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  • MDC-Ts Shift From Slogans to Ideas

    One of the most important characteristics of any group that is developing towards dominance is its struggle to assimilate and conquer ideologically the traditional intellectuals, but as this assimilation and conquest is made quicker and effectively, the more the group succeeds in simultaneously elaborating its own organic intellectuals and solid policy position. In The Ruling Class and the ...

  • Mugabes Bid to Airbrush Dark Legacy

    WHENEVER President Robert Mugabe speaks in public these days, if he is not involved in political polemics and campaigning, there is always a hint of atonement -- clues that he wants to make amends for his mistakes on the cusp of the sunset of his controversial political career. On Wednesday, in an off-the-cuff speech at the signing ceremony of the new constitution at State House in Harare, he ...

  • May 25 Charity Begins At Home

    AS the mother continent marks the golden anniversary of Africa Day tomorrow, it would be amiss not to delve into the significance of the founding of the African Union (AU), formerly the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which in essence is the cause for reflection on May 25. Like any human being at the age of 50, independent Africa has surely come of age. Whether the coming of age coincides ...

  • Poll Manifestos Parties Sharpen Ideas for Battle

    WITH the clock fast-ticking towards make-or-break elections expected later this year, the main political parties in Zimbabwe are now finalising their manifestos set to be launched ahead of polls. In many Western countries like the United States and Britain, well-articulated economic, foreign and social policies often win elections, but in Zimbabwe, this does not appear to be the case. There is ...

  • Election Uncertainties Scare Away Investors

    The wrangling among Zimbabwe's diverse political parties, numerous political action groups, the president, prime minister and many others in the political hierarchy as well as the media as to when the presidential and parliamentary elections will be (or should be) held is having a grievously negative impact on the country's economy, severely worsening its already very fragile state. ...


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The Red Shoes [DVD]

The Red Shoes [DVD]

When The Red Shoes, the seventh collaboration by the filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in as many years, was released in 1948, it was quite unlike anything audiences had seen before, even though it was constructed of parts that were quite familiar. There had ... ...

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  • Disenfranchisement of Aliens Xenophobic

    IT has been argued that in today's world where countries are increasingly racially and culturally diverse, progressive nations are, among other key indicators, judged by their treatment of minorities. It is thus baffling Zimbabwe is systematically disenfranchising a substantial minority, effectively rendering them second-class citizens. The prolonged battle by the country's so-called ...

  • Masvingo Thwarts Resurgent Mujuru Faction

    THE Zanu PF faction led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru whose current ascendancy is riding on the party's restructuring exercise was last week thwarted in Masvingo where it failed to remove the executive aligned to Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa. However, the Mujuru faction sought to establish a firm grip on structures in the province by declaring its regional stalwart, Dzikamai ...

  • Zimbabwe Managing Local Content Via Your Websitemag

    IN the last instalment TechnoMag had an opportunity to talk to executives behind the wheels of Zimbabwe's technology growth at a broadband forum sponsored by Telecel Zimbabwe and organised by TechZim. Among the notable directors were Zol CEO and Liquid Telecomms director David Behr, chief commercial officer of Africa's largest undersea fibre laying consortium WIOCC, James Wekesa and ...

  • Zimbabwe activist Prisoners denied Aids drugs

    HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS ...

  • Zimbabwe Mugabe Trip to Tokyo to Gobble Millions

    PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will next week gobble millions of dollars when he takes a huge entourage of more than 50 government officials to attend the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad) from June 1 to 3, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. Top government sources said Mugabe is expected to take a high-powered delegation of cabinet ministers, directors of ...

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