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Lansana Gberie Review Correspondent When American film actor Robin Williams, who suffered from depression, committed suicide two years ago, Kenyan humour writer Ted Malanda feigned incredulity.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Profile After spending the better part of her life in the small town of Chiredzi, Lorraine Zhou came to Harare. Somehow she knew that her life would never be the same again.
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Philippians 2 vs 3 – 4 “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”
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Munyaradzi Makoni Correspondent Mental health is becoming one of Africa’s healthcare challenges that needs to be addressed urgently. But, from World Psychiatric Association International Congress, which I attended in South Africa last month (November 18-22), I realised that it is not getting the attention it deserves.
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Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa warned Zimbabweans during debate in Parliament over a $1 billion loan to renovate and extend Hwange Power Station that electricity tariffs would have to rise to service this loan and others taken out to keep the lights on in the country and allow industrial expansion.
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Reason Wafawarova Political Monday It is simplistic and easy to narrate the history of Kenya when one is fantasising about coalition success stories; admiring the historic feat when the Rainbow Coalition fielded Mwai Kibaki as the sole candidate against KANU’s losing candidate Uhuru Kenyatta in 2002, who was to bounce back as Kenya’s President in […]
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Memory Chirere Correspondent The late Nobel Prize-winning Gabriel García Márquez, who died on April 17, 2014, is considered by many, including myself, as the greatest author ever to be translated from Spanish to English
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Jonathan H. Martin Correspondent In the aftermath of the election, important questions abound about the nation’s future. However, one is clearly missing from the public conversation: Will Americans’ growing frustration with the major parties give third parties a new boost?
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Bill Van Auken Correspondent Even as columns of green buses were ferrying the last of the Western-backed Islamist “rebels” out of eastern Aleppo on Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry took the podium at a State Department Press conference to describe the situation in the northern Syrian city as “unconscionable” and to denounce the Syrian […]
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Sydney Kawadza Senior Features Writer Zimbabweans have a penchant to draw humour out of misery; hence the joke that women in rural Masvingo are balding because they carry water buckets over long distances.
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1 Samuel 17 vs 45 “Then David said to the Philistine “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.”
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store NOW that the books wagon which recently docked in the Harare Gardens has departed, leaving in its wake a replenished, emancipated, wiser and hopeful, yet not satiated readership, we at the Bookstore find pleasure in reflecting on the impact of literature in shaping man’s aspirations and desires in a […]
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Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader A survivor is an individual who, in spite of trying circumstances, pushes through and continues to exist. The prevailing economic conditions in Zimbabwe over the past decade or so have created a survivor out of the Zimbabwean person.
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Recent news from the United States indicating that one of Zimbabwe’s top sprinters and Olympian Gabriel Mvumvure needs to undergo a kidney transplant makes for sad reading.
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David Price Correspondent— Just in time for the American weekend news cycle, last Friday evening we learned from the Washington Post that Central Intelligence Agency issued a secret report concluding that Russian hackers were responsible for hacking Democratic computers and leaking stolen documents as an effort to determine the outcome of the American presidential election. We […]
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