Mangat to grace Toyota Zim Challenge

Collin Matiza Sports Editor
ONE of Africa’s top motor rally drivers Jas Mangat of Uganda has, for the first time, entered to compete in the Toyota Zimbabwe Challenge Rally which is set to run from March 16 to 18 in Harare.

Stoves transform women’s lives

Sofia Mapuranga Features Correspondent
NORA BULA is a 45-year-old mother of four and lives in Ward 14 Nhlamba Village under Chief Nhlamba in Gwanda. Her wish is to live in a comfortable home that depicts a modern lifestyle and she

10 teams to fight for handball honours

Sports Reporter
CHITUNGWIZA Aquatic Complex will host the President’s Independence handball Trophy with 10 teams expected to take part. Big Elephants Handball Sports Club host the tournament which will feature teams

An attempt to falsify African history

Dr Motsoko Pheko
On February 16 2012, speaking in a purported “New South Africa” Parliament, a former member of the apartheid colonialist National Party now leading the opposition Freedom Party Plus claimed that

Masiwa now certified classifier

Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter
THE Zimbabwe National Paralympic Committee is taking sport for people with disability to another level with Lynett Masiwa recently certified as an international classifier for people with visual impairment at a

Caught in the kombi war crossfire

Tichaona Zindoga Features writer
This week, commuter omnibus operators in Epworth, Chitungwiza and Marondera demonstrated against what they believed was the pervasive presence of police roadblocks on their routes. The

Jamhuri jet in for date with Hwange

Augustine Hwata Sports Reporter
HWANGE are convinced that they have done everything above board as their opponents Jamhuri face an 800km road trip to the coal-mining town from the capital. The Zanzibari club arrived in Harare yesterday

Bullish Green Mamba arrive

From Paul Mundandi in Masvingo
GREEN MAMBA might be down but they have warned FC Platinum that they are ready to fight to avoid going out of the Champions League when the two teams clash at Mandava on Saturday.

2012’s elections galore

If Time magazine declared 2011 the year of protests, then 2012 will go down in history as the year of elections and more elections — on all five continents. It is a year that is redefining the 21st century, a year when paradigm shifts will define the socio-political landscapes.
So much is at stake, and the electoral process looks set to shape the way we look at things.
But, 2012 will actually come down in recorded history as the year when more than fifty countries will

Corruption of democracy

The politics of Africa have shifted from the liberation and empowerment ethos of the black power movement era and from that of the anti-colonialism legacy. Today’s young African political activists largely style themselves as advocates for democracy, elections, and good governance — with the concept of democracy elevated through aphoristic and vatic prose imported straight from the
Western lexicon — itself exalted as the language of enlightenment. During the 8th Ordinary Session

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