EDITORIAL COMMENT: When Zanu-PF used Cowdray Park to show intent

THE recent ward by- election in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo all but showed that people can take charge of their destiny if they choose to open their eyes. It is not…

A rare million-dollar facelift for Mbare Flats …Singaporean firm promises to fix surrounding roads

When the 112-year-old Matapi Flats were scarred by a fiery fireball on July 24 last year, two days later its traumatised residents got an unlikely visitor — President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who visited the high-density suburb to get an appreciation of the scale of the calamity that had befallen the area.

Grandpa inmate nursing a tormented soul

Debra Matabvu Even at the age of 70, Arshid Kazunga is a restless man. His soul is tormented. He constantly scratches his unkempt grey hair while aimlessly staring in space,…

‘They had no choice, but to give me a gun’

We continue chronicling the political life of Cde Fani Chikomba, whose nom de guerre was Cde Sorry Zivanayi. This week, the liberation fighter narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati how his trip to Mozambique for military training was cut short after the Nyadzonia bombing. This resulted in him being taught how to use a riffle and within a few hours assigned to return to Rhodesia and fight the white settler government.

Sixty years of art captured in text

“THE collection of works of art, which will be on display when the Rhodes National Gallery is formally opened today by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, is probably the finest to ever cross the equator.”

Zanu-PF bullish on restructuring exercise

Zanu-PF has made significant progress in the ongoing restructuring of Harare and Bulawayo party organs, which is part of an elaborate effort to breathe life in jurisdictions that have been dominated by opposition political formations in the past two decades, the ruling party’s secretary for information and publicity, Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, has said.

Lessons from Cyclone Idai

What lessons can be drawn from Cyclone Idai, in terms of disaster preparedness and responsiveness?

Bosso sons return in enemy camp

Mehluli Sibanda, Senior Sports Reporter  FORMER Highlanders player, Gabriel “Granvia” Nyoni makes a quick return to Barbourfields Stadium this afternoon when his new team, Caps United clash with Bosso in what…

Zec in a fix

Lincoln Towindo, Harare Bureau  THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is battling to prevent a potentially explosive administrative disaster during the 2023 elections as it emerges that a provision in the electoral…

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