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.
Man axed, loses eye during dispute
Tatenda Gapare A TSHOLOTSHO man appeared in court for allegedly striking his elder brother with an axe on the eye for quarrelling with their mother.
State-of-the-art ECD centre for rural tots
BEAUTIFUL, well-furnished classes, flush toilets and running water are usually associated with urban school settings but for children of Nyamandlovu Village Four in Umguza District, Matabeleland North, this is now…

