Maria Shriver returns to NBC

CALIFORNIA. — Television journalist Maria Shriver is returning to NBC as a special anchor covering women’s issues nine years after leaving the network when her then husband, Arnold

What CIA bought for Afghanistan

Bill Van Auken
The report on Monday that the CIA regularly hands over sacks filled with hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai is only the latest episode in

Bieber, Lady Gaga top Webby winners

LOS ANGELES. — Campaigns for pop stars Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga joined comedian Jerry Seinfeld and the team behind President Barack Obama’s 2012 social media election strategy on Tuesday in

Book lovers lap up myths

DELHI. — Mriganka Dadwal knows everything about the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic that tells the story of warrior-god Rama and the abduction of his wife Sita by the powerful demon king

Negotiations in business, labour

Wenceslaus Murape
Negotiation is a process whereby the disputing parties engage each other by way of giving in and demanding forth and resultantly either party tends to gain some concession as a settlement to the

Chirikure hails re-opening of Book Cafe

Lovemore Meya Arts correspondent
CELEBRATED poet Chirikure Chirikure said the re-opening of the “Book Cafe” was a welcome development. He singled out the talent showcase called “Sistaz Mic Open” which is conducted at the

Workers’ cause to hope and celebrate

Rangu Nyamurundira
What cause do we have to celebrate then, we who labour Zimbabwe’s economy? We have laboured in the past with little to show for it, after foreign interests and intervention sought to monopolise our

Hifa will be better this year: Nyathi

Zecheaus Nemadire Arts correspondent
RENOWNED poet-cum musician Albert Nyathi sees a much bigger and better Harare International Festival of the Arts this year that will see a host of both local and international acts unveiled during the six-day

Celebrating mothers of the revolution

The Arena Hildegarde
WHEN I write about the mothers of Zimbabwe’s revolution, I do so with passion and the goal is to salute these leading ladies who had such a spirit of discernment, which made them

Politics of mediocrity

Reason Wafawarova
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T, together with the self-destructing MDC led by Welshman Ncube, as well as other MDC offshoots like the ones led by loud-mouthed Job Sikhala and Zimbabwe’s chief

×