Author Archives: Bernard Chiketo

Bernard Chiketo

About Bernard Chiketo

Bernard Chiketo is a Zimbabwean journalist with more than 10 years experience. He has reported extensively on health, children, environmental, political and women’s issues in Zimbabwe. He has also been doing health communications for over a dozen local organizations covering reproductive health and HIV and AIDS interventions at community level gaining insight into how Sub-saharan African economies and politics impacts on the life of ordinary people
Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe worries about RENAMO war threats

December 21, 2012 no comments
Physically, the boundaries are glaring, though justification for their exact placements is less so.  Socio-cultural distinctions between the people are even more blurred, where they exist. Along the ...
President Mugabe of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe panics over Mugabe fight back vow

December 19, 2012 1 comment
President Robert Mugabe’s call for his party to fight back for electoral victory like a wounded beast at the end of his Zanu – PF party’s national congress has triggered panic across the nation, reop...
Zimbabwe

Zimbabweans stealing from prisoners

December 10, 2012 no comments
There is a shaming paradox to Zimbabwean criminality. Music piracy is exposing an ugly caricature of the country’s justice system as a hot gospel musical production by inmates in Manicaland is grossi...
President Mugabe - Presiding over a derelict administration

Zimbabwean town chocking river with excrete

September 7, 2012 no comments
Sitting at the head of a freshwater stream on which downstream communities depend has responsibilities Zimbabwe eastern border town of Mutare, the country’s fourth most densely populated city, is fla...
Child Labour in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s child labour cartels

August 28, 2012 4 comments
Being provided only with home-made sandals cobbled from worn-out tyres and canvas aprons for their protection razor-sharp tea stumps slash their legs as tea plantations exploit their determination to...
Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe pursuing clean electricity

July 31, 2012 no comments
Zimbabwe’s electricity generation has largely been an environmental nuisance. Sacrificing ecological etiquette to cook its meals and, to date, the carbon footprint has been detestable. From using coa...