The last stand
Two courts, one verdict, and a man who would not leave by BERNARD CHIKETO THE LEGAL journey of Wilson Masokovere has reached its terminus—not with a bang, but with the quiet thud of a gavel.
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NetOne overhauls pricing as it targets Zimbabwe’s daily earners
by STAFF WRITER ZIMBABWE’S state-owned mobile operator is overhauling its consumer pitch, replacing a voice-only staple with a tiered suite of packages that bundle calls, texts and data for as little as 20 US cents.
Digital tax overhaul needed to unlock Zimbabwe’s connectivity dividend
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.
The Guardian’s House
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…
Netflix’s The Polygamist confuses culture with sexual deviance
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…
The rhythm of rehabilitation
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.
The women saving Nenhohwe
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.
A model of how not to modernise Zimbabwe’s informal economy
by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR 44 YEARS Michael Chikati has welded and hammered at Sakubva Green Market.
From child soldier to figurehead of war veteran mischief to diplomat to untimely death
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.
The solstice’s lagging light
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.