Has Zimbabwe’s tourism regulator discovered a new way to improve business and accountability or a new revenue stream through on-the-spot penalties? by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR AN industry that trades on warm welcomes and jaw-dropping beautiful landscapes, Zimbabwe’s tourism sector has always had a slightly edgy relationship with rules.
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.
by BERNARD CHIKETO A WORKSHOP is not, usually, the most promising setting for a revolution.
Themba Gorimbo’s fight outside the cage by BERNARD CHIKETO IN A SPORT that reveres the strong and silent, Themba Gorimbo was always the exception. The Zimbabwean mixed martial artist talked—about poverty, about power, and about the things that frighten governments.
