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Hildegarde The Arena THE discourse on the National Pledge continues. It must be critiqued in its proper context, where so much will come out, which has nothing to do with the Pledge, but everything to do with opposing the Government of the day, using different tactics, since the same old
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Hildegarde The Arena On September 2 2015 I wrote about the United States of America 2016 elections before the presidential hopefuls from both the Democratic and Republican parties had started their primary polls. I acknowledged that Hillary Clinton would be the major Democratic contender, and that she might land the post because the gender dimension […]
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Hildegarde The Arena ON Independence day, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantine Guveya Chiwenga was tough talking, and in his interview with The Herald, he collapsed the country’s historical, military and intelligence narrative, to describe the long road travelled so far.
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Hildegarde The Arena WHEN last week I wrote about the symbolism of the month of April, I never realised that we would be getting more than we have bargained for. I just wanted to pay tribute to a month that is so pregnant with meaning.
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Hildegarde The Arena With reference to today’s meeting, this writer and many like-minded people are calling for the voices of reason to prevail, for the sake of Zimbabwe. We are also saying that the letter and spirit of coming together to settle matters must be upheld. If there is a time for everything, today is a […]
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Hildegarde SHE is Nigerian by descent, but has worked and lived in Zimbabwe with her husband and children for the past eight years. As a tourism consultant, she believes in Africa and the ability of her people to build and develop it.
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Hildegarde The Arena Long before Dr Mujuru made these claims to DW, some of her colleagues and seniors in the struggle, and all of them from the northeastern region, said she forgot the unwritten code of comradeship, for the gravy train became hers and hers alone, while women war veterans – her pioneers – are languishing […]
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Hildegarde The Arena “We are war veterans ourselves. These two gentlemen you have here (Vice Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko) have been gunholders. You can call them ‘vana bhombadhiya’ (bombardiers). And you find this situation even in the police force. “We have people who have been
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Hildegarde The Arena IT was quite ironic that the inaugural issue of WASH: Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Connector Newsletter was released on January 31 when the whole of Greater Harare had gone dry following a statement issued by Harare City Council through its acting corporate communications manager, Mr Michael
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The Arena Hildegarde IN November last year I bought a second-hand book, “Profiles of Rhodesia’s Women”, compiled and published in 1976 by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women of Rhodesia in commemoration of International Women’s Year 1975.
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Hildegarde The Arena EVER noticed that when war veterans are on their own, it is as though they are in their own world, as they recall events that happened to them more than three decades ago? They do so as if the event has just taken place.
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Hildegarde The Arena THE children’s names are a reflection of the freedom fighter, intelligence agent, and political detainee he is. They are: Zvenyika, Zvaiitika, Zvapera, and Zvataida. He says he named them thus “because of what I did.”
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The Arena Hildegarde “I was in cell 32 and Aiden Diggeden (the Rhodesian thief and legendary jail breaker) was in cell 31,” recounted Cde Larry Dube (Fox Adolphus Urayai Ndambakuwa Muwani), a Zipra deep cover agent.
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Hildegarde The Arena SELFLESSNESS is a virtue found in very few people, especially when the wounds of the war of liberation need closure. This is the picture that 60-year-old Cde Mavis Mhlanga (Mrs Esnath Mufoya-Seda) displays. Hers is a unique case, but it is her approach to the war narrative that is baffling. Her rationality […]
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Hildegarde The Arena Due to this basic training element, the struggle for Zimbabwe’s Independence transformed itself into a people’s war, where the people (masses/povo) were heavily involved, despite inherent dangers.
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