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ON the road trip from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls on Thursday, as the world celebrated Christmas Day, it was impossible not to think about that tragic journey which the great Adam Ndlovu undertook, for the last time, in a life that was cruelly cut short. A life as a footballer whose shooting boots, and the […]
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Hildegarde The Arena WHAT was hoped to be a game changer is turning out to be something reminiscent of Tom Wolfe’s “the bonfire of the vanities”. The line has been drawn. Zanu-PF’s former secretary for administration, Cde Didymus Mutasa, has been making spirited attempts to discredit the resolutions of the 6th Zanu-PF National People’s Congress. He wants […]
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REASON WAFAWAROVA Last week newzimbabwe.com published an article titled “President Mugabe’s Balance Sheet,” by one Dinizilo Mbiko Macaphulana, a self-professed intellectual whose wide reading is far less questionable than his analysis. There are points in Macaphulana’s essay that I will agree with, and there are some assertions I will question, strictly from a phrenic perspective,
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent It’s the Sunday afternoon Harare soccer fans have been waiting for. Dynamos versus Caps United will always be eagerly anticipated by both the Press and the public. When the match eventually kicks off in front of thousands of fans, two dozen or more photojournalists representing all of Zimbabwe’s print media strategically take their places […]
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Sekai Nzenza Correspondent We are walking around the fields with my cousin Piri. Surrounding us are small healthy plants of germinating maize, each with four or five leaves. It was not like this four weeks ago when we stood in this same place, with my friend Bhiya, my cousin Piri and brother Sidney. In my hand, I […]
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Sharuko on Saturday ON Tuesday, a symbolic international match was played between the British army and their German counterparts in Aldershot, an English town, to mark the 100th anniversary of an iconic friendly football tie that defied the brutality of war.
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side MAYBE I should have been born in America. I love size. I love space. I love huge vistas. Conversely I hate narrowness. I hate to feel hemmed in, encased or contained. The worst moment for me is when I step past the threshold, into my mother’s sooted roundavel kitchen. I
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir The other day while having lunch at a local restaurant with colleagues, we overheard a fairly old-looking couple discussing the recent developments in Zanu-PF and Government that saw former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her faction falling by the wayside in the recent realignment that has dominated news headlines of […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, it is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. There, village elders with cotton tuft hair, say there is no sweet or nice death. Early this year, this villager, the self-taught […]
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Hildegarde The Arena HE is the embodiment of Zimbabwe’s spiritual, social, cultural and political journey, tying together colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe since through his works. He has also been a voice of reason during these eras, making tremendous contributions to the Zimbabwe, that is and the Zimbabwean people dream of. Beyond the oceans, he has been Zimbabwe’s
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Reason Wafawarova on Thursday IN political commentary and conversation, the word loyal is quite common, although most of the time it is used as spin. The prosaic, pragmatic, and sometimes pernicious happenings in the gruesome terrain of politics are often given a vague, if not quaint glow, and that is why politicians are normally excellent at […]
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Tonderai Rutsito TechSpot The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe recently held a consultative workshop with all the country`s communications operators and internet Service providers, where they advocated for sharing of infrastructure, both active and passive in the hope that this will ultimately lead to a reduction in operational costs. Potraz’s acting
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday IN this village homestead, on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day we paid respect to Jesus Christ because he saved us from our sins. Then we poured beer on the ground before the elders drank it to give respect to our ancestors, because we believed that they understood our problems because they lived in […]
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Knowledge Mushohwe Art Zone In the 1980s, before the internet took over just about all of our lives, newspapers were proud to display the “exclusive” tag, each time they knew or presumed no other news organisation covered a specific story or interviewed a specific person. Radio news citations worked as pure advertising for the exclusive story, […]
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum THE year was characterised by a series of events and issues that are expected to guide the gender discourse next year. As the year comes to an end, the events, which happened at various levels and informed by different economic, political and social fundamentals presented the nation with an opportunity to discuss gender […]