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Sifelani Tsiko, Environment Editor A Zimbabwean wildlife ranger – Jealous Mpofu – has won the 2023 Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award for his dedication and commitment in the protection of painted dogs which are under threat in the country. Mpofu, 54, a chief tracker at Painted Dog Conservation (PDC) at Hwange National Park shrugged off stiff competition […]

Emmanuel Koro Instead of apologising to the pro-consumptive use African governments for their failed attempt to trash consumptive use of wildlife as the most viable engine of growing the African wildlife economy, the Western controlled organisation Space for Giants (SfG) chose to portray me as having written inaccurate information regarding this development. I beg to […]

Gibson Mhaka, Senior Features Reporter Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) went unnoticed for Winnet Moyo (19) of Kensington on the outskirts of Bulawayo. Visually-impaired Winnet professed ignorance of the global event marked every May 28 to raise awareness on the challenges women and girls face due to menstruation and to highlight possible solutions to the […]

Kudzai Chikiwa A police officer fled for dear life recently as an angry mob bayed for his blood after an illegal money changer he was chasing was knocked down by a car near Tredgold Building in Bulawayo. It is now common knowledge that illegal money changers popularly known as osiphatheleni do not see eye to […]

Nesia Mhaka,Harare Bureau Government, through Agribank, has secured a US$10,5 million facility for irrigation equipment and machinery under the Pedstock Centre Pivots Irrigation Facility (Phase 2) from Spain, which will benefit both large and small scale farmers, as the country moves to improve productivity. The development comes at a time when the Government recently secured […]

Former president Jacob Zuma has told the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture that death threats have been made against him and his children, following his appearance on Monday. Zuma kicked off proceedings yesterday morning by telling inquiry chairperson Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo that his PA had received a phone call on Monday […]

Kids say the funniest things, but for the last two years one young boy has been telling his parents something rather unsettling. According to Australian TV presenter David Campbell, his four-year-old son Billy thinks he is the reincarnation of the late Princess Diana — and he claims to remember details from her life. The 45-year-old […]

Kizito Sikuka A regional food security assessment indicates that southern Africa has a cereal deficit of more than 5.4 million tonnes this year following a subdued 2018/19 farming season. This is according to a Synthesis Report on the State of Food and Nutrition Security and Vulnerability in Southern Africa approved by the Sadc Regional Vulnerability […]

Raymond Jaravaza, Features Correspondent AFTER the death of his father last year, 16-year-old *Mqondisi Nxumalo left his family home in Ntabazinduna and headed to Filabusi — a 125 kilometre journey — to join his uncle in gold mining.  He was never under the illusion that joining his uncle at a mine in the gold rich Filabusi […]

Nkosilathi Sibanda WHEN Mr Mlondolozi Mpofu chose to rescue cash-in-transit guards trapped in the wreckage of a road  traffic accident in Lupane, instead of dashing off  with the US$100 000, it was one rare show of humane behaviour that ought to be applauded. With the tough lashes he received as news of his heroic gesture […]

Obey Sibanda, Features Reporter PEOPLE in the gallery wept when an 8-year-old girl took to the stand to narrate how her father’s brutal butchering of her mother as she watched shattered her family. She told Bulawayo High Court Judge Justice Maxwell Takuva, who was on circuit in Hwange in 2017 that she watched her father, Pathukuthula […]

Yoliswa Dube-Moyo  When the late legendary musician Dr Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi first released the hit Perekedza Mwana in the 1980s, the youth of that time had to contend with a culture that thrust girls into marriages because they threw caution to the wind and did not meet their parents’ curfew. Then, it was important for […]

Gibson Mhaka, Senior Features Reporter THE local mining industry is relatively diversified in terms of minerals produced, the key ones being gold, platinum and associated minerals being diamonds, nickel, coal and chromite. Studies have however shown that chrome miners in Zimbabwe continue to struggle as lack of machinery and access to international buyers remains a challenge […]

Charles Dhewa A MAJORITY of African farmers tend to make decisions based on their experiences, expectations and fears, especially in an unstable economic environment and changing climate. At the beginning of each marketing season, a question in every farmer’s head is “Should I sell now or later?”  Since the future is unpredictable from both an economic […]