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Embassy Makoni Features CorrespondentIt is very encouraging to see Zimbabweans getting economically empowered, especially in the agro-industrial sector brought up by the Land Reform Programme. The Land Reform Programme saw the landless Zimbabweans repossessing their land that had been stolen by colonial settlers. The land
Tug-of-war over land
Marcia Natasha Gore Features WriterIMAGINE waking up from a slumber at the din of a machine and voices of men at the front of your house. To your shock, the men and the machine are digging a big trench across your garden. Here is where a lot of money and time have been spent on landscaping. This surely should constitute
The low-down on drugs
Tendai Tsakiwa Features WriterThe greatest paradox about drug abuse is that a sloshed and high person always finds himself or herself slow and low in terms of development.
The same applies to nations with high illicit drugs prevalence. In Zimbabwe, the use of hard drugs has been linked to crime. Unfortunately, the
Zim’s bubbling cultural pots
Rutendo Mapfumo Features CorrespondentThe names Hwange and Victoria Falls are synonymous with coal mining and tourism. Hwange National Park is where one experiences the unparalleled jungle life. It is also the place where there are giant coal and methane gas fields for industrial tourism. A spitting distance away,
Children caught in DRC crossfire
Children in the Kivu provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are not only getting caught in the crossfire of the area’s ongoing violence, but also facing health risks, threats of forced recruitment by local and foreign militias, and interrupted education, say officials. “Children are swept up inA decade that lost a generation
Special Matarirano Features CorrespondentThe period 1999 to 2009 appears to be mainly remembered for heightened political and economic quagmire and quandary which, by and large, came as a result of reactionary sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Britain and her Western allies after the land reform programme. This period,
Investors fret as SA strikes spread
JOHANNESBURG — Investors warned that rolling strikes in South Africa could negatively hit investment in the continent’s largest economy yesterday, as industrial action continued to spread across sectors. With coal miners, truck drivers and yet more gold miners becoming the latest groups to downWe’ve suffered enough: Zardari
UNITED NATIONS — Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari declared on Tuesday before the United Nations that his country had suffered enough in its fight against extremist terror and should not be asked to do more. “No country and no people have suffered more in the epic struggle againstMuslim leaders demand international action
UNITED NATIONS — Muslim leaders demanded international action to stop religious insults in a challenge to US President Barack Obama’s defence of freedom of expression at the UN General Assembly. Obama made a strong condemnation of “violence and intolerance” in his speech at the UNProphet Mohammed cartoons vortex
Knowledge MushohweThe Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, published a dozen editorial cartoons by different cartoonists depicting the holy Islamic Prophet Mohammed on September 30 2005. The newspaper had said that the publication was aimed at contributing to the debate on criticism of Islam and