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Correspondent THE printing of 50 000 unified visas for foreign visitors to Zambia and Zimbabwe is welcome as it is a vital step towards boosting tourist visits to the two countries.
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Leroy Dzenga Correspondent In compiling leading topics that have characterised public debate in Zimbabwe in 2017, ignoring the new primary and secondary education curriculum would be dishonest.
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Simon McMahon Correspondent A man called out numbers against the murky darkness of the Libyan night: “400, 500, 600, 650.” These were bids in Libyan dinars during a slave auction. Video footage of these scenes, aired in mid-November by CNN, thrust concerns about the conditions facing migrants at Europe’s borders back into the spotlight.
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Police investigate traffic accidents, assigning causes and fining those at fault and have a responsibility to enforce all law, including traffic regulations and safety standards. But, it had become apparent in recent years that a major stress of the police force was collecting fines, with the proliferation of roadblocks and the continuing trawling of regulations looking […]
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Hildegarde The Arena In case we have all forgotten, we are in this deal together — President Emmerson Mnangagwa, you and me — the deal of asserting Zimbabwe’s dignity and glory. The preamble to our Constitution says so: “We the people of Zimbabwe . . .,” meaning that each and every one of us has a role […]
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Zvamaida Murwira Mr Speaker Sir With Cabinet Ministers having taken the oath of office on Monday to signal the official commencement of their work, we say they have to hit the ground running as intimated by President Mnangagwa during his inauguration a fortnight ago, and at his first Cabinet meeting on Tuesday where he set targets […]
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Jackie Cillers Correspondent Africa will remain turbulent because it is poor and young, but also because it is growing and dynamic. Development is disruptive but also presents huge opportunities. The continent needs to plan accordingly.
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Locadia Mavhudzi Features Correspondent Stepping into the mining sector has over time been a male domain and the trend continues today, during the pre-colonial era women worked alongside men in alluvial gold mining. Gold mining was an important economic activity.
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Charles Dhewa The fact that farmers and students exposed to the same capacity building initiatives produce different results suggests training alone does not lead to success. In the majority of developing countries, farmers in the same environment and with access to similar resources achieve different outcomes.
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Mike Burgess Correspondent Almost 20 years ago, Chris Webb introduced Borans to his crossbreeding programme on the 1 500ha farm, Tharfield, in the Eastern Cape. Boran-type cows and calves. The calving rate of the female animals in the natural mating programme never decreases below 90 percent. He spoke to Mike Burgess about how the hardy Boran has quietly […]
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Richard Moser Correspondent The rise of corporate power was the fall of democracy. Over the long haul, US politics has revolved around a deep tension between democracy and an unrelenting drive for plunder, power and empire. Granted that our democracy has been seriously flawed and only rarely revolutionary, yet the democratic movements are the source of […]
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Sacrifice Chirisa Mental Health Matters Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant found in South American countries. As a street drug, cocaine looks like a fine, white powder.
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The new political administration, which has promised a new era, is clearly trying to change tact by shelving political talk and talking economics instead. Zimbabweans have endured political rhetoric for an inordinately long time and over the years, empty and unfulfilled promises have made many cynical of Government’s lofty promises.
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Panganai Kahuni Correspondent Social media, and also some print media, seem to be creating a negative perception in the peace-loving Zimbabwean citizens. President Mnangagwa, who is hardly 15 days in office, has become the target for brazen attacks and criticism from certain political analysts using the social and print media.
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday The other day, my cousin Reuben was counting the number of single mature women who live alone in Harare. This idea came up when our friend Temba, the one who lives in the USA, and is planning to return home for Christmas, asked if there were women he could meet for conversation and […]
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