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Just yesterday, I wrote on my main page a sentence which inspired this editorial.
“Mugabe’s successes are outweighed by his excesses.”
I spent some time yesterday trying to think of Mugabe’s ‘successes’ - and do you know that I...
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(This is the most personal poem I have ever written and a tribute to that which I consider most productive in man/woman...hehe)
they asked me of the stars…
the...
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The Justice Department investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys has been extended to encompass allegations that senior White House officials played a role...
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Former vice chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), South-West Zone, Chief Olabode George, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
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Yesterday, 7th August, 2008, students who applied for admissions into year one of the University of Maiduguri has been plunged into unsolicited hardship as the...
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Though typical of the Western mindset of first knowingly committing sins for their own short term selfish ends followed by repentance after ages, the recent scenes from...
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I thank all of you for giving me the opportunity to face you today to tell my story. Your microphones, voice recorders, and cameras make me realize that this story will...
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REDEFINING TENETS OF ISLAM
ARVIND K. PANDEY
It’s high time Muslim bodies redefine as well as reshape their priorities .In the wake of...
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India is true democracy as it allows all to practice and profess their faith and beliefs in the best possible way. Today, when the west is condemning and limiting the...
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Here’s a little history lesson...
“On August 8, 1942, the Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which led to the start of the...
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will defend himself against impeachment by the ruling coalition, aides and allies said Friday, as the US-backed leader mulled his...
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The Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti (SASS) on Friday decided to extend its agitation till August 14, a day before an all-party delegation from New Delhi is to arrive in...
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CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat may have sidestepped the issue of projecting BSP supremo Mayawati as the prime ministerial candidate, but his CPI counterpart A B...
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After working through Indian concerns, the US on Thursday circulated a draft exemption text to Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members. Earlier, national security advisor...
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On 8 August 1988 cities across Burma were packed with demonstrators.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched through the then capital, Rangoon, calling for a...
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Police and firefighters were called to the University of Texas’ Jester Hall to free 26 cheerleaders who had crammed themselves into an elevator.
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Troops from the former Soviet republic of Georgia launched new attacks on the breakaway territory of South Ossetia late Thursday after a top government official said a...
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A few weeks ago, the idea of offshore drilling was starting to be seriously considered. Many officials were realistic, saying that the oiled obtained would not come in...
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The other day while stuck up in a traffic jam I started watching a
street corner play
Actors playing the role of public were shouting
GALI GALI MAIN SHOR HAI
HAMARE...
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Piracy has no equivalent word in most of the Indian languages; maybe that is why we really don’t understand it. Whenever we face a problem regarding it, we legalize...
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The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes lived and worked in China for eight years from 1998-2006. Ahead of the Olympics he returned to Beijing to assess whether they...
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To ‘stack the deck’ - to arrange something so that it is unfair to someone.
The mediated talks continue as I type. They are obviously going to extend beyond any...
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During the Rhodesian bush war, we had local musicians singing about the war and the political events in the country. The bush war was brutal and bloody and lasted for...
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“I just come here to keep my job,” said the cashier at a TM supermarket in Harare, where a tin of baked beans cost - at least for the next few hours - a...
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Yesterday I read a story in which it was alleged that Theresa Makone, leader of the MDC Women’s League for the MDC, was ejected from the talks being mediated by Thabo...
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We have all watched the latest moves by Mugabe and his ‘government’ and we also see how he intends to treat the two different factions of the MDC.
But how many of...
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AP, Johannesburg
Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe’s opposition and negotiators for President Robert Mugabe have broken off, officials said Monday. One said the talks stalled...
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And just like that, Zimbabwe has slipped from the headlines to ‘other stories of interest’ and within a few days I expect it to no longer feature as a story of any...
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It was all over the television news channels, and all over the internet yesterday and today. Tsvangirai, Mugabe and Mutambara have signed the Memorandum of...
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Following the amazing comments to this morning’s posting, I have kindly been given permission by my very good friend Duane Udd in the USA to publish his poem...
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In the discussion following the publishing of my editorial “The Domino Effect”, one commenter came up with the three word phrase “catalyst for cataclysm”. I...
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The blood may not have stopped flowing, but Mugabe has achieved his primary objective – that being his remaining in power. The fact that his remaining top of the tree...
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I have written many times in the past few months about actual events on the ground in Zimbabwe, and I have watched for the past 10 years (whilst I have been living in...
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I have often stated that for Mugabe to have made Zimbabwe a success, he needed to have changed nothing. But when he came to power in 1980, whilst on the outside he was...
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Robert Mugabe has taken a once prosperous country and turned it into an impoverish country for his own personal gain
He has surrounded himself with “yes”...
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As many of you know, I write about events in Zimbabwe every day on my respective pages, and some days I am astonished at the basic cruelty that happens in that country,...
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There is word on the internet that Mugabe will not negotiate with Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change until and unless they accept his ‘victory’ in...
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Dozens of teenage girls have been made pregnant after being taken into the bush and raped in torture camps by President Robert Mugabe’s youth militia operating near...
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People often ask me, where do I get the strength, the sustained motivation to write about events in my adopted ‘home’ - Zimbabwe.
Simply put - my sustenance is a...
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, defiant despite growing African condemnation of his re-election, said on Friday the opposition must drop its claim to power...
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