Zimbabwe: A Land Of Plenty? By Kudzai Chimhangwa Imagine waking up and wondering whether you will be able to go to work because of unpredictable transport costs. Imagine being speculative on whether your family will be able to buy essential products like sugar, bread, soap and cooking oil because they can only be […]
Only those connected benefiting from price blitz
It was just a casual remark. But it was loaded with meaning. Thieves had just broken into my house and stolen almost all electrical goods-a video recorder, a digital satellite television decoder and a radio. I was in the house with all seven members of my family but no one heard a thing. The […]
Britain behind Gukurahundi massacres
A former Zimbabwean freedom fighter who, himself, was a victim of Gukurahundi says Britain and not South Africa was behind the 1980s massacres that left nearly 30 000 innocent civilians from Matabeleland and the Midlands dead. Douglas Moyo* says South Africa was just a front. Britain was the brains behind the massacres. All it […]
Being a Happily Single and Independant Woman After Leaving a Bad Marriage
Life sure is full of twists and turns, sometimes taking us in directions we never expected to go in. In the 1960’s, when I was born, little girls were groomed to depend on men for a fulfilling family life. Learning to cook, clean and be ladylike were the norm back then. Watching Snow White, Sleeping […]
Could the Virginia Tech shooting been avoided?
In light of recent events this just gets added to the list of school shootings that have taken place over the last 5+ years and what seems to be motive is identical the perpetrators are young white males under the age of 21 with a history of disturbing behavior either expressed through writing or other […]
Google Executives receive $1 salary; Billions in Fringe benefits.
Google Executives recieve $1 salary. Billions in Fringe benefits. The three top executives at Google Inc. racked in a cool $1 in their 2006 total salary earnings according to a regulatory filing made Wednesday. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and co founders Larry page and Sergey Brin pocketed their $1 checks and the usual […]