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The Arena Hildegarde RENOWNED Nigerian cleric and founder of Winners Chapel Bishop David Oyedepo last week made startling revelations about Boko Haram’s insurgency in an exclusive interview with The Punch newspaper. He was asked, “The attention of the whole world has turned to Nigeria because of
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THE “I can’t be bothered” attitude is a human trait that is well articulated in Martin Niemoller’s “First they came” statement: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out
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Hildegarde The Arena THIS week I write about an American music artiste and actress Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Beyonce), not because I am a fan of her music and artistic works, but because she is an individual who has occupied acres and acres of space in our media. Inevitably, a personality like Beyonce is
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Tendai H. Manzvanzvike Group Foreign Editor BRITISH think-tank Chatham House’s April 2014 report, “Zimbabwe’s International Re-engagement: The Long Haul to Recovery” by Knox Chitiyo and Steve Kibble is attracting a lot of attention from various quarters, mostly because the think-tank becomes one of the most high-ranking Western organisations to call a spade a spade
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THERE is something about an election season that brings the best and worst in people. Some cross floors while others act like spoilt brats in order to attract attention, with ordinary people wondering whether it is an election about personalities and/or issues. Pathetic though it
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Hildegarde The Arena ABRAHAM Lincoln describes the electoral process thus: “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will have to sit on their blisters.”
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The Arena Hildegarde MY headline last week “Of ‘attractive bride’, suitors devoid of ‘sex appeal’”, was deliberately naughty and provocative, but little did I anticipate that the caveat in the 4th EU-Africa Summit in Brussels would actually impinge so much on sexuality. The attractive bride was greeted by a suitor of questionable sexual orientation.
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The Arena Hildegarde ZIMBABWE celebrates its Golden Jubilee in 2030. By then, Independence Day, April 18 will have fallen on the same day as Good Friday, one of the Easter’s most Holy days on only three occasions. This is according to information I got on the website <http://www.maa.mhn.de/StarDate
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Hildegarde The Arena—- THE race card is back in the news and this time we hope that we debunk the superiority complex of people who believe that their skin colour, eyes and hair type make them God’s best gifts to creation, thereby giving them an edge over black people or people of colour.
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The Arena Hildegarde MOST of us love thrillers — be they in book and/or audio-visual format. Thrillers have a sense of keeping you on edge and also offer indirect interactive elements where your mind is allowed to wander and come up with absurd and in some cases understandable conspiracy theories.
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SUSPENDED MDC-T deputy treasurer Elton Mangoma’s “harvest of thorns” at Harvest House, the party’s headquarters, raises a number of issues regarding due process.
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The Arena Hildegarde CALLS to curb the scourge of corruption in all sectors of our lives are firing from all cylinders.The church, which is supposed to be the moral compass of society, is also speaking out, very strongly and from a united front. Church leaders convened a prayer service and discussion session on February 28 […]
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Hildegarde The Arena NO matter how old, the leopard never loses its spots, so goes the saying. We are a people that take pride in places we call home. If these homesteads happen to be in rural areas – “kumusha” (Shona) or “ekhaya” (SiNdebele) – they are a source of self-esteem. Not only do
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COMRADE Nathan Shamuyarira and Dr. Charles Utete in their introduction to “Our War of Liberation: Speeches, Articles, Interviews, 1976-1979” say, “The road to leadership is a long, cold and lonely one. The higher the path winds, the narrower it becomes, with many
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Hildegarde The Arena IT is one thing to dislike and/or disrespect President Robert Mugabe the man, but quite another to disrespect the Office of the President of Zimbabwe. Some ardent critics of President Mugabe fail to make that distinction, and in their mangled criticism of the President they also fail to realise that they are […]
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