by BERNARD CHIKETO ZIMBABWE’S tourism ministry has inked a $66.9m commercial joint venture with a private consortium to install bulk water, power and telecoms at the Masuwe Special Economic Zone, a 271-hectare tract near the Victoria Falls rainforest.
by BERNARD CHIKETO A SILENT ecological pressure is building in one of Zimbabwe’s major biodiversity hotspots. In tourist-favoured retreats of the Vumba and Chimanimani mountains, usually admired for their unique birds and rare wildlife, an unassuming domestic animal has become a significant conservation concern.
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.
STAFF WRITER LOWELL Fillmore “Sly” Dunbar, the pioneering drummer whose revolutionary beats formed the backbone of reggae and provided rhythm for musical titans from Bob Dylan to Grace Jones, died Monday morning at his home in Jamaica.
Jeys Marabini, a Zimbabwean troubadour, discovers that the best endorsement comes in uniform by STAFF WRITER “WHAT a humbling moment,” marvelled Jeys Marabini, a musician known for his nimble fusion of imbube and Afro-jazz.
Drug case collapsed over the police’s failure to identify a plant by BERNARD CHIKETO IT WAS meant to be a routine conviction. The police had a tip, a search, and what they described as 352 grams of cannabis, with an estimated street value of $35.
by SHEIKH MUSTAFA Listening to an Iraq citizen speak about how war had hollowed out their country, the pattern became unmistakable.
by BERNARD CHIKETO ZIMBABWE’S government has taken a long‑overdue step to tackle one of its most persistent road‑safety failures – the lax enforcement of drink‑driving laws.
