What happens when a chief’s eldest child is a daughter: A look at the Mvuthu chieftainship
Cultural Heritage with Pathisa Nyathi This time we focus the spotlight on the Mvuthu chieftainship at Jambezi within Hwange District in Matabeleland North. Our interest in it is inspired by…
Tuku’s 65th — get ready for it!
Mtandazo Dube SUPERSTAR Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi, who dazzled thousands at Unplugged a fortnight ago at Borrowdale Racecourse in Harare, is set for a massive return to the leafy suburb, this…
Solution to human-wildlife conflict needed
Mhlupheki Dube IF you interact with communities in Matabeleland North on issues to do with livestock, you are almost definitely going to notice a common feature that persists among various…
Bcc halts market gardening
Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Farming Reporter BULAWAYO City Council has stopped enterprising residents living at suburbs within the vicinity of its water reservoir at Lobengula West to harness water from the…
Doves in remarkable market growth
Business Editor DOVES Funeral Assurance, a subsidiary of Doves Holdings — the country’s oldest funeral services group, managed to write new business worth more than US$1,2 million during the first…
What Miss Zim is all about
Last week, The Sunday Mail Leisure carried an article indicating the wheels had come off at Miss Zimbabwe Trust. A spokesperson for the Trust, Tendai Chirau, has responded saying there…
Pokello’s Pink Bottoms now in Bots
FORMER Big Brother Africa (BBA) housemate Pokello Nare has launched her shoe line — Pokello Pink Bottoms in Botswana.
Homelink raises $7m for housing projects
Africa Moyo HOMELINK (Private) Limited has so far raised US$7 million of the US$50 million that is being sought to finance the construction of more than 30 500 housing units…
Of protests, opposition politics and Western imperialism
Vincent Gono, Features Editor THE wave of protests that characterised Harare in recent weeks all but confirmed a failed retracing of the Libyan, Tunisian, Egyptian and Syrian political footprints.
The self-destructing ‘zombies’
Sharon Kavhu recently in Zhombe With the sun setting, young girls in their semi-nude outfits are patrolling the grocery shops at Empress Mine township.











