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Chronicle Reporter MDC led by Professor Welshman Ncube yesterday held its primary elections in Bulawayo with the party’s organising secretary Mr Esaph Mdlongwa losing the elections. Mr Mdlongwa was a…
Mpumelelo Primary win Girl Child Netball tourney
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Japan media accept defeat by Brazil
THE Japanese media yesterday slammed their team’s 3-0 drubbing at the hands of footballing powerhouse Brazil as the Asian champions came crashing back to earth following the high of World…
Small political parties: Clowns or pillars of democracy?
Lungile Tshuma Elections are once again around the corner. The 31 July plebiscite is expected to be tightly contested and decisive. Besides being crucial, the harmonised elections are potentially exhilarating;…
Egypt cuts diplomatic ties with Syria
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s president, has announced that Egypt is cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria and has ordered that Damascus Embassy in Cairo to be closed. Morsi told thousands of…
Mandela in ‘prison’, says angry bodyguard
Johannesburg — Nelson Mandela is a very lonely man, one of his bodyguards has said, accusing the ailing anti-apartheid icon’s medical team of controlling visits like prison guards. As the…
Tsvangirai distorting discourse
Hon Patrick A. Chinamasa, MP
MY attention as Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs in the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe has been drawn to a statement released to the media on June 13, 2013 by the Hon Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The Statement politicallySpare a thought for the disabled
Samson Muradzikwa
It was Nelson Mandela, in 1994 who once said, “There is no keener revelation of a society’s soul than how it treats its children!” The State of the World’s Children Report 2013 — launched on May 30 by the United Nations ChildrenAfrican writers in the dock
Title: Decolonising the MindAuthor: Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Genre: Non-fiction
Written: 1986
Length: 113 pages
Ngugi wa Thiong’o famously began his writing career writing in English (publishing under the name “James Ngugi”). He had considerable success, but eventually turned to writing in his mother tongue, Gikuyu (though he did translate