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“Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.” Hebrews 11:33 You have to understand that when you are within your territory given to you by God, you are very powerful. Even the devil knows that. There are two men in the Bible – Cain and Abel. One was a […]
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Christopher F. Charamba Political Writer As the nation waits for the 2018 harmonised elections later this year, the major political parties are gearing up for their internal polls which will determine who will represent the candidate on the ballot. At the presidential level, all seems settled though the number of people announcing their intention to […]
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts Do you sometimes wonder why folktales have endings that fit snuggly into the reward and punishment paradigm? Sometime in the early part of the second half of the 20th century, Doris Day did a song called ‘Everybody loves a lover’. The antithesis of that is that everybody loves it when […]
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TODAY we join the rest of the World in celebrating the remission of sin manifest in the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, his triumph over death, as we mark the end of the Easter holiday.
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People talk a lot about “totalitarianism” in the Trump era. I’ve never really loved the category: it seems to paper over some pretty deep differences between the entities one might call totalitarian.
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AS Ian Khama hands over power, what will change in Botswana under new President Mokgweetsi Masisi? After 10 years in office, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, will today hand over power to his Vice President, former school teacher and ruling party loyalist - Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi.
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HOW gloriously brave it seemed, some 23 nations coming together like a zombie collective to initiate a fairly ineffectual action in of itself: the expulsion of Russian diplomats or, as they preferred to term it, intelligence operatives.
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Stephen Gowans Correspondent The United States has invaded Syria with a significant military force, is occupying nearly one-third of its territory, has announced plans for an indefinite occupation, and is plundering the country’s petroleum resources. Washington has no authorisation under international or even US law to invade and occupy Syria, much less attack Syrian forces, […]
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George Pavlu Correspondent IN his book, “Slaves and Slavery”, published in 1998, the British writer Duncan Clarke defines slavery as “the reduction of fellow human beings to the legal status of chattels, allowing them to be bought and sold as goods”. This, in essence, is what both the Arabs and Europeans did to Africans, to […]
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This April 1, Christians will be celebrating Easter, the day on which the resurrection of Jesus is said to have taken place. The date of celebration changes from year to year.
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Zamuxolo Nduna Correspondent Economic sanctions are defined as the withdrawal of customary trade and financial relations for foreign and security policy purposes. Sanctions take a variety of forms, including travelling bans, asset freezes, arms embargoes, capital restraints, foreign aid reductions and trade restrictions. Economic sanctions in most instances in Africa are imposed on states which […]
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Good Friday is the day on which Catholics commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Catholics are joined by almost all other Christians in solemn commemoration on this day. It is also a legal holiday around much of the world.
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Prosperity Mzila Correspondent Little by little, Nelson Chamisa is exhibiting traits of a dictator. He is imposing conditions on the MDC-T party and its members, making unilateral decisions and going back on his word, one too many times. If this is left to continue, Chamisa will soon turn the MDC-T into his own chessboard where […]
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Ariel Dorfman Correspondent President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. After 9/ 11, Haspel ran an illegal black site in Thailand where a man was tortured and she later wrote a memo calling for the destruction of proof of such “enhanced interrogations”. She has paid no […]
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Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye A few weeks have come and gone since President Mnangagwa had an op-ed published in the New York Times titled “We are Bringing About the New Zimbabwe”. Exactly 11 days after this op-ed was published on March 22, 2018 two members of the US Foreign Relations Committee -Senator Jeff Flake, a […]
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