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Nick Beams Correspondent One of the most significant developments to emerge from US President Donald Trump’s current Asia tour is the extent to which far-reaching changes in the structure of the world economy have undermined the once unchallengeable dominance of US imperialism. This shift has far-reaching geopolitical consequences. It is the essential driving force behind the ongoing […]
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Kelvin Albertson Correspondent It hardly needs saying, but there are changes afoot in the political economy of the world. Where there is globalisation, there are globalisation protestors. This is nothing new, but it is becoming mainstream. The antithesis of globalisation, nationalism, and the pursuit of your own country’s interests over those of everyone else, has bubbled […]
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THE Zanu-PF Extraordinary Congress is scheduled to roar to life 29 days from now, amid expectations from both party members and neutrals alike, that the Congress will come up with practical resolutions to expedite the economic turnaround initiative. We all expect that, as has become the norm, the Congress will review the ground covered since the […]
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Tanaka Chidora Literature Today In the Literature Today column of The Herald of 11 November 2016, Stanely Mushava wrote passionately concerning the downside (it also has an upside) of self-publishing. In a paragraph that lyrically captured what has been boiling in my heart for a very long time, Stanely wrote:
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Eric London Correspondent According to a report published recently by the Institute for Policy Studies, the three richest Americans — Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett — now own more wealth than the poorest half of the US population, some 160 million people. America’s “60 families”, whose massive wealth was documented in journalist Ferdinand Lundberg’s 1937 […]
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Baher Kamal Correspondent The UN Climate Change Summit in Bonn is a step further, most experts say. Fine, but towards what? On the one hand, the organisers – the UN, Fiji and Germany – express strong hopes that it will speed up the implementation of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. On the other, a giant contributor to […]
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David Rosen Correspondent Five days after the Halloween lone-wolf terrorist, Sayfullo Saipov, attacked pedestrians and bicyclists in New York, killing eight people and injuring 12 others, another lone-wolf undertook a terrorist attack this time in a small, unincorporated community 30 miles southeast of San Antonio, TX. The terrorist, Devin Kelley, killed 26 people and injured 20 […]
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Adekeye Adebajo Correspondent The Kagame report on reforming the African Union (AU) — named after its chair, Rwandan president, Paul Kagame — was accepted by African leaders at its summit in July. The report’s eminent members — including former South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni — however, appear to represent African alchemists: marabouts uttering mysterious, […]
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Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader What makes a good reader? Is it the ability to consume hundreds of books in a year? Or perhaps a good reader is the one who can retell the story with precision soon after completing a piece of work. One is of the opinion that as numerous as there are people, there […]
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store LOOKING at the nature of slavery and what constitutes the concept of colour in the United States today vis-à-vis what it has been for over two centuries now, one cannot help concluding that the reading of two of the greatest minds in post-abolition America – W.E.B Du Bois and Booker […]
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THE Sports Commission deserves a lot of praise for the way they have been working around the clock to ensure that the rot in domestic rugby is cleared and they need the support of the parent Ministry of Sport, Recreation and Culture to ensure that they fix this important sporting discipline. For years now, we have […]
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Freedom Mupanedemo Features Writer IT is said nature would have them children before they are men (Jean Jacques Rousseau), not so for the appropriately named Amazing Phiri!
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THE INTERVIEW: Tendai Manzvanzvike South Korea’s ninth Ambassador to Zimbabwe, His Excellency Mr Cho Jaichel was among five envoys who presented their credentials to President Mugabe on October 25, 2017. Herald Foreign Editor Tendai Manzvanzvike (TM) caught up with Ambassador Cho to find out more about Zimbabwe-Korea relations, and what they hold for the future, […]
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Leroy Dzenga Correspondent There have been continued calls from across the board for youths to be enterprising and not sit on their laurels waiting for jobs which may not be forthcoming. Many are of the opinion that young people should be championing the creation of their own jobs and opportunities. Considered to be the creative pulse of society, […]
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Stephen Mpofu Correspondent The West, in particular Britain and the United States, should climb down from their perch on the fence and take Zimbabwe’s outstretched arms in a warm embrace to thaw relations that have remained decidedly icy for years following this country’s agrarian revolution in 2001, which saw land occupied by white settler farmers being […]
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