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Before I get into matters of the week, my humble acknowledgement to one of my alert readers. Two weeks ago I mistakenly suggested that the late Zanu-Ndonga leader, Ndabaningi Sithole, sought and got through Ian Smith’s Ken Flower-led CIO money from the CIA to support his electoral fight against the Patriotic Front in the watershed 1979 elections.
The alert reader corrected me through the Herald that in fact, the CIA money which Sithole got through Morocco’s late King Hassan was meant to help him fight the bogus Internal Settlement -
We are all born to serve our nation, in one way or the other, and Samuel Parirenyatwa chose medicine, and the liberation struggle, while Moses Chunga chose football, both as a genius on the pitch and a decent coach on the bench, as service to their motherland.
There comes a time, in any man’s life, when the call to serve one’s country overrides everything else, including making the ultimate sacrifice and losing one’s life for such a cause.
When we were growing up in the ’70s, thousands of people answered that big call, to serve their -
Cathrine Murombedzi HIV Walk
The Ncube family of Glen View in Harare is in mourning. They recently lost their mother, who was HIV positive, to cervical cancer.
The eldest daughter who declined to be named called on HIV positive women to go for routine cervical cancer tests.
She said her mother had overcome the HIV diagnosis and it was sad to lose her to cancer a decade after testing HIV positive.
“We expected to lose our mother back then but she survived.
“She was lucky to be one of the first patients to be initiated on ART when the free Government programme was rolled out at Harare Hospital in 2004.
“She survived the dark days and for us to lose her now is a very sad chapter in our lives. -
Reflections Isdore Guvamombe
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust, or Guruve, good fortune has its own consequences: if you have five wives you have five tongues and five brains to deal with. During the just ended Heroes Holiday, this villager visited a cousin, a member of the Johanne Marange -
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Stephen Chifunyise Theatre Corridors
A young playwright and director, Thandie Nyamasvisva, who entered Zimbabwean theatre industry in 2010 with a play “Flight of the African Child” has joined hands with her sister, Margaret Ndlovu, to establish a community-based development organisation called 4D Arts. The organisation, which will -
KATSHA-A! katsha-a! katsha-a! katsha-a! Last Thursday, the sound of the FN or whatever assault rifle went on and on, amid shouts and screams, and in three or four minutes dozens of people lay on the ground, dead, and others injured. The body count was 34 dead and 78 miners injured. A
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Tonderai Rutsito Techspot
DURING the past few weeks I have been focusing on providing tips on what to look out for when choosing an Internet Service Provider. Some of the issues I have identified include the size of your Internet needs, the speed offered, network’s reliability and the cost. In my quest to help you -
Reason Wafawarova
When Saddam Hussein carried out the 1988 gassing of Kurds and when he massacred the Shiite rebels in 1991, the atrocities did not amount to matters of egregious human rights abuses insofar as Washington and other Western capitals were concerned. -
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Zanu-PF has just completed its review of the Copac constitutional draft. Already, this exercise has raised acute anxieties in the two MDC formations; something good political players must always do to their adversaries.
You do not transfer comfort to your opponents, do you? Nor do you make yourself readable, as has just been done by the two formations by publicly declaring their love for the Copac draft so early in the whole process.It has turned out to be deep love, very deep love that ungainly betrays the formations’ political inflections both in the draft and in the whole political and electoral process. And considering that the two formations view the constitution-making process as the juridical phase in their quest for power, it must be pretty obvious to Zanu-PF what the formations’ electoral planks are or should be.
With the acute anxiety exhibited by the formations to have the draft steam-rolled, this should not be very difficult. Which by the way greatly -
In our 2014 World Cup qualifying group, where we share bottom place with the Mambas on one out of six points, we were the only inactive nation on Wednesday because Egypt, who lead the way, Guinea, who have already beaten us at home, and Mozambique all played friendly internationals.
Benedict Moyo has been making a fool of himself this week and it’s rather sad, if not downright tragic, given that he is a very intelligent man who should be doing far much better.
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Comviva is now the host of Econet Wireless’ EcoCash after it was recently migrated from the one supplied by Pattern Matched Technologies.
The Comviva platform, called “Mobiquity”, has been adopted globally by over 55 leading banks and mobile phone operators.
The Indian provider of value-added services for mobile operators, in July, rolled out its mobiquity mobile financial platform as a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model in the United States of -
AS the draft constitution debate rages on, it is quite interesting to note that the elites in the two MDC structures are quite happy about the contents of the draft to the extent that they are not willing at all to make any further amendments to it.
On the other hand, Zanu-PF has decided to critically analyse clause by clause of the draft before they can endorse it or make further amendments to it. The truth is that the major political parties have been caught up in two diametrically opposed camps.
Zanu-PF as a revolutionary party is striving to transform the colonial structures that were protected by the Lancaster House Constitution so that the constitution reflects the wishes of the majority.
The two MDC formations, on the other hand, represent the Rhodies and want the new constitution to -
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Reflections Isdore Guvamombe
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, belief in witchcraft is as old as the mountains and the ancient rivers, if not as old as life itself. Unlike the characteristic witches of -
Ruvimbo is a troubled soul. She regrets having accompanied a sick relative to a local clinic where she gladly underwent an HIV test. Health facilities offer HIV testing to patients and those accompanying a sick relative.
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TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Annah Sango (AS), is a Zimbabwean and living with HIV. She spoke during the opening session of the XIX International Aids Conference at in Washington, DC, on July 22. Annah sees women bearing the brunt of HIV and Aids, amidst societal and cultural abuse which puts them at increased risk. Cathrine Mwauyakufa (CM) engaged her on this and other issues.
CM: Who is Annah Sango?
AS: Annah is a 24-year-old mother of a four-year-old-boy, she loves life and she is adventurous.
CM: What keeps you going?