BY VIMBAI CHINEMBIRI Dressed in a blazer and tie, Josphat Nyika isn’t an archetypal farmer. The deputy headmaster, fresh from teaching at the local primary school,...
BY MARKO PHIRI At a small, unregulated border crossing between Zimbabwe and Botswana, 43-year-old Juliet Moheng* has become a regular presence, if not an oddity. Using...
BY JOSEPH COTTERIL In Zimbabwe’s Shona language, ‘kuvimba’ can mean trust or having faith. It is a great name for a state-owned custodian charged with protecting...
BY NITA BHALLA AND FARAI SHAWN MATIASHE NAIROBI/MUTARE – Kenyan sex worker Elizabeth Otieno shudders each time her cellphone buzzes with a new notification. The device...
BY NYASHA CHINGONO It is 7pm and inside the shebeen, or unlicensed bar, in Harare, men and women clutch small bottles of “whisky” and talk animatedly...