Dear Mutarians My humblest apologies for not writing earlier, as I am sure a lot of you have heard I was a little tied up, but really this cannot be used as an excuse!  I thank the public who have posted comments one way or the other, on facebook, but life goes on.  We had a meeting recently with members of the suburbs that have suffered from armed robberies and the ZRP Mutare Central were in attendance and it is heartening to note the general desire to co-operate to mini

I am baffled at my sister Gertrude Bvindis approach towards man! As much as I understand the need for women emancipation and freedom of expressions I still find it very difficult to reconcile with your opinions.I find it rebellious the way you perceive men! Its not all men who are not compassionate as you depict in your columns, I for one have realised that I am on the other side of your portraits. Its not self praise but I think you are portraying the male species as evil.In your last colu

I was just thinking the other day about the possibilities of marriage, relationships and career development in my own life and I realised that they can all get really mixed up and pretty ugly if you are not really sure what you want.  Kat Williams, a black stand up comedian would say get in touch with “your true...star player”!  I believe that is the only way that anyone, especially the ladies out there, can understand where they are coming from and going to.  I gave up my

Over 120 workers who lost their jobs after Cairns Foods stopped operations at its Mutare Fruit and Vegetable factory are languishing in poverty due to the company’s failure to pay their severance packages.Retrenched workers told The Zimbabwean that the company had not paid them anything since its closure.“We were given a verbal notice in December last year by our management, but we did not take it seriously. Some of us have worked here for over 20 years and we had nothing to show for o

Visiting Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams was yesterday verbally harassed and barred from attending a church service in Mutare and Penhalonga by thugs believed to have been hired by the excommunicated Bishop Nolbert Kunonga.He later told President Robert Mugabe to stop the madness and violence.The highest authority in the Anglican Church worldwide met with Mugabe after having been denied entry into St John’s Cathedral in Mutare and St Augustine’s Mission in Penhalonga earlier in the day b

Mutare Bureau — The self-proclaimed prophet-cum-musician, Hosiah Chipanga, is set to launch his own church next week. The church Messiah Apostolic Prophetically Inspired Institution (Mapipi) will join the growing list of Pentecostal churches mushrooming in the country.Chipanga said he was expecting to launch the church on October 15 at the Dangamvura Beit Hall.The Vaparidzi Veshoko frontman, who, at one time openly expressed his willingness to contest the presidential elections as an independent