Greening Harare: Emerging revolution
Garikai Mazara Whilst the vendor menace and commuter omnibus nuisance was on the verge of taking over Harare’s landscape, a slow but very significant revolution was also taking over the…
Africa’s agriculture needs young blood
Modernising Africa’s agriculture sector to attract young people will help tackle youth unemployment and food insecurity, the 2015 African Agriculture Status Report has suggested. Despite the dominance of agriculture in many…
Smelly Dube: A woman in her own league
Freedom Mupanedemo Most women tend to submit to male chauvinistic rantings, accepting it as God’s curse, but that is not the case with Gweru-based Mrs Smelly Dube. She believes that women…
‘Consumers should pay up’
Sunday Mail Reporter Defaulters are partly to blame for Zimbabwe’s electricity shortages as their cumulative debt — if liquidated — could boost power generation, an economist has said. Zesa is…
60 seconds with ‘Queen Moroka’
Wendy Nyakurerwa “HELLO darlings, how are you?” That was Sophie Ndaba or better still, Queen Moroka’s unmistakable signature greeting when she recently visited a clothing store along Harare’s First Street. As…
Pope meets anti-gay clerk
The private meeting Pope Francis held with defiant Kentucky clerk Kim Davis could be read as a strong papal endorsement of religious resistance to gay marriage. The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano,…


