MUTARE - Walking on tip- toe across one of Sakubva River’s tributaries in Chikanga, one freezes and feels an instant urge to throw up. Solid faeces race through the yellowish brown sewer-chocked current towards the river whose catchment streams Mutare City...

HARARE - The year 2012 has come to an end in the process recording its own share of mishaps, bad and good moments. Given that 2012 had lots of unfinished business, the bulk of which seemed thorny, carried over into...

HARARE - Never in the history of Zimbabwe has preachers hogged the limelight, pulled large crowds and caught media attention with headline-grabbing feats, as the “prophetic movement” continued to soar above the conventional religious groups. New generation preachers and evangelists “live...

HARARE - The beginning of a New Year always symbolises new beginnings for most people and the Christian community usually start the New Year with prayer and fasting while appealing for divine intervention. Over the past few decades, many Zimbabweans have...

HARARE - Zimbabwe enters an election year with implementation of outstanding reforms and a new constitution lagging way behind schedule. Civil rights activists warn that given the marked interest of the security sector in politics and elections, there is a high...

HARARE - “I am so grateful to be standing in front of you today. I know that I owe my life to God who gave his people the wisdom to manufacture life-prolonging drugs. “When I came here last year, I looked...

HARARE - Production on the once productive farms has sharply deteriorated and farm workers are bearing the effects of the change — going for months without wages — more than a decade after the Zanu PF-led government invaded farms. Not everyone...

HARARE - In 2007, live on British television, the Archbishop of York, Bishop John Sentamu, cut his collar up with scissors to protest against President Robert Mugabe being in power. He said he would only replace his collar if Mugabe was...

HARARE - “Gwede rinofarira rugare nhamoichauya manheru (the freshman enjoys comfort now but suffering will come in the evening),” goes a popular tune sung by seniors to intimidate new comers at mission schools. I first heard this song over 19 years...

HARARE - When Zanu PF held its first congress in independent Zimbabwe, there was a celebratory mood in the country with Chimurenga music guru Thomas Mapfumo releasing songs specifically for the occasion. Known in other circles as “Hurricane Hugo”, after independence...

HARARE - “My son Shakespeare, do not go around shaking your spear everywhere,” exclaimed Albert Nyathi as he recited his poem My Son, at the unveiling of a World Aids Day theme song initiated by a youth singing sensation Theo Phoenyll....

HARARE - They’ve been called noisy, unwieldy and looking like a plastic bag. Although the female condoms were approved in 1993, they haven’t exactly been embraced. After a second version of the female condom was approved in 2009, HIV/Aids health campaigners...

HARARE - Despite the reign of terror characterising the conduct of elections in Zimbabwe, campaign periods are like an early Christmas to many disadvantaged communities. Successive Zimbabwean elections have been blighted by violence and allegations of rigging. But for some communities,...

HARARE - An administrator by profession, Kuda Dube, 24, had his dreams shattered in June this year when he was involved in a road accident. He injured his hip on three places after a Kombi he was travelling in overturned. Dube...

HARARE - Men have since been identified as the key drivers to the HIV and Aids pandemic which has had a devastating effect on humanity around the globe. They have also been fingered in the growing number of domestic violence cases....

HARARE - She is blind, living positively with HIV and has been abandoned by her policeman son. But Gracious Vela’s situation is far from grave. At one time, odds were so staked against her that the 49-year-old Gwanda resident was...

HARARE - In the northern part of central Zimbabwe lies a town pregnant with history. A gateway to Harare and Chirundu and a provincial capital of Mashonaland West Province, Chinhoyi is an idyllic town not only significant in the country’s history...

HARARE - Gender-based Violence (GBV) not only affects our social spheres but has a greater impact on the country’s development. This has become a global problem. According to a research paper by FAO, GBV affects the most productive population groups (ages...

HARARE - The presentation of government’s $3,8 billion 2013 national budget exposed a rarely seen lighter side of Parliament in what is usually the cut-throat world of Zimbabwean politics, and there was certainly a healthy share of political humour during the...

HARARE - For Anglican leaders choosing a new bishop for Harare diocese in 2000, Nolbert Kunonga was a safer pick given the political breeze at the time. Church leaders, including outgoing bishop, Jonathan Siyachitema, had for years suffered the discomfort of...

HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s government has spent well over $100 million pampering the military in actions he defends as necessary to protect the country from “aggressors”. But with hospitals teetering on the brink, schools in shambles and a population decimated...

HARARE - Madzore reveals how the local community and businesses such as Innscor were donating food stuffs to prisoners but alleged these were being hijacked by prison guards and other employees. “Right from the officer-in-charge, the prison workers diverted cooking oil...

HARARE - Firebrand MDC youth leader Solomon Madzore  spent 405 days in prison on allegations of murdering a policeman in Glen View, one of Harare’s poor townships. During his incarceration, the training and word he received in earlier life when he...

HARARE - Death comes like a thief in the night and when it strikes, particularly at those who are closest to our hearts, we usually fail to recover. Such is the force of death it is irrepressible and does not allow...