Taurai Musakaruka People Issues
A contract of employment is an agreement entered into between an employer and an employee at the time the employee is hired that outlines the exact nature of their business relationship, specifically what compensation the employee will receive

Albert Nhamoyebonde
WOMEN play a vital role in winning elections due to their numbers and enthusiasm. Many politicians all over the world have realised the importance of the women voters. In the US, politicians go out of their way to promote those values that women

There has been much debate about converting the main highways in Zimbabwe to dual carriageways, although this will not cut the death rate by much since most accidents are described as “failure to negotiate a curve” or “driver lost control after a tyre blow-out”. It does not matter how many lanes there are in each direction; if a driver goes round a curve too fast, he will

Sekai Nzenza
Sometimes white people come to visit the villages around here. Most of the visitors include Americans, Australians, British, Canadians and others from various European countries. They come to preach the Gospel, to give food aid, to train or to

Dr Mustafa Hajik
The Arab world is deemed combative and confrontational against the United Sates and its policies, but China thinks the same Arab world is depending too much on US support for survival. China believes the Arab world should take a principled

Dr Tafataona Mahoso
The latest draft Constitution from Copac co-chairmen shows that for the MDC formations Copac became a fraudulent “new start centre,” if we understand the concept of a “new start centre” as that donor-funded and donor-driven outfit where people

Innocent Katsande
Events in the past few months clearly show that our youths now want to be involved in policy matters of governance more than ever before. The young people now want to go further than just fit in. They want to participate than just care about

The cares of life have helped me understand that there is no such thing as happenstance. Nothing in life just happens from nowhere.  There is a force that orchestrates it. May I hasten to say that it is God who designs individual people connected to Him for a specific purpose. Every person’s destiny and deliverance is in the Hands of God — the Potter. Our God has the

The National Aids Council is worried about the growing gap in funding anti-retroviral drugs for people living with HIV.
As those living with HIV live longer, there will obviously be more people who need this medication each year. Even if we managed to stop all new infections from today, the treatment bill will continue to grow for many years until deaths from old

Lovemore Ranga Mataire
The conviction of former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga and ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor by the International Criminal Court should, as a matter of urgency, galvanise all conscientious Africans to call for changes in the

Chinua Achebe was born on November 15 1930 in  Ogidi, Nigeria. He is one of Nigeria’s greatest novelists. His novels are written mainly for an African audience, but having been translated into more than 40 languages, they have found worldwide readership. His family belonged to the Igbo tribe, and he was the fifth of six children. Representatives of the British