How watching birds helps understand the environment
by BERNARD CHIKETO MY EARLIEST memories are not of city streets, but of the deep, loamy smells of the forest floor and the symphony of the wild.
What inspired the cabinet reshuffle?
STAFF WRITER FEBRUARY 11th brought the usual tremor to Zimbabwe’s ruling echelons. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, reassigned three cabinet ministers.
City Lodge – diamond in the rough
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.
Zimbabwe’s fuel stations are going portable
by BERNARD CHIKETO IN A BID to stamp out the hazardous and widespread trade in black-market fuel, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is taking a novel approach. Instead of just cracking down, it is trying to out-compete the illegal vendors.
Zimbabwe’s Farm Advisors Form a Political Alliance: A Pragmatic Cry for Recognition?
by NORMA TSOPO AT THE launch of a new political affiliate for agricultural officers in Chigodora recently, the local member of parliament, Tawanda Dumbarimwe, presented a symbolic gift: 100 chicks each to 23 women’s league chairladies.
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.
RIVERS OF DEATH
Drowning toll rises as locals defy flood warnings in three tragic incidents by NORMA TSOPO DEADLY currents have claimed four lives in a grim 72-hour nightmare as locals play Russian roulette with mother nature’s fury – including a boy who clung to a cow’s tail to cross a flooded river.
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.
The Unmanaged Predator: Feral Cats Pose a Quiet Threat to Zimbabwe’s Ecological Treasures
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.