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Herald Reporter
Delegates from 45 African countries are expected in Harare today for a high level HIV and Aids, gender and women empowerment conference. The meeting will run for two days starting tomorrow and ending on Friday. Director in Deputy Prime
Nyatsime owners told to wait a while longer
Municipal Reporter
THE 15 600 people who bought residential and commercial stands in Nyatsime will have to wait a little longer before they can start building because the farms on which the stands were allocated are still to be incorporated into Chitungwiza. The farms are
Council to partner Nestle
Municipal Reporter
HARARE City Council is partnering Nestle Zimbabwe in dairy farming at the city farms, Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda has disclosed.
Addressing Rotary Club–Hunyani on Monday night Mr Masunda said city farms and the Hillside Nursery were “poorly leveraged”
Christianity and tradition: The search for identity
Sekai Nzenza
Throughout Zimbabwe, there is a growing spiritual identity crisis between Christian religion and African culture. We are caught in a massive pendulum in which we swing from one end to the other, in search of a place that can define us in
How Europe debt crisis affects Africa
Yang Jian and Zhu Zhu
Although military issue is a permanent topic of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, leaders from the world’s biggest military alliance are bothered much by economic problems at Chicago summit, which kicked into full swing on Sunday.
Zimbabwe needs a comic hero
Knowledge Mushohwe
Every country has its own heroes. Zimbabwe even has a special shrine where they are buried. In Western cultures, some of the heroes are not real people, but mythical personalities created by artists to illustrate how good will always triumph over
Understand DNA of Indigenisation
Innocent Katsande
Edwin Land’s hypothesis exposes the reality that, in life we eventually begin to succeed when we start to drive out the incessant superstition that there are mysterious tribal gods against us in every step we take. Often when we fail to accomplish set targets we tend to pass the blame to an unknown enemy. Sadly we forget the hard truth that indeed nature
UN human rights chief’s visit providential
The visit by the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navanethem Pillay, is providential coming as it does at a time forces of illegal regime change are grossly misrepresenting the nation’s human rights situation in a bid to create self-fulfilling prophecies ahead of elections scheduled for later this year. A case in point being the May 8 judgment by a South
Diamond mining policy ready
Bright Madera Senior Business Reporter
THE Government’s Diamond Policy, seeking to ensure meaningful contribution of the gems to economic development, is expected to receive Cabinet approval next week, a senior official said in Harare this week. Secretary for Mines and Mining
Essar reshuffles management
A management reshuffle has been initiated at Essar Africa Holdings to address delays in completion of the group’s US$750 million acquisition of the former Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company. According to media reports from India, the reshuffle will