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Stephen Kimber Correspondent— “Former US president George W. Bush, who led his country into a disastrous war with Iraq on the basis of concocted evidence of weapons of mass destruction and who authorised the use of torture against foreign prisoners of war in violation of the Geneva Conventions and international law, died today . . .”
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Linda-Gail Bekker Correspondent— The rate of HIV infection remains greater than the number of people initiating treatment. This imbalance will stop the eradication of HIV/AIDS. It begs for increased investment into primary prevention.
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Nile Bowie Correspondent— South Korea’s Park Geun-hye is at the centre of a political fire-storm and under attack on multiple fronts over a devastating corruption scandal. The country’s first female president faces impeachment and mass street protests calling for her arrest.
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Lesego Makgatho Correspondent— Quibbling over the class of violence on women and children is a distraction, it misses the point. Anyone is susceptible to violence. No matter what socio-economic status you’re in.
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Despite initial resistance from cross-border traders and opposition political parties to Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016, there is evidence and creeping appreciation of a slow upturn in the fortunes of the local manufacturing sector. In some cases, capacity utilisation is back to 100 percent in a space of less than half a year.
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today January disease is still several festive stopovers away but many Zimbabweans are already drowning in debt. According to recent reports, an overwhelming majority is dicing with debt, stretched out of means, into mortal fear of the next phone call. Around these poor folks, the vicious web is forever twisting and swelling because […]
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Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader As a student of history one period of the African past that has always intrigued me is the slave trade. At a decoloniality conference I attended a few months ago, one of the professors posited that we should stop using the term slave trade because Africa was not a continent […]
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Ron Jacobs Correspondent The movement against South African apartheid was perhaps the most universal and popular movement in the western world in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands protested in a multitude of ways — from letter-writing campaigns to shantytown occupations of city squares and college campus greens. Institutions of all types, from churches to universities, from
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Abayomi Azikiwe Correspondent Historical, political and cultural ties between the people of Africa and Cuba extend back over five centuries. Cuba was colonised by European empires utilising the labour of enslaved Africans whose super-exploitation laid the basis for the rise of world capitalism and imperialism. In a speech delivered by President Castro on April 19, […]
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Eighteen million people, just slightly under half of the people living with HIV and AIDS globally, are now taking life-saving medication, but global efforts to end the disease still largely depend on prevention. While efforts to expand antiretroviral treatment have been relatively successfully, prevention efforts have been more mixed. With the help of treatment, mother
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THE Mighty Warriors’ doomed campaign at the 2016 African Women Championships in Cameroon was a monumental step backwards for a team that appeared to be moving in the right direction by charming this nation through qualification for their maiden Olympic Games’ show in Brazil last year.
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Freedom Mupanedemo and Charity Ruzvidzo Since independence 36 years back, Zimbabwe has known no other ruling party except Zanu-PF, the party that delivered the masses from the brutal yoke of colonial bondage in 1980.
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Isdore Guvamombe & Freedom Mupanedemo FOR more than a decade, Jack Chako (38) of Bolon Farm in Rafingora has been living happily with her two husbands, Michael Hwita and Liford Chimoto, with whom she shares one bed.
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THE INTERVIEW Christopher Farai Charamba Former Cuban leader, the iconic Cde Fidel Castro Ruz, died on November 25. His legacy in Africa cannot be overstated as he contributed to the liberation of many African countries and supported their development in the post-colonial era. The Herald’s Christopher Charamba (CC) spoke to Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe Elio […]
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Tawanda Marwizi Lifestyle Correspondent — The floods that hit Muzarabani community affected road networks making it difficult for vehicles to navigate the area. So bad are the roads in the valley that some transport operators have withdrawn their services from the area. Motorcycles have become the only reliable mode of transport for the community. Sometimes the motorcycles carry […]
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