Good rains bring death to Mutare
Zimbabwe’s malaria resurgence, and the fading power of DDT by STAFF WRITER AN AIRY conference room at Mutare District Development Coordinator’s offices, was heavy with the weight of a grim statistic.
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The Consequences of Aggression on Iran’s Society and Future
by SHEIKH MUSTAFA Listening to an Iraq citizen speak about how war had hollowed out their country, the pattern became unmistakable.
‘Zimbabwe is my home, we are all one people’ – Motsepe declares
For a South African leader to claim the country his compatriots so often revile as home was a gesture no tourism campaign could manufacture by STAFF WRITER Patrice Motsepe, the president of the Confederation of African Football, arrived in Zimbabwe on Saturday morning to a red-carpet welcome, and then said something that landed with the…
Her honour
Zimbabwe swears in its first woman chief justice, as the Malaba era ends by BERNARD CHIKETO JUSTICE Elizabeth Chiedza Gwaunza on May 15th became Zimbabwe’s first female chief justice, capping a quiet transformation of a judiciary that, just a generation ago, was entirely male.
Gifts that keep on taking
How Sir Wicknell turned a media house’s ethics code into a bargain-hunter’s paradise by BERNARD CHIKETO TO THE untrained eye, Zimpapers’ media-ethics rulebook is a stout, humourless document. It frowns upon journalists accepting gifts worth more than US$100, a sum presumably calculated to allow for a modest lunch but not, say, a brand-new SUV.
A bug’s life, a farmer’s ruin
STAFF WRITER IN THE time it takes to read this sentence, another tonne of maize, wheat or beans will have been devoured by an enemy that never sleeps.
Drugs placed at par with coups, insurgencies
Minister labels drugs a security threat, but Zimbabwe’s real battle is only beginning by BERNARD CHIKETO“THIS problem is increasingly impacting our youth and not only undermining public health, safety and national productivity, but also becoming a security threat.”
Bones of Contention
Johanne Masowe family feud over prophet’s grave tests the limits of Zimbabwe’s law—and faith by BERNARD CHIKETOHIGH on the boulder-strewn Dandadzi Hills, the tomb of Peter Jack Masedza lies quiet once more.
Faith and filling stations: A prophet’s three-week promise to end Mozambique’s fuel queues
by STAFF WRITER AS MOZAMBIQUE grapples with crippling fuel shortages that have left motorists queueing for hours and paralysed commerce across the central provinces, one religious leader has issued an unusual divine forecast: within three weeks, the pumps will flow freely again.
Eastern Highlands finally getting the attention—and investment—it deserves.
by NORMA TSOPO FOR decades, the Eastern Highlands have been an unlikely backwater. A landscape of mist-draped mountains, tea plantations and forests that tumble towards Mozambique, it possesses all the raw materials of a tourist mecca: mild climes, dramatic scenery and a certain colonial-era charm.