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In yesterday’s issue of The Herald we carried a story in which veterans of the country’s liberation struggle spoke a lot of sense. Addressing journalists in Harare on Monday, Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association spokesperson Mr Douglas Mahiya said some senior Government officials were focusing on trivia at the expense of service delivery.
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My Turn With Tichaona Zindoga— THERE is a big, stinking scandal that has just hit the opposition “civil society” circles. It concerns one Linda Masarira, a controversial anti-Government activist who a few days ago claimed to have been beaten up by six men whom she insinuated to be members of State security.
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday—- In colonial days, they called this river Sabi. But its real name is Save. During the past few days, Save has been very quiet. When she is like this, you must not go near her because she is in floods and cannot breathe. She appears calm as water flows slowly downstream. […]
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Leroy Dzenga and Talent Gore Features Writers — Time and again, a craze emerges within Zimbabwe, summoning notoriety and igniting the curiosity of many. In Hatcliffe Extension, about 20 kilometres northeast of Harare, alluvial gold panners, desperate for the mineral, have invaded a sewer stream to sift through the soils from a nearby gold field.
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Christopher Farai Charamba Review Writer — It was Malcolm X who said, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
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Lovemore Ranga Mataire Senior Writer— Self-appointed political pundits found something to munch about when Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa appeared on a picture on social media holding a mug inscribed “I am the Boss.”
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Courage Nyamhunga Our Children, Our Future— 2017 is the year of renewing commitment towards Zimbabwean children and its young people. For us it is a year of progress and promise with new responsibilities to deliver positive results that ensure that a girl child in Bulilima is able to finish her Ordinary Level studies free from the […]
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Sharon Hofisi and Mila Owen Correspondents— In the wake of sobering statistics, considerable media attention has been given to the rise in typhoid cases, suspected and confirmed. On January 4, 2017, Lloyd Gumbo and Innocent Ruwende reported in The Herald that the Harare City Council had from October 2016 contributed to 76 percent of the overall […]
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Rebecca Tarnopol Review Correspondent — Last year, as I sat in my organic chemistry lecture, a rather disturbing thought passed through my mind: This professor could say pretty much anything, and I’d believe it.
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The United States of America has just extended its sanctions against Zimbabwe, with the outgoing President Barack Obama last week bidding us as hostile a goodbye as ever.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor — Growing up in the rural areas, in the 1970s every little girl then aspired to be a teacher, nurse or just being a full time housewife. With no mentor to look up to for advice on which career to pursue, opportunities were even more diminished for rural girls, who could not […]
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Sifelani Tsiko — A situational analysis report by the Zimbabwe Anti-Microbial Resistance Core Group has revealed shocking abuse of antibiotics in a worrying trend that could see more people in the southern African country dying from such ailments as cuts and grazes, diarrhoea and flu as antibiotics lose their power to fight minor
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David Mungoshi Shelling The Nuts— There are things we do without any hesitation whatsoever. Such things are part of our repertoire of social skills. Then there are things that we tend to forget to do but which often turn out to be phenomenally important. Such is life with its ups and downs.
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora— The relationship between the government and the governed is a very complex one. We all wish it was simple, but we have to learn to deal with the hand that we have. The people should accept and acknowledge the right of a government to make decisions on their behalf. If […]
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In all the planning you are doing for next year, the most important thing you will need is determination. Within the prayers you are doing for the coming season make sure there is enough request going to God for Him to give you enough determination. Your circumstances and situation require that you get determination, without […]
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