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…
FOOD USED AS POLITICAL TOOL
Tawanda Marwizi BUHERA — The temperatures are high and people are sitting under a tree at Mutiusinazita business centre in Ward 14, Buhera South, waiting to get their monthly allocation of a bucket of maize under a food relief programme…
ZANU PF BIGWIGS IN LAND DOGFIGHT
By Everson Mushava None of his contemporaries took the import of a statement by the late Edison Zvobgo seriously when he warned, “Unless care is taken, revolutions may eat their children. But when they begin to eat their fathers, then…
HIV PATIENTS EXPOSED TO EXPIRED DRUGS
By Garikai Chaunza Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Welfare is letting crucial HIV/Aids drugs expire in government hospital pharmacies as thousands of desperate patients battle to access the life-prolonging drugs, a Daily News on Sunday investigation has established. An…
DIAMOND PLEDGE NOT YET HONOURED
STAKEHOLDERS from the (CSOT) are worried if the US$50 million pledged by diamond mining companies when the trust was set up will be paid up in full anytime soon. With reports indicating that alluvial diamonds in Marange are running out…
GOROMONZI LIVES IN FEAR AS 2013 ELECTIONS LOOM
bBy Gamuchirai Masiyiwa When he opened the fifth session of the current parliament on October 30, President Robert Mugabe reiterated his call for elections in early 2013. His address came on the heels of earlier indications that harmonised – presidential,…
THE STATE OF TAP AND BOTTLED WATER IN ZIMBABWE
By Gamuchirai Masiyiwa HARARE – The question over the quality of water around Harare — both bottled and tap — is as clear as mud. Consumption of bottled water is increasing rapidly in Zimbabwe among the middle and high income…
ZIM DIAMOND BENEFICIATION, A PIPE DREAM?
By Malvern Mkudu ZIMBABWE’S diamond beneficiation drive is in danger of becoming a pipe dream as local diamond cutters and polishers continue to be sidelined in favour of foreign diamond processors while the precious gems continue to be flown to…