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Kelvin Benjamin Herald reporterYOUTHS attending the World Federation of Democratic Youths international conference yesterday toured the National Heroes Acre to familiarise themselves with Zimbabwe’s history. Speaking during the tour, WFDY president Mr Dimitris Palmytris
RCU degrees approved
From George Maponga in MasvingoThe Reformed Church University in Masvingo is set to enroll its first students after the Zimbabwe Council of Higher Education approved its degree programmes last week. Zimche approved programmes in three faculties. The programmes will start when
Kasukuwere calls on youths to take action
Herald Reporter
YOUTHS have been urged to participate in corporate governance and take control and ownership of the means of production.
Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere said the youths should be inspirational.
Be wary of fake prophets: Mujuru
Felex Share Herald Reporter
ZIMBABWEANS should be wary of fake prophets who are turning churches into money-making ventures, Acting President Joice Mujuru has said.
She said local religious groups should not allow foreign pastors and political leaders to dictate the way they should worship.
Acting President Mujuru made the remarks while addressing thousands of indigenous Apostolic and Zion church members during the National Day of Prayer at Zimbabwe Grounds in Harare yesterday.
The members, who were drawn from the country’s 10 provinces, were praying for the country’s socio-economic and political stability under the banner of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe.
The body brings together more than 350 apostolic and Zion churches in Zimbabwe.
13 perish in kombi crash
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter
THIRTEEN members of an apostolic sect died on the spot yesterday, while eight others were seriously injured when their kombi smashed onto a tree 50km from Harare on the Bindura Road.
The driver lost control when a tyre burst.
The church members, who were coming from Dzivarasekwa and Warren Park in Harare, were travelling for a gathering at Gowora in Madziwa.
Police had to collect body parts from the side of the road.
The vehicle was reduced to a shell and the injured were rushed to Concession Hospital and hospitals in Harare.
Mr Lancelot Timothy, who stays at Harmony Farm near the scene of the accident, said two toddlers were among the survivors, while their mothers died on the spot.
22 ZNA de-miners graduate
Herald Reporter
Twenty two officers from the Zimbabwe National Army on Thursday graduated as mine clearers, reinforcing the teams clearing landmines in the country. Senior members in the ZNA and International Committee of the Red Cross attended the graduation
Mutsvangwa urges couples to complement each other
Lovemore Meya Herald Correspondent
Labour and Social Services Deputy Minster Senator Monica Mutsvangwa has urged couples to complement each other to achieve their goals both politically and matrimonially. She was speaking yesterday at a party held at Ngoni Stadium in Norton to
Women network delegates hail First Family
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter
Delegates to the Global Power Women Network Africa Chapter have hailed the First Family for spearheading the Grace Mugabe Children’s Home in Mazowe and incorporating 24 vulnerable children. Speaking on behalf of the delegates while touring the
S Africa: Giant phallus that split the rainbow
As I write, South Africa is boiling with anger, divisive anger. Never in the history of mankind has a society debated so heatedly, has a society been divided so sharply over a matter so private, a matter so obscene, so revealing. Some white man, one Brett Murray, produced something to which one places a label as they see fit: a work of art for some; graffiti for others. Some even described it as an assault by some leftover of apartheid on a man who happens to be a president, a man who is an African.
All those multiple identities of the supposed victim gave wider meaning to Murray’s product — a giant phallus abutting, jutting out, or drooping from the made-to-fit rainment of an otherwise iconic representation of visionary, decorous leadership, a representation in the mould of the leader of the Russian Revolution, Vladmir Lenin.
With such a sensitive organ obscenely appended to this painting that clearly resembling one Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Murray’s thing immediately thrust itself into a fiery din of public controversy sure to impart and guarantee immortality to it, sure to stand erect in the annals of South African and wider African history.
Benjani, Zimbabwe’s football hero
Benjani’s critics say he didn’t make a huge contribution, to the Warriors, as he did for the clubs that he played for and that’s a valid point because, when you are a high-profile player like Benjie, you need to deliver consistentlyTHE old millennium was staggering towards its end, prophets of doom were lining up to tell us that the world, too, was coming to an end and there was a lot of uncertainty around the globe.
The more some things were changing, the more others were remaining the same.
The Zimbabwe Warriors were still to qualify for the Nations Cup finals and almost two decades of hunting in the jungles of African football had yielded nothing for the team.