Street People Bind Together to Survive
By Tawanda Kanhema
A BONY and stunted girl coughs incessantly as she clings to her teenage mother’s back under a ragged cloth along Samora Machel Avenue.It is the beginning of yet another day, a day in the life of a pauper child.At the other end of the street, a boy barely [...]
UNLUCKY tigerfish I caught on the Zambezi river at Luangwa. It weighed a little more than 4kg and met the breakfast demands of 6 hungry rangers, and myself.
It was exciting meeting the Zambians at Luangwa, a small but vibrant settlement of about 10,000 people at the confluence of Luangwa river and the Zambezi.
Platinum Claim
Just returned from Kanyemba, where Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique are bordered by the Zambezi and Luangwa rivers.
Locals on the Zimbabwean side of the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border claim that Mozambicans shifted beacons on the countries’ borders after discovering platinum on Lake Cabora Bassa. It is believed that larger deposists are on the Zimbabwean side.
The 16 wild dogs received from South Africa in June 2006 by Zimbabwe tourism minister Francis Nhema were released into Hwange National Park on October 29 after five months of rehabilitation at Painted Dog Conservation in Hwange.
MEAL TIME- Wild dogs share what remains of a Kudu at Hwange National Park.
The dogs are suspected [...]

