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Abel Dzobo Features WriterA FRAIL, pale woman joins the queue to consult self-styled prophet Madzibaba Jehoniah at his shrine. Her arms hang acutely at her sides like a harridan’s brown-gray mucus, whose viscosity is enhanced by snuff to form a brittle burnt-chocolate pig iron rod.
Parties nominate Constitution officials
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
Parties in the inclusive Government have identified three ministers who will sit in the committee tasked to break the deadlock stalling the constitution-making process.
Violent storm wreaks havoc in Mt Darwin
Elita Chikwati Features Writer
Endesayi Poyera of Zambara village eagerly waits to hear news on the condition of her mother and son who were taken to Mt Darwin District Hospital.
Although she still has pains in the back and on her arm, her main worry is the condition of the two hospitalised after sustaining injuries when the house they were in collapsed following violent winds that swept the area.
Too young to get married
Marcia Gore Features CorrespondentAt the age of 14, Evelyn Magumise (not real name), who is a domestic worker in Glen Lorne has seen life’s good, bad and ugly sides. Having lost her mother and forced to marry at the age of 13, Magumise had two miscarriages which resulted in her divorce. She has endured the pain and horror of being a mother while still a child. Magumise’s is just one of the many cases of early forced marriages and their negative impact on the livelihoods young women.
Ambush on Zim escalates tensions
Brezhnev Malaba in WASHINGTON DC
A CRUDELY-EXECUTED ambush on Zimbabwe at the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme plenary by European Union-funded non-governmental organisations has escalated tensions here.
Domestic violence still a challenge
Roselyne Sachiti Deputy Features Editor
MARTHA (26) (not real name) has seen it all. Having customarily married her boyfriend who had forced himself on her resulting in an unplanned pregnancy a few months before writing ‘O’ Level examinations, she reminisces every chapter of her married life painting a chilling picture.
Zimfala 2012 blazing into action
The third annual Zimbabwe Festival of Afrikan Inspired Animation, ZIMFAIA will take place in Harare next month.
Anglicans hold first mass in five years
Daniel Nemukuyu
ANGLICANS in Harare today held their first mass in five years at the Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints under police guard. The midweek mass was held a day after the eviction of Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga of the Anglican Church of the Province of Zimbabwe from the Cathedral offices by the Deputy Sheriff.
When an operation go rogue
The Arena Hildegarde
We are slowly being turned into a generator nation, including an economy powered by generators. Walk around Harare’s Central Business District and you see various types and sizes of generators making noise too. What is the business output like in such an environment?The ‘We are so good’ rhetoric
Reason Wafawarova
Zimbabweans are heading for elections in March 2013 and this is the time when politicians cry out the “we are so good” message with so much conviction that makes it fashionable for all others to believe the rhetorical utterances from the self-anointed custodians of our opinions — the loud mouths that hail from the powerful political community.