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Marianne Merten Correspondent President Jacob Zuma is under pressure. That it’s not quite going his way emerged strongly when parliament, in an unprecedented move, postponed the State of the Nation Address (SONA) with only a day to go.
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Chigumbu Warikandwa Correspondent People always argue that money is the scarcest commodity, but political events in Zimbabwe lately show that there is one other thing scarcer than money. It is power. Because of this quality, power is very difficult to share.
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Christopher Farai Charamba Political Writer Metanoia is an ancient Greek word that simply means to change one’s mind. The word has been applied to different schools of thought and taken on a more nuanced meaning in each.
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“How do you choose which donkeys are made into sausage?” a BBC journalist once asked in Serbia. The donkey farmer explained that male donkeys sometimes become interested in their daughters and then “it’s sausage time for them”.
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MY TURN WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA We wish we could talk nicely to one cartoonist from a private daily and his publishers for the reproduction of a wonderful cartoon they carried a couple of days back. It’s too late, unfortunately. The cartoon, in one of the more redeeming features of the newspaper in question, depicts former Vice President […]
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Tafara Shumba Correspondent President Mnangagwa last week appointed High Court Judge justice Priscilla Chigumba as the new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairwoman. The appointment comes hard on the heels of other appointments of women in key positions.
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Rumbidzayi Ngwenya Features Writer At a tender age of eight, Natasha (Not her real name) wakes up daily at 5am to prepare for her long trek to school. She stays with her mother in Chitungwiza, a sprawling dormitory town about 35km south of the capital, Harare.
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday “This is my mother-in-law, Ambuya vangu, my wife’s mother,” says the clean-shaven gentleman wearing khaki three quarter pants, a white T-shirt and brown sandals. He taps the lady in front of him and says, “Mhamha, this is my friend Steve, from Botswana. We work together.”
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Forbes Madziya Correspondent Every economic renaissance is associated with some names, for instance Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in America and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore. Nations require a national development agenda, national attitude and a unique philosophy of life, underpinned by a national identity.
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Sharon Hofisi Legal Letters We often say, “The Republic of Zimbabwe; the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, or the Constitution of the Republic”, and so forth, but do we really appreciate what that means at a governance level?
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Patrick Bond Correspondent A brand new World Bank report, “The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018”, offers evidence of how much poorer Africa is becoming thanks to rampant minerals, oil and gas extraction. Yet its policies and practices remain oriented to enforcing foreign loan repayments and transnational corporate (TNC) profit repatriation, thus maintaining the looting.
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Mahatma Gandhi says “a teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them, than he teaches them.” This is what happened between First Lady Auxilia Mnangangwa and female members of the Fourth Estate when they had a meeting at State House yesterday.
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora There are reports concerning a development in our polity where our former leader Cde Robert Mugabe is said to be attempting to play the joker. He is not so subtly trying to use whatever clout he believes he has to endorse a candidate for the next harmonised elections.
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Roselyn Sachiti Features Editor On Saturday February 3, 2018, Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri announced to over 60 000 PHD Ministries followers that her ministry was working on ways to introduce a mandatory community service sentence for litter bugs.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts There is always something surreal about life, an indefinable little something that exudes mystery and eternity at the same time. That something is always going to be very difficult to pin down; at the end of the day you find yourself wondering if you are in a kind of perpetual […]
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