How big is your appetite? How far are you prepared to go? Of course, I am not referring to your appetite for food but to your desire for success. The battle for success does not always go to the strongest or the most able. Success tends to favour the one with the greatest desire. History has taught us again and again that a giant without ambition and desire can be shattered by the smallest atom, but not even a colossal obstacle can stop a midget with a burning desire and a determination to go all the way to the top.

Issues In Education
'How Do Children Learn?' Children in Standard Seven, Form Three and Form Five have been taking their final examinations. These assessments are meant to show what children have learnt in school. Examinations divided those who continue from those who are pushed out. This social function of examinations is no longer relevant for Standard Seven and even Form Three in the future, as most children may have the opportunity to continue to Form Five, if they are motivated, and their parents support them (noting that besides school fees there are other hidden costs-labour foregone, transport, uniform, school levies, extra food, and so on). It would be ideal if examinations really informed the public how much children had learnt.

Etcetera II
Very Brave Or Very Foolish? For anyone to make public comment about a book which has not been carefully read in full, and then as carefully digested, is possibly more foolish than brave. But a newspaper column is personal comment, not a news report and certainly not a book review. So why hold back about ex President Sir Ketumile Masire's remarkable new book, sub-titled Memoirs of an African Democrat? Many of us will have come to this book with probably unconscious expectations and will, like myself, have been both surprised and delighted.

Monday Meeting
Zim Media Laws Are Ok At the slightest of opportunities, the Anti-Mugabe Brigade (AMB) never fail to refer to the "draconian" nature of Zimbabwe's media laws, as represented by the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA). This is done to depict President Mugabe's government as dictatorial and provide a justification for 'regime change'.

Don't Hate Americans
I am writing this article as an attempt to correct and educate Bugalo A. Chilume about Afrikan culture, its origins and enemies. Chilume has chosen to feed us with excerpts from Juniors R. Stanton who is supposed to have an instructive say with so called essential advice on how Afrikans can defend themselves against evil forces.