By Charles Nhamo Rupare – An interesting mêlée happened in Zimbabwe eight months ago. A Bulawayo resident, Vikas Mavhudzi was arrested on charges of using a Facebook posting to urge Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to topple President Robert Mugabe – Arab spring style or as the government called it – “subverting a constitutional government”. Eight months down the line Vikas walked free. It was alleged that Comrade Vikas sent a message to fellow comrade Tsvangirai’s wall which read: “ I’m overwhelmed; don’t know what to say, Mr. PM. What happened in Egypt is sending shockwaves to all dictators around the... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – Is he happy? Is he sad? Is he excited after the bloody massacre in one of the quietest corners of the world? Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of such a heinous crime, has certainly turned into a despicable monster for people and a bestselling ‘story’ for newspapers worldwide. Police are yet to establish a logical connection between the different phases of his life that would culminate into a revenge saga of this proportion. Loony! That’s what we all consider what he is. Even if he is mad, there remains the question unattended—why? Let’s have a look at... Continue Reading
(From: Jean-Paul Pougala* – translated from French by Sarli Sardou Nana**) Mr. President, It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this letter to appeal to you to take heed to the message that the US House of Representatives sent out to you yesterday (24/06/2011) by rejecting the text authorizing U.S. military intervention in Libya, and to end the on-going attacks against the Libyan people with the most extravagant excuses like that is to protect them. Three years ago you ignited an entire continent, the African continent during the presidential primaries of the Democratic Party. And when you were... Continue Reading
There is always that dysfunctional couple. From the moment they set eyes on each other, their interaction has always been tumultuous, enemies with benefits, its a relationship that was dead on arrival. The neighbors hear them fight and bicker over issues that stretch from finances to accusations of infidelity, a bitter existence that often leaves one battered and the other bruised. The caring intervene, moments of arbitration that inspire resolutions that later on become nothing more that the remains of unfulfilled and broken promises. And so if Zimbabwe is the home, then we the citizens are the children caught in the... Continue Reading
By Johan van Dongen, the Netherlands. About the Author. – After the usual continuing education from 1969 to 1973 Johan van Dongen followed the Biotechnology Educational Program at the Department of Experimental Surgery at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, where his mentor, Dr. H. Stol handing him his diploma in 1973. The training he received to experimental micro-surgeon in General Surgery at the University Hospital and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is completed in 1976 after which he became head of the Experimental Microsurgery Unit of the Departments of Pathology /Immunology/General Surgery at the University of Maastricht. He performed thousands... Continue Reading
