Hub-and-spoke model: ARDA’s panacea to poor communities

Ray Bande Senior Reporter SINCE time immemorial, we have always been reminded that ‘alone we can do so little, together we can do so much’. In the same vein, corporate…

Fill the valley with ditches!

Trust Maanda Looking at the Unseen 2 KINGS 3:16 -17 KJV [16] And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. [17] For thus saith the…

500 traditional healers meet

The Herald, 17 October 1992 OVER 500 traditional healers from all over Zimbabwe are meeting in Matonjeni today outside Bulawayo, to perform rituals meant to end the drought that Zimbabwe…

Mental capacity lacking person cannot enter into a binding contract

Trust Maanda Legal Position IN order for a contract to bind, parties must have mental capacity. A contract entered into by a lunatic is not valid or binding. This is…

Totems as identity and inheritance: What is in your mutupo?

Rodgers Irimayi Cultural Perspectives IN Zimbabwe, there are few things that are deeply rooted in personal and communal identity as the totem or mutupo. More than a cultural relic, a…

From resolution to reality: Delivering on Zanu PF promises

Nick Mangwana Government Up Close AS the vibrant city of Mutare hosts the 22nd National People’s Conference, there is a palpable sense of anticipation in the air.

COMMENT : PROTECT OUR CHILDREN — BREAK THE SILENCE ON ABUSE

THE recent revelations from Magaba Village in Mberengwa are a stark reminder of the vulnerability of children in our communities. Three orphaned siblings, aged between four and fourteen, have reportedly…

Sonke asibeni lombono wokuthuthukisa ilizwe lethu

SESISIYAWUGQIBA umnyaka ka2025, nanko sekusele inyanga ezimbili nje ukuba siwuvalelise umnyaka. Kunengi okwenzakeleyo empilweni zethu kanye lasesizweni sakithi. Kunhlangothi ezehlukeneyo zempilo zethu sithuthukile kodwa siphinde njalo sahlangana lobunzima obehlukeneyo obutshiye…

EDITORIAL COMMENT : We’re making progress against murder, assault

ALL murder and killings have a peculiar horror, as to all other preventable deaths such as those caused by neglect or accident, but ritual murder and deaths from sexual attack…

Phos’ elakho Bathi vuka uzenzele mama . . . !

Emnyakeni eyedluleyo umuntu wesifazane ubephathwa njengesigcabha njalo izinqumo abezenza bezibonakala angathi aziqondanga, ubefanele alinde umbono womkakhe abe sethatha isinqumo esivunyelwe ngumkakhe. Konke okwakumele kwenziwe kwakumele kulindwe inhloko yomuzi engubaba izokwenza…

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