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Sekai Nzenza WE are driving to the village. I have been away in Australia and other places for a whole month. As usual, my cousin Piri is in the passenger seat with her bottle of beer, her legs carelessly spread out. She is leaning back on the seat, almost reclining. No seat belt. I have
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Amai Jukwa Any policy conversation on land must begin by accepting that land belongs to the people. This is a sacrosanct principle. One could claim custody perhaps but certainly not ownership in the sense of absolute freehold proprietorship.
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I plead guilty. I abandoned post for quite a while, and then returned to it without feeling I owed my bosses any explanation. For that I have been suitably chastised. I deserve it. I take it.
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I’M not sure whether it has been a crude product of the toxic politics of the last 15 years but you get a feeling we have, generally, become a nation that is weighed down by negativity. And nowhere is this negativity more pronounced than in our sport. With social media
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Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve – if you like – respect for family hierarchy is sacrosanct. There, the elders insist on following protocol. Long back this villager’s father taught at Chitima Primary School in the remotest part of Mbire District
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir It’S official, the proposed 2014 National Budget is predominantly to do with about two percent of our population, if submissions by various ministries to Parliamentary Portfolio and Thematic Committees this week are anything to go-by, notwithstanding
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Isdore Guvamombe Tourism Matrix In the past 10 years, I have visited and revisited Chinhoyi Caves but I cannot resist it. It is a place where each day you enter the caves, you come out fresh and re-thinking about Zimbabwe’s geomorphological splendour. It is
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus Zimbabwe is losing billions of dollars through the importation of basic goods and services which ordinarily we should be able to produce here.
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Hildegarde The Arena CHRISTOPHER Paolini says, “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t”, and historians fall in this category. The problem, though, is that some of the things they remember are also annoying since they generate controversy, are misunderstood and misinterpreted,
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John Manzongo At the Workplace For the past few weeks I have been talking about the need to decently reward workers – saying at least pay them a living wage. Today I will dwell on two topical issues that I feel are related. The first will be that of paying workers according to their level […]
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Reason Wafawarova It is sad that being a loyalty-driven church member and a God-fearing Christian appear to have become a precarious balancing act in Zimbabwe’s religious landscape. Many Christians like my friend Jealousy Mawarire are clearly prepared to die for their “spiritual fathers” (the euphemism for today’s
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Catherine Murombedzi HIV Walk Mashonaland Central has eight districts, namely Bindura, Mazoe, Guruve, Muzarabani, Mbire, Shamva, Mt Darwin and Rushinga with a population of 1 million. Of these 93 000 are living with the HIV virus.
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Knowledge Mushohwe However, not all cartoons have this unique quality because some scarcely make reference to specific events. But one editorial cartoon published by The Herald on May 16, 2008, making reference to a looming presidential run-off between President Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai scheduled for June 27 the same year, was spot on.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza And so people stayed close to home and married among themselves, carefully respecting totem differences. In those days, we did not marry people with the same totem. It was taboo, zvaiyera.
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side Happy New Year dear reader, and I hope 2014 carries better hopes. For me it certainly means a more vigorous debate, more virile analyses. Let’s partner and see how far we go.