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The forthcoming Ninth Parliament ought to be revolutionised in order to fulfil President Mnangagwa’s vision and thrust to have Zimbabwe open for business and unlock investment by constituting a Cabinet that does not, without reasonable cause, fail to attend Parliament’s question and answer session to articulate Government policies.
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Virginie Grzelczyk Correspondent At first glance, it is easy to call the meeting between US president Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un, “historic” and “unprecedented”. It was the first meeting between sitting leaders of the two countries, which are still technically in a state of war. You could also call it a […]
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Women are less likely than men to participate in politics in Africa. This gender gap affects everything from attending community meetings to contacting elected officials, joining others to raise public issues, expressing a partisan preference and even voting.
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Optimism among chief financial officers in the US held near an all-time high in the second quarter, while the hiring and retaining of workers in a tight labour market remained a top concern.
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Impulse control disorders are a loosely grouped set of conditions whose central feature is a behaviour that is acted out in an uncontrolled and impulsive manner that often has self-destructive consequences.
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Old alliances are breaking, enabling the 10 non-permanent members to potentially bridge their divides.
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The MDC Alliance election manifesto which was released last week can aptly be summed up as old wine in a new bottle.
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Charles Dhewa Identifying and explaining each agricultural value chain’s nodes is a better way of revealing the extent to which a value chain can lift people out of poverty and contribute to broader development aspirations. The longer the value chain, the more contribution to socio-economic development. Most agricultural commodities produced by smallholder farmers are characterised […]
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THE optics were good when history was in the making. As Maya Angelou, the great American poet, musician, memoirs writer and civil rights activist once said, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
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THE Zimbabwe election has been set for July 30, and some of the manifestos have been published. What do they say about land and agriculture?
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At a bar somewhere a guy – possibly some political party panjandrum or activist - was shouting knowingly and betting his last dollar that in the few weeks to come we were going to see former president of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, address the opposition MDC Alliance rally and endorse Nelson Chamisa for president in the forthcoming elections.
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One thing that is of importance to a people, Africans included, and pertinently Zimbabweans, of course, is the essence of reciprocity.
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Losing an election is usually viewed not as the end of the story, but for MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, the pending loss in the July 30 harmonised elections spells real disaster for his political career.
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Two independent schools were last week forced to issue public statements distancing themselves from unruly behaviour exhibited by their students in internet videos that went viral.
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Everybody (Christians included) has a duty to give the world a reason to commit to the tenets of democracy: the rule of law (not rule by law); fundamental human rights and freedoms (whether perceived as African, Asian, Inter-American rights or Eurocentric rights); supremacy of the constitution; gender equality; good governance and so on.
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