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Significant steps taken in 2014

IT is befitting that one of the major mundane events to wind up the year is the commemoration of Unity Day on Monday December 22. For on December 22 1987 the two liberation organisations and main political parties as defined by the people joined hands...

Curriculum review as part of a shared national vision: Part Four

PART three dramatised the fact that our becoming Zimbabweans in terms of our outlook and values is not something that happens on its own, something that can be left to chance or accidents of history. We have to author that national identity, step by...

What the Lancaster House Conference achieved

IN the previous edition of the Struggle for Zimbabwe we looked at why the 1978 Internal Settlement failed. We established that in the agreement property rights of the whites were to remain sacred, while control of the judiciary, the public service, the army and...

Take heed of weather updates: Farmers urged

THE Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) has urged farmers countrywide to take heed of climate and weather patterns to avoid losing their crops due to shortage of water from global warming effects. Agricultural production in Zimbabwe is dependent on weather and climate despite the impressive advances...

2014 Agriculture highlights: GMB still to pay some farmers

AS the country celebrated the coming of the year 2014 farmers were busy in the fields preparing for the harvesting of crops such as maize, small grain and cotton while tobacco growers were in the final harvesting stage. It is only a few days...

Motivational Corner :Enjoy living every day of your life

By Beatrice Sithole Email: sbeatrice033@gmail.com STEPHEN Leacock wrote, “The young child says: when I will become a bigger boy. The boy says : when I become a teenager, and when that time comes he says when I am a man and after all these stages...

Separation of twins major highlight

THE year 2014 is almost over and there have been major events in the health sector, key among them, the separation of the conjoined twins at Harare Hospital, the removal of a 25 kilogramme (kg) cyst in a woman’s womb at Chitungwiza Central Hospital...

Manyuchi scoops top award

RENOWNED boxer Charles Manyuchi got an early Christmas present on Wednesday night as he was crowned Sportsperson of the Year and Sportsman of-the-Year at the Annual National Sports Awards in Harare. Manyuchi won a double, shrugging off competition from golfer Scott Vincent and karateka,...

We must remain focused

ON Monday Zimbabweans join hands in commemorating the signing of the historical Unity Accord. The Unity Accord which was signed in 1987 by President Robert Mugabe and the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo has brought about the spirit of oneness and a sense of belonging...

‘Be wary of people like Dabengwa’

THIS year’s Unity Day comes at a time when President Mugabe has appointed two Vice Presidents, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa and Cde Phelekezela Mphoko. Cde Mnangagwa is a former ZANLA guerilla while Cde Mphoko is a former ZIPRA cadre. It must be remembered that the unification of...

Unity Accord irreversible

THE 1987 Unity Accord between (PF) ZAPU and ZANU to form ZANU PF remains significant for the development of the nation, ZANU PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has said. The Unity Accord culminated in the celebration of Unity Day annually...

Ex-military people make great administrators

THE foreign-owned press based in this country never tires of spreading malicious propaganda against liberation war veterans who are great heroes in this country. The two newly appointed Vice Presidents of our country comrades, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko are the latest victims...

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