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Matobo Park: The place to be |
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 00:00 |
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Isdore Guvamombe Features Editor
IT is early in the morning as the sun hesitantly climbs out of the womb of its wise mother from the east. Grass and tree branches sing notes of the sunrise wind, helped by a cacophony of singing birds,
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Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:00 |
Farai Kuvirimirwa Features Correspondent
THE bell rings and Takudzwa jostles with other students while he enters the school gate. Mud squirts from under his shoes as he heads westwards to the assembly point. It's his first day at a Harare high-density suburb secondary school and he is excited
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When sanitary wear becomes a luxury |
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Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:00 |
Catherine Masunda Features Correspondent
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tinashe Magaya's parents struggle to feed their offspring and for things like sanitary pads and tampons are luxuries she can not dare ask for. She has devised a way of making her own sanitary pads using pieces of cloth during her
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Masvingo: Zim’s murder capital |
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Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:00 |
 George Maponga Features Writer
A group of vultures suddenly pull up from the reeds, which decorate the banks of the perennial Mucheke River that bisects the predominantly serene Masvingo city. The arrival of the vultures draws the attention of curious passersby who take an
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SA deportations stir hornet's nest |
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:00 |
 Roselyne Sachiti Deputy Features Editor
MARIA MATARE of Seke Communal Lands was only 16 when she illegally crossed the border into South Africa in 2006.
During her stay there, Maria was employed in an Indian-owned clothing shop, a job that earned her R400 per week.
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Kenyan schoolchildren opt for gold |
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Monday, 13 February 2012 00:00 |
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NYATIKE. - At a waterlogged gold mine in western Kenya's Migori District, 14-year-old Jacob (not his real name), one of 15 000 children toiling in the region's pits, scours the water for glistering flakes, a job he says beats going to school on an empty stomach. "I would rather work for people here at the mine and at the end of the day they will give me money to spend," he
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When birth can mean death |
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Monday, 13 February 2012 00:00 |
Roselyne Sachiti Deputy Features Editor
AN old rusty black pot sat in the corner of a dark room, its contents slowly seeping from three small holes forming a meandering "stream", which flowed onto a reed mat. On the mat Agnes Rukawo of Muzarabani, who had just given birth to a
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Maldives turmoil worries India, threatens region |
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Monday, 13 February 2012 00:00 |
 Jit Kumar, Wu Qiang
Russian literary master Leon Tolstoi once said that all happy families are alike whereas every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. South Asia or the Indian subcontinent somewhat reflects the latter as well, like many other parts of the world.
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Phenomenal growth in Aids levy |
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Friday, 10 February 2012 00:00 |
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WITH global funding for HIV/Aids on the decline, Zimbabwe's innovative Aids levy - a 3 percent tax on income - has become a promising source of funding for the country, with a dramatic increase in revenue collected in the past two years. The levy was introduced in 1999 to compensate for declining donor support, but low salaries and the poor performance of industry
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Diarrhoea: We all have a role to play |
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 00:00 |
Paidamoyo Chipunza Health Reporter
It is half curled with a runny and grainy mustard texture protruding from the sides of the soiled diaper which was ravished by stray dogs. Huge green flies usually associated with human excreta fly from one pamper to another and sometimes cross sand
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LRA: Small but ruthless to Uganda |
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 00:00 |
Prof Mungai wa Muthaithai
THE belief that the end is nigh for Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army - a small but ruthless transnational armed group operating in four African states - underestimates its resilience and overestimates the unity and capability of the forces ranged
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