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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...
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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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Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part Six…Church becomes biggest landowner in Europe

SHIPPING enterprises responsible for transportation of goods, whether for government, companies or private individuals,...
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Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part Five…birth of the Roman Empire

A GOVERNMENT that had arisen to administer a small city-State in central Italy now...
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Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part Four…the rise of commerce in Rome

AS in most African societies, cattle were an early form of money and were...
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Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part Three…the rise of commerce in Egypt

MOST of the wealth of Egypt was in the hands of either the Pharaoh,...
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Money and pursuit of wealth: Part Two…trade birthed accounting

MESOPOTAMIA had limited natural resources and lacked physical barriers to invasion.   As a result,...
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Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part One…the rise of commerce

IT is said the love of money is the root of all evil.   That...
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Religion and colonisation: Part 13 …the rise of African initiated churches

TODAY, there are thousands of African initiated churches (AICs) found all across Africa. It is...
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Religion and colonisation: Part 12 … the rise of African indigenous churches

AFRICA is a vast continent encompassing both geographic variation and tremendous cultural diversity, religious...
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Religion and colonisation: Part 10…African Christianity vis-a-vis European orthodoxy

INITIALLY missionary education was religiously oriented, but soon included academic, industrial and teacher training....
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Religion and colonisation: Part Nine …Missionaries found ‘the Natives’ very difficult to convert.

IN southern Africa, the first Christian missionaries sent from the London Missionary Society arrived...
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Religion and colonisation: Part Eight … bigger picture was to divide and rule

JUST as the settlers, some of whom were social misfits, outcasts of societies, there...
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Religion and colonisation: Part Seven …. establishing political control over colonies

EARLY European expeditions focused on colonising previously uninhabited islands or establishing coastal forts as...
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Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

THE US has been caught in yet another embarrassing plot to grab the limelight...
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US onslaught on Zim continues

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THERE was nothing surprising about Tendai Biti’s decision to abandon the opposition's...
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Mineral wealth a definition of Independence

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

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

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