Columnist / Jera
What Zimbabwe's health care workers are doing to get UK jobs
When Kundai graduated with a master's degree from a local university, she did not imagine staying unemployed for five years. Even more unexpected was the fact that her path to forging a career as a he...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 10 | by Evidence Chenjerai
Chamisa political playbook worked elsewhere, can he win in Zimbabwe?
PRECIOUS Dinha elbows her way into a packed soccer stadium. Despite thunder clouds looming above, thousands of yellow-clad Zimbabweans are singing, dancing and thrusting their index fingers skyward....Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 7 | by Evidence Chenjerai
Traders face uncertain future as demolitions surge
AROUND mid-day at a shopping strip called Gazaland in Harare's Highfield high-density suburb, a mustard yellow tractor roars through a warren of small businesses, razing everything in its path....Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:34hrs | 8 | by Linda Mujuru/Evidence Chenjerai
The girl at the market
They stood at the edge of the busy market, two complete opposites like night and day, winter and summer. The light-skinned girl was a life-size cut-out from a fashion magazine; smooth caramel skin...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 11:28hrs | 7 | by Jera
One Night Stand
When we met at the bar last night, slurred speech and double vision had set in and it wouldn't have mattered to me if she had said she was a Zanu PF supporter - I still would have gone home with her. ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 7 | by Jerà
Freedom
Her boss had announced impending job appraisals. Finally the supervisor from hell would get even. Ever since Themba had popped the question and put a large diamond on Thoko's left hand, the witch from...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Jerà
Falling In Love – part 2
Late at night, Patie and I would call each other and talk for hours, until we fell asleep or our phone batteries mutinied. Once a month, I would book a room at a hidden-away bed and breakfast in Famon...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:53hrs | 3 | by Jera
Falling In Love - Part 1
Her desire is deepest in the morning. She is too much woman for me, at sunrise. But I sip eagerly from her cup and inhale her essence. She is my thick cup of creamy coffee.We both wake up earl...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:40hrs | 3 | by Jerà
The Hitchhiker
She stood some fifty-sixty metres away from the desperate looking swarm of humanity that infested the Harare Showground bus stop. One hand shielded her sunglazed face from the savannah sun, the other ...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:29hrs | 7 | by Jerà
Looking for my mother
To whom it may concern,Hello, my name is Patience Chenjerai. I am in the process of looking for my mother whom l lost contact.From the age of 2 years. I am now 27 years old but has pro...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | | by Patience Chenjerai
Zimbabwean immigrants united by the Greenbomber passport
Since the turn of the century, millions of Zimbabweans left the country to find employment. South Africa is home to the majority of Zim immigrants who are scattered across the globe. Vokal Da Poet rec...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Jerà in Diaspora
Karanga people under attack - Zodwa Wabantu rescues Masvingo
Karanga people are clever. Korekore people are uneducated. All Ndebeles want to do is drink, burn meat over fire and dance, if they are not stabbing people. Manyika people learn a few English words an...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:38hrs | | by Jera
Zodwa Wabantu wins, Zimbabweans lose
Ordinarily, September is the month of jacaranda blooms, the arrival of summer in Zimbabwe - but this year, it was the month of Zodwa Wabantu. In his usual humorous style, Jera reflects on the month do...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:32hrs | | by Jera
Escaping Zimbabwe's nonsense
"Where have you been!?" The question had an accusatory odour to it.I had been away for a week. But she put it like I had impregnated her and made off with her purse and vanished for the en...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 11:37hrs | 1 | by Jerà
Happy birthday to the woman who cries for Zimbabwe
I met her on Facebook - our mutual love for literature and Zimbabwe drew us together like a magnet and nails. The nail comparison is hardly accidental; I have come to know that she is as tough a...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 20:07hrs | | by Jera
The collapse of the Zimbabwe Republic Police
If you are old enough to remember a period where everything worked in Zimbabwe - electricity, public transport and 100% of employable adults - you will remember a bygone era in which the p...Published: 29 May 2017 at 14:34hrs | 4 | by Jera
'Mugabe stole my Valentine'
At the end of our farewell kiss, when our lips parted, she said it would be just 18 months."I will return the moment I have that MSc acronym after my name".She blinked away a tear and ...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 17:22hrs | | by Jerà
