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Fred Swaniker In February 1997, history was made in a fairly nondescript building in downtown Addis Ababa. The African Virtual University (AVU) was born. Representatives from universities in six African nations including Kenya, Ghana and Zimbabwe, along with their respective finance ministers, came together to inaugurate the first pan-African project in education.
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Innocent Ruwende in Bonn, Germany American president Donald Trump has been isolated and continues to receive worldwide condemnation following his infamous decision to withdraw America from the Paris Climate Agreement in which several countries pledged to reduce emissions of planet-warming gases over the coming decades. At the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, parties are meeting without […]
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Sharon Hofisi Legal Letters Marriage is a molten word in Zimbabwe and the world over. Realistically for Zimbabwe, the old and new world novel is usually shot through with an atmosphere of the extant union between the dead and the living. The dead commune with the living and vice versa. In all this, families describe different […]
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TRUE to the prediction of the Meteorological Services Department, the rains have started falling in most parts of the country much to the relief of farmers as they step up their preparations for the 2017/18 agricultural season. While we are all happy that the MSD forecast has come true, it is that time again that we […]
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Stephen Gowans Correspondent A POINT I made in a recent article has stirred a fierce reaction, particularly from Michel Chossudovsky, but on earlier occasions from others as well, who seem particularly agitated by my observation that Al Qaeda is “implacably opposed to the US presence in the Muslim world”.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts A quartet known as The Brothers Four recorded a memorable version of the song “Where have all the flowers gone?” Backed by simple guitars and a double bass, the vocals are clear and distinctive in a way that makes their lament even more evocative. The Brothers Four also did an environmental […]
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Locadia Mavhudzi Features Correspondent While women in urban areas are exposed to a variety of family planning choices, the plight of women in rural and peripheral areas with regards to access to contraception is still miserable. A recent visit to Mambowa small scale mining area in Shurugwi revealed that many young women who entered into marriage at an […]
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Andre Damon Correspondent Last Thursday, RT America, the US-based subsidiary of RT (formerly known as Russia Today), announced that it would, under pressure from the United States government, register as a “foreign agent” under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The Justice Department’s demand that RT register as a “foreign agent” is aimed at delegitimising RT as […]
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“Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? […]
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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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