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Digitising revolutions: Africa’s major challenge

We are living in a fast-changing terrain. If you snooze, you lose. As I watch the popular embrace of information communication  technologies by all and sundry, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity and belief systems, it is as if the Internet, with its accompanying familiarities such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yookos have always been a part of our lives.
We have become the touch-button generation that can easily talk about bits and bytes, cyberspace and virtual reality.
Despite using them daily, I’ve often remarked that sometimes I feel so ancient. It was in the early 90s that our small class on information networking (the Internet) turned some of us into cyberpunks – literally living on the Internet – netizens as one of our professors loved to call us.
We even laughed at a New York Times article of June 5, 1994 headlined, “On the Internet, dissidents’ shots heard ‘round the world'”.
To the print media, this was a major discovery, which we had since discovered as we witnessed struggles finding their way on the Internet.
When social media finally became the acceptable term, it

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Murape blasts Moneybags

Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
MURAPE MURAPE stoked the flames, in their twin battle against FC Platinum for league and cup honours, when he

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Marange diamonds get KP greenlight

From Brezhnev Malaba in KINSHASA, DRC
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme plenary session yesterday gave Zimbabwe the greenlight  to export Marange  diamonds without further hindrance, bringing to an end a long-running confrontation with Western nations over the gemstones.
Zimbabwe stands to earn more than US$3 billion per year from the three Marange mines.

The major breakthrough was described by an elated Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu as “a great day for Africa and an historic moment for Zimbabwe”.
Zimbabwe’s decisive victory in the struggle against Western economic hegemony was the product of African solidarity.
Members of the African Diamond Producers’ Association rallied behind Zimbabwe in the high-stakes negotiations which reached a climax yesterday morning.