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From Ellina Mhlanga in INNSBRUCK, Austria
THE International Olympic Committee president, Jacques Rogge, said on Tuesday he would be delighted if an African city bid to host the Summer Olympic Games after 2020. The IOC already have six candidates for the 2020 Olympic Games –
Let’s value information and steer development
A fortnight of non-visibility on the radar was like a thousand years, and it made me realise and appreciate how much pleasure and satisfaction I derive from saying my two cents worth.
There were a number of year-enders touching on every aspect of what people believed was newsworthy in 2011, and a lot of envisioning about 2012. My own list is no longer newsworthy, except for one issue.
Violence: You can’t talk it away
The peroration by the leadership of Zimbabwe’s three main political parties over the issue of political violence in general, in particular the insanity that rocked Chitungwiza during the first weekend of November has been regurgitated and selectively lauded by various media units – all the time telling us that the gathering of politicians from across the political field was what