adminTackling stigma through music
Cathrine Murombedzi HIV Walk
A music producer has taken a giant leap in his efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination on people living with HIV and Aids. Webster Mapanda, of Log-a-rhythm, has been in the music industry since
Radio station’s history of airing pranks
There’s some serious hypocrisy at the Australian radio station that pulled the plug on the Kate Middleton pranksters — because the station has a history of setting up dangerous stunts . . . some purposelyRick Ross dismisses death threat fears
Rick Ross says he’s not hiding from gang members who made death threats against him — but the Chicago Police Department took the videotaped message seriously enough to launchP-Square in Rwanda
P-Square is set to perform in Rwanda as part of the country’s ruling political party’s 25th anniversary celebrations. The concert will be held at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali tomorrow.
David versus Goliath. . . Call to protect small farmers against giant seed companies
Sifelani Tsiko Features Correspondent
Bureaucratic bungling has stalled efforts to pass legislation on farmers’ rights that seeks to protect and safeguard the rights of smallholder farmers to save, use, exchange and sell farm seed and
Time to turn down the heat
Farooque ChowdhuryIn its recent report, the World Meteorological Organisation said that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reached a record high — 390,9 parts per million in 2011, “which is a 40 percent increase
A day with a child-headed family
Shepherd Mushava Features Correspondent
IN his book, “The Friendship Book”, Francis Gay narrates a story about a man who spent most of his life longing to go to heaven. When he died an angel took him on a kind of conducted tour. He wasWomen cry out for safe birth control
JOHANNESBURG. — In early 2012, the UN World Health Organisation announced it could not conclusively determine whether hormonal contraceptive injections increased the risk of HIVRe-thinking gender equality
Johnson Ali Mikuku
ON December 6, 2012, the world woke up to a breathtaking and heart-rending story of a “husband” from Lyon (France) who “has become the first man in France to take his wife’s surname under a new
Women judges must stand up for marginalised
Munyonzwe Hamalengwa Features CorrespondentWomen have climbed to the highest apex of judicial power in a number of countries. They have also climbed higher in positions of power in several countries. Both the Chief Justice and Deputy Chief