A hidden ark
by STAFF WRITER ON THE Lisima plateau, a vast highland in eastern Angola that feeds four of southern Africa’s great river systems, spiders glow blue, crickets wear armour and elephants linger in the shadows, long since forgotten by science.
Rivers of Ruin
by BERNARD CHIKETO When government declared a state of disaster last week to rehabilitate the country’s ravaged river systems, it offered a rare admission: mining, both legal and roving, has brought ecological catastrophe to seventeen major waterways.
A seat for the sanctioned – Zimbabwe’s unlikely UN victory
by STAFF WRITER ZIMBABWE won a seat on the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, a diplomatic prize that President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed as proof that his controversial re-engagement drive is winning over the world.
A house built on many skills
Zimbabwe’s real-estate awards honour a developer, recycler and football treasurer by BERNARD CHIKETO ON MAY 30th, at a ceremony in the capital, Beauty Dorothy Hughes was named an innovative entrepreneur in housing schemes and community development at the Zimbabwe Women in Real Estate & Construction Awards.
Zimbabwe builds Ebola wards it hopes never to fill
by STAFF WRITER GOVERNMENT has kitted out three Ebola isolation centres in Harare, Bulawayo and the Zambian border post of Chirundu, even though the country has yet to register a single case of the haemorrhagic fever.
Three decades late, ZTA finally holds an AGM
by BERNARD CHIKETO Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) will convene its first annual general meeting on June 17th in Harare, a move that ends an awkward stretch of corporate silence for an organisation that has spent years selling the country’s attractions without ever presenting its own books to a public forum.
Mine inspectors armoured with political cover
by BERNARD CHIKETO Government has told its mine inspectors that their orders to close unsafe pits will no longer be quietly reversed by well-connected operators, promising to shield them from the political meddling and intimidation that have long undercut regulation in one of Africa’s more dangerous mining jurisdictions.
Police try to rebuild lost trust
by STAFF WRITER TRUST, once lost, is not easily pinned back on. But across two districts this week, senior officers did their best to staple it in place.
Zimbabwe makes polluters pay—at least in law
by STAFF WRITER THE NOTION that those who dirty the environment should pick up the tab has graduated from campaign slogan to binding legal duty in Zimbabwe.