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Media freedom for socio-economic, democratic transformation

October 18, 2018, 3:01 pm
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The growing digital media has made it easier for local news to have global reach. As such, what the media broadcasts and writes at local level has a ramification in defining a certain national narrative and/or image at a global scale.
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Remembering Samora Machel

October 18, 2018, 3:01 pm
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When Samora Machel died on October 19, 1986, we all gathered in different spaces to mourn him.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT: Another milestone for gender parity

October 18, 2018, 3:04 pm
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IT was another celebratory week for women on the continent as Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday announced a very radical reshuffle; that saw women occupying 50 percent of the cabinet positions. He also made sure that a number of the women hold key cabinet posts. This included the defence portfolio, which has remained […]
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Visually impaired student seeks assistance

October 19, 2018, 3:49 am
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Michael Zheke (30) from Glenview 3, in Harare was in Form One when he became visually impaired in 2002. Theis turn of events disrupted his studies as his family sought answers and recourse.
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JUST IN: A foreigner’s impression of Juba, South Sudan

October 19, 2018, 8:21 am
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DESPITE having spent the night on the cold and hard metal seats at Kigali International Airport, courtesy of some bungling by RwandAir (a story for another day), colleagues Tawanda Mudimu, Kudakwashe Njobvu and myself were in high spirits as the public address system crackled to announce that our flight to Juba, South Sudan was now boarding.
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Kambamura: A November 24, 2017 political product

October 19, 2018, 3:00 pm
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Blessings Chidakwa Mashonaland West Bureau November 24, 2017 will go down in the annuls of history because that is the day Operation Restore Legacy took effect and changed the country’s political landscape. It is that date when politics in Zimbabwe was cleansed of its evils and dirt, paving a way for a fresh start both […]
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Letting go of yesterday’s bruises and hurts!

October 19, 2018, 3:01 pm
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Bishop B. Manjoro Dunamis In life we don’t live alone. We live with people. Some good and some bad. There are some who did you good and some who did you wrong. Some broke your heart. But don’t let that ruin your life, Jesus heals broken hearts! Bruises are so real such that it is […]
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Formidable Team Tourism set up

October 19, 2018, 3:01 pm
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Prisca Mupfumira: ’The man’ and her troops Robert Mukondiwa Moving houses is a torrid task, which is why they say a good friend helps you move . . . but a great friend helps you move a body. In case, you know, you accidentally murder someone and would rather not do the time. Now, there […]
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The other side of Tongai ‘Dhewa’ Moyo. . .his popular smile masked a tough, short-tempered man

October 19, 2018, 3:02 pm
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Godwin Muzari Arts Editor Most tales about Tongai “Dhewa” Moyo are colourful. What else can they be when the musician was affectionately known as Father Flower? Although – like anyone else – his life and career had their dark spots, Dhewa was colourful in many ways. His style, brand and stage work were amazing. He […]
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Be responsible, say no to fake news

October 19, 2018, 3:02 pm
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Stephen Mpofu Correspondent It is probably time that proud Zimbabwean journalists close ranks against some local correspondents of foreign media who have demonstrated a penchant for fake news by putting money upfront against this country’s national interests and with that their noble profession. A typical example of disinformation raising its ugly head was a few […]
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Zim economy calls for dedicated citizenry

October 19, 2018, 3:02 pm
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This country’s answer does not entirely lie with the World Bank, African Development Bank or the AfreximBank, but it largely lies deep in the people of Zimbabwe working the land for export purposes. Zimbabwe as a country needs to go back to what worked in the past, which is farming.
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No need to panic, hoard — retailers

October 19, 2018, 3:03 pm
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THE INTERVIEW Eliot Ziwira EZ: There have been rather wanton price increases by retailers lately amid panic-buying by consumers; a situation that does not augur well with the generality of citizens who feel that they are being short-changed by profiteers. What is your response to that? DM: It’s unfortunate that we have come to use […]
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Lad recounts crocodile attack horror

October 19, 2018, 3:03 pm
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Hardlife had indeed a hard life at a very tender age. He had to wrestle a crocodile that devoured his leg while he was attempting to cross a river on his way to school.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT: SRC board dissolution was long overdue

October 19, 2018, 3:05 pm
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YOUTH, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry’s decision to dissolve the Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) board must be hailed as one of the major steps towards redressing shortcomings that have left sport stagnant for years. In ending the tenure of the Edward Siwela-led board, the minister has lived up to her word that […]
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Societal destiny, role of the intellectual artiste

October 21, 2018, 3:00 pm
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In “Anthills of the Savannah” (1987),  Chinua Achebe highlights the role of the intellectual artiste as a revolutionary and activist in the same way that Ngugi wa Thiong’o does in “Weep Not Child” (1964) and “Matigari” (1987).
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Pitfalls of historical deceptions

October 21, 2018, 3:03 pm
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THE Western culture of domination has a tendency to angelise its own founding fathers while demonising all those that have tried to attain independent nationalism in pursuit of control of their own resources, and in the process their own destiny. In fact, Western civilisation frowns upon other civilisations, and continues to impose its influence and values on all others.
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Zim economy in typical labour pains

October 21, 2018, 3:03 pm
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Some pains are just but a necessary evil and ought to be lived through than avoided if the benefits are to be harnessed in totality.
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Editorial Comment: Govt’s move to protect consumers welcome

October 21, 2018, 3:04 pm
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The move by Government to enact a law that protects consumers from arbitrary price hikes is laudable.
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Motlanthe Commission: The guilty are always afraid

October 22, 2018, 3:00 pm
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Bevan Musoko Correspondent When President Mnangagwa announced that he would constitute a Commission of Inquiry to probe the August 1, 2018 post-election violence, many people, especially those in opposition parties and hostile civil society organisations (CSOs), dismissed his pledge as political grandstanding. When the President eventually appointed the various eminent persons to constitute the Commission […]
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Sadc braces to lead peacekeeping duties in Africa

October 22, 2018, 3:01 pm
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Kizito Sikuka Correspondent THE codename for the regional peacekeeping exercise underway in Malawi perfectly embodies what Africa is striving for — an integrated, united, prosperous and peaceful continent. Exercise UMODZI, which in indigenous Malawian language chiChewa means “solidarity, partnership and oneness”, seeks to prepare military, police and civilians from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) […]
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