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Condoms in schools: no easy choices
THE Education Minister will be delighted to learn that in my 13 years going through Zimbabwe’s school system, not once did I engage in sexual activities. But that’s where the good news ends. More than anything, it was lack of … Read more
Crash and burn Sir Richard
ZIMBABWE’S many problems over the last decade, and the attempts at rebuilding over the last two years, have exposed a dangerous kind of Zimbabwean: the type that prefers Barack Obama’s voice on Zimbabwe than that of Morgan Tsvangirai. They pride … Read more
Fake Pope has police hot under the collar
POPE Benedict XVI’s UK visit this week has attracted hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets – and many complain his specially designed vehicle known as the Popemobile has moved rather too briskly through crowds. So spare a thought … Read more
South Africa have World Cup, so why are they angry?
IT SAYS much about South Africa that the only thing I won’t miss after my four-week holiday here is the mosquitoes – the noisy blood-suckers that blight sub-Saharan Africa’s summer. Yet that’s not how Africa’s most southern country is … Read more
Knowing the centre of power
FOR those of us who work in the media, and I’m sure that extends to foreign embassies and international bodies, the state-run Herald newspaper is sometimes as much fun to read as it is useful. It is unfortunate that … Read more
My encounter with a tokoloshe
Leon Schuster on Tokoloshes EVER come face to face with a tokoloshe? Well, I have. If it was that anyway! I was young, but I remember enough. It was following my grandfather’s death, sometime in 1991. Some … Read more
Speaking himself into trouble
YOU can bet on many things, but one sure winner is that Morgan Tsvangirai will make a promise he cannot deliver on. In the last year alone, he has issued ultimatums against Robert Mugabe and made declarations only … Read more
Pessimistic about Obama’s ‘new dawn of American leadership’
WHEN the Civil Rights Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1964, removing discrimination against blacks, he denounced it as “the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced”. He vigorously opposed the bussing of … Read more
Who wants to be a millionaire?
IF EVERYTHING goes according to plan, I will be a millionaire in no time. In my mailbox this week arrives bad and good news. The bad is that I have learnt of the death of my relative on … Read more
Homeless? Rome welcomes you
ONLY a fool, methinks, leaves a casanova in the same room as his wife. More than that, only someone who is deficient in judgment, having left his wife with the philanderer, would then complain when he finds her … Read more
Myth busting with Thomas Mapfumo
Mapfumo with Big Brother 5 star Makosi Musambasi ABOUT Thomas Mapfumo, a lot of stories are told. Most are false, as I recently found out during an hour-long chat with the legend himself. Recall the story of how … Read more
Spare a thought for Norman Mapeza
IN the next 24 hours, Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo will be named winner of the Ballon d’Or (Golden Ball) awarded to the outstanding player of the year by France Football magazine – only a day after picking up his … Read more
