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Tatenda Charamba Features Writer Bucy Shorai, a 22 –year-old young woman, had lost all hope about her future. Without financial support to do a vocational training course in catering, her world had carved in. She became restless and hopeless. Deep down inside, she knew that education and a vocational course was the only way to empowerment and hope.
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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Correspondent Education, land, job creation and the role of women must be considered in efforts to build an inclusive developmental state. Any discussion about building a South Africa that belongs to all, and therefore about transforming the country’s economy, must acknowledge that we are one of the most unequal societies in the world. The Gini […]
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Dr Sacrifice Chirisa Mental Health Matters While the majority of domestic violence victims are women, abuse of men is quite common. Typically, men are physically stronger than women but that does not necessarily make it easier to escape the violence in the relationship. An abused man faces scepticism from police, and major legal obstacles, especially when it […]
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NEW DEHLI. – Sahana Subramanyam is a final year student at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru. She is majoring in economics and minoring in data science. She says she chose to focus also on data science because it bridges the demands of economics and her love for computer programming.
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Hardly a month after street vendors were swept off sidewalks and pirate taxis were driven off the Central Business District, the Harare City Council and the police are back where they started.
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Dr David Okello Special Correspondent I feel deeply honoured to be invited to give a keynote address at this prestigious Zimbabwe Annual Medical Research Day. I am told that this event also doubles as the Dr Steven Chandiwana Memorial Lecture. From the onset, I should mention that I have two confessions to make:
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Dr Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday It’s Sunday afternoon at Rufaro Stadium. I am not fully dressed for a church service because almost everyone I see is wearing a white gown. Just as well I had a white scarf in my handbag. I quickly cover my head with it so that I can at least look […]
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If Africa is to keep pace with an unprecedented demographic transition – Africa’s under-18 population will reach 750 million by 2030 – scaled up investment in health, education and women’s protection and empowerment will be needed or the continent will face a “bleak” future, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says.
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Kudzanai Chipanga Correspondent ZANU-PF Youth League position on the disturbances at the 9th leg of the Presidential Youth Interface Rally on the 4th of November 2017, White City Stadium, Bulawayo The trendsetting and pioneering Presidential Youth Interface Rallies were set in response to a clarion call by the youth of Zimbabwe as concerned stakeholders seeking the ear […]
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Danai Chirawu Unless one is a registered legal practitioner, the courtroom seldom becomes a common place even to settle scores. It is no small feat to institute legal action or to stand before the court being the one answering to a claim. Once a matter has been finalised, there is a misperception that the matter is […]
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Sharon Hofisi Legal Letters In our folklore, a story is often told on how some young men hatched an evil plan to annihilate all elderly men in their village, known in some indigenous systems as hohonwa. One young man purposed in his heart that he would save his father. He hid him in a cave that […]
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Stephen Gowans Correspondent Washington is hiding its leadership of the war on Yemen behind the Saudis In October, 2016, two Reuters’ reporters published an exclusive, under the headline: “As Saudis bombed Yemen, US worried about legal blowback.” The reporters, Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay, revealed that legal experts at the US State Department had warned the White House […]
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IT has become customary that, ahead of every national election, innocent Zimbabweans are subjected to a wave of unwarranted price hikes. The timing of the hikes shows that they will be designed to compel people, particularly urbanites, to vote for the opposition MDC-T at the expense of Zanu-PF. This practice should awaken all the doubting Thomases to […]
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Dan Glazebrook Correspondent The whole point of the America-led war on terror in Africa is to keep the continent in a state of permanent war. For not only does it force African countries, finally freeing themselves from Western dependence, into dependence on AFRICOM; it also undermines China’s blossoming relationship with Africa. Exactly six years ago, on October […]
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts When you are young, frivolous and inexperienced, you tend to think the world of yourself. You somehow get to think that you are the sun and everyone else is a planet revolving around you. Those are your days of your insufferable self-centredness. Like the Americans you suffer from what I call […]
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