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Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

THE US has been caught in yet another embarrassing plot to grab the limelight from the country’s 44th Independence celebrations by derailing Harare’s ongoing Zimbabwe Structured Dialogue Platform on Debt Clearance by tasking its officials to bring into the fray issues to do with governance...

US onslaught on Zim continues

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THERE was nothing surprising about Tendai Biti’s decision to abandon the opposition's turbulent  politics by taking a ‘sabbatical’. The CCC has become nothing more than a playground for clueless political nonentities. Indeed, the CCC has not only been drowning in a sea of confusion,...

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Favour in context: Part Two …ancestral spirits vis-a-vis Christianity

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...

Favour in context

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...

Mt Darwin: The untold story

MOUNT DARWIN in Mashonaland Central Province has hosted this year’s national independence celebrations.  Mount Darwin...

Peaceful Demo: Part 17 …of rights and African sovereignty

THE woman who had been beaten-up by her friend’s housemaid had welcomed the diversion...

Peaceful Demo: Part 16 …the hidden hand

BY early evening, the divide between Harare North and Harare South had been fully...

Peaceful Demo: Part 15 …the reckoning

THE good shepherd’s predicament slowly unfolded before his eyes. Power had gone off the whole...

Peaceful Demo: Part 14…the aftermath

BY mid-afternoon, armed men of peace had overwhelmed and pushed the violent peaceful demonstrators...

Peaceful Demo: Part 13…the logic of madness

THE street dweller with a head as dirty as a public toilet mop did...

Peaceful Demo: Part 12…African leaders decry homosexuality

A PLAYFUL middle-aged civil servant wanting to make an older civil servant uncomfortable said:...

Peaceful Demo: Part 11…personal rights versus the rights of others

THE husband of the woman who had been beaten-up by her friend’s housemaid and...

Peaceful Demo: Part 10…glaring African contradictions

THE man whose wife had refused to be touched was showing his guests a...

Peaceful Demo: Part Nine…when push came to shove…

WAY, way, down kuHarare South, peaceful marchers on their way to town diverted their...

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Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

THE US has been caught in yet another embarrassing plot to grab the limelight...

US onslaught on Zim continues

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THERE was nothing surprising about Tendai Biti’s decision to abandon the opposition's...

Mineral wealth a definition of Independence

ZIMBABWE’S independence and freedom cannot be fully explained without mentioning one of the key...

Let the Uhuru celebrations begin

By Kundai Marunya The Independence Flame has departed Harare’s Kopje area for a tour of...