Contagion: When real life imitates art

Tinashe Kusema Film Review I have had to bow to pressure or should I say public demand to do a review of Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller “Contagion”. Requests have been…

Poetic justice for the notorious robbers

LIVE by the sword, die by the sword!

This aptly captures the bloody shootout between the Zimbabwe Republic Police and a notorious gang of armed robbers, five of whom died in the fire exchange in Harare.

Building roads for national development

TRANSPORT is key to development and economic growth in a country.

It provides links within countries and connections across borders to seaports. The provision of road transport infrastructure in Zimbabwe over the past two decades has faced a number of challenges that include inadequate funding, natural disasters and poor maintenance and rehabilitation.

Spare a thought for court officials

AS the rape charges were being read out to him, Admire kept chewing and making silent prayers while facing downwards to avoid eye contact with court officials and people who were in the gallery.

Be wary of Covid-19 myths

IN an age that is largely dominated by social media, disinformation has generally fed to some myths around coronavirus — a pandemic that is currently infecting and affecting people across the globe. The influx of news has given birth to several myths regarding the virus. Zimbabweans, just like the rest of the world, are seized with debunking false information.

The Mbare boxer who ruled Africa

FOR five years, between 1982 and 1987, a heavily built man who boxed his way out of the slums of Mbare ruled African heavyweight boxing with a combination of swagger and ruthlessness.

A master of knockouts, the late Proud Chinembiri earned the nickname “Kilimanjaro” because of his physical built.

Close those damn bars!

LIFE has never been this dull!

In fact, the past days have been very painful to say the least.

Pangolins linked to coronavirus

Smuggled pangolins have been found to carry viruses closely related to the one sweeping the world.

Covid-19 scam: 11 SA firms probed

Eleven firms are being investigated for selling products such as face masks and hand sanitisers at inflated prices amid the Covid-19 crisis, Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel has announced.

Patel was speaking at a briefing media in Pretoria, where a number of ministers from the country’s economic cluster outlined interventions in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Call to review land tenure system

THE Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC) is calling for a review of the country’s land tenure system with a view to introducing a new practice that facilitates farmers’ access to private finance.

ZLC chairperson Ms Tendai Bare told The Sunday Mail that the current tenure systems on agricultural land, that is, the 99-year lease, the permit system, the customary law for communal land, and the grants and title deed systems need to be strengthened to provide security of tenure supportive of sustainable agricultural production.

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