adminMDC-T has every reason to dread Election 2013
Bowden Mbanje and Darlington MahukuIt is through elections that the people express their will by choosing leaders of their choice. The whole essence of democracy is for people to choose representatives who will govern them in their best interests. Hardworking parliamentarians will be rewarded by the electorate, they will be
Early sex puts girls at risk
Rutendo is 22 and her age mates are in college or have just started formal work. Rutendo lives on a farm in Hatcliffe, 40km out of Harare. Being peri-urban, the community’s livelihood depends on one’s ability to work the fields or sell vegetables even old clothes. The farms adjacent Hatcliffe are densely and informally settled.Rutendo has to multi-task as a mother, wife and also work the family patch that gives them produce.
She looks like someone in her forties yet she has been to the labour ward only three times.
For Rutendo giving birth is not an easy task, she cannot afford the US$25 charged by the local clinic hence she delivers at home.
Inside the new Windows 8
LAST week Microsoft launched its new Windows 8 operating system, which I managed to get hold of and after some 24 minutes of a clean install, I will attempt to review it.The first thing you will notice when you fire up Windows 8 is that your beloved, familiar Start button is gone and every third party application has come with its own new way to restore what Windows is trying to trash.
Arguably, it’s such a grand departure from Redmond’s legacy Windows software that most users won’t recognise it as Windows at all.
That is both good and bad. For those pundits who were crying out for something fresh, Windows has aptly responded to their calls.
Locardia, PM strike deal
Harare Bureau
MS Locardia Karimatsenga Tembo has withdrawn her $15 000 maintenance suit against her estranged husband Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai
UN’s Syria envoy seeks China’s ‘active role’
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy, has expressed hope, after holding talks in Beijing with Yang Jiechi, Chinese foreign minister, that China will play an active role in helping end the violence in Syria.EDITORIAL COMMENT: Leaders should preach the gospel of peace
The President Cde Mugabe on Tuesday officially opened the Fifth Session of the Seventh Parliament of Zimbabwe and once again urged Zimbabweans to shun violence. Cde Mugabe has on many fora called on the people to refrain from engaging in violence. It is time the nation embraces Cde Mugabe’s anti-violence crusade.US clean-up begins after Sandy havoc
Millions in the United States remain without power or transportation in the wake of Sandy, which caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of damage along the country’s East Coast.IMF eases restrictions on technical support
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it had eased restrictions on its technical assistance to Zimbabwe.While Zimbabwe is still not able to tap IMF funding, easing of technical restrictions is often the first step in resumption of normal relations.
Study groups helpful during exams
Leonard Ncube
THE final time of reckoning has come. On Monday, 286 343 candidates who are registered for the Zimsec Ordinary Level examinations started writing their final year examinations.