Breaking down barriers in gyms for women
An independent gym owner says setting up female-only spaces is the solution for getting more women to work out. Rosie Webber opened the women-only Webbers Gym on an industrial estate…
Woman’s huge business from humble beginnings
Flora Fadzai Sibanda TWO years ago, in the quiet rural setting of Ward 6 in Umguza District, 31‑year‑old Gracious Sibanda made a decision that would slowly change her life. It…
What really determines the price of tobacco?
Tapiwa Masedza Agriculture Correspondent Every tobacco grower knows the feeling. You have done your best through the season — chosen your seed, applied your fertiliser, cured carefully — and yet…
A historical justification for Amendment No. 3 Bill
Gay Mufambi Correspondent This article traces the constitutional history of Africa from precolonial governance structures through the traumatic ruptures of the Transatlantic slave trade and European colonisation, to the inherited…
China’s development offers ‘security dividend’ to a fractured world
The oil markets are jolted. Supply chains stretching through chokepoints in the Middle East are once again under threat, sending energy costs soaring and global investors scrambling for shelter. Yet…
What your silence stands to inherit
Tinayo Kangai THERE is a subject most of us instinctively avoid: mortality. We postpone confronting it, lulled by the illusion that there will always be time to set things right.…
COMMENT: Zimbabwe’s industrial shift is no longer optional
THE export of raw tonnage is the shipment of national potential. For decades, Zimbabwe has watched its minerals — lithium, chrome, platinum, iron ore — disappear over the horizon in…
COMMUNION: From ashes of a stupid war rises an African industrial future
Communion with Bishop Lazarus This week, Bishop Lazi begins his instalment by graciously asking for your indulgence as he elaborately taps the wisdom of King Solomon from Ecclesiastes 10:1-15. While…
I want to evict younger brother
Mudzimba Dr Rebecca Chisamba Makadii, Amai? I am a married man with three children. My wife and I are both gainfully employed and our combined income is decent. My youngest…











