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On Saturday I was at my rural home in Chikwaka communal lands for a funeral, Chigodora village to be specific. A mere 70km from the CBD if one takes the Shamva turnoff, just after Umwinsdale down to Musiyiwa Shopping Centre, or 75km, if one proceeds down Mutoko Road to Juru Growth Point (KwaBhora) before taking the left turn at Zvevatsunga Supermarket
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I am very clear about what works and what does not work, clear about what edifies and what damages. There is nothing to be gained by seeking to interfere with the circulation of Morgan Tsvangirai's useless book. I reviewed it a few weeks back. It is a false testimony by a small man - an outsider to events - yet with enormous ambitions to be the centre of the universe. The
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Looking at this Zambian side, from a Zimbabwean perspective, you wonder as to what it is that they have, which keeps driving them to lofty heights, which our boys don't have and now can only watch the drama of the Nations Cup finals from a distanceIn the slang language of the streets of Lusaka, the word Gabon has been used, since April '93, to refer to a battered
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In our part of the world, one sometimes comes across people of such character that one cannot recall them without shuddering even when many years have elapsed since the last encou-nter. To this type belongs one Job Sikhala, a political joke, who sometimes treats us to such terrible and unpleasant drama, that some wit dubbed him, Witless, which is what he is
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It is common cause that there are some families that have been ravaged by the HIV epidemic. In the communities we live in, orphans and vulnerable child-headed families are a constant reminder of what the scourge is capable of. Three decades on, science has made great strides in its fight against HIV. Lynette and Liana are teenage sisters who live all by themselves in
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In a December 13, 2006 feature article on Politics and Violence, Elizabeth Frazer of Oxford University and Kimberly Hutchings of the London School of Economics compared and contrasted the political theory and philosophy of political violence as propounded by legendary Frantz Fanon and prolific author and commentator Hannah Arendt. We have an
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"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10 000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I'm not going 10 000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white
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Fourteen years ago I covered my first Nations Cup finals in Burkina Faso and, while the football was great, the country looked to have been left behind by the passage of time. It was my first extended stay in West Africa and, having spent a life being charmed by the beauty of the south, I found this part of the continent to be so strange it looked like hell.
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A "long-nosed" haulage truck huffs and puffs its huge wheels constantly making screeching noises as its snakes its way along a potholed highway. The driver, who identifies himself as David, reduces speed as he approaches potholes along the Harare-Bulawayo Road, jerking its occupants.
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The last time this writer engaged Senator Obert Gutu on his routine publications on political commentary was when he wrote about the indigenisation policy and what he thought of its chief presiding executive, Minister Saviour Kasukuwere.
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Were we to conduct a random survey and ask who knows his/her HIV status among the general populace we would receive many a baffling response. Some would argue that since they are fit and healthy the need to know or undergo a test falls away. Another lot would use the bus stop gauge and say thus far no one has died from the circle of those they have been
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A fortnight of non-visibility on the radar was like a thousand years, and it made me realise and appreciate how much pleasure and satisfaction I derive from saying my two cents worth.
There were a number of year-enders touching on every aspect of what people believed was newsworthy in 2011, and a lot of envisioning about 2012. My own list is no longer newsworthy, except for one issue. -
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The peroration by the leadership of Zimbabwe's three main political parties over the issue of political violence in general, in particular the insanity that rocked Chitungwiza during the first weekend of November has been regurgitated and selectively lauded by various media units - all the time telling us that the gathering of politicians from across the political field was what
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"What a dust thou dost raise! Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by circumstances, come to seem great; smallest of phenomena connected with them are treated as important, and must be sedulously scanned, and commented upon with loud emphasis."
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Not everyone believes in Cuthbert Dube and those who have chosen the other side are very severe in their criticism
of what is happening at 53 Livingstone Avenue and one of them is Chris Sambo, the former PSL chief executive
Cuthbert Dube is, to those who believe in him, an angel sent from the heavens to transform a national game that has until