East Asia has shocked the world when at least 10 of the region’s emerging economies have showed significant economic growth, registering at 8.1 percent last year, the strongest so far recorded by the World Bank in the past 10 years. This means that the region’s impoverished sector has constricted, as against previous figures recorded prior […]
Protect Yourself Against Unprofessional Landlords
Bad landlords are an unfortunate part of many renters’ lives, but there are ways to protect yourself from their poor manners, lack of ethics, rudeness and lame excuses. A nasty or difficult landlord makes you really appreciate finding a better place to live, with highly professional rental staff. It pays to be careful when you […]
Al Gore’s Supercharged Live Earth Draws Sting of Rock World
The "Live Aid" brand is back this summer with a former Vice-President. Al Gore, the coolest politicial suit, has the hottest environmental agenda to save the Earth from the global fallout of economic development and is taking it to a television and iPod near you. With his film The Inconvenient Truth – a slide-show lecture […]
Canadian band Marceno set the stage
<p>June 16<sup>th</sup>, it’s a Saturday night at Junctions, and local band Marceno are set to take the stage to perform their newly-released debut “A Good Day Waits”. After a set by Palaver, there’s a break before the lights kick in, along with some soundchecking before singer Melanie Benson appears out of nowhere and they burst […]
Who is playing havoc with the Zimbabwe dollar?
Zudha in the Rhodesian days was corrupted Shona for South African coins. Because they were useless to Zimbabweans, the word was transformed to mean anything useless including people. It was derived from the Afrikaans words Suid Afrika (South Africa). But South Africans coins, which people in Rhodesia used to throw away, have become gold. The […]
The U.S Patriot Act And You!
The Patriot Act was passed into law on October 24, 2001 by the Congress of the United States, just 45 days after the September 11 attacks, with virtually no debate. There are significant flaws in the Patriot Act, flaws that threaten your fundamental freedoms by giving the government the power to access your medical records, […]