STAFF WRITER A PROMINENT Zimbabwean preacher Walter Magaya, the founder of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries, appeared in a Harare magistrate’s court on Monday, where the state successfully argued that his alleged crimes are so serious that only the High Court may grant him bail.
by BERNARD CHIKETO Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo, the exiled lion of Zimbabwean music, will return home in April for a final farewell performance.
by BERNARD CHIKETO IN A MOVE that blurs traditional lines between civil service and political mobilisation, Zimbabwe’s agricultural extension officers have collectively donned a new mantle.
STAFF WRITER A RESHUFFLE at Mutare City Rovers aims to revive its fortunes and a return to premier league football ahead of the 2026 Pacific Storm Eastern Region Soccer League.
Mutare’s rubbish piles up as its fleet breaks down by BERNARD CHIKETOFOR WEEKS, residents in parts of the eastern border city of Mutare have watched their uncollected rubbish fester.
Drug case collapsed over the police’s failure to identify a plant by BERNARD CHIKETO IT WAS meant to be a routine conviction. The police had a tip, a search, and what they described as 352 grams of cannabis, with an estimated street value of $35.
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…
by BERNARD CHIKETO DOWNTOWN Mutare is not an obvious setting for a classy accommodation facility. Yet City Lodge twinkles from there like a diamond in the rough.
In Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands, a banana giant is proving that a lucrative crop can coexist with a rich web of life. by BERNARD CHIKETO A FROG’S chorus is not the sound one expects to dominate a commercial fruit plantation.
Drowning toll rises as locals defy flood warnings in three tragic incidents by NORMA TSOPO DEADLY currents have claimed four lives in a grim 72-hour nightmare as locals play Russian roulette with mother nature’s fury – including a boy who clung to a cow’s tail to cross a flooded river.
