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Peter Matambanadzo Senior ReporterThe Salvation Army Territorial Commander for Zimbabwe, Commissioner Vinece Chigariro, has been transferred to Kenya. The transfer comes at a time when the church’s International Headquarters has sent an audit team to investigate allegations of fraud and mismanagement of donor funds.
All stakeholders conference dates set
Herald ReporterThe second all stakeholders conference will be held from October 21 to 23, Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga has said.
Principals to the Global Political Agreement will open the conference. The conference will give delegates drawn from political parties and civic society,
Shamu calls on funeral assurance to service rural areas
Herald ReporterFuneral assurance companies should ensure that people in marginalised areas have access to their services and have decent burials, Media, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu has said. In a speech read on his behalf by an official in his ministry during the commissioning of
Child named after Prophet Makandiwa
Herald ReporterFirst Lady Amai Grace Mugabe has named one of the orphans at her Mazowe Children’s Home after popular preacher Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa.
There are other children named after prominent people in the country like politicians and businessmen. The children were given the names as part of
Mudenge national hero
Herald Reporter
HIGHER and Tertiary Education Minister Isaak Stanislaus Gorerazvo Mudenge, who died
Mau Mau post historic legal victory over Britain
LONDON. — Three elderly Kenyans have won an historic legal victory over the British government
MDC-T: A crisis of command
Was it Antonio Gramsci who wrote: “ . . . intellectuals have the function of organising the social hegemony of a group and that group’s domination of the state . . . the function of organising the consent that comes from the prestige attached to the function in the world of production and the apparatus of coercion for those who do not ‘consent’ either actively or passively or for those moments of crisis of command and leadership when spontaneous consent undergoes a crisis”?
If it was Gramsci, as indeed I think it was, then this Italian Marxist social scientist was remarkably prescient. I put particular accent on the last part, namely the part to do with the role of intellectuals fastened onto a movement, particularly in “those moments of crisis of commandant leadership
KS Cracovia couldn’t manage the onslaught and decided not to sign Majabvi and, just like that, the deal was dead
But the Lord works in a lot of mysterious ways and, for all the challenges he faced in Poland where, by default, he turned into the public face of Asiagate in Europe, and all the devils who stalked him to South Africa, God opened a window for him in Vietnam and, today, Justice Majabvi is singing his redemption song.Polish football has had a long relationship with Zimbabwe since Wieslaw Grabow-ski landed in this country in the ’80s and used his connections in his motherland to provide a base for a number of our players.
Norman Mapeza is probably the one with the highest profile, among the scores of Zimbabweans who ended up playing in Poland, who include
HIV+ mom beds son, facilitates rape
Masvingo Bureau
AN HIV-positive Gutu woman reportedly started a sexual relationship with her 19-year-old son in the belief that she would be cured of the virus. The 36-year-old woman — a member of the Johanne Masowe apostolic sect — also allegedly forced the son to rape her five-year-old daughter after the
PM’s ‘apology’ not good enough
Tichaona ZindogaOne does not have to be a women’s rights activist to sadly note that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s purported apology to the women he used and abused and dumped before settling for Elizabeth Macheka, is not good enough. Addressing his party’s 13th anniversary gathering last