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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, no matter how long a night becomes, dawn will eventually break. In the village, a he-goat is never a master of courtship. His is a loud massif appeal, so public that one has to make sure he or she is not in the company of in-laws -
Cathrine Murombedzi HIV Walk
I was in Kasanze village, Zvimba, early this month for the unveiling of my grandparents’ tombstones. The occasion was filled with joy as the family met to honour two of the most important people in our family. It was all joy with no weeping. The village headman, our neighbours and teachers -
The Arena Hildegarde
In the book of Proverbs 1:20-22, King Solomon says, “Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: ‘How long will you simple (denotes a person who is gullible, -
Today we see impassionable crowds raucously cheering a new breed of charismatic preachers whose style of preaching is fashioned along the lines of celebrity evangelism and in many cases the emerging youthful preachers are indisputable Biblicists who can convincingly chain Bible verses to
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Victoria Ruzvidzo Business Focus
THE never-say-die attitude demonstrated by the architect and visionary of the US$100 billion economy by 2040, Mr Kenias Mafukidze, is what Zimbabwe needs at this moment. It is easier to believe in the negative and just go with the flow given the revised economic growth targets, threats -
Is the national mind so easily distracted? Or so prone to escapism? A few figures will ram the point home. A story on Tsvangirai and his women on one of the websites on Zimbabwe clocked 210 responses.
Two stories on mining recapitalisation and beneficiation which ran on the same day and on the same site barely managed 44 comments altogether.
Of those 44 comments, only four were relevant to the theme, with most of the comments dwelling on the health and age of Vice President Nkomo, one of the sources for the two stories on mining.
The same story material on Tsvangirai and his women played out in the South African press, including in the largest circulating tabloid, the -
It’s about forgiving Nyika Chifamba, who became a source of countless jokes last week, including one where some claimed he sent a “please call me back” to Knowledge Musona in his request for the striker to come home for national duty, because for all the challenges he faced, his heart was with his Warriors and noone can question that?
Where does one really start in this golden weekend where Zimbabwe football bathed in bright sunshine after months dominated and blighted by off-the-field turmoil?
Thanking Rahman Gumbo for an excellent job at Rufaro last Sunday after his platoon of Warriors turned on the finest half-hour show by our -
Reflections Isdore Guvamombe
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, wealth is dew, as the sun rises imperceptibly, it soon dries up, leaving ephemeral memories. Do elders not say, to avoid fraud or wickedness, God gave every creature a name and means of survival? But with earthly -
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Darlington Mahuku and Bowden Mbanje
Chaminuka is one of Zimbabwe’s greatest ancestors who lived in the Chitungwiza area before Zimbabwe was occupied by Cecil John Rhodes’ British South Africa Company. It is recorded that Chaminuka was a great miracle worker while others contend that he was simply a great magician or -
Catherine Murombedzi HIV Walk
Mbuya Lucy is over 75 and has been on ART for the last eight years.
She lost her husband a long time ago before the advent of the HIV/Aids pandemic and has not remarried neither has she had a sexual relationship.
“I have been ill for some years and it was only in 2004 that my daughter who works as a nurse at Mutare General Hospital took me for some tests at her workplace. She asked me to take an HIV test since I had been looking after one of my daughters who unfortunately passed away,” said Mbuya Lucy. -
A WISE person knows that every moment has a different value. Only a fool assumes that every day is the same as yesterday. A dog is well known for running up and down while barking yet a lion is popularly known for taking 20 hours of rest and then reserving four hours of the day for
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This year’s Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo which takes place next week has a very attractive programme that will feature eight plays.
The programme opens at the Bulawayo Theatre with Wole Soyinka’s “The Lion and the Jewel” to be presented by Centre for Talent Development (CTD) with the support of Plan International.
The Centre for Talent Development is a Bulawayo-based theatre training project established in 2001.
The play which is this year’s O-Level Literature textbook and is intended mainly for student audience will be presented by eight high school -
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Tonderai Rutsito Techspot
ZIMBABWE Online (ZOL) in conjunction with its parent company Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and a local startup initiative, Jumpstart, last week unveiled the second edition of its technology challenge, ZOL jumpstart at Harare Sports Club. The challenge, which comes with prizes amounting to -
Reason Wafawarowa
In Nelson Chamisa’s world Zimbabwe “saunters towards the demise of the ultimate phase of a hard transition,” and he believes the people of this country have “subliminally” long stored decisions about an ideal future. But have they?
It is just as good that the MDC-T organising secretary realises the pending MDC-T demise coming with the last phase of the misnamed Global Political Agreement, and the confession that the MDC-T has been in Government for three years doing nothing but “subliminally” stalling decisions about an ideal future for the country is quite telling. -
Sekai Nzenza
During the time I lived in the Diaspora, some people called me dzvatsvatsva, comparing me to that fast-moving spider. You see it here and in a flash, it is gone, only to resurface under your legs or