Nightmare for Epworth as residents endure endless power blackout
Living in Epworth, a peri-urban marginalized community has proven to be difficult for many who have to struggle to eke a living during the day and return to the dark and silent homes in the evening. As if the shortage…
Beyond the obvious
The polarisation in the Zimbabwean mainstream media has led to the newspapers covering the Zimbabwean story from a biased, untrue and one sided point of view. A partisan aligned account of the issues affecting Zimbabweans has therefore not adequately presented…
Poverty scourge fuels child marriages
HARARE – From as early as she can remember, Mariah Myambo (not her real name), 16, had dreams to pursue her education, attain a degree, get a decent job and be happily married to someone she loved. By Thomas Madhuku But…
Pensioner loses $26k to conman
By Caroline Nyamayaro: A serial fraudster is expected to appear in court soon on allegations of defrauding a former civil servant of his $26 000 pension that was in his CABS savings account. The alleged conman identified as Tapera masqueraded…
$97k embezzlement rocks Mathew Rusike college
Success Majaramhepo: Studies at Mathew Rusike college have been thrown into disarray, less than three weeks before public Ordinary Level examinations commence amid concerns that some of the administrators have embezzled $97 000 that was meant for staff salaries. Some…
$7 million tobacco afforestation Levy disappears
Malvern Mkudu More than $7 million collected for afforestation efforts to mitigate the damage on forests being caused by small tobacco farmers has not yet been disbursed and sources say that the money has been taken by the Zimbabwe Revenue…
Government excludes Russian firm from diamond merger
Phillemon Mhlanga and Malvern Mkudu DIAMOND mining firm, DTZ-OZGEO, a joint venture outfit between Econendra of Russia and the Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ), will be excluded from government’s planned consolidation of all diamond mining companies, the Financial Gazette can…
Chimanimani communities left in the cold
Thomas Madhuku Zimbabwe’s community share ownership trusts, set up by government in recent years to benefit poor communities in resource-rich areas of the country, have never been far away from controversy. Poorly explained and little understood, even by those communities…
ZANU PF IN LAND DOGFIGHT: PART 3
By Everson Mushava A VISIT to Kadoma district shows that land reform in the ore rich mineral area has become a blood-letting affair as people fight for farms that are rich in gold deposits. Several murders in connection with the…
STREET CHILDREN DUMPED OUT OF CITY
By Garikai Chaunza Police Officers from Harare Central Police Station in August this year rounded up 74 street children at various spots in the capital before driving them as far as Muzarabani where they dumped them one by one, an…