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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum When serial rapist Thomas Brighton Chirembwe was in January this year sentenced to 290 years in jail by magistrate Simon Rojers Kachambwa for raping 13 women and unlawful entry into their homes, the nation was left spellbound.
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IN the end, there were tears, enough to flood Lake Kariba, for a closely-knitted community which, as fate might have it, had this year celebrated the Nyami-nyami festival under the theme, “The legend rises again.”
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A good friend recently made a cynical point about the admirably dogged way in which whites pursue their own interests. With a sore heart, I weighed in to add that this doggedness followed clarity on what those interests are, and of course how to pursue them,
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Recent revelations that Energy and Power Development Deputy Minister Munacho Mutezo coerced Zesa to deposit money into a Zanu-PF Manicaland Women’s League bank account vindicates long held views that some Government officials were abusing their positions to loot resources from parastatals,
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Reason Wafawarowa on Thursday It is a given reality that any competition in political life looks like a contest of words and images, and protagonists will always resort to the use of colourful descriptions targeted at their rivals or competitors, most of the time in the most slanderous of ways.
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Tonderai Rutsito TechnoMag The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) should swiftly move in and implement mobile number portability to cushion Zimbabwean subscribers against involuntary network choices.
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Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent Marvel comics, incorporating likeable all-American heroes such as Spiderman, Batman, the Fantastic Four, Wonder Woman, Thor, Superman and the Incredible Hulk have entertained several generations of audiences worldwide. Readers and viewers alike have had their attention captured by the imaginary
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday When Muchaneta died two weeks ago, most people around this village celebrated. They said, God is wonderful. He brings justice to the poor and the oppressed. “Who poisoned her?” asked my cousin Piri laughing. “Nobody,” said Mai Girasia, our neighbour from along the mountain. It was Saturday
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Gender Forum With Ruth Butaumocho Today marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence commemorations with the Government and civil society calling for the adoption of a zero tolerance approach to violence in the homes and at community level. This year’s commemorations come at a time when Zimbabwe is
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EBSON “Sugar” Muguyo left huge footprints, on the football fields of South Africa in the ’70s, and turned himself into such an immortal at Kaizer Chiefs, he was recently honoured as one of the greatest 12 Amakhosi players of all-time.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Under the blistering mid-morning heat, I set off herding cattle towards the bend on Mupinge River — aptly named Gonyo, the Korekore dialect for a bend. My bare feet and legs caked with knee-high cow dung paste, acquired from entering the kraal to drive out cattle, themselves the beasts that endured long nights
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Hildegarde The Arena THE Zimbabwe Constitution has made provisions for the issuance of birth and death certificates for every citizen. Other important identity documents include drivers’ licence and/or passports. Chapter 3, Section 35 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) on citizenship states: Persons are Zimbabwean
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Reason Wafawarova On Thursday GIVEN our liberation struggle and its legacy, our present-day politics cannot be divorced from the tenets of its own foundations, and the upcoming December Congress must be conducted in a way aligned to the concrete demands of the liberation movement that bred this party we know as Zanu-PF today. These
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Editor Tendai Muranda of Mazivandadzoka Village in Shurugwi collects a container from the kitchen preparing to go and fetch water at the village borehole, a kilometre away. Having walked a few metres, she realises she has left her mobile phone and immediately rushes back to collect it. As soon as Tendai picks up
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus Christmas is a few weeks away and the question uppermost in our minds is: What is it going to be like? How are we going to celebrate this special day given the constrained economy? Of course Christmas time is the benchmark or the thermometer by which many households and companies measure their