Govt avails $20m for schools construction
THE Government, through the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, has availed $20 million that will go towards the construction of new schools across the country as it moves to…
MSU Bursar suspended over corruption
MIDLANDS State University has sent its director of finance Mrs Mamelo Moyo on forced leave pending investigations on allegations of fraud and corruption after she awarded tenders by the institution…
City council ‘mole’ fired
BULAWAYO City Council last week controversially fired one of its senior engineers whom it accuses of leaking confidential council information to the media, it has been learnt.
Scourge of hunger ravages Hwange communities
THE 62-year-old Ackson Shoko removes the wet towel draped around his neck and wipes off the mixture of dust and sweat from his face formed due to the scorching heat…
Gypsy of Africa — one year on the road!
Lenin Ndebele THE late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe argued that the jungle and Africa are a source of temptation for both real and fictional white European characters, but recently, for…
Ambassador Maboyi’s organic philanthropy, a model for community development
FOR many, the practice of philanthropy entails splashing huge sums of money to help people of lands far from their own, often for selfish reasons, albeit without necessarily addressing the…
Gender revolution: Men also need to be liberated
SO much effort has been spent on empowering women to assert and liberate themselves from patriarchy that the plight of men has been forgotten. Men have been isolated and insulated…
Need to re-align corrupted SiNdebele names in Bulawayo
RECENTLY we drove from Plumtree to Bulawayo. When we got to Bellevue at the intersection of Wellington and Plumtree roads I observed two different spellings of the same word —…
Man torches buddy’s home over $33
A MBERENGWA man was left homeless after his four huts were torched by his friend following a misunderstanding over $33.
Protection order against stalking hubby
Marvelous Moyo A GWANDA woman has been granted a protection order against her abusive husband, a famous tout, who took her undergarments and threatened to bewitch her using them.

