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IT must be stated from the onset that illegal vending in Harare and other urban centres is a complex issue that has many facets. It is an economic issue. It’s also a sociological, political and administrative issue. In fact, it is all of these and more. Now, there has been renewed debate about dealing decisively with […]
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Charity Maodza Correspondent The announcement of a Cabinet reshuffle by President Mugabe could not have come at a better time given the current policy discordances and attendant administrative logjams that have almost paralysed Government business as some ministers had lost focus due to laziness or pursuance of peripheral matters that are divorced from their core duty […]
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Joseph Kishore Correspondent DONALD TRUMP continued his campaign of incendiary statements over the weekend, threatening to launch a war with North Korea that could unleash a nuclear catastrophe. On Saturday afternoon, the US president tweeted that past administrations “have been talking to North Korea for 25 years.” This “hasn’t worked,” he wrote, adding: “Sorry, but only one […]
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Joel Helfrich Correspondent What do the following cities and towns — Burbank and Los Angeles, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Oak Park, Illinois; Davenport, Iowa; Portland, Maine; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Farmington, New Mexico; Ithaca, New York; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Edmonds, Washington — have in common?
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts Comrades and friends, please indulge me a little longer while I continue to mine from the depths of the wisdom of our people. Poetry and profound thought ooze like honey from the honeycombs of our culture and our experiences. And do forgive me for the mixed metaphor. I know, as we all […]
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Runyararo Muzavazi Features Writer The illegal reproduction and photocopying of books, which are then sold on the streets, has given livelihoods for many but left authors and publishers wallowing in poverty. Education institutions are on record for spearheading the photocopying of books in the process suffocating the sector, intellectual property lobbyists say.
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Peter Atkins Correspondent The number of hungry and malnourished people is rising for the first time in over a decade. This is according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation. There are now 815 million people affected and frequent incidents of acute and widespread food shortages remain.
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“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).
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Government has set up a Special Cabinet Committee to probe an illegal three-tier pricing phenomenon which has emerged on the market. It came much earlier than the price madness ostensibly triggered by a fake political social media scare that the Zimbabwean economy had collapsed overnight and that in a matter of days shops would be […]
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Reason Wafawarova Correspondent Zimbabwe is once again heading into another election, as has become the norm, every five years since 1980. We are one of the few countries that did not start off as a one party state after we attained independence, although we have had one party in charge of our governance ever since. Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, […]
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Tanaka Chidora Literature Today I have known David Mungoshi, that is, face-to-face, since May, 2011. On the day that I met him, I had just made a presentation at the Book Cafe (old venue) on heroes and heroines in Zimbabwean literature. I was still a “snot-faced” academic, learning the ropes as they say. So, you can imagine my […]
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Kofi Annan Correspondent Africa is witnessing a quiet revolution which holds out real hope of banishing poverty and hunger and driving economic growth. This transformation is not in sectors like oil and gas, minerals or tourism, which grab global headlines, but in agriculture, which remains the backbone of the continent’s economy.
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In the area of Information Security, an incident is an undesired occurrence in an information system and/or a network that manifests as a threat to computer or network security, as it threatens availability, integrity and confidentiality. Such adverse events include among others, theft or loss of equipment that contains private or potentially sensitive information, burglary, unauthorized […]
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Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader Last Thursday, October 5, 2017 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro, a British writer of Japanese origin. Ishiguro penned novels such as the Man Booker Prize winning “The Remains of the Day” and the Time best novel of 2005, “Never Let Me Go”. According to the Nobel Academy Ishiguro, […]
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Elliot Ziwira @the Bookstore CREDITED to Henry Sylvester-Williams and Edward Wilmond Blyden, the term Pan-Africanism refers to an intellectual movement that seeks to unify and strengthen Africa into one body, (Adi and Sherwood, 2003). The movement, whose aim is to foist beneficial cooperation between African states on political, social and economic platforms, stretches beyond continental Africans to […]
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