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.
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Pepetual Guwila, the constant voice of eastern business, died on May 27th, aged 53
by NORMA TSOPO PEPETUAL Guwila, the long-serving regional manager for the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) in Manicaland and Chiredzi, died on Wednesday morning at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare.
 ‘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.
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.
Minister Mugadza hails teamwork after cabinet recognition
by BERNARD CHIKETO Manicaland provincial minister has emerged as one of the top-performing devolution chiefs in the latest government rankings, prompting him to shower praises to both his superiors and his support staff.
Zimbabwe names tourism minister as Cabinet’s top performer
by BERNARD CHIKETO WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration introduced performance contracts for Cabinet ministers four years ago, sceptics dismissed them as theatrical optics in a system long accustomed to job security regardless of results.
The war the US sold and the atrocities it hid
by DR BRIAN TAWANDA MARWENZE WHEN US and Israeli warplanes hit Tehran, Isfahan and Tabriz, they weren’t stopping a bomb—they were launching one.
High Court rejects bid by sacked DANet official
by BERNARD CHIKETO A HIGH Court judge has dismissed an urgent bid by Destiny of Afrika Network (DANet) former Manicaland projects manager Wilson Masokovere to hold onto his post, upholding his dismissal for misconduct and clearing the way for his immediate removal from the organisation’s premises.