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Foreigners strike gold as Diasporans sing the blues

 By Kundai Marunya  “ONE man’s food is another man’s poison,” is an adage, or rather a cliché that best describes the immigration situation in Zimbabwe.  In Zimbabwe it seems to be a case of ‘One man’s dry patch is another man’s greener pasture’ or is it...

LGBTQ recruitment tactics hit new low

 By Kundai Marunya  LESBIANS, Gays, Bi-sexuals, Transgenders and Queers (LGBTQ) continue to re-invent their recruitment antics, luring the less privileged and the gullible into their undesirable ranks.  From normalising gays in popular (pop) culture, which includes recruiting celebrities in advocating gay rights, to sneaking in subliminal...

SADC Summit: What we should know

WHILE the recent visit by the SADC Preparatory Mission, led by deputy executive secretary corporate affairs Dr Judith Kateera, to Zimbabwe temporarily doused the ‘fresh elections’ campaign by the opposition, there remains disturbing mischief from that part to keep the country in perpetual election...

Mkwananzi in land grab …plans to claim surrogacy of CCC

 By Elizabeth Sitotombe  UNDOUBTEDLY the in-fighting within the CCC and all its factions has left its supporters in a cesspool of confusion.  And Nelson Chamisa’s abandonment of ship at the eleventh hour has certainly not helped matters.  In the midst of this political tsunami, interim spokesperson Promise...

Why celebrate Valentine’s Day?

This story originally appeared in The Patriot issue of February 15 2018 VALENTINE’S DAY was celebrated on Wednesday this week, with many getting beautiful gifts from their loved ones. If it wasn’t the candlelit dinner, it could have been a beautiful dress, a card, a teddy...

Rural community ethos for development: Part One … Afro-rural folk eye hunhu/ubuntu referendum, legislation, renaissance

By Vitalis Ruvando A HAPPY belated Christmas-New Year to you! This belated Christmas-New Year message unveils Afro-rural folk’s Valentine promises regarding their heroic bid for legislation of main hallmarks in Afro-humanness and Afro-identity – abridged as hunhu/ubuntu. The secreted Valentine promises are deduced from innovative research narratives...

Education 5.0 is fast transforming Zim

WE, in the village, have a lot of faith in our children. We never stop believing that they will continue our work long after we are gone. As a result, we place value in education just like anyone else. One of the sectors that the Second...

Conspiracy on the Zimbabwean child

THERE is no child who is not endowed with sufficient intellectual capacities to manage the basics of life — which is what the first seven years of schooling are about. ccca To boot, this has been increased from seven to nine years, including ECD A and...

Zim’s rural renaissance gathers momentum

By Kundai Marunya AN old AVM bus roars from a busy Mbare Musika, blaring a throaty horn as it announces its departure. It squeezes through the tight loading bays, stops every now and again to avoid hoardes of people flocking the terminus in a last-minute rush...

Wetlands: A national heritage

By Elizabeth Sitotombe  THE world has lost 85 percent of its wetlands since the 18th Century and they are disappearing three times faster than forests.  Furthermore, in just 50 years, since 1970, about 30 percent of the world’s wetlands have been lost.  The World Wetlands Day is...

Right human factor needed to achieve Vision 2030

By Shephard Majengeta  IN all cases and acts deployed to solve human problems, human beings must deliberately act to bring about the desired change.  And time has shown that innovation, knowledge and science are not the preserve of Western societies.  Notorious for their refusal to acknowledge African...

Britain’s Zim conundrum

TWO critical issues set to determine the future of Zimbabwe and the UK’s fractured relations bring to the fore the latter’s reckless policy on Harare.  The UK has, in recent times, been unsuccessfully trying to strike a balance between maintaining its hostility towards Zimbabwe and,...

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