Month: May 2026
Arsenal’s long wait ends, and Zimbabwe erupts with it
by STAFF WRITER FOR 22 YEARS, a particular kind of anguish was passed down like a family heirloom among Arsenal supporters. Fathers who had celebrated the “Invincibles” of 2004, watched their children grow into adults who knew only near-misses and annoying collapses.
The art of saving the planet in Mutare
In eastern Zimbabwe, poets and painters are proving more effective at motivating green action than policy papers by BERNARD CHIKETO ON A SUN-SPLASHED morning in Sakubva, Mutare’s oldest suburb, Tawanda Ndlovu made an environmental plea that would have silenced a room of bureaucrats.
The bees and us
by NORMA TSOPO IT IS A quiet partnership, easily overlooked. Yet for millennia, bees and people have shared a connection that has shaped diets, landscapes and local economies.
The spectre returns
Ebola’s latest flare-up tests a region already stretched by conflict and mistrust by STAFF WRITER A NEW Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organisation—the loudest alarm the agency can sound.
Good rains bring death to Mutare
Zimbabwe’s malaria resurgence, and the fading power of DDT by STAFF WRITER AN AIRY conference room at Mutare District Development Coordinator’s offices, was heavy with the weight of a grim statistic.
The Consequences of Aggression on Iran’s Society and Future
by SHEIKH MUSTAFA Listening to an Iraq citizen speak about how war had hollowed out their country, the pattern became unmistakable.
 ‘Zimbabwe is my home, we are all one people’ – Motsepe declares
For a South African leader to claim the country his compatriots so often revile as home was a gesture no tourism campaign could manufacture by STAFF WRITER Patrice Motsepe, the president of the Confederation of African Football, arrived in Zimbabwe on Saturday morning to a red-carpet welcome, and then said something that landed with the…
Her honour
Zimbabwe swears in its first woman chief justice, as the Malaba era ends by BERNARD CHIKETO JUSTICE Elizabeth Chiedza Gwaunza on May 15th became Zimbabwe’s first female chief justice, capping a quiet transformation of a judiciary that, just a generation ago, was entirely male.