A tour by a revered English cricket club is part of a strategy to pitch the country as a destination for high-value sports tourism. by Bernard CHIKETO IT HAS been six decades since the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the custodian of the sport’s laws and a side steeped in English tradition, last played in Zimbabwe….
by BERNARD CHIKETO IN A MOVE that blurs traditional lines between civil service and political mobilisation, Zimbabwe’s agricultural extension officers have collectively donned a new mantle.
STAFF WRITER POLICE in Manicaland province have appealed to the public for help in identifying a man whose body was recovered from the Honde River on Monday.
STAFF WRITER IT WAS a fitting end, though it came too soon for those who loved him. On February 1st, Paul Connolly, the founder of Shearwater Adventures, suffered a suspected heart attack.
by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR decades, the vast pine plantations of Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands have been a landscape of latent wealth and recurring loss.
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.
by NORMA TSOPO TOURISTS, like vultures, are sensitive creatures. They circle promising spots but will veer away at the faintest sense of trouble.
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.
by Bernard CHIKETO THE first thing you notice is the silence. It’s not an absence of sound, but a profound stillness woven from the drip of moisture on ancient fern leaves, the distant call of a Livingstone’s Turaco, and the soft, persistent embrace of the mist.
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…
