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Artificial intelligence and robotics: Great expectations and daunting existential risks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is both exciting and challenging. There are opportunities and dangers. There are fascinating possibilities and existential risks.The starting point is to understan...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | 71 | by Arthur Mutambara
University rankings don't measure what matters
International rankings of universities are big business and big news. These systems order universities on the basis of a variety of criteria such as student to staff ratio, income from industry, and r...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:02hrs | 161 | by Sioux McKenna
'Wonder COVID-19 drug' Ivermectin works through inhibiting viral replication: Dr Stone
THE issue of Covid-19 treatment drugs has lately hogged the limelight after some medical practitioners raised the red flag over treatment claims by their colleague, Jackie Stone, describing her assert...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:06hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Panicky Mnangagwa gives nod to controversial Covid-19 drug
JOLTED into action by the tragic loss of four ministers, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has approved mass importation of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin to battle Covid-19.Covid-...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:12hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe testing COVID-19 'drug'
GOVERNMENT is clinically testing anti-parasite drug, Ivermectin in a bid to establish its efficacy in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The second wave of COVID-19 currently affecting the countr...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:08hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 43 | by Samantha Power
University rankings misleading
INTERNATIONAL rankings of universities are big business and big news.These systems order universities on the basis of a variety of criteria such as student-to-staff ratio, income from industry...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 07:59hrs | 8 | by Sioux McKenna
Amazing astronomical discoveries that changed our vision of space
Today, we might be living in a period that could eventually be called the beginning of space exploration era. One space company after another is working to make ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 20:12hrs | 21 | by Staff writer
Why protests are important
LAST night as I was scrolling down latest postings - usually not very useful except for banter and comic relief - on our WhatsApp chat group feed with former journalism training classmates, I came acr...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:55hrs | 616 | by Dumisani Muleya
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3929 | by PUMA
Religious imperialism? Count me out
I WAS pleasantly surprised when people from near and far, from within Zimbabwe and beyond the borders, white and black, Christian and non-Christian came to the defence of the Zimbabwe Bird after the n...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 691 | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe's Casino Economy: Extraordinary Measures for Extraordinary Challenges by Gideon Gono
The paperback novel written by Gideon Gono, revolves around the issues regarding his position as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the opportunity Gono had to serve his president and th...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:45hrs | 2863 | by Joe K
Time is right for alternative money
THE controversy surrounding the introduction of another local currency continues unabated. This time it was the former Finance minister, Tendai Biti, who ignited the current debate when he announced g...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:24hrs | 279 | by Zimwara
'ED to surprise with prosperous 2019' argued Mavaza - insane to allow him to last another year in power
"ED will surprise Chamisa with a prosperous 2019," Dr Mavaza argued in Bulawayo24. Why wait! Why did ED fail to surprise the whole nation with a prosperous 2018?Mnangagwa was a senior ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 08:39hrs | 640 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Never give up
In 1964 in Oslo Norway Dr King was awarded the Nobel Prize for great work he did which was birthed from his passion to see equality in the nation of America despite your race ,color,tribe.Few people i...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 16:21hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Is Tobin tax regime helpful?
Against the backdrop of the ongoing debate and rhetoric about the recently proposed 2% transaction tax which was announced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, ostensibly to widen Zimbabwe's tax base....Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu
Panicked ZCC still want illegitimate Zanu PF to rule - even after 38 years corrupt and tyrannical rule
It is the great Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein, who is credited with exclaiming "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results".W...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 09:25hrs | 4651 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
British have cut ED adrift, has he even Smith's common sense to admit 'game is up!'
South Africa's then president F W de Klerk and the man who would succeed him, Nelson Mandela, were co-recipients of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.Nelson Mandela's citation for the prize was easil...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 00:30hrs | 7468 | by Nomusa Garikai
Please persevere! Your journey is worth it!
