THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is currently seized with the Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) regime to the detriment of so much in the school curriculum.
The Education Ministry is one of the biggest Ministries in the land because there is no-one outside...
THE most significant aspect about US Vice-President Kamala Harris’ visit to Africa last week was her country’s palpable exasperation with China and Russia’s growing global influence.
Zambia was the last leg of her tour of Africa after visiting Ghana and Tanzania that were subjected to...
THE woman who had been beaten-up by her friend’s housemaid had welcomed the diversion brought by the news that her friend was missing.
The diversion adjourned the answer to her husband’s question: “Please give me your own definition of human or women’s rights.”
She dialed a...
By Emmanuel Koro,
Johannesburg, SA
WITHOUT it, Botswana hunting communities would have never known what it feels like to democratically determine how to meet their own socio-economic needs.
They enjoy the money they receive from it and have comparatively ‘fat’ bank accounts. However, this is not money...
THIS is the untold story of every mother who waited for her son to come back from the struggle after independence.
I sat across from this lady on a flight from Victoria Falls.
I did not know her although we were part of the same Zimbabwe...
THOUGH cyclones are common in the south-east Africa region, Cyclone Freddy, which has been battering the area for over a month, is unprecedented and as the impacts of climate change deepen, it may not be unique; proving overwhelming for climate change action.
Tropical cyclones...
BY early evening, the divide between Harare North and Harare South had been fully re-established and emphasised.
Harare North was collecting the cheques and Harare South was expecting follow-up operations from the armed men of peace.
Harare North was separatist.
People kept to themselves.
They did...
BEFORE making landfall, tropical Cyclone Freddy was considered by the World Meteorological Office (WMO) to be ‘remarkable’, predicting it could become ‘the longest-lasting storm of its kind on record’.
WMO closely monitored this ‘remarkable storm’ on its long journey across the entire South Indian Ocean,...
AS Maria Tarehwa (not her real name) ends a call with her young sister, she shrugs her shoulders and slumps on the hospital bench next to her three-year-old daughter Tadiwa who fractured her hip bone after a fall from a tree.
Tarehwa had just been...
By Fidelis Manyange
THE Roman Catholic St Patricks Parish of Domboramwari in Epworth recently held many activities to mix and mingle as well as educate youths on the dangers of drug abuse.
The place, formerly used by nyau or gule dancers before the Church bought...
THE US plan to counter Chinese investments in Zimbabwe has been inadvertently laid bare by its Ambassador Designate to Harare, Pamela Tremont.
Her shameless lies that China’s trade with the country is benefitting the elite at the expense of the majority sets the stage for...
THE good shepherd’s predicament slowly unfolded before his eyes.
Power had gone off the whole hotel complex and apparently there was no back-up to keep the essential services going.
He was locked-up with a traumatised lost sheep in a lodge in the middle of a city...
