From displacement to dignity: How refugees are farming a future
Theseus Shambare, Features Writer FLEEING violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo six years ago, Dorothy Tamitunda Patrick arrived in Zimbabwe with uncertainty etched into every step of her journey.…
Gold, grain and gains: Three pillars rebuilding Zimbabwe’s economy
Business Reporter ZIMBABWE’S recent economic gains are the cumulative outcome of tight fiscal discipline, coordinated monetary policy and favourable external conditions. These factors are now translating into tangible improvements in…
THE DESTRUCTIVE SHADOW OF ZIM’S CONSTRUCTION BOOM
Check Point Desk THE current construction boom, probably unprecedented in recent years, has led to soaring demand for construction materials, including timber, cement, tiles, as well as river sand and…
WATCH: Safeguarding course ends
Lovemore Dube, [email protected] TWENTY participants completed a five-module course in Girls Positive and Safe Coaching Pathway in Bulawayo on Friday. The programme is promoted by the International Sport For All…
Maphisa celebrations rekindle liberation memories for Brigadier-General Mazinyane
AS Zimbabwe prepares to mark Independence Day on 18 April, with less than three months remaining, the selection of Maphisa Growth Point as this year’s venue has stirred deep memories…
Bulawayo Volleyball Association honours its own
Lovemore Dube THE Bulawayo Volleyball Association held its annual awards ceremony on 17 January where past and present performers in the sport were honoured. The biggest prize went to Vulindlela…
Where memory ends and fear begins. . .Dementia and the price of growing old
Bruce Ndlovu, [email protected] WHEN Laizah Moyo of Masendu Village in Bulilima District, Matabeleland South Province, wandered into a neighbour’s homestead late one night, she unknowingly stepped into the crosshairs of…
When the music grows up…Inside Bulawayo’s no under-23 party
Bruce Ndlovu, [email protected] EVERY time Davison Feliate stepped out into a pub or a nightclub in Bulawayo, he noticed that the people who surrounded him were increasingly getting younger. At…
The Malaba people of Zimbabwe
The Malaba people came to south western Zimbabwe in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. They are of Venda origins and are associated with the Thobela Mbedzi Mwali shrine…
‘Home Alone’ mother Catherine O’Hara dies aged 71
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian-born comic actor and SCTV alum, who starred as Macaulay Culkin’s harried mother in two Home Alone movies and won an Emmy…











