Education

5 months ago | July 4, 2020

Semester ‘marriages’: The new norm

Ngonidzashe Emmanuel Chikandiwa The culture of “semester marriages”, is fast becoming the new norm among tertiary ...

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The postgraduate experience

Collen Takaza Becoming a postgraduate student brings with it challenges that require one’s vigilance to overcome them. ...

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8 months ago | March 21, 2020

Guns that silenced history’s villains

Towards the end of the First Chimurenga in 1896, Cecil John Rhodes convened an indaba with Matabele chiefs, and among ...

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1 year ago | October 19, 2019

Jaricha equally at home in the skies and pulpit

Dennis Tendai Charles Jaricha is not your everyday writer or minister of the word of God, or a lay counsellor purporting ...

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Race scholar Kendi turns spotlight on himself

If Ibram X Kendi has been a lifelong racist — as he confesses in this book — then we all have been. This is the ...

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40 years of Morrison’s essays, speeches in one book

A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity,” says Toni Morrison in “Peril”, the brief, ...

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1 year ago | October 18, 2019

Germany pours 10 million euros into Zim education

The German government, through its development bank, KfW, yesterday contributed €10 million to the second phase of the ...

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Creating a conducive learning environment

By definition, a conducive learning environment is a platform devoid of both physical intimidation and emotional ...

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1 year ago | October 12, 2019

Lawyers demand Mavima to comply with languages law

Two Harare lawyers have approached the High Court seeking to compel Government to ensure that three main languages — ...

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When life’s river flows into eternity

This transcendental novel “Branching Streams Flow in the Dark” (2013), published by his family, marks the long awaited ...

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Deep into Ann Pachett’s ‘The Dutch House’

Danny Conroy and his family attend a school production of “The Nutcracker”. Danny is in his 40s, married and living in ...

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Reflecting on dog behaviour in humans

In Shona traditions, you do not strike the rival once and just expect him to fall and die. Ignatius Mabasa has returned ...

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1 year ago | October 11, 2019

Adopt new technologies, polytechnics urged

Polytechnics should embark on a relentless drive for adoption, adaptation and import substitution of advanced ...

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Mastering the art of summarising

IMAGINE going through a whole sermon of three hours at church and walking away without a clear picture of what exactly ...

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1 year ago | October 5, 2019

Of politics, religion and monkeys

Musaemura Zimunya’s collection of poems “Perfect Poise and other Poems” (1993) explores the analogy that exists between ...

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