Did a shot ‘Presidential’ elephant fall on hunter Theunis Botha in Hwange?
Sharon Pincott needed a very wide-angled lens to take photos like this one in Hwange, so close the female elephants and their offspring were to her, both physically and emotionally. Hwange’s hunting...
View ArticleNew censorship board to ‘regulate and control’ media
Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo According to The Herald edition of 24 May 2017, the Minister of Home Affairs, Ignatius Chombo, made the appointment in terms of the Censorship and Entertainment...
View ArticleTsvangirai’s Africa day message
President Tsvangirai Africa Day is a day to celebrate this continent of heroes and heroines who successfully fought colonialism and foreign domination; a continent that continues to fight repression...
View ArticleMugabe a huge embarrasment for Africa
Indeed, Africa has millenia of history that we can not go into detail, but it has come a long way to become what it is today. From a history of great civilisations, such as Great Zimbabwe, Egypt,...
View ArticleCivil society resolves to coordinate on elections
There was general consensus among stake-holders gathered at a workshop in Harare co-hosted by the Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (ZESN) and the Election Resource Centre (ERC) on the need for a...
View ArticlePartisan conduct of police will fuel violence ahead of elections
Last week, at a residents meeting organised by the Chitungwiza Residents Trust (Chitrest) slated for Nyamutamba hotel in Chitungwiza, a suspected MDC- T supporter was assaulted by more than 60 alleged...
View ArticleA case for reforms ahead of the 2018 watershed elections
When the war of liberation was fought, the many heroes and heroines of the war who paid the ultimate price and many more men and women who were brutalized in prisons and torture camps at the hands of...
View ArticleFurore over appointment of Censorship board
Bona Mugabe The Board announced by Ignatious Chombo is chaired by former Education minister, Aeneas Chigwedere who is deputized by Mrs Konzani Ncube. President Robert Mugabe’s daughter, Bona Mugabe...
View ArticleWitness
The older I become the more I find I am a witness to events only read about or heard about by others. If I say “I remember the Japanese surrender in 1945”, or “I knew John Bradburne in the 1970s”, or...
View ArticleHCB denies threatening to cut off power to Zimbabwe
The Harare daily “Herald” on Tuesday cited Josh Chifamba, the Chief Executive of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), as saying that, because of foreign currency shortages, ZESA has been...
View ArticleDhlakama complains of “Slowness” in negotiations
Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama In another of his telephone press conferences, this time between his bush headquarters in the central district of Gorongosa, and a room full of journalists and Renamo...
View ArticleNo part of Zimbabwe must be inaccessible to the opposition
Mudarikwa is the Member of Parliament for UMP in the 8th Parliament of Zimbabwe. He declared that there is no space for the opposition in UMP and also that Zanu PF is guaranteed of getting 80 000 votes...
View ArticleThe chance to change Paradise
Happy Africa Day! It’s a beautiful day here in Zimbabwe; the sky is clear and blue, the early morning winter mist has lifted and in the garden sunbirds are sipping nectar from flowering aloes and...
View ArticleWhy 2018 Elections in the absence of Electoral Reforms?
ZANU-PF should not be given any chance this time around as we have learnt a lot in the past 37 years as we have witnessed non-improvements in their quality of services which are next to zero. Their...
View ArticleMDC-T youth stabbed in political violence
Details emerging are that the Zanu PF youths were campaigning for the primary elections. The incident that saw Mdutshwa being stabbed was reported to the police but no arrests have been made to date....
View ArticleInadequacy of healthcare in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe...
Elderly people who are the first ones to receive a pension from the state pose for photographs before receiving their monthly pension in Welezo old people’s home Stone Town Zanzibar, Tanzania...
View ArticleZim ranked 13th among world’s most fragile states, report shows
At a panel on fragile states at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Durban early this month, Mugabe boasted that Zimbabwe sported 14 universities and had a literacy rate of over 90%, which was the...
View ArticleMaimane’s deportation from Zambia ‘casts spotlight on SAPDC network of...
DA leader Mmusi Maimane Maimane was on his way, as chairperson of this network, to attend the trial of Zambian opposition politician Hakainde Hichilema, who was arrested six weeks ago and detained on...
View ArticleThe Importance of Leadership
MDC-T local government secretary Eddie Cross On one such camp, we followed our usual routine – divide the boys into teams and then get the teams to play games against each other on a roster. After two...
View ArticleParliament is in recess from 18th May to 6th June
Frosty reception and heated debate on NPRC Bill No further movement on Constitution Amendment Bill and Land Commission Bill Special economic zones – customs duty rebates Chiwundura By-election Called...
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