BY  JEFFREY MOYO
Time has come for the young people of Zimbabwe to combine their energies and break free from  politicians and form their own solid front to extricate themselves from the jaws of political naivety and become their own liberators.

BY BETHEL GOKA & NOBUKHOSI NDLOVU

January 18 passed just like any ordinary day for many Zimbabweans, the pertinent worry probably being the infamous “January disease”.

However, an ocean or two away, the online businesses in the United States were in protest against what would have been the demise of the internet.

Grace Mutandwa

Every time my girlfriends and I reminisce about raising our children we all get very emotional, and all warm and fuzzy inside.
I am always amazed by the capacity of women to love their children and men through all obstacles.

I started a thought-provoking discussion on the SME BusinessLink Community website (http://smebusinesslink.com) last week.

When the current Dynamos executive took over the reins at the club in the mid-season last year, most supporters thought the new broom was going to sweep cleaner than the old one.

It’s an election year once again. To politicians it means way up the ladder to the political office and all its benefits. To children it means parents being beaten up or killed; health and rights being violated and the minors being made even more vulnerable to political exploitation than in previous years.

Water is colourless, odourless and tasteless.
This is what conventional wisdom teaches at primary school.
However, when you stay in Harare, you know that municipal water can be as foul-smelling as raw sewage ...ugh!

We were not surprised by Constitutional Affairs minister Eric Matinenga’s revelations this week that 23 MPs have failed to account for monies advanced to them under the Constituency Development Fund.

It is an indisputable fact that Zimbabwe is one of the few African countries to enact a disability Act upon the attainment of independence. This was done in form of the Disabled Persons Act [Chapter 17:01], Act 5 of 1992 (the DPA). This is the principal Act that deals with the concept of disability in Zimbabwe.

BY SIBANENGI DUBE

The world woke up last week to read in The Herald that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai bribed editors of the independent Press. The government-aligned paper claimed that Tsvangirai was trying to buy positive reportage so as to salvage his battered image. What is worrying here is not that The Herald lied. That has always been the trademark of the paper. People will be worried if The Herald starts dishing out the truth.

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The recent ban on the importation of second-hand underwear in Zimbabwe was met with mixed reactions from various segments of society. Some thought it was the best action ever taken by the inclusive government so far as they found used underwear to be dehumanising and unhygienic.

Finance minister Tendai Biti’s announcement that the government has banned the importation of used lingerie has caused a stir among the girls.
There are those who think this move is insensitive and others who believe it is a good and healthy move.

“Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.” — The Red Queen to Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

A myriad of shortcomings are bedeviling the unity government, owing to Zanu PF’s willy-nilly and crafty tendencies as the party tramples on the entire tenets of the Global Political Agreement, rendering the whole historic document a hoax and a deception.

When you are a newsroom operator more concerned about editing, fact checking and copy deadlines, you hardly find the time to respond to each and every brickbat thrown at you or your newspaper.

For the umpteenth time, Air Zimbabwe workers last week embarked on a demonstration to press for outstanding salaries and allowances. Their action brought to the fore, the problems at the national carrier which has failed to pay its employees for the past seven months.

Zimbabwe has now entered its 12th year without a clear political direction to guide its citizens. Since 2000, political rot has been the major characteristic of the nation, in which political parties continuously engage in bitter battles that result in bloodshed and destruction of property.

BY NEVANJI MADANHIRE

My New Year’s resolution is that I will stop playing the Lotto, because, I’ve realised only fools believe in luck. Instead I’ll write a book that will win the Booker Award; it will be the first book by a writer living outside the British Isles to win the award.

Rational Believer

As a Christian, it hurts me to see how ignorant and gullible many fellow-Christians can be. Many Christians believe virtually anything that merely sounds spiritual. In the process:

Grace Mutandwa

I hope you all had a peaceful and merry Christmas and that you managed to spend quality time with your families.
Christmas brings out a warm feeling in some people while it drives out the dragon in others.