Paidamoyo Chipunza Features Writer

“For about 50 cents — less than the cost of a chocolate bar — we can provide one person with pills to treat and protect them against all major Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) for an entire year,” says

Tendai Tsakiwa Features Correspondent

The onset of the rainy season revives so much hope to flora and fauna of longevity to life. To the plants, its time to sprout, blossom, bear much seed, beautifying the earth turning it green and

Tawanda Ngena Features Correspondent

Natasha Ncube (not her real name) has no kind words for the police. Earlier this year, the 31-year-old mother of two was brutally assaulted by her husband after she bumped into a romantic text message

Rutendo Mapfumo Features Correspondent

NOTHANDO DUBE is among the latest dropouts of Hwange Government Secondary School.
At around 8pm she dry-washes her feet and wears her tights and mini-skirt and takes a dish full of

Munyonzwe Hamalengwa Features Correspondent
Women have climbed to the highest apex of judicial power in a number of countries. They have also climbed higher in positions of power in several countries. Both the Chief Justice and Deputy Chief

JOHANNESBURG. — In early 2012, the UN World Health Organisation announced it could not conclusively determine whether hormonal contraceptive injections increased the risk of HIV

Johnson Ali Mikuku
ON December 6, 2012, the world woke up to a breathtaking and heart-rending story of a “husband” from Lyon (France) who “has become the first man in France to take his wife’s surname under a new

Farooque Chowdhury
In its recent report, the World Meteorological Organisation said that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reached a record high — 390,9 parts per million in 2011, “which is a 40 percent increase

Shepherd Mushava Features Correspondent

IN his book, “The Friendship Book”, Francis Gay narrates a story about a man who spent most of his life longing to go to heaven. When he died an angel took him on a kind of conducted tour. He was

Sifelani Tsiko Features Correspondent
Bureaucratic bungling has stalled efforts to pass legislation on farmers’ rights that seeks to protect and safeguard the rights of smallholder farmers to save, use, exchange and sell farm seed and

Fortious Nhambura Features Writer

Charlotte Chani — clad in worksuit, helmet on her head and a trowel in hand — walks confidently to her workplace.  It is 7.45am and Chani is about to start her day’s work. She is bricklayer. As usual,