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Build your vocabulary
Charles Dube When you use idioms in your writing do you really understand what they mean? For example, consider these listed here: against time – in an effort to finish within or before a certain time....
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Never underestimate the power of township science
Clifford Kalibo Whoever once said that you can only learn subjects like Physics combined with Pure and Applied Mathematics in a classroom can now be proven to be wrong. Amajida have devised certain...
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The Mzansi invasion of Bulawayo
Bruce Ndlovu ,Sunday Life Reporter IT all started with a show featuring prodigious South African wheel-spinner Vigro Deep on 16 October at the Umguza Yacht Club. On that occasion, it was meant to be a...
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WATCH: Nurse, mother, musician from Gwanda who became best new comer
Vusumuzi Dube, Online News Editor SATURDAY 6 November was an eventful day for one Gwanda based lady. Not only did she walk away with the top gong at ROIL Bulawayo Arts Awards for being the best new...
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Why should you settle for less?
Selusweyinkosi Mhlanga What kind of life would you want to live if there were no limitations? When you daydream what do you see in your “perfect” life? What kind of career would you have? What kind of...
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Mai Mwamuka and Zim’s most lucrative arts award
Bruce Ndlovu, Sunday Life Reporter IT was a bombshell that exploded from out of the blue. For hours, people had sat quietly, watching patiently as every award winner strutted to onto the stage, their...
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‘Don’t men cry?’
Bruce Ndlovu Sunday Life Reporter NOMATSHAWEKAZI “Lady Tshawe” Damasane wants to tell stories. For most of her life in the arts, she has been a shining star on stage, dazzling with her array of talents...
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Don’t focus on impractical solutions: motivational author
Sunday Life Reporter A STORY is told of how a motivational speaker was attacked after telling his audience that he started a million-dollar chicken project with a feather. It was unrealistic,...
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Tough lessons for Lady Chevrons ahead of Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier
Mehluli Sibanda, Senior Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE women were given some tough cricket lessons by their Bangladesh counterparts in a three-match One Day International series which concluded at Queens...
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Catching them young . . . new education curriculum a feeder for the arts
Bruce Ndlovu, Sunday Life Reporter THE Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALAs) are meant to provide a great boon for arts. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary...
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Categorising nouns
Collective nouns What are collective nouns? The term “collective noun” refers to nouns which identify a group of people, animals or objects. Examples: a crowd of people, a herd of cattle/elephants. A...
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Let go and choose yourself
Selusweyinkosi Mhlanga Life presents us with a variety of circumstances, some pleasant and some not exactly what we would choose for ourselves but we experience that variety and at times we are left...
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The genesis of township gangsters
Ekasi stories with Clifford Kalibi Gangsterism is often characterised as anti-social behaviour frowned upon by polite sections of society. Gangsters can be likened to “social bandits” that were a...
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Down memory lane with Eagles greats
ONE of the most dreaded afternoons in the 1980s was an assignment to contain the effervescent Madinda Ndlovu. He had intrigue and pace. You could not predict his next step whether in full flight or...
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Journey to Stonehenge: Seeing ‘wings’ in a different light
Phathisa Nyathi THE presence of phallic objects and their female counterparts at Stonehenge was explained in terms of the desire to express the concept of continuity and relate it to eternity and...
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Bulawayo’s first action movie
Bruce Ndlovu, Sunday Life Reporter WHILE local movie buffs have had to worship action from Hollywood, they will finally get a chance to see their own set the screens ablaze when Veza, an action...
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Local acts lose out
Bruce Ndlovu, Sunday Life Reporter WHEN Government announced on October 5 that bars and nightclubs would, for the first time in over a year-and-a-half, be able to open their doors to vaccinated...
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Blaq Diamond set for maiden performance in Bulawayo
Mbulelo Mpofu, Showbiz Reporter THEY yearned for it and even went to social media to tell us about it and now it’s happening. Barely a fortnight aftery South African Afro-pop duo, Blaq Diamond (Ndumiso...
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Don’t focus on impractical solutions: motivational author
Sunday Life Reporter A STORY is told of how a motivational speaker was attacked after telling his audience that he started a million-dollar chicken project with a feather. It was unrealistic,...
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Throwback: Gangsters’ rumble in Matshobana
Ekasi stories with Clifford Kalibo (Continued from last week) The Gestapo, the Berliners and the Black Power gangs of Njube, Iminyela and Matshobana townships respectively were to be identified by...
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