- By Munyaradzi Makoni in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Can someone explain in simplest jargon, why we pay for electricity every month? This has nothing to do with street activism neither is it bush economics. But, it defies logic when we pay escalating bills at the end of each month yet we use less and less electricity. An average calculation clearly shows that people are denied electricity three quarters of their working hours. Domestically, all hours put together, people would be without electricity for a good 15 days in a month. Workers who depend upon electricity for their operations are crippled. Unfortunately some workers are now being paid for hours they actually worked as if they are the cau…

- 24 november 2006, by Munyaradzi Makoni in Harare. There is a mystic element attached to it. She reads stone sculpture, gives it life and sermonize it worldwide. Her passion for sculpture runs into bottomless pits, something surprising for someone whose upbringing at her father"s farm in Victoria, had little to do with what you find her doing today. It"s even hard to imagine how someone who loved to swimming half a mile and tendering horses would deeply fall in love with a priceless object of God"s creation, stone art.Celia Winter Irving is a curator at Zimbabwe National Arts Gallery. She is an internationally acclaimed author of stone sculpture and Zimbabwean art and culture. She…

21 April 2007, by Munyaradzi Makoni in Zimbabwe. After watching the delayed, edited Presidential speech in the evening on the telly on Zimbabwe"s National Independence Day on 18 April, I started to think aloud, when the noises in my head got louder, I groped a pen and started writing. I just wondered how many people felt it my way...I was not responding to the President. No! But reflecting on the pain and suffering my dear brothers and sisters are enduring as citizens of beloved Zimbabwe. - "Who cares? They are impervious to such things. Price hikes, basic food shortages, unemployment, fuel shortages, brain drain, closure of companies, electricity shortages and clean water shortages. The lis…

-  9 November 2006, by Munyaradzi Makoni in Harare - At times it beats me how the whole nation can go crazy, completely losing their heads over 22 men chasing a ball around a field for ninety minutes. That is soccer for you. And now the fear and fever gripping the nation is more acute, Zimbabwe is tottering with the arithmetics of chasing the leather product correctly to qualify for the elite group of Africa Cup of Nations that will meet in Ghana next year. It is just another day in the soccer stands.You can imagine the boundless energy and athletic theatrics of supporting soccer that have been stored in people"s hearts for the past two decades. Only a few can dispute it, even Zimbabwe"…