By Hopewell Chin’ono
In 2001 I wanted to buy a big boat which was being sold by a white couple, they were leaving after losing their farm to the violent land takeovers.
They wanted £20,000 for the machine, it was the equivalent of US$40,000 at that time, and with that you could buy a house in Greendale.
I walked away from the offer, and a young black couple bought it I am sure for the same amount.
13 years later, I saw the same big boat being sold for US$15,000, “...the sellers are desperate for cash,” the sales guy told me at car sales in Borrowdale road.
By Hopewell Chin’ono
Chief Nyamukoho died on Thursday.
He was a man of great contradictions, unwavering and doggedness determination, and above all, he was a man loved and loathed in equal measure.
I am writing about how I knew him as Samson Katsande, an astute and ruthless Buja businessman, and one of the first black millionaires in colonial Rhodesia with businesses in Harare, Murewa and his home area of Mutoko.
By Hopewell Chin’ono
For spending 45 days in Chikurubi prison for merely tweeting about things that are protected and provided for in Zimbabwe’s constitution, most people whom I have talked to are angry and upset about it, and they rightly expect me to be angry and upset about it too!
By Hopewell Chin’ono
As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, I was trained to understand that society has all sorts of people!
Some are reasonable, some cease to think when they feel that their idols are under attack, they become sycophants!
Which brings me to the next issue, our education system is crap! Why?
By Hopewell Chin'ono
The evening when I walked into Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison as part of my punishment by Mnangagwa’s regime for exposing the looting of Covid-19 public funds, I was met by a nurse who was honest and straight with me.
Veteran broadcaster Tichafa Augustine Matambanadzo, widely known as Tich Mataz, appeared in court on Tuesday facing a charge of culpable homicide linked to a fatal road accident in Harare.
Celebrations over boreholes in Zimbabwe’s urban areas highlight growing concerns about service delivery, governance failures and declining living standards.
Zimbabwe is set to formalise its emerging oil and gas sector with the imminent signing of a Petroleum Production Sharing Agreement (PPSA), as Invictus Energy Ltd says the agreement is in its final stages and expected to be concluded this month.
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has resolved to oppose the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 3 (2026) which seeks to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term of office following what it described as prayerful reflection and consultations.
