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Gay rights: Tsvangirai’s Nobel master stroke

By Mthulisi MathuthuPolitics, World
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IT was Professor Stephen Chan who not so very long ago wrote something to the effect that even though Morgan Tsvangirai is prone to gaffes, he is still capable of some strokes of ‘genius’. Perhaps nothing illustrates this better than … Read more

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Nobel Peace Prize biased against Africa

By Crisford ChogugudzaPolitics, World
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ALL the evidence regarding the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize suggests that Africans are not hot favourites to receive the coveted prize. Whether this is deliberate or coincidental nobody knows. For many years, African luminaries have performed reasonable efforts … Read more

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Nobel Prize: Honour without nobility

By Mthulisi MathuthuPolitics

THE Nobel Peace Prize, says the sponsor’s will, must be awarded to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding … Read more

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South Africa: still a land of many possibilities

By Mthulisi MathuthuPolitics, Travel

THERE is something paradoxical about South Africa which will perhaps never go, at least not in our lifetime: no matter what publicity the country gets, life goes on and they survive, dance, drink, laugh, play and still attract millions of … Read more

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