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Tendai Manzvanzvike Herald columnist Dr Sekai Nzenza this week wrote a piece aptly titled, “A return to laughter”. I say apt, because as a writer, it seems as though I had lost my sense of humour and was no longer able to tell a story no matter how general, in a light-hearted mood.
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Wenceslaus Murape In his address during the National Heroes Day commemoration, President Mugabe said salaries and conditions of service for civil servants, who have failed to get meaningful salary increments during the tenure of the inclusive Government, would be reviewed before the end of the year.
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Tonderai Rutsito Techspot Africom, arguably Zimbabwe’s leading converged ICT service provider, recently unveiled a “business in a box” concept set to revolutionise the way both SMEs and large corporates communicate. Africom founder and chief executive Mr Kwanayi Kashangura said “the service is in line with
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IT is Sunday afternoon and I am trying to write something good, interesting and inspiring for this column. But I am struggling to do so because in the next room, the noise of the blaring television and women’s laughter, chikwee, is interrupting
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THIS past week, the world was consumed with talk of military intervention in Syria. The Americans have determined to go in and we witnessed, as we have come to expect, the Western media unquestioningly cheer-leading Obama’s war talk.
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side Grant defeat its creative side. It has been quite transporting to read agony pieces from officials of the two MDCs as they go through the writhing motions of confounding defeat.
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Robson Sharuko IF there was a world championship for people who find a lot of romance in the downfall of one of their own, when it comes to sport, more than any other nation on this globe, I’m pretty sure we would have won quite a good chunk of gold medals.
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Ruth Butaumocho Gender Forum The July 31 harmonised elections were peaceful, with no major incidents of violence reported countrywide. Ironically, the same men and women, who shunned violence did not do the same in their homes as evidenced by a surge in cases of domestic
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Tonderai Rutsito Techspot With an all-time highest of more than 98 percent mobile penetration rate and 35 percent internet penetration rate, buoyed by the completion of major fibre backbone, Zimbabwean enterprises need to take the advantage of the online world. With the proliferation of connectivity, affordable
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A picture, as Napoleon Bonaparte said, is worth a thousand words. The picture accompanying this piece is one of the best examples. It gives the ordinary person the deceptions that we often get from the political elite where they would want them to believe that they do not see eye-to-eye,
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We have once again come to the unbearable times when global politics imposes on us the ghastly experience of having to put up with the posturing of Washington and London. Barrack Obama and David Cameron feign humanity whenever they are forced by the imperial system to stand in the
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ZIMBABWEAN women should quickly jump onto the economic bus that is about to take off now to ensure that the majority of their lot is not left behind as has happened previously. Now that the new Government will soon assume office, indications already are that the number one priority will
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Cathrine Murombedzi HIV Walk UNIVERSITY life is not a bed of roses, talk of studying, assignments and the challenges of securing affordable accommodation outside the campus. Due to financial challenges some students fail to stay on campus as the residence fees are expensive. One has to look for alternative accommodation
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My cousin Piri and I heard that the mulberries were in abundance at the village compound of Jemba and his sister-in-law Mai Esinati. When we arrived at Jemba’s house, only a few kilometres from our village, the homestead seemed deserted except for a couple of skinny hungry dogs,
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Knowledge Mushohwe Whenever a political cartoon is presented to the public, chances are that at least one person — the subject in the composition will be enraged by it. A form of art that extensively employs satire, irony, stereotyping, caricature and distortions as weapons is always likely to divide public opinion.