Schools milking desperate parents

Government sounds warning ………….  Unions call out truant teachers Veronica Gwaze In the past two months, schools have resumed for both examination and non-examination classes after a six-month hiatus. It…

Crucial steps for planting

Peter Gambara THIS week, most farmers are likely to be planting mostly maize as the rainy season starts in earnest. However, crop farming is like a 100-metre sprint race. The ideal…

Holding Olympics during Covid-19

AThree-time Olympic champion gymnast, Kohei Uchimura, wants the postponed Tokyo Olympics to happen next year. But he has also talked openly about skepticism in Japan, where enthusiasm is muted by…

Traffic laws must be revisited

Lincoln Towindo Parliament IN the six years to December 2018, more than 12 000 people had been killed in about 280 000 road traffic accidents in Zimbabwe, official statistics show.…

Businessman honours pioneer liberation fighter

Sunday News Correspondent ONE of the first people to fire bullets during the armed struggle, Cde Moffat Hadebe has urged Zimbabweans to jealously guard the gains of the armed struggle.…

Cde Matemadanda hospitalised

Munyaradzi Musiiwa, Sunday News Reporter ZANU-PF National Political Commissar Cde Victor Matemadanda (pictured) is recovering at home after falling ill last week.. The party’s Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity,…

The mystery of praise

Sunday sermon with Apostle Chisale Greetings beloved nation. As the nations of the world we are going through hard times of being surrounded by Covid-19 that has seen the lives…

AG raises red flag over imported goods

ABOUT 87 percent of imported goods are not being checked for quality thereby increasing the risk of inferior products flooding the local market, Auditor-General Mrs Mildred Chiri has revealed.

‘Nervous’ Osaka feels the heat

As the world’s highest-paid sportswoman and a three-time Grand Slam champion, Naomi Osaka is no stranger to the spotlight, but ahead of the release of her personalised range of apparel…

Serving in Ian Smith’s Rhodesian Airforce

AS the country inches towards Unity Day signed on December 22, 1987 when Zanu and Zapu put civil hostilities in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces aside, bringing peace to the country which we enjoy up to this day, Garikai Mazara sat down with Robin Bale Smith, now a farmer in Banket, and spoke about his days serving in Ian Smith’s Rhodesian Airforce. The 1987 Unity Accord was not the first time that enemies were coming together on a peace mission as in 1979, the Lancaster House Agreement brought hostilities between the Patriotic Front and Rhodesia to an end after a protracted 15-year-old “bush war”. But what was it like to fight the “bush war” on the Rhodesian front?

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