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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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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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