Three decades late, ZTA finally holds an AGM
by BERNARD CHIKETO Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) will convene its first annual general meeting on June 17th in Harare, a move that ends an awkward stretch of corporate silence for an organisation that has spent years selling the country’s attractions without ever presenting its own books to a public forum.
The Consequences of Aggression on Iran’s Society and Future
by SHEIKH MUSTAFA Listening to an Iraq citizen speak about how war had hollowed out their country, the pattern became unmistakable.
A prime suspect in a series of brutal murders in northern Zimbabwe is captured after a military-style manhunt
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.
Her honour
Zimbabwe swears in its first woman chief justice, as the Malaba era ends by BERNARD CHIKETO JUSTICE Elizabeth Chiedza Gwaunza on May 15th became Zimbabwe’s first female chief justice, capping a quiet transformation of a judiciary that, just a generation ago, was entirely male.
Manicaland Bets on Pine Resin to Douse Old Conflicts
by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR decades, the vast pine plantations of Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands have been a landscape of latent wealth and recurring loss.
The $10 Ticket to Manicaland’s Capital Club
Mutare’s entrepreneurs crave funding and credibility. A seminar offers both—for the price of two cappuccinos. by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR the ambitious business owner in Mutare, two problems loom large: access to capital and access to each other.
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.
