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Building Healthy Communities: Promote Condoms and Contraceptives
(Opinions)
9-03-2006
by mbonisi zikhali
A recent letter to the editor in the Herald, a daily Zimbabwean newspaper, on March 6, 2006, criticised the aggressive marketing of condoms and other contraceptives, linking them to the moral decay in Zimbabwean society. The letter however, failed...
Failure - Inability to Become Anything but Ordinary
(Opinions)
21-04-2006
by mbonisi zikhali
When a person finds that there are more curses from his own mouth directed at himself than at his adversary, that someone is a defeated person. When he is tasked to publicly dethrone his opponent, theatrically his finger points back at him. Such...
Far Cry From Freedom: Challenges of Zimbabwean Youth in the face of HIV & AIDS
(Opinions)
5-05-2006
by mbonisi zikhali
“Join the joy of the Jubilee with glee
for we are free, yet far from freedom.”
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Young Zimbabwean poet, Victor Moyo, commenting on the 25 year
Silver Jubilee Independence celebrations in Zimbabwe in 2005.
When...
Promoting a Meaningful Response Towards Ending Gender Based Violence
(Opinions)
12-12-2005
by mbonisi zikhali
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence that have just gone by are a reminder of a necessary lifetime commitment to the protection of women against a widespread and brutal human rights violation. It is a movement whose own success should...
We are Spirits
(Poetry)
14-02-2006
by mbonisi zikhali
We are spirits
Tethered to an adverse existence
Slaughtered without occasion
Our blood dilutes itself with tears
We are spirits
In mutilated lodgings
We remain calm
But our veins roar in turbulence
We are spirits
Struggling to paint...
Whither Shall Society Wander?
(Opinions)
19-01-2006
by mbonisi zikhali
Sins of omission seem to persist in almost all of man’s noblest causes in our age. It appears, by some universal conviction, that we either do very little or offer too much of what is not really needed. We congregate to lament how the world has...
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