Policeman steals R1,1 million in Beitbridge
A POLICE officer stationed at Beitbridge District Headquarters' Finance Department has been arrested for allegedly stealing about $33,900 and R617,130.Admire Sibanda (33), a constable, alleged...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Chenjerai Munouya
On Zimbabwe's steady decline
Zimbabwe's economic and political woes have left the country hardly recognizable to those who left before the fast decline in the post-2000 era. ...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 06:19hrs | | by Jera
The truth behind Cecil the lion
Zimbabwe's most famous big cat, Cecil the lion, was shot and killed by an American trophy hunter early in July. The man who stalked and killed the 13 year old lion is Walter Palmer, a dentist from Min...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 06:15hrs | | by Waza Online Blogger Jera
Democratic ouster of Mugabe unlikely
With three years to go before the next election, there are signs that Zanu-PF will once again be the "winners". But victory for Robert Mugabe, who will be 94, will not even require the services of...Published: 28 May 2015 at 13:20hrs | | by Jera
Tsvangirai's fruitless appeals
In the aftermath of the July 2013 poll, MDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai contested the results and lodged an appeal with the regional body, Sadc.But his appeals were in vain as his legal ...Published: 28 May 2015 at 13:18hrs | | by Jera
'Mugabe on the run'
Mugabe now practically lives abroad, as if wishing he could run away. Cabinet meetings to discuss vital matters of state are put on hold while he burns through what little money the exchequer can ...Published: 23 May 2015 at 11:19hrs | | by Jera
Jonathan Moyo's crocodile tears
I have never cared to follow Jonathan Moyo on social media. In fact when, in the state-owned press, there was a hullabaloo over Moyo's Twitter 'coming out,' I rolled my eyes and flapped a dismissive h...Published: 23 May 2015 at 11:13hrs | | by Jera
Tsvangirai's dilemma
After Mugabe pulled a fast one on him in July 2013, Morgan Tsvangirai vowed to never again contest an election without the necessary electoral reforms. Two years on, no reforms have been instituted....Published: 26 Mar 2015 at 15:10hrs | | by Jera
Mugabe's band of bootlickers
The world over, February might be the month of love but, in Zimbabwe, it is the month of bootlicking.This is the time of the year when all manner of bootlickers emerge. They elbow each oth...Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 22:05hrs | | by Jera
Mugabe's fall - Why I laughed
After his usual bluster on the podium, at the Harare International airport, Robert Mugabe tumbled. Lucky for him, the ground broke his fall, right beneath the stunned gaze of his rented crowd. Mugabe'...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 14:13hrs | 18 | by Jera
Mugabe not welcome in Africa
President Mugabe returned on Friday from a five-week holiday in the Far East - goodness knows how much that cost the Zimbabwean taxpayers.No sooner had he unpacked his bags than he was on ano...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 07:55hrs | | by Jera
Mugabe spits on Chimurenga
But Mutasa reminds his comrades that 'one man one vote' was the central theme of the liberation war. By doing away with elections at the last congress, Mugabe has effectively spat on the core princip...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 08:49hrs | | by Jera
Mujuru's deafening silence
The attacks were so bad that, in boxing parlance, any referee would have put a stop to the bout. Mujuru's silence at first seemed like a clever strategy but in the end was her downfall.Surely...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 08:50hrs | | by Jera
Mnangagwa to revive economy?
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to revive Zimbabwe's lifeless economy. 'Now we are focussing on developing our country.Our Country is stable. Our country shall continue to be sta...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 11:05hrs | | by Jera
Treason claims do not add up
There are many things that do not add up about the treason claims which have been sensationally plastered all over the state media. Firstly the article in the Sunday Mail is littered with the opin...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 20:14hrs | | by Jera
Mugabe throwing rocks at Obama's White House
President Mugabe will make a rare trip to New York when he attends the UN summit of 23 September. After that 'shame, shame, shame' speech the entire nation is already cringing in anticipation of his n...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 16:48hrs | | by Jera
Tendai Biti's infidelity
From Tsvangirai's camp came revelations of Biti's infidelity. Apparently the judgemental Mr Biti was out carousing with his mistress when he pranged his car in Chegutu, a secret that Tsvangirai had ne...Published: 26 Jul 2014 at 13:54hrs | | by Jera
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