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Yusuf Serunkuma Correspondent Many post-colonial regimes are still mired in protracted civil wars and violence, struggling economies, corruption, bad leadership, broken social and economic infrastructure and famine. It is rather dishonest for a country whose main university could be closed for months by presidential decree, whose professors strike year in year out over emoluments, to complain […]
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Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. Romans 13:7 Honour is a key that unlocks doors to your success. Sometimes there are moments when you do not feel like honouring certain people. But, it is so unfortunate that […]
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Ihuoma Atanga Correspondent As the world waits in anticipation for the beginning of a new era in global diplomacy, António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres commences his term as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Sifelani Tsiko Syndication Writer “KuBuKalanga ndiko kanyi kwedu, kwedu! KuBuKalanga ndiko kanyi kwedu! Hona chozanazana, chonanayila chondifungisa kanyi kwedu,” sings Eunice Sibanda as she leads a group of women singing the Kalanga theme song which celebrates the richness of their culture, identity and history.
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David Mungoshi Shelling the Nuts Last week we went down memory lane along boxing roads. We looked in on approved rings but did not rough it up on dusty spots in Chivhu town, where peasants waiting for a bus could try their luck in a ring where weight divisions were unheard of.
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Lansana Gberie Review Correspondent When American film actor Robin Williams, who suffered from depression, committed suicide two years ago, Kenyan humour writer Ted Malanda feigned incredulity.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Profile After spending the better part of her life in the small town of Chiredzi, Lorraine Zhou came to Harare. Somehow she knew that her life would never be the same again.
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Philippians 2 vs 3 – 4 “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”
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Munyaradzi Makoni Correspondent Mental health is becoming one of Africa’s healthcare challenges that needs to be addressed urgently. But, from World Psychiatric Association International Congress, which I attended in South Africa last month (November 18-22), I realised that it is not getting the attention it deserves.
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Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa warned Zimbabweans during debate in Parliament over a $1 billion loan to renovate and extend Hwange Power Station that electricity tariffs would have to rise to service this loan and others taken out to keep the lights on in the country and allow industrial expansion.
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Reason Wafawarova Political Monday It is simplistic and easy to narrate the history of Kenya when one is fantasising about coalition success stories; admiring the historic feat when the Rainbow Coalition fielded Mwai Kibaki as the sole candidate against KANU’s losing candidate Uhuru Kenyatta in 2002, who was to bounce back as Kenya’s President in […]
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Memory Chirere Correspondent The late Nobel Prize-winning Gabriel García Márquez, who died on April 17, 2014, is considered by many, including myself, as the greatest author ever to be translated from Spanish to English
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Jonathan H. Martin Correspondent In the aftermath of the election, important questions abound about the nation’s future. However, one is clearly missing from the public conversation: Will Americans’ growing frustration with the major parties give third parties a new boost?
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Bill Van Auken Correspondent Even as columns of green buses were ferrying the last of the Western-backed Islamist “rebels” out of eastern Aleppo on Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry took the podium at a State Department Press conference to describe the situation in the northern Syrian city as “unconscionable” and to denounce the Syrian […]
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Sydney Kawadza Senior Features Writer Zimbabweans have a penchant to draw humour out of misery; hence the joke that women in rural Masvingo are balding because they carry water buckets over long distances.
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