In Harare, Zimbabwe, there are high density suburbs like Mbare, Sunningdale, Glen View, Budiriro, Mabvuku, Highfield and Kuwadzana. Each has its own unique history. For example, Mbare (established 1907 in…
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Amanda, a friend of mine, organised a Voter Registration Party to celebrate her birthday. She encouraged a group of friends to meet up at Mount Pleasant Hall to register to…
The news of voter registration is clouding media houses and the street among all other walks of life right now. I hear it on the radio and see it on…
One need not play national cricket matches, cheer hard for the Warriors or fight wars to express patriotism. Neither is one expected to join a certain political party. Zimbabwe is…
As I drove through the city centre at 10am on a Sunday morning, my attention was caught by a security guard in a fluorescent jacket waving a wad of bond…
They said study hard, get good grades, graduate, work and then get married. And if I did everything exactly in that order I would be a successful woman, wife and…
Introduction Zimbabwe has a high burden of disease to which all the six building blocks that make up a health system are compromised (MoHCC 2009). These are the leadership and…
The first was “Load shedding”. ZESA / ZETDC / whoever – the parastatal, did not generate enough electricity to sell to everyone who wanted it. Wonderful plan (thought up by…
It is a terrible thing to be afraid of home. And it is a contradiction not captured in our single narrative of the founding fathers of Zimbabwe on the Heroes…
The spirit of this nation is female. Yes, Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana. If you ask me, I’d say Nehanda Nyakasikana was Zimbaremambwe’s ultimate feminist. She remains undying and immortalized in history…