The series fails to interrogate polygamy and instead mistakes sexual pathology for culture. There is a difference between interrogating culture and butchering it. The Polygamist does the latter. by BHEKISISA MNCUBE “Bad writing is like any other form of crime: most of it is unimaginative and tiresomely predictable.” That Richard Mitchell line appeared on my Facebook…
STAFF WRITER THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) announced on January 3rd the capture of Anymore Zvitsva, the alleged perpetrator behind a string of killings that have terrorised the Guruve district in recent months.
by STAFF WRITER FOR 22 YEARS, a particular kind of anguish was passed down like a family heirloom among Arsenal supporters. Fathers who had celebrated the “Invincibles” of 2004, watched their children grow into adults who knew only near-misses and annoying collapses.
by BERNARD CHIKETO DOWNTOWN Mutare is not an obvious setting for a classy accommodation facility. Yet City Lodge twinkles from there like a diamond in the rough.
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.
by BERNARD CHIKETO IN THE UNLIKELY event that a Zimbabwean bank goes bust, its depositors have an increasingly firm shield. The Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC), the statutory body that insures eligible deposits, has just concluded its strongest year on record.
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.
