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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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Ron Miller Correspondent— Everywhere you turn these days, there’s talk of automation replacing people. Technology is surely advancing at a rapid rate, and in today’s click-driven media environment, sensationalism sells, but just because tech can replace a human worker doesn’t mean we’re always going to want that. In some instances, even when tech can do […]
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Liesl Louw-Vaudran Correspondent— The presidential elections that took place in Benin and Ghana in 2016 were thankfully peaceful and transparent. If it hadn’t been for the polls that led to a change of leadership in these two West African countries, last year would have been defined almost exclusively by its contested election outcomes.
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Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Correspondent— The African Union (AU) has until its summit in Addis Ababa at the end of January 2017 to rescue itself from institutional sclerosis. A coincidence of fiscal, succession, diplomatic and governance crises jostling for the attention of its forthcoming summit will afford the bi-annual conclave of Africa’s leaders a rare opportunity to […]
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News last week that Government had asked NSSA to gradually increase pension disbursements from the current $60 a month to $150 by end of March should be great music to pensioners. Life is hard for the average employee, it can only be harder for the pensioner who has very few options open to him, coupled […]
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today The kombi is a city in miniature. Each trip there contrasts on board every shade of the urban experience. A conductor proudly extracting life from downtown fringes and a driver conversant with suburban connectography enough to sidestep roadblocks pair in the cockpit.
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Sydney Kawadza Senior Features Writer Joy abounds for Zimbabwe and its Southern African counterparts for the abundant rains that have fallen this season. Coming from two successive droughts, the heavy rains have increased prospects for improved yields in the predominantly agro-based economies.
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Romans 8 vs 38–39 “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
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Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader Last week was filled with drama over floor prices for data that priced a number of people off the internet. For many this meant they couldn’t connect to Facebook and WhatsApp, the biggest drivers of internet usage in the country.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store YVONNE Vera’s “Under the Tongue” (1996) explores the burden of silence when debilitating sorrows, pains, dreams and expectations remain shrouded in the secret enclaves of the mouth as a heavy stone is cast on the tongue. Like a river in whose belly different creatures exist in their cosmopolitan way, […]
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AFTER a lengthy and frustrating 11-year wait, tomorrow we will get the chance to see our beloved Warriors plunging into battle on the big stage of the African Cup of Nations when they take on continental heavyweights Algeria in the opening match of their Group B adventure in Franceville, Gabon.
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By a Special Correspondent A United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean tech entrepreneur and his Guinean business partner are the brains behind Africa’s latest and fast-growing mobile airtime start-up.
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THE INTERVIEW: Innocent Ruwende IR: Engineer, you have been at the helm of Harare Water for the past four months. As you are aware water is one of the major drivers of typhoid, which is currently affecting the capital especially the high-density suburb of Mbare, what actions are you taking to ensure there is water […]
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We have opened the gates for 2017. We don’t just open half way, no, we want to open them all the way! In this time of the year when most people are making prayers and declarations for the year, let it not be a time you take lightly. Declarations are powerful! Declarations backed by action will make […]
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