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Reason Wafawarova Correspondent Zimbabwe goes for elections every five years and before each election we are always inundated with all sorts of predictions, be it wishful thinking, propaganda blitzes, scientific polling, prophecy, sorcery, right down to electioneering and sloganeering.
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today Among the master painters of African literature, Alain Mabankcou’s colour pallette is equal parts darkness and humour. In “Black Bazaar”, the Franco-Congolese writer returns to the barfly motif of his breakthrough novel, “Broken Glass”, to explore the lives of the African Diaspora.
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Julie Aleman Correspondent Tropical Africa has two distinct features – rain forests which are dominated by trees and savannah’s which are dominated by grasses. Both depend on rainfall quantity and seasonality. Seasonality measures how constant the distribution of rainfall over the course of a year is – in other words how long the dry season is.
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Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store “So many things have happened; I am not responsible for their happening much as I am not responsible for the darkness of any night. Why does darkness fall on me? Cried night one night,” so laments the narrator in Robert Muponde’s short story “The Storm” in the anthology “No More […]
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Abayomi Azikiwe Correspondent On July 3-4 the African Union held its 29th annual Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, while the continent is faced with monumental challenges from Cairo to Cape Town.
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William Gumede Correspondent Global market rules are either in favour of, or are frequently bent to benefit industrial countries. Or, to put it differently, more restrictive market rules are often applied to African countries while industrial countries are accorded leeway to implement these in ways that benefit their companies, labour and economies.
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Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader Facebook has this feature, memories, where it reminds of your posts from time gone by. Those who are frequent users of the social media application might be familiar with these flash- backs.
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THE Zimbabwe Warriors left Harare yesterday for Namibia, to begin another qualifying campaign for a place at the African Championship of Nations (CHAN) finals, buoyed by their brilliant performance at the COSAFA Castle Cup which helped us win that tournament for a record fifth time.
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Zimbabwe is hurtling towards elections and it’s getting exciting, as usual.
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Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief “There is a stranger in my homestead and I don’t want her. She must leave at once or I will kill Urayayi. The person I want in my homestead is the daughter to my brother, Linda. She must be married to Urayayi,” shrieks a young woman in the middle of a […]
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Bishop B. Manjoro Dunamis The year 2017 is a year of restoration. Whatever the enemy had stolen, the joy, the peace the prosperity we are in a season of restoration!
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THE INTERVIEW Christopher Farai Charamba CC: There is this ban on kaylite which has been imposed and one of the reactions from people is that it has come at short notice. Going by that, why has this ban suddenly been put forward?
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Edna Molewa Correspondent The decision by the Pre-Trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) two week’s ago that South Africa violated its legal obligations to the court in failing to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in 2015; vindicates the ANC’s position that South Africa should withdraw from the ICC.
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TODAY is France’s National Day as the European country celebrates 228 years of the Storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution.
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Joram Nyathi Spectrum THE idea of the youth dividend is topical nowadays. It is in vogue. It is the talk of town from Europe to Africa. The focus among political parties in Zimbabwe is largely on the forthcoming harmonised elections.
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