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Knowledge MushohweWHEN the once popular Daily News closed its doors after its failed legal challenge against AIPPA in August 2003, some redundant journalists sought opportunities outside the country and some of them found the Internet to be an ideal medium for information dissemination.
And the band plays on!
I WAS growing up as Warren Park D was just taking shape. There were two distinct sections, kumaBrigades and kumaStands. KumaBrigades referred to the area bordered by 166th and 150th Streets whose four-roomed houses had been constructed by building brigades from the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, leaving the owner to ‘‘extend’’ the other three rooms. While kumaStands referred to the sections of the suburb where owners bought serviced stands to build houses of their choice thisYouth: Africa’s responsibility
Tichaona ZindogaA couple months ago this writer was involved in a spar with Sydney Chisi, one of the celebrated activists in the Western-sponsored civil society lobby. Chisi had posted a picture of himself addressing US President Barack Obama during a tour of the US in 2010.
A return to laughter
Sekai Nzenza
WHEN we lived in the village and slept in the grass-thatched houses, we laughed a lot. We were a lot happier then. In those days, we did not go looking for money every day because there was no money. Only when the Rhodesian government sent native policemen from the District Commissioner’s office to collect taxes did some men leave the village to go and look for money.