“I know I didn’t get this job because I’m a woman; I got it because I’m the best qualified person,” she says. Nonetheless, what it means to me is that the executive editor of the New York Times is such an important position in our society, the Times itself is indispensable to society and a woman gets to run the newsroom — that’s meaningful.”

Jill Abramson is to become the first female editor of the New York Times in September. More

I’ve just read Michael Laban’s blog on bribery and corruption, both of which are fueled by the abuse of power. I’m reminded of an incident that I witnessed at the Harare International Airport on Saturday. While we were loading luggage into my car an airport employee was busy clamping the wheel of the vehicle next to mine. When I expressed surprise at a vehicle being clamped in the actual car park rather than in the designated clamping zones, he said he was doing so on account of the vehicle having parked badly (the misbehaved car straddled two parking bays). Whilst I’m totally for drivers behaving respectfully, like actually parking properly in the parking bays, no where on the airport premises are there any signs saying that vehicles will be clamped for parking badly. This is exactly what Michael Laban illustrates in his blog; the airport employee decided to abuse his position, whether for an appropriate reason or not.

The Sunday Mail advertises itself as Zimbabwe’s leading family newspaper. Their last edition featured an incredibly gruesome photograph of two burnt corpses. Fatalities from a vehicle accident that involved a fuel tanker on Boschoff Drive in Harare. Yes, one might think that the Sunday Mail photographer, Believe Nyakudjara, would have snapped the wreckage of the vehicles, but instead this is what gets dished up. The Sunday Mail’s appalling lack of professionalism and sensitivity must be roundly criticised.

A couple of weeks ago Lungile Mathe was dethroned as Miss Tourism Zimbabwe (Miss Personality). This happened before she could receive her prize money, a car as well as other extras for scooping the top position in the beauty contest. The dethronement came after reports in the press that our beauty queen was offering sex in exchange for money. Whether this was true as reported in the press, or not, I believe the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) boss should have at least made some time to investigate the issue and consult his boss, the Minister of Tourism, before sending a text message firing Lungile.  Mr Kaseke went on to label the queen “a woman of loose morals” something, which I think, was harsh and unprofessional.

When all this hearsay drama was happening the Minister of Tourism was overseas trying to sell the Zimbabwe brand. When he came back the whole issue took a new twist with the Minister telling Mr Kaseke to reinstate the beauty queen and apologise to her and the nation. In the Sunday Mail of June 13 2011, Mr Kaseke said they are now thinking of giving back Lungile her title. But is it going to do any good to the model, the country and even the Miss Tourism as a brand?

One thing the Minister should do is whip his subordinate into line because since the event was a national event one should not wake up and grab a phone texting dismissal messages. Since the tables have turned the ZTA boss is now eating his words.

Yes its coming!

To all you men out there who have been forcing their women to pop those pills before having it, now its your turn to be blamed for being irresponsible when your wife tells you that she is now expecting.  Every time when you hear a couple talking about family planning its always the women’s responsibility to make sure that she doesn’t fall pregnant unexpectedly.

According to MyBirthControlStore.com “a study has showed that male contraceptive will be based on a non-steroidal hormonal medical therapy that will be known as selective androgen receptor modulator. Dr. James Dalton at AAPS, the lead researches has expressed his views on the new male contraceptive development as “the most successful lab research on male birth control pills so far with complete safety and reversibly inhibited fertility with no side effects”.

Clinical trials have already begun in some US and UK labs.

Two UK based doctors, Nnaemeka Amobi and Christopher Smith of King’s College, have spent more than 12 years researching the developing of male birth control pills and they have designed the concept of “dry orgasm pill”. As the name suggests, this kind of pill will be required to take 2 hours prior to sex. It would “dry-up” the male semen without making any changes in orgasm.

While this drug is still on trial it has successfully worked on monkeys. After reading the last part of that research where it talks about “drying up of semen” I almost panicked because of the fear that maybe it wont be reversible. This will be very interesting seeing men in a clinic or pharmacy queuing for their family planning pills and being reminded by your wife at home to take your pills.

Seems like there isn’t a way out anymore guys, it’s now a shared responsibility.