Another year, another lean season for Buhera

Tichaona Zindoga
FROM the relative coolness of the shade provided by a small rondavel, 58-year-old Rhoda Chinyanga of Mudinzva Village under Chief Nyashanu in Buhera carefully follows the harvesting of her sorghum.

ZPC Kariba lead Zifa Northern Region

Godknows Matarutse Sports Reporter
FORMER Gunners striker Patrick Makuvaza has settled to life in the second-tier league and scored a fine goal for ZPC Kariba when they dismissed Blue Jets 2-1 to go three points clear at the top of the Zifa Northern Region Division One League at the weekend.

The AU must be proactive

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
President Nelson Mandela in his Long Walk to Freedom said, “I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

How France lives off Africa

SOME of you may already be aware of this, but if like us you’re hearing about this for the first time your jaw will drop. And it’ll probably raise the same BIG ques­tions in your mind that it did in ours. (Incidentally, once you read this you’ll no longer wonder why French presidents’ and ministers are sometimes greeted by protests when they visit former French colonies in Africa, even if the protests are about other issues. Though what other issues could be more important than this

In the potter’s house

Takura Rukwati
In the journey of Chris­tianity, if God speaks to a contemporary Christian and does not listen, it is unlikely God will speak again until certain neces­sary steps are taken to reconcile with Him. Disobedience has an ability to block a Christ­ian from hearing from God.

Message from Charles Taylor conviction: Don’t cross us

Stephen Gowans
“.  .  .  this case directly raises the question of whether the judicial process can be fashioned into a political tool for use by powerful nations to remove democrati­cally elected leaders of other nations that refuse to serve as their handmaidens and footstools.”

Malawi devalues currency by 34pc

BLANTYRE — Malawi devalued its cur­rency by nearly 34 percent against the US dollar yesterday as it floated the local kwacha, bowing to a key demand of the International Monetary Fund to fix the troubled economy.

Banda fed up with Madonna

LILONGWE — Malawi’s President Joyce Banda is not a fan of Madonna. Banda told The Daily Telegraph, the singer is not “banned’ from Malawi, but that her charity work would no longer be welcome in her country. “Madonna came to Malawi

EU reaches out to France’s Hollande

PARIS — European and world leaders reached out yesterday to France’s president-elect Francois Hollande. Official final results of Sunday’s second round run-off showed that Hollande had won 51,62 percent of the vote to Sarkozy’s 48,38.

Merkel, Cameron to skip Rio+20 meet: Embassies

BRASILIA — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron will not attend next month’s Rio conference on sustainable development, their respective embassies said yesterday.

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