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WHEN the immortal Pele said football was the most beautiful game in the world, he must have had a glowing image of Barcelona at its rampant best, as was the case at the Camp Nou, on Tuesday night. -
Habemus Papam!
In case you are not Catholic or Latin-speaking, “Habemus Papam” simply means “We have a Pope”, the Vatican way of announcing results for elections conducted secretly within their innermost sanctum! How sad! I am lost for words, which is why I am having to turn to the “mother country” for some aid to repair my limping tongue. -
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, village elders with cotton tuft heads say no amount of cosmetics can beautify a frog. It is ugly. There, it is a fallacy to apply lipstick or foundation on the frog. It remains ugly. Neither do villagers there encourage one to teach a
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In a week leading to Zimbabwe’s referendum on a new constitution and at a time we are experiencing bizarre claims of supernatural happenings across the country, it is a bit of a quandary for any columnist to focus on a topic far away from home. Claims about the occurrence of godly
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Just like this weekend referendum on the draft Constitution, which should be taken very seriously, it was the same with Kenya’s harmonised elections of Mach 4, where the leading contenders were not only promising to transform Kenya but they also had their names to speak on their
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THE International Theatre Institute (Zimbabwe Centre) launched on March 4 an ambitious programme of theatre activities under the banner of World Theatre Month celebrations that will conclude with a three-hour theatre show to mark the commemoration of the World Theatre Day on
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The World Health Organisation has been running under the theme “Getting to Zero”, Zero Aids-related deaths, zero discrimination and zero new HIV infections between 2011 and 2015. The initiative by WHO is a plausible one and will likely see the world becoming a better place to live in.
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MY TURN with Caesar Zvayi
KENYANS went to the polls last week to elect leaders of their choice in a contest that drew interesting reactions from western countries that ended up tipping their hands about their meddlesome role in African politics.
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A fortnight ago I had lunch with a friend and colleague in the media fraternity Lilian Muungani, the group public relations and marketing executive with Green Fuels, promoters of the Chisumbanje project. We spoke about a lot of things personal and national.
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When a good reward motivates talent and skill, the power of creativity automatically comes into play. Recently, a local event, Culture Shift Zimbabwe, brought emerging arts, culture specialists and technology experts together requiring them to create bespoke technologies that seek to
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Isdore Guvamombe
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, no matter how good looking and expensive a coffin is, no one wishes to die immediately and get one, such. -
THE truth has finally dawned on MDC-T that what Simon Chimbetu sang in “Kure kachana”, which most people call “KuState kure” is in fact reality.
In 2013, that reality has never been as daunting. They sense what they dread - defeat. This is why anything that is helpful is roped in.
The violence drum is beating louder and louder as talk of harmonised elections becomes commonplace. The wise are discerning the meaning of -
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In a golden period stretching from August 16, ’92, the day they destroyed Bafana Bafana 4-1 at the National Sports Stadium with Peter Ndlovu touching the heavens with a vintage individual show as good as it can ever get, to April 24, ’93, when they drew 1-1 with South Africa in Johannesburg, the Dream Team were unbeaten in 10 World Cup/Nations Cup games
SOME things, as they say, never change and as the Warriors prepare to plunge into their World Cup qualifying campaign this month, it all feels like -
Bowden B.C. Mbanje and Darlington N. Mahuku
The honesty of Zimbabwean politicians is constantly scrutinised by their constituents, peers, the Press and the nation as a whole. The recent burial of Christpowers Maisiri in Headlands provides a very -
Reason Wafawarova
For long Africa has been looked at as the world’s arbiter of poverty, and the plight of Africa’s poverty is the basis of the billion dollar charity industry, that despite the glaring fact that Africa’s poverty is