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This week I propose to build my case through information vignettes. But first, let me pay my bills. I am grateful to one of my readers from Masembura who wrote to The Herald from the United Kingdom. If I am not mistaken, his letter was published in the Monday edition of The Herald. His submission was to illustrate and validate my thesis in last week’s instalment by exposing the grab, grab outlook of companies like Bindura Nickel Corporation which have been scooping our resources without exercising any modicum of community responsibility.
The piece in The Herald was figurative, poignant and mordant. Mordant against those Zimbabweans in possession of knowledge, in positions of leadership, but who are unable to -
You have to take a bow to Knowledge Musona, when it comes to the Warriors because he is showing signs he could turn into one of our all-time greatest players
RAHMAN GUMBO and his Warriors were just six minutes away, if you include time added on, from snatching a good draw in Burundi as the Nations Cup madness returned on Wednesday.
In regulation time, they were just one minute away from forcing a share of the spoils, and taking full -
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, rivers are sources of life and at times are life itself. Rivers are quiet. They don’t tell stories yet they know everything from women’s gossip to men’s waists.
Rivers have seen nude people, bathing even, yet they remain gagged.
The only sound you hear is the protest of the water as it gushes past rocks and plunge pools, meanders and hair-pin curves. This villager is in the Victoria Falls, where the Zambezi River has noisily attracted delegates from 176 countries the world over, for a general assembly.
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Biko wrote quite a lot of articles on political, religious and economic issues and we feel the little we have shared with you on his works these last three weeks will help our readers to have a deeper understanding of some of his revolutionary ideas.
Because of space and time, we also need to analyse other radical Black nationalist writers as to make our readers appreciate the works of these intelligent sons of Africa, who through their far-reaching -
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THERE seems to be a deliberate tendency among some people who are HIV positive to spread the virus.
This intention, which is disturbing, seems to be embedded in the sense that one intends to get even.
The argument that is given does not hold water. Usually one argues that a man infected me, so I will also pass on the virus to men. The same applies to men who do the same to women. This is warped thinking and needs to be addressed.
The syndicate seems to dwell on the theory that “I won’t go alone” and therefore is thick to have any sense knocked into them.
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If Time magazine declared 2011 the year of protests, then 2012 will go down in history as the year of elections and more elections — on all five continents. It is a year that is redefining the 21st century, a year when paradigm shifts will define the socio-political landscapes.
So much is at stake, and the electoral process looks set to shape the way we look at things.
But, 2012 will actually come down in recorded history as the year when more than fifty countries will -
The politics of Africa have shifted from the liberation and empowerment ethos of the black power movement era and from that of the anti-colonialism legacy. Today’s young African political activists largely style themselves as advocates for democracy, elections, and good governance — with the concept of democracy elevated through aphoristic and vatic prose imported straight from the
Western lexicon — itself exalted as the language of enlightenment. During the 8th Ordinary Session -
The one thing I have always rued about being Zimbabwean is this our propensity to ensure our total compliance with the Sabbath, total compliance with the ten commandments. Zimbabweans would rather they are not born at all than offend against the holy Sabbath. It is that commonsensical: being unborn or dead is the easiest and completest way of total obedience and compliance with the Sabbath. So religiously we oppose our coming into being. So religiously we oppose those things that
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Two years ago FC Platinum, in its current identity, didn't even exist as a football club. In its place was a club called Mimosa and it was planning for its campaign in a Central Region Division One championship where its opponents included Gokwe United, Kasirisiri United, Big Valley Masters, you name them . . .
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In the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the inevitability of dialogue between past and present is universal. In Zimbabwe, many a times villagers are looked down upon by many urbanites or pseudo urbanites, who, because of colonial prejudices banked on their minds, think
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HIV Walk Catherine Murombedzi
Charity had been on Anti Retroviral Therapy for the past five years. She had regained her weight and was no longer ill, as was the case years before commencing ART. She has vowed never to stop taking the drugs. -
There are more than a dozen countries set to hold elections in Africa this year, and in every one of them the West is determined to influence the outcome for imperialistic political ends. We have this exaggerated recency added to the idea of democracy in Africa, creating a media illusion that says we have a continent where freedom and liberty are exquisite, if not a new phenomenon altogether.
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President Mugabe on Tuesday celebrated his 88th birthday. Congratulations! Makorokoto! Amhlophe! The good Lord has saved him from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. He has satisfied him with long life. (Psalm 91)
The President gave wide-ranging interviews to both the print and electronic media, and these gave -
Who is motivating the wave of constitutionalism sweeping across Africa? Is this pre-occupation with constitutions a manifestation of growing consciousness within Africa, or another sorry manifestation of external manipulation pursuant to entrenching Western interests?
Where does the constitution-hysteria stand in the resolution of Africa’s perennial socio-economic -
Two weeks ago I penned a piece which used an esoteric term - zeitgeist - to make my point. I got a few calls from angry readers who wanted to know what kind of English that was, and why I thought it was their bother to know such a difficult-to-pronounce-let-alone-to-comprehend term.
Among these angry callers was one Killian, himself a bosom friend. He offloaded a few friendly invectives on me hoping I would be stung into explaining the meaning of this word. I stood firm and stubborn, furiously silent as indeed I am always wont to, when stuck in such sticky situations. His daughter, an avid reader of the column by his own recommendation, had phoned him from some university in South Africa demanding to know what the terrible word