The Last Roar – Thomas Mapfumo’s Final Bow
by BERNARD CHIKETO Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo, the exiled lion of Zimbabwean music, will return home in April for a final farewell performance.
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Unidentified man recovered from flooded river in eastern Zimbabwe
STAFF WRITER POLICE in Manicaland province have appealed to the public for help in identifying a man whose body was recovered from the Honde River on Monday.
Zimbabwe names tourism minister as Cabinet’s top performer
by BERNARD CHIKETO WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration introduced performance contracts for Cabinet ministers four years ago, sceptics dismissed them as theatrical optics in a system long accustomed to job security regardless of results.
Zimbabwean man dies by suicide after clash with wives over plan to take third spouse
STAFF WRITER A 35-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man has taken his own life after his two wives violently protested his plans to marry a third woman, in a case that has highlighted domestic tensions under polygynous marriages.
Zimbabwe’s fuel stations are going portable
by BERNARD CHIKETO IN A BID to stamp out the hazardous and widespread trade in black-market fuel, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is taking a novel approach. Instead of just cracking down, it is trying to out-compete the illegal vendors.
Stepping Stones – How a Footbridge Symbolises Incremental Progress in Manicaland
by BERNARD CHIKETO IN MANICALAND seasonal rains can sever communities from schools, clinics and markets so infrastructure is not an abstract concept but a determinant of daily life.
JUSTICE BY NUMBERS
Zimbabwe’s judiciary talks of transparency and technology to shore up public trust by BERNARD CHIKETOIN THE grand, often grim theatre of Zimbabwean public life, the judiciary has not always played a heroic role. Critics have long accused it of political timidity, crippling delays, and opaque operations. So, when Justice Anna Gowora of the Constitutional Court…