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Isabel Palasida — The field of violence against women is still evolving and there is still no unanimity yet on how the term violence against women can be best defined.
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Beaven Tapureta Bookshelf — The NAMA award-winning collection of folk stories titled “Around the Fire: Folktales from Zimbabwe” (2014), edited by prominent writers and playwrights Raisedon Baya and Christopher Mlalazi, is an immortalisation of our sociocultural values which our ancestors founded on experience and wisdom long, long
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Nicole Hondo Correspondent— Insanity has been described in some quarters as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the outcome to be different. The aforementioned affliction can justifiably be ascribed to organisers of recent purported “mega demos” in the country.
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Zimbabwe entered a new economic phase yesterday with the successful introduction of bond notes and coins worth $10 million into daily transactions. The new bond notes are in denominations of $1, $2 and $5.
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Nick Mangwana View From the Diaspora— The rights of citizens to protest, demonstrate and politically express themselves is well established in our Constitution. But just like the freedom of worship created a massive industry of gospreneurs, the enshrining of this right has also created a new type of entrepreneur, the “professional protester”.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts— As I begin to write this week’s story, I find that I am unable to resist this light-hearted detour from my topic of the day. The detour is about the ascension of a long-suffering football club.
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There are laws of success which have to be observed in life before one can succeed. Success is not something you can achieve by observing just one law, there are many most of them are interconnected. Realisation is the first key that is supposed to be considered.
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Roselyne Sachiti Features Editor— . . . genital mutilation for desperate infertile women Tuesday September 27, 2016 marked eight years since Muyeye Munkuli (33) of Sinamusanga area, Binga in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North Province, married her husband Luke under customary law.
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James McEnteer Correspondent— When Fidel Castro died in his sleep at 90 on November 25 in Havana, American news consumers might have been forgiven for thinking he was slain in battle.
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Eric London Correspondent— The Obama administration is opposing efforts to recount the presidential election vote in the three key states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Profile— At 23, Audrey Simbiso Chidawanyika should be crossing the breadth and length of Zimbabwe preening herself while keep an eye on possible suitors for marriage.
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Bishow Parajuli Correspondent— The global campaign to achieve gender equality and end violence against women and girls is intensifying, rightly so as a basic human right. One of the major global platforms is the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
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THE Government moved fast last week to quash social media rumours of impending fuel shortages in the country. The social media message advised people to stock up supplies to avoid inconvenience. The silly rumour quickly circulated, as lies invariably do. Many people took the canard seriously. Perhaps just as many dismissed it with the contempt it deserved.
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today Zimbabwe’s mbira sound is spiritual tender in world music. The mbira, perhaps the Southern African country’s flagship culture export, is a defining influence on the country’s hit parade, spiritual landscape and social memory. Zimbabwean musicians who have made international headway, particularly Oliver Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo, Chiwoniso Maraire,
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Tariq Ali Correspondent On July 26 1953 an angry young lawyer, Fidel Castro, led a small band of armed men in an attempt to seize the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba, in Oriente Province. Most of the guerrillas were killed. Castro was tried and defended himself with a masterly speech replete with classical references […]
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