The road to success isn't for the faint-hearted. Sometimes, you will want to give up! Please persevere! Your journey is worth it! Many great achievers have written inspiring statements about success. ...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:51hrs | 960 | by Enos Denhere
Bulawayo scientist in Nobel Laureate Meeting
A BULAWAYO-born scientist based in South Africa recently participated in the 68th Nobel Laureate Meeting which was held in Lindau, Germany.The meeting, which is held every year, allows some of...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump's America is a Nightmare
America is like an uncivilized fool that would even poison a river just because it wants to kill a crocodile. And when you poison a river, you don't only kill the crocodiles, but you would also end up...Published: 29 May 2018 at 19:44hrs | | by Salom Shilongo
Mnangagwa in Osama bin Laden's WhatsApp Group, says Jonathan Moyo
EXILED former Higher education minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, has scorned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nomination among the 100 most influential people in the world by Times magazine.Acco...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 12:13hrs | 8041 | by staff reporter
In memory of MaWinnie, the women of the MDC must find their voices
"To those who oppose us, we say 'Strike the woman, and you strike the rock'" - Winnie Mandela. I grew up believing in equality. That's how I was raised. I was told that women and m...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:31hrs | | by Faith Hope
Poor leadership MDC's Achilles heel
ANYONE who has read the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, last year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, will know that characters in his books cope with the bleakness of their situation through denial and se...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:11hrs | 303 | by Itayi Garande
Prosperity is a spiritual blessing
Poverty is not a sin but accepting poverty it's a sin.Our prisons are overpopulated today because of poverty pushing a good person "over the Brink" to do bad things to escape poverty or a certain econ...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 14:19hrs | 1405 | by Enos Denhere
2018 is about wrestling veto from Zanu PF thugs - key question, do you have intelligence to see that
There is no doubt about it, the most valuable possession in man or beast is one's intelligence. Those who have the intelligence have thrived and prospered whilst those mentally challenged have struggl...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 07:07hrs | 546 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa will win Nobel Award if he delivers
A political analyst Isaya Ndawana has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa will win a Nobel Prize if he delvers on a free and fair elections."His Excellent E. D. Mnangagwa will get a Nobel Awa...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 07:15hrs | 2080 | by Stephen Jakes
Recipient of 2018 Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholarship announced
The Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholarship selection committee is pleased to announce the 2018 Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholar - Terrens Muradzikwa.The Rhodes Scholarships...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 19:05hrs | 3617 | by Rhodes Trust
Zimbabwe's 2018 Rhodes Scholar selected
As the Zimbabwe Rhodes Selection Committee, we have just finished two days of interviewing nine outstanding Zimbabwean finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship. These shortlisted candidates came from Univ...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 16:33hrs | 2435 | by Arthur Mutambara
The curse of foreign aid
Foreign aid, by design or accident, has unfortunately become the most powerful tool which certain western governments continue to use to keep Africa a begging continent.In his book titled The ...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:08hrs | 317 | by Vince Musewe
WHO crushes Mugabe's ego
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has rescinded an honour it had bestowed on President Robert Mugabe last Thursday in the wake of a deafening global outcry from affiliate organisations and stakehold...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 07:22hrs | 3907 | by Staff reporter
REWIND: Tsvangirai pleads for sanctions to be imposed on his country
This article was originally published by the UK T...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 11:44hrs | 1945 | by Tim Butcher in Johannesburg
Sell-out Coltart hankering for Noble Prize for 'brave defiance' of Mugabe - what chutzpah
"What is it about Southern Africa that creates so many moral heavyweights? It seems that adversity and repression in that part of the world stimulate rather than inhibit, and bring out the best in its...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 21:07hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
An insider's account of Mugabe's regime is also a brave act of defiance
What is it about Southern Africa that creates so many moral heavyweights? It seems that adversity and repression in that part of the world stimulate rather than inhibit, and bring out the best in ...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:34hrs | | by David Coltart
This below the belt kind of thinking! Stinks to high heaven!
When we say our thinking and our ways of life has not changed to better ourselves and our communities this is one classical example. It is just sad and backward to say a girl-child does not dese...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 20:19hrs | 907 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ian Khama deserves the Nobel prize
Botswana's President Ian Khama deserves the Nobel prize for doing the unthinkable: telling an African leader to step down because he has passed his sell-by dateThe Herald's reaction is tha...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 21:53hrs | 1708 | by ZimVigil
It is the people, by being naive, who are keeping dictators in power
In his article on "How dictators stay in power" see The Zimbabwean newspaper, UZ Student Zivai Mhetu attributed the dictators' staying-power to how they create fictitious enemies to divert attention a...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 18:50hrs | 1002 | by Wilbert Mukori
How come our government doesn't get this?
There is no need to be a Nobel Prize economist to decipher that the economic pains ghost of 2008 is reincarnating at alarming speed. It equally doesn't need a prophetic calling to decipher that we...Published: 29 May 2016 at 19:29hrs | 3828 | by Brian Sedze
Has Zimbabwe become a nation of jokers?
In African literary discourse, the centre is the locus-standi that bestows an identity, integrity and legitimation of one's perception of his or her environment. In other words, the centre is the spac...Published: 09 May 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Charamba launches explosixe diatribe subtly attack on Jonathan Moyo
President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba yesterday claimed the veteran Zanu-PF leader will soon act on a faction of the party known as Generation 40 (G40), before launching into an explo...Published: 29 Jan 2016 at 05:37hrs | 3355 | by Staff reporter
Charamba blasts Zanu-PF successionists
Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba has rapped Zanu-PF successionists claiming to be behind the First Family when in actual fact they harbour their own presidential ambitions.In an in...Published: 29 Jan 2016 at 05:32hrs | 1356 | by Lloyd Gumbo
Charamba takes his fight with Zanu-PF Politburo members to the media
The following are excerpts of the interview Presidential spokesperson, Mr George Charamba (GC) had with Garikayi Fadzi (GF) of ZiFM. The interview was aired last night.https://www.youtube....Published: 29 Jan 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death penalty raises stink
"The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings," once remarked former South African president and Nobel Prize Laureate, the late Nelson Man...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 05:59hrs | 927 | by Harmony Agere
'Mugabe will deserve Chinese Nobel Prize if he deals with Parirenyatwa's $100k saga'
The People's Democratic Party Spokesperson for Bulawayo Fortune Mlalazi has said if President Robert Mugabe want to deserve the Chinese Nobel Prize he must immediately deal with the Health Minister Da...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 08:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Hunt for Greatness: You can change your story
To doze off at the most critical time is to cast away opportunity.Complaining about your lemons when others are converting theirs into lemonade is asinine.Whatever wakes you up is your...Published: 16 Aug 2015 at 09:06hrs | 3692 | by Milton Kamwendo
Chinamasa deserves Nobel Prize in economics
IN its post-colonial history since 1980, Zimbabwe has gotten one big thing right, inter alia: the multi-currency system.To cut a long a long story short, Zimbabwe currently has arguably, the l...Published: 11 Aug 2015 at 08:32hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu
Could xenophobia in SA be qualifying Mugabe's indigenization?
Zimbabwean President Cde. Robert Mugabe and South African President Jacob Zuma during Mugabe's recent state visit to South Africa. Current ruthless massacres going on in South Africa targeting imm...Published: 16 Apr 2015 at 18:35hrs | | by Zisunko Ndlovu
Zanu-PF membership a right for some, Cdes
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, like I said at the weekend, we should not be losing sleep over the frivolous court challenge being mounted...Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 10:09hrs | | by CZ
Not every one in the diaspora hates his/ her Zimbabwe
TWO weeks ago, I penned a piece on Obama and his conditioned inability to use "his" presidency to stop the abuse of blacks in America, abuses with a long history and tradition in that country. I note...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 11:03hrs | 2564 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Scientists 'delete' HIV from human cells
Once HIV conquers a human cell, it stays there forever but scientists have for the first time ever "deleted" HIV from human cells, marking a major breakthrough in fight against AIDS.The virus ...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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