Features » Farai Mutsaka, News Editor
Wednesday, 08 May 2013 11:49
CHIKOMBA - It is game on in many parts of the country where United Nations-sponsored inter-party football for peace matches are helping ease grassroots political tensions. With cooperation from wobbly coalition government partners, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has pumped...Read More
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 13:57
WEDZA - Donning a straw hat to avoid the scorching heat, Bothwell Chimanga, 19, stood mesmerised as a group of dancers from Harare gyrated on a makeshift stage in between peace speeches at Wedza centre. Chimanga was part of hundreds of...Read More
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Business »
Tuesday, 23 April 2013 15:32
HARARE - The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) says peaceful elections are key to business and in consolidating economic gains realised in the past few years. Zimbabwe is expected to hold watershed elections — in which President Robert Mugabe squares off...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Tuesday, 23 April 2013 10:47
HARARE - At his prime, he was the master of tough talk, at one time ordering his protégés to: “strike fear in the heart of the white man. Let them tremble.” This was the time bands of marauding war veterans...Read More
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Friday, 19 April 2013 12:03
HARARE - We welcome President Robert Mugabe’s no-nonsense position on violence at yesterday’s Independence Day commemorations. His voice and body actions showed a man who meant what he said and this is what Zimbabweans expect from their leaders as the...Read More
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Friday, 19 April 2013 11:58
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe came out guns blazing against both Zanu PF and the MDC parties yesterday, warning that police will deal decisively with perpetrators of violence ahead of polls. Speaking to thousands of people gathered at the National Sports...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Tuesday, 16 April 2013 11:33
HARARE - Sovereignty as a concept has its roots in the Treaty or Peace of Westphalia, so named because it was signed in a Germany city of that name on October 24, 1648. Without going into its history, the Westphalian Treaty...Read More
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Features » Maxwell Sibanda, Assistant Editor
Monday, 15 April 2013 11:24
HARARE - “Peace begins with you, peace begins with me; peace begins with all of us!” The aforementioned wise words have been popularised by President Robert Mugabe who at recent State events asks those in attendance to repeat them after...Read More
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Business »
Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:27
HARARE - A peaceful election could help Zimbabwe attain a 9,5 percent economic growth rate in 2014, a financial advisory firm says. Market observers say the country’s economic recovery that began in 2009 following the formation of the inclusive government by...Read More
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Entertainment »
Monday, 25 March 2013 11:53
HARARE - On Friday last week, the world woke up to the shocking news of the demise of Nigerian veteran writer and indeed the granddad of modern African literature, Chinua Achebe. There is no doubt Achebe represented the finest in...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Tuesday, 12 March 2013 11:18
HARARE - Referendums have been dramatic at times because citizens traditionally use them to express displeasure with a governing party by voting against its position mid-term. This can be said of the referendum on the draft constitution in 2000. Ask...Read More
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World »
Thursday, 07 March 2013 11:00
DAMASCUS - Tension brewed Wednesday between the United Nations and Syrian rebels after about 30 rebels detained 21 U.N. peacekeepers and refused to let them go. The U.N., in turn, is demanding they be released. The rebels contend that the peacekeepers...Read More
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Sunday, 24 February 2013 12:55
HARARE - A rising tide of police harassment and the systematic crackdown on civic society and MDC supporters by State agents has, yet again, unmasked President Robert Mugabe as a master of double speak. Mugabe’s political opponents and analysts who last...Read More
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:09
HARARE - A senior police officer returning from an international peacekeeping mission in war-ravaged Guinea-Bissau has praised President Robert Mugabe for preaching peace, reminiscing on the lawlessness he witnessed in Bissau. Cadwell Moyo, a police superintendent, spent three years in the...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Sunday, 10 February 2013 12:14
HARARE - Zimbabwe's leadership has never had an opportunity as the current one to prove to the world that we can shape our own destiny. The constitutional referendum set for next month gives President Robert Mugabe every reason to be believed...Read More
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