The preacher, the politician and the missing millions
A housing scheme built on hope is torn apart by allegations of theft, political patronage, and open warfare in the streets of Mutare by BERNARD CHIKETO THE messengers of the law arrived at Number 29, Fifth Avenue, on a Monday morning, armed with a court order and accompanied by five police officers. They did not…
MP uses constituency funds to buy shoes, booze
A guardian of public funds becomes their plunderer by BERNARD CHIKETO IN A CASE that lays bare the rot within Zimbabwe’s governance, a sitting legislator has been charged with brazenly stealing money meant for his poorest constituents.
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.
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.
Zimbabwe Tops Global Tourism Ranking for 2025, Signaling a National Rebirth
The thunder of Victoria Falls now echoes a nation’s return to the world stage, as a former pariah becomes a premier destination. by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR decades, Zimbabwe was a byword for political and economic turmoil, its world-class tourist attractions overshadowed by international isolation and internal strife. That chapter may be closing.
A traffic in keratin
Rhino horn is still flowing from Africa to China—carved into bracelets, not just medicine by NORMA TSOPO AT THE turn of the 20th century, an estimated 500,000 rhinos roamed the wild. Today, fewer than 27,000 remain, and a rhino is killed every 15 hours.