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‘My jet is bigger than yours’ PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 25 April 2013 00:00

Femi Akomolafe
Nigeria never ceases to amaze. While the country struggles to supply four hours of constant electricity a day, the rich are gorging themselves on private jets. “My jet is bigger than your jet” appears to be the new craze, while the extravagance of those in government knows no bounds.

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How long shall we cry? PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 25 April 2013 00:00

Marshall Bwanya, Features Writer

The end of each busy day sees scores of commuters besiege the various omnibus ranks as they rush to their respective homes in the suburbs of Harare.
The residents streak to Fourth Street, Charge Office, Market Square and Speke Avenue (Copacabana) terminuses on a daily basis to encounter a nightmare that seems to

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Smoking all the way to the bank PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 25 April 2013 00:00

WILLIAM Nyangeresi, from Pavelal Farm in Hurungwe confidently walks hand in pocket and chin high.
He has just received his second payout in a month for tobacco deliveries to the Boka Tobacco Auction Floors. He is proud that at least he has begun reaping fruits of his hard

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What’s in a name, Shakespeare asks?. . . the story behind the Masendeke family PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 20 April 2013 00:00

Isdore Guvamombe Features Editor
Two hillocks face each other separated by a valley where tuft after tuft of green grass covers the mouth of a rivulet, like a man’s overgrown beard. Low hanging deciduous indigenous trees scantily cover the lower verges of bald granite heads. Under normal circumstances

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Beware wolves in sheepskins PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:00

Stephen Mpofu Features Correspondent
In old traditional farming practices in Zimbabwe, mixed cropping was used as a technology to confuse pests.
Today, however, can anyone say with equanimity that the crop mixing of non-governmental

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Hwange’s sex horror PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:00

Rutendo Mapfumo Features Correspondent
“MY father had two wives and my mother was the second wife. Mother passed on when I was 14 years old and doing Form 1. My brothers and I were inexplicably chased away at the funeral and forced to drop out of school. “I started to do street vegetable vending and

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Long live our Independence! PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:00

Marshall Bwanya Features Writer
“If yesterday I fought you as an enemy, today you have become a friend and an ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights, and duties as myself,” said President Mugabe in his maiden speech as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980. To many patriotic

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Why silence the bones of Chibondo? PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:00

Isdore Guvamombe
The silence as one arrives at Chibondo is both eerie and profound. Only chirping birds that intermittently somersault, albeit, effortlessly from one tree branch to another or from one grass tuft to another, give a sign of life. Distant cranking cattle bells give another sign

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Rusape’s butcher camp relived PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 17 April 2013 00:00

 

Fortious Nhambura recently in RUSAPE
Tears start collecting in his eyes as he narrates the ordeal that the captured guerrilla, war collaborators men and women underwent at Castle Kopje Camp, popularly known as ‘KuButcher’ in Rusape. Although he has done this so many times, Cde Chimedza still

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Planning for disaster PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 11 April 2013 00:00

COLOMBO. - With the world’s mega-cities growing even larger, policy makers - especially those in developing countries - need urban planning that will help these areas withstand the impacts of natural disasters.

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Keeping up appearances . . .'Hollywood-style preachers turning Bible upside down' PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 11 April 2013 00:00

Pastor David Manyere
Deception is a major theme in the Bible when it comes to issues pertaining to end time events.
Christians view it with great leniency and as an ordinary defect while others say it is a seedbed of unlimited misery and crime. This article will concentrate on its definition and

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Domestic violence: The other side PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 11 April 2013 00:00

Since the campaign on gender-based violence was first adopted, very little attention has been paid to the issue of domestic abuse and violence against men.
Contrary to the popularly held belief that women are always the victims, Bulawayo councillor for ward 14 Phinias Ndlovu believes that men are victims too.

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