Teachers 'milking' pupils with their illegal tuckshops

FOR the past two weeks Mrs Tinei Sibanda's seven-year-old son has been demanding at least $20 every day to take to school.All has been well until yesterday when she didn't have the $20 to give...

The Wayward Child

After an uneasy pregnancy and long hours of labour pains, there was a great celebration when baby Lerato was finally born. Lerato was born into a broken family of school dropouts. Her elder siblings n...

By-elections TKO and below the belt politics

If the Matabeleland North by-elections held recently were a boxing match, the MDC-Alliance would have been dealt a technical knock-out (TKO).After jabs and uppercuts, then a flurry of combinat...

Zimbabwe's runaway prices good for malayitsha business

Towering piles of cooking oil, tyres, biscuits, microwaves and toilet paper filled a small and damp Johannesburg basement – all destined for Zimbabwe.The items are loaded onto trailers attac...

Our country now a playground where factionalism forms national policy, dialogue

You know, on a playground, those that play there care nothing for how it came to be. They care nothing for how the sand in the sand pit came to be. Nor how often, if, it should be disinfected or chang...

Kereke apologises to Gono, not to girl he raped

FORMER Zanu-PF National Assembly representative for Bikita West Munyaradzi Kereke has "unreservedly" apologised to former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono for tarnishing his image by m...

Woman torture child (6) for putting human waste in lunch box

A woman from Empumalanga in Hwange is in trouble after she severely assaulted a six year old child for putting human waste in his lunch box.Sheila Nyoni (32) pleaded guilty to child ill-treatm...

'She prepares lunch for my hubby'

FAILURE to fathom the thought of having her husband being taken care of by another woman led an estranged Dangamvura woman to seek a protection order against her husband's girlfriend whom she claimed ...