. Muchenje went through hardships to raise her siblings. She hustled to put food on…
Painted dogs, also known as wild dogs, are actually not dogs at all, but represent an evolutionary line of their own that is unique to the African continent. You would be forgiven for confusing these mottled, big-eared animals for hyenas—but they are distinctly different creatures. While hyenas are more closely related to cats, painted dogs…
LAST week, two senior MDC officials, former Midlands senator Lillian Timveous and former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo, jumped ship and joined President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF party. The development was met with fierce criticism from opposition supporters amid allegations of the two being sell-outs. The Daily News on Sunday Chief Writer Mugove Tafirenyika…
SONIA Ngwenya, 39, wakes up early in the morning to her usual 5.30am alarm that alerts her of her dawn duty of queuing at the community borehole to fetch water for the day. The mother of four, who rents a room in Makokoba suburb together with three other families, wakes her children and they head…
Tamari Chikiwa FEAR and uncertainty cloud the world as the renewed Covid 19 threat characterised by new variant strains of the pandemic has resulted in many countries effecting stringent lockdowns. Zimbabwe also reintroduced tough lockdown restrictions following an upsurge in infections and deaths which have been attributed to a second wave of the pandemic….
THE country’s main opposition party, the MDC, recently held a chaotic extraordinary congress that elected Douglas Mwonzora as the new president. Mwonzora has pledged to work with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his rivals, among them Nelson Chamisa of the MDC Alliance. Below are excerpts of the interview with the Daily News’ Senior Staff Writer, Blessings…
ISLAMIC insurgents in northern Mozambique have killed over 2 000 people and displaced 500 000 more. Zimbabwe, which relies on its neighbour’s ports for transportation of imports and fuel, is under pressure to militarily intervene. The Daily News Consulting Editor Constantine Chimakure spoke to Professor Stephen Chan of the University of London on the developments…
CHOICE Kanyongo-Gilbert might be thousands of kilometres away from her childhood home after relocating to the United States —but her rural area, Mutoko, means everything and remains close to her heart. Just like many before her, Choice left the country exactly 24 years ago in search of better opportunities soon after completing her high school…
