Science versus the supernatural

HAVE you ever heard of strange snakes and mysterious creatures that cause water pumps in dams and wells to malfunction?

Or of mermaids that are said to cause electrical faults? As fictional as this might sound, stories of how science has clashed with the supernatural have been told since time immemorial.

It’s back to school

SCHOOLS are set to open on September 10 for the third term.

While parents are stressing about where to get money to pay their children’s school fees, buy groceries for boarding school kids and other related stuff, school children have different issues to worry about.

OH crowned champions

OLD HARARIANS find themselves at a place where noone ever imagined they would be come September 8 – the 2019 Super Six Rugby Champions perch.

Initially deemed unworthy, the former Harare giants had to go through a qualifier and beat Southern City to make the numbers.

Telone, Mushowani through

MUSHOWANI Stars and TelOne FC are through to the Chibuku Super Cup first round after emerging victorious against Bulawayo Chiefs and Yadah in a preliminary round double-header at Mandava yesterday.

Mushowani will now face Ngezi Platinum Stars in the first round after edging Bulawayo Chiefs 3-2.

Marimba properties begin construction

Construction of multi-million dollar infrastructure, including roads, water and sewer systems, has resumed on a disputed piece of land.

Marimba Residential Properties and five housing cooperatives have been battling for the land between Kambuzuma and Marimba Park for more than a decade. Last month, the property developer dispatched earth moving machines to the site to begin construction.

A huge beast for Masakadza

WHEN Hamilton Masakadza scored his historic century on his Test debut at 17, his father Kingston declared that he would give his son to Zimbabwe Cricket for the rest of his life.

Parly oversight critical for economy

In pursuit of Vision 2030, Zimbabwe is on an overdrive mission to transform itself by building an inclusive economy that benefits all its people through redistribution of wealth, creation of opportunities and jobs; thus, pulling millions of its people from the trenches of inequality and poverty.

Africa’s industrialisation will not be like China’s

China designed and executed a policy that shrank the industrialisation process in just 25 years — something that many economies took at least a century to do.

That redesign has brought immense dislocation in global commerce and industry, enabling China to become one of the world’s leading economies.

Saving lives one test at a time

The National AIDS Council’s Harare Metropolitan Province recently commemorated its Provincial World AIDS Day at Chitungwiza Town Centre.

The function was held under the 2018/9 World AIDS Campaign Know Your Status, with a pay off line that says ‘My Status. My Health. My Life.’

Rare netball talent in Magaba

FOR some, disability is an impediment, but for Chiraurirwa ‘Talent’ Magaba, it makes her a rare and outstanding figure.

She believes that she can easily stand out.

At 35, the deaf and dumb Magaba dreams of making her debut in national team colours.

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