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Benchmarking: A vital tool for sustainable progress

…no need to re-invent the wheel BENCHMARKING  is a transformative strategy, a guiding light for nations, organisations and individuals aiming to improve and innovate. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, during his address to the delegation visiting his farm, captured its essence when he emphasised the critical importance of...

Meet the afro-jazz artiste who has seen it all

By Fidelis Manyange IN the early 2000s, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s ZTV dedicated considerable airplay to two of Nkosana Mthunzi’s videos, ‘Mama kaSibongile’ and ‘Kura Mwanangu’.  It was ‘Mama kaSibongile’ that catapulted Mthunzi to instant fame. On the track, Mthunzi sounds very much like popular South African...

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Western civilisation owed to Africans and Asians

BEFORE the West became the leading civilisation, the East, particularly China, occupied this high...

The Christs are black and African

THE Western perception of Christ is purposely distorted.  Christ is depicted as a Caucasian man...

Exploring ancient African traditional beliefs

WESTERN education, particularly science, tries to teach us that human beings are equivalent to...

Europe’s dark ages now in Africa

AFRICA is contemporarily classified as a ‘Third World’, ‘underdeveloped’ or ‘poor continent’.  Yet even the...

Capitalism and the destruction of stocking

I OFTEN hear businessmen and women saying they are increasing prices of their products,...

Revisiting festive season … year can’t begin in winter or summer

CHRISTMAS is largely regarded as the most important day of the year by many...

Alternate systems of governance …Western ‘democracy’ not the alpha and omega

WESTERN ‘democracy’ has limited and inhibited progress and development in developing countries; it is...

Western democracy vis-a-vis Africa: Part One… whites trying to spoil Africa

THE US was first inhabited by blacks who made up the ancient tribes of...

African influence in East Asia …similarities between East Asians and blacks

FOR the past few weeks we have been looking at the presence of blacks...

Linguistic evidence of the presence of Blacks in East Asia

IN East Asia, there are many words that are of African origin.  These stand as...

Presence of blacks in ancient Asia

IT would be surprising to realise that black people lived in Far East Asia...

Remba concepts Zimbos need to know: Part Three …what is shinja?

SHINJA is a Remba term which literally means ‘clean slaughter’.  This slaughtering technique is performed...

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Benchmarking: A vital tool for sustainable progress

…no need to re-invent the wheel BENCHMARKING  is a transformative strategy, a guiding light for...

Meet the afro-jazz artiste who has seen it all

By Fidelis Manyange IN the early 2000s, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s ZTV dedicated considerable airplay to...

Time to rethink how we live, learn and work

THE education of remembering, as eloquently critiqued by a gentleman I recently watched in a powerful...

We cannot afford to let corruption derail our progress

WE, in the village, hate corruption with a passion, for it is the one...
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