Author: Sororemvumba
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Lupane Cattle Rangers to Scale Up
Click or not: Lupane Cattle Rangers to Scale UpLupane Cattle Rangers to Scale Up Exploring life’s complex tapestry, options reveal routes to the exceptional, requiring innovation, inquisitiveness, and bravery for a deeply satisfying voyage. Hardy cattle herds have long been the indigenous bank for Lupane’s smallholder ranchers. More than 100, 000 cattle provide the lifeline for most families in the semi-arid… …
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Situations Vacant – Arts for Climate
Click or not: Situations Vacant – Arts for ClimateSituations Vacant – Arts for Climate The reggae equivalent of the Julius Nyerere diss is perhaps Sizzla’s “Hungry Children.” The belligerent sing-jay challenges Babylon: “You are destroying Earth, yet you still want to go Mars.” When the Apollo mission landed the first crew on the moon in 1969, founding Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere… …
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BOOK LAUNCH| Fay Chung’s “Zimbabwe Looking East”
Click or not: BOOK LAUNCH| Fay Chung’s “Zimbabwe Looking East”BOOK LAUNCH| Fay Chung’s “Zimbabwe Looking East” Fay Chung, an educationist of Chinese descent, recently published a book called “Zimbabwe Looking East” to explore the efficacy of the policy and to explore further possibilities from the current matrix. A climate of economic indeterminacy outlined Zimbabwe at the inception of the unity government in 2009. Coalition… …
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The Wiring of the Mind
Click or not: The Wiring of the MindMichio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind Book: The Future of the MindAuthor: Michio KakuPublisher: Doubleday (2014)ISBN: 978-0-385-53083-5 If there is a short circuit in the wiring of genius, it is its incapacity to understand itself. The human mind is the perhaps most fascinating example of this contradiction. It seems as though the smarter the… …
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Three Gospel Singers
Click or not: Three Gospel SingersTakesure Zamah Ncube performs with Joyous Celebration They have kept us posted with mellow jams, but popular credit has been long time coming for Zimbabwean gospel music’s trending acts. We look at recent arrivals and persistent pilgrims on the Christian entertainment circuit, and the journeys that took them to acclaim. More than just torching up… …
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MADMEN AND INTROVERTS: ZIMBABWE'S VISUAL ARTISTS
Click or not: MADMEN AND INTROVERTS: ZIMBABWE'S VISUAL ARTISTSDominic Benhura (Photo: Shona Art) Book: Mawonero/Umbono Edited by Ignatius Mabasa Publisher: Kerber Verlag (2015) ISBN: 978-3-86678-937-1 Zimbabwe’s earliest patriarchs were masters of art. The keynote symbols of our national identity are drawn from their visual heritage. San rock art prefaces the compendium of local history, while the Zimbabwe Bird, a soapstone legend of the… …
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MBARE'S SICK UNDERBELLY
Click or not: MBARE'S SICK UNDERBELLYMbare is the first home of Harare vendors, generational music talent, a storied stadium behind many a cheer and heartbreak, and the nerve centre of countrywide bus tours. Along with a century of cultural strivings, these claims give Mbare a cosmopolitan resume, making it one of the most famous suburbs in the country, and for… …
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WHY SHOULD GOVERNMENT TAX KNOWLEDGE?
Click or not: WHY SHOULD GOVERNMENT TAX KNOWLEDGE?Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa 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, utilise and regenerate it is often the difference between power and poverty. Fareed Zakaria’s 2015 book, “In Defense of a Liberal Education,” assigns the… …
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MUNGOSHI'S HUMOUR MILL AND FIRESIDE TALES
Click or not: MUNGOSHI'S HUMOUR MILL AND FIRESIDE TALESCharles Mungoshi (Photo: goodreads.com) Book: The Milkman Doesn’t Only Deliver Milk Author: Charles Mungoshi Publisher: Baobab Book (1998) ISBN: 1-77909-006-4 Poetry is the most obscure stroke on Charles Mungoshi’s life-size canvas. The accomplished artist’s poetry anthology, “The Milkman Doesn’t Only Deliver Milk,” has not matched his prose and drama in popular reception. However, one may… …
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STITCHIE'S LOVE LETTER TO JAH
Click or not: STITCHIE'S LOVE LETTER TO JAHStitchie (Photo: groovinradiony.com) When dancehall singjay Stitchie became a candidate for baptism, he read a new meaning into his stage name instead of dropping it. The unlikely candidate reasoned that while the comic stagecraft of his days in the world had left people in stitches, the post-conversion Stitchie would stitch people’s lives back to God.… …