adminWhy should Govt tax knowledge?
Stanely Mushava Literature Today The value of knowledge, chiefly its facility to maximise the human potential, is geographically agnostic. Knowledge is the foremost resource for any economy, and failure to access,…
Achieving cohesion, coherence in texts
Elliot Ziwira @ The BookStore THE reading of texts has been reduced to a cumbersome and monotonous experience had it not been for cohesive devices that writers exploit in linking…
Creative Writing Press Club comes to UZ
Lovemore Ranga Mataire The Reader Students undertaking an English Honours Degree programme at the University of Zimbabwe recently launched the English Department Creative Writing/Press Club whose mission is to reignite…
Towards a continental Free Trade Area
Africa is a rising continent. It is no longer a hopeless continent as once suggested by The Economist. Intra-African trade is going to spur economic development in Africa provided that…
Time to move from ‘disastrous capitalism’
Cynthia McKinney Correspondent Since the founding of the United States, generations have been inculcated with the belief that capitalism is the only acceptable method of economic organisation.
SDGs: What to do with the global super-rich?
Jason Hickel Correspondent The much-hyped Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations will not deliver the new economy that the world so desperately needs. Their creators want to reduce poverty and…
20 killed in Renamo shootout, say police
MAPUTO. – The death toll in a roadside gun battle involving a convoy carrying Mozambique’s opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama has risen to 20, police said yesterday, heightening tensions in the…
UN chief calls for gender equality
UNITED NATIONS.-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called on world leaders to take action as well as make commitment to secure gender equality throughout the world. At a summit on gender equality…
God weeps for sexual abuse victims: Pope
PHILADELPHIA. – Pope Francis told bishops in Philadelphia that he had met with victims of clerical sexual abuse, adding that “God weeps” for them. “God weeps for sexual abuse of children,”…
DeMbare throw title race wide open
Sikhumbuzo Moyo in Bulawayo— Chicken Inn . . . . 0 Dynamos . . . . (1) 1 CHAMPIONS Dynamos blew the riveting Castle Lager Premiership title race wide open…