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Dangerous drivers in Zimbabwe

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With the cops off the road, it’s been a welcome relief from the fines, harassment and often the daylight robbery. But now that they are gone the roads have become lawless, the number of idiotic drivers has seemed to increase along with the number of cars which are not clearly road worthy. From my observation […]

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Zimbabwe Dangerous Transport Networks

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The recent horror accident that has been reported to have claimed 45 lives of our brothers and sisters happened about 30km before Makuti along Harare and Chirundu highway is another sad chapter in our history. Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said onThursday said that the bus crashed on Wednesday night about 96 miles north of the […]

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Ina de system by Rassie Ai

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Ina de system scrupulously examines the experiences of a Zimbabwean migrant worker in the diaspora, his/her experiences on a social and community level as well the hardships faced due to perceptions of the host communities. Ina de system – Lyrics “Check it well this is Rassie Ai, I’m speaking to all the foreign guy, all […]

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How some titles have lost meaning in Zimbabwe

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Zimbabweans regularly fall into a frenzy for titles (tiltle-phoria) where everyone within the upper echelons of power wants to put that title either as a suffix or prefix to their name. In the end everyone becomes an entrepreneur, farmer or quite recently the trending doctor or prophet. Here are several titles that has been overused […]

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Why Are You Telling Mistruths About Zimbabwe?

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Last week, a story was published by a reputable media outlet about women being charged $5 per scream during childbirth, a story for which the headline itself seems out of this world. The story went out social media and caused discontent as can be seen by the reactions on Twitter below: [View the story “$5 […]

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