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Govt appoints new CAPS board
THE Government has appointed a new board for the country' largest pharmaceutical company, CAPS (Pvt) Ltd, led by Mr Nyaradzai Matondo. The appointment is with effect from 4 November 2020, said...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 23:20hrs | 1361 | by Staff Reporter
Mliswa says pfumvudza is another avenue to loot State resources
OUTSPOKEN Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has described the recently introduced government-funded pfumvudza farming programme as another scheme created to loot state resources.Pfumvudza, the governmen...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 07:44hrs | 3856 | by Staff reporter
Not everyone who moves a car is a driver
Driving standards have dismally gone down and so has general courtesy. Today if you see a man opening the car door for a woman it's either the car is new or the door lock does not work. ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:27hrs | 927 | by Thomas Tondo
Caught between a hard surface and a rock
This year has been very unfortunate for scholars, it's a year they will never want to remember. Caught between a hard surface and a rock, the students can not answer why it's happening to them. Corona...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 226 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Charity begins at home
Charity begins at home. Indeed the First Lady Mai Mnangagwa is a mother to the nation and her Angel of Hope Foundation is a beacon of hope to many disadvantaged families. The schools feeding p...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 108 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Sugar beans can give beef a run for its taste
The kitchen place is a very interesting culinary laboratory, it be makeshift, modern or rural set up. Sometimes food burning to cinder whilst both eyes and attention of the cook are on smartphone chat...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:01hrs | 994 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Educating the girl child is educating the nation
Their figures mere silhouettes in the pre-dawn 'darkness', the trio always emerge from the east going to the west. Don't they say the three wisemen came from the East, no wonder these three young wome...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:01hrs | 317 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwe is our only home
Gogo Chapo moved up and down the whole night checking on her sons Enock and John who were recuperating at their respective homes after a thorough beating by the settler forces. The cat had com...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:18hrs | 1293 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Does a white chicken taste better than a black one?
Why keep someone's grandfather's head or that of a grandmother and still claim to be a God fearing people? In Africa if a human head, or any other body part is found anywhere in your home thin...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:34hrs | 161 | by Tondo Chiweshe.
The thief fell on his knees and cried
The thief groaned because of excruciating pain as the complainant blew the balloon, the stomach was bulging with air. The dump gold finger had tried to pull a fast one, pulling out someone's c...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:33hrs | 619 | by Tondo
She found favour in God's eyes
Archana was an orphan, a very unenviable status and circumstance especially when very young. It's the time children need their parents most, a time of bonding. Adults can be orphans too but th...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:32hrs | 124 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The fight against corruption is everyone's child
Brown envelopes, graft and so on, the names are many but the offence is the same, corruption. There is always a witness to murder, not reporting it is partaking and complicity. Children of God...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:59hrs | 38 | by Tondo
Money is not evil, it is the root of all evil
Is it a cheerful smile or gleeful facade of evil? Relatives or acquaintances, watch how they ogle at your kids. The horrific and gory murder of seven year old Tafadzwa Makore by familiar faces i...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:58hrs | 98 | by Tondo
Herbal medicines now trending
By all pointers, humanity is looking for solutions and panacea to a plethora of health problems, especially noncommunicable ailments and conditions. Unfortunately the search seems a wild goose...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:58hrs | 82 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Village soccer can be fun
Soccer extravaganza at Chinehasha Primary School grounds, who said rural soccer is not up to scratch? The boys showed great skills with such dexterity and fancy footwork that would shame a mountain go...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:56hrs | 31 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Temba comes to town
When all was well in the white man's camp, farms at peak of colonial production, some blacks like me tried to jump ship. Remember industry and commerce had three categories of remuneration. There was ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:55hrs | 221 | by Tondo
Keep some for the rainy day
Everyone has heard of that proverbial 'rainy day', a piece of advice from time forever. Wise words indeed, putting something aside for the rainy day. In these days of economic uncertainty, if ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:55hrs | 37 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The mystic African kitchen hut
If it's not a grass thatched brick and mortar hut, it's not the traditional African kitchen. The African woman is incomplete without a round kitchen hut. Times gone, the floors would have a co...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1522 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Bullies are paper tigers
During my primary school education, I was unfortunate to sit next to a near zero IQ class mate. Very handsome but very ugly in mindset and mind output. Academically leading from the rear end, ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | 232 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
We can not all go to OK
Prophets of doom taking their first bite of the proverbial humble pie, may be also taking a face cloth to remove egg from their murky faces, york, white and its all. Who ever thought the forex...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 862 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Some cheap goods can be very expensive
Sweet tongue trickster is a conman (confidence man) who can be a woman as well. They are very smart with words and can actually sell a fridge to an Eskimo whose igloo is made using ice blocks. ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 122 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Some rural shops have rendered e-wallets redundant
Most rural traders and general dealer shop owners order their goods from N. Richards and Mahomed Mussa Wholesalers where they buy using e-wallets. On reaching the countryside they fleece the m...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:03hrs | 234 | by Tondo
May churches play their part in taming the youths
The 'cheap', but very cheap spirits (alcohol) on sale countrywide, do authorities or those tasked to do quality control aware of their production or importation? The beverages are competing we...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | 151 | by Tondo
Dialoguing our way from divergent views to convergence is the way
The evil one was cast from his exalted state above for allowing pride make him think he could get it by force. And, what happened, he came down with a deafening thud ensconced in gigantic humiliation....Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:11hrs | 305 | by Tondo
When death visited the village
We were there, they were there, a very sad occurance in the village. One of our own, Agrippa Chinehasha had passed on and it was time for last rites and bidding him farewell. Who is safe, it's the ord...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:11hrs | 906 | by Tondo
Kezi Clinic lies derelict 10 years on
KEZI Clinic in Matobo District, Matabeleland South province, has been lying derelict for more than 10 years after local communities contributed material resources towards its rehabilitation.Ke...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
If you have two cloaks give one to the brother without
Peanut butter has been used since forever. In these times of high expenditure and little income, prodigality is a no no. Every cent counts and does so every acquisition, that what may wait let's go to...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | 221 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
When life gives you lemons turn them into lemonade
In Zimbabwe if you hunt you are sure to find, if you look getting is certain. Why sit on your laurels and cry 'times are hard', in deed if you slumber times can be very hard, why not do something abou...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:10hrs | 2619 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The Tent of Meeting in the Book of Exodus was a marvel
Even from biblical times, the Tent of Meeting in the Book of Exodus was a spectacle, both in appearance and reverence. It was a place where Israelites, mere mortals, were in the presence of God, hence...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:03hrs | 761 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Matepatepa farming area needs good roads
Matepatepa farming area of Bindura is well known for tobacco and maize production, racking in the much needed forex and helping feed the nation. Places like Brutton, Lilstock and Chipa along t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:21hrs | 132 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa. Chiweshe.
Those He wants to destroy, God first makes them mad
Some of our people what has gotten into them, playing hide and seek with self then crying 'wolf'? Galivanting the world over groveling for the tightening of the noose on the neck of the motherland the...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:06hrs | 1022 | by Tondo
Since when did funerals become hard hat areas?
People may have their differences, beliefs and preferences but chasing someone from a funeral is against African tenets, traditions and the much cherished Ubuntu. The good book teaches us to mourn wit...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:06hrs | 967 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
My true prophets stand up against Covid-19
We watched crutches being thrown away, demons being driven out of tormented souls, was this real or stage managed and choreographed acts of deception? Later day flamboyant 'prophets' mad...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 679 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Do not be a statistic, stay safe
The figures on Covid-19 infections continue to rise and as if not to be out done, so are the fatalities. The lackadaisical approach by some rural folk on precautions against the disease may see the pa...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:55hrs | 1113 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Coronavirus may not go away soon
Shouting, even repeatedly, breaks no bones. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in numbers especially among returnees. People of my colour express affection through handshakes and hugs, can we please shel...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:36hrs | 652 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Help the nurses so they can help the sick
In rural areas health centres painkillers are a very essential necessity for pain management and treatment. The majority of patients visiting clinics countrywide are those who would otherwise be just ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:34hrs | 226 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Protect the rural poor from unscrupulous businesses
The pricing system by some traders seem well calculated and calibrated to circumvent SI 185 that compels using forex auction rate. To avoid being on a collision course with the law, shop owner...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:10hrs | 400 | by Thomas Tondo
All we can do for now is take precautions
The Coronavirus continues to wreck havoc across world populations with no signs of slowing down. Scientists the world over are busy in their labs trying to cross the T's and dot the I's ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 492 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Unity for power and development
In order to consolidate unity of our people as Zimbabweans, provincial names indicative of what tribe is found where are not helping bind the tapestry of oneness. Manicaland, Mashonaland, ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 370 | by Tondo
Mask up so you can live to tell the tale
This Covid-19 respects no man, knows no class neither does it select who to infect on political grounds. Not even totems or religious denominations can save one, everyone can contract the virus, only ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 322 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Escapees from quarantine centres are a danger to communities
People attending funerals should remain 50 - there goes the SI on efforts to contain Covid-19, being Africans, without enforcers, will this work? Despite knowing the dangers of unchecked proximity, ho...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 150 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mnangagwa told to intensify lifestyle audits
THE government has been urged to intensify lifestyle audits for political elites and public office holders to deal with rampant corruption, a local pressure group has said.This comes a day aft...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:24hrs | 3173 | by Staff reporter
Let's bring back the bread status of Zimbabwe
Tradition is prison with majority opinion, just because your ancestors did it doesn't mean its not incredibly flawed. Some great mind made that great observation, what brutal truth. Traditiona...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 19:36hrs | 2545 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Corruption is nurtured not natured
My handset is still hot, result of a 'boiling point' debate on social media on who is causing the 'yo-yo' movement on our currency by supplying the money sold at street corners. The argum...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 684 | by Thomas Tondo
Avoid domestic violence
Mother scaled the precast wall to seek refuge at our next door neighbour, eyes nearly popping out for the whizzing sound of a quarter brick that missed her head by inches. Father was seething ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:57hrs | 371 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
A skeletal cow 'knocking at the butcher's door'
They will stumble those who hurry, true to that saying, the tobacco farmers who rushed to the auction floors hoping to be the early birds catching the fattest worms are now regretting the decision. ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 2111 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
'My wayyy!' The Bantu cry of anguish
Graft, our Waterloo. When the arrest of big corruption practitioners are made, its in dramatic fashion like an epic Hollywood movie. In no time, more often than not the cases crumble lik...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:19hrs | 241 | by Thomas Tondo
The monied are as slippery as eels
Amid all the euphoria and jubilation celebrating this windfall, the Covid19 US$75 allowance awarded to civil servants, where does the NSSA pensioner stand? The government pensioner is also smi...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:05hrs | 1253 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Salt and witches are two sides of the same coin
This 'inflation' boy must be a wizard, reducing the value of my money when its physically present, whatever its gender inflation is a witch. Salt and witches are two sides of the same coin, they both ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:03hrs | 1615 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Noncommunicable diseases are not relenting
The world is under siege from diseases and illnesses that are tormenting humanity left, right and centre. Hypertension and diabetes are leading the pack in the onslaught on God's people. Despi...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:03hrs | 481 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
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