by STAFF WRITER STATE-OWNED mobile operator NetOne has appealed for fiscal reforms to ease the cost of network expansion, arguing that prohibitive taxes on digital infrastructure are throttling Zimbabwe’s ambition to become a regional technology hub.
At an elite Anglican mission school in Mutasa – Manicaland, allegations of serial abuse against a teacher have exposed the fragility of the safeguards meant to protect the girl child. As police hunt a fugitive educator, an institution—and a community—confronts uncomfortable questions. by BERNARD CHIKETO THE security guards at St David’s Bonda Girls’ High School…
The series fails to interrogate polygamy and instead mistakes sexual pathology for culture. There is a difference between interrogating culture and butchering it. The Polygamist does the latter. by BHEKISISA MNCUBE “Bad writing is like any other form of crime: most of it is unimaginative and tiresomely predictable.” That Richard Mitchell line appeared on my Facebook…
A prison service finds an unlikely stage—and a new tune—for reform by STAFF WRITER THE stage at the Mandel Leisure Centre at Watsomba was an unlikely venue for penological innovation. Nor was the Chibuku neShamwari Traditional Dance Competition.
In rural Zimbabwe, it is women who are holding the land—and the dead—together by NORMA TSOPO ON A scantly vegetated plain in Chimanimani district, Queen Chimwoyo gestures at terraces of stone, neatly packed behind woven wire. These are gabions, the humble engineering of soil conservation.
by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR 44 YEARS Michael Chikati has welded and hammered at Sakubva Green Market.
Victor Matemadanda, Zimbabwean diplomat, liberation veteran and ZANU-PF commissar, died on June 20th, aged 66 by STAFF WRITER THERE was a certain restlessness to Victor Matemadanda. He was a man who seemed to have lived several political lives, each more improbable than the last.
FOR SOUTHERNERS, today is the winter solstice—the year’s meanest portion of daylight. But the shortest day does not bring the earliest sunset or the latest sunrise.
by BERNARD CHIKETO IN THE UNLIKELY event that a Zimbabwean bank goes bust, its depositors have an increasingly firm shield. The Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC), the statutory body that insures eligible deposits, has just concluded its strongest year on record.
A new luxury coach service between Mutare and Bulawayo is promising to reclaim road travel from the chaos of the rank. by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR anyone who has braved Zimbabwe’s long-distance bus network, the memory is visceral. It is a cacophony of blaring horns and competing touts, a scrum for luggage space, and a journey…
