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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections It was my first night at St Anne’s Goto High School. Everything was unusual. Senior boys moved from one dormitory to the other helping themselves to any newcomer’s food they could lay their hands on.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve I had grown up herding cattle and tethering goats. Primary school was several kilometres from home and for seven years I spent my time between school and tending to cattle, goats and chicken. I dug for mice a […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Candidates for the Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation have pronounced themselves and between now and May it’s going to be gloves off. The campaign has reached fever pitch and will reach a crescendo just before the May 17 election.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections THE bombing of a Somali hotel that killed 28 people early this week signposts that no one is safe from terrorism and that there is an increase in terrorist activities.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections— In less than a moon, African leaders meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the first African Union Summit of 2017. The AU Summit is where decisions to spearhead the continent from its past to the great future are made.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections — Well, it has been a splendid year for Africa in general and the African people in particular. The year 2016 is when Africa was at its loudest in forging unit at the international fora and it has also been loudest in demanding its position in the world by requesting fair treatment and […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections— Well, the curtain is coming down on the Barack Obama administration to pave way for Donald Trump, whose unexpected entrance into American statecraft has sent shivers and smiles.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections— Well, it has been more than a month since South Africa, the biggest economy in Africa announced its decision to quit, the International Criminal Court (ICC), a permanent international criminal court founded in 2002 by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to “bring to justice the perpetrators of the worst crimes […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections— BACK 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 time villagers are looked down upon by many urbanites or pseudo urbanites, who, because of colonial prejudices banked on their minds, think being a villager is […]
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Isdore Guvamombe: Reflections The road turns and twists with the dictates of geomorphology and the driver has to endure spectacular curves. Huge rocks tinged grey by fungal lichens stand guarding the roadside. And, it is this spectacular grey that makes the untrained eye feel awkward where the sky kisses the mountain under a veil of the wafting […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections THE road serpentines up and down Mapinga, breaking into patches of hairpin curves, rises and blinds, upwards, sideways and little everywhere else the mountain cliffs allowed the architect.
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Isdore Guvamombe Travel Editor Zimbabwe is soon set to introduce bond notes and indeed there have been mixed reactions. The reactions come two-fold: First from people who totally do not understand what the bond money is and the second is from people who really know how exactly the bonded money work and as the grand
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Isdore Guvamombe Last week Zimbabwe woke up to the story of the appointment of Simba Chikore as chief operating officer of Air Zimbabwe, our beloved national airline. I was hurt when I read Simba’s story and the comments thereof.
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Isdore Guvamombe: Reflections Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the more a monkey climbs up a tree the more it exposes its genitalia. The full import of it being that at times, the more effort you put to escape the truth the more you expose your essentials.
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Isdore Guvamombe: Reflections Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve this villager had always dreamt of going far and wide to see other lands, monuments and amusements.After leaving the job to tether goats, lock up chickens, other livestock and little everything else, we arrived in Chilojo Cliffs, yonder in […]
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