CHIKOMBA - It is game on in many parts of the country where United Nations-sponsored inter-party football for peace matches are helping ease grassroots political tensions. With cooperation from wobbly coalition government partners, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has pumped...

HARARE - While for some inmates in the country’s overflowing prisons the clock ticks towards release day, for those condemned to life sentence there is no end in sight but death. Such anguish has prompted one such person, Khisimusi Ndlovu, who...

HARARE - Struggles for independence took different forms in various nations on the African continent. Following colonisation in the late 19th century, Africa’s quest for total freedom has been portrayed in many different ways. Some chose to write in prose...

HARARE - As Zimbabwe continues to scale up efforts in the fight against HIV/Aids which has been around for the past three decades, Daily News Features Editor Thelma Chikwanha had a conversation with UNAIDS Country Coordinator Tatiana Shoumilina to find out...

WEDZA - Donning a straw hat to avoid the scorching heat, Bothwell Chimanga, 19, stood mesmerised as a group of dancers from Harare gyrated on a makeshift stage in between peace speeches at Wedza centre. Chimanga was part of hundreds of...

HARARE - At least six out of every 10 households in Zimbabwe are living in dire poverty, a report by a government statistics agency has revealed. A recently released poverty assessment report by Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) shows poverty is...

BEITBRIDGE - From currency to television and radio, people in this poor southern region are likely to know more about South African affairs than the average Zulu. The cocky ones tell you they actually mistake South African leader Jacob Zuma as...

HARARE - The heart-rending story by the Daily News a few days after the country commemorated 33 years of Independence has changed the life of 81-year-old Robert Siwa. Siwa lives with his wife Aquinata, 10 years younger, in the run-down settlement...

HARARE - A dirty strip snakes into a rundown compound in Caledonia, a bustling settlement established to house victims of President Robert Mugabe’s Operation Murambatsvina (drive out trash) seven years ago. In this midst of extreme poverty, residents here, 20 kilometres...

HARARE - With the harmonised elections on the horizon, Zimbabweans await to see how the two new radio stations, Star FM and Zi FM will cover political parties fighting it against Zanu PF. Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH) which used to enjoy...

HARARE - Zanu PF officials should be grateful that Britain, the United States of America and European Union, EU is re-engaging them as they continue to ease sanctions on its members. This year the EU removed a further 81 people from...

HARARE - It is official; Zimbabwe is now 33 years old.   In 1980, I was 20 and a student in the United Kingdom so I did not witness first-hand the experience and real time excitement of independence. Notwithstanding, I...

HARARE - Tomorrow, April 18 is an important calendar date for Zimbabweans as we celebrate 33 years of self-rule. There has been mixed reactions to this year’s Independence Day, with analysts and social commentators giving different views in interviews carried out...

HARARE - “Peace begins with you, peace begins with me; peace begins with all of us!” The aforementioned wise words have been popularised by President Robert Mugabe who at recent State events asks those in attendance to repeat them after...

HARARE - The indigenous people of Zimbabwe have since independence in 1980 been waiting patiently for that day when the economy would open to them unconditionally and let those with entrepreneurial zeal to enter and participate in the mainstream economy on...

BINGA - One has to travel to Binga District in Matabeleland North Province to understand why people here, who are mainly Tonga, have been rejecting Zanu PF since Independence while keeping loyalty to opposing parties. Roads are out of shape, health...

HARARE - President Robert Mugabe and his bitter political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai might be sworn enemies. But, whenever they privately meet, they are sure to agree they have a common headache — fierce factionalism driven by top officials with...

MUTARE - Mashonaland Turf Club betting hall in downtown Mutare could pass for an old people’s home common room. Old men, some with failing sight, strain at small font on pieces of paper. Others shuffle around consulting their peers. These oldies...

HARARE - Murewa North villagers are wallowing in poverty as their crops have been affected by incessant rains, while the local leadership has abandoned the constituency resulting in general lack of development. Villagers survive on subsistence farming but they are failing...

HARARE - In Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, there are 77 convicts who have been condemned to death by hanging. Held in solitary confinement in cells close to the gallows, some of those condemned to...

HARARE - We read with a lot of interest a recent decision by the European Union (EU) to drop from their so-called sanctions list a number of key Zanu PF leaders and some institutions. In Zimbabwe, there is a general...

TSHOLOTSHO - Zimbabwe's starving San community, commonly known as bushmen, are demanding to be taken back to the bush saying the government has neglected them for many years. The San were moved from Hwange National Park in the 1920s during...

HARARE - As president Robert Mugabe faces the sunset of his long political career, the perception that he failed to end corruption has persisted because of factual evidence that points to one of the most corrupt regimes in Zimbabwe’s history, analysts...

HARARE - The recent removal of 81 Zanu PF members from the European Union, EU sanctions list while leaving 10 others has created a debate among Zimbabweans from across the political and social divide. President Robert Mugabe’s potential heirs, Vice